The Exiled Robin

Twitter-style summary (max.140 chars): Dreadful start,Coppell quit,bottom in Oct. Millen&signings,esp. Caulker,Stead&Pitman got us to boring mid-table respectability, thank God! Player of the Season: I’m just giving this to Albert Adomah over the Young Player. Albert is the one good thing to come out of Coppell’s short, disastrous reign. Signed from Barnet for a small fee, he has terrorised Championship left-backs all season with his speed of feet, great dribbling skills and an ability to get the ball in the right areas. If he scored more goals then the Premier League would already be beckoning – as it is we might get to keep him for another year and hope he & Maynard can take us into the promised land. Young Player of the Season: Stephen Caulker joined in the dark early days but quickly improved the entire back four with his assured displays, confidence and unbelievably mature positional sense. The teenager has played a massive part in saving the club from releg...

Players of the Century Inspired by the excellent ‘Five Stars’ series at www.theseventytwo.com Follow them on twitter @the72football The top 5 Bristol City players of the 21st Century (so far) Rarely has pulling a list together given me cause to consider the title so much. I settled for selecting the five that have given City the most positive of impacts, and helped the club achieve the most success over the past 11 years. More than half of that period was spent in the third tier, so I felt little choice but to focus primarily on players who had managed the promotion or had played at the higher level, meaning some popular and high quality players have missed out in this list. Steve Phillips, Matt Hill, Tommy Doherty, Steve Brooker and, possibly most controversially, Leroy Lita, have all missed out. Purely using the word ‘best’ would have meant spots for David James, Paul Hartley, Marcus Stewart and Michael Bridges for what they’ve achieved elsewhere in the game. If it was ‘fa...