Worst BFC signings ever

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  1. YT

    YT Well-Known Member

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    We called him Gene Wilder. He looked very similar. And, played as I’d imagine Gene would have.

    Sad thing is, he was superb at Grimsby so I understood the signing.
     
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    He only made 7 appearances for us and has since had more clubs than Tiger Woods.
     
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    Much much worse.
     
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    Has anybody mentioned Phil Griddler lol.
    He played about 12 minutes for us, and then vanished again. :D
     
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    Well with that argument, you could say the same about Ian Hume.
    Let's be honest, before what happened to him, he'd not done much with us. :oops:
     
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    Yeah and one of them was Brian Howard's lol.
    Howard recovered of course and we know how good he was.
    Richard Kell though, never seemed to come off his crutches.
     
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    Four signings stick out back in the early noughties. Peter Sand was ******* woeful as well Mike Flynn. I dare say Andy Holt and Keith Curle were ******* whoppers as well in the few appearances they played. Curle was so passed it, it was unreal.
     
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    Just about every player in the Steve Parkin era, and a lot of them with mad Keef as well. :eek:
     
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    I seem to remember seeing him play against Watford (I think), unless that was a mysterious apparition. :confused:
     
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    Oulare surely!

    Iseka obviously too, but at least he had a few decent games and looked talented.

    Oulare was bizarre, and there was probably something dodgy going on with Conway around that signing.

    Mido and Frimpong probably up there too. Brek Shea. Treacy. Rodriguez. Rigters.
     
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    Hey Basil lol, remember the 4-1 Fa cup win against Wet Spam, in season '92.
    I think he played a few minutes that day lol, and he gave away their penalty. :p
     
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    I was there that day but have no memory of either the father, the son or the holy ghost. :D
     
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    Yeah I was there too, wasn't it on a Sunday lunchtime, just after we'd done Leicester that midweek, on pens. :rolleyes:
    But if the Griddler didn't play that day, then I really can't remember owt else about him lol.
     
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    Aye he was a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma....
     
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    Think Cosgrove is up there , Miguel Mostto , hit crossbar from half way line in a friendly and everyone thought he was going to be Ronaldinho, he wasn’t . But can’t argue against Wiseman
     
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    I saw the Griddler. He was stood in the stand near me at Oxford in 1991 - I seem to recall crutches, but can't be 100% my brain isn't hallucinating. Never saw him on the pitch though.
     
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    He started, I'm sure - i think it was his debut even though we signed him about 2 years earlier. Yes he did concede the penalty, he pushed Trevor Morley at the Ponty end
     
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