Squad Building Challenge

[James]

Here is one to fill the post-season void that I saw elsewhere.

 

The challenge is to build the best quality NUFC squad using past and present players, allocated to squad numbers 1-25.

 

Rules:

 

- the players allocated to each squad number must have worn that squad number for NUFC

- the players allocated is only as good as they were when they played with that squad number

- you can leave one squad number blank to pick a wildcard squad number e.g 30 instead of 22.

- you can also mark any player as U21 if they played for us aged 21 or younger, in return you get another wildcard 26+ number

- an under 21 player must have had that number at that age and is graded accordingly at that age

- you can have as many U21 wildcards as you want but be careful of being down scored for over saturation of the squad.

- I will score you efforts and pick a winner.

 

good luck!

[Checko]

Hmmm, I'll have a look at this later.

 

Squad number history if it helps people:

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/newcastle-united/rueckennummern/verein/762

[tom1988]

1. Dave Beasant (GK)
2. Ciaran Clark
3. Curtis Good
4. Nicky Butt
5. Sol Campbell
6. Claudio Cacapa
7. Albert Luque
8. Stephane Guivarc'h
9. Shola Ameobi
10. Stephen Ireland
11. Patrick Kluivert
12. Jamal Lewis
13. Zurab Khisinashvili
14. Jack Colback
15. Facundo Ferreyra
16. Jeff Hendrick
17. Romain Amalfitano
18. Luuk de Jong
19. Odysseas Vlachodimos (GK) / Xisco / Titus Bramble
20. Gael Bigirimana
21. Diego Gavilan
22. Sylvain Marveaux
23. Antonio Barreca
24. Henri Saivet
25. Lloyd Kelly

Am I doing it right?

[Collage]

1. Shay Given

2. Kieran Trippier

3. José Enrique
4. David Batty
5. Fabian Schär
6. Jamaal Lascelles
7. Robert Lee

8. Sandro Tonali
9. Alan Shearer
10. Hatem Ben Arfa
11. Faustino Asprilla
12. Martin Dubravka
13. Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa
14. David Ginola
15. Nolberto Solano
16. James Milner
17. Craig Bellamy
18. Jonas Gutierrez
19. Steve Watson
20. Lewis Hall

21. Tino Livramento
22. Nick Pope
23. Jacob Murphy
24. Cheick Tiote
25. -

27. Jonathan Woodgate

Tried to really build a squad and not just list the best/my favourite players. Lots of considerations...Beardsley or Tonali? Isak or Ginola? Les Ferdinand? And so on and so on...

[Belfast Boy]

1. Shay Given

2. Bill McCracken

3. John Beresford

4. Yohan Cabaye

5. Fabian Schar

6. Bobby Moncur

7. Kevin Keegan

8. Peter Beardsley

9. Alan Shearer

10. Tony Green

11. Chris Waddle

12. Paul Gascoigne

13. Steve Harper

14. David Ginola

15. Darren Peacock

16. Ryan Taylor

17. Nikodemos Papavasiliou

18. Jonas Gutierrez

19. Steve Watson

20. Lewis Hall

21. Tino Livramento

22. David Batty

23. Aaron Hughes

24. Chieck Tiote

25. Phillipe Albert

39. Bruno Guimaraes

[Ben]

My son got me this program for fathers day, I never realised what a cracking squad Dalglish had.

 

 

 

We got beat 1 : 2

[Dancing Brave]

51 minutes ago, Ben said:

My son got me this program for fathers day, I never realised what a cracking squad Dalglish had.

 

 

 

We got beat 1 : 2

yeah right

[TheBrownBottle]

21 hours ago, Ben said:

My son got me this program for fathers day, I never realised what a cracking squad Dalglish had.

 

 

 

We got beat 1 : 2

One of Shearer’s two league goals that season …

 

It was a really, really poor side - most of the ‘names’ were well past their best. 
 

Brian Pinas remains the greatest name to have played for the club, mind. 

[TheBrownBottle]

1 Shay Given

2 Barry Venison

3 John Beresford

4 Yohan Cabaye

5 Fabian Schar

6 Steve Howey 

7 Robert Lee

8 Peter Beardsley

9 Alan Shearer

10 Les Ferdinand

11 Gary Speed

12 Dietmar Hamann

13 Callum Wilson

14 Alexander Isak

15 Kieran Trippier

16 James Milner 

17 Craig Bellamy

18 Keith Gillespie

19 Demba Ba 

20 Lee Clark

21 Tino Livramento

22 David Batty

23 Jacob Murphy

24 Nobby Solano

25 Andros Townsend

26 Robbie Elliott

27 Jonathan Woodgate (poor Phillippe Albert)

28 Joe Willock

29 Lee Bowyer

30 Aaron Hughes

31 Sylvain Marveaux

32 Laurent Robert

33 Dan Burn

34 Nikos Dabizas

35 Olivier Bernard

36 Sean Longstaff (wonder if Ivan Toney would’ve made this number his own if he’d hung around)

37 Hatem Ben Arfa

38 Andy Griffin (stiff competition from Fumaca …)

39 Bruno Guimaraes

40 Tim Krul

I’m stopping at 40

[TheBrownBottle]

23 hours ago, Collage said:

1. Shay Given

2. Kieran Trippier

3. José Enrique
4. David Batty
5. Fabian Schär
6. Jamaal Lascelles
7. Robert Lee

8. Sandro Tonali
9. Alan Shearer
10. Hatem Ben Arfa
11. Faustino Asprilla
12. Martin Dubravka
13. Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa
14. David Ginola
15. Nolberto Solano
16. James Milner
17. Craig Bellamy
18. Jonas Gutierrez
19. Steve Watson
20. Lewis Hall

21. Tino Livramento
22. Nick Pope
23. Jacob Murphy
24. Cheick Tiote
25. -

27. Jonathan Woodgate

Tried to really build a squad and not just list the best/my favourite players. Lots of considerations...Beardsley or Tonali? Isak or Ginola? Les Ferdinand? And so on and so on...

You could have Ferdinand and HBA - HBA wore 37 when he joined us on loan

[Collage]

8 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

You could have Ferdinand and HBA - HBA wore 37 when he joined us on loan

Yeah I know but I wanted/needed a CB i.e Woody or Albert as the wild card #27. Figured Schär is pretty much the modern Albert so went for Woody