Chris Garland

[Motown Fox]

Yeah Chris Garland was a good player. Didn't he end up at his first club Bristol City when then made their way to the top flight around the same time that City went into freefall:icon_cry:

He was a nice guy too I bumped into him one lunchtime in Granby Street and he made a point of talking to me rather than nod and walk off

 

[bocadillo]

Yeah Chris Garland was a good player. Didn't he end up at his first club Bristol City who then made their way to the top flight around the same time that City went into freefall:icon_cry:

eeerrr... no. :icon_conf

He returned to Bristol City in 1976 when they were actually in the 1st division. He was relegated with them in three successive seasons, 1980, 1981 and 1982 - this was the period in which Bristol City went bust and had to rely on the generosity of their players (as per the video clip) in order to ensure that they continued in existence. He packed it in as a player in the 82/83 season with them still in the bottom division.

Have you got a detachable memory? You appear to have re-inserted it upside-down. :icon_wink

 

[Motown Fox]

eeerrr... no. :icon_conf

He returned to Bristol City in 1976 when they were actually in the 1st division. He was relegated with them in three successive seasons, 1980, 1981 and 1982 - this was the period in which Bristol City went bust and had to rely on the generosity of their players (as per the video clip) in order to ensure that they continued in existence. He packed it in as a player in the 82/83 season with them still in the bottom division.

Have you got a detachable memory? You appear to have re-inserted it upside-down. :icon_wink

BUT you are agreeing with me I think
The 1st division was the top flight in those days which is what I said and the freefall I was referring to was Leicester CITY's not Bristol's as we ended up relegated to the old 2nd division and nearly went down to the third until we saved our faces in a great away win at Sheffield United at the end of the 1978/79 season with a very youthfull team under Jock Wallace with promotion the following season.
Bristol freefall was of course much greater than ours and started as you state in 1980 and they have never really recovered since and look like they might be going down again!!!

 

[bocadillo]

BUT you are agreeing with me I think
The 1st division was the top flight in those days which is what I said and the freefall I was referring to was Leicester CITY's not Bristol's as we ended up relegated to the old 2nd division and nearly went down to the third until we saved our faces in a great away win at Sheffield United at the end of the 1978/79 season with a very youthfull team under Jock Wallace with promotion the following season.
Bristol freefall was of course much greater than ours and started as you state in 1980 and they have never really recovered since and look like they might be going down again!!!

Ah, OK - I knew you had made a typo but It was in a different word from the one I thought - it quite changed my understanding of what you had written. I thought that you were saying that Bristol City had risen up the divisions during his second spell there.

You're mistaken about us saving ourselves with a win at Bramall Lane though. We were already safe by then and the game finished in a 2-2 draw. If I'm not mistaken, both their goals were pens, we had a player attacked on the pitch and another (Everton Carr?) sent off.

 

[lazzer]

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[Motown Fox]

Ah, OK - I knew you had made a typo but It was in a different word from the one I thought - it quite changed my understanding of what you had written. I thought that you were saying that Bristol City had risen up the divisions during his second spell there.

You're mistaken about us saving ourselves with a win at Bramall Lane though. We were already safe by then and the game finished in a 2-2 draw. If I'm not mistaken, both their goals were pens, we had a player attacked on the pitch and another (Everton Carr?) sent off.

Yes I think you are right.:icon_redf My memory is not what it was although I seem to remember Duffy a young lad scored one of our goals BUT it may be that the result sent Sheffield United down:icon_lol:which I am thinking of I seem to remember a load of their fans running on the pitch at the end of the game and trying to attack us City fans and there was trouble outside too. Still there very often was in those days

 

[Brauny Blue]

This seems to suggest that you don't think £3,000,000 was silly for Darren Eadie!:icon_cry:

This might sound far fetched and just be another bullshit story, except its true. Darren Eadie his my dads nephew or put another way my cousins son. When he signed for us i was looking forward to boasting about it. Sadly he just never hit the heights with us, and ultimately injury forced his retirement. In his Norwich days he was being talked about as a future England player and it was for them he played his best football. Infact he gave us a bit of a going over in a mid-week night match and i remember thinking at the time he looks the bizz. £3m for what we got was poor value, but in my biased opinion he would have lived upto it if MON had remained at the club and he himself stayed injury free.
One of the reasons he came here was because of returning to family roots, and not that anyones bothered but his family used to run the newsagents on the corner of Upperton Rd / Narborough rd for a number of years.

