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great memory blind faith; but a number of that lot would be prime candidates for the worst loan XI of all time (and by worst I'm not just talking about City loans).

Capel & collindridge - I was there and Terry_dactyl is not far wrong. No one in the history of the world has conceded so many penalties in so few games. It had to be seen to be believed. We're not talking 50:50 or debatable pens either; Steve found unique and different ways of giving away...

As fans we sometimes go the other way. Hyping players up after a couple of appearances. Most dangerously if they are on loan and available for a few quid. Who can forget as an example, an ecstatic West Terrace loudly singing "SIGN HIM UP, SIGN HIM UP" for about 90 minutes after Lee Mills put...

Stockdale Duffy (legendary loanee) Chris Whyte (brilliant in his one game for us, 5-0 vs. Blackburn) McCallum Chris Marsden Walsh Maddison (admittedly useless on loan but I'm not going to miss out one of the Premierhship's biggest stars) Henderson Partridge (before McAllister's tactics ruined...

Followed by the even bigger suicide of appointing Jim Smith as 'advisor.' Who then recruited a whole coach load of his former players who destroyed the team. Just a shambles and would be comical if it hadn't actually happened.

Interesting stuff UpNorth - sounds like you might have had a few connections with the squad at that time?

Exactly right. I think Boateng emerged during McAllister's time out injured and the team actually improved. McAllister's improved form also coincided with the recruitment of Carlton Palmer. Speaking of which it was typical of the mismanagement of that time to spend big on players (such as...

From memory we paid £2 million+ and a huge amount (for the time) in wages. Richardson wanted to take a 'punt' all round on getting City into the big time - unfortunately he appointed the wrong managers to do so.

I could not agree more. It was a disgrace that Strachan took us down with all of the money at his disposal. In moments of wishful thinking, if only we'd had Robins (with his current experience) and his management team in charge at that time. Robins is exceptional at spending money sensibly...

Got to be Gary Megson for ruining the career of Dean Emerson - who was set for very big things. (on a much lesser scale, most likely Paul Dickov....hated his attitude on the pitch......I also despised the attitude of the Man Utd players to referees under Ferguson.......in fact I hated Ferguson...

shmee I always like your work! But I'm certain we paid far more for McAllister.

'Take no Patients' loving these titles!!

That would effectively make Strachan his potential father in law (since Telf was his favoured son) :D

All down to injury Grendel; a fully fit Ferguson was near to unstoppable and his career record shows that.

I think we can all agree that McGinnity was a total disaster. The appointment of Reid was one of many awful decisions.

Eastwood was an enigma. You could see that he was great technically and had brilliant feet. But as you say it just didn't work out and we paid a very high fee.

This is obviously a highly competitive list. In terms of money spent, money we got back and very little contribution on the pitch, Kevin Drinkell or Kevin Kyle have to be in with a pretty good shout. Many contenders. Discuss.