False Dawns 07:47 - May 3 with 11729 views | Sheffield_dale | Scott Quigley. He was our saviour in the first few weeks. A perfect focal point that could play off. After that he was one of the most useless strikers I've ever seen at Dale, more concerned with arguing with oppo players, fans and officials. He's obviously been sent back all hush hush and scored an own goal for Stockport B. Got me thinking, has there been any other players that started off really well and fell massively off the cliff? | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 10:03 - May 3 with 8615 views | 100notout | Paul Williams On loan from Stockport in the 90’s scored a worldy and then we signed him. He was complete dogshit. Big time Charlie and I was glad to see the back of him | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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False Dawns on 10:36 - May 3 with 8546 views | Sandyman | Lee Hodges. Came here from Scunthorpe with a great reputation but was only fit for the knackers yard. | ![](/images/avatars/1453.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 12:37 - May 3 with 8330 views | dawlishdale | Was going to say Paul Williams as well.. great hopes when signed, followed by a hopeless few games and then rumours of dubious injuries preventing him from being selected. Also, recall John Seasman being excellent when on loan, and not so excellent once signed. Edit: Mark Leonard. Barrow's pet. Useless player who we actually managed to sell, onlt to re-sign him soon after. Les Lawrence: Came with a goalscoring reputation, but failed to live up to it despite looking the part,. We offloaded him to Burnley iirc. [Post edited 3 May 2023 12:43]
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False Dawns on 12:43 - May 3 with 8312 views | 49thseason | Bob Stokoe (2nd spell) 7 wins in 34 Jimmy Greenhoff 11 wins in 49 Danny Begara 8 wins in 34 Steve Eyre 6 wins in 27 John Coleman 14 wins in 52 Jim Bentley 7 wins in 35 Coleman isn't as bad as the others stats-wise but I thought he was just a horrible man! Players... we have a long and distinguished record of signing forwards who turned out to be rather less than advertised... Paul Tait Morike Sako Lewis Alessandra Roland Bergkamp Febian Brandy Mark Carter Zach Clough Liam Dickinson Anthony Elding Tope Obadeyi Jack Redshaw Jon Shaw Nathan Eccleston | ![](/images/avatars/1190.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 13:06 - May 3 with 8237 views | dingdangblue | Conrad Logan was superb in his first loan spell. Didn't seem the same player when he came back - maybe due to 1 too many injuries and his size. | ![](/images/avatars/2229.gif) |
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False Dawns on 13:14 - May 3 with 8224 views | SaxonDale | Daniel Bogdanovic. Another (very!) harsh one could be Tanser- was superb at centre back, looked ok at fullback but then Bunney came and secured that spot. He obviously seems to have had a decent career since. | ![](/images/avatars/1115.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 13:19 - May 3 with 8216 views | 49thseason | We maybe need another list... " the ones who got away" Tanser would fit that list nicely, as would Higginbottom, | ![](/images/avatars/1190.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 13:27 - May 3 with 8198 views | SandyDrum |
False Dawns on 12:43 - May 3 by 49thseason | Bob Stokoe (2nd spell) 7 wins in 34 Jimmy Greenhoff 11 wins in 49 Danny Begara 8 wins in 34 Steve Eyre 6 wins in 27 John Coleman 14 wins in 52 Jim Bentley 7 wins in 35 Coleman isn't as bad as the others stats-wise but I thought he was just a horrible man! Players... we have a long and distinguished record of signing forwards who turned out to be rather less than advertised... Paul Tait Morike Sako Lewis Alessandra Roland Bergkamp Febian Brandy Mark Carter Zach Clough Liam Dickinson Anthony Elding Tope Obadeyi Jack Redshaw Jon Shaw Nathan Eccleston |
Obadeyi scored a 93rd minute winner for Gloucester City on Saturday to send them to the National League North play offs! First thing he's done of note in the past few years to be fair | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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False Dawns on 13:47 - May 3 with 8141 views | TomRAFC | Niall Canavan, Terry Gornell, and Ben Muirhead all looked excellent on loan. Ashley Grimes had the ability to be a goal machine at this level but never fulfilled his potential. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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False Dawns on 14:08 - May 3 with 8075 views | dingdangblue | I remember there being a bit of a buzz when we signed ex Brighton player Gary Dicker but he turned out to be very ordinary. | ![](/images/avatars/2229.gif) |
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False Dawns on 14:35 - May 3 with 8024 views | SandyDrum |
False Dawns on 14:08 - May 3 by dingdangblue | I remember there being a bit of a buzz when we signed ex Brighton player Gary Dicker but he turned out to be very ordinary. |
Dicker’s performance in the 2-2 draw away at Chesterfield with the 2 last minute goals will always go down as one of the worst individual performances I’ve ever seen from a Dale player in my 24 years of supporting us. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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False Dawns on 15:28 - May 3 with 7945 views | davidab2202 |
False Dawns on 14:35 - May 3 by SandyDrum | Dicker’s performance in the 2-2 draw away at Chesterfield with the 2 last minute goals will always go down as one of the worst individual performances I’ve ever seen from a Dale player in my 24 years of supporting us. |
Might have been poor at Dale ,but still clocked up around 200 appearances after his short spell at Spotland. i think he is now coaching at Brighton | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 15:54 - May 3 with 7879 views | jonahwhereru |
False Dawns on 15:28 - May 3 by davidab2202 | Might have been poor at Dale ,but still clocked up around 200 appearances after his short spell at Spotland. i think he is now coaching at Brighton |
We had a young lad called McCourt, looked great but didn’t make it and drifted back to Ireland. I wonder what happened to him! | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 16:45 - May 3 with 7761 views | dingdangblue |
