Coventry City Top Ten Players (1 Viewer)

gruffskyblue · Jan 6, 2022

My latest episode.

Again, imonly going for players I’ve seen play live. So 1987-2021.

I think this task is always a challenge as people will always wonder how certain players are left out!

Please watch if you have a spare 15 minutes. Then at least you can see my reasoning as to why Keane is 3, even though he was only with us for one season, and to how the hell Cyrille and McAllister aren’t in there! And Jenkinson’s Rumbleows Sprint challenge gets a mention!
Here is my list:

10 - Oggy
9 - Gynn
8 - Doyle
7 - Gallagher
6 - Dion
5 - Whelan
4 - Hucks
3 - Robbie
2 - Nuddy
1 - Speedo

We'll_live_and_die · Jan 6, 2022

No Joe Cole? What about Marlon?

skybluesam66 · Jan 6, 2022

Blyth
Nilsson
McDonald
Gillespie
Peake
Hunt
Mcallister
Hadji
Hutchison
Regis
Wallace

Picked a team rather than top 10

JAM See · Jan 6, 2022

skybluesam66 said:
Blyth
Nilsson
McDonald
Gillespie
Peake
Hunt
Mcallister
Hadji
Hutchison
Regis
Wallace

Picked a team rather than top 10

Broadly agree.

I'd swap Blyth for Oggy
McDonald for Pearce

skybluesam66 · Jan 6, 2022

JAM See said:
Broadly agree.

I'd swap Blyth for Oggy
McDonald for Pearce

Forgot about Pearce but not having oggy over blyth

NortonSkyBlue · Jan 6, 2022

Glazier, Pearce, Nilsson, Curtis, Peake, Bennett, Mortimer, McAllister, Hutchison, Dublin, Keane

Greggs · Jan 6, 2022

the only England captain we've ever had? Terry Butcher?

stupot07 · Jan 6, 2022

Some random honourable mentions.

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NortonSkyBlue · Jan 6, 2022

Greggs said:
the only England captain we've ever had? Terry Butcher?

Not so old chap. Gerry Francis

gruffskyblue · Jan 6, 2022

stupot07 said:
Some random honourable mentions.

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Sorry. A couple of those were tongue in cheek!

SkyblueDad · Jan 6, 2022

Could go for the old favourites like Ian Gibson & Tommy Hutch but like the OP I’ll go back to 1987 we have Cyrille, Keane, McAllister, but top of the pile has to Peter Ndlovu I’ve always thought we missed a trick with him & never got the potential he could and should have given us. He was brilliant when on song first as a left winger then up front his hat-trick at Anfield was probably the best performance by a Cov player at an away game.

skybluesam66 · Jan 6, 2022

riyadhskyblue said:
Not so old chap. Gerry Francis

stuart pearce, jordan henderson

higgs · Jan 7, 2022

Hadji

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rob9872 · Jan 7, 2022

I'm astonished at the number of Pearce nominations. I thought he was decent for us but really only flourished under Clough after he'd left us.

AStonesThrow · Jan 7, 2022

Got to add, Kieran Westwood and Kasper Schmeichel. Two of the best goalkeepers we’ve had the pleasure to watch

Otis · Jan 7, 2022

riyadhskyblue said:
Glazier, Pearce, Nilsson, Curtis, Peake, Bennett, Mortimer, McAllister, Hutchison, Dublin, Keane

Hagerty F., Hagerty R., Tomkins, Noble, Carrick, Dobson, Crapper, Dewhurst, MacIntyre, Treadmore, Davitt

Wyken Sky Blue · Jan 7, 2022

Max Biamou

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RegiswasGod · Jan 7, 2022

gruffskyblue said:
My latest episode.

Again, imonly going for players I’ve seen play live. So 1987-2021.

I think this task is always a challenge as people will always wonder how certain players are left out!

Please watch if you have a spare 15 minutes. Then at least you can see my reasoning as to why Keane is 3, even though he was only with us for one season, and to how the hell Cyrille and McAllister aren’t in there! And Jenkinson’s Rumbleows Sprint challenge gets a mention!
Here is my list:

10 - Oggy
9 - Gynn
8 - Doyle
7 - Gallagher
6 - Dion
5 - Whelan
4 - Hucks
3 - Robbie
2 - Nuddy
1 - Speedo

No Cyrille and no Roland. You've some decent players in there, but you've missed out the best two I have watched in my lifetime.

shmmeee · Jan 7, 2022

Roland Nilsson was the classiest footballer I’ve ever seen for City. Just effortless. Keane and Dublin a level above as well. Other than that perm 7 from a bunch of attackers basically (Nuddy, Hucks, Whelan, Gally).

fatso · Jan 7, 2022

Greggs said:
the only England captain we've ever had? Terry Butcher?

Gerry Francis was another England International that was top quality for us.

fatso · Jan 7, 2022

I'm suprised Steve Hunt hasn't appeared more often on here, and Terry Yorath,
(Although I'm going back a while)
But there's also Ian Wallace, Terry Gibson,
Stuart Robson, Jim Holton to name just a few.

Jamesimus · Jan 7, 2022

Gary Breen x 10

Alkhen · Jan 7, 2022

AStonesThrow said:
Got to add, Kieran Westwood and Kasper Schmeichel. Two of the best goalkeepers we’ve had the pleasure to watch

Not having Kasper anywhere near Covs best XI!

