Name the players in this 1964/5 squad

JGL07 said:
The only match I can recall at Hull over that period was an FA Cup tie in January 1970. I went by car rather than on the train.
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Neil Young carried on where he left off at the end of the 68/69 season (the Cup Final), by scoring the only goal of the game. It was the third round tie at Hull. I went on the Trans Pennine service that day, rather than the "Special".
 
crazyg said:
Neil Young carried on where he left off at the end of the 68/69 season (the Cup Final), by scoring the only goal of the game. It was the third round tie at Hull. I went on the Trans Pennine service that day, rather than the "Special".
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4 of us went by car & we were in the end that Nellie scored. Boothferry Park was quite a nice little ground in those days. Now sadly gone.
 
Prater70 said:
There was the PINK and the GREEN in those days. Hope I am right The pink was the Evening Chron and the green was the Evening news.
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Correct. Pink disappeared first.

Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
The 8015 game is gonna knock York Away off its perch. Won't be long when the gate for the Swindon game is 80,150!
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Actually you have to have been one of the 400 in the Lesser Free Trade Hall for the City Ginger Group's meeting.

More significant than the Sex Pistols concert.
 
ColinBellsjockstrap said:
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On seeing this I was sad to find out that Dave Bacuzzi died of Covid last April.
After a management career here in Ireland he opened a travel agency on the south side of Dublin.
Me and a mate booked our Italia ‘90 World Cup trip with him and have great memories of the three weeks with him and wife Eithne and kids and the whole group that ended up like family. Great memories.
He was still managing a local team even then.
 
crazyg said:
Neil Young carried on where he left off at the end of the 68/69 season (the Cup Final), by scoring the only goal of the game. It was the third round tie at Hull. I went on the Trans Pennine service that day, rather than the "Special".
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Last time I was at Hull was a business conference. I got a room in the station hotel looking over the concourse. The year after, the conference was in Salisbury, we had almost the whole hotel and I got the bridal suite (bride not supplied...).
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
On seeing this I was sad to find out that Dave Bacuzzi died of Covid last April.
After a management career here in Ireland he opened a travel agency on the south side of Dublin.
Me and a mate booked our Italia ‘90 World Cup trip with him and have great memories of the three weeks with him and wife Eithne and kids and the whole group that ended up like family. Great memories.
He was still managing a local team even then.
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I attended every home game at Flower Lodge ,during his tenure as Player Manager at Cork Hibernians. He was very popular but moved on too soon. Some great memories of those "glory days".
 
Worked with Bobby Kennedy for many years - really good man

Used to pull his leg how we had to sell Dennis Law to buy him.

Lunchtimes were like my own sportsmans dinner listening to Bobby stories of playing for City, receiving free fish at the docks when with Grimsby as a win bonus. He settled in Bradford after managing them too.

Always reminded him of Buzzers sportsman's dinner story about City touring USA when politican Bobby Kennedy was assassinated - someone went to Chairman Alexander room to pass on the news of the assissnation - he wanted to know why Bobby was out so late when there was a game next day.

If Bobby daughter Lorraine or grandson Mike are reading this - hello hope all are well.
 
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.
 
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
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.
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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.
 
JGL07 said:
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.
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Shawcross was one of my favourite City players at that time.I likened him to Jim Baxter of Rangers and Scotland.
 
JGL07 said:
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.
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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.
 
spacecadet said:
Correct, mustn't have been taken on 1st March 1958 then as medadata implied. Possibly 5th v Brum at Maine Road?
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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.
 
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
 
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