Your 23 man squad

[villa loyal]

Ebanks-Blake and Lee Hughes both play for my local club, Halesowen Town.

You're not even a Brummie then?

 

[El Guapo]

No Paul Furlong, Blues fans?

Funky Furlong, forgot about him.

You're not even a Brummie then?

Of course I am, real Brummies naturally gravitate to Birmingham City.

Moved to Stourbridge in 2015 after three years living in Nottingham.

 

[SoutheySWFC]

Ebanks-Blake and Lee Hughes both play for my local club, Halesowen Town.

Hope Hughes breaks his legs

 

[markwwfc1992]

Ebanks-Blake and Lee Hughes both play for my local club, Halesowen Town.

Yeah, a sad fall from grace for him. Another who never really recovered from injuries. He was unstoppable for a couple of years at this level.

 

[TomPNE94]

Yeah, a sad fall from grace for him. Another who never really recovered from injuries. He was unstoppable for a couple of years at this level.

Was gash for us in League One a few years ago

 

[El Guapo]

Hope Hughes breaks his legs

Still an obnoxious, self-centred, dislikable ginger twat even playing Non-League football.

 

[JP_LUFC]

Still an obnoxious, self-centred, dislikable ginger twat even playing Non-League football.

Horrible, horrible c***.

 

[Ciderup]

I go back a tad further than most of my fellow reds on here (1975) so here goes....

Jan Moller
John Shaw
Keith Welch

Gerry Sweeney
Gary Collier
Louis carey
Sir Geoff Merrick
Norman Hunter
Martin Scott
Shaun Taylor

Gerry Gow
Gary Shelton
Jimmy Mann
Clive Whitehead
Trevor Tainton
Brian Tinnion
Paul Hartley

Jackie Dziekanowski
Andy Cole
Paul Cheesley
Tom Ritchie
Chris Garland
Bob Taylor

There are so many more I would like to add.

 

[Doriva17]

Schwarzer
Valdes
Randolph

Ziege
Southgate
Ehiogu
Woodgate
Festa
Quedrue
Young

Mendieta
Bryan robson
Boateng
Zenden
Downing
Emerson

Juninho
Viduka
Hasselbaink
Ravanelli
Yakubu
Negredo
Boksic

 

[villa loyal]

Hasselbaink was class. Remember when Boro had Emerson, Ravanelli, and Juninho. People were all of a sudden tipping them for the league ha. The anticipation of seeing what Juninho was going to do when he got his first touch. Everyone expected him to get the ball, beat 5 players and score.

 

[QPR_Matt]

Lee Camp
Alex Smithies
Chris Day

Markus Bignot
Gino Padula
Danny Maddix
Clark Carlisle
Danny Shittu
RIchard Dunne
Clint Hill
Ryan Neilson

Martin Rowlands
Lee Cook
Marc Bircham
Gareth Ainsworth
Shawn Derry
Adel Taarabt
Alejandro Faurlin
Akos Buzsaky

Kevin Gallen
Paul Furlong
Dexter Blackstock
Charlie Austin


Barely anyone that played in the Premiership for us, as it was a pretty shit time. Basically got the team from our time in League 1 and back in the Championship. Loved those days. Didn't include any loans either. Can't really remember Trevor Sinclair though I do remember his bicycle kick.

Probably missed some obvious ones.

 

[villa loyal]

Lee Camp
Alex Smithies
Chris Day

Markus Bignot
Gino Padula
Danny Maddix
Clark Carlisle
Danny Shittu
RIchard Dunne
Clint Hill
Ryan Neilson

Martin Rowlands
Lee Cook
Marc Bircham
Gareth Ainsworth
Shawn Derry
Adel Taarabt
Alejandro Faurlin
Akos Buzsaky

Kevin Gallen
Paul Furlong
Dexter Blackstock
Charlie Austin


Barely anyone that played in the Premiership for us, as it was a pretty shit time. Basically got the team from our time in League 1 and back in the Championship. Loved those days. Didn't include any loans either. Can't really remember Trevor Sinclair though I do remember his bicycle kick.

Probably missed some obvious ones.

Too young for Les Ferdinand ?

 

[QPR_Matt]

Too young for Les Ferdinand ?

Never saw him play but he did make a short video for me to play for the wife in my grooms speech. Not sure if that should get him into my team but still pretty legendary.

 

[villa loyal]

Never saw him play but he did make a short video for me to play for the wife in my grooms speech. Not sure if that should get him into my team but still pretty legendary.

Absolutely brilliant striker. Up there with the best at the time.

 

[SF_]

GK - Pickford, Nash, Johnstone
RB - Alexander, Mears
CB - Mawene, Davis, Lucketti, St Ledger
LB - Cunningham, Davidson
CM - Gregan, Pearson, McKenna, O'Neil
W - McGeady, Sedgwick, Wallace, Lewis
ST - Fuller, Nugent, Macken, Cresswell

​

Maguire excluded due to his injuries,
Ben Davies could potentially replace St Ledger in a couple of seasons,
Browne could slot in somewhere too but not sure who he replaces.
Love Ainsworth but he only played for us below this level.

 

[SF_]

First game for me was 1976, so here it goes:
GK
Jussi Jääskeläinen
Jim McDonagh
Keith Branagan

DF
Guðni Bergsson Iceland
Mark Fish South Africa
Bruno N'Gotty France
Gary Cahill England
Fernando Hierro Spain
Tim Ream USA

MF
Jay Jay Okocha Nigeria
Gary Speed Wales
Ivan Campo Spain
El Hadji Diouf Senegal
Jason Macteer Eire
Peter Reid England
Willie Morgan Scotland
Franny Lee England
Stelios Giannakopoulos Greece

FW
Youri Djorkaeff France
Nicolas Anelka France
John McGinlay Scotland
Frank Worthington England
Daniel Sturridge England

Some squad that, Allardyce was a Don in the market for you.

 

[Jockney]

Doing mine from 1996. Seems a bit silly to include players I might have seen but can't remember. No loanees.

GK: Tony Warner, David Forde, Willy Gueret.

DF: Darren Ward, Sean Dyche, Lucas Neill, James Meredith, Matt Lawrence, Shaun Hutchinson, Jake Cooper, Mahlon Romeo, Kevin Muscat.

MF: Steven Reid, Paul Ifill, Tim Cahill, Jed Wallace, Dennis Wise, Jimmy Abdou, Alex Rae

FW: Neil Harris, Steve Claridge, Richard Sadlier, Steve Morison

Team would probs look something like this

GK: Tony Warner

RB: Lucas Neill
CB: Shaun Hutchinson
CB: Sean Dyche
LB: James Meredith

RM: Paul Ifill
CM: Dennis Wise
AM: Tim Cahill
LM: Steven Reid

FW: Steve Claridge
FW: Richard Sadlier

 

[Jockney]

Some tough choices in there - most come from our most recent years, partly because I'm 29, but also we've been a lot better of late than we had been before!

GKs:
Woijiech Szczesny
David Button
David Bentley

DFs:
Rico Henry
Jake Bidwell
James Tarkowski
Chris Mepham
Sam Sodje
Michael Turner
Maxime Colin
Moses Odubajo

MDs:
Alex Pritchard
Alan Judge
Adam Forshaw
Romaine Sawyers
Jay Tabb
Toumani Diagouraga

FWs:
Jota
Ollie Watkins
Andre Gray
DJ Campbell
Lasse Vibe
Neal Maupay


A few players narrowly miss out - lots of our current team (Dalsgaard, Canos), Ryan Woods, Scott Hogan, Andreas Bjelland, Andy Frampton, Shay Logan, Jonathan Douglas, Lloyd Owusu, Paul Smith. I'm sure I've forgotten a bunch of people as well.

No Andy Scott or Hermann Hreidarsson?

And who can forget the legend Lorenzo Pinamonte?

 

[Etienne Vermeer]

Doing mine from 1996. Seems a bit silly to include players I might have seen but can't remember. No loanees.

GK: Tony Warner, David Forde, Willy Gueret.

DF: Darren Ward, Sean Dyche, Lucas Neill, James Meredith, Matt Lawrence, Shaun Hutchinson, Jake Cooper, Mahlon Romeo, Kevin Muscat.

MF: Steven Reid, Paul Ifill, Tim Cahill, Jed Wallace, Dennis Wise, Jimmy Abdou, Alex Rae

FW: Neil Harris, Steve Claridge, Richard Sadlier, Steve Morison

Team would probs look something like this

GK: Tony Warner

RB: Lucas Neill
CB: Shaun Hutchinson
CB: Sean Dyche
LB: James Meredith

RM: Paul Ifill
CM: Dennis Wise
AM: Tim Cahill
LM: Steven Reid

FW: Steve Claridge
FW: Richard Sadlier

Dennis Wise on that list makes me twitchy.

 

[markwwfc1992]

James Meredith is the best left back you've had in the last 22 years?

 

[Bobbin']

First game for me was 1976, so here it goes:
GK
Jussi Jääskeläinen
Jim McDonagh
Keith Branagan

DF
Guðni Bergsson Iceland
Mark Fish South Africa
Bruno N'Gotty France
Gary Cahill England
Fernando Hierro Spain
Tim Ream USA

MF
Jay Jay Okocha Nigeria
Gary Speed Wales
Ivan Campo Spain
El Hadji Diouf Senegal
Jason Macteer Eire
Peter Reid England
Willie Morgan Scotland
Franny Lee England
Stelios Giannakopoulos Greece

FW
Youri Djorkaeff France
Nicolas Anelka France
John McGinlay Scotland
Frank Worthington England
Daniel Sturridge England

No room for Claus Jensen?

He would probably go into my Charlton side, magnificent footballer, which would probably look like this:

Dean Kiely
Scott Carson
Stephen Henderson

Luke Young
Danny Mills
Richard Rufus
Eddie Youds
Jorge Costa
Steve Brown
Chris Powell

Lee Bowyer
Scott Parker
Claus Jensen
Mark Kinsella
Alex Song
Alexei Smertin
Graham Stuart
Jonjo Shelvey

Clive Mendonca
Andy Hunt
Darren Bent
Paolo Di-Canio
Bradley-Wright Phillips

 

[Etienne Vermeer]

James Meredith is the best left back you've had in the last 22 years?

I mean, who would other options be? Robbie Ryan? Anton Rogan? Shane Ferguson?

I personally (because I'm just that little bit older than Jockney) would slot Ben Thatcher in at left back.

 

[Muzzle]

No room for Claus Jensen?

He would probably go into my Charlton side, magnificent footballer, which would probably look like this:

Dean Kiely
Scott Carson
Stephen Henderson

Luke Young
Danny Mills
Richard Rufus
Eddie Youds
Jorge Costa
Steve Brown
Chris Powell

Lee Bowyer
Scott Parker
Claus Jensen
Mark Kinsella
Alex Song
Alexei Smertin
Graham Stuart
Jonjo Shelvey

Clive Mendonca
Andy Hunt
Darren Bent
Paolo Di-Canio
Bradley-Wright Phillips

Difficult choice, but if you look at the midfield I picked, he just would miss out

 

[SUTSS]

Robert Green
Fraser Forster
John Ruddy

Marc Edworthy
Russell Martin
Adam Drury
Martin Olsson
Timm Klose
Malky Mackay
Craig Fleming
Grant Hanley

Gary Holt
Alex Tettey
Jonny Howson
Phil Mulryne
Nathan Redmond
Darren Huckerby
Wes Hoolahan
James Maddison

Craig Bellamy
Grant Holt
Dean Ashton
Iwan Roberts

 

[Craig]

Goalkeeper
David Watson (1992-2001)
Luke Steele (2008-2014)
Kevin Miller (1999-2002)

Defenders
Arjan de Zeeuw (1995-1999)
Darren Barnard (1997-2002)
John Stones (2011-2013)
Bobby Hassell (2004-2014)
Matty Appleby (1996-2002)
Stephen Foster (2007-2013)
Nicky Eaden (1992-2000)
Alfie Mawson (2015-2016)

Midfield
Owen Archdeacon (1989-1996)
Adam Hammill (2009-2011,2015-2018)
Clint Marcelle (1996-1999)
Brendan O'Connell (1990-1996)
Martin Bullock (1993-2001)
Jamal Campbell-Ryce (2007-2010)
Neil Redfearn (1991-1998)
Martin Devaney (2005-2011)

Forwards
Bruce Dyer (1998-2003)
Ashley Ward (1997-1998)
Craig Hignett (1998-2000)
Andy Payton (1993-1996)

 

[Jockney]

James Meredith is the best left back you've had in the last 22 years?

As Denzil said, James Meredith is the only genuinely good left-back we’ve had in that time.

 

[Jockney]

Dennis Wise on that list makes me twitchy.

Can’t really think of a more talented CM we’ve had, excluding Rae. Don’t really count Cahill as a CM.