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[The Prophet]

Incredible self own.

 

[toon25]

Random question...do players see these flashing advertising boards on the side of the pitch?

[Guest]

7 hours ago, toon25 said:

Random question...do players see these flashing advertising boards on the side of the pitch?

 

 

 

 

 

[joeyt]

Was thinking if you were to create a 5 a side team of former managers we must be up there with having the best team? 

 

Ardilles

Gullit

Dalglish

Keegan

Shearer 

 

Subs: Bruce, J.Charlton

 

 

I'm struggling to think of any other team in the UK who have had better footballers as managers. 

 

Imagine the likes of Barcelona and Ajax would have good ones

[Geordie Ahmed]

Souness too

 

Barca would probably be Cruyff, Pep, Xavi, Rijkaard and Koeman. On the bench you could have Luis Enrique. 

[Froggy]

Remon

Ancelotti

Zidane

Heynckes

Di Stefano

 

Bit top heavy.

 

 

[joeyt]

5 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

Souness too

 

Barca would probably be Cruyff, Pep, Xavi, Rijkaard and Koeman. On the bench you could have Luis Enrique. 

 

Forgot about Souness. We've had some great players

[bigfella]

Expand it to eleven a side and you have a cracking team:

 

McFaul 

Roeder 

Charlton 

Hughton 

Robson 

Souness 

Gullit 

Ardiles

Keegan 

Shearer 

Dalglish 

 

Manager: Joe Harvey.

[Guest]

That team if all in their prime... damn.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

These boards do my head in, and I would have hated them back in my playing days. 

[kingxlnc]

It's a shame they weren't all good managers

[joeyt]

8 minutes ago, bigfella said:

Expand it to eleven a side and you have a cracking team:

 

McFaul 

Roeder 

Charlton 

Hughton 

Robson 

Souness 

Gullit 

Ardiles

Keegan 

Shearer 

Dalglish 

 

Manager: Joe Harvey.

 

Bruce was a really good player wasn't he? 

 

Don't know much about Hughton as a player but feel Bruce was better?

[bigfella]

58 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

Bruce was a really good player wasn't he? 

 

Don't know much about Hughton as a player but feel Bruce was better?

 

If Steve Bruce had been as good as Bobby Moore (which he wasn't), he'd still not get in my team, due to my perfectly rational hatred of that fat waste of skin.

Hughton was a pretty decent player, like.

 

 

Edited April 29, 2024 by bigfella

[Doctor Zaius]

Terry Mac unlucky to miss out with his 3 European cups 

[joeyt]

2 minutes ago, Doctor Zaius said:

Terry Mac unlucky to miss out with his 3 European cups 

 

Don't think he managed us?

 

He can be assistant to the regional manager

[bigfella]

Terry Mac only had one game as caretaker manager for us. 

And who would you leave out of that midfield? 

[Doctor Zaius]

1 minute ago, joeyt said:

 

Don't think he managed us?

 

He can be assistant to the regional manager

 

One game as a caretaker in 96/97 after Keegan flounced, would have him in on a technicality if we weren't already stacked in midfield. 

[Kid Icarus]

Stan Seymour, Joe Harvey or Joe Kinnear ahead of Roeder, no?

 

 

Edited April 29, 2024 by Kid Icarus

[Guest]

TIL that John Carver is the name of some stupid American historical figure or something. So I was mildly amused while watching the horror movie Thanksgiving where the antagonist was wearinga  John Carver mask (sadly not the face of THE John Carver).

[bigfella]

26 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

Stan Seymour, Joe Harvey or Joe Kinnear ahead of Roeder, no?

 

 

 

 

Stan Seymour was a forward and although a legendary figure at the club, he's not getting in ahead of Keegan, Shearer and Dalglish.

Joe Harvey was again, not a defender, more a left sided midfielder, could have played as a modern wing back, I suppose.

Kinnear is a good shout actually, he played for a decent Spurs side who won things.

[LFEE]

 

[Pixelphish]

3 minutes ago, LFEE said:

https://x.com/ryandilks1/status/1784889778980163785?s=61

God I love this energy.

[Kid Icarus]

26 minutes ago, bigfella said:

 

Stan Seymour was a forward and although a legendary figure at the club, he's not getting in ahead of Keegan, Shearer and Dalglish.

Joe Harvey was again, not a defender, more a left sided midfielder, could have played as a modern wing back, I suppose.

Kinnear is a good shout actually, he played for a decent Spurs side who won things.

 

I don't know anything about them tbf, but Seymour and Harvey were down as defenders on Wiki and their honours are pretty impressive. I suppose positions change over the years. 

[Doctor Zaius]

Did enjoy Stokes time in the PL with their unique style of hoofball

[The College Dropout]

On 26/04/2024 at 17:12, Optimistic Nut said:

Saying that, surely Haaland should be on it.

 

Edit: it's 7 years old.

 

 

 

Kane might have taken one of the late 20's as well

 

On 27/04/2024 at 09:13, Dr.Spaceman said:

Shearer's consistency was off the charts, never thought it would be matched until Kane and Haaland came along.

 

Would be interesting to see how many either Kane or Haaland would have got playing against some of the knackers in the 90's or the many elite centre backs we seemed to have in the PL in the early to mid 00's.

 

I reckon someone like a prime Chris Samba would be playing Champions League these days rather than fucking about with the likes of Blackburn.

 

 

 

I think generally less goals were scored back in the day.

 

The game is so different today it's crazy. Like I genuinely think VDV might struggle like crazy against a late 90s 4-4-2, big man, little man combo for awhile. But could Martin Keown play for Pep or Klopp? Could he fuck.

 

Defenders are way better footballers these days. Probably not as good as defenders. Someone like Rudiger would be king in any era (tbf so would VDV). It's what I like about the Arsenal defenders as well.