"Impulse" buys

Guitargeorge · Post by **Guitargeorge** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:37 pm

With Darikwa moving on to Forest, I was thinking about some of the players bought over the years who had just played a blinder against us. Frank Casper, Doug Collins and Peter Noble are three absolute gems who come to mind. Any others?

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:38 pm

Wade Elliott is the definitive answer here

colne-claret · Post by **colne-claret** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:49 pm

Besart Berisha although I know it was international on the Turf.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:00 pm

I think it took us three years to sign Casper after the cup tie v Rotherham but Collins was snapped up almost immediately after a League Cup tie against Grimsby.

claretburns · Post by **claretburns** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:04 pm

Bikey?

Goobs · Post by **Goobs** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:04 pm

I don't know about playing a blinder (in fact I think he was distinctly average on the day), but I seem to recall Ian Moore getting a fantastic reception when playing against us at the Turf not long before he signed for us.

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:06 pm

claretburns wrote:Bikey?

he did display controlled aggression at the Turf in the play-off semi 1st leg!

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:10 pm

Was Robbie Painter an impulse buy? CT will know as he corrected me on him scoring against Maidstone within a minute of his debut.

winsomeyen · Post by **winsomeyen** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:18 pm

ClaretTony wrote:I think it took us three years to sign Casper after the cup tie v Rotherham but Collins was snapped up almost immediately after a League Cup tie against Grimsby.

Think you maybe wrong re Cas, if memory serves he signed in the close season after the Rotherham game and made his debut against Coventry,which was their first game in the top division and Cas scored at least one in a 3-1 Clarets win.

Dy1geo · Post by **Dy1geo** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:25 pm

The legendary Tony Hancock

Stalbansclaret · Post by **Stalbansclaret** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:43 pm

Ian Moore "distinctly average on the day" ? .......surely not

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:47 pm

Dy1geo wrote:The legendary Tony Hancock

I'd forgotten about him. There was a big media deal made about him signing if I remember rightly. He did one flick with his foot and that was about the extent of his Burnley career.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:22 pm

winsomeyen wrote:Think you maybe wrong re Cas, if memory serves he signed in the close season after the Rotherham game and made his debut against Coventry,which was their first game in the top division and Cas scored at least one in a 3-1 Clarets win.

Casper played against us in the FA Cup for Rotherham in January 1964 and signed for us in summer 1967. He did score on his debut. We beat Coventry 2-1 with Willie Irvine getting the other.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:28 pm

Gaz O'Connor and Wade Elliot for Bournemouth against us on the Turf were great. I'm sure John Spicer also played.

Ptangyangkipperbang · Post by **Ptangyangkipperbang** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:43 pm

Did we sign Kevin Glendon from Hyde Utd after the fact cup game in 1983?

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:59 pm

ExistentialWanderer wrote:I'd forgotten about him. There was a big media deal made about him signing if I remember rightly. He did one flick with his foot and that was about the extent of his Burnley career.

He attempted a bicycle kick in a pre season friendly against Hibs and unsurprisingly missed the ball by a mile!

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:01 pm

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:He attempted a bicycle kick in a pre season friendly against Hibs and unsurprisingly missed the ball by a mile!

He had lovely hair mind and a hair band. Looked the part

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:03 pm

He sure did was exciting at the time! Only contribution he made I think was away at Stockport!

gc14 · Post by **gc14** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:04 pm

Didn't we sign the 'Tin Man' after he terrorised Ian Measham in the FA Cup ?

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:08 pm

gc14 wrote:Didn't we sign the 'Tin Man' after he terrorised Ian Measham in the FA Cup ?

Derby. He was one of my favourites if only for winding up the Stockport players in the Play Off Final.

Top Claret · Post by **Top Claret** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:14 pm

John Gayle. Mullen signed him. If memory serves me right he was signed for the league cup tie at York, well it seemed that way

Siddo · Post by **Siddo** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:29 pm

Winston White.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:14 pm

Did Ian Helliwell score against us for Stockport and sign for us not long after.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:15 pm

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Did Ian Helliwell score against us for Stockport and sign for us not long after.

I think he scored in the game when we beat them 4-3 and we certainly signed him soon after that.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:16 pm

gc14 wrote:Didn't we sign the 'Tin Man' after he terrorised Ian Measham in the FA Cup ?

Over two years after and he'd moved to Birmingham by then

JohnDearyMe · Post by **JohnDearyMe** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:08 pm

ClaretTony wrote:Over two years after and he'd moved to Birmingham by then

Yes surely McMinn had enough of a well established reputation to rule him out of this category

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 4:32 am

Was Leon Cort an impulse buy?

winsomeyen · Post by **winsomeyen** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:30 pm

ClaretTony wrote:Casper played against us in the FA Cup for Rotherham in January 1964 and signed for us in summer 1967. He did score on his debut. We beat Coventry 2-1 with Willie Irvine getting the other.

Must hold my hand up,my memory isnt as good as I thought it was.

Goobs · Post by **Goobs** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:43 pm

box_of_frogs wrote:Was Leon Cort an impulse buy?

No he was a Panic buy or a very bad buy whichever you prefer

Dy1geo · Post by **Dy1geo** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 5:57 pm

Leon Cort, gets a bad press but if memory serves me right after his first game, pundits on MOTD were waxing lyrically about him saying he could help us stay up. If only his header against Rovers had gone in how much different it could have been.

box_of_frogs · Post by **box_of_frogs** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:01 pm

Cort gets a bad press because he was pump....

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