[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Mark Reid, John Humphrey
Nitpicking I know and Reidy was a fantastic player for us, but I've never forgiven him for smacking that penalty against the post v Palace in '89! So one (major) error in about 250 games is OK I suppose.
Christian Bolaños, played a blinder in pre-season against New Zealand in 2006. Meant to be with us on a year long loan from Deportivo Saprissa. However, he failed to gain a work permit and the deal fell through. Top player he would have been for us. Bolaños now plays for FC Copenhagen.
Humphrey was the perfect full back. Athletic, strong, pacy, solid and completely no-frills. Just what you want in a full back.
Luke young and power made great careers from being no-frills too. Rock steady eddie is the way forward every time
I'd go with Andy Peake - other than the attempted shots on goal (those in row z duck!) he was a consistently accurate passer of the ball. In the St. Andrews play-off final vs Leeds he cut them to shreds and dominated their midfield and set up one of Peter Shirtliff's goals. We remember the game for Shirtliff's goals - but Andy Peake produced a masterclass that day and in intimidating circumstances - not just the Leeds fans, but quite a few of their players put the boot in and left it there when going for tackles.
Colin Pates was one of ours, bought from Chelsea and sold to Arsenal.
I thought Simon Webster, probably bought to replace Pates, was one of our most consistent defenders. worked well with the more mistake prone but hard-working Stuart Sweaty Balmer.
Blackforest is right....Charlton's passing against Leeds at St Andrews was superb and Peake had a fine match. I can remember thinking I hadn't seen us look so good is possession but couldn't work out how we created so few clear openings.
As an aside...if we had been playing in front of decent home crowds every week, there was no reason why that team (and the one that evolved from it) couldn't have finished halfway up Division One. We had a brilliant keeper (Bolder) really good defenders (Reid, Humphrey, Shirtliff, Miller, Pates, Caton) really good midfielders (Peake, Walsh, Mackenzie) skillful, exciting young players (Lee, Stuart, Mortimer and Bennett) and excellent forwards (Melrose, Crooks and Williams). But the savage injuries to Walsh really harmed the team, just when it looked like we were starting to break through to the next level. Of course, we didn't have the finances to to enlarge the squad, so there were times when it looked very thin but these were good players, who tried to entertain and were well managed.
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Nitpicking I know and Reidy was a fantastic player for us, but I've never forgiven him for smacking that penalty against the post v Palace in '89! So one (major) error in about 250 games is OK I suppose.
His knee back to kylie was total quality... avoided the foul for the pass back... genius... against southampton I think?
Bit of an obscure one, but Steve Gatting didn't make too many mistakes.
Bloody delusional the lot of ya.
Luke young and power made great careers from being no-frills too. Rock steady eddie is the way forward every time
The equivalent of 'Row Z' in pre East Stand days ....?
Good to see you again at Exeter, mate!
Colin Walsh - another accurate passer/crosser.
I thought Simon Webster, probably bought to replace Pates, was one of our most consistent defenders. worked well with the more mistake prone but hard-working Stuart Sweaty Balmer.
As an aside...if we had been playing in front of decent home crowds every week, there was no reason why that team (and the one that evolved from it) couldn't have finished halfway up Division One. We had a brilliant keeper (Bolder) really good defenders (Reid, Humphrey, Shirtliff, Miller, Pates, Caton) really good midfielders (Peake, Walsh, Mackenzie) skillful, exciting young players (Lee, Stuart, Mortimer and Bennett) and excellent forwards (Melrose, Crooks and Williams). But the savage injuries to Walsh really harmed the team, just when it looked like we were starting to break through to the next level. Of course, we didn't have the finances to to enlarge the squad, so there were times when it looked very thin but these were good players, who tried to entertain and were well managed.