There must be a few names from our past who you just hated hearing they were in the side...again. I'm not talking about  players who made fleeting visits like Haruldur Ingolfsson and Lubomir Blaha, but guys who for some reason were picked most weeks.

 

I'll probably have more later, but the one I really, really hated having in the side was....

 

Paul Kane.

 

He was fucking ding.  Sticking rusty spikes in my eyes was more attractive than watching him mince around our midfield. To think he was often the replacement for guys like Bett, Grant, Mason and Richardson. Sublime to the ridiculous.  The guy couldn't do just about anything, anyone who thinks football is the beautiful game should spend 5 minutes watching that clown and they'll realise there's a lot of ugliness under the skin.

 

Glad I got that off my chest... so, who are yours?

I would agree with the Brian Irvine comment BB. He is remembered with affection due to his honest commitment ot the team and to the game in general but I used to hate seeing him on the field, he was a scare more often than not. Possibly due to the era he followed.

 

Another controversial one but I never liked Bobby Connor. Thought he was completely ineffective as a player but again possibly due to the company he kept....oh, and that god awful cock duster.

Gary Hackett

 

Hugh Robertson

 

Tony Warner

Hackett and Warner were more fleeting presences were they not?

Brian Irvine - Won't be a popular choice I know, but I cringed every time his name was read out prefixed by the words "Number six".  To be fair to him, taking the shirt vacated by Willie Miller was never going to be easy.  And he scored some fantastic goals for us for which I will be forever grateful, none moreso than his penalty in 1990, but he was a disaster waiting to happen in every match.

 

Ask him to clear the ball out the park with his head or foot and it was fine but the number of goals we lost through him getting turned because he was too tight to his man was ridiculous. Things got progressively worse with him when McLeish wasn't there to hold his hand.

 

Seems a nice bloke, loves the Dons, but he had all the poise of a drunk on roller skates.

 

Harsh BB. Unless my memory fails me it was his return to the team towards the end of infamous season where we played Dunfermline in play off that co-incided with a change on our fortunes ultimately leading to us finishing second bootm and relegating The Arabs.  

 

Harsh BB. Unless my memory fails me it was his return to the team towards the end of infamous season where we played Dunfermline in play off that co-incided with a change on our fortunes ultimately leading to us finishing second bootm and relegating The Arabs.

 

Need to agree to disagree Al as I could counter your claim by saying his absence coincided with us going on a great run towards the end of the 90-91 season, with McKimmie playing beside McLeish.  Horses for courses... how apt when talking about Dobbin (and he wasn't called that for nothing...) 

Hackett and Warner were more fleeting presences were they not?

 

If my memory serves Warner was a loanee, but no excuse for being a twat and shite!

 

Hackett totalled 15 appearances, which is about 15 too many

True on both counts MBT. 

Hackett, Edwards and Tom Jones...crikey.

Brian Irvine getting slated again?

Better than any centre half currently at the club.

Not in my opinion Kow, and it is only an opinion. it is allowed, I believe.

 

And I've said before I'd take Diamond ahead of him.  Even if I wouldn't, it doesn't change the fact that in his time with us - and that's all it can ever come down to - I didn't think he was good enough.  Like your comment about Paul Kane and how there's been worse players than him; does that make Kane a better player than he actually was? Of course it doesn't.

I would say David Winnie. He was terrible.

Ian Cameron was pretty pish too

 

Mark Perry?

 

Tzanko Tzvetanov??

gotta be SILKY ! oh the irony

Roberto bisconti. What a waste of space he was seriously though, mark perry, Wtf was his purpose in life?

Roberto bisconti. What a waste of space he was seriously though, mark perry, Wtf was his purpose in life?

 

Some sort of wideo?

 

 

Totally agree with Mark Perry and felt the same about Irvine in his early days, although warmed to him around 94/95, but for me the biggest disappointment was hearing Joe Miller's name announced.  He scored a cracker against Kilmarnock from 20 yards once but apart from that did absolutely fuck all during his entire second spell with us.

 

Willie Miller was the most overrated player ever, what did that mercenary ever achieve?