They were either players in their retirement age (such as Ionel Augustin, Costel Orac, Cornel Țălnar or Claudiu Vaișcovici) or talents not good enough for the "big 2" (such as Marcel Coraș, Ovidiu Hanganu, Marian Pană or Sándor Kulcsár).
Players who were either nearing retirement age (like Ionel Augustin, Costel Orac, Cornel Țălnar, and Claudiu Vaișcovici) or showed promise but weren't quite at the top level (such as Marcel Coraș, Ovidiu Hanganu, Marian Pană, and Sándor Kulcsár).