Tony Scully - remember him?

[The Lone Gunman]

Tony Scully - a young winger who played 14 Third Division games for City on loan from Crystal Palace in 1996. He went on to play league football for a variety of clubs including Manchester City, QPR, Cambridge and Notts County. Remember him? I can, but only vaguely.

Anyway, his 21 year-old his son, also called Anthony, is now on the books at Lincoln City and scored twice for them in their 6-2 FA Cup victory over Forest Green yesterday.

I thought you should know.

[splott parker]

Watching the scores come up yesterday on Final Score and his name jumped out at me, I was ‘He played for us’ but then ‘It can’t be him given the time scale’, you’ve just reminded me. Nice to see his son carrying on the family dynasty......... he’ll be with us come January no doubt

[olderblue]

Around that time we had a player on loan from Wesr Brom? Stacey Caldicot?
Remembered for two reasons, 1st being at the time I don't recall too many other footballers called Stacey and 2nd because he would have probably fitted in with a worst loan 11

[cyril evans awaydays]

Watching the scores come up yesterday on Final Score and his name jumped out at me, I was ‘He played for us’ but then ‘It can’t be him given the time scale’, you’ve just reminded me. Nice to see his son carrying on the family dynasty......... he’ll be with us come January no doubt

If we also sign the ex-Jacks keeper Erwin Mulder that would be spooky!

[The Lone Gunman]

Watching the scores come up yesterday on Final Score and his name jumped out at me, I was ‘He played for us’ but then ‘It can’t be him given the time scale’, you’ve just reminded me.

Yup, that's what happened to me while watching Soccer Saturday: "He used to play for City at one point. Hang on a minute...."

The goals are on the BBC website. Have a look. Couple of decent finishes and he looks very much like his dad - short and stocky. Perhaps he's the man to partner Moore.....

[The Lone Gunman]

Around that time we had a player on loan from Wesr Brom? Stacey Caldicot?
Remembered for two reasons, 1st being at the time I don't recall too many other footballers called Stacey and 2nd because he would have probably fitted in with a worst loan 11

Well remembered, midfielder Stacy Coldicott. He'd played about 100 games for West Brom but only a handful on loan at City in 1996. What I remember about him was that he was bald at a young age. He went to Grimsby after Cardiff and ended up playing over 200 games for them, scoring something like 40 goals.

[Tuerto]

Tony Scully - a young winger who played 14 Third Division games for City on loan from Crystal Palace in 1996. He went on to play league football for a variety of clubs including Manchester City, QPR, Cambridge and Notts County. Remember him? I can, but only vaguely.

Anyway, his 21 year-old his son, also called Anthony, is now on the books at Lincoln City and scored twice for them in their 6-2 FA Cup victory over Forest Green yesterday.

I thought you should know.

I remember Scully. Really skinny, If he'd have been a dog then the breed would've been created through a romantic liasion between Willo flood and chris fry, looked like he needed feeding if memory serves. Anyone remember gerald dobbs, around the 1997 period? He didn't do anything.

[splott parker]

I remember Scully. Really skinny, If he'd have been a dog then the breed would've been created through a romantic liasion between Willo flood and chris fry, looked like he needed feeding if memory serves. Anyone remember gerald dobbs, around the 1997 period? He didn't do anything.

Halcyon days, I remember Dobbs and I raise you a Jimmy Gardner.

[The Lone Gunman]

I remember Scully. Really skinny, If he'd have been a dog then the breed would've been created through a romantic liasion between Willo flood and chris fry, looked like he needed feeding if memory serves.

That’s interesting because I remember Scully as being short and relatively sticky, but maybe I’m thinking of another player. I’ll have to try to find a photo of him and see if that offers any clues.

[Tuerto]

Halcyon days, I remember Dobbs and I raise you a Jimmy Gardner.

Gardner? Was he the one who received a bad head injury in a mid week game, Leyton Orient, or was that another jimmy, in jimmy Rollo?

[The Lone Gunman]

Gardner? Was he the one who received a bad head injury in a mid week game, Leyton Orient, or was that another jimmy, in jimmy Rollo?

That was Jimmy Rollo. As regards Scully, for sticky read stocky. Predictive text and it’s not letting me edit for some reason.

[Tuerto]

That’s interesting because I remember Scully as being short and relatively sticky, but maybe I’m thinking of another player. I’ll have to try to find a photo of him and see if that offers any clues.

Hmm, maybe i'm wrong then. Here's one, Paul Harding. Supposed have been proper hard, never spoke or socialised, didn't show any emotion, apparently. An odd career if memory serves.

[Tuerto]

That was Jimmy Rollo. As regards Scully, for sticky read stocky. Predictive text and it’s not letting me edit for some reason.

you're right, just googled him. I'm mixing him up with another player. Didn;t we have a winger named pat something during that time? Sure it was him.

[The Lone Gunman]

Gardner? Was he the one who received a bad head injury in a mid week game, Leyton Orient, or was that another jimmy, in jimmy Rollo?

Jimmy Gardner was a Scottish winger. Quite talented on his day by lower level standards but a lazy bastard. I had a squabble with him once through the fence during a game. Didn’t like him at all. I think he went to Exeter after Cardiff.

[UNDERHILL1927]

Watching the scores come up yesterday on Final Score and his name jumped out at me, I was ‘He played for us’ but then ‘It can’t be him given the time scale’, you’ve just reminded me. Nice to see his son carrying on the family dynasty......... he’ll be with us come January no doubt

Would have been even better were it actually him. 44 and still banging them in 😂

[Tuerto]

Jimmy Gardner was a Scottish winger. Quite talented on his day by lower level standards but a lazy bastard. I had a squabble with him once through the fence during a game. Didn’t like him at all. I think he went to Exeter after Cardiff.

What did you say to poor Jimmy

[The Lone Gunman]

What did you say to poor Jimmy

I believe I merely expressed some dissatisfaction with the levels of effort he was producing. My opening gambit may well have included words that rhymed with hazy, ducking and punt.

[life on mars]

Jimmy Gardner was a Scottish winger. Quite talented on his day by lower level standards but a lazy bastard. I had a squabble with him once through the fence during a game. Didn’t like him at all. I think he went to Exeter after Cardiff.

Good job there was a fence between you

[Tuerto]

Good job there was a fence between you

yup, Jimmy would never have recovered

[splott parker]

you're right, just googled him. I'm mixing him up with another player. Didn;t we have a winger named pat something during that time? Sure it was him.

Pat Heard

[olderblue]

That's when I discovered half the crowd had tourette's, when his name was announced on the tannoy just as you were walking up Sloper rd.
Pat F****** Heard he was frightened of his own shadow, couldn't pass water properly FFS and he'd won a European cup winners medal I believe as a non playing sub for Villa, 81 or 82?
Absolutely f******* useless

[Parti Mellow]

Jeff Chandler?

[insider]

Pat Heard

What did he hear?
Didn't he have a European cup winners medal with Villa?

[Tuerto]

Pat Heard

Nah, wasn't him. I think that i'm getting this totally wrong and imagining some skinny non entity who played out wide for us during the nineties, then again.....

[splott parker]

Jimmy Gardner was a Scottish winger. Quite talented on his day by lower level standards but a lazy bastard. I had a squabble with him once through the fence during a game. Didn’t like him at all. I think he went to Exeter after Cardiff.

Good job your spat with him didn’t occur during a game I remember him in, no doubt you were there too, a pre season game down St Athan. We were lined along the touch line parks game style, you and Jimmy could have really got it on Can still hear his broad Scottish accent.