Worst City players you remember

Mike D said:
Benjani a truly awful player who we actually signed illegally.
Crocky Santa Cruz bad player signed by our worst manager.
Bosvelt never did anything for me slow and pedestrian
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Same for me re: Bosvelt, similar to David Sommeil in that they were always a yard behind the action..... Played well at Spurs in the magical 3-4 though ;-)
 
Mike D said:
Benjani a truly awful player who we actually signed illegally.
Crocky Santa Cruz bad player signed by our worst manager.
Bosvelt never did anything for me slow and pedestrian
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For another thread I suppose but given the shite we’ve had in charge you think the one who signed Zaba, Kompany, Barry, Tevez, De-Jong and Bellamy is our worst ?
 
isab23502 said:
Margetson in goal
Charvet Kernaghan Savic Vaughan
Pollock Negouai Clough Buster Phillips
Creaney Bony
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In the mid 80s id have loved that team mate.

Try this!
Perry Suckling
Bill williams.
nigel johnson.
Alan kernaghan
Tony vaughan
Robert hopkins
Sammy mcilroy
Kevin langley
Ged brannan
Trevor christie
Tony cunningham

Not all 80s but some of you cunts are spoilt if you think Bony is our worst ever striker
Not even close
 
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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
 
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.)
 
LongsightM13 said:
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
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And people still saying Jo was our worst ever player. We’d have DREAMED of Jo then.
 
LongsightM13 said:
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
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Add Craig Russell to that list. 2 goals in 2 seasons as a striker. Braut Haaland he was not!
 
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
 
AliBobbyJ said:
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.)
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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 !
 
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