Who Is The Best Player..?

[St Landrew]

Slightly tongue-in-cheek post. Papa Waigo..! Is he better than other recent random Saints players. Vote in the poll above.

Edited 14 December, 2009 by St Landrew

[The9]

None of the above.

[JustMike]

I do like Papa, has got something about him, just needs to hold his run a fraction and he will be ok

[Fareham Saints]

How is Paul Telfer not in that list of ****e players

[The Banana Factor]

Stupid poll, papa waigo has actually contributed this year despite being very frustrating! Just look at his goals and assissts. Jermaine wright also did a good job for

us whereas the others were just truly awful!

[benjii]

What a silly thread.

[Torres]

Erm....what?

[eurosaint]

Overall Jermaine Wright achieved more for us than the others although Waigo still has a chance to shine !

Btw why am I involved in such a crap thread !

[Colinjb]

My choice would have to be Sarmiento. That boy was class.

[JackFrost]

you could add a few to that list.

 

Calum Davenport

 

Imants Bleidilis

 

Allaedine Yahia (We signed him for £350,000 and he didn't play one game for us)

 

Jelle Van Damme

 

to name a a few

[thesaint sfc]

Neil McCann was actually pretty good. He just lost his way a little bit.

[St Landrew]

you could add a few to that list.

 

Calum Davenport

 

Imants Bleidilis

 

Allaedine Yahia (We signed him for £350,000 and he didn't play one game for us)

 

Jelle Van Damme

 

to name a a few

 

Damn..! There are at least another couple of players there I was trying to think of, but couldn't remember.

[norwaysaint]

you could add a few to that list.

 

Calum Davenport

 

Imants Bleidilis

 

Allaedine Yahia (We signed him for £350,000 and he didn't play one game for us)

 

Jelle Van Damme

 

to name a a few

 

van Damme cost 2.5m and it might have been better if he hadn't played.

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

Need to add Cosimo Sarli to that list. Then I'd vote!

[JackFrost]

there was that ecuadorian bloke called chala?? who was here when Agustin Delgado was here

[Ludwig]

Jermaine Wright was a solid player.

[MbaleSaint]

Jermaine Wright was a solid player.

 

Agreed.

[John B]

Jermaine Wright was a solid player.

 

But past his best when he arrived at St Mary's

 

He cost Ipswich £500000 and played a lot in the Premiership

[JackFrost]

Jermaine Wright was a solid player.

 

I think he wasn't helped by Burley. I could understand his CM role in a kind of "keep it simple, keep possession" role.

 

But RB?? :smt100

[Saint_clark]

Ela Eyene was quality.

[RedAndWhite91]

Arias...... The Echo bigged him up as a great player. He could run the 100 metres in 10 seconds supposedly. El Torpedo.

 

Did he even play a game for us? The only thing on the internet about him on a US MLS forum for San Jose Earthquakes. They nearly signed him in 2008... http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13914458&postcount=38

[Bearsy]

Saintsweb mod abuses power in fatuous sticky poll thread shock!!!

 

[REDARMY79]

What a **** thread!

[St Landrew]

Well it was only meant to be lighthearted. Don't have a baby over it.

 

Just noticed something. You lot are saying Papa's better than players who were tested at Premiership and Championship level. You sure..?

[Thedelldays]

I voted for jasmine...he clearly was the worst player in that team...but he made me laugh

[GeckoSaint]

I reckon you could also add Mikael Nilsson, Andreas Jakobsson & Tommy Hajto to this list.

 

I used to rate Jermaine & Pele in the middle of the park. But those 2 come nowhere near the current midfield combo of Hammond & Schneiderlin.

 

At least Waigo has had a positive start to his Saints career - Over hyped possibly.

[Fan The Flames]

Each player listed above came with a little packet of hope that they would be the next big thing.

[benjii]

Waigo is a great player for a League One team to have and anyone who can't see that knows jack **** about football.

[St Landrew]

Each player listed above came with a little packet of hope that they would be the next big thing.

 

I knew there was a link between them.

 

I'm with benjii on this one.

[benjii]

Also, may I just say, ahem...

 

Marco Almeida

 

Cosimo Sarli

[The Banana Factor]

Papa ****ing waigo hands down!!!

[Saintandy666]

Waiiiiiiiiiiiiiigooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Plumstead_Saint]

Not a rigged vote or anything

[Minsk]

Papa by a continental mile (I'm sure that's much bigger than a country mile) especially after tonight!!!!!!

[The Kraken]

Arias...... The Echo bigged him up as a great player. He could run the 100 metres in 10 seconds supposedly. El Torpedo.

 

Did he even play a game for us? The only thing on the internet about him on a US MLS forum for San Jose Earthquakes. They nearly signed him in 2008... http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13914458&postcount=38

 

I remember watching him play at St. Mary's; think it must have been a reserve game though. He was utterly, utterly terrible! Laughably bad, in fact.

[saint_stevo]

wonder how this thread would have gone had a limited member started it.....sigh

 

The Torpedo

[Roger]

Waigo is going to be a saints hero!

[Roger]

Waigo, 7 goals in 9 games

[St Landrew]

I remember watching him play at St. Mary's; think it must have been a reserve game though. He was utterly, utterly terrible! Laughably bad, in fact.

 

I saw both Jacinto and Arias at St Marys playing reserve matches. I thought Jacinto had promise, but Torpedo had nothing. Jermaine Wright was OK, I suppose, but I couldn't believe how many opposition shots he used to deflect past his own keeper that would have been saved had he not got in the bloody way. I also couldn't believe how ordinary a player Neil McCann was. He seemed to be two seconds behind the match, and if he ever did get a touch, it was a bad one. I think he played OK for Scotland, in comparison. Bradley Wright-Phillips never produced any consistency at all. He seemed to have skill, but he sure didn't have brains. In the end, he was a bit of a waste of space. By comparison, Papa Waigo has skill, pace [too much it often appears] and, I think, a poaching ability which has yet to fully materialise. In the limited amount of times I've seen Papa Waigo, for me he's already a far bigger asset than the other players in the poll. Yet they were all hyped as something special. He's the first one who may turn out be so.

 

Yeah, I could have chosen other players, but I didn't. And it was only meant for fun anyway.

[SNSUN]

Papa does have a touch of class about him, and I rate him more than I rate Antonio. He has that cheeky touch about him that can take the ball away from opponents, and his pace goes without saying. Granted he gets a few offsides, but he also weighs in with a few goals. He'd me my right midfielder of choice in the current team, I thought he was good tonight.

 

Of that list above, which is most peculiar, I would rate Papa as the best in terms of quality, although Wright did give his all for this club in any position that was asked of him.

[The9]

If this is meant to be a list of bad players there are a lot worse than the options above.

 

It doesn't seem to be a list of reserves either.

 

Or a list of poor foreigners.

 

Or a list of unpopular players.

 

So other than being a list of slightly quirky Saints players, what is the point of this again ?

 

Benji hit the nail on the head with Almeida anyway, poor kid had 20 mins of Thierry Henry on his debut, ouch.

 

For the record, Kleber Chala has since won the Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of the Champions' League. Didn't get a look in for Saints though... Fernandes, Telfer and Griffit all ahead of him in the depth chart.