Name the players in this 1964/5 squad

[yerwot?]

Yep, 9-2 away in the Sept. Those were the days !

The headline in the Pink.."City go down like nine-pins" .

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

The "Pink" was part of The Manchester Evening News.

 

[Shirley]

Correct. Pink disappeared first.

My memory tells me the green was the first to go?

 

[JGL07]

Interesting to see that Mike Doyle hadn't quite graduated through to the senior squad at that point. I just sort of thought that he'd been around forever. Made his first appearance with the seniors though, I see, in March of that season, against Cardiff. And to my amazement, he played a few games as a forward for a bit!
Any of you old fogeys on here remember seeing him make his debut?

Edit: just checked, it was an away game — and an evening match — so not very likely that many of you would have made the trek down to Cardiff, although you never know…Hats off if you did.

I watched Doyle in the Reserves and Youth Team and he didn’t really stand out. There were other players who looked better than him at that stage including McAlinden and Cunliffe. They failed to progress but Mike improved steadily.

He had a decent eye for goal and player a few games an number nine rather than wing-half. Mercer and Allison pulled a few stunts like that presumable to confuse the opposition. Mike Summerbee played at number nine and Francis Lee at number seven for similar reasons.

Mike Doyle was always at his best when playing defensive midfield and coming through on the burst to score some crucial goals. He dropped back to central defence in the later part of his career with City and Stoke.

 

[Alan Ladd]

I can remember some better than those from the 2010s!

That team arguably represented the low point for City in the 1960s. There were three of them there in the great team from 1966-71 - Oakes, Pardoe, Dowd - plus a couple of bit part players in Murray and Kennedy.

For me David Shawcross was the main lost talent for City from that team. He always looked a class act. He seems to have been badly affected by injury as he only played 47 matches for City in seven season before leaving for Stockport aged 24. I didn’t see much of him at his best but others felt that he could have developed into a top class player without the injury issues.

Shawcross was one of my favourite City players at that time.I likened him to Jim Baxter of Rangers and Scotland.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I watched Doyle in the Reserves and Youth Team and he didn’t really stand out. There were other players who looked better than him at that stage including McAlinden and Cunliffe. They failed to progress but Mike improved steadily.

That's the thing, isn't it? You just don't know. There's the occasional jewel like Foden, there's no question that he's going to make the transition, but most, you just don't know if they'll make it. Some who look outstanding at youth level just stop right there. Others who don't seem to be so naturally gifted study the game, learn how to go beyond their natural limitations.
Hatem Ben Arfa was apparently extraordinarily gifted for the Lyon youth team at all levels. Benzema, who grew up with him, was a considerably less gifted player, naturally. (And apparently they didn't much take to each other). Yet look at who's had by far the more significant career.

 

[Alan Ladd]

Correct, mustn't have been taken on 1st March 1958 then as medadata implied. Possibly 5th v Brum at Maine Road?

According to records Colin Barlow scored City’s only goal in that game and he isn’t on the photo.
Incidently, I think the game was played on the same night as the United v West Brom. 6th Round FA Cup replay.

 

[BillCarlisle]

My memory tells me the green was the first to go?

Yes, the Green went long before the Pink.

 

[Gingers Dad]

How many of you foc's weren't at the Swindon match? Kippax must have been pretty full with so many of you sitting on the terraces

 

[Shirley]

How many of you foc's weren't at the Swindon match? Kippax must have been pretty full with so many of you sitting on the terraces

I was there, scoreboard end in them days for me.