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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 1, 2015 11:37:36 GMT 1
Gazza is probably easily the best English player ever, shame he couldn't stay off the sauce. Favourite Town players? Ummm Lillis,Gorre and Craig Maskell who scored shed load of goals in what was a relatively average Town team. There are a few loan players who made pretty impressive contributions and will always be remembered, Peter Butler, massive and contribution and if he had been available for the play offs, we'd have won promotion that season. Peter Ndlovu, fantastic player and another massive contribution, again, if he had stayed, we would have stayed up and finally close your ears Marcus mate.....Jermaine Beckford, whatever anyone says his goals went a long way to keeping us up, he scored some vital goals, brilliant goals, the two goals down at Wolves probably kept us up on their own. Sorry but I can't be having that .. Potentially maybe but not in terms of what he did on the football field Surely Gazza did more on the pitch than TC (who I liked a lot - but was probably a yard behind Gazza in all aspects of the game)?
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Post by 3Pipe on Oct 1, 2015 11:55:27 GMT 1
Kindon & Rivelino.
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Post by swissterrier on Oct 1, 2015 12:09:05 GMT 1
Maybe its rose tinted glasses, but Buxton's teams I recall being a joy to behold.
Shearer and Russell also spring to mind.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Oct 1, 2015 12:10:53 GMT 1
I said tc was my fav player growing up I never said he was best player ever
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 1, 2015 12:27:53 GMT 1
I said tc was my fav player growing up I never said he was best player ever Fair enough. My Tony Currie memory is of a game under floodlights at the old Brammel Lane. They had that silvery haired Woodward as well. Terrific players. Like Frank Worthington I think their flamboyance cost them both quite a few England caps.
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Post by mykindatown on Oct 1, 2015 13:28:04 GMT 1
FW
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Post by terriersyndrome on Oct 1, 2015 13:29:01 GMT 1
Non town- Le Tiss. town- Gorre.
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Post by Macjinx on Oct 1, 2015 13:31:19 GMT 1
I think me favourite team was in 1965-66, I had so many favourites in what was a fantastic season..if not the best I've seen.. Oldfield McNab Atkins Nicholson Coddington Meagan McHale Massie Leighton Quigley O'Grady Gilliver Dinsdale Weston We missed out on promotion to league one by 3 points after only winning 2 of our last 10 games, and ended up 4th. The last game we had 25,000..we also had 25,000 against Bolton, 31,000 against Man City, and the average that season was 18,000. We also had almost 50,000 in Leeds rd for a cup tie against Wednesday.. we had the meanest defence in the league...I think I'd name Nicholson, Meagan, Oldfield and McNab as my favourites..I was 16 at the time... Despite the disappointment at the end, it was a brilliant season and we got loads of publicity, esp in the Daily Express 'cos the sports writer was a Town fan !! One of my favourite seasons too even though we missed promotion. I would be 3 or 4 years younger than your good self and would walk from Newsome for each game, and loved arriving at the top of the kilner bank, where you could look down and see what the crowd was likely to be and start feeling the atmosphere. Tony Leighton was my hero in those days but I think it would have to be "Big" (and that was the name the girls I worked with gave him) Frank for me as my all time favourite, although (as I have mentioned in another thread somewhere) his was a bloody awful autobiography.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Oct 1, 2015 13:51:26 GMT 1
Although i dont think i have mentioned it on here as a kid i also supported Spurs. I sometimes even hitch-hiked to London to see them. My first love was Peters but then Glenn broke the mould. Hoddle was peerless, one of the greatest English talents of all time. Enjoy.... Hoddle and Waddle were great to watch...shame Waddle kept on playing past his best as it fades our memory, although I'm all for footballers keeping going as long as they possibly can and dropping down the leagues etc. Typically you're not playing football at any level for longer than you did, so you've got to make the most of it and extend the time when you can call yourself a "footballer". There don't seem to be too many of those players nowadays who can magic space and time in the centre circle, and hit a perfectly measured pass 40 yards in to someone who because of the quality of the delivery is able to receive it comfortably rather than be in a losing % battle with two defenders. I suppose Beckham could do it at his peak, but the latter proponents of this art, like Gerrard etc, seem messy by comparison. Probably its rose tinting, and throw in that defenders are decent footballers and athletes now, whereas 30 years ago (and 10 years ago) they were just the players who weren't good enough to play in midfield or up front. Think I preferred a Hoddle to a Keegan or Dalglish, there was something ever so, " I'm a better footballer than you lot, and you know it, but I'm not going to rub your faces in it and lord it over you, I'm just going to ensure I give my team the best possible chance of winning" about him. Plus, in the playing fields, I WAS Glenn Hoddle. Although I was David Harvey too!! You cant hit 40 yard passes now, they are read and swept up. No time or space. Hoddle was also pretty good at receiving long passes as he had such great control even with his thigh or chest. Anyway David Harvey? Jocko and L**ds...wash your mouth out with carbolic!
