[Archived] Players Your Glad Rovers Didnt Sign!

[92er]

  FourLaneBlue said:

I'd say Geoff Thomas as he wasn't the best but...Dalglish wanted him, Jack refused to pay their asking price and unfortunately it seemed the first breach (however small) in their working relationship. I'd have accepted a crappy Geoff Thomas if it'd meant keeping Dalgish interested enough for another season or two.

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The way I remember the story was that the Crystal Palace chairman kept on putting the price up and the Rovers eventually said enough was enough.

[waggy]

polish superstar citko,joined the preisthood instead

[FourLaneBlue]

  92er said:

The way I remember the story was that the Crystal Palace chairman kept on putting the price up and the Rovers eventually said enough was enough.

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True...but it was ultimately Jack who pulled the plug on the deal, explaining the reasons personally by allowing himself to be interviewed on TV and I've heard (which may be unfounded) that Dalglish wasn't too happy about it. Jack's money to do with as he wishes and he was proved right when we later brought in the likes of Batty.

Always thought that was the first breach in their previously perfect working relationship but it might just have been gossip.

[rog of the rovers]

Muzzy Izzet

(Not the fact he's a bad player, he's just been plagued by injury)

Edited September 25, 2005 by rog of the rovers

[Hasta]

Chris Armstrong just before we signed Speedie.

[Seggie]

Dion Dublin

[Uxbridge rover]

  Seggie said:

Dion Dublin

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Got to disagree with you , At the time we were after Dublin he was joint top scorer ( I think with Sutton and Bergkamp) and when Villa nicked him from us he did well for them

[Dr Rich]

And didn't we sign either Blake or Ward instead of Dublin? Whew, really dodged a bullet there.

[Seggie]

Never been a fan of his, in fact we were interested the year we went down so Sutty wouldn't have been top scorer. Just to say he did well at Villa doesn't mean he would have been great at Rovers. Mind you Id have took him over Ward and Blake anyday becasue he was a proven premiership player.

I just always got the feeling he would have been poor for us but given that season we could have had Shearer and still gone down.

Dublin was also going through a phase were every game he played at Ewood he got sent off as well usually for Elbows

[Eddie]

After Dublin decided to go to Villa instead of us we moved for Blake. It all turned out well didn't it?

[Seggie]

Well yeah I just don't think he'd have done anything for us he'd have been another big wage which we would have offloaded at a 3rd of the price we paid for him

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, trouble is we never got Dublin so We'll never know who is right.

[Eddie]

Well, Dublin has never exactly been a failure at any of the clubs he has gone to so I would have been happy to have him.

[rover6]

Jody Morris.

Souey wanted him to realise his masterplan of fielding 11 central midfielders in a game. But head-in-the-sand Jody demanded a ludicrous wage (supposedly in the 25K - 30K bracket that Chelsea had offered him) and that ended that. Thank Almighty.

Another name that has surfaced in my mind is Lucien Mettemo (sp?). African defender who I think ended up at Man City and didn't make much of an impact.

Edited September 26, 2005 by rover6

[Dan Furness]

Robbie Blake

cultured journeyman now

[philipl]

Hartson- not that I think we were ever seriously in for him.

[chris]

i'm so glad we didn't sign Dailly, Blake, Davies, Corrbett, Peacock, in the 98/99 season

we would have surely gone down if we had signed them and Hodgson would have never become England manager.

[JFT]

  chris said:

i'm so glad we didn't sign Dailly, Blake, Davies, Corrbett, Peacock,  in the 98/99 season

we would have surely gone down if we had signed them and Hodgson would have never become England manager.

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Well Corbett wasn't exactly a factor. He hardly ever featured.

[Dan Furness]

I remember watchin Corbett in a friendly at Wolves (nice ground) and he had a good game for me. He never really got a chance to show if he could do it or not

[JFT]

He was here for 5 years so I certainly think he had enough time to show his abilities. He signed for over £500,000 yet I'm sure he never featured in a single league game while he was here.

[Dan Furness]

  JFT said:

He was here for 5 years so I certainly think he had enough time to show his abilities. He signed for over £500,000 yet I'm sure he never featured in a single league game while he was here.

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5 years? you sure?

Even if he was here for a while, point im making is he never got a chance to show what he could do in a league game etc

[JFT]

Absolutely sure. I'm sure someone could back me up on it or you could check for yourself. I know the point you're making but he obviously wasn't good enough to play at this level. 3 different managers and a caretaker can't all have been wrong on their judgement of him.

Edited September 27, 2005 by JFT

[Dan Furness]

He probably wasnt I just meant he realistically never got chance, as in even if they thought he wasnt good enough, they never threw him in at deep end

[JFT]

http://www.4thegame.com/club/southend-unit...jimcorbett.html

Looks like he's found his level.

Edited September 27, 2005 by JFT

[SKARBELLY]

Benni McCarthy who all the anti-Bellamy brigade wanted during the summer is seriously not very good. Don't believe anyone who says otherwise.

[JFT]

Well no offence but I'm more likely to believe the likes of Mark Hughes and Jose Mourinho than yourself.