Guest zipzippy Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Grant holt has to be one of our most bizzarre ones....plucked from none league obscurity ..looked crap Sold to non league then re-appears a few years later to fire Norwich to 2 promotions and one of the top scorer in the premier league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 03 owl Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 (edited) Grant holt has to be one of our most bizzarre ones....plucked from none league obscurity ..looked crap Sold to non league then re-appears a few years later to fire Norwich to 2 promotions and one of the top scorer in the premier league He was gash for us to be fair, and hindsight is wonderful pal, agree that he has done really well for himself tbh, i would never in a million years would have ever expected him to do what he has done. Edited February 6, 2012 by 03 owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Señor Sam Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 However bad some of the managers have been, Pleat really does take some beating. He couldn't handle characters and made bad decision after bad decision with no regard to the long term ramifications. Even with the Waddler he turns down a 500,000 bid from Celtic at end of the '96 season, only to release him a couple of months later for nothing. He had no regard for the club or it's supporters and only thought about No.1. I detested him and still refuse to listen to his disingenuous comments when speaking on the radio. Thank God for Megson!! Didn't Pleat turn down 4 million for Andy Booth from Tottenham ? Russian Warship.... Go fxxk yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bukta Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Gutted when Paul Warhurst left, always hated Blackburn after that. Also gutted about that one. I saw him in the petrol station on his way there to sign. It was the last one in Stocksbridge and he was fuelling his golf for the trip across the pennines. I mustered enough courage to ask him if he was going to Blackburn and he couldn't even look me in the eye. He just muttered I don't know son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bukta Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Didn't Pleat turn down 4 million for Andy Booth from Tottenham ? If that's true money and old rope spring to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Malc Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Collectively selling off the early 90s team a year or two too early. Thanks Trev 1.75m. Couldve probably got £7-10m for him before the whole incident. Give over My thoughts exactly, to be honest how do you defend a player that lays hands on a ref?...I know Alcock made a fvckin' meal of it, but you don't do it. Di Canio wanted out, he should have turned up to play against Leicester if I remember correctly, he did not show, the blokes a footballing genius, i loved watching him play, but I remember him throwing a ball at a Linesman, I think was against Watford, sent off....3 weeks in fvckin' Roma....he was calculating when he wanted to be....."aww let me off... look at me i'm mental"... You know who I was sad to see go? Marc Degryse...i thought he was a very underrated player for Wednesday Got to agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thetruthisoutthere Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Why did we let FJ9 run his contract down and go on a free I will never understand ! He should have been SHOT ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bald Owl Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Not really a transfer out but the biggest **** up in football ever! Francis letting Cantona go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Thanks Trev Give over Got to agree Don't see why not, other teams held out for silly money and Di Canio was like a 1 man team for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheriwozgod Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Carlton Palmer John Sheridan Gary Bannister Siggi Jonsson Terry Curran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmciverslovechild Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Didn't Pleat turn down 4 million for Andy Booth from Tottenham ? Don't buy that one. They did have him on loan from us one bit but I'm sure that's when we'd been relegated. For Spurs to do that was bizarre enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pendle Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Chris Bart-Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jhancock Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Going back into the Eighties the worst player we let go was Bannister he was a class act. At the time I played golf at the same club as Bert Magee, Stan Speight & Matt Sheppard three of the then Board. I asked Stan Speight why did you let him go and he said it was because he wanted too much money. That has been Wednesday's problem for years and we always suffer with it such as when Maclean left for what turned out to be a few quid more a week. John Hancock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manicowl Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 I think no matter what Wednesday would have done Di Canio would have left. Wednesday were not the first club he left under a cloud. But we were the last club he left under a cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Quality Players & Managers we have lost needlessly in my life as an Owl. ( players we did n't push boat out for) Albert Quixall; Harry Catterick;(Joe Baker) Tony Kay; Wilf Smith; Peter Eustace; John Quinn; Ian Knight; Dalian Atkinson; Ron Atkinson(twice); (Eric Cantona); Roland Nilsson; Siggi Jonsson Sorry but I have only dealt with what I consider to be an absoloute elite in quality. Your memory is playing tricks Nev. Ian Knight was finished by that thug Bennett (even their own fans called him Psycho) in a cup match against Chester. Completely shattered his leg and he never played again. Worse challenge I have EVER seen malicious and deliberate and he was the finest young centre half in England at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I'm old enough to remember the dark days of the 70's when we had a very good right back called Richard Walden who we had to sell to Newport County for financial reasons FFS! Then presumably you will also remember Dave Cusack leaving for Southend (I think) citing our lack of ambition as his main reason for going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 he may well have done if pearson and shirtliff had been fit to play but they wern't so he had to play at the back and for him to threaten to pull out that day coz he couldnt play up front tells you everything you need to know about the bloke .he played up front in the league cup final and he didnt trouble the arsenal back 4 to much that day . You kidding? He ran them ragged the first 20 and if the shot that hit the woodwork had gone in it was 2-0 and game over. The goal was still shaking at half time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAnotherShez Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Brunt & DiCanio for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt68owls Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I'm old enough to remember the dark days of the 70's when we had a very good right back called Richard Walden who we had to sell to Newport County for financial reasons FFS! this was the first wednesday player i remember being sold, i think ashurst took him to newport with him and the fee was set by a tribuneral and wednesday got about £2,500. worst for me was john harkes to derby, it was the start of the breakup of the best wednesday team i have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bald Owl Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 We sold Kovacevic for 2.5m, who a year or so later went for 18m. Didn't he shortly after go to Juve for 25M as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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