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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:38 am

H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
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Post by thebish » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:38 am

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H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
nice use of the Gary Megson thread crow-bar! :wink:
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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:54 am

thebish wrote:
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H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
nice use of the Gary Megson thread crow-bar! :wink:
I could of course have been referring to Paul Robinson or Bob Taylor... :wink:
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Post by BWFC_Insane » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:02 am

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H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
nice use of the Gary Megson thread crow-bar! :wink:
I could of course have been referring to Paul Robinson or Bob Taylor... :wink:
Robinson and Taylor are quite similar. Nobody was impressed when we signed them, but they both turned out surprisingly well, and any shortcomings are made up for by tremendous desire and effort.

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Post by thebish » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:02 am

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H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
nice use of the Gary Megson thread crow-bar! :wink:
I could of course have been referring to Paul Robinson or Bob Taylor... :wink:
nobody would describe SupaBob as a disappointment!!! wash your mouth out!
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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:09 am

thebish wrote:
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Worthy4England wrote:
H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
nice use of the Gary Megson thread crow-bar! :wink:
I could of course have been referring to Paul Robinson or Bob Taylor... :wink:
nobody would describe SupaBob as a disappointment!!! wash your mouth out!
Could...
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Post by Lord Kangana » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:11 am

And we gave them the living legends DeFreitas and Sneekes.

I demand a refund.
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Post by thebish » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:29 am

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supabob scores at old trafford...
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:33 am

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supabob scores at old trafford...
Won me £40+ odd, did that. Oh how the red nice people laughed as I said Bob Taylor would score the first goal.
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Post by Gary the Enfield » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:42 am

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supabob scores at old trafford...
Won me £40+ odd, did that. Oh how the red tw*ts laughed as I said Bob Taylor would score the first goal.
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Post by TKIZ! » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:16 pm

I offer up Peter Beardsley, massive wages at the time and then ended up going to Fulham on loan in March(?) of the same season
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Post by Lord Kangana » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:33 pm

He was p*ss poor, and 500k to boot. It was always a mistake them assuming Blake was a principle goalscorer (Brownie intimated as much at the time) when they should have been focusing on a replacement for SupaJohn. They realised this too late, and you do wonder if Holdsworth was therefore a panic buy, compounding the error. The rest, as they say, is history. Todd was a fantastic spotter of talent, but he never seemed to be able to put a balanced team together at Premier League level.
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Post by H. Pedersen » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:16 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
So, while he may not have lived up to expectations, he was still good enough to get in the team. Shittu didn't even reach those lofty heights.
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:52 pm

H. Pedersen wrote:
Worthy4England wrote:
H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
So, while he may not have lived up to expectations, he was still good enough to get in the team. Shittu didn't even reach those lofty heights.
HP - Len Cantello's transfer fee remained our record fee for something like 25 years. To accuse him of simply not living up to expectations is to have no understanding of it at all (not a dig). Shittu was signed as a squad player - nobody expected anything from him whilst recognising that Megson had spent too much on him .
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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:44 pm

H. Pedersen wrote:
Worthy4England wrote:
H. Pedersen wrote:Re: Len Cantello, since he played for BWFC before I was born, I'll confess to not being familiar with him. Is it safe to say that he played more than 10 league games in the 3 years we paid him?
He did. Was still a huge disappointment though. Like most things we get that have been at West Brom.
So, while he may not have lived up to expectations, he was still good enough to get in the team. Shittu didn't even reach those lofty heights.
What Brucie said. :D
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Post by William the White » Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:43 pm

Was Len Cantello more disappointing than Terry Wharton?

Was Henry Mowbray the worst full back we ever had?

Who was the bigger stump - Brian Pilkington or Gordon Taylor?
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Post by TANGODANCER » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:13 pm

William the White wrote:Was Len Cantello more disappointing than Terry Wharton?

Was Henry Mowbray the worst full back we ever had?

Who was the bigger stump - Brian Pilkington or Gordon Taylor?
Gordon Taylor was far from a stump in my view.
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Post by William the White » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:22 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
William the White wrote:Was Len Cantello more disappointing than Terry Wharton?

Was Henry Mowbray the worst full back we ever had?

Who was the bigger stump - Brian Pilkington or Gordon Taylor?
Gordon Taylor was far from a stump in my view.
I agree, really... Yet, strangely, was routinely referred to as such. Wasn't his fault he wasn't Franny Lee...
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Post by CAPSLOCK » Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:55 pm

William the White wrote:Was Len Cantello more disappointing than Terry Wharton?

Was Henry Mowbray the worst full back we ever had?
Wharton is before my time as I'm just a young pup - wasn't the problem with Wharton mostly about the fact that the money used was from the sale of a crowd favourite?

I've heard bad things about Mowbray but I can't believe he was much worse than Snookes and Deakin....and Samuel
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:14 pm

CAPSLOCK wrote:
William the White wrote:Was Len Cantello more disappointing than Terry Wharton?

Was Henry Mowbray the worst full back we ever had?
Wharton is before my time as I'm just a young pup - wasn't the problem with Wharton mostly about the fact that the money used was from the sale of a crowd favourite?

I've heard bad things about Mowbray but I can't believe he was much worse than Snookes and Deakin....and Samuel
Or Brown or Nicholson.
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