False Dawns on 14:35 - May 3 by SandyDrum | Dicker’s performance in the 2-2 draw away at Chesterfield with the 2 last minute goals will always go down as one of the worst individual performances I’ve ever seen from a Dale player in my 24 years of supporting us. |
That was his last game for us - he joined Crawley later that week. Just looking into it a bit and it seems he was commuting from down south to train and play for us. No wonder he didn't do that well here. | ![](/images/avatars/2229.gif) |
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False Dawns on 17:42 - May 3 with 7647 views | electricblue | Clarke Keltie good for Darlo utter Sh1te for Dale..... | ![](/images/avatars/6227.gif) |
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False Dawns on 17:49 - May 3 with 7623 views | EllDale | You don't have to go that far back. Think of the January 2022 transfer window which ushered in Messrs Charman, Ball and Campbell. If they'd been half as good as they were bigged up to be we'd be playing league football next season. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 17:57 - May 3 with 7580 views | richfoad32 |
False Dawns on 17:49 - May 3 by EllDale | You don't have to go that far back. Think of the January 2022 transfer window which ushered in Messrs Charman, Ball and Campbell. If they'd been half as good as they were bigged up to be we'd be playing league football next season. |
Ball I think scored a couple in his first few games for us and had some gushing that he was exactly what we needed in midfield and possibly even captain material. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 18:27 - May 3 with 7471 views | bluevein64 |
False Dawns on 10:03 - May 3 by 100notout | Paul Williams On loan from Stockport in the 90’s scored a worldy and then we signed him. He was complete dogshit. Big time Charlie and I was glad to see the back of him |
I have rather (agree, Dogshite by the way) vague memories of "Big Willow" - 1) Burnley fan acquaintance informing me that he was absolutely "Dogshite" or very similar the day after we signed him. 2) He was courting or married to a girl who was the owner of one of his previous Clubs. 3) He missed a sitter (2 yards out of an open goal) in the last few minutes verses York city in the League Cup had he scored we'd have won - York drew Man Utd in the next round at Old Trafford and beat em 2 nowt . As I said rather vague memories . | ![](/images/avatars/11219.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 18:45 - May 3 with 7418 views | davidab2202 |
False Dawns on 17:49 - May 3 by EllDale | You don't have to go that far back. Think of the January 2022 transfer window which ushered in Messrs Charman, Ball and Campbell. If they'd been half as good as they were bigged up to be we'd be playing league football next season. |
The slight hope I have of the 2 players mentioned who are still at Dale ,is that they had shown enough at the level we are going to be at in August to be signed in the hope and expectation that they could step up and be effective higher up the football chain. The fact that sadly they were not able to do that doesn't mean that they will not be able to perform again in the NFL Appreciate that there may well be other influences in play but should they be allowed to leave and then be more than adequate performers elsewhere next season would be a bit of a disappointment to say the least bearing in mind the money which we at this moment must feel was a total waste | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 22:22 - May 3 with 7187 views | 442Dale |
False Dawns on 12:43 - May 3 by 49thseason | Bob Stokoe (2nd spell) 7 wins in 34 Jimmy Greenhoff 11 wins in 49 Danny Begara 8 wins in 34 Steve Eyre 6 wins in 27 John Coleman 14 wins in 52 Jim Bentley 7 wins in 35 Coleman isn't as bad as the others stats-wise but I thought he was just a horrible man! Players... we have a long and distinguished record of signing forwards who turned out to be rather less than advertised... Paul Tait Morike Sako Lewis Alessandra Roland Bergkamp Febian Brandy Mark Carter Zach Clough Liam Dickinson Anthony Elding Tope Obadeyi Jack Redshaw Jon Shaw Nathan Eccleston |
Bergara won 11 games before leaving for Stockport and his arrival was the first signs we’d started to turn a corner on the pitch. Dolan and Sutton then built on it. | ![](/images/avatars/1212.gif) |
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False Dawns on 23:01 - May 3 with 7117 views | rickyprickles | Isden Christie, a lot was expected of him but didn’t do much if I remember correctly | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 23:07 - May 3 with 7103 views | Brierls |
False Dawns on 23:01 - May 3 by rickyprickles | Isden Christie, a lot was expected of him but didn’t do much if I remember correctly |
I’m not sure there was much expected of him?! He was a bad signing at the time. | ![](/images/avatars/1199.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 23:45 - May 3 with 7059 views | Shun |
False Dawns on 13:14 - May 3 by SaxonDale | Daniel Bogdanovic. Another (very!) harsh one could be Tanser- was superb at centre back, looked ok at fullback but then Bunney came and secured that spot. He obviously seems to have had a decent career since. |
Bogdanovic immediately springs to mind for me too. He was excellent on his debut, to the point where people on here were genuinely talking about extending his loan or signing him permanently. Very ordinary after that. | ![](/images/avatars/1182.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 23:51 - May 3 with 7058 views | Sandyman |
False Dawns on 23:45 - May 3 by Shun | Bogdanovic immediately springs to mind for me too. He was excellent on his debut, to the point where people on here were genuinely talking about extending his loan or signing him permanently. Very ordinary after that. |
Aye, we can put Brett Ormerod in with him as well. | ![](/images/avatars/1453.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
False Dawns on 08:07 - May 4 with 6854 views | davidab2202 | When "older "players are being lent out ,I think it is often because they have ceased to play a significant role at their parent club and it is in the hope that they perform well enough in a few games to get a permanent deal and get them off the payroll Perhaps a case of "fooling some of the people ........... Think that may have been the case for many of the players being mentioned in this thread | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
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