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8 minutes ago, glenburn bud said:

Alan Stubbs should have received a lengthy jail term for signing that fucking clown Josh Heaton. Easily the worst excuse for a pro footballer I’ve ever had the misfortune to see. 

A bit harsh Glenburn Bud! We’ve had much worse!

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13 minutes ago, CambieBud said:

A bit harsh Glenburn Bud! We’ve had much worse!

You reckon ? In my 50 plus years of watching us, he’s without doubt the player with the worst attitude and the least talent I can remember.

I’ve seen some others like Jim Gardiner and the like, but not one had his appalling attitude and sheer lack of talent with a ball. 

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19 minutes ago, CambieBud said:

A bit harsh Glenburn Bud! We’ve had much worse!

The only worse centre half I've seen for us was the boy who showed up for a trial and got first 45 mins against Caley, shipped 3 goals in a 4-0 defeat, got hooked at half time and got Hendrie his jotters.

And he doesn't even come in worse than Heaton as at least the German trialist didn't cost us seventy-five fucking grand.

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I remember watching Heaton play against Queens Park in a LC game at Hampden and their wee centre was taking the piss out of him. That's when I knew we had signed someone who wasn't even Second Division standard. Thought he would struggle in the P&D Amateur League.

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To be fair to Heaton, the price tag was nothing to do with him. Young lad came up from English non league and wasn't good enough. It would be a pretty unremarkable story if we hadn't spent cash and crowed about what a coup it was.

He had a few daft posts on twitter if I remember correctly but I've no idea what his attitude was like in training.

We got sold a pup though, there was talk of English Championship and even Premiership clubs looking at him. Which must've been nonsense, we took the bait and threw a bit of cash to get him in. Naive on our part. Stubbs clearly didn't do enough research on the guy.

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12 hours ago, djchapsticks said:

The only worse centre half I've seen for us was the boy who showed up for a trial and got first 45 mins against Caley, shipped 3 goals in a 4-0 defeat, got hooked at half time and got Hendrie his jotters.

And he doesn't even come in worse than Heaton as at least the German trialist didn't cost us seventy-five fucking grand.

IIRC he was one of a pair of Austrians who played one game for us during Tom Hendrie's dog days...

Foreign Players | Stmirren.info

Klaus Dietrich (Marlene would've been better and she been dead over 10 years!) and Gerhard Fellner - the list is a bit of a mixed bag.

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35 minutes ago, btb said:

IIRC he was one of a pair of Austrians who played one game for us during Tom Hendrie's dog days...

Foreign Players | Stmirren.info

Klaus Dietrich (Marlene would've been better and she been dead over 10 years!) and Gerhard Fellner - there's some right nightmares on this list.

Was it Dietrich that tried to overhead kick it on the halfway line, missed, letting the opposition in for a 1v1?

Haddy.

Heaton wasn’t helped by the pricetag, but didn’t show the attitude of Cooke to try and improve.
 

Always found it strange that we signed a few players from the Vardy Academy that Stubbs was involved in prior to joining us…

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1 hour ago, btb said:

IIRC he was one of a pair of Austrians who played one game for us during Tom Hendrie's dog days...

Foreign Players | Stmirren.info

Klaus Dietrich (Marlene would've been better and she been dead over 10 years!) and Gerhard Fellner - the list is a bit of a mixed bag.

Fellner played a few games and in at least one of them looked OK. Think he also had history of playing here.

The other guy, I'm sure, said he was a student here but played professionally back home and we bought it and gave him a trial!

 

Also, I've never heard of the other Austrian,  Ivan Kristo in my life and I've a pretty decent memory when it comes to foreigners playing for us. I even remember Janne Makela playing 45 mins for us and FUBARing his knee and Hrenn Hringisson 

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On 11/09/2022 at 09:56, aldo_j said:

Was it Dietrich that tried to overhead kick it on the halfway line, missed, letting the opposition in for a 1v1?

Haddy.

Heaton wasn’t helped by the pricetag, but didn’t show the attitude of Cooke to try and improve.
 

Always found it strange that we signed a few players from the Vardy Academy that Stubbs was involved in prior to joining us…

....and that Darren Jackson was an agent. 

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