Rarely mentioned past players....... (13 Viewers)

[Houchens Head]

Just been thinking about past players for City (as you do), and came up with some names that I don't believe have rarely been mentioned much on these threads, but some great players nonetheless. Those that spring to mind are (in no particular order of any merit):
Terry Yorath
Maurice Setters

Ian Gibson​

Gary Breen

Stephen Warnock (loanee from Liverpool. Wished we could have kept him!)​

Mark Hateley
Jimmy Holmes
Les Sealey

Gary Bannister
David Cross
Phil Babb​

These are just a handful of names that rarely get a mention. I know there must be many more. Obviously from my selection you will see I choose from way back, but I'm sure some of our younger posters will have choices of their own.

 

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[tom88]

Youseff Safri
Patrick Suffo
Trond Egil Solvedt
Roland Neilson

 

[Rusty Trombone]

Kevin Gallagher
Dean Emerson

 

[AlansEyes]

Sean Flynn.

Just a thought after seeing Gary Breen's name - such a shame that Strachan would almost always seem to favour Willo/Shaw over Breen. A slight aside, did anyone see Strachan name his best Cov team from his time here on the CT site the other day? A back four that included Williams, Shaw and Telfer at left back says all we need to know about why he ultimately took us down.

 

[Nick]

Cobi Jones

 

[skyblueeyesrevisited]

Gary Gillespie

 

[HerneBayGaz]

Bill Glazier
Who was once interviewed said, If only I was as good Lee Burge in my day I could have been a sky blue legend

 

[Cigarfingers]

David Rennie!
Simon Howarth
Robert Jarni (lol)
Marc Edworthy

 

[AStonesThrow]

David Pipe
Richard Spong
Morten Hyldegaard
David McNamee
Danny Fox
Viorel Moldovan
Leon McKenzie
Laurent Delorge

 

[AStonesThrow]

" He worked for the youth academy of Coventry City, but found that he did not have sufficient enthusiasm for coaching.[22] McNamee then joined the Royal Navy.[22] As of November 2015, he was attending HMS Raleigh to train as a mine warfare specialist.[22] "

From McNamee's Wikipedia page, did not know any of this!

 

[Paxman II]

John O'Rourke springs to mind as does Neil Martin

 

[Deleted member 2477]

Ian Painter and Kevin Kyle:woot::woot:

 

[Loughborough Sky Blue]

What about everyone's favourite Welshman... Craig Bellendy?

 

[christonabike]

Steve Morgan

 

[Magwitch]

David Bowman
David Bradford
Leigh Jenkinson
Wilf Smith (first ever £100k full back)
Geoff Strong
Peter Hindley

 

[no_loyalty]

Peter Atherton
Steve Livingstone

 

[ccfcway]

Martin booty

 

[Sbarcher]

Category:Coventry City F.C. players - Wikipedia
The above minus Burge and Chaplin who are mentioned regularly!

 

[matesx]

Perry Suckling

 

[Sub]

Ysrael Zuniga

 

[Forever_Blue]

Ray Woods
David Smith
Peter Atherton
Tony Dobson
Peter Billing
Kevin Drinkell

 

[torchomatic]

Alan Dugdale
John Beck
Alan Green

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Sandy Robertson
Jim McInally

The Italian lads we signed when Strachan was here

 

[skyblueeyesrevisited]

Ray Woods
David Smith
Peter Atherton
Tony Dobson
Peter Billing
Kevin Drinkell

Ah Peter Billing. The story goes that City scouts went to see a youngster playing for Crewe one night. The youngster, a midfielder had a poor game and we signed centre back Billing instead.

The youngster signed for Aston Villa shortly after.

His name was David Platt.

(not the one in Coronation Street)

 

[SBAndy]

Carl Baker.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Julian Gray (apologies if already not mentioned!!)

 

[CrawleySkyBlue]

Pegguy Arphexad

 

[cov_george]

Danny Thomas
Gary Thompson
Terry Gibson

 

[Gibbo]

Just been thinking about past players for City (as you do), and came up with some names that I don't believe have rarely been mentioned much on these threads, but some great players nonetheless. Those that spring to mind are (in no particular order of any merit):
Terry Yorath
Maurice Setters

Ian Gibson​

Gary Breen

Stephen Warnock (loanee from Liverpool. Wished we could have kept him!)​

Mark Hateley
Jimmy Holmes
Les Sealey

Gary Bannister
David Cross
Phil Babb​

These are just a handful of names that rarely get a mention. I know there must be many more. Obviously from my selection you will see I choose from way back, but I'm sure some of our younger posters will have choices of their own.

Not forgotten though. The top 3 are my 3 favourites of all time. God we need a Yorath right now. Setters kept us up almost single-handedly. Gibbo was "king of Coventry"
Sealey was ghastly. He only ever kicked long and took about 10 minutes over it

 

[oucho]

I'd put Paul Furlong on this list too.

 

[ccfcrob]

Vicente Engonga,
Isiais,
David Rennie,
Craig Pead,
Kyle Lightbourne,
Simon Haworth,
Viorel Moldovan,
Tomas Antonelius/Gustaffsson
Jean Wallemme,
Willie Boland,
Eoin Jess,

Hundreds of others surely

 

[Malaka]

cant remember his name for the life of me, midfielder we signed from West Ham in the early 80's. I think he played for England as well

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

Mention of Steve Livingstone in them. His shots were either out of this world or out of the ground. Might i add Mick Coop ,Gerry Daly,Brian Alderson and Dave Clement.

 

[covcity4life]

Soldvedt
Rennie

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Graham Oakey - the best left back we ever had.