Best signing of the decade...

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

go....

yloop · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:56 pm

Porter

Warwick Hunt · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:56 pm

Joel Porter

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:56 pm

Joel Porter

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:01 pm

Porter - is there simply anyone else?

Pierrepoint · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:04 am **Posts:** 1723

fookin hell I thuoght someone had put Procter then... bbolt

What about Sir Richard of Humphries.. bbolt

P.M.T. · **Joined:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:14 pm **Posts:** 968

Eifion Williams

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:06 pm

was gonna disagree and say strodder until i realised he signed in '99.

Joel porter for me too.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

i always loved watchin watson play, i know he only had 1 good season, but he was awesome.

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:19 pm

I was saying Tinks, but members of my family said I couldn't have him because his signing was outside the decade....??

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

I think he signed in the 2000 / 2001 season didnt he?

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:25 pm

MJ will know...but it's true Tinks was already playing when we moved up here in 2000.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

We didn't have him in our first play off season of 99/00 i know that for a fact.

He signed a few months into the 00/01 season as Turner wanted to add some steal into the midfield, and Southend couldnt afford him.

A bargain.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:29 pm

Debut 4th November 2000

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/ ... sp?oid=935

Some people argue that the decade doesn't start until the 1/1/2001 like.

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:41 pm

I've only been going to Pools regularly since 2003, but in that time I'd have to pick Joel Porter.

grabec · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:42 pm

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

Some people argue that the decade doesn't start until the 1/1/2001 like.

Right, Tinks it is, then. :wink:

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:31 pm

chip fireball wrote:

can anyone who hasnt said porter drop me a pm ?

i need a suitcase taking to china. i will pay for flight out there.

first come first served.

if this had been a best signing in since ior took over i would have said strodder simply because he almost single handedly kept us up and kick started the good times.

But it isnt so it just HAS to be either porter or your bezzie

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Darrell Clarke

Jonny · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:01 pm

Joel Porter

Could of been Tommy Butler or Jack Ross had they been around longer than they were and not been as sulky as they were.....

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:30 pm

Yubep wrote:

Darrell Clarke

I would sooner go for Sir Ritchie :laugh:

8minutesaway · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:35 pm

Some good options but I'd go Tinkler too. Does he have a younger brother, as we could do with him this season

Gerry Mandrake · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:23 pm **Posts:** 1441

Watson, the man was a different class.
Porter in a close second, Dimi third.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

Watson was pure fucking ing trouble and the residue is still there. I for one wish to god we had never heard of the bloke.

The best signing in the history of the world was Hartlepool signing Joel Porter. He had no business plying his trade in our division.

Gerry Mandrake · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:23 pm **Posts:** 1441

I don't know much about the inside of the club, I just know that when I turned up on Saturday afternoon's, watching Gordon Watson was like nothing else I've seen at Pools, aside from maybe Jan Ove.

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Gerry Mandrake wrote:

I don't know much about the inside of the club, I just know that when I turned up on Saturday afternoon's, watching Gordon Watson was like nothing else I've seen at Pools, aside from maybe Jan Ove.

i fully agree with that comment.

Watson could hit a ball from anywhere, volleys, tap ins, the lot, he could do it.

He just had that extra bit of class about him.

Him n williams would have got 30 each had he been fully fit that promotion season, watching them 2 playing off each other, especially against darlo, was amazing stuff.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

I was never a huge Williams fan but i did like it when Cooper came in and got hold of him and started making him get stuck in more.

Would also have to say Joel, although would have been Strodder if it was this decade. Single handidly at times kept us in this division. Who actually signed him? I seem to remember he came in the day or the day before Turner took over?

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12375

Tinkler.

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5096

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/ ... sp?oid=957

so nearly :wink:

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

no6bus wrote:

http://www.inthemadcrowd.co.uk/cgi-bin/itmc_view_person.asp?oid=957

so nearly :wink:

I don't think I have ever enjoyed a signing as much as Gabbiadinni, the fact it was totally totally unexpected, the way he did it to Darlo, the fact he was one of their biggest heroes, how good a player he was and how it increased the gap between us was sheer brilliance. You couldn't have written it any better.

jish · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:10 pm

Gordon Watson for me. Those were exciting times to watch Pools and you expected a hatful of goals every game. He could score from anywhere and often did. Just a shame we didn't have him for 10 years!

I know there have been longer serving players and ones who have been more infuential but he, for me was the best signing we ever made.

Salty · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:11 pm

Joel porter, easy

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:09 pm

Either Tinkler, Porter or Humphreys. Too close to call on which one.

Anybody who thinks that Joel Porter is a clear winner PM me, I've got a backpack for you to wear that gets you free train rides, just pull the handle on the side when you see the ticket collector approaching...

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:12 pm

Darren Clark for me. I think he was instrumental in making the attitude that got us there.

If we had a Darren Clark now, we wouldn't have a thing to worry about. :wink:

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:06 pm

Spender wrote:

Darren Clark for me. I think he was instrumental in making the attitude that got us there.

If we had a Darren Clark now, we wouldn't have a thing to worry about. :wink:

WHO?

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

The golfer gadgie obviously Mr Grave :roll:

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:33 pm

Grave wrote:

Spender wrote:

Darren Clark for me. I think he was instrumental in making the attitude that got us there.

If we had a Darren Clark now, we wouldn't have a thing to worry about. :wink:

WHO?

You have to remember it was after 4am where Kev is, when he posted that, he must be overtired!!

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:25 am

Aye.....errr.......... :uhoh:

Sorry...Darrell Clarke....... bbolt

I was somewhat 'refreshed' as you rightly said... :laugh:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:59 pm

Humphries, Porter, Boyd, Miller.

ashleypoolie · **Joined:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:33 pm **Posts:** 198

Porter but also Boyd when he came back from Boston (even though he was still our player) but he was lyk a new signing!

nick · **Posted:** Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:18 am

Jon Bass.

aptid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:49 pm **Posts:** 1506

Humphries, Porter, Boyd, Watson, Strodder, Tinkler............... the only one we have really missed and to date never replaced is Tinkler and how we miss him or his like.

So as good as it is to have watched them all especially Watson, Porter and Strodder, Tinks stands out as the most irreplaceable and according to my no doubt flawed logic is the best signing of the decade. clappp

killergrahamsfarrahs · **Joined:** Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:44 pm **Posts:** 82

Bary Alfred Siddall

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:17 pm

nick wrote:

Jon Bass.

killergrahamsfarrahs · **Joined:** Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:44 pm **Posts:** 82

ElvisAintDead wrote:

killergrahamsfarrahs wrote:

Bary Alfred Siddall

The Decade? He last played for us in 1989!!!

Merked.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

WTF is merked

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