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Someone I know says Supermac at the time was like no other player at the time, he says whenever he got n the ball, you expected him to beat his man and score. To this day despite Shearer, Cole, Sire Les, Beardsley, Ben Arfa, he says no player has ever excited him as much as Supermac.

 

Macdonald had loads of power and that was seen when he scored against Burnley in the FA Cup and was getting dragged back by his shirt, or at least it was an attempt to drag him back but it made no difference.  He just kept on going as if nothing was happening and still scored.

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Someone I know says Supermac at the time was like no other player at the time, he says whenever he got n the ball, you expected him to beat his man and score. To this day despite Shearer, Cole, Sire Les, Beardsley, Ben Arfa, he says no player has ever excited him as much as Supermac.

 

Macdonald had loads of power and that was seen when he scored against Burnley in the FA Cup and was getting dragged back by his shirt, or at least it was an attempt to drag him back but it made no difference.  He just kept on going as if nothing was happening and still scored.

 

Would have loved to have seen him play.

 

RE Cole, he was probably the most clinical player when it came to scoring goals, for us anyway. I remember Sheff Wed away, Cole had been marked out the game all day by the excellent Des Walker and then bang, in injury time I think, he scored the winner. Walker looked absolutely devastated and I remember KK saying afterwards that even a player like Walker could do nothing to stop Cole.

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wasnt supermacs game about running onto dare I say- Long balls? remember being taken to the leazes end to see him as a kid but limited memories of what I saw- mostly of the ground and crowds tbh.

 

Long balls are OK when you've got people to make the most of them.  And no, his game wasn't about running onto them, it was just one of his strengths.

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I've not seen as much of NUFC as you Mick and with it as many forwards but I'd agree with that, easily.

 

What makes Sir Les all the more special is he was a late starter if you like and even had a spell in Turkey at one point.

 

Who would be your 3rd Mick?

 

Me its Shearer, Sir Les, Cole and then.... maybe by some distance, Ba. Although for a few games Duncan Ferguson looked capable of being on another level.

 

I'd probably put Malcolm Macdonald in third and Andy Cole 4th.

 

Les Ferdinand had virtually everything and the only thing Shearer had over him was that he didn't need as many shots to get his goals.  Ferdinand looked like he would need 3, 4 or 5 shots to get a goal and Shearer looked like he needed 2 shots at most to get a goal early on before his injuries.

 

I think Shearer was mentally tougher as well which HTT already mentioned. But as a side I thought we looked better with Beardsley behind Ferdinand than with Shearer and Ferdinand together. I know those two looked great on paper but as a pair I never thought they were quite right, I liked the balance of the team we had the year before when we should have won the title.

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Fowler was horrendously overrated.  Hated the natural finisher cliche.

 

Sorry but that is absolute bollocks.  I hated the little scally t*** but he was lethal in front of goal

Don't get me wrong - he was a good player. But the hype that went along with him... Just no. Of that era of strikers, he wouldn't make my top 3.

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Fowler wouldn't get a sniff of a game today due to his type being almost finished at the top level.

 

Don't agree with that, like. At his best he was fantastically clinical and instinctive. Always a place for strikers when they're that good.

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I wouldn't have him in the top 3 strikers of that time either, but not because he was anything other than brilliant. The strikers that were around then and the amount of good English strikers around at that time was ridiculous. All of these players were at or around their peaks, at around the same time.

 

Shearer,

Sheringham,

Wright,

Fowler,

Ferdinand,

Cole,

Owen,

Le Tissier.

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I wouldn't have him in the top 3 strikers of that time either, but not because he was anything other than brilliant. The strikers that were around then and the amount of good English strikers around at that time was ridiculous. All of these players were at or around their peaks, at around the same time.

 

Shearer,

Sheringham,

Wright,

Fowler,

Ferdinand,

Cole,

Owen,

Le Tissier.

 

Was amazed to see in that Sporcle thing the other day that Le Tissier scored 25 Premier League goals one year, that's phenomenal for someone who wasn't an out-and-out forward.

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I wouldn't have him in the top 3 strikers of that time either, but not because he was anything other than brilliant. The strikers that were around then and the amount of good English strikers around at that time was ridiculous. All of these players were at or around their peaks, at around the same time.

 

Shearer,

Sheringham,

Wright,

Fowler,

Ferdinand,

Cole,

Owen,

Le Tissier.

 

Was amazed to see in that Sporcle thing the other day that Le Tissier scored 25 Premier League goals one year, that's phenomenal for someone who wasn't an out-and-out forward.

 

Aye, I really liked him aside from when he was playing against us, or since then when he's been on telly. People say that his type aren't good enough for this league anymore, but it's bullshit. He was lazy, but in this age he'd pretty much be a deeper lying Berbatov.

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Fowler wouldn't get a sniff of a game today due to his type being almost finished at the top level.

 

Don't agree with that, like. At his best he was fantastically clinical and instinctive. Always a place for strikers when they're that good.

 

He was but because of his lack of pace or height and the way the game/systems have moved on I just don't think he'd be afforded the chance given that he'd almost certainly have to play uptop alone.

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Aye, I really liked him aside from when he was playing against us, or since then when he's been on telly. People say that his type aren't good enough for this league anymore, but it's bullshit. He was lazy, but in this age he'd pretty much be a deeper lying Berbatov.

 

Eh? Naturally gifted ballplayers aren't good enough for the PL, what crack is this that is being smoked?

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Aye, I really liked him aside from when he was playing against us, or since then when he's been on telly. People say that his type aren't good enough for this league anymore, but it's bullshit. He was lazy, but in this age he'd pretty much be a deeper lying Berbatov.

 

Eh? Naturally gifted ballplayers aren't good enough for the PL, what crack is this that is being smoked?

 

No no, I mean his laziness and perceived lack of fitness. I seem to remember HTT going on about how he wouldn't be anything in the PL now. I could be (and usually am) wrong, though.

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