| Players with great starts who then wobbled 11:44 - Oct 6 with 9106 views | Tonto |
Following on from the other interesring thread....
Zesh Rehman, Kevin McLoud, Steve Morrow. All started well and faded badly. Some (yes you Zesh) quicker than others
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 11:52 - Oct 6 with 6655 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Brock.
Unbelievably good start. We thought we'd hit gold on his debut at Upton Park and he played really well as we went top....but it just seemed to fade away slowly. He stopped imposing himself on games, looked a bit soft, a bit slow, a bit disinterested.
When Jim Smith took him with him up to Newcastle, I think we were all a bit pleased. Or maybe relieved.
Eighteen months after Upton Park. [Post edited 6 Oct 2025 11:53]
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 11:56 - Oct 6 with 6616 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
The Portuguese lad who launched a thousand T Shirts v Exeter then disappeared up his own arse. |  | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 11:57 - Oct 6 with 6610 views | HAYESBOY |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 11:56 - Oct 6 by BazzaInTheLoft |
The Portuguese lad who launched a thousand T Shirts v Exeter then disappeared up his own arse. |
Ladesma. He would do the wall shuffle as well. |  |
| Smells like a trout farm in here |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 12:11 - Oct 6 with 6557 views | loftus77 |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 11:56 - Oct 6 by BazzaInTheLoft |
The Portuguese lad who launched a thousand T Shirts v Exeter then disappeared up his own arse. |
Carlisle? Utd not Clarke..... |  | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 12:14 - Oct 6 with 6527 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 11:52 - Oct 6 by BrianMcCarthy |
Brock.
Unbelievably good start. We thought we'd hit gold on his debut at Upton Park and he played really well as we went top....but it just seemed to fade away slowly. He stopped imposing himself on games, looked a bit soft, a bit slow, a bit disinterested.
When Jim Smith took him with him up to Newcastle, I think we were all a bit pleased. Or maybe relieved.
Eighteen months after Upton Park. [Post edited 6 Oct 2025 11:53]
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Great call.
That day at Upton Park I think we all knew we were looking at a special team but for me on that day Brock stood out even more than Parker and Mark Dennis because he pulled the strings that made the attack purr.
Memory is hazy but I think he got injured just after the Liverpool defeat and in his absence we went into a bit of free fall in November (as per bleeding usual). I remember praying for his return but when it happened it was all a bit meh. | | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 12:36 - Oct 6 with 6441 views | OakR |
Stuart Wardley? Lots of goals first season and then faded quite quickly | |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 12:37 - Oct 6 with 6442 views | DannyPaddox |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 11:56 - Oct 6 by BazzaInTheLoft |
The Portuguese lad who launched a thousand T Shirts v Exeter then disappeared up his own arse. |
Pedant alert. Ledesma is from a place approximately 6,000 miles South-West of Portugal known as Argentina. And also, as said, it was Carlisle not Exeter. Knew who you meant tho. |  | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 13:30 - Oct 6 with 6342 views | Orthodox_Hoop |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 12:37 - Oct 6 by DannyPaddox |
Pedant alert. Ledesma is from a place approximately 6,000 miles South-West of Portugal known as Argentina. And also, as said, it was Carlisle not Exeter. Knew who you meant tho. |
The club releasing commemorative t-shirts after his hat-trick has to rate highly as one of the clingiest things they've ever done.
And yes, I bought one. |  | | |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 13:39 - Oct 6 with 6321 views | MrSheen |
John Spencer. Couldn’t stop scoring, then couldn’t wait to leave. |  | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 14:57 - Oct 6 with 6217 views | ted_hendrix |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 13:39 - Oct 6 by MrSheen |
John Spencer. Couldn’t stop scoring, then couldn’t wait to leave. |
The 'word' doing the rounds was that Bruce Rioch had grabbed Spencer by the throat at Exeter FC after a friendly game.
I couldn't work out his dip In performances, I thought he was an excellent player.
When he scored for us at Elm Park against the fakes he came over to us fans behind the goal and declared that 'He was the Man'.
There was also some Welsh bloke who played for us but ended up In prison, I thought he was good. |  |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:05 - Oct 6 with 6194 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 14:57 - Oct 6 by ted_hendrix |
The 'word' doing the rounds was that Bruce Rioch had grabbed Spencer by the throat at Exeter FC after a friendly game.
