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Best 1-11 you've seen for your team

Shaka
Murts
Shorey
Curly
Superman
Blakey (Sorry Paul !!)
Siddy
The greatest footballer you never saw
Dixon
Webb
Siggy

Subs:
Doyler
Trev
USA
Ingi
Gilksey
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Wonder who will be the first Hibee with George Best's name up?
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Doubtful. As bad as they are/have been while Best played for them he was pished up and a spent force.

Best played at Sheilfield Park in a cup 1/4 final in 1980 for the Hibees, I was at the game but as a 45 year old I can't remember much bar a crush barrier collapsing causing fans to spill onto the pitch however my old man was involved with BRFC at the time and Best was subbed at half time due to a dreadful, half pissed, 1st half performance.

After the game Hibs gaffer Eddie Turnbull couldny find Georgie boy but my old man directed him to the local boozer the Angel Inn where Best was sat goozling and the bus picked him up there!:lol:
 
Mark Bosnich

Mark Delaney / Gareth Southgate / Paul McGrath / Steve Staunton

David Platt / Paul Merson / Gareth Barry / Ian Taylor

Subs - Nigel Spink / Olof Mellberg / James Milner / Gordon Cowans / Juan Pablo Angel /

Dean Saunders / Dwight Yorke

Manager Big Ron Atkinson
 
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c1973 said:
Like I said, not an easy one to pick. Kanchelskis was fantastic, but I'd have Coop and Laudrup before him. :)
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Laudrup was a great player, one of them players who looked like they had a long body and shortish legs, with a low centre of gravity. Great player though.:thup:

Was Kanchelskis not the player he was at United and to a point Everton. He was frightening when he was at United, although obviously in a fantastic team.
 
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Gk - Reina (his first 3 years)

RB - Veggard Heggem - much underrated full back, had to cover the whole of the right side, as Mcmanaman had licence to roam in a 3-5-2 and mainly picked the other wing. Pace, good tackler, trickery going forward (Just edges out Rob Jones).
CB - Hansen - fantastic ball playing, great reader of the game,pacy as well
CB - Lawrenson - Lightening quick, wiry strong, best tackler I've seen (terrible pundit)
LB - Nicol - mainly played right back, but a great goalscoring FB on either wing


CM - Gerrard - best all round midfielder I've ever seen
CM - Souness - ran a game on auto-pilot, captain, leader, goalscorer, hardman,dirty sod when he needed to be
CM - Barnes - quick, strong, skilful, goalscoring winger, also played as a great centre midfielder when older

CF - In the hole - Suarez 2014 POTY
CF - Rush - fantastic goalscorer, at all levels of the club game (especially v the blues)
CF - Torres - first 2-3 years form

Subs

Clemence
Carra - For playing anywhere along the back line
Emlyn Hughes - Steven Gerrard of his day - again a captain, LB, CB, CM or wherever else required.
Mascherano - great "little ratter" who was a great screen for the defence
Billy Liddell - great Scottish international who could play up front or on either wings, the team were called "Liddellpool" for 20 years whilst he was playing - for my grandad.
Dalglish - amazing footballer
Fowler - great goalscorer
 
Liverbirdie said:
Gk - Reina (his first 3 years)

RB - Veggard Heggem - much underrated full back, had to cover the whole of the right side, as Mcmanaman had licence to roam in a 3-5-2 and mainly picked the other wing. Pace, good tackler, trickery going forward (Just edges out Rob Jones).
CB - Hansen - fantastic ball playing, great reader of the game,pacy as well
CB - Lawrenson - Lightening quick, wiry strong, best tackler I've seen (terrible pundit)
LB - Nicol - mainly played right back, but a great goalscoring FB on either wing


CM - Gerrard - best all round midfielder I've ever seen
CM - Souness - ran a game on auto-pilot, captain, leader, goalscorer, hardman,dirty sod when he needed to be
CM - Barnes - quick, strong, skilful, goalscoring winger, also played as a great centre midfielder when older

CF - In the hole - Suarez 2014 POTY
CF - Rush - fantastic goalscorer, at all levels of the club game (especially v the blues)
CF - Torres - first 2-3 years form

Subs

Clemence
Carra - For playing anywhere along the back line
Emlyn Hughes - Steven Gerrard of his day - again a captain, LB, CB, CM or wherever else required.
Mascherano - great "little ratter" who was a great screen for the defence
Billy Liddell - great Scottish international who could play up front or on either wings, the team were called "Liddellpool" for 20 years whilst he was playing - for my grandad.
Dalglish - amazing footballer
Fowler - great goalscorer
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Like this,surprised Owen didn't make it. Love the bit about Lawrenson as a pundit.
When you watch the current Torres you can't believe he's been mentioned with the other players you've chosen.
 
Pin-seeker said:
Like this,surprised Owen didn't make it. Love the bit about Lawrenson as a pundit.
When you watch the current Torres you can't believe he's been mentioned with the other players you've chosen.
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Ive tried to not let favourite player overcome better player. Owen was brilliant, but in a 1v1 would back Fowler, Owen also didn't score many from outside the box, whereas Fowler scored all types of goals (even in an ordinaryish side).

