PopePiusX Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Absolutely this. Pity is we let John Harkes go who was a better team player and more productive, if not a left winger. We also tried to force Sinton into our way of playing expecting him to beat his man and deliver a quality cross from the touch line, whereas at QPR who were more counter attacking, he tended to play on the shoulder of the full back and get in behind direct on goal. Remember a game against a depleted Chelsea team where he had about 30 chances to cross, made 5 crosses and only got one above knee height! Extra disappointment for the Regi Blinker effect of two goals early in career too (although we were bloody awful at the start of 93/94) followed by an increasing sense of disappointment. I think it was the FA Cup replay against Chelsea (1-3 after extra time) you mentioned, with Chelsea attempting to confuse us by wearing our away kit or something. The only player Sinton ever had the measure of for us was Neil Cox, the same Neil Cox of whom Mark Pembridge later had the measure. which leads me to believe that Neil Cox was complete throw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chapeltom Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Kenwyne Jones. He was destructive over that Christmas period, can't believe that was 8 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamK2292 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Kuqi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modboy Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Kenwyne Jones. He was destructive over that Christmas period, can't believe that was 8 years ago. was it that long ago??? wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlossyOwl Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Kovacevic and Stephanovic, the double deal from Red Star....didn't really work out. Funny that, foreign signing not working out for us...rare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 at the time...Potter :st2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Semedo and before that the players I was most excited about when we signed them, were players like Di Canio, Petter Rudi, Niklas Alexandersson and Emerson Thome (albeit I was very young when those signed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GrahamHydeFanClub Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Brian Marwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York_Owl Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Andy Sinton. The final piece in the jigsaw. We needed a proper left winger, so we went out and bought the best in the country , England international costing �2.75M. Everybody seemed to agree he was the best around and we got him. He was ****! Good point, I still wonder why it took Francis so long to realise that we needed a left midfielder/winger. Worthington was doing a good job there but his best position was left back and there were better left midfielders/wingers around than him. We should have signed someone in 91 ahead of the 91/92 season. We did sign Waddle the following season, I wonder if Francis intended him to play left wing rather than right? But we did not sign Sinton until 1993! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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