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DannyThomas_1981

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  • Mar 27, 2023
  • #106
Peter Billing Eyes said:
Wallace and Ferguson
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Icons. Wallace on goals per game - would make any modern era City team. Not to mention the iconic kit and hair.
Fergie is very under-rated in that partnership as well - goals per game just slightly less than Dion's.
 
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ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #107
Grendel said:
Never saw Terry Gibson?
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Sadly not, only in brief highlights from the time he was here.
 

clint van damme

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #108
DannyThomas_1981 said:
Icons. Wallace on goals per game - would make any modern era City team. Not to mention the iconic kit and hair.
Fergie is very under-rated in that partnership as well - goals per game just slightly less than Dion's.
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Gibsons goals per game is better than Wallaces, that's why I went for him. He played in far worse teams as well.
Wallace was a great player for us and did ok at Forest as well though I'll leave it to forest supporters to decide whether he lived up to the price paid for him.
 

Offhegoes

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #109
Regis and Gallacher.
I think these 2 would also be as effective these days as they were then. Perhaps not the best finishers compared to Quinn, Dublin & Gibson but both technically excellent with pace and skill
 

ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #110
Offhegoes said:
Regis and Gallacher.
I think these 2 would also be as effective these days as they were then. Perhaps not the best finishers compared to Quinn, Dublin & Gibson but both technically excellent with pace and skill
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Perhaps the combination would have produced more goals for each, who knows. Some players just click right away.

I did think whether to have Quinn in my front two but, aside from the purple patch of scoring he had (maybe due to his pairing with Rosario) he didn’t seem consistent. Or maybe fitness or attitude was to blame, whichever.
 

Johhny Blue

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #111
clint van damme said:
Gibsons goals per game is better than Wallaces, that's why I went for him. He played in far worse teams as well.
Wallace was a great player for us and did ok at Forest as well though I'll leave it to forest supporters to decide whether he lived up to the price paid for him.
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Was never the same without Ferguson
 
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steve cooper

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #112
JonesBob said:
MISSING - Not a long term member but scored what was the greatest ever City goal - Houchen
and the player that invented No.10 position before it became vogue - Alan Green
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Green was lightning quick as well
 
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blunted

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #113
Offhegoes said:
Regis and Gallacher.
I think these 2 would also be as effective these days as they were then. Perhaps not the best finishers compared to Quinn, Dublin & Gibson but both technically excellent with pace and skill
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Agree, on the top of their game, the best players we have had in their respective positions. Feel West Brom had the best of Regis before he went off the rails and Blackburn the best of Gallacher. Fortunately for us, Regis regained form after he cut out the night clubbing but sadly was never quite as good again than his early years at West Brom
 

JAM See

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #114
McGoldrick was absolute mustard when he was here.

Not enough games to be a part of the Photoshop, but what a player (briefly)!
 
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DannyThomas_1981

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #115
clint van damme said:
Gibsons goals per game is better than Wallaces, that's why I went for him. He played in far worse teams as well.
Wallace was a great player for us and did ok at Forest as well though I'll leave it to forest supporters to decide whether he lived up to the price paid for him.
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I think the move to Forest was completely wrong for him CVD - incredible pressure given the fee at the time. Terry Gibson was brilliant for us and I agree he was in weaker teams - so it's a fair argument you are making. But Wallace has the better goals per game record - albeit close.
 

clint van damme

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #116
DannyThomas_1981 said:
I think the move to Forest was completely wrong for him CVD - incredible pressure given the fee at the time. Terry Gibson was brilliant for us and I agree he was in weaker teams - so it's a fair argument you are making. But Wallace has the better goals per game record - albeit close.
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Ferguson actually turned down a move to Forest before Wallace went there so potentially they could have both been at Forest, that would have been interesting.
 

slowpoke

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  • Mar 28, 2023
  • #117
clint van damme said:
Ferguson actually turned down a move to Forest before Wallace went there so potentially they could have both been at Forest, that would have been interesting.
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And apparently the story goes, the reason why was while discussing terms Brian Clough was critical of Ferguson’s beard and Mick took the hump about it.
Ipswich were very interested at the time but it didn’t happen and he joined Everton.
 
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Theonlywayisskyblue

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  • Mar 29, 2023
  • #118
slowpoke said:
And apparently the story goes, the reason why was while discussing terms Brian Clough was critical of Ferguson’s beard and Mick took the hump about it.
Ipswich were very interested at the time but it didn’t happen and he joined Everton.
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Remember Bobby Robson saying he wasn’t worth the money before we played them. Fergie scored 4 as we won 4-1
 

DazzleTommyDazzle

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  • Mar 29, 2023
  • #119
Theonlywayisskyblue said:
Remember Bobby Robson saying he wasn’t worth the money before we played them. Fergie scored 4 as we won 4-1
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I think what Robson said was that he wanted to see how he did against his defence (Beatie & Hunter?) to see if he was worth the money.

Remember the old scoreboard on the Kop showing "Ferguson 4 Ipswich 1" during the game.
 
