Worst City players you remember

INDEEDY DEEDY said:
Ray Sambrook and Clive Colbridge. One for the FOCs
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As an FOC, I will tell you of how Clive Colbridge was once a City hero - at the beginning of the 1960-61 season, Spurs were riding high (It was their double-winning season). I think they won all their games till Octoiber the 10th, when they hosted City, and were expected to give us a drubbing.
A mild sensation occurred when City held them to a 1-1 draw, Colbridge scoring our goal. He was talented, but very inconsistent and frustrating.
 
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Brian's Kid said:
I'm probably going to get pelters for this, but here goes. I think it's disrespectful to slate former players just because of their ability, they're humans after all who may read these pages. Fair enough if it's someone who disrespected the club either whilst here or afterwards then it's fair game but it doesn't feel right to call out players that were once a part of the club we love just because they weren't good. After all we were absolutely shite as a club for many many years, so the level of player available was relative. Slating players during moments of emotion e.g. after a bad game is one thing but having a whole thread listing our worst players seems bad taste

But I guess it's a free world and a free forum so each to their own :-)
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Don't see why you should get pelters for it.
I agree with you - this thread is a little sad in a way.
The only players I'd put in here were one's who clearly didn't give a shit and never put in a shift - lack of ability in some of the situations we were in comes in a very distant second!
 
WesthoughtonJohn said:
Don't see why you should get pelters for it.
I agree with you - this thread is a little sad in a way.
The only players I'd put in here were one's who clearly didn't give a shit and never put in a shift - lack of ability in some of the situations we were in comes in a very distant second!
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Surely, though, saying that players weren't very good is fair comment. We aren't attacking them as people, just rating them as footballers, just as saying Merlin was great is a fair judgment of a player's ability. So we can reasonably say that some of those mentioned did not have the quality required, according to our judgment.
 
Steve Daley has basically made a living for over 30 years, laughing and joking about how shit he was for City, so I don’t see why we shouldn’t be allowed to join in.
 
Big Swifty said:
Surely, though, saying that players weren't very good is fair comment. We aren't attacking them as people, just rating them as footballers, just as saying Merlin was great is a fair judgment of a player's ability. So we can reasonably say that some of those mentioned did not have the quality required, according to our judgment.
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Yeah but are we rating them like for like in some cases?
We're on a very different planet these days, and I wonder if some judgements are clouded
 
Norman kneejerk said:
The choice is huge but top of my list Cristian Neguaie, followed by Bobby Shinton. I'd also like to vote for my dad who is long gone and add Mike Wash for him.
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Christian Negouai!!! Remember him well. Think he's still the only premier league player to be sent off in his only appearance. Utter garbage and a complete nutter to boot
 
Stephen230 said:
Steve Daley has basically made a living for over 30 years, laughing and joking about how shit he was for City, so I don’t see why we shouldn’t be allowed to join in.
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Steve Daley was a decent player but the fee paid was outrageous and he wilted under the pressure of it.
 
Jwoody19 said:
Christian Negouai!!! Remember him well. Think he's still the only premier league player to be sent off in his only appearance. Utter garbage and a complete nutter to boot
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That deal stunk of dodginess.

KK getting a nice little pension filler?
 
I’ve always been aware that anyone that ever plays for City is a thousand times better a footballer than I could ever hope to be, even the ones that look dreadful. So I’ve never been into abusing them if they fail on the pitch.

Do remember Ray Ranson testing my patience in his second spell here though.

Bobby Mimms too.
 
@bertiefulsouth said:
Mark Seagraves - admin close thread
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Cannot agree with this. Yes he was limited and I can barely remembe him crossing the halfway line but we needed someone to balance Hinchcliffe's marauding from the opposite fullback position.

I cannot remember him being disliked by the crowd. Just an average, limited defender whose main claim to fame seemed to be that he had developed at Liverpool. At least we got our money back when we flogged him to Bolton.
 
We all have our least favourite player, so it is a matter of opinion.
However, my biggest disappointment with a player being sold, was Paul Walsh.
We replaced him (from Portsmouth), with Gerry Creaney who was overweight, very slow and rarely score.
Walsh played with a smile on his face, and was an exciting player alongside Rosler & Beagrie whilst Creaney was a waste of space...
 
Jwoody19 said:
Christian Negouai!!! Remember him well. Think he's still the only premier league player to be sent off in his only appearance. Utter garbage and a complete nutter to boot
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I still dont know how his goal against Rotherham stood when he blatantly punched it in. Remember him coming on as sub at Goodison before heading almost immediately back off after being red carded, at the time KK said he was his most exciting signing
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
We all have our least favourite player, so it is a matter of opinion.
However, my biggest disappointment with a player being sold, was Paul Walsh.
We replaced him (from Portsmouth), with Gerry Creaney who was overweight, very slow and rarely score.
Walsh played with a smile on his face, and was an exciting player alongside Rosler & Beagrie whilst Creaney was a waste of space...
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A rather large space at that
 
jamesha said:
Cannot agree with this. Yes he was limited and I can barely remembe him crossing the halfway line but we needed someone to balance Hinchcliffe's marauding from the opposite fullback position.

I cannot remember him being disliked by the crowd. Just an average, limited defender whose main claim to fame seemed to be that he had developed at Liverpool. At least we got our money back when we flogged him to Bolton.
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Seem to remember Seagraves signed as a centre half but ended up playing at right back before getting injured and never being seen in our colours again
 
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