Best Performance by an Opposition Player (1 Viewer)

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Malaka

Malaka

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Yes, I'm bored, but over the years I have seen certain players rip us a new one. I remember John Cheidozie tearing us apart at Highfield Rd when he played for Tottenham and Gavin Peacock when he played for Chelsea was just class. Tony Cottee always used to score against us. What are your memories of outstanding performances, goals, saves, free kicks against us?
 
skyblue1991

skyblue1991

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Mainly from the Chapionship/League One era:

Andy Reid
Peter Whittingham (RIP)
Lee Tomlin

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Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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the rumpo kid said:
Is that the game he broke his arm elbowing Lloyd MC growth in the head lol
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No that was 2 years later, 89/90 I think- that was the game where at 0-0 in the last minute a high cross came over, Speedie went for it and took it off the head of Regis who was running in behind him & who would no doubt have scored, Speedie put it a foot over the bar.
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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Slightly random one but in terms of a one off performance- Villa away 1989/90- they beat us 4-1 and Ian Ormondroyd absolutely destroyed Brian Borrows all game, he couldn't get near him. I think you can see that on youtube and actually see one time where Borrows got skinned by the lanky one.

Ruel Fox was a pain in the arse against us too.
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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Slightly different theme but the best team performance I ever saw against us was Liverpool home 87/88- they won 4-1 and it should have been about 8. That team would have walked the European Cup, they had it all & if you only lost 2-0 you'd be relieved. I think our aggregate against them that season was 1-8, and we'd just won the cup, we were no set of donkeys.
 
GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee

GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee

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Very niche, but I remember Luke Freeman absolutely tearing us apart on a Tuesday night in the Checkatrade at Ashton Gate when a guy watched the game from on top of his garage.
 
DannyThomas_1981

DannyThomas_1981

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Three stand out for me:

-Shearer in one of his first games for Blackburn. The most complete centre forward performance you are likely to see. What a player he was before injuries slowed him down.
-Barnes when Liverpool beat us 6-1 in the final game of the season after they won the League. International class.
-And the one that really hurt. Sheffield United's keeper in the FA Cup quarter final at home. Best performance by a keeper I've ever seen.
 
steveo1987

steveo1987

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I'll throw a random one in and it's plural.
Wigan 2005 at Highfield Road were outstanding with Nathan Ellington scoring a wonder volley from the far extreme of the box.They had a front line of Jason Roberts, Nathan Ellington and Shaun Teale.i remember them winning 2-1 and think they finished 2nd to get promoted.Champions were a certain Northeast team in red and white
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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steveo1987 said:
I'll throw a random one in and it's plural.
Wigan 2005 at Highfield Road were outstanding with Nathan Ellington scoring a wonder volley from the far extreme of the box.They had a front line of Jason Roberts, Nathan Ellington and Shaun Teale.i remember them winning 2-1 and think they finished 2nd to get promoted.Champions were a certain Northeast team in red and white
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Yes I remember that game well- the whole buildup was their forward line, and it didn't disappoint.
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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Anyone remember Clayton Ince's performance in goal against us for Crewe? They won 1-0 but he singlehandedly won the game for them with world class saves. Would have been 04/05 I think.

It was so good that Adams promptly went out and bought him, but I don't think he ever played a game for us.
 
Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Ring Of Steel said:
Slightly random one but in terms of a one off performance- Villa away 1989/90- they beat us 4-1 and Ian Ormondroyd absolutely destroyed Brian Borrows all game, he couldn't get near him. I think you can see that on youtube and actually see one time where Borrows got skinned by the lanky one..
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Talking of Villa players, Savo Milosevic was a pain. Think he scored 6 or 7 goals for Villa in his short time there and 5 were against us.
 
olderskyblue

olderskyblue

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Mcmanaman for Liverpool and Ray Wilkins for Man U

Both players ran their respective games so easily. Star players around them, but they were the ones that just controlled it all
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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olderskyblue said:
Mcmanaman for Liverpool and Ray Wilkins for Man U