I couldn't work out his dip In performances, I thought he was an excellent player.
When he scored for us at Elm Park against the fakes he came over to us fans behind the goal and declared that 'He was the Man'.
There was also some Welsh bloke who played for us but ended up In prison, I thought he was good. |
Leon Jeanne? |  | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:11 - Oct 6 with 6168 views | Boston |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 12:37 - Oct 6 by DannyPaddox |
Pedant alert. Ledesma is from a place approximately 6,000 miles South-West of Portugal known as Argentina. And also, as said, it was Carlisle not Exeter. Knew who you meant tho. |
Would you be a Ledesmian, Daniel? | |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:14 - Oct 6 with 6159 views | brewers_hoop |
Andy Thomson - 21 goals in his first season, 5 in his second then packed off to Partick |  | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:16 - Oct 6 with 6133 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Paul Wright - Bagged a brace on debut, never saw him again. |  |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:28 - Oct 6 with 6101 views | ted_hendrix |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:05 - Oct 6 by nick_hammersmith |
Leon Jeanne? |
That's him. | |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:43 - Oct 6 with 6067 views | loftboy |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:16 - Oct 6 by PlanetHonneywood |
Paul Wright - Bagged a brace on debut, never saw him again. |
also scored two against Liverpool in that game where Trevor Francis wife raced down the directors box to kiss him.
Was homesick for Scotland if I remember correctly. |  |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 16:02 - Oct 6 with 6023 views | numptydumpty |
Hope my memory is serving me right, but i seem to remember being very impressed initially by Mark Stein and he faded from the scene quite quickly. Was a decent player at times for me and underachieved. |  |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 16:05 - Oct 6 with 6016 views | numptydumpty |
Another wouldnt say he flew out the blocks but was very decent for a young one was Conor Masterson, who we seemingly banished, then was loaned out and then moved on.
For me, was more decent than the opportunities that presented themselves to him. | |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 16:10 - Oct 6 with 6012 views | DannyPaddox |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 15:11 - Oct 6 by Boston |
Would you be a Ledesmian, Daniel? |
I didn’t go as far as buying the t-shirt. | | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 16:18 - Oct 6 with 5992 views | bosh67 |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 12:36 - Oct 6 by OakR |
Stuart Wardley? Lots of goals first season and then faded quite quickly |
I'd argue that 14 goals from 87 games for us was a decent return with Wardley. His time did tail off but at least he was able to move his own stuff out, as he worked as a removals man as well. |  |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 16:29 - Oct 6 with 5968 views | slmrstid |
I remember Jordan Cousins coming off the bench for his debut when we rifled Leeds 3-0 in a season opener and he looked amazing and...well...that was about as good as he ever got. |  | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 16:32 - Oct 6 with 5960 views | Esox_Lucius |
Jose Boswinga, came on as substitute in his 1st game and instantly demonstrated why he had won so much in the game. After a mostly undocumented bust up over being dropped by Redknapp and the club spin on the story, the fans turned on him with a vengeance, possibly due to the CFC connection, and his only memorable appearance after that was his last game vs Newcastle. |  |
| The grass is always greener. |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 17:15 - Oct 6 with 5912 views | CiderwithRsie |
Now here's one dredged out of my mid-80s memory bank: little Mark Stein, signed at the start of the summer of 88 not long after Gary Bannister had moved on, and seemed to me a more or less like-for-like (nippy little bloke striker) replacement (though on checking, Stein wore no 10, not Banno's 9)
3 top-flight League goals in 5 starts (including one goal off the bench) plus one at the start of our League Cup run (yep, a real one, not sarcasm) by mid-October, it says here, then none in the next four games before being dropped while Ol' Man Francis started to run the show on the pitch.
Just seemed to fade away after that and I sometimes forget he ever played for us. | | | |
| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 17:39 - Oct 6 with 5875 views | R_from_afar |
The Aussie with the kangaroo style goal celebration, Nick Ward. |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Players with great starts who then wobbled on 17:46 - Oct 6 with 5851 views | Rs_Holy |
Mikele Legs-of-wood |  | | |
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