Post by tufcwewillbeback on Jul 26, 2008 8:22:20 GMT
This is a follow on from the great players thread..
tufcwewillbeback, I think for your next thread, you should ask for the best team, picking the best ever players in their starting positions, mind you I would struggle doing it, but sure Merse and many more would come up with some great teams.
I'll start one and i'll give mine. It certainly will be hard to choose so people might want to make some changes.
GK - Neville Southall
CB - Matt Elliot CB - Wes Saunders
RB - Wayne Thomas LB - John Benson (C)
CM - Alex Russell
CM - Don Mills
RW - Ron Shaw LW- Lee Sharpe
ST - Sammy Collins ST - Robin Stubbs
7 man bench
GK - Terry Addlington
- Darren Moore
- John Bond
- Tommy Mitchinson
- Colin Lee
- Jack Conley
- Steve Cooper
Notes on selection
Bond, Mitchinson, Saunders and Cooper seem to be popular with quite afew fans.
John Benson was more of a centre half but I was struggling for a left back, I thought Liam Rosenior but he did only play about 12 games for us.
Between them, Collins and Stubbs hold just about every goalscoring record for the club. Stubbs is also very popular with United fans and was infact voted our greatest ever player afew months ago in a BBC poll.
Matt Elliot was capped 18 times by Scotland though this was after he had left United.
Along with Collins, Don Mills and Ron Shaw are widely acknowledged to have been some of our greatest players in a period when the club enjoyed great success.
Southall was not young when he came here but was still Neville Southall, once the best goalkeeper in the world.
Lee Sharpe went on to play over 200 games for Manchester United. Like Sharpe, Colin Lee went on to great success after a successful spell here.
I am sure someone will find a better right back alternaive to Wayne Thomas but i could only think of him or Andrew Gurney.
Conley had a fantastic scoring record witch came close to that of Collins and Stubbs.
Addlington was the best sub GK I could come up with, some of you may have other ideas.
Darren Moore went on to become a successful premiership Centre half and despite his age, has just signed for championship side Barnsley.
Alex Russell is simply Alex Russell, no more needs to be said.
I'll start one and i'll give mine. It certainly will be hard to choose so people might want to make some changes.
GK - Neville Southall
CB - Matt Elliot CB - Wes Saunders
RB - Wayne Thomas LB - John Benson (C)
CM - Alex Russell
CM - Don Mills
RW - Ron Shaw LW- Lee Sharpe
ST - Sammy Collins ST - Robin Stubbs
7 man bench
GK - Terry Addlington
- Darren Moore
- John Bond
- Tommy Mitchinson
- Colin Lee
- Jack Conley
- Steve Cooper
Notes on selection
Bond, Mitchinson, Saunders and Cooper seem to be popular with quite afew fans.
John Benson was more of a centre half but I was struggling for a left back, I thought Liam Rosenior but he did only play about 12 games for us.
Between them, Collins and Stubbs hold just about every goalscoring record for the club. Stubbs is also very popular with United fans and was infact voted our greatest ever player afew months ago in a BBC poll.
Matt Elliot was capped 18 times by Scotland though this was after he had left United.
Along with Collins, Don Mills and Ron Shaw are widely acknowledged to have been some of our greatest players in a period when the club enjoyed great success.
Southall was not young when he came here but was still Neville Southall, once the best goalkeeper in the world.
Lee Sharpe went on to play over 200 games for Manchester United. Like Sharpe, Colin Lee went on to great success after a successful spell here.
I am sure someone will find a better right back alternaive to Wayne Thomas but i could only think of him or Andrew Gurney.
Conley had a fantastic scoring record witch came close to that of Collins and Stubbs.
Addlington was the best sub GK I could come up with, some of you may have other ideas.
Darren Moore went on to become a successful premiership Centre half and despite his age, has just signed for championship side Barnsley.
Alex Russell is simply Alex Russell, no more needs to be said.
I'll be honourable and only include players I have actually seen in the Gulls shirt and on the state of their performance during those matches....................as a 4-4-2:
