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Sarmiento looked good in a terrible team performance against Notts County in the league cup, calm and composed on the ball with a good touch and decent distribution certainly couldn't see any reason for him not to get at least a go in the first team. Then we lost and their numpty fans invaded the pitch like they had just won the champions league and the rest is history.

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. NC has done some things I don't agree with but he's 100,000 times better than Askham, Lowe, Wilde and the other idiots from that period put together.

 

In the interests of balance, what about in comparison to Lowe between (say) 2000-2004 ? New ground, top half Prem finishes, attracted a former England manager, FA Cup Final and UEFA Cup appearance.

 

I'm all for slating the guy for his shortsighted signings in 2004, Strachan's rolling contract, the half-baked attempt at avoiding Admin, the unnecessary -10 and nearly sending the club to the wall, but he was quite decent there for a while...

 

And we'd still have been decent enough to stay up in 2005 if Killer had been fit...

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Anyone remember when we were linked with Bjorn Johansen but he never moved because his wife would have to stop practising as a lawyer and would lose significant income? Shame, he looked against Chelsea for Tromso in the CWC :(

 

I remember that, indeed! - They were part timers too, wern't they?

 

he was good on Championship manager 97/98

 

+1

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I expected him to be big (Scandanavian!) but he was very small !

 

I own Stig Johansen's shirt that he wore in the 1997-98 season. It's a large. I won it after being circled in the Echo after the last home game. They gave out the first team shirts to people randomly photgraphed across the stadium and then the 5 subs shirts to 5 faces circled in the Junior Saints section. I was one off getting Kevin Davies' - this being the year he was awesome for us - who was also sub that game.

 

He was brought in off the back of Egil Østenstad having a great year for us the previous season and started one of the early games up at Old Trafford. He struggled to break into the first team thereafter but showed his class ending up the top scorer in the reserves that year!

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I own Stig Johansen's shirt that he wore in the 1997-98 season. It's a large. I won it after being circled in the Echo after the last home game. They gave out the first team shirts to people randomly photgraphed across the stadium and then the 5 subs shirts to 5 faces circled in the Junior Saints section. I was one off getting Kevin Davies' - this being the year he was awesome for us - who was also sub that game.

 

He was brought in off the back of Egil Østenstad having a great year for us the previous season and started one of the early games up at Old Trafford. He struggled to break into the first team thereafter but showed his class ending up the top scorer in the reserves that year!

 

a) All Saints shirts in those days were 'undersized' !

b) My son has an MLT worn shirt which is XXXL, I know he liked a burger but this is bl**dy massive !

c) I Wikipediaed Stig and it says 5'10" but he always looked a midget to me !

d) I have been known to be wrong on occasions and this could well be one of them !

:)

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Seeing as we seem to be having a little session of posting threads on random players, I thought I'd throw this one in.

 

Only thought of him as I had a customer post a card to him in Poland this week!

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He was alright when he wasn't injured. Remember him looking by far the most interesting player in a 0-0 bore draw with Plimuff. Was in the Poland squad for the world cup the summer after he left us.

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Also a horrible decision not to give him the 10 shirt....marketing potential of a Saints shirt with 10 + Pele, HELLO

 

I was fuming about that at the time. I'm over it now.

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then you obviously haven't seen some of the atrocious players that we've had over the years.

 

Well yes I have..hence my nomination for these two jokers (Robertson and Peckhart) albeit 1 good goal from Robertson. Their class was no higher than League 2 standard

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Was he the one who looked like a Scarecrow, and had the blind misguided decision to play in Gold boots at Old Trafford in our relegation season.

 

I think he only played for us once we'd been relegated. I'm sure he scored a belter against Hull at home?

 

On another note Where is Peter (?) Madsen?

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I'm jumping on the bandwagon.

 

I think he would be a great partner for Fonte now to be honest.

 

Loved the header and free kick he scored away to Watford the season we got relegated from the Champ.

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I think he only played for us once we'd been relegated. I'm sure he scored a belter against Hull at home?

 

That was Oakley. Kosowski did score in the away game at Hull though!

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He made a positive impact on the side when he joined.

 

He was at best a lower-league Championship defender, but he stood out in what was a poor Saints team that deservedly got relegated.

 

And what a goal he scored at Watford! To those that can't remember, enjoy . . .

 

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I'm jumping on the bandwagon.

 

I think he would be a great partner for Fonte now to be honest.

 

Loved the header and free kick he scored away to Watford the season we got relegated from the Champ.

 

That was a great day. Great support

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Size was great, I wish we'd kept him. Think he even told the Dutch media he would have loved to sign for us. When you consider we started last season with Perry, Lancs and Thomas before Jaidi and Trotman joined, I think we'd have been much better set at the back.

 

Anyone who went to the last game in the CCC at Forest would have seen the difference he made to our side. He went off injured with 15 minutes left at 1-1. Before you knew it, we were losing 3-1.

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I think he only played for us once we'd been relegated. I'm sure he scored a belter against Hull at home?

 

On another note Where is Peter (?) Madsen?

 

He is at Brondby, still not scoring many goals I believe:D

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In the interests of balance, what about in comparison to Lowe between (say) 2000-2004 ? New ground, top half Prem finishes, attracted a former England manager, FA Cup Final and UEFA Cup appearance.

 

I'm all for slating the guy for his shortsighted signings in 2004, Strachan's rolling contract, the half-baked attempt at avoiding Admin, the unnecessary -10 and nearly sending the club to the wall, but he was quite decent there for a while...

 

And we'd still have been decent enough to stay up in 2005 if Killer had been fit...

 

Oh I agree from 1997-2003 with that, Lowe did a good job and offered far more than what had gone before. Secure Retirement at least cleared the £3m or so overdraft Askham had created. Guy Askham was the true villian for me - seemingly put next nothing in bar being Lawrie's message boy to sign Keegan yet created a deadlocked ownership that only administration undid. I wouldn't be surprised if the residue bitterness of that deadlock is partially behind the "dark forces" NC referred to.

 

Killer is one of my all time favourite Saints players and of course Marion was injured long-term too but we were so bad in 2004/5 and the club was in such turmoil politically I'm not sure even Killer could have kept us up unless we'd recruited a proper manager in place of Sturrock and Wigley at the start of the season.

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Even worse, pointless and obscure. The guy's probably about 100 years old now.

 

and there seems to be another 6 or 7 threads dedicated to shyte players that never really did much for saints in thier limited time here. Could we not just have one thread (that we can avoid) and maybe title it .. Shyte players that used to play for saints briefly

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