David Geddis

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David Geddis
Personnel
Surname David Geddis
birthday March 12, 1958
place of birth Carlisle ,  England
size 183 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1975-1979 Ipswich Town 43 0(5)
1977 →  Luton Town  (loan) 13 0(4)
1979-1983 Aston Villa 47 (12)
1982-1983 → Luton Town (loan) 4 0(0)
1983-1984 Barnsley FC 45 (24)
1984-1987 Birmingham City 46 (18)
1986 →  Brentford FC  (loan) 4 0(0)
1987-1988 Shrewsbury Town 39 (11)
1988-1989 Swindon Town 10 0(3)
1990-1991 Darlington FC 22 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978 England B 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006 Leeds United (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

David Geddis (born March 12, 1958 in Carlisle ) is a retired English football player . The striker began his career at Ipswich Town , where he won the FA Cup in 1978 . A year later he moved to Aston Villa , where he was also part of the squad that won the English championship in the 1980/81 season . However, he did not get beyond the status of a supplementary player and his stay in his remaining stations from Barnsley to Darlington was short-lived. After his active playing career, he switched to coaching. In 2006 he was the interim head coach of Leeds United and, as part of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, a member of the support staff of the English national team, which was then coached by Sven-Göran Eriksson .

Athletic career

Active career

Ipswich Town (1975-1979)

David Geddis' first career station was in August 1975 at the English first division club Ipswich Town . The probation chances were initially rare for him, but after a successful loan deal with the second division Luton Town from February 1977, when he scored four goals in 13 league games, he was allowed to prove himself in the first team of the "Blues" after his return. His debut took place on May 14, 1977 in the goalless draw against Derby County and when the striker Trevor Whymark injured himself in the following season 1977/78 on Christmas Day, Geddis replaced him and kept the place in the team for the time being. After Ipswich had fought his way into the final of the FA Cup , he was a bit surprising in the starting line-up against Arsenal . Used in the right wing position, he prepared the 1-0 winner by Roger Osborne .

However, he waited in vain for the sporting breakthrough and so he took the opportunity in September 1979 to switch to league rivals Aston Villa . For Ipswich, he had played 43 league games in four years and had the modest yield of five goals for a striker.

Aston Villa (1979-1983)

The first goal was also a long time coming for the “Villans”. After an initial lull of twelve league games in a row, he finally met for the first time in the 2-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur , but lost his place in the team regardless. When, in mid-1980, Peter Withe faced further competition in the forward position of the club, Geddis only had the role of supplementary player. In the 1980/81 season, when Aston Villa won the English championship , he only represented Peter Withe and Gary Shaw, who were ahead of him in the pecking order, in the event of injuries or suspension . His appearance with two goals for the 3-0 win against arch-rivals Birmingham City in December 1980 was probably his best game for the club.

In the following season 1981/82 he increased his quota noticeably with six league goals from 14 games, but on the way to winning the European Cup he made no contribution and in the final victory against FC Bayern Munich he was only on the substitute bench. After a last disappointing 1982/83 season with only four championship games and a renewed loan period from December 1982 in Luton, it pulled him one league lower to Barnsley FC .

Barnsley & Birmingham (1983-1987)

In Barnsley, Geddis found good form for the first time over a constant period and convinced with 24 goals in the 1983/84 season. So he prepared himself again for "higher tasks" and when Ron Saunders, his ex-trainer from Aston Villa - now occupied with Birmingham City - showed interest, he hired in December 1984 with the league competitor and promotion aspirants. His above-average condition at that time, he immediately demonstrated in Birmingham, when he was largely responsible for winning the runner-up and promotion to the first division with twelve goals from 18 league games.

The stay in the English elite class was short-lived and after only a year Geddis returned with Birmingham as the table penultimate in the Second Division. His mentor Saunders had left the club in the meantime and in the midst of a moderate season 1986/87, in which he helped out for a month at third division FC Brentford in November 1986 , he moved in February 1987 to club Shrewsbury, which was fighting for relegation in the second division Town .

Final career stations (1987–1991)

In Shrewsbury he already met on his league debut against Huddersfield Town (1: 2). In 14 championship games of the remainder of the 1986/87 season, he scored a total of four goals, including two important goals for victories against Stoke City (4-1) and West Bromwich Albion (2-1), which were not insignificantly responsible for the league's whereabouts. He scored another five league goals in the 1987/88 season and although he had to sit out a long time after the first match day, he proved to be reliable again in the closing stages with four goals from the last five games, which ultimately brought in seven points. In October 1988 Geddis then moved to the up-and-coming league competitor Swindon Town , who had only been promoted to the second division a good year earlier. In Swindon, however, he was only used sporadically and only eight times he was in the starting lineup in league games. Nor was he represented in the two play-off semifinals against Crystal Palace for promotion to the first division.

The last active station was Darlington FC from March 1990 . The "Quakers" were after their descent into the Football Conference on the way to return to the Football League and Geddis contributed in nine league games with three goals to win the Conference championship and promotion to the fourth division . He only started twice in league games in the 1990/91 season. There were also eleven substitutions, his last on December 29, 1990 against Scarborough FC (1: 1) was equivalent to his last appearance in a professional game in the Football League.

Coaching activities

After switching to coaching, he was back in public focus , especially from January 2002 at Newcastle United, as part of Bobby Robson's assistant staff and alongside John Carver . He held this position for a good two and a half years before Graeme Souness took over the sporting management of the "Magpies", brought his own coaching staff and Geddis (like Carver) had to give way in September 2004.

During the 2006 World Cup in Germany , he then took on some scouting activities for the English Football Association and coach Sven-Göran Eriksson before he found a new job in club football as coach of the Leeds United reserve team. At the end of October 2006 he briefly took over John Carver's position as interim coach of the professional team and was responsible for the league cup defeat against Southend United (1: 3). Then Dennis Wise and his assistant Gustavo Poyet took over the sporting management and in December 2006, Geddis and Leeds United finally parted ways.

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ "Ipswich's '78 FA Cup-winning team" (BBC Sport)
  3. ^ Rob Bishop / Frank Holt: Aston Villa - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby, 2010, ISBN 978-1-85983-805-1 , pp. 498 ff .
  4. ^ Matthews, Tony: Birmingham City - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby, 2010, ISBN 978-1-85983-853-2 , pp. 406 ff .
  5. ↑ Rothman's Football Yearbook 1990-91, p. 914
  6. ^ "Carver leaves Newcastle" (BBC Sport)
personal data
SURNAME Geddis, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlisle