Your best Eleven in a Red shirt

[Prodigal Dragon]

-----------------------------------Dave Gaskell

Mickey Evans------Gareth Davis------John Roberts----------Alan Dwyer


Bobby Shinton----Mel Sutton--------Mickey Thomas------Arfon Griffiths


-------------------Dixie McNeil-------Graham Whittle


Manager: John Neal


More Recently:


--------------------------------Ben Foster

Curtis Obeng-------Brian Carey-----Dennis Lawrence------Andy Holt

Carlos Edwards-----Scott Green---Darren Ferguson---Paul Edwards

----------------------Lee Trundle-------Juan Ugarte

Manager: Denis Smith

[Funny_Old_Game]

Originally Posted by bowler

Just pick the 1977/78 team nobody else comes close

You’d have to say at least 8 or 9 of that team should be in anyone’s all time XI, it’s unquestionable.

[Danny Boy]

3-4-3

Marriott

Carey
Lawrence
Humes

Carlos
Fergie
Hughes
Holt

Connolly
Morrell
Trundle

[RobboRed1]

Niedzweicki
Obeng
Dwyer
May
Creighton
Fox
Ferguson
Sutton
Shinton
McNeil
Bennett

[Welsh Kiwi]

Ben Foster.

Joey Jones
John Roberts.
Eddie May
Alan Dwyer

Bobby Shinton
Arfon Griffiths
Mickey Thomas

Dixie McNeil
Billy Ashcroft
Graham Whittle

Subs from, Karl Connolly, Steve Fox, Gary Bennett, Darren Fergusson, Lee Trundle, Carlos Edwards, Mel Sutton, Gareth Owen, Bryan Hughes, Dai Davies, Peter Ward, Tommy Bamford (as I never saw him play!)

[Funny_Old_Game]

What about most supremely talented player who was here for a sustained period of time?

Shinton a great flair player but was never top flight material.

Bryan Hughes played most of his career in the second tier.

Joey won the European Cup and the league title.

Surely you’d struggle to look past Mickey Thomas to be honest. He went straight from here and played in the top flight for 3 seasons for Man United as a regular starter, it would be unheard of these days.

[Hometown Unicorn]

Originally Posted by Funny_Old_Game

What about most supremely talented player who was here for a sustained period of time?

Shinton a great flair player but was never top flight material.

Bryan Hughes played most of his career in the second tier.

Joey won the European Cup and the league title.

Surely you’d struggle to look past Mickey Thomas to be honest. He went straight from here and played in the top flight for 3 seasons for Man United as a regular starter, it would be unheard of these days.

In my lifetime, Carlos. He was obviously lower Premier League/Championship quality and stuck with us for years. Fergie was Championship quality from what I remember of him too.

[Funny_Old_Game]

Originally Posted by Hometown Unicorn

In my lifetime, Carlos. He was obviously lower Premier League/Championship quality and stuck with us for years. Fergie was Championship quality from what I remember of him too.

Those 2 (and Trundle, but more briefly) are the best players I’ve seen here in the past 20 years for sure. Ferguson ran the team on field for Flynn and then Smith. Smith’s legendary 3-5-2 was set up to maximise all 3 of those keys players and get them in their perfect position. Ferguson in a 2 man midfield would never have worked for him to play as brilliantly as he did that season IMO.

[Poethlyn]

Here goes, I couldn't pick one team so have gone for 2 and still left some great players out

1st Eleven

Ben Foster

Carlos Edwards
Gareth Davies
John Roberts
Joey Jones

Mickey Thomas
Joe Allen
Arfon Griffiths

Bobby Shinton
Dixie Mc
David Smallman


2nd Eleven

Mike Hooper

Mickey Evans
Eddie May
Brian Carey
Alan Dwyer

Steve Fox
Mel Sutton
David Giles

Mickey Vinter
Billy Ashcroft
Graham Whittle