With Danny Hone out, post match pints turned to the horrific thought of Patrick Kanyuka the QPR and Swindon flop lining up next to Watts, hardly a rock either. But the beer goggles and Lincolnshire sense of humour then got us onto one game wonders and yes Notts County flop Sol Campbell, who only came back the following day for his boots. But then times are clearly hard if you've had your money halved to 40 grand a week. Oooh argh there's gold in them there studs that could fund a centre forward!
But we care not for the Magpies, what of the Mighty Imps one game wonders? (Kanyuka is not included as we have suffered 2 starts and 4 substitution efforts).
As you would expect a few are DODGY-KEEPERS who have had howlers and let in a hatful but if you drink with Vic you struggle to say the next round let alone name a failure if your middle name is optimism. James Hulme has to consider himself the unluckiest Imp after his one and only game against Peterborough. Having bagged a brace in a 13-0 FA Cup (qualifying Round 1) tie on the 13th October 1885 he would never play for us again. Herbert Newsome and Harry Dagg also curiously scored in their one and only games for the Imps. In total 87 players have only donned the stripes once, including the Asnip brothers around the turn of the 19-century. Clearly the family’s faces did not fit.
18 have met their maker in our favourite graveyard competition, the FA Cup orf which half came in just two games. Things were taken pretty seriously back in 1885 when 8 (eight) - were wished a happy new year after a 1-0 defeat on 3rd January against rivals Grimsby Town. Were they dropped in the Humber in some kind of sacrificial offering at the alter of King Cod you wonder as a warning to future failures? Nothing quite so harsh, rumour has it that it simply cut the wage bill with only friendlies to play for the rest of the season. Edmund Blyton, Charles Chapman, Frank Chapman, David Clarke, Harold Curtis, Richard Mason, Tom Sylvester and double-barrelled spanky spanky Oliver Sturges-Jones were at least given a ride home on the train along with some pretty unhappy ‘Cits’ supporters. We also unloaded 4 the season before even though we beat Hull 5-1 including Newsome who actually scored.
By far the most valuable one game wonder was of course Jack Hobbs who came and went after a 1-1 draw against Bristol Rovers on the 15th January 2005.