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I included him too. Maybe a bit harsh. If I remember the situation right, he was without a club and had asked if he could train with the team just for fitness. Then, as he was around he was used for a game when we needed someone, but I don't think he was ever really seen as a proper signing and I don't think we ever really wanted to play him. It was pretty well recognised that his career was done.

Not Bale then?

John "Stumpy" Pepys (1964–1966) (Hope somebody else gets this)

Dixon is in the first post, I was leaving the other striker place open, anticipating an even more crocked signing.

Rosler definitely. For some reason I remember nothing of Sammy Lee in a Saints shirt.

You're either being obtuse or you genuinely don't get it, it's fine, there are plenty of other threads you're sure to understand better. Everybody else seems to have understood this one, but I'm sure you can manage to tell me and everyone else what the point is supposed to be.

The type of player we're talking about was explained in the first post, with examples. You seem to be the only person so far to not quite get the gist of it.

He may have been past his best years, but there's no way he fits the bill with anything else mentioned. If he was just at Saints to pick up a paycheck for a few matches, he certainly pulled the wool over my eyes.

We were so poor at the time that they were an improvement.

Peter Reid, what was the point of that? Inigo Idiakez

I was thinking about Hirst, because he was still quite a star when we got him. He did score 9 goals in 30 games according to wiki, so not terrible while he was actually able to get on the pitch. Mark Walters had completely disappeared from my memory!

Those players give me nightmares of trying to play Championship Manager 99/00 and being stuck at the Dell, with no income from matches and most of those players on long contracts and big wages with stats equivelant to non-league players. Relegation and sacking nearly every time.

These days, we tend to stick with younger players, but it's not so long ago that our summer signings always contained a smattering of players who had graced top teams and were looking for a place to earn some cash before their careers were completely done, either through age, loss of form/confidence, weight gain, dodgy knees or recurring injuries. I'm pretty sure we must be able to make a creaky, disappointing team out of them, just to remember how much big name new players on overblown wages could disappoint. GK - Chris Woods RB CB CB LB - John Beresford RW - Kanchelskis or Ripley CM - Mark Hughes CM - Mark Draper LW ST - Kerry Dixon ST -

Prutton?

Correct. He was in charge for six matches at Portsmouth and won 3 of them

Just looked up John Mortimore, but couldn't find stats for him, so I don't know if he had a better win % or not, There's a more recent answer out there.

Again, not a saints manager as far as I knew. Not the answer I was looking for.

Didn't know he even managed at Saints, but he's not of whom I was thinking.

Not him either

Not him

Which, of the former saints managers to manage both clubs, has the best win % at Portsmouth?

Nah, the original post was pretty clear, I was just teasing.

Did you know that like Des Walker, Bruce Grobbelaar had a spell at Sheffield Wednesday? But never played

My knowledge of international football is way too poor to even start this, but I love the puzzle of finding the mistakes in the teams.

And Best and Muller both played for Fort Lauderdale.