Pathetic, cowardly, lily-liveried waste of space. Stole a living in our colours (like McPointy though even the latter managed one good game for us - just the one mind). Cowards like this one were a big reason why we tumbled down the table to relegation in 82-83.If Bodak had stepped up just once, we'd have grabbed a point or three and stayed up. He didn't.Peter Bodak.
Shit knee sliding fucker.
Better than he was in the 5-1? Debatable that, mate.Ian Bishop for Bournemouth in the Eddie Large 3-3. He was everywhere, ran the second half expecially.
Bishop was actually the player who inspired me to start the thread. I was at both matches and, in my opinion, he was best in the 3-3 game. They should have been dead and buried but he dragged them back into contention.Better than he was in the 5-1? Debatable that, mate.
Just checked, he was there the previous season (81/82) playing the grand total of 13 matches.
David Cross? There's another one! Always rated him at West Ham, big tough centre foward who seemed to score loads.
Didn't really 'do it' for us did he? Think he scored in his first couple of games and hardly any afterwards?
Sounds right, think it might have been another once-decent but long past it striker, Phil Boyer, who came in at the same time as O’Neil?
Didn’t Jon Macken score from half way at Maine road while playing for PNE?
He actually wasn't. Carl Asaba was the one we should have bought from Gillingham.Big fat Bob must have been better for Gillingham against us than he ever was for us
Didn’t Jon Macken score from half way at Maine road while playing for PNE?
In fairness to David Cross, looking at those stats ,there have been plenty of City forwards with worse goals to games ratios.Cross seems to have gone down as a failure in the annals of City history, but he scored a more than respectable 12 league goals in 31 appearances. I'm not sure where this idea comes from that he barely scored after an initial purple patch.
His general play wasn't the greatest for us and he did get some stick from the fans, true. I personally thought it was harsh when second-top scorer Kevin Reeves, who missed one match all season, scored a princely seven league goals.
We sold Cross to Vancouver Whitecaps after the transfer deadline, a particularly egregious piece of penny-pinching Swales idiocy. Sure, get rid and sign better in the close season, but don't ditch your only reliable source of goals when relegation has become a serious threat and you can't buy anyone else.
We had a declining Reeves and past-it Dennis Tueart up front for the rest of the season, who were largely toothless. I remain convinced that selling Cross when we did substantially increased our chances of going down.
O'Neill came in during the summer of 1981, in effect a replacement for Steve MacKenzie, who Bond had offloaded to West Brom. Boyer arrived in November 1980. "Long past it" is a slightly eccentric judgement of his worth at the time given that he'd been the First Division's leading scorer in the season that ended six months previously. He was available for transfer simply because Southampton had wanted to make a statement signing in the form of Kevin Keegan.
Boyer did perfectly OK for us in his first 6 or 8 weeks in our team, though he did appear to be adjusting to a new style of play. His problem was that he picked up a serious knee injury after just under two months with us and was never the same player again.