Both players ran their respective games so easily. Star players around them, but they were the ones that just controlled it all
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I also remember a game in 93/94 when Wilkins completely ran the game for QPR against us, they won 1-0 and I think Devon White scored. God knows what the possession stats would have been but he just effortlessly controlled everything that night.
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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DannyThomas_1981 said:
Three stand out for me:

-Shearer in one of his first games for Blackburn. The most complete centre forward performance you are likely to see. What a player he was before injuries slowed him down.
-Barnes when Liverpool beat us 6-1 in the final game of the season after they won the League. International class.
-And the one that really hurt. Sheffield United's keeper in the FA Cup quarter final at home. Best performance by a keeper I've ever seen.
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That Liverpool game was the day John Sillett should have called it quits as manager. He lost a bit of goodwill by going straight to the Liverpool fans and applauding them before his own fans- the game had moved on and we had an ageing team. Should have been planned right there instead of hanging on & getting Butcher in to decimate the club.
 
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wingy

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steveo1987 said:
I'll throw a random one in and it's plural.
Wigan 2005 at Highfield Road were outstanding with Nathan Ellington scoring a wonder volley from the far extreme of the box.They had a front line of Jason Roberts, Nathan Ellington and Shaun Teale.i remember them winning 2-1 and think they finished 2nd to get promoted.Champions were a certain Northeast team in red and white
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God they looked good that night .
Can't remember how we were doing at the time.
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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Ring Of Steel said:
That Liverpool game was the day John Sillett should have called it quits as manager. He lost a bit of goodwill by going straight to the Liverpool fans and applauding them before his own fans- the game had moved on and we had an ageing team. Should have been planned right there instead of hanging on & getting Butcher in to decimate the club.
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That was such an underhand thing to do, sack him when he was ill. Employing Butcher was always going to be risky. Why should a great player be a great manager? If they really wanted him to come in, surely he could have been Sillett’s assistant to the end of the season when I think John intended to retire anyway. Perhaps he would have picked up something from the great man that would have served him well in his future. He has failed everywhere he has been, including here (possible exception being Motherwell?).
That season, Regis played the best football of his Coventry career, he wasn’t scoring many goals but his overall performances were sublime. Whether Butcher felt that such an established player was a threat to him, I don’t know.Cyrille was released despite indicating that he would be happy to sign a new contract and stay. Robert Rosario came in and was never going to fill Cyrille’s boots. A badly handled appointment, and a bad appointment.
 
Ring Of Steel

Ring Of Steel

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Irish Sky Blue said:
That was such an underhand thing to do, sack him when he was ill. Employing Butcher was always going to be risky. Why should a great player be a great manager? If they really wanted him to come in, surely he could have been Sillett’s assistant to the end of the season when I think John intended to retire anyway. Perhaps he would have picked up something from the great man that would have served him well in his future. He has failed everywhere he has been, including here (possible exception being Motherwell?).
That season, Regis played the best football of his Coventry career, he wasn’t scoring many goals but his overall performances were sublime. Whether Butcher felt that such an established player was a threat to him, I don’t know.Cyrille was released despite indicating that he would be happy to sign a new contract and stay. Robert Rosario came in and was never going to fill Cyrille’s boots. A badly handled appointment, and a bad appointment.
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Agree with all of that. That close season something should have happened, Sillett knew the following season would be his last, thats very often a risky situation (Clough at Forest for example) and Poynton should have worked something out where Sillett stayed on in some capacity but we had the successor lined up. That team had too much experience to have a young, inexperienced & deliberately ruthless manager thrust upon them, and the consequences almost took us down.
 
The Philosopher

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Ring Of Steel said:
That Liverpool game was the day John Sillett should have called it quits as manager. He lost a bit of goodwill by going straight to the Liverpool fans and applauding them before his own fans- the game had moved on and we had an ageing team. Should have been planned right there instead of hanging on & getting Butcher in to decimate the club.
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If that’s the game that they won 6-1 at HR then it was a player called Ronny Rosenthal that totally tore us apart.
 
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covboy1987

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In more recent times Kyel Reid for Bradford city in a tuesday night game under the floodlights we won 1-0 but he tore us a part so much so that we actually signed him soon after - unfortunately must have been a one off game as he never really done it for us -
 
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