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Kneeza

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  • Mar 29, 2023
  • #120
Cov kid 55 said:
That’s true, I guess I was looking back nostalgically at how he tore up the second division in our championship year. Maybe he would have done better staying with us, although you couldn’t blame him for joining Arsenal. On the subject of Gould, does anyone remember a night game against Ipswich, December 1964? Freezing cold. We won 5-0 and Gould scored a first half hat-trick. i remember it well, because we’d just had the new scoreboard installed, and it showed 999. The Mirror (my dad’s paper) the next day ran the headline with a photograph of the scoreboard ‘999 but no help for Ipswich’.
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Thought it was just me imagining the 999 thing on the CET scoreboard! Was it really as early as '64? Blimey. I was only eleven if that's the case. Was stood on the Sky Blue terrace, presumably with my dad. If asked, I'd have thought it a bit later. Live and learn!
 

Kneeza

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  • Mar 29, 2023
  • #121
steve cooper said:
Green was lightning quick as well
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I remember Greeny (and was it Denis Mortimer? Not sure) trying a donkey kick in a reserves game, maybe the same week as the Carr/Hunt effort - before it wa banned anyway. He missed!
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Mar 29, 2023
  • #122
Kneeza said:
Thought it was just me imagining the 999 thing on the CET scoreboard! Was it really as early as '64? Blimey. I was only eleven if that's the case. Was stood on the Sky Blue terrace, presumably with my dad. If asked, I'd have thought it a bit later. Live and learn!
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You’re right Kneeza, it was Dec 1966
 
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LastGarrison

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  • Mar 29, 2023
  • #123
I’m still disappointed that after 4 pages on the best Coventry strikers no-one has gone for the binmen…..
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #124
LastGarrison said:
I’m still disappointed that after 4 pages on the best Coventry strikers no-one has gone for the binmen…..
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And the Bus driver's.

But my favourite was the Car Workers, back in the 70s .
 

Astute

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #125
Boosh said:
Best strikers in my lifetime are Gyokeres, King and Godden
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Are you still at school?
 
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rob9872

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #126
LastGarrison said:
I’m still disappointed that after 4 pages on the best Coventry strikers no-one has gone for the binmen…..
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Ffs it's been running all week, I open up to post about the bin men teachers etc and missed it by half a day!
 

Boosh

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #127
Astute said:
Are you still at school?
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Are you still posting more on the Sunderland forum than this one?
 

Astute

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #128
My best pairing would be Dublin and Mickey Quinn. Dublin to rip them to bits and Quinn to knock in every ball that came to him. The defenders used to bounce off him. Quickest player over 1 yard and rarely missed the target.
 
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Astute

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #129
Boosh said:
Are you still posting more on the Sunderland forum than this one?
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Are you still acting like an idiot?
 

Boosh

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #130
Astute said:
Are you still acting like an idiot?
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you probably have the worst likes to post ratio of all time so not worth responding to any further
 
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Kneeza

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #131
robbiethemole said:
You’re right Kneeza, it was Dec 1966
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That makes far more sense. Ta!
 
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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #132
Based on their performances for us I would say Dublin and Gibson.

Keane was a more talented player but was only with us for a year at the start of his career.

Ferguson and Wallace by far the best partnership.
 
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JAM See

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #133
Boosh said:
you probably have the worst likes to post ratio of all time so not worth responding to any further
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Stats please. No data, no credibility.
 

Boosh

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #134
JAM See said:
Stats please. No data, no credibility.
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You denied the existence of the showbiz thread despite being shown the data. You’re a lost cause
 

JAM See

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #135
Boosh said:
You denied the existence of the showbiz thread despite being shown the data. You’re a lost cause
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Stats please. No data, no credibility.
 
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Cov kid 55

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #136
Kneeza said:
Thought it was just me imagining the 999 thing on the CET scoreboard! Was it really as early as '64? Blimey. I was only eleven if that's the case. Was stood on the Sky Blue terrace, presumably with my dad. If asked, I'd have thought it a bit later. Live and learn!
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Kneeza said:
Thought it was just me imagining the 999 thing on the CET scoreboard! Was it really as early as '64? Blimey. I was only eleven if that's the case. Was stood on the Sky Blue terrace, presumably with my dad. If asked, I'd have thought it a bit later. Live and learn!
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Yes it was later, December 1966, when I was 11. Sorry about that! But still a great evening!
 

mmttww

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #137
Is it commonly accepted that Grendel and Boosh are the same person or are they just some kind of internet double act?
 
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Boosh

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #138
mmttww said:
Is it commonly accepted that Grendel and Boosh are the same person or are they just some kind of internet double act?
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baldy

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  • Mar 30, 2023
  • #139
 
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Astute

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  • Mar 31, 2023
  • #140
Boosh said:
you probably have the worst likes to post ratio of all time so not worth responding to any further
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Ah so you come on here to be loved. All this place is for you is to have a friend.
 
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