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1 minute ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Good grief, we actually agree on something! Gerry Gow - a true Bristol City legend, my fave ever Red....will always treasure the lunchtime I spent with him in a pub in Portland quaffing Stella and Jack....RIP fella....never forgotten....

Can picture him now with that bouncy run he had, even on the mudiest pitches. He never shirked a tackle and was never bested, even up against the toughest players in the game - at a time when hard men really were hard!  He epitomised the spirit in the team.

All too often portrayed as a hard man, but he was so much more, as he was a bloody good box to box footballer who chipped in with his fair share of goals.The nearest City will ever get to a Stephen Gerrard.

Although Merrick was the team's skipper, Gerry was it's heartbeat.

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28 minutes ago, RED4LIFE said:

Wow, 3 pages and not one mention of Keith Curle?

I thought Curle and MacPhail were an awesome CB partnership.

I quite like @Tinmans Love Child notion of the players you most enjoyed watching.  Some players might never have achieved wide-acclaim, but players like Nicky Morgan was a clever player to watch.  Also sometimes picking position by position means you have to choose one LB (our strongest position over the last 35 years) and one of Walsh or Tinnion on the LM/LW.

I think social media polls will appeal to those players more recent in our memory.  

Good to see lots of semi-forgotten players coming up though.

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City were playing Liverpool at AG, must have been ‘77 and I and one other guy were escorting several patients to see City. We had free entry and were seated in front on the old Williams stand, literally a few yards from the touch line.

You could hear the players yelling at each other and Gow was up against Ray Kennedy.....They crunched each other within a few mins and it continued all game. 

At one point they tackled each other near the touch line and Gow ended up on his ass sliding into touch literally feet from where we were. He bounced straight up and we all heard him say “you ****” and was back on the pitch. He and Kennedy were at it all game but on the final whistle they both walked off as if they were best mates.

Neither of them would stay on the pitch in today’s game.

 

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2 minutes ago, Robbored said:

City were playing Liverpool at AG, must have been ‘77 and I and one other guy were escorting several patients to see City. We had free entry and were seated in front on the old Williams stand, literally a few yards from the touch line.

You could hear the players yelling at each other and Gow was up against Ray Kennedy.....They crunched each other within a few mins and it continued all game. 

At one point they tackled each other near the touch line and Gow ended up on his ass sliding into touch literally feet from where we were. He bounced straight up and we all heard him say “you ****” and was back on the pitch. He and Kennedy were at it all game but on the final whistle they both walked off as if they were best mates.

Neither of them would stay on the pitch in today’s game.

 

Gow wouldn't last the warm up these days!

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9 hours ago, Robbored said:

GJ showed that he is/was a decent enough lower league manager but that when he reached the Championship with both City and Yeovil he got found out. Granted he did well in his first season in the Championship but his drab style of football was soon found the following season. 

So for me it has to be Danny Wilson.

Gary Johnson got “found out” in the Championship did he??!!

Taking a newly promoted side to the play off final, suffering defeat by a single goal, and then subsequently leading the team to a 10th place finish, higher than we’ve ever finished since, despite always working with a moderate budget, and eventually leaving with the side still in mid-table, exiting via a joint press conference with his appreciative chairman sitting by his side is getting “found out” is it?

PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

Utter nonsense.

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A few things jump out at me, 1. How many quality left backs we have had, Jamie McAllister didn't even get a mention and he was very good. 2. How older players have been overlooked, Walsh and Newman are very unlucky 3. How people seem to have forgotten how immense Marvin Elliott was for 18 months before getting injured

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44 minutes ago, Will Rollason said:

No Billy Mercer?? Not arguing with Basso mind. ..loved him. ..But Billy was the best keeper I've seen in the 19 yrs I've been watching. 

 

 

I picked Mercer. Easy decision

2 hours ago, Hampshire reds said:

people are saying Andy Cole should be in the team. as good as he was for us but not here very long. are people saying Cole on what he did for Newcastle and man Utd. 

I picked Cole on what he did for us. Best striker I’ve seen in a City shirt. 

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11 hours ago, Maltshoveller said:

Bob Taylor and the Goat up front for me

Andy Cole seems to get into most posters team

For me that must be for what he done after he left us

 

No, he scored what was it one in two for us? . He was immense and gave us a chance whenever he played.

His  time with us is a bit soured for some because he jumped ship , understandably, when Newcastle came  calling and only ever saw us as a stepping stone . There was no love for us or vice verse . 

Tammy Abraham showed how to leave a club correctly.

 

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12 hours ago, Maltshoveller said:

Andy Cole seems to get into most posters team

For me that must be for what he done after he left us

About a goal every two games for us...and most of the time he looked a class above anybody else on the pitch. Granted, he wasn't here all that long. But when he was...

...he was the star of the "Cole, Not Gas" t-shirt for good reason  

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Not sure I agree with Basso, Bryan and Elliot in there.

Tom Heaton has gone on to play in the Premier League for a sustainable amount of time and has featured in the England squad. There are a couple more choices who are arguably better.

Joe Bryan, as good as he is I wouldn’t have him in front of a couple others. So much choice down that left hand side, and Joe isn’t the best defensively.

Big Marv was a brilliant player for us in that play off season but I felt that squad just slowly deteriorated after that. Again, not sure I’d have him in our best CM pairing over 35 years? 

 

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1 minute ago, Robbored said:

There is no argument.

He took City to the brink of relegation and actually took Yeovil down - hard historical fact.

"He took City to the brink of relegation".  They were 15th when he left in March 2010.  Only once since have we finished higher.  The team eventually finished 10th that year - still his players.  Other subsequent managers did a far better job of taking us to the brink.

As for Yeovil....they are a tiny club relative to almost any other Championship side.  He did exceptionally well to get them there in the first place.  Being relegated from the Championship with Yeovil is hardly the definition of getting "found out".

Context and balance is everything in these situations and you are refusing to offer either.

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10 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

As for Yeovil....they are a tiny club relative to almost any other Championship side.  He did exceptionally well to get them there in the first place.  Being relegated from the Championship with Yeovil is hardly the definition of getting "found out".

What does ‘found out’ mean to you CR?

 

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51 minutes ago, Robbored said:

There is no argument.

He took City to the brink of relegation and actually took Yeovil down - hard historical fact.

Popped in and .......surprise surprise......we see..... troll talks drivel

Brink of relegation ?

Gary Johnson left on 18/3/10

This was the league table

 

Two simple questions.....

Do you believe this is the brink of relegation ?

You class this as found out do you ?

 

Go on .............this will be good.....

 

 

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3 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

When someone has been revealed as incompetent having previously managed to give the impression of competence.

That’s not the way I see ‘found out’ as.

To me it’s when the repertoire of the managers abilities have  have worked out by the opposition teams, in fact we saw exactly the same during LJs run of record defeats. However, he realised that fact and said at the time admitted that he needed to find another way to play - something to my knowledge GJ has never done.......

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7 minutes ago, BobBobSuperBob said:

Popped in and .......surprise surprise......we see..... troll talks drivel

Brink of relegation ?

Gary Johnson left on 18/3/10

Go on .............this will be good.....

You’re not trying to patronise me are you Bob?...........:rofl2br:

No doubt at all that GJ was taking us down but fortunately SL was forced to sack him after the players had had refused to play for him.

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