• We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from this website. Read more here

Top 10 City players who had potential but we didnt see enough of?

andrew p long

Very well known Exeweb poster
Joined
Jan 6, 2006
Messages
12,548
Location
Hagley, Stourbridge
Dixie McNeil
 

ForeverECFC

Active member
Joined
Jun 16, 2009
Messages
1,200
Location
Ben Watson = Goals
Fred Murray
 

citytillidie72

Well-known Exeweb poster
Joined
Sep 26, 2008
Messages
5,280
Location
exeter
Still playing for Teignmouth last season. Think he might be a postie.
saw him playing at axminster about a year ago.bit larger then he was, if you know what i mean
 

Moomin Grecian

Well-known Exeweb poster
Joined
Sep 24, 2006
Messages
7,032
Location
Somewhere
10. Neil Illman
Just looked back at his career and he scored 16 goals in 7 starts for Northwich according to Soccerbase. Now that's impressive.

I remember he looked pretty decent when he was with us and would have been nice to have seen him stay.

My shout would definitely be Chris Fry, as he was unlucky with injuries in his first season and hit some good form the following year. I remember being gutted when he was released. Rubbish mullet though.
 

CREDYGRECIAN

Very well known Exeweb poster
Joined
Jan 19, 2005
Messages
34,886
Location
Loving the free flowing entertaining football at S
Bresnan , Holloway , and quite a few others from that era had loads of potential sadly the football city played at the time didnt suit them and hence there careers suffered.
 

LOG

Very well known Exeweb poster
Joined
Nov 25, 2006
Messages
27,573
Location
Not currently banned
Geoff Breslan wore one of the worst suits that i've ever seen. For that reason alone, i can't nominate him.

My nomination, and he's already been mentioned more than once, is Mr G Sheldon.
 

Ellisthegreek

Well-known Exeweb poster
Joined
Aug 8, 2005
Messages
8,221
Location
Ex-e-errr...
Anthony Thirlby. Thought the lad was gonna be a top player and play at a higher level.
 

citytillidie72

Well-known Exeweb poster
Joined
Sep 26, 2008
Messages
5,280
Location
exeter
Anthony Thirlby. Thought the lad was gonna be a top player and play at a higher level.
i would say the same about john wilkinson. shame it never happened for him
 
Joined
Sep 11, 2008
Messages
313
Location
Exeter
i would say the same about john wilkinson. shame it never happened for him
He is playing week in week out for the best side in Singapore mind. He has won 3 league titles and a couple of domestic cups as well as earning 20ish caps for the national side.

I know it's only Singapore but he's hardly been a failure.
 

PeteUSA

Very well known Exeweb poster
Joined
Mar 9, 2004
Messages
18,435
Location
Avondale (Near Phoenix) Arizona, USA.
Dixie McNeil

Hey thats a good shout! We dropped a ******* when we let him go.
 
Top