Marina's Rolls Royce Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 15 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Joe Jordan for me....Gavin, Smith, Taylor and Turner (or Ferguson). Marco Van Gavin and Smudge. Open end with unsafe standing... jumpers for goalposts and top players with XR3 Ghia's. Beryl, Bovril and the bogs that even rats avoided. Turnstiles that winded you and excitement waiting for the Evening Post. Where did it all go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: Marco Van Gavin and Smudge. Open end with unsafe standing... jumpers for goalposts and top players with XR3 Ghia's. Beryl, Bovril and the bogs that even rats avoided. Turnstiles that winded you and excitement waiting for the Evening Post. Where did it all go wrong? Joe left for Hearts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina's Rolls Royce Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 Just now, Davefevs said: Joe left for Hearts. I'll never forget buying the EP and seeing that on the back page- I even remember the newsagents in Bath where I bought it. It was like losing your job and the love of your life at the same moment and staring into the abyss. He was the the last Manager I really cared about leaving!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted October 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 15 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Joe left for Hearts. And broke ours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 3 hours ago, Robin Wood said: Barnsley away always ends in a 2-2 draw Only our last four visits there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted October 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, 22A said: Only our last four visits there. Wow - that's 5 Desmonds in the last 8 meetings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Davefevs said: Joe Jordan for me....Gavin, Smith, Taylor and Turner (or Ferguson). Great side under Joe but that side under Wilson played superb football at that level. Really should have gone up that season, if i remember rightly we beat Brighton 4/1 away and then never turned up for the play off final. If we had turned up that day Wilson would have been revered by the fans. As it is will always be remembered as another failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portland Bill Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 4 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said: Given how cr*p Wilson was in League One, I dread to think what he’d have been like in the Championship! Not getting promotion with the resources he had for four successive seasons must go down as quite an achievement. Absolutely useless. Funny how people see things, I think the football played under Danny Wilson was probably the best I’ve seen in my 40+ years of watching City. No, he didn’t get us the promotion we desired, but the football was fantastic to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 16 hours ago, cider11 said: But he did win this - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Football_League_Trophy_Final The Mickey Mouse cup doesn’t really count. Tbh, I’d forgotten about it.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 15 hours ago, Davefevs said: Joe Jordan for me....Gavin, Smith, Taylor and Turner (or Ferguson). It’s all subjective Dave. JJs was a good era for sure but to me no other manager since has come close to the exciting football DW served up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 14 hours ago, stephenkibby. said: Great side under Joe but that side under Wilson played superb football at that level. Really should have gone up that season, if i remember rightly we beat Brighton 4/1 away and then never turned up for the play off final. If we had turned up that day Wilson would have been revered by the fans. As it is will always be remembered as another failure. Team of bottlers that never won when it mattered, remember 2 home games late on that season (possibly Brighton & QPR from memory?) we didn’t win either. That summed up Wilson, brilliant win ratio, because he never managed us at a decent level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 13 hours ago, Portland Bill said: Funny how people see things, I think the football played under Danny Wilson was probably the best I’ve seen in my 40+ years of watching City. No, he didn’t get us the promotion we desired, but the football was fantastic to watch. I've no doubt we'd have been promoted if he'd have sorted out the drinking culture at the time. What that squad got away with was incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bissellredhead Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 21 hours ago, 2015 said: How we didn't go up in 03/04 with 11 wins in a row in League 1 never fails to amaze me really given the fact QPR gave us so many opportunities to nick 2nd place. Well and truly blew it. Would have been interesting how we'd have done in Championship under Wilson. Most people remember the miller miss at Swindon but The one game I remember vividly was the 0-0 at home to Brighton, news filtered that qpr were losing, had we won that you know what wouldn't have happened of course as you say there were many other opportunities too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 6 minutes ago, bissellredhead said: Most people remember the miller miss at Swindon but The one game I remember vividly was the 0-0 at home to Brighton, news filtered that qpr were losing, had we won that you know what wouldn't have happened of course as you say there were many other opportunities too! That Brighton game was the one where we f**ked it up. Everyone was