Having possibly not seen him play at all It is difficult to comment but Wikipedia writes "After catching the eye of cross channel scouts with his subsequent displays for Longford Town and Athlone Town, Place was signed by Damien Richardson for Gillingham on 21 October 1989. He made his debut two days later against Chesterfield, but a promising career with the English third division club was cut short when he incurred a serious neck injury, which kept out of the game for six years". He appears to have had a decent career in coaching youth players in Ireland even at national level. Rumoured to have been at Hibernian in 2016.Possibly proving that you don't need to be able to play to be able to coach football.Best signing by any manager
Andy Nelson -Alan Wilks
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Damien Richardson - Brendan Place
When I used to play Sensible World of Soccer on the Amiga, starting as a lower league team, Darren Carr was always one of my first signings as he was fast and cheap.Worst by Pulis I never rated Darren Carr at all and sending him on at Wembley left me shaking my head in disbelief.
A real hoofer (when he could touch the ball at all). Probably injured his neck trying to head the ball into orbit.Having possibly not seen him play at all It is difficult to comment but Wikipedia writes "After catching the eye of cross channel scouts with his subsequent displays for Longford Town and Athlone Town, Place was signed by Damien Richardson for Gillingham on 21 October 1989. He made his debut two days later against Chesterfield, but a promising career with the English third division club was cut short when he incurred a serious neck injury, which kept out of the game for six years". He appears to have had a decent career in coaching youth players in Ireland even at national level. Rumoured to have been at Hibernian in 2016.Possibly proving that you don't need to be able to play to be able to coach football.
A real hoofer (when he could touch the ball at all). Probably injured his neck trying to head the ball into orbit.
Dreadful even by the pitiful standards of those days when we narrowly avoided exiting the League.
Ps, no idea what he was like as a person. He could have been a great bloke. I merely comment on what I perceive was his footballing "ability".
have an idea dean white was signed by gerry summers keith . if i remember dean scored the 1st goal in the famous swindon match of 79.I’ll nominate Sir Keith’s best signing as Tony Cas for a set of tracksuits.
But you could also argue Terry Cochrane, Dave Shearer, Dave Mehmet, Dean White and many others.
As for his worst, I can’t remember many duds during that time. But for the fact we paid big money and he never really came off I’ll go for Mark Cooper. It was always going to be tough to replace Cas and Shakey.
have an idea dean white was signed by gerry summers keith . if i remember dean scored the 1st goal in the famous swindon match of 79.