Definitely Mendonca for Curbs. Kinsella and Johnny Robinson were both brilliant but they'd be dogging it out in a mid table team (like the one we have now) if we didn't have super Clive up top. I've never seen a player turn an entire club around like Mendonca did. Suddenly we had a genuinely lethal centre forward. That televised game against Bradford sticks in the mind as the moment I thought 'we've got someone special here'. It made everyone believe we could go for promotion.
Definitely Mendonca for Curbs. Kinsella and Johnny Robinson were both brilliant but they'd be dogging it out in a mid table team (like the one we have now) if we didn't have super Clive up top. I've never seen a player turn an entire club around like Mendonca did. Suddenly we had a genuinely lethal centre forward. That televised game against Bradford sticks in the mind as the moment I thought 'we've got someone special here'. It made everyone believe we could go for promotion.
Oxford at home for me. He'd been very average (remember it was a huge fee by our standards) but he then scored sn absolutely blinding goal and never looked back .
Curbishley ... Mark Kinsella (Could have gone for Mendonca but he was a proven goalscorer in Division One whilst in some ways Kinsella was a risk coming from the Lower-Leagues)
Dowie ... Scott Carson (Was our Player of the Year that season after all)
Pardew ... Alex Song (Maybe we'd have signed him had we stayed up, another Francis Coquelin type player)
Parkinson ... Johnnie Jackson (Only Kinsella has been a better Captain in the last 15-years)
Powell ... Yann Kermorgant (Free Transfer, who's career had pretty much crashed in England after Leicester)
Peeters ... Johann Berg Gudmundsson (For obvious reasons and who looks to be in the top three for Player of the Year this season)
Luzon ... Allou Diarra (Not many to choose from but when one of his signings played in a World Cup Final for France...)
Tried to make a team: Seed - Bartram Lawrence- Humphrys Curbs- SCP Raynor- Norman Smith Trotter - Marvin Hinton Pardew- Reid Parkinson - Jackson Gritt/Curbs- Robinson Craggs - Simonsen Stokoe - Firmani Foley - Hales Bit light weight in midfield! Any suggestions
Tried to make a team: Seed - Bartram Lawrence- Humphrys Curbs- SCP Raynor- Norman Smith Trotter - Marvin Hinton Pardew- Reid Parkinson - Jackson Gritt/Curbs- Keith Jones Craggs - Simonsen Stokoe - Firmani Foley - Hales Bit light weight in midfield! Any suggestions.
Lennie - Humphrey Curbs - Mendonca Dowie - Souleymane Diawara - I can't go for Reid because he was injury prone and only played 16 Premier League games for us in the whole season. Diawara went on to play ion the Champions League and because of that became our most expensive defender (both purchase and sale) Pardew - Iwelumo (assuming I'm not allowed to have Alex Song) Parkinson - Jackson Powell - Kermorgant - I think BWP was signed in between Parkinson leaving and Powell starting. Riga - N/A Peeters - JBG Luzon - Diarra - by a whisker
However, if I were to be allowed to include signing youth players into the first team it would look like this:
Lennie - Rob Lee Curbs - Rufus Dowie - Souleymane Diawara Pardew - Chris Solly Parkinson - Shelvey (might have been signed by Pardew but I wanted him on the list) Powell - Kermorgant with Poyet a close second Riga - N/A Peeters - Joe Gomez (for what he will become as much as what he is now) Luzon - Diarra - by a whisker
Tried to make a team: Seed - Bartram Lawrence- Humphrys Curbs- SCP Raynor- Norman Smith Trotter - Marvin Hinton Pardew- Reid Parkinson - Jackson Gritt/Curbs- Robinson Craggs - Simonsen Stokoe - Firmani Foley - Hales Bit light weight in midfield! Any suggestions
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Kinsella and Johnny Robinson were both brilliant but they'd be dogging it out in a mid table team (like the one we have now) if we didn't have super Clive up top.
I've never seen a player turn an entire club around like Mendonca did.
Suddenly we had a genuinely lethal centre forward. That televised game against Bradford sticks in the mind as the moment I thought 'we've got someone special here'. It made everyone believe we could go for promotion.
Dowie - Reid
Reed - technically he signed Zheng Zhi. According to him anyway.
Pardew - Song (loan)
Parkinson - Jackson
Powell - Kermogant
Riga - n/a
Peeters - Gudmundsson
Luzon - Diarra - so far.
Dowie ... Scott Carson (Was our Player of the Year that season after all)
Pardew ... Alex Song (Maybe we'd have signed him had we stayed up, another Francis Coquelin type player)
Parkinson ... Johnnie Jackson (Only Kinsella has been a better Captain in the last 15-years)
Powell ... Yann Kermorgant (Free Transfer, who's career had pretty much crashed in England after Leicester)
Peeters ... Johann Berg Gudmundsson (For obvious reasons and who looks to be in the top three for Player of the Year this season)
Luzon ... Allou Diarra (Not many to choose from but when one of his signings played in a World Cup Final for France...)
Nelson -David Young
Bailey-Naylor
Mullery - Mcallister
Craggs- Simmonsen
Lawrence - Shirtliff
Curbishley - Mendonca
Dowie - A Reid
Pardew - Iwelumo
Parkinson - Jackson
Powell - Kermogant
Riga - n/a
Peeters - Vetokele
Luzon - Diarra
Seed - Bartram
Lawrence- Humphrys
Curbs- SCP
Raynor- Norman Smith
Trotter - Marvin Hinton
Pardew- Reid
Parkinson - Jackson
Gritt/Curbs- Robinson
Craggs - Simonsen
Stokoe - Firmani
Foley - Hales
Bit light weight in midfield! Any suggestions
Lennie - Humphrey
Curbs - Mendonca
Dowie - Souleymane Diawara - I can't go for Reid because he was injury prone and only played 16 Premier League games for us in the whole season. Diawara went on to play ion the Champions League and because of that became our most expensive defender (both purchase and sale)
Pardew - Iwelumo (assuming I'm not allowed to have Alex Song)
Parkinson - Jackson
Powell - Kermorgant - I think BWP was signed in between Parkinson leaving and Powell starting.
Riga - N/A
Peeters - JBG
Luzon - Diarra - by a whisker
However, if I were to be allowed to include signing youth players into the first team it would look like this:
Lennie - Rob Lee
Curbs - Rufus
Dowie - Souleymane Diawara
Pardew - Chris Solly
Parkinson - Shelvey (might have been signed by Pardew but I wanted him on the list)
Powell - Kermorgant with Poyet a close second
Riga - N/A
Peeters - Joe Gomez (for what he will become as much as what he is now)
Luzon - Diarra - by a whisker
Iweumo? FFS worst forward in red for years.