Grendel
Well-Known Member
Gould didn’t deliver in the top league
Gyokeres is doing well, but has a long way to go to match our best. Two more to think about, Bobby Gould scored a goal every other game for us in the mid sixties, including 25 goals in our 2nd division championship season, and Neil Martin, a tremendous header of the ball, with a decent goal scoring record.
Dublin and Speedie would (potentially) have made a fantastic ‘little and large’ pairing. Both deadly in the air, both natural goal scorers. Or maybe, Dublin, Keane and Speedie as an attacking midfielder. Dion and Little Keano would have been a lethal front two, in my opinion. I’m really going on players I’ve actually seen play, to be honest, as I’m not qualified on some of the others.
Bourton on the bench as an ultimate game changer.(doesn’t matter that I didn’t see him play, he was a goal machine).
Absolutely. His place is cemented. Just think his long shorts would be a hindrance in keeping pace with Dion's quick thinking.Yes, it’s Clarrie Bourton. Thought I’d better put him in there! His record isn’t bad!
Gould didn’t deliver in the top league
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’.Gould didn’t deliver in the top league
Gould didn’t deliver in the top league
Think you'll find they did remember Arthur Lightning and Jim Blyth definitely in gloves.Must say balls were leather and use to hold water on rainy days making them harder to hit or to head.Don’t forget the goalies didn’t wear gloves back in the day - that’s surely played a part in the amount scored by old City strikers
Neither did George Hudson for us.Gould didn’t deliver in the top league
We’d had loads of strikers that did incredibly well elsewhere. Mark Hateley went on to play for Milan and England, for a while he was by any measure a top level striker.Another centre-forward we never really got the best of left us for West Brom scored did okay for a year and got snapped up by West Ham and scored a load of goals, we’ve been a bit of a graveyard for strikers over the years.
No, Keenan while living with relations at Nuneaton had a bit of time as a 15 or so year old which would have been equivalent to todays scholars, not sure how far down the road that got but it was kids level, wasn’t Chris Waddle here too but got rejected.We’d had loads of strikers that did incredibly well elsewhere. Mark Hateley went on to play for Milan and England, for a while he was by any measure a top level striker.
Gary Bannister probably has a top flight goals to game ratio to match anyone prior to (re) joining us.
Did Keegan actually ever sign for us at youth level or was it just a trial?
Of the post Prem era, Gyok is out on his own, surely?
Best strikers in my lifetime are Gyokeres, King and Godden
Probably not mate as I didn’t see Dublin play.
If wasn’t for his baggage Marlon King was a class act as good as any.Best strikers in my lifetime are Gyokeres, King and Godden
I thought you were a lot older than 20.
If you’re not old enough to have seen Dublin you must be 25 or younger I would imagine. Given that you joined the forum in 2011, you would’ve been around 13?
8 year old you probably knew more about football
I said I don't remember him playing.
I was 8 when he left. I know I went to at least one game he played in when I was 7, but have no memory of watching him or what he was like as a player (for us).
You must have only been 9 or 10 when Keane played them
You must have only been 9 or 10 when Keane played them
Keegan was rejected for being too small after a trial. Think we also rejected WaddleWe’d had loads of strikers that did incredibly well elsewhere. Mark Hateley went on to play for Milan and England, for a while he was by any measure a top level striker.
Gary Bannister probably has a top flight goals to game ratio to match anyone prior to (re) joining us.
Did Keegan actually ever sign for us at youth level or was it just a trial?
Of the post Prem era, Gyok is out on his own, surely?
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