So far we have found our favourite Goalkeeper, Right Back and Centre Backs. We now move on to the last place in defence which is Left Back Winners of the centre back Positions was Merrick and Collier with Taylor and Hunter 3rd and 4th ------------------------Gibson--------------------------- Sweeny--------Merrick--------Collier----------------LB RM----------------CM-----------CM------------------LM -------------------ST-------------ST---------------------- My nomination for Left back is Jamie McAllister Part of our promotion team to the championship and almost part of a team that went to the premier league Now To You?
Mickey Bell ,Mike Thresher or Bryan Drysdale....Saw all three but I always liked Mickey Bell... So Mickey Bell....
Going back to my days as a youngster and watching both clubs the name Mike Thresher springs to mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Thresher Tough and no-nonsense. He particularly 'enjoyed' local derbies and there was one famous incident when he had a fight with a Rovers player, they both got sent off, then went arm in arm off the field having a laugh together!
Mine has to be Mike Thresher, saw him play against the great Stanley Matthews, i think every winger hated playing against him, a hard uncompromising player, if N Hunter Bit your legs, so did Thresher. Played 423 games for City, his record speaks for itself.
Sorry Pirate but as we get older the memory sometimes plays tricks. The famous or infamous sendings off occurred I think in February 1957 when Jackie Pitt and Ginger Peacock suddenly confronted each other about 10 yards outside the penalty area at the Muller Road end. Both landed punches at exactly the same time and both collapsed in a heap. As they came round, both were sent off and did as you say leave the pitch with an arm round each other's shoulder. the game finished 0-0. In the Monday edition every week of the Evening Post. Bob Bennett, father of late Radio Bristol's Roger Bennett, used to do a cartoon about the weekends game, featuring whichever club was at home. Obviously with a derby, this one showed a picture of Jackie and Ernie sat side by side in a cinema while serving their mandatory seven day suspension - in those days a suspended player was not allowed into their own ground even for training. and they did not get paid either.
Spoilt for Choice on this one; Bailey, Thresher. Briggs, Drysdale, Newman, Scott, Bell, Barnard, MacAllister My long held belief is that Mike thresher was the best left back I've seen at City. But after some hard thinking this evening I am going for Martin Scott. Why? Because while some were excellent defenders who because of the style of play in their day, did very little attacking and others were much more attack minded, Martin Scott was a hard no nonsense defender who was also no mean attacker. Thus I think the best all-round City left back.
Martin Scott - great tackler, supported his left winger well, and had a great shot on him too. Think he scored a number of free kicks. Also seemed to do quite a bit for the community.
Must have missed the centre back vote, and i cant believe you voted in Merrick ! Is it because he was captain of Bristol Boys ? If we hadn't got Hunter in, then City would have missed out on 3 years at the top because Merrick was painfully not up to the job of managing the best strikers in the country, whereas Hunter had been doing it for years and continued to here (even at 34). Why do you think Dicks actually bought Hunter and farmed Merrick out to left back ? It is unbelievable voting ! Can anyone who was actually there and saw these games in the 70s justify leaving out Hunter and playing Merrick at the heart of our defence ? That line-up would be relegated in 1 season
