The Hippo Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Just started reading an autobiography of his, is a great read. Anyway, when he was working in Bristol for a while he met up with two friends and former POW's Alec Eisentrager and Karl Krause (played in City reserves) who told him to come along to training. Krause asked the manager if Trautmann could go in a goal for a bit but was told no! Trautmann went on to sign for Man City the next season and become one of their all time greats. Trautmann says he wonders how life would have turned out if he'd played for us instead of Man City! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 We could have signed Bert Trautman. What, instead of David James? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brizzle Jordan Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 We could have signed Bert Trautman. What, instead of David James? Aren't they the same age? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 It's amazing who City have failed to sign over the years. In "The complete history of Bristol City FC" it staes that Fred Ford tried and failed to sign Robin Stubbs (Torquay), Barry Dyson (Palace), Frank Large (Oldham), Alan Hinton (Forest) and....Alan Skirton (Blackpool). Alan Dicks did sign Skirton, but AD was 2nd choice for City Manager. Harry DOlman wanted Frank O'Farrell who was Torquay manager. He refused to come though as Fred Ford was a friend of his. A few years later O'Farrel became manager at Man U. Mike Summerbee the Man City player in the 60s had been in City's youth team but was released. Skirton had also once been on City's books as an amateur, but was also released. Alan D also tried siging John Tudor from Newcastle, but failed. Picking up on other recent forum threads....At the end of Dicks' first season when relegation had been avoided, Barry Watling and Geoff Merrick were given their 1st team debuts and City won 4-2 at Villa. Mike Mahoney the youth goalie made his debut in the final game of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 It's amazing who City have failed to sign over the years. In "The complete history of Bristol City FC" it staes that Fred Ford tried and failed to sign Robin Stubbs (Torquay), Barry Dyson (Palace), Frank Large (Oldham), Alan Hinton (Forest) and....Alan Skirton (Blackpool). Alan Dicks did sign Skirton, but AD was 2nd choice for City Manager. Harry DOlman wanted Frank O'Farrell who was Torquay manager. He refused to come though as Fred Ford was a friend of his. A few years later O'Farrel became manager at Man U. Mike Summerbee the Man City player in the 60s had been in City's youth team but was released. Skirton had also once been on City's books as an amateur, but was also released. Alan D also tried siging John Tudor from Newcastle, but failed. Picking up on other recent forum threads....At the end of Dicks' first season when relegation had been avoided, Barry Watling and Geoff Merrick were given their 1st team debuts and City won 4-2 at Villa. Mike Mahoney the youth goalie made his debut in the final game of the season. Around about 1964ish dear old Harry Dolman told Fred Ford to go out and sign Mike Summerbee and Ernie Hunt from Swindon who at the time had a great side including Bobby Woodruff the original long throw expert, Fred was a bottler in the transfer market he could have had them both for a combined fee of £45k and given the side we already had at the time who knows what the outcome would have been. I also recall we once had a player called Johnny Crosson on trial who went to great success at Sunderland and Man City, a Northern Irish international, but not good enough for us. and didn't we miss out on Trevor Francis because we wouldn't buy his old man a car?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy082005 Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 You can also throw Michael Owen in the mix there. We tried to sign him on loan before he even made his Liverpool debut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 still not too late to offer him a rolling contract,we do like experienced keepers dont we Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Around about 1964ish dear old Harry Dolman told Fred Ford to go out and sign Mike Summerbee and Ernie Hunt from Swindon who at the time had a great side including Bobby Woodruff the original long throw expert, Fred was a bottler in the transfer market he could have had them both for a combined fee of £45k and given the side we already had at the time who knows what the outcome would have been. I also recall we once had a player called Johnny Crosson on trial who went to great success at Sunderland and Man City, a Northern Irish international, but not good enough for us. and didn't we miss out on Trevor Francis because we wouldn't buy his old man a car?. Yep I dont know the circumstances of the car, however yes Trevor Francis was not taken up by us. Amazing really as he made his debut for Bham at 16....must have got real good real quick!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudgeRed Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Liverpool legend Emlyn Hughes chose Wolves ahead of us. He came for talks but Wolves gave him a better offer. When Bobby Houghton was here he competed with Ipswitch town for the signings of Dutch pair Arnold Mühren and Frans Thijssen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Nolan Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Didn't City choose to sign Neil Winstone rather than Trevor Francis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Didn't City choose to sign Neil Winstone rather than Trevor Francis? We signed Shaun Penny who played with Trevor Francis as a kid (if my memory serves me right). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Around about 1964ish dear old Harry Dolman told Fred Ford to go out and sign Mike Summerbee and Ernie Hunt from Swindon who at the time had a great side including Bobby Woodruff the original long throw expert, Fred was a bottler in the transfer market he could have had them both for a combined fee of £45k and given the side we already had at the time who knows what the outcome would have been. I also recall we once had a player called Johnny Crosson on trial who went to great success at Sunderland and Man City, a Northern Irish international, but not good enough for us. and didn't we miss out on Trevor Francis because we wouldn't buy his old man a car?. It was 9 or 10 years later before we signed Ernie Hunt, another star of our great FA cup win at Leeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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