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Best 1-11 you've seen for your team

This is cruel for people whos football team have recently turned to ****!!

Seem some cracking crowd favourites at Bolton but I will judge it off ability.

GK Jussi Jasskelainen

RB Bruno Ngotty
CB Gary Cahill
CB Gudni Bergsson
LB Ricardo Gardner

CM Ivan Campo
CM Jay jay Okocha
CM Youri Djorkaeff

ST Eidur Gudjohnson
ST Daniel Sturridge
ST Nicolas Anelka

Sweet lord I wish we had a team like that now :(
 
As a Doncaster Rovers fan things are looking bleak for us right now. But as a way of cheering myself up and even though armchair fans of big teams won't have heard of most of them, here is my ultimate DRFC team.

Neil Sullivan

Sean McDaid - Rob Jones(c) - Matt Mills - James Husband

James Coppinger - Richie Wellens - Brian Stock - Michael McIndoe

Billy Sharp - Brian Deane

Subs
Gk Ross Turnbull
Paul Green
Rufus Brevett
James Hayter
Colin Douglas

Manager - SOD

RTID
 
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Sadly never saw the '66 guys play in the flesh, so here goes :

Phil Parkes

Ray Stuart
Julian Dicks
Alvin Martin
Tony Gale

Sir Trev
Mohamed Diame
Alan Devonshire
Mark Ward

Andy Carrol
Tony Cottee


As we've only had a couple of good seasons since I was old enough to go and watch them, the team is heavily biased towards the 85/86 nearly-won-the-title team with a couple of handy young-uns to fill in the gaps.
 
pendodave said:
Sadly never saw the '66 guys play in the flesh, so here goes :

Phil Parkes

Ray Stuart
Julian Dicks
Alvin Martin
Tony Gale

Sir Trev
Mohamed Diame
Alan Devonshire
Mark Ward

Andy Carrol
Tony Cottee


As we've only had a couple of good seasons since I was old enough to go and watch them, the team is heavily biased towards the 85/86 nearly-won-the-title team with a couple of handy young-uns to fill in the gaps.
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Mark Ward above Di canio? Have you heard what mark ward has been up to in recent years - very naughty boy.
 
Ray Clemence

Steve Perryman
Graham Roberts
Richard Gough
Gareth Bale

David Ginola
Glenn Hoddle
Osvaldo Ardiles
Chris Waddle

Jurgen Klinsmann
Teddy Sheringham

Bench: Robinson, Dawson, Villa, Modric, Berbatov, Clive Allen, Defoe

It's been a rough trot being Spurs since the eighties.........
 
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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Davie Cooper was out of this world, seriously under rated by everyone outside Scotland.A terrible loss taken too soon.Legend and a gent I'm told.

Doon frae Troon said:
Wonder who will be the first Hibee with George Best's name up?
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Not I, although it's interesting to see the mighty cabbage being mentioned in dispatches on this thread.

Goram

John Blackley
Patrick 'god' Stanton
Franck Sauzee
Alex Cropley

Mickey Weir
Russell Latapy
John Collins
Michael ONeill

Stevie Archigol
Ooh Ah Jacksona


I'm too young to have seen the greatest forward line this island has ever seen, but ANYONE who saw Gordon Smith play will say he's was the single finest player they had the pleasure to watch.Head and shoulders above Reilly,Johnstone,Ormond and Turnbull. Also Joe Baker, ask any Forest or Arsenal fan of an age and they'll tell you stories about Baker and how he was much better than Law...the story about him getting capped for England and the taxi driver calling the police about the 'crazy jock' wanting to get to the English Team hotel is funny.

Hibs have a capacity to produce sublime talents who self destruct also...the recent duo of Riordan and O'Connor, Shaedler committing suicide,Marinello,even the great Bobby Johnstone.

Honorable mention to Leigh Griffiths, a wee mental magdalene boy but one of the purest strikers of a football I've ever seen.
 
Liverbirdie said:
Mark Ward above Di canio? Have you heard what mark ward has been up to in recent years - very naughty boy.
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What with him and McAvennie we're not looking to clean!

Tough call on DiC, but there's more to a good team than individually brilliant players. Ward got up and down the right wing fantastically well, delivered a great ball in and had an eye for goal. He was also pleasingly abrasive which is to be admired in an attacking midfielder.

re. your earlier point, maybe we should have a crims team. Or at least 'under investigation'. Could have a number of past and presents in there plus a certain 'wheeler/dealer' manager of recent vintage.
 
Qwerty said:
1 Ashton
2 Taylor
3 Chadwick
4 Jacobs
5 Neville
6 Roca
7 Cotterall
8 Platt
9 Wright
10 Patterson
11 Norton

#FCUM#
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How did you feel about your home town taking the title off FCUM mate? :D

You been watching them much? Quite a few lads I know go watching Chroley as well as Bolton.
 
Fyldewhite said:
Jussi Jaaskelainen

Phil Brown
Alan Stubbs
Paul Jones
Gudni Bergsson

Peter Reid
Jason McAteer
Jay Jay Okocha
Alan Thompson

Nicolas Anelka
Eidur Gudjohnsen
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Birchy said:
This is cruel for people whos football team have recently turned to ****!!

Seem some cracking crowd favourites at Bolton but I will judge it off ability.

GK Jussi Jasskelainen

RB Bruno Ngotty
CB Gary Cahill
CB Gudni Bergsson
LB Ricardo Gardner

CM Ivan Campo
CM Jay jay Okocha
CM Youri Djorkaeff

ST Eidur Gudjohnson
ST Daniel Sturridge
ST Nicolas Anelka

Sweet lord I wish we had a team like that now :(
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To continue the Bolton theme...