Torres proves that someone can become a bad player overnight. Out of Fowler/Rush/Owen and even to a point Suarez - at his best Torres was the better all round player. In his Anfield pomp he was strong, pacy,skilful and very good in the air - a great leader of the line. he hardly moaned for the first two seasons, just dusted himself down and got on with it.

Once he started moaning to refs all the time (at LFC) and letting CB's get to him, he'd started to go slightly downhill. 3 seasons without a decent rest also done for him, chelsea just finished him off.

Surprised you let me have the cannibal........:ears:
 
Liverbirdie said:
Ive tried to not let favourite player overcome better player. Owen was brilliant, but in a 1v1 would back Fowler, Owen also didn't score many from outside the box, whereas Fowler scored all types of goals (even in an ordinaryish side).

Torres proves that someone can become a bad player overnight. Out of Fowler/Rush/Owen and even to a point Suarez - at his best Torres was the better all round player. In his Anfield pomp he was strong, pacy,skilful and very good in the air - a great leader of the line. he hardly moaned for the first two seasons, just dusted himself down and got on with it.

Once he started moaning to refs all the time (at LFC) and letting CB's get to him, he'd started to go slightly downhill. 3 seasons without a decent rest also done for him, chelsea just finished him off.

Surprised you let me have the cannibal........:ears:
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Haha no Suarez is class as a player.just lacks class as a person.
 
Reminder that I've only been around since 94
GK: Van Der Sar
RB: Gary Neville
CB: Rio (pains me)
CB: Vidic
LB: Dennis Irwin
RM: Ronaldo (even though I was never a fan)
CM: Roy Keane (absolute leader)
CM: Scholes (duh)
LM: Giggs (like there's been another LM playing there in past 20 years)
ST: Van Nistelrooy (best goal scorer I've seen play)
ST: RVP (2nd best goal scorer I've seen)

Subs:
GK: De Gea
Defender: Wes Brown (the assist for Ronaldo's CL final header)
Defender: Gabriel Heinze (nasty piece of work)
Midfielder: Becks
Forward: Solskjaer (obvious Barcelona reference)
Forward: Henrik Larsson (short time at the club but one of my favourite players)
Forward: Danny Welbeck (my love for him knows no bounds)
 
Doon frae Troon said:
The Famous Five up front + Ronnie Simpson, Pat Stanton, and........ and.......and.....Peter Marinello.......yea you could be right!
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Peter Marinello... "The next George Best"... For off pitch activities, maybe, but on the pitch never... Dream start, scored on his debut for Arsenal, but that was about it... Was with us for the double but hardly made the team...
 
Annti Niemi
Walter Kidd
Arhtur Mann
Eddie Thomsom
Steven Pressley
Craig Levein
Thomas Flogel
Roald Jensen
Donald Ford
John Robertson
Bobby Prentice
Subs
Jim Cruikshank
Rene Moller
Stephane Adam
Tommy Murray
Jim Jefferies

If I was old enough to have seen them play then Dave Mackay and Alex Young would be the first names on the sheet.
 
I can just remember MacKay and Young.

In the days when shorts had pockets I can remember him blowing his nose on a hankie. Not seen much these days.
Jenson was a great winger., forgot about him.
 
Liverbirdie said:
Gk - Reina (his first 3 years)

RB - Veggard Heggem - much underrated full back, had to cover the whole of the right side, as Mcmanaman had licence to roam in a 3-5-2 and mainly picked the other wing. Pace, good tackler, trickery going forward (Just edges out Rob Jones).
CB - Hansen - fantastic ball playing, great reader of the game,pacy as well
CB - Lawrenson - Lightening quick, wiry strong, best tackler I've seen (terrible pundit)
LB - Nicol - mainly played right back, but a great goalscoring FB on either wing


CM - Gerrard - best all round midfielder I've ever seen
CM - Souness - ran a game on auto-pilot, captain, leader, goalscorer, hardman,dirty sod when he needed to be
CM - Barnes - quick, strong, skilful, goalscoring winger, also played as a great centre midfielder when older

CF - In the hole - Suarez 2014 POTY
CF - Rush - fantastic goalscorer, at all levels of the club game (especially v the blues)
CF - Torres - first 2-3 years form

Subs

Clemence
Carra - For playing anywhere along the back line
Emlyn Hughes - Steven Gerrard of his day - again a captain, LB, CB, CM or wherever else required.
Mascherano - great "little ratter" who was a great screen for the defence
Billy Liddell - great Scottish international who could play up front or on either wings, the team were called "Liddellpool" for 20 years whilst he was playing - for my grandad.
Dalglish - amazing footballer
Fowler - great goalscorer
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Pretty much 100% agree with this! What a team that'd be.
 
Tell you what, there are some pretty decent teams here. Even the Jambos have mentioned some good players, Antti Niemi was a fantastic keeper,pity no one mentioned Jim McFadzean (my old PE teacher). Any team would be happy with Henrik Larson too (a goal machine). Those Liverpool teams look pretty tasty as well (especially Souness) ;) Ronaldo, nuff said really.

One thing that is quite pleasing is that although there are plenty foreign guys in the mix there is still a good amount of home grown talent on display, even Scots!! (Cooper, Dalglish, Souness). Maybe we produce better players on this island than we sometimes get credit for.


Still think my picks would come out on top mind you. ;) lol
 
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