He may have had an unbelivable career but the guy played 9 games for us as a kid, He really didnt pull up any trees whilst here, I mean his last match we got humpped 4-1 by Charlton

shmmeee · Jan 7, 2022

Alkhen said:
Not having Kasper anywhere near Covs best XI!

He may have had an unbelivable career but the guy played 9 games for us as a kid, He really didnt pull up any trees whilst here, I mean his last match we got humpped 4-1 by Charlton

All I remember of him was having a monster throw, don’t recall being blown away generally.

Alkhen · Jan 7, 2022

shmmeee said:
All I remember of him was having a monster throw, don’t recall being blown away generally.

Was a skinny kid when he played for us. Wasnt bad at all and could see promise but not really outstanding

If the question was who are the greatest players to have ever played for Cov then he'd be a shoe in I recon

HuckerbyDublinWhelan · Jan 7, 2022

Kasper pulling off that save against wolves to keep it 2-1 kept us up that season

my top 10 in no particular order
Roland Nilsson
Robbie Keane
Dion Dublin
Darren Huckerby
Chris Kirkland
Gary McCallister
Mustapha Hadji
George Boeteng
Marlon King (wasn’t here long but oozed class, shit bloke, class player)
Joe Cole - maybe more for his career, felt there was obvious ability there, the rest of the team weren’t on his wavelength barring Maddison and Armstrong.

honourable mention for Dennis Wise - could replace either of the bottom 2. Incredible for a 40 year old, still remember his bicycle kick against Hull

Legia Sky Blue · Jan 7, 2022

Most of my favourites been mentioned but I first watched in 1973. Tommy Hutchison would therefore be number one for me. The other pre 1987 player I would include would be Steve Hunt, while I always had a soft spot for Garry Thompson too.

RegiswasGod · Jan 7, 2022

Cyrille Regis
Roland Nilsson
Dion Dublin
David Speedie
Mick Quinn
Peter Ndlovu
Trevor Peake
Steve Ogrizovic
Mustapha Hadji
Darren Huckerby

Just missing out;
Noel Whelan
Brian Borrows
Keiren Westwood
Brian Kilcline
Micky Doyle
Robbie Keane
George Boateng

Frostie · Jan 7, 2022

Alkhen said:
Not having Kasper anywhere near Covs best XI!

He may have had an unbelivable career but the guy played 9 games for us as a kid, He really didnt pull up any trees whilst here, I mean his last match we got humpped 4-1 by Charlton

He was largely awful for us.

skybluesam66 · Jan 7, 2022

fatso said:
I'm suprised Steve Hunt hasn't appeared more often on here, and Terry Yorath,
(Although I'm going back a while)
But there's also Ian Wallace, Terry Gibson,
Stuart Robson, Jim Holton to name just a few.

strange fact
Steve Hunt now goes by the name Steve Evans
Hopefully not in honour of the greatest manager of all time

Bad Boy · Jan 7, 2022

Think Strachan should get a mention as his performances as a player by and large were outstanding given his age.

DannyThomas_1981 · Jan 7, 2022

Blyth

Danny Thomas
Nillson
Gillespie
Froggatt

Strachan
Boateng
Hunt

Bennett
Dublin
Ndlovu

Not the most balanced formation but who cares!

As someone said above Strachan was elite class on the pitch - as a manager I personally blame him for relegation.

Subs: Borrows, Huckerby, Hedman, Wallace, Ferguson, Wise, McFadz (why not).

DannyThomas_1981 · Jan 7, 2022

Alkhen said:
Was a skinny kid when he played for us. Wasnt bad at all and could see promise but not really outstanding

If the question was who are the greatest players to have ever played for Cov then he'd be a shoe in I recon

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Fair point Alk given his career. But always going to be Blyth for me as our best keeper- probably a generational thing. Man Utd offered a world record fee for a goalie to buy Blyth before the move was scuppered by an injury.

Frostie · Jan 7, 2022

HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Kasper pulling off that save against wolves to keep it 2-1 kept us up that season

Are you sure you're not blurring 2 separate events & thinking of the Westwood last minute penalty save the following year?
We drew 1-1 with Wolves in 2008, we dominated the game & should have won. Kasper made 1 decent save early in the 2nd half but we missed a hatful of chances to secure our survival.

Kasper was then utterly abysmal in the away game at Charlton, almost single handedly gifting them the win & but for Carlo Nash in Stoke's goal keeping Leicester at bay we would have been relegated.

HuckerbyDublinWhelan · Jan 7, 2022

Frostie said:
Are you sure you're not blurring 2 separate events & thinking of the Westwood last minute penalty save the following year?
We drew 1-1 with Wolves in 2008, we dominated the game & should have won. Kasper made 1 decent save early in the 2nd half but we missed a hatful of chances to secure our survival.

Kasper was then utterly abysmal in the away game at Charlton, almost single handedly gifting them the win & but for Carlo Nash in Stoke's goal keeping Leicester at bay we would have been relegated.

Westwood saved the pen the year after, nearly identical circumstances. Eubanks-Blake had a last minute header against Schmeichel

may have blurred the results, but Schmeichel definitely pulled off a last minute save to keep the result as is

i get he was horrendous against Charlton, but he was generally decent, throughout his loan spell. If I recall he was actually the original target before Westwood, we were priced out by Man City

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