How could anyone ever regard Earnie as a bad signing?

Genuinely baffled. Look at the stats. He's a goal-scorer - he was bought to score goals - he scored goals. Shedloads of goals. Simple as that.

You could argue that he was the WRONG signing - that instead of one Earnie we should have bought eg two quality midfielders. (That was never going to happen - Worthy had backed himself into a corner with his stupid "wealth of midfielders" comment, and when Ashton went he needed to buy a goal scorer to placate the crowd.) But that's not Earnie's fault.

Posted By: Old Git on May 8th 2008 at 17:10:05

Message Thread

was robert earnshaw a success or failure for NCFC? (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 16:57:54
- big fat FAILURE (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:09:24
- success (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 17:08:14
- Success - scored lots of goals and broke even on him. (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 8, 17:01:28
  - How could anyone ever regard Earnie as a bad signing? (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:10:05
    - wrong signing, badly timed, didn't fit the squad, didn't do us much good really (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:20:13
      - We needed a goalscorer = he scored goals (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:44:11
        
        yeah, and imagine someone having to inherit a that squad without him? (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:45:41
        
        Grant by that point was signing a lot of 'his' players (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:50:49
        
        I think Hamilton was worse than Grant (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:54:52
        
        Agree to a degree (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:59:12
        
        bit like fozzy this season then? (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 18:01:49
        
        Whats like fozzy? (n/m) (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:03:16
        
        injured innit (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 18:05:00
        
        When hes good, hes very very good (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:07:40
        
        not what im saying in the slightest (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:52:09
        
        Calm down dear (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 17:54:46
        
        haha, pots and kettles (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:56:14
        
        Righto - Well what on earth (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:01:09
        
        that anyone who took the job when he did, had a mountain to climb (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 18:04:05
        
        BUT he was (NCFC) - romayellow, May 8, 18:07:09
        
        that's because you've deserved it (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:57:22
        
        As I learnt to expect, and it's never stopped, (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:57:11
        
        SUPER PETER GRANT (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:53:42
        
        nah he just WAS the worst norwich manager ever (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:47:12
        
        to be fair he never saw the impact earnie had (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:45:25
      - yeah 27 goals in 45 appearances was poor (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:23:22
        
        15 love (n/m) (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:25:03
        
        For the team as a whole, very much the wrong signing (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:30:45
        
        so you'd rather he scored less (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:33:28
        
        Er....yes. Are you unfamiliar with the concept of "team"? (n/m) (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:35:43
        
        not really (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:39:13
        
        There's no "I" in team (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:37:19
        
        I really can't be arsed to write an essay about it (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:53:29
        
        being as Chris Brown joined us 3 months after Worthy had been sacked (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 18:55:44
        
        I'm not (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 19:06:45
        
        but he didn't... (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 19:29:26
        
        See again, Chadders is a worthy signing for me (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 19:41:30
        
        even unofficially it was under Grant that he came to us (NCFC) - blindasabat, May 8, 21:10:40
        
        I think of Brown as something to do with Worthy too (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 19:21:33
        
        arrers! (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:40:48
        
        sorry 4 in himself (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:41:10
        
        and also he's being blamed for being too good (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:34:05
        
        You are missing nothing (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:36:31
        
        made money on him :) (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:37:52
        
        Christ, am I actually agreeing with Himmers? (NCFC) - Iwan Husarmi, May 8, 17:32:15
        
        you're both mental yes (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:34:23
- Success for waht he did (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 16:59:59
  - hucks did the same no? (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:03:37
    - No, not at all. (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 17:09:02
      - but nobody wanted to join us (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:10:36
        
        How do you know? and who did we look for? (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 19:02:12
      - oh and a million on earnie would of left £2.5m to spend elsewhere (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 17:10:11
        
        you're speaking as if we had a pick of decent players (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:11:42
        
        too many people here used to playing championship manager (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:14:46
        
        I reckon the word patronizing has more sting to it when you spell it like that. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, May 8, 17:23:28
        
        I honestly believe that, (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:16:02
        
        spot on (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:17:27
        
        i'll drink to that (n/m) (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:21:25
        
        quit moaning about petrol prices then :P (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, May 8, 17:34:13
        
        meggers, a suggestion (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 17:11:19
        
        Yeah, i should HAVE been out the door ten minutes before i posted that though. (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 18:55:57
        
        tell him to fuck have meggers (n/m) (NCFC) - Tomblander, May 8, 17:12:05
        
        rolf (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, May 8, 18:54:52
- he did miss a shit load of chances but i reckon he was a success. (NCFC) - NCFC4life, May 8, 16:59:49
  - indeed the stats don't lie (NCFC) - SCC 28, May 8, 17:01:46
- Success (NCFC) - Old Git, May 8, 16:59:00

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