Branagan

N'Gotty Bergsson Hierro Stubbs

Djorkaef Okocha Curcic McAteer

McGinlay Walker

Subs (7):

F Laville
A Thompson
I Campo
N Anelka
Steve Thompson
Gary Speed RIP
Peter Beardsley

Manager: Bruce Rioch
 
Wildrover said:
As a Doncaster Rovers fan things are looking bleak for us right now. But as a way of cheering myself up and even though armchair fans of big teams won't have heard of most of them, here is my ultimate DRFC team.

Neil Sullivan

Sean McDaid - Rob Jones(c) - Matt Mills - James Husband

James Coppinger - Richie Wellens - Brian Stock - Michael McIndoe

Billy Sharp - Brian Deane

Subs
Gk Ross Turnbull
Paul Green
Rufus Brevett
James Hayter
Colin Douglas

Manager - SOD

RTID
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Colin Douglas. Stayed up the road from me when I was a nipper.

He had a chance of making it at Celtic, unfortunately he enjoyed a pint and the ladies so they moved him on. Story is that a local worthy who done a bit of scouting for Doncaster made a call to Parkhead bringing it to their attention, then notified the Dons he might be available. Sneaky bugger!!! :rofl:

Ironically 'Champagne' Charlie Nicholas came through the ranks instead! Tbf, Charlie was probably a wee bit better though.
 
c1973 said:
Being a Rangers fan this won't be easy.....granted, I'll need to go back a few years for my picks!!

GK - Andy Goram (the goalie)

RB - Sandy Jardine
LB - Arthur Numan
CB - Terry Butcher
CB - Richard Gough

LW - Davy Cooper
CM - Graeme Souness
CM - Paul Gascoine
RM - Brian Laudrup

FWD - Mark Hateley
FWD - Ally McCoist

SUBS

GK- Stefan Klos
CB - Oleg kutznetzov (for the one game he was fit!! Lol)
CB / DM - Frank de Boer
RM / FWD - Alexei Mikaelichenko
CM - Ian Durrant
FWD - Marco Negri
FWD / CB - Derek Johnstone

Had to leave out a couple of world cup winners in that team and Ian Ferguson. but I reckon they could give most teams a run for their money. You'll note there's no current players in my team though. :(

Edit: That Souness must have been a helluva player, in 3 teams already! Lol
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I'm no fan of the Rangers but that's a hell of a team. And whoever asked about Kanchelskis vs Cooper/Laudrup - Kanchelskis wasn't even in the same ballpark as the other two.

As for mine:

GK: Theo Snelders
LB: Davie Robertson
CB: Alex McLeish
CB: Willie Miller
RB: Stewart McKimmie
RM: Gordon Strachan
CM: John McMaster
CM: Jim Bett
LM: Peter Weir
CF: Eric Black
CF: Hans Gillhaus
 
Cech

Ferrer
Desailly
Terry
Cole

Gullit
Lampard
Zola

Hasselbaink
Drogba
Vialli

Based on players I've seen live, tried to get some from he 80'sbut they don't compare and I never got to see the likes of Bonetti, Harris, Osgood except on TV occasionally.
 
1. John Swannell.
2. Ray Sergeant.
3. Ray Eaton.
4. Billy Davies.
5. Dave Reid.
6. Dennis Malley.
7. Mickey Cook.
8. Billy Salkeld.
9. Chris Kelly.
10. John "Beastie" Baker.
11. Johnny "Ferret" Doyle.

Shame they lost 3-1 to Altrincham in the 1977/1978 FA Trophy Final.
 
c1973 said:
Colin Douglas. Stayed up the road from me when I was a nipper.

He had a chance of making it at Celtic, unfortunately he enjoyed a pint and the ladies so they moved him on. Story is that a local worthy who done a bit of scouting for Doncaster made a call to Parkhead bringing it to their attention, then notified the Dons he might be available. Sneaky bugger!!! :rofl:

Ironically 'Champagne' Charlie Nicholas came through the ranks instead! Tbf, Charlie was probably a wee bit better though.
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He must have been doing something right, he was down at the Keepmoat a few weeks ago and apart from now having grey hair he didn't look a lot different.
 
Julian Speroni

Barry Smith, Jim Duffy, Zurab Khizanishvili, Tosh McKinlay

Charlie Cooke, Gavin Rae, Georgi Nemzadze, Temuri Ketsbia

Claudio Caniggia, Alan Gilzean,

Subs: Javier Artero, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Tommy Coyne, Nacho Novo, Ivano Bonetti, Rab' Douglas, Keith Wright, Jocky Scott, Gordon Wallace, John Duncan

Echo the Hibee's comment about Gordon Smith - I've spoken to lots of guys who played in the 50s and 60s against and alongside Gordon - universally they say he was the best player ever to play in Scotland
 
davidy233 said:
Echo the Hibee's comment about Gordon Smith - I've spoken to lots of guys who played in the 50s and 60s against and alongside Gordon - universally they say he was the best player ever to play in Scotland
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I used to know him when he moved to North Berwick. He had a wee cottage overlooking the 8th fairway.
Great player and real gentleman.
Watched him play towards the end of his career.
His best season was late on at Dundee when he supplied the crosses that made Alan Gilzean bald. I think he was in his late 30's then. He used to train with weighted boots on the NB sand dunes

I have also played golf a few times with fellow Famous Fiver Lawrie Riley who passed away last year. He was a decent golfer.
 
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