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Major Isewater

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Hot on the heels of my last thread , how about your favourite City player ?

The lad  for whom you have, or had, a real affinity with. 

We will have have lots of votes for the Warrior ,Gerry Gow ,evidently but what about the others ? A player who helped out a charity of yours or carried your mum's shopping for instance .

For me it was Bob Taylor . Yes arise Sir Bob . We always had a chance of getting something out of a game when he played .

I met him before a game away at Notts County and he was free with his time, chatted about stuff and signed my programme ( still got it ) Top bloke. 

 

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geoff merrick for me, debut at 17, cultured left boot, leader of men, articulate, loved his farming and took us to the top division and then accepted norman hunters arrival to take up his favourite position. finally accepted his contract being torn up as part of the 8 who saved the gate

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Brian Tinnion, for 12 years it was a privilege to watch his exquisite passes, the way he linked up with Martin Scott, Darren Barbara and Mickey Bell own the left, described by Shaun Goater as left sided magic! That goal goal at Anfield helped too!

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5 minutes ago, Die Hard Red said:

John Galley for me, idolised him from when I first stated watching City. 

Big John Galley for me also. He showed genuine concern for me when I was about 9/10 after I got smashed in the face from a wild shot (not by him) during the pre-match warm up, and he scored one of the best goals I have ever seen against Swindle (the team I love to hate).

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Lee Trundle, Noble JET and Sproule stand out for me.. all of them exciting and talented (especially Trundle and JET) but all had flaws.

I'll never forget Noble & Trundle's goals vs Palace and JET's vs Rovers.

Three of those players from the playoff season.. don't think I've ever enjoyed following City as much as that season, before or since.

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24 minutes ago, Die Hard Red said:

John Galley for me, idolised him from when I first stated watching City. 

Same here, I was just too late for John Atyeo, but being in my early teens, JG stood out.

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33 minutes ago, BS15_RED said:

Brian Tinnion, for 12 years it was a privilege to watch his exquisite passes, the way he linked up with Martin Scott, Darren Barbara and Mickey Bell own the left, described by Shaun Goater as left sided magic! That goal goal at Anfield helped too!

When someone starts a "most over-rated" thread Tinnion's my man

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6 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said:

Lee Trundle, Noble JET and Sproule stand out for me.. all of them exciting and talented (especially Trundle and JET) but all had flaws.

I'll never forget Noble & Trundle's goals vs Palace and JET's vs Rovers.

Three of those players from the playoff season.. don't think I've ever enjoyed following City as much as that season, before or since.

Interesting choices, given that 3 of them often struggled to hold down a first team slot and JET needed a lot of freedom in order to be effective.

Not knocking your choices btw!

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That's better Major.

Paul Agostino, ran his socks off every game and clearly enjoyed playing.

That the club admin staff were too slow to wake up to the implication of the Bosman ruling on player contracts is their fault and not his. See also Liam Rosenoir.

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6 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

That's better Major.

Paul Agostino, ran his socks off every game and clearly enjoyed playing.

That the club admin staff were too slow to wake up to the implication of the Bosman ruling on player contracts is their fault and not his. See also Liam Rosenoir.

:innocent06:

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Way too many

Super Bob, Jacki, Biff, Scotty, Walshy, Shuan Taylor, the left back trilogy, Glen Humphries, Glyn Riley, Stevie Neville, Bobby Hutch.....

The one who I didn't really appreciate at the time, but the second he left I realised what he gave us - Gary Shelton

Don't make me choose. All a massive part of my childhood / early adulthood - all gave me the best memories. City don't have piss me off at times, but no other club could have given me all these, and 100s of others who I've not mentioned

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5 minutes ago, Woodsy said:

Way too many

Super Bob, Jacki, Biff, Scotty, Walshy, Shuan Taylor, the left back trilogy, Glen Humphries, Glyn Riley, Stevie Neville, Bobby Hutch.....

The one who I didn't really appreciate at the time, but the second he left I realised what he gave us - Gary Shelton

Don't make me choose. All a massive part of my childhood / early adulthood - all gave me the best memories. City don't have piss me off at times, but no other club could have given me all these, and 100s of others who I've not mentioned

Stevie Neville and Glyn Riley for me as well - used to get birthday cards from them when I was in the Junior Reds.  Great memories.

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1 hour ago, Die Hard Red said:

John Galley for me, idolised him from when I first stated watching City. 

John Galley gets my vote also. I believe i am correct in saying that when we bought him he had his leg in plaster. True boyhood hero of mine.

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46 minutes ago, Red Rag said:

John Galley gets my vote also. I believe i am correct in saying that when we bought him he had his leg in plaster. True boyhood hero of mine.

Our medicals were less rigorous in those days , the physio probably never even noticed.

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1 hour ago, Woodsy said:

Way too many

Super Bob, Jacki, Biff, Scotty, Walshy, Shuan Taylor, the left back trilogy, Glen Humphries, Glyn Riley, Stevie Neville, Bobby Hutch.....

The one who I didn't really appreciate at the time, but the second he left I realised what he gave us - Gary Shelton

Don't make me choose. All a massive part of my childhood / early adulthood - all gave me the best memories. City don't have piss me off at times, but no other club could have given me all these, and 100s of others who I've not mentioned

Yep, mine has to be from the same era, and far too difficult to single one out. But Bob Taylor, Gary Shelton, Glyn Riley, Dave Smith, and obviously Walshy would have to be my top five!

But closely followed by Joe Jordon, Tinnion, Jacki, Rennie, and Neville.

Totally agree with Woodsy, the questions too hard!!

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1 hour ago, RedDave said:

Shame he didn't have the full commitment needed else he'd have ended up in the Premier League.

Not sure his commitment can be judged? 

Everytime he went on the pitch he was easily our most commited player!

Just because he enjoyed one to many pints of Guinness doesn't mean he wasn't commited. 

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30 minutes ago, Spoons said:

Not sure his commitment can be judged? 

Everytime he went on the pitch he was easily our most commited player!

Just because he enjoyed one to many pints of Guinness doesn't mean he wasn't commited. 

Committment to the life of a professional athlete.

Committment to make the best of his abilities.

Mind you, not many of his team-mates did either.

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5 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

Hot on the heels of my last thread , how about your favourite City player ?

The lad  for whom you have, or had, a real affinity with. 

We will have have lots of votes for the Warrior ,Gerry Gow ,evidently but what about the others ? A player who helped out a charity of yours or carried your mum's shopping for instance .

For me it was Bob Taylor . Yes arise Sir Bob . We always had a chance of getting something out of a game when he played .

I met him before a game away at Notts County and he was free with his time, chatted about stuff and signed my programme ( still got it ) Top bloke. 

 

Norman Hunter ,

With Gerry Gow a very close second .

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44 minutes ago, Spoons said:

Not sure his commitment can be judged? 

Everytime he went on the pitch he was easily our most commited player!

Just because he enjoyed one to many pints of Guinness doesn't mean he wasn't commited. 

Um, yes it does.  Commitment works on and off the pitch.  His off field commitment was dire.

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As a kid John Galley. Then.................

One day my kids were coming home from school ( Caldicot Comp ) when they told me somewhat excitedly they had just seen Matty Hill running around the school playing field . Didn;t believe them for a minute , until about a week later I saw him out running. .turns out Matt had purchased a house at the bottom of our road in Caldicot. A genuinely decent bloke.

After one City game , my good mate Vespa Red bumped into him on the saturday evening in the local shop. Matt stopped him and asked him how he thought he had played !

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21 minutes ago, RedDave said:

Um, yes it does.  Commitment works on and off the pitch.  His off field commitment was dire.

Would have to disagree. I only care about on the pitch! His performances were far better than his team mates and often he was captain. He led the team by his performance. 

 

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Just now, Spoons said:

Would have to disagree. I only care about on the pitch! His performances were far better than his team mates and often he was captain. He led the team by his performance. 

 

So you are okay with players not being in peak shape?  Drinking and smoking is okay?

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34 minutes ago, RedDave said:

So you are okay with players not being in peak shape?  Drinking and smoking is okay?

In tommy Doherty's era yes I was.

Now you can't fart without it being on social media! 

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When I was a young un, I loved Greg Goodridge. Quite liked watching Tony Thorpe too.

As an all out favourite though, it's a very close thing between Scotty Murray & Louis Carey. 

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6 hours ago, BS15_RED said:

Brian Tinnion, for 12 years it was a privilege to watch his exquisite passes, the way he linked up with Martin Scott, Darren Barbara and Mickey Bell own the left, described by Shaun Goater as left sided magic! That goal goal at Anfield helped too!

I agree with this 100%... for several seasons Tinnion was our quarterback.... those diagonal balls for Scotty to run on too... BT made it look easy and (in my memory) assisted pretty much every SM goal in Scotty's super season.

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13 minutes ago, Spoons said:

In tommy Doherty's era yes I was.

Now you can't fart without it being on social media! 

His era wasn't a big drinking one in the game.  It didn't help that he didn't love the game. 

Dont know what social media has to do with professionalism 

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23 minutes ago, RedDave said:

His era wasn't a big drinking one in the game.  It didn't help that he didn't love the game. 

Dont know what social media has to do with professionalism 

Are you having a laugh regarding his era wasn't a big drinking culture??!!

Not sure if you're taking the mick or not! 

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