Never said they were any good,anyway for some reason we seem to buy players and not get the best out of them or they were past their best ie Carr,Duff and Ireland were all good players but hardly lit up the place in a Toon shirt though Duff did play for another 5 seasons for Fulham and Ireland was too busy burying all his grannies.
An interesting combination of overrated (Given), horrific (Carr), unlucky (Best), lazy (Duff), never played (Ireland), and good but underused (Murphy).