Terry Gibson's perm
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Just been listening to him on Talksport talking about his only first team hat trick 37 years ago today.
You said it. In that season he scored 19 goals and the next highest (Bennett) was 7. The following season he scored another 19 and the next highest was 5 (Regis).4-0 versus Liverpool and Platnauer got the other. Gibson was a great player for us and scored a lot of goals in some pretty poor teams and with some weak striking partners.
After that performance we were even being talked about as contenders for winning the old first division that season. As it happened, after a post Christmas slump, we just survived on the last day of the season with a nervous win over Norwich.
I didn't mean to imply Regis or Bennett were poor by the way!You said it. In that season he scored 19 goals and the next highest (Bennett) was 7. The following season he scored another 19 and the next highest was 5 (Regis).
I didn't mean to imply Regis or Bennett were poor by the way!
Remember Gibson being on for another one and as he went through Hanson threw his arm and floored him, ref waived play on.
Also recall Dalglish throwing his toys out of the pram because he wasn't getting his own way.
The same way I describe my penis.Against Liverpool ? Just watched some hilights on fb - awesome - short but deadly
Or is that the weak strike partner?The same way I describe my penis.
Premature but alwaysThe same way I describe my penis.
Has he got a perm?Just been listening to him on Talksport talking about his only first team hat trick 37 years ago today.
Bad shit manNot any more
A very unfit and totally crocked Alan Brazil was a makeweight in the transfer of Gibson to United.
Left at the end of the season and I don't think every played at professional level again. Disaster.
Our track record in adding in makeweights to transfers is not the best; the Wilson deal to Bournemouth another great example.
There must be examples of where player swaps and makeweights worked in our favour.....can't think of any off the top of my head?
A very unfit and totally crocked Alan Brazil was a makeweight in the transfer of Gibson to United.
Left at the end of the season and I don't think every played at professional level again. Disaster.
Our track record in adding in makeweights to transfers is not the best; the Wilson deal to Bournemouth another great example.
There must be examples of where player swaps and makeweights worked in our favour.....can't think of any off the top of my head?
Not sure if it was officially a swap deal but Sordell went to Burton and we got Beavon and Callum Reilly
A very unfit and totally crocked Alan Brazil was a makeweight in the transfer of Gibson to United.
Left at the end of the season and I don't think every played at professional level again. Disaster.
Our track record in adding in makeweights to transfers is not the best; the Wilson deal to Bournemouth another great example.
There must be examples of where player swaps and makeweights worked in our favour.....can't think of any off the top of my head?
Folivi I remember. Think he was a winger, on loan from Watford.Looking at the squad list for that season the names Rawson, McCann, Folivi and Clarke don't ring any bells either. Probably for the best.
There must be examples of where player swaps and makeweights worked in our favour.....can't think of any off the top of my head?
Agree, Brazil was a disaster for us, came with a long standing 'back problem'. Was told that when Sillett and Curtis took over the first thing Big George did was to go round to Brazils house and tell him he was leaving the club.
The following game, we were away at Norwich and got very generously applauded onto the pitch by the home fans, purely on the strength of the 4-0 hammering we gave Liverpool the previous week.Gibson's third goal to complete his hat-trick was an absolute classic in front of the West End. I was only young at the time and I still remember it vividly. Fantastic scenes.
I'm sure that applies for anyone there - something we will never forget. An iconic HR moment.
4-0 versus Liverpool and Platnauer got the other. Gibson was a great player for us and scored a lot of goals in some pretty poor teams and with some weak striking partners.
Agree that is an example of a swap in our favour, although Melrose was hardly a massive success. A hat trick on his home debut but fairly mediocre from then on in my view.Jim Melrose from Leicester for Tommy English doesn't seem bad on the surface.
Melrose started 25 games for Coventry and scored 10 (including a hat trick). Tommy English started 31 games for Leicester and scored 4.
We sold Melrose to Celtic for £100,000, which seems weird considering he was 25, his strike rate and the fact Leicester paid £250,000 for him a couple of seasons earlier (but there were reasons for the low sale price and why he had 10 clubs between 1980 and 1990). Tommy English drifted down from Leicester, leaving on a free transfer to Rochdale. Whilst Coventry were winning the FA Cup Tommy was playing non-league at the age of 26.
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