Worst City players you remember

[SatOnTheWall]

Stuart Lee dreadful signing by Swales from Stockport back in 1978/79.

By Allison in fact. He was woefully substandard. Couldn’t fault his effort though.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Moaning about bad players is as much a part of being a football fan as questioning the referee's eyesight or parentage, always has been. But a couple of posts in the thread show a more thoughtful appreciation of footballers, like the one about what a decent bloke Lee Bradbury is or Rae Ingram being easily the best player in the team the poster played played in as a kid. In fact most of the players mentioned here were probably miles better footballers than 90% of the posters on Bluemoon, me included. Reminds me of Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch talking about what he called the "Gus Caesar syndrome." Gus was a young talent at Arsenal, had been outstanding in his school XI, the Pele of the youth team, did well in the reserves, etc. - until his full league debut where he was like a deer in the headlights having at last reached his level of incompetence, showing that it's only the top one percent of the top one percent who truly make it. It's a bit like the young actress who dreams of a life on Broadway or in the movies and ends up having a walk-on part in a show in Blackpool. Must try to remember this the next time I yell abuse at Mahrez or mock Harry Maguire.
(OK, forget the last bit.)

 

[Bluesince1979]

There were so many utterly forgettable journeymen and jobbers who turned out in that weird two seasons of Ball/Hartford/Coppell/Neal/Clark before Royle arrived just too late
Paul Beesley, Darren Wassall, Eddie McGoldrick, Rodger, Heaney, Hiley, Briscoe, Van Blerk, the ghost of Peter Beardsley

And people still saying Jo was our worst ever player. We’d have DREAMED of Jo then.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

There were so many utterly forgettable journeymen and jobbers who turned out in that weird two seasons of Ball/Hartford/Coppell/Neal/Clark before Royle arrived just too late
Paul Beesley, Darren Wassall, Eddie McGoldrick, Rodger, Heaney, Hiley, Briscoe, Van Blerk, the ghost of Peter Beardsley

Add Craig Russell to that list. 2 goals in 2 seasons as a striker. Braut Haaland he was not!

 

[Jacko1956]

By Allison in fact. He was woefully substandard. Couldn’t fault his effort though.

Lee Bradbury paid a club record fee for him back in the day ! Was absolutely crap !

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

there was a few which cost a bit in the 90`s and 00`s who hardly featured. Thankfully i ve forgotten names.

 

[The_Boxing_KangaBlue]

Can I just make it “shit and/or I hated them”?

————————— Seaman ————————

Charvet — Mills — Mangala — Bridge

———————— Rodwell ———————

Negouai — McManaman — Hargreaves

———— Robinho —— Bradbury ————

Subs:
Bravo
Maicon
Mendy
Ben Haim
Fernando
Macken
Roberts
Samaras
Jo

Manager: Hughes

 

[Dirty Harry]

Moaning about bad players is as much a part of being a football fan as questioning the referee's eyesight or parentage, always has been. But a couple of posts in the thread show a more thoughtful appreciation of footballers, like the one about what a decent bloke Lee Bradbury is or Rae Ingram being easily the best player in the team the poster played played in as a kid. In fact most of the players mentioned here were probably miles better footballers than 90% of the posters on Bluemoon, me included. Reminds me of Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch talking about what he called the "Gus Caesar syndrome." Gus was a young talent at Arsenal, had been outstanding in his school XI, the Pele of the youth team, did well in the reserves, etc. - until his full league debut where he was like a deer in the headlights having at last reached his level of incompetence, showing that it's only the top one percent of the top one percent who truly make it. It's a bit like the young actress who dreams of a life on Broadway or in the movies and ends up having a walk-on part in a show in Blackpool. Must try to remember this the next time I yell abuse at Mahrez or mock Harry Maguire.
(OK, forget the last bit.)

Good post that mate, although it’s probably more like 99.9999% are better than the posters of Bluemoon (realise you likely just pulled that 90% out just to highlight the point).
Years ago I used to do some strength and fitness training for an ex-Pro, probably considered a bit of a ‘Journeyman’ really with Blackburn , Bolton, Burnley being amongst the clubs he’d played for.
He was around 76-78 at this point and still playing in an over 50’s league,now, I like to consider myself as a decent player in the past (probably not played a game in 20+years now though) but after we’d done his training we went for a bit of a kick about, just run, control, long passes over 25-30 metres etc, that type of thing, and I kid you not, every pass to me, I literally didn’t have to break stride once, it was just perfection, of course my passes to him were often 5 metres off, and yet, he killed it stone dead and made a perfect pass to me, naturally;-).
On another occasion we ended up playing 6 a side in a big sports hall with a load of young fit lads of decent Sunday league standard, you know what, he absolutely bossed the game, no headless chicken running etc, he just strolled through it like a Rolls Royce, it was incredible to watch.

I guess the point I’m trying to make here though, is that no professional player is shit, they’ll have a bad game sometimes, but they’re light years ahead of mates, people we know etc who we’d consider really really good players, except Simon Tracey, he really was fuckin shit !

 

[Keeper!]

Paul Bosvelt was ok but the other two i'm with you 100%.

Bosvelt was a quality player but he was signed when is legs had gone.

 

[Keeper!]

Bojinov

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Strange one, he has one game where he looked brilliant then was seriously injured, hardly his fault.