Lincs Owl Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I missed Darren Potter off!!! The crab will come back to haunt us with MK Dons, mark my words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Surprised no one has mentioned Lee Chapman. Started out on fire for Stoke, went to Arsenal for big money and flopped. Got sold to Sunderland did nowt there then Sgt Bilko rescued him. Huge success for us and both Forest and Leeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Nilsson Posted August 26, 2015 Author Share Posted August 26, 2015 Brian Marwood. Joined from Hull I think then left for Arsenal and played for England. Wilkinson found some real gems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owlsbornanbred Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Petter Rudi. One in a long list of players who started well (he even had football focus slot) then his confidence was shot to sh*t by the boo boys after he had a couple of bad games and never recovered. He took a dogs abuse at Hillsborough that guy. Also, Goce Sedloski. Signed by Big Ron in his second coming for £1.25m. Was given that ridiculous overused tag of 'the next Tony Adams'. He played about 30 minutes for us in a season and left. One of Rons better signings also in the cb position was Emerson Thome. Signed for free from Benfica I think it was. Went to Chelsea for £3m or £4m. One of the few decent pieces of business Wednesday has done in my lifetime. Was gutted when he left though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyboy66 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Petter Rudi. One in a long list of players who started well (he even had football focus slot) then his confidence was shot to sh*t by the boo boys after he had a couple of bad games and never recovered. He took a dogs abuse at Hillsborough that guy. Also, Goce Sedloski. Signed by Big Ron in his second coming for £1.25m. Was given that ridiculous overused tag of 'the next Tony Adams'. He played about 30 minutes for us in a season and left. One of Rons better signings also in the cb position was Emerson Thome. Signed for free from Benfica I think it was. Went to Chelsea for £3m or £4m. One of the few decent pieces of business Wednesday has done in my lifetime. Was gutted when he left though. Sedloski didn't flop...he couldn't get a game ahead of Des and Thome and under the ridiculous work permit system had to leave...went on to play 125 times for his country...he would have been the captain of the club for years had the current system been in place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SnookerOwl Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Look at Kim Olsen! Went on to have a pretty decent goal scoring record in the Danish top flight after he left us. 2004 - Sheffield Wednesday: 12 games, 0 goals 2004-2008 - Silkeborg IF: 67 games, 25 goals 2008-2010 - Örebro SK: 56 games, 19 goals 2010-2012 - Vejle BK: 34 games, 17 goals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owlsbornanbred Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Sedloski didn't flop...he couldn't get a game ahead of Des and Thome and under the ridiculous work permit system had to leave...went on to play 125 times for his country...he would have been the captain of the club for years had the current system been in place Fair point, I wasn't really saying he was flop from the point of view of his ability as we never got to see him perform, but I guess I didn't clarify that originally. Flopped more from the view of a signing with some hype that really didn't work out. Completely agree about the work permit issue - I think that was how Stefanovic ended up leaving us as well. He was a useful player at the time but we only played him for something like 15 games in his last season so was forced to split. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airborne_rat_of_s6 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I missed Darren Potter off!!! The crab will come back to haunt us with MK Dons, mark my words. Add Lenny *unt and you have your dream team midfield combination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradowl Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Chris Brunt was the Nuhiu of his day for much of his Hillsborough career - He was frustrating and inconsistent on occasions and didn't the boo boys let him know. In my 50 years we have always had a section of supporters that are highly impatient and rush to judgement on some players. Even Whelan had some serious detractors. Many were happy when Antonio was sold and how many thought Afobe was cr*p...the list goes on? Absolutely spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malek Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Sedloski didn't flop...he couldn't get a game ahead of Des and Thome and under the ridiculous work permit system had to leave...went on to play 125 times for his country...he would have been the captain of the club for years had the current system been in place Quoted fee in Croatian papers was 750k. Transfer almost fell through as he injured himself running to keep his fitness up before joining us (oh, the irony). Said he was doomed when Atkinson went as Wilson hated him and wouldn't even let him train with the first team. Joined Dinamo Zagreb after leaving us, played great and was made captain there. Scored almost 20 goals for them one season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfmanjack Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Even Chris Brunt was targeted by the boo boys at Hillsboro. No wonder our away form is often better than our home form. Not many have flourished here. We even decided Jamie Vardy, Benik Afobe, Darko Kovacevic and Grant Holt were nowt special and let them move on for peanuts. OK Afobe wasn't ours but he could have been. You really don't have a clue why Jamie Vardy left us, as a kid, do you? No club in the country would have kept him on. We made far more from Kovacevic than we paid for him, and Grant Holt needed a year in the reserves after signing from a club two leagues below the 4 division. We simply didn't have the time to let him develop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickledegghiderman Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Petter Rudi. One in a long list of players who started well (he even had football focus slot) then his confidence was shot to sh*t by the boo boys after he had a couple of bad games and never recovered. He took a dogs abuse at Hillsborough that guy. Also, Goce Sedloski. Signed by Big Ron in his second coming for £1.25m. Was given that ridiculous overused tag of 'the next Tony Adams'. He played about 30 minutes for us in a season and left. One of Rons better signings also in the cb position was Emerson Thome. Signed for free from Benfica I think it was. Went to Chelsea for £3m or £4m. One of the few decent pieces of business Wednesday has done in my lifetime. Was gutted when he left though. Met sedloski's cousin whilst on holiday in faliraki about 10 years ago. At least he said he was , he was wearing a Sheff wed shirt with sedloski on the back and when I asked him he said he was his cousin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swintonowl1999 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 What did Vardy do again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ever the pessimist Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Darko Kovacevic has to be up there as the best flop ever. Never really hit top form for us. And then he went around Europe accumulating millions in transfer fees. Pleat barely gave him a chance to be fair. Remember he scored a couple v Bolton and looked promising, next thing he was off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poite Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 That Ross Barkley kid was below par according to some... This. Barkley is utterly fantastic. My favourite non-wednesday player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ka58 Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Benik Afobe We stuck him on the wing He was poo for us though let's face it. No point trying to make out we didn't realise. My mates a massive arsenal fan - follows youth team etc and even he can't believe how he's come on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Bothroyd brought peace, love, and harmony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJMortimer Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Pleat barely gave him a chance to be fair. Remember he scored a couple v Bolton and looked promising, next thing he was off. I remember him being rather disappointing after an intriguing home debut. But he only made 9+8 appearances (4 goals) and there was no reason to believe we'd seen everything to come from him. To be fair though, Pleat did secure the biggest transfer fee we've ever received when we let him go, even if that might have been somewhat down to fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage owl Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 my main flops would have to be Sinton,Lunt & Jonk Ithought all 3 would be superb before they signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-owls Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Mark McKeever David Billington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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