Great Cardiff City Finishers In A Greavsie Style

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Earnie

Classic fox in the box

In my lifetime no one comes close

[UNDERHILL1927]

Earnie

Classic fox in the box

In my lifetime no one comes close

Jimmy Flloyd was a quality finisher and obviously Fowler would have been (even at the age he was) if he wasn't the old version of Vassell when he came to us.

[Tuerto]

A player who doesn't get much of a mention from the early eighties is Gordon Owen. A winger with good feet and an eye for a goal if my memory is correct. Sure he was Top Scorer for us in the old 2nd division, the year after we were promoted under Ashurst. I was pretty young at the time, maybe my judgement is clouded. Does anyone else remember him?

[Hilts]

A player who doesn't get much of a mention from the early eighties is Gordon Owen. A winger with good feet and an eye for a goal if my memory is correct. Sure he was Top Scorer for us in the old 2nd division, the year after we were promoted under Ashurst. I was pretty young at the time, maybe my judgement is clouded. Does anyone else remember him?

Yes think he played in the 2nd season after I started going. Replaced Dave Bennett on a free I believe and even though not as good was a very good player for us. Sold for a ludicrously low fee if I remember.

After that season our complete freefall started.

[the other bob wilson]

A player who doesn't get much of a mention from the early eighties is Gordon Owen. A winger with good feet and an eye for a goal if my memory is correct. Sure he was Top Scorer for us in the old 2nd division, the year after we were promoted under Ashurst. I was pretty young at the time, maybe my judgement is clouded. Does anyone else remember him?

Yes, good player, who made the departure of Dave Bennett not as bad as it could have been, but I think we probably saw the best of him judging by the rest of his career.

[Tuerto]

Jeff Hemmerman-Thread over.

[Wash DC Blue]

Carl Dale, Chopra,

[The Bloop]

A player who doesn't get much of a mention from the early eighties is Gordon Owen. A winger with good feet and an eye for a goal if my memory is correct. Sure he was Top Scorer for us in the old 2nd division, the year after we were promoted under Ashurst. I was pretty young at the time, maybe my judgement is clouded. Does anyone else remember him?

Good shout

[UNDERHILL1927]

Jeff Hemmerman-Thread over.

Gets the ball, scores a goal, Jeffrey Hemmerman........

[blue matt]

Carl Dale

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A player who doesn't get much of a mention from the early eighties is Gordon Owen. A winger with good feet and an eye for a goal if my memory is correct. Sure he was Top Scorer for us in the old 2nd division, the year after we were promoted under Ashurst. I was pretty young at the time, maybe my judgement is clouded. Does anyone else remember him?

Yep , came from Sheffield Wednesday I think ?

Nice Kevin Keegan perm

Scored for us v the jacks at the vetch down our end , they eventually overcome two goals to win with a Dean Saunders strike

He was a good player in a sea of sewage

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Chris Pike knew where the net was

He also knew where the pub was

[Jimmy the Jock]

Eddie Johnson.
What a player..

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Tony Evans

[the other bob wilson]

First spell with us Michaerl Chopra, Earnie, Carl Dale and Tony Evans, who, although nowhere near the player Greaves was, was the most Greaves like of the four for me.

[Majorblue]

I’m also going to say Tony Evans.

Almost certainly looking at it through rose tinted glasses for the past but as a youth I thought he was dynamite.

Not sure if the stats will back me up but I am sticking to my guns.

[Rjk]

Earnie

Classic fox in the box

In my lifetime no one comes close

Odd player Earnie was.
Great finisher but some times he looked like he'd never played the game.
The aspects of his game that were good though were so good it didn't matter most of the time.

[Tuerto]

Odd player Earnie was.
Great finisher but some times he looked like he'd never played the game.
The aspects of his game that were good though were so good it didn't matter most of the time.

Earnie was never coached as a youngster. He was the last Apprentice taken on in his year, and wasn't connected to a Professional club before that, He played junior football for a Caerphilly based club called G.E Wales, who played in the Cardiff and District junior league for some reason. He was scoring a ridiculous amount of goals for them. I think that he took football up quite late in comparison to other kids who went on to have a Professional career.

[Citizen's Nephew]

Earnie was never coached as a youngster. He was the last Apprentice taken on in his year, and wasn't connected to a Professional club before that, He played junior football for a Caerphilly based club called G.E Wales, who played in the Cardiff and District junior league for some reason. He was scoring a ridiculous amount of goals for them. I think that he took football up quite late in comparison to other kids who went on to have a Professional career.

His autobiography is a really good read, started off playing with a ball made from plastic carrier bags. His mother was a professional footballer and boxer I believe (crazy I know). Loved him at City and for Wales.

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Odd player Earnie was.
Great finisher but some times he looked like he'd never played the game.
The aspects of his game that were good though were so good it didn't matter most of the time.

He wasn't a particularly skillful player but he had that quick turn of pace that fooled defenders and he was always there for the knock downs

My old man thought he was an instinctive goal scorer like greavsie

[Rjk]

He wasn't a particularly skillful player but he had that quick turn of pace that fooled defenders and he was always there for the knock downs

My old man thought he was an instinctive goal scorer like greavsie

greavesie was a long time before my time, but clips I've seen of him he seemed a lot more rounded player than earnie ever was.
sometimes earnshaws first touch was so bad he looked like some random guy who'd won a competition to play for the first team. other times defenders just couldn't live with him.
absolute one of a kind

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greavesie was a long time before my time, but clips I've seen of him he seemed a lot more rounded player than earnie ever was.
sometimes earnshaws first touch was so bad he looked like some random guy who'd won a competition to play for the first team. other times defenders just couldn't live with him.
absolute one of a kind

Of course but earnie was a clinical finisher

Peter Thorne was the perfect foil

[Maurice Swan]

An interesting chart...

Goalscrorers.jpg

Personally I l always liked Joe Bonson...even if he doesn't figure here...I can always remember a diving header v Leyton Orient away where we won 4-3 away in our promotion season 1959-60!!! Also same season Johnny Watkins volleying in from a Brian Walsh Cross!! Not prolific bit Peter Hooper was also a memory in the making....

[Divine Wright]

An interesting chart...

Goalscrorers.jpg

Personally I l always liked Joe Bonson...even if he doesn't figure here...I can always remember a diving header v Leyton Orient away where we won 4-3 away in our promotion season 1959-60!!! Also same season Johnny Watkins volleying in from a Brian Walsh Cross!! Not prolific bit Peter Hooper was also a memory in the making....

Tosh was the most prolific judging from these stats....or a very close second to Earnie. Interestingly doesn't get much of a mention in this thread.

[Maurice Swan]

I think it confirms Earnie as the best....although Toshack is pretty close...(I remember him as a 16 year old sub)