celebrating at FT that Plymouth had beat them and yet we'd royally stuffed up ourselves. We also lost to Luton the game before (we got it back to 2-2 in injury time then still lost it) having beaten Plymouth & QPR. We were masters of our own downfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 49 minutes ago, TomF said: I've no doubt we'd have been promoted if he'd have sorted out the drinking culture at the time. What that squad got away with was incredible. Yep :laugh:, some proper lads in that squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina's Rolls Royce Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 21 hours ago, Portland Bill said: Funny how people see things, I think the football played under Danny Wilson was probably the best I’ve seen in my 40+ years of watching City. No, he didn’t get us the promotion we desired, but the football was fantastic to watch. It's a funny old game because, in hindsight, I think you're pretty accurate. I guess the Cardiff Final experience , for me, sort of over rode anything else DW did. The best moment was in the lead up to kick off when the football keepy-uppy gymnast in City colours was hugely better than his Brighton opposite. Strangely, I was more affected by that loss than my experience of Hull at Wembley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted October 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: It's a funny old game because, in hindsight, I think you're pretty accurate. I guess the Cardiff Final experience , for me, sort of over rode anything else DW did. The best moment was in the lead up to kick off when the football keepy-uppy gymnast in City colours was hugely better than his Brighton opposite. Strangely, I was more affected by that loss than my experience of Hull at Wembley. Both terrible games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairman Mao Posted October 9, 2020 Report Share Posted October 9, 2020 On 07/10/2020 at 18:08, Robin Wood said: Barnsley away always ends in a 2-2 draw Remember the chaos in the 07-08 season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairman Mao Posted October 9, 2020 Report Share Posted October 9, 2020 15 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said: It's a funny old game because, in hindsight, I think you're pretty accurate. I guess the Cardiff Final experience , for me, sort of over rode anything else DW did. The best moment was in the lead up to kick off when the football keepy-uppy gymnast in City colours was hugely better than his Brighton opposite. Strangely, I was more affected by that loss than my experience of Hull at Wembley. That's because even though Hull were also pretty average, it was a bit surreal to be there. Didn't really sink in what an opportunity missed until 3 years later when we entered perpetual decline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2015 Posted October 9, 2020 Report Share Posted October 9, 2020 23 hours ago, bissellredhead said: Most people remember the miller miss at Swindon but The one game I remember vividly was the 0-0 at home to Brighton, news filtered that qpr were losing, had we won that you know what wouldn't have happened of course as you say there were many other opportunities too! the 3-2 defeat at Luton. The 3 defeats in a row against Oldham, Tranmere and Port Vale. 1-1 home draw vs bottom placed Wycombe. SO many opportunities. We forget in 02/03 we lost at Chesterfield for a chance to get into the automatics and had a terrible run in the Jan/Feb. 01/02 we were top going into the New year and ended... 7th! I have no doubt City at their best under Wilson were a fantastic side to watch, but that's all we had. We didn't have that 25 goal a season striker or some nasty players bar Tommy Doc in there to keep us going when we needed it. City in League 1 will always wrack up a big win percentage no matter who is in charge (Bar SOD) , because of this Wilson can never be regarded as a great City manager. GJ did what he did within 2 years with in my opinion less talented players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina's Rolls Royce Posted October 9, 2020 Report Share Posted October 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Chairman Mao said: That's because even though Hull were also pretty average, it was a bit surreal to be there. Didn't really sink in what an opportunity missed until 3 years later when we entered perpetual decline. Fair point although the general improvements of the past few seasons have,imo, halted that decline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted October 10, 2020 Report Share Posted October 10, 2020 On 08/10/2020 at 21:14, Marina's Rolls Royce said: It's a funny old game because, in hindsight, I think you're pretty accurate. I guess the Cardiff Final experience , for me, sort of over rode anything else DW did. The best moment was in the lead up to kick off when the football keepy-uppy gymnast in City colours was hugely better than his Brighton opposite. Strangely, I was more affected by that loss than my experience of Hull at Wembley. Me too. I half expected to lose against Hull - you know when you get that feeling when you go to a game and you just know you`re not going to win it? Well. that was me that day. The problem with Brighton was that we were just so ******* inept it was embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted October 10, 2020 Report Share Posted October 10, 2020 Hull were going for 5 in a row last night having won all 4 games and a goal difference of 6-0. They lost 4-1 to Fleetwood. Hopefully, that won't happen to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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