Oh for a Dave Watson type centre half

kismet

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if only we had a Dave Watson type centre half today..........one of my favourite players of the last 30 years

no one beat him in the air........

he took no prisoners

and a header against Ipswich i think nearly broke the netting...........fantastic player.....
 
We had one not so long ago-Van Buyten.

Would've been a great signing this time round for a couple of seasons.
 
DVB ...yes he was a very good player and agree we should have signed him................

Watson though was immennse and played for us 188 times and over 60 caps for England , overcame a bad back injury too..........
 
kismet said:
if only we had a Dave Watson type centre half today..........one of my favourite players of the last 30 years

no one beat him in the air........

he took no prisoners

and a header against Ipswich i think nearly broke the netting...........fantastic player.....

Agree with you fella one of my top 5 city players BUT he would be red carded within the first 5 minutes in todays game - its fast becoming a non contact sport and he would be reffered out of it. We got enough decent centre back at the club (including Lescott) they just need to apply themselves.
 
kismet said:
if only we had a Dave Watson type centre half today..........one of my favourite players of the last 30 years

no one beat him in the air........

he took no prisoners

and a header against Ipswich i think nearly broke the netting...........fantastic player.....


with mike doyle by his side
 
r.soleofsalford said:
kismet said:
if only we had a Dave Watson type centre half today..........one of my favourite players of the last 30 years

no one beat him in the air........

he took no prisoners

and a header against Ipswich i think nearly broke the netting...........fantastic player.....


with mike doyle by his side


if only.............
we'd end up with 9 men every game !! lol
 
kismet said:
DVB ...yes he was a very good player and agree we should have signed him................

Watson though was immennse and played for us 188 times and over 60 caps for England , overcame a bad back injury too..........

Van Buyton was an extremely good player but he lost his place to Kompany i seem to remember - don't see how the signing of him now would make us anybetter. Buyig new centre backs is not the solution - i am happy with those we have i think the problem is the full backs (mainly on the right) are allowing far too many crosses coming in too our box - solve that any maybe we will see a different back 4.

Arsenal leaked 2 goals so it happens to us all - fook we even beat the spuds 3 nil down at half time with 10 men - it happens - if however we continue to loose leads then maybe Hughes will have to look harder.
 
Watson was magnificent. My favourite player when I first started going to City as a young kid. The header against Ipswich was a real bullet, and it was a vital one as well. Basically, Ipswich were third in the league and we were second with the end of the season nearing. It was 1-1 late on when he headed that one in, and by beating them we effectively removed Ipswich from the title race.

Remember Doyle less clearly as he was injured during in the 1976/77 season, and found it hard to get his place back from Tommy Booth the following year, eventually being sold to Stoke. I do, though, remember my Piccadilly Radio Soccer Annual 1976 featuring a piece entitled 'Doyle of England' in which he spoke about how proud he was finally to have won a cap having been overlooked throughout his long career up to that point.

Can't find Watson's goal against Ipswich on youtube, sadly. It was definitely televised - pretty sure it was on the Granada Kick Off Match on the Sunday and was on a 200 MCFC goals video that Granada issued in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

In its absence, here's another piece of classic Dave Watson for those who never saw him. The game is at home to Leicester in January 1997, which we won 5-0 with Kiddo scoring four. Watch out for Watson's part in Kidd's third goal, City's fourth. "Quite majestic," enthuses Barry Davies, and seldom did a City player deserve that description as much as Watson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQb4Gf7qdus
 
that game against ipswich was my third game,the same day red rum won his third grand national. it was balenced at 1.1 with a few minutes to go,up pops dave watson with a header from out side the box that had as much power in it as if it had been vollyed.we had been stood in the corner of the kippax between platt lane ,but had left a few minutes early,as we passed the steps at the back of the corner between the north stand i got my dad to let me go up there and watch the finish,good job i did it is definetly one of the best goals ever scored at maine road ..
 

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