Wor’Jackie Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Ryan Lowe and Mark Robbins. Perfect League one signings despite their advancing years at the time. They scored some very important goals in the years we were down at that level. Jimmy Quinn. For that one goal he scored against Hull City that guaranteed our Playoff spot in 2004/05. Mark Crossley. Excellent in his younger days. Not a wonderful goalkeeper for us since he was ancient and carrying some timber, but did score a goal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Chris Waddle,Viv Anderson and Trevor Francis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Big viv was a fantastic player. As hard as nails, still a good athlete at 36 years old and was a master of timing and defensive nous. As has been said, Loovens was tremendous right until the final season he played for us. Barry Horne wasn’t bad in the short spell he was with us in a dreadful team. Soldvet and ekoku were also good players who stood out in the grim shreeves and Taffy years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bulgaria Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 5 hours ago, fpowl said: Barry Horne Was gonna say the same. We were dogger when he came and he made our players look shocking. How old was he, about 40?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bulgaria Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 1 hour ago, poite said: Was he a goal keeper or a striker? With a name like double post, my guess he was a keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nut Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 7 hours ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: Also: Steve Watson and Michael Gray. Two class acts. Wish we'd been good enough to sign them in their younger days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Loovens, Wallace, Chris Kirkland, Anthony Gardner, Carlton Palmer, Michael Johnson. Mark Robins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudge27 Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Gardner and Johnson were both solid. Love them and Bischoff (though he wasn't getting on just a Croc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Bluesteel said: Loovens, Wallace, Chris Kirkland, Anthony Gardner, Carlton Palmer, Michael Johnson. Mark Robins. Palmer was dreadful in his final loan spell ! Gardner definitely , lovely footballer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelcityowlsfan Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Graham Kavanagh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldowl67 Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Although not exactly in his twilight years when we finally got him, I would have loved it if we had signed Gary Hooper in 2010 when he left Scunthorpe for Celtic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 (edited) The curious case of Roger Johnson. Completely off his títs at Wolves. Came here and did really well, then moved on and lost the plot again. Bizarrely, we somehow managed to get him for one of the best spells in his career, albeit brief. Edited April 19, 2020 by wilyfox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flo Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 (edited) Glenn Loovens I thought he was older but he was 30 when we signed and for 4 seasons he was immense and leader of a great defence. Not your usual aggressive tackling defender who you notice, but just a very intelligent and calm player. Edited April 19, 2020 by flo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesteel Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 1 hour ago, mcmigo said: Palmer was dreadful in his final loan spell ! Gardner definitely , lovely footballer. him and soltvedt helped to keep us up but then I think he came back for a third spell at the club and didn’t do so well and fell out with a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearwood Owl1 Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 8 hours ago, LittleG said: Agree with what you say bout Lyons, Willie and Anderson. Ken Knighton was only 29 when he signed. Willie Henderson was 28 - old for a winger I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogers Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 10 hours ago, PortlandOwl said: Lawrie Madden How old was he when we signed him in 83? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogers Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 8 hours ago, pazowl55 said: Anybody know who the oldest player we have signed is.? good question..Francis must be up there. Remember when the goalkeeper coach played? So he must be registered as a player, although we probably didn’t sign him for that reason. Nixon wasn’t it? He must have been pretty old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelerian Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 2 hours ago, Rogers said: good question..Francis must be up there. Remember when the goalkeeper coach played? So he must be registered as a player, although we probably didn’t sign him for that reason. Nixon wasn’t it? He must have been pretty old 12 hours ago, wilyfox said: Watson is a great shout. He oozed quality. I wasn't so keen on Gray. Francis is without doubt the best. Even at 37 or whatever he was, his class shone through. Viv probably a close 2nd. Micky Gray was a fantastic player. He was a class above everything else in our squad at the time. I'm very surprised to see a quote saying someone wasnt keen on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerson Thome Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Another shout for Efan Ekoku - he was still rapid at 33 and scored 20 goals over two seasons that helped keep us up and carried us to an unlikely League Cup semi. The year after we sold him we went down. Wish we'd signed him years earlier when we sold Warhurst - he wasn't as good as Hirst/Bright at their peak but would have done a much better job than some of the Watson/Humphries/Booth/Whittingham mix of other strikers we had filling in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 bit before my time but signing the has been 32 year old jimmy seed was the best bit of business the club ever did …. other end of the scale would be Robbie Mustoe who didn't cover himself in glory in his time here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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