 

[bocadillo]

Yes I think you are right.:icon_redf My memory is not what it was although I seem to remember Duffy a young lad scored one of our goals BUT it may be that the result sent Sheffield United down:icon_lol:which I am thinking of I seem to remember a load of their fans running on the pitch at the end of the game and trying to attack us City fans and there was trouble outside too. Still there very often was in those days

Mick Duffy - a very occasional player - I had forgotten all about him, but I think you are right in saying that he scored one of the goals.

I think Charlton were the other club that could have gone down but they won on the day, so Sheffield United would have gone down even if they had managed to beat us - their goal average/difference was much worse than Charlton's.. Their crowd was in a frenzy and I am sure that there would have been much misinformation around the ground about how Charlton were doing. Whatever the truth of the matter, the Sheffield United fans blamed us for their relegation and it really did kick off.

 

[bocadillo]

... i remember thinking at the time he looks the bizz. £3m for what we got was poor value, but in my biased opinion he would have lived upto it if MON had remained at the club and he himself stayed injury free.

Darren Eadie was already known as 'sick note' long before he left Norwich.

 

[Boy Genius]

Darren Eadie was already known as 'sick note' long before he left Norwich.

He failed his medical with us, due to a knackered knee the first time MON tried to sign him.
When MON came back in for him later on the knee was fine. Rumour has it that the x-ray was not of his knee though.
How many games did he play for us? and I only remember him scoring once for us at West Ham.

 

[Brauny Blue]

Darren Eadie was already known as 'sick note' long before he left Norwich.

I don't think MON was a bad judge of a player.

 

[Boy Genius]

I don't think MON was a bad judge of a player.

Fenton, Gunnlarggssson (the bald gay one)

 

[Brauny Blue]

Fenton, Gunnlarggssson (the bald gay one)

And what manager dosent sign a duff un . Even Cloughie cocked up on a few but you can't question his overall record. MON knew what he wanted so there must been something there that he liked.

 

[Boy Genius]

And what manager dosent sign a duff un . Even Cloughie cocked up on a few but you can't question his overall record. MON knew what he wanted so there must been something there that he liked.

He signed more duff ones for Celtic too, Momo Sylla?

MON was no clough either

 

[bocadillo]

I don't think MON was a bad judge of a player.

On the whole, I'd agree - but this was one he got wrong. He had a warning (in the form of the first medical) but he stubbornly pressed on with the transfer and made a mistake.

 

[Brauny Blue]

He signed more duff ones for Celtic too, Momo Sylla?

MON was no clough either

Clough was no MON either. They were both very much there own men.

BTW You don't rate MON Then? If he signed 5 good uns for every bad one then he didn't do bad did he?

 

[Brauny Blue]

On the whole, I'd agree - but this was one he got wrong. He had a warning (in the form of the first medical) but he stubbornly pressed on with the transfer and made a mistake.

That i do not question. But in terms of the player himself i believe MON bought in the player because he knew from his Norwich days that Eadie could do a job for us. IMO he was a decent quality player who through injury never had the chance to do himself justice.

 

[Boy Genius]

Clough was no MON either. They were both very much there own men.

BTW You don't rate MON Then? If he signed 5 good uns for every bad one then he didn't do bad did he?

Clough didn't feck off to another club did he, he stayed and finished the job he started. He didn't use the bollux " I have taken this club as far as I can"

 

[webmaster]

Clough didn't feck off to another club did he, he stayed and finished the job he started.

At least O'Neill left us in a strong position, Clough stayed too long and got the trees relegated.

 

[Boy Genius]

At least O'Neill left us in a strong position, Clough stayed too long and got the trees relegated.

Being in a strong position was with having MON here, he was the main factor of our success, so when he left all that work went down the toilet. He then took all his backroom staff with him, and then followed that up by taking our best players (or he tried to) Lennon being a massive loss. The players that stayed did not perform and wanted out. A new manager (albeit a bad one) could not handle the situation and so we went down.
He left us in a piss poor position. If he had stayed what could he have done with £20M+, a team in the top half of the premiership and in Europe. "Taken the team as far as he could" my arse!!!