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The latter Steve Sedgley. And the obvious one: Craig Bellamy. He was a very good (if not likeable) player bought at the wrong time.

I've just done a bit of googling. In the 10 full seasons he's played in the Championship, on four occasions he's been in the play-offs (with three different clubs), twice he's finished 9th, once he swapped clubs half way through (eventually ending up in 12th with us), and it was only in three...

Bidwell's spent the majority of his career in top-end Championship teams. There's a reason for that.

He was strongly disliked, and my own memory of him is that he was dross. But look back at highlights of games from that time, and he's often heavily involved in the good stuff we did. Therefore, I don't know how much of the problem was that he tried ambitious things more and so sometimes they...

Self-awareness is just one of the many positive character traits that you lack in totality, isn't it.

Behave.

Agreed. He was awful! Mad that he was ever at Liverpool at that time.

I have no real recollection of O'Neill as a player (which tells you something in itself), but he wasn't that much, was he? Yeah, overhead kick then a drive from outside the area! Shame we were four down, mind. 🤣 I remember that game for one of the worst tackles I've ever seen when Robson...

I didn't actually say he was. I said I thought him our worst ever signing. Sounds like we are in agreement, then.

Definitely two words. Drinkell was almost the same price 10+ years earlier, though. I still rate him as worse.

Considering what we paid for him was a very significant sum at the time, I think he's our worst ever signing. Whatever he was before, he was dross when he came to us.

Robins also got us two promotions, established us in the Championship and managed us in four Wembley games. Sometimes you just need a change.

One of my absolute favourite CCFC moments.

I think it was more his body (for whatever reason) stopped being able to take the rigours of being a professional footballer than him being a crap footballer, though.

Ah, come on. He had about a month and a half last season when he looked as if he might be the player that we hoped he'd be, and then he reverted to type. Over his spell here, he was a huge disappointment. We had Hull's pants down.

Neither were exactly over-rated, because they were both exceptional talents, but they didn't realise their potential. Ndlovu seemed to peak very early, and Whelan was his own worst enemy. There's no chance Leeds would have sold him if he hadn't have had the personal issues that he did. Didn't...

Paul Williams. Lackadaisical clogger who was nowhere near as good as he thought he was.

Two sentences? Your knuckles must chafe something terrible when you walk down the street.

BTA marginally off, I think.

Oh, and massive kudos to Binks for what was almost certainly a goal-saving header not long before we scored. Thought he had a decent game.