Coventry Strikers (3 Viewers)

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 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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Gibsons record was better according to my stats . He was 8th top in the league for goals in season 1 and not much worse in season 2

Wallace time at Forest is misrepresented a bit

He was too goalscorer in 3 seasons for them

Grendel said:

Gibsons record was better according to my stats . He was 8th top in the league for goals in season 1 and not much worse in season 2

Wallace time at Forest is misrepresented a bit

He was too goalscorer in 3 seasons for them

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Both Gibson and Wallace have fantastic records in a City shirt.

But in terms of goals per game (that's how this debate began), Wallace is ahead of all of our strikers in the modern era.

As I think Clint pointed out, Wallace did play in much better teams so it's not a totally fair comparison.

In terms of facts, Wallace's goals per game at Forest was far lower than for us. The price tag created all kinds of pressure and he missed his mate Fergie - that was a brilliant partnership. Fergie in my view is an all time legend and up there with our very best strikers, his goals per game is very close to Dion. In terms of the £1.25 million fee that Forest paid for Wallace in 1980 - that made him one of the most expensive players in world football. He was my boyhood hero so not trying to be critical - just facts when you compare the goalscoring records (goals per game) for both clubs.

A couple of months after he left to join Forest (and the move was going very badly at that time) - I remember Wallace turning up in the Main Stand to watch a midweek game. Just off his own back - not in the Directors' box or anything like that. Just to watch his old team and mates - as a kid I though it was brilliant that he did that.

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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Remember that one of them was from outside the box. The crowd were quiet for a few seconds, couldn’t believe what they had just seen.
And it was bloody cold and pouring with rain as well I think.

Warwickshire lad said:

Remember that one of them was from outside the box. The crowd were quiet for a few seconds, couldn’t believe what they had just seen.
And it was bloody cold and pouring with rain as well I think.

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I remember one blockbuster goal Gould scored from outside the are. The keeper got his finger tips to it, and had to go off injured, a broken or dislocated finger. It may have been this game, dunno.