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 1, 2015 14:01:27 GMT 1
Hoddle and Waddle were great to watch...shame Waddle kept on playing past his best as it fades our memory, although I'm all for footballers keeping going as long as they possibly can and dropping down the leagues etc. Typically you're not playing football at any level for longer than you did, so you've got to make the most of it and extend the time when you can call yourself a "footballer". There don't seem to be too many of those players nowadays who can magic space and time in the centre circle, and hit a perfectly measured pass 40 yards in to someone who because of the quality of the delivery is able to receive it comfortably rather than be in a losing % battle with two defenders. I suppose Beckham could do it at his peak, but the latter proponents of this art, like Gerrard etc, seem messy by comparison. Probably its rose tinting, and throw in that defenders are decent footballers and athletes now, whereas 30 years ago (and 10 years ago) they were just the players who weren't good enough to play in midfield or up front. Think I preferred a Hoddle to a Keegan or Dalglish, there was something ever so, " I'm a better footballer than you lot, and you know it, but I'm not going to rub your faces in it and lord it over you, I'm just going to ensure I give my team the best possible chance of winning" about him. Plus, in the playing fields, I WAS Glenn Hoddle. Although I was David Harvey too!! You cant hit 40 yard passes now, they are read and swept up. No time or space. Hoddle was also pretty good at receiving long passes as he had such great control even with his thigh or chest. Anyway David Harvey? Jocko and L**ds...wash your mouth out with carbolic! I though he was a decent England manager as well apart from the wacky stuff. One of the better pundits also. Trying to remember if he ever played against Town. Probably not.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Oct 1, 2015 14:04:19 GMT 1
You cant hit 40 yard passes now, they are read and swept up. No time or space. Hoddle was also pretty good at receiving long passes as he had such great control even with his thigh or chest. Anyway David Harvey? Jocko and L**ds...wash your mouth out with carbolic! I though he was a decent England manager as well apart from the wacky stuff. One of the better pundits also. Trying to remember if he ever played against Town. Probably not. As a flair player i sense his frustration when working as a pundit...he just wants to show them. I feel sure he never played against Town. Early in his career i went especially to watch him in a friendly at Dartford. He was very special.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2015 14:11:31 GMT 1
Hoddle and Waddle were great to watch...shame Waddle kept on playing past his best as it fades our memory, although I'm all for footballers keeping going as long as they possibly can and dropping down the leagues etc. Typically you're not playing football at any level for longer than you did, so you've got to make the most of it and extend the time when you can call yourself a "footballer". There don't seem to be too many of those players nowadays who can magic space and time in the centre circle, and hit a perfectly measured pass 40 yards in to someone who because of the quality of the delivery is able to receive it comfortably rather than be in a losing % battle with two defenders. I suppose Beckham could do it at his peak, but the latter proponents of this art, like Gerrard etc, seem messy by comparison. Probably its rose tinting, and throw in that defenders are decent footballers and athletes now, whereas 30 years ago (and 10 years ago) they were just the players who weren't good enough to play in midfield or up front. Think I preferred a Hoddle to a Keegan or Dalglish, there was something ever so, " I'm a better footballer than you lot, and you know it, but I'm not going to rub your faces in it and lord it over you, I'm just going to ensure I give my team the best possible chance of winning" about him. Plus, in the playing fields, I WAS Glenn Hoddle. Although I was David Harvey too!! You cant hit 40 yard passes now, they are read and swept up. No time or space. Hoddle was also pretty good at receiving long passes as he had such great control even with his thigh or chest. Anyway David Harvey? Jocko and L**ds...wash your mouth out with carbolic! I "supported" Leeds as a kid! Banned??!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2015 14:25:52 GMT 1
Got to be Kindon, almost felt like cheating at times he was so much better than his opponents in the lower divisions.
Non town, the biggest impression I remember as a child was Arie Haan and the ridiculous long range goals he seemed to score every game for Holland in the 70s
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Post by Torquayterrier on Oct 1, 2015 14:32:30 GMT 1
You could almost smell the fear coming off the opposing keeper as Kindon's huge pale thighs came thundering at them with the ball at his feet or chasing down an errant backpass. It was the era of fairly short shorts which probably added to the effect.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Oct 1, 2015 14:45:57 GMT 1
I though he was a decent England manager as well apart from the wacky stuff. One of the better pundits also. Trying to remember if he ever played against Town. Probably not. As a flair player i sense his frustration when working as a pundit...he just wants to show them. I feel sure he never played against Town. Early in his career i went especially to watch him in a friendly at Dartford. He was very special. Didn't he play against us when player manager of swindon ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2015 15:07:39 GMT 1
This written by a Swindon fan...perfectly describes my memories of him with England and on Match of The Day with Spurs....
"Hoddle was our sweeper. He conducted the orchestra. I wish I could remember as much about it as my Dad clearly can. He reminisces about Hoddle’s repeated raking diagonal balls out to our overlapping full-backs, Bodin and Summerbee. Somehow, this duo were invisible to everyone on the pitch but Hoddle, who ensured that their adventurous runs were not wasted journeys. I’m glad to remember elements of Hoddle’s genius, though. It was a privilege to be able to watch the former Spurs and England maestro pull the strings for Swindon in our tin pot ground against the likes of Southend, Grimsby and Oxford. He was in his mid-thirties but he didn’t need pace; he had vision and a first touch. He had a casual gait that belied his instinctive awareness and exquisite technique, not to mention a drop of the shoulder for the ages"
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Post by Sio on Oct 1, 2015 15:18:57 GMT 1
Non Town - Gazza. Town - Stewart. Surprised you've opted for a striker tbh, knowing your dislike for attacking football
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 1, 2015 15:37:36 GMT 1
I though he was a decent England manager as well apart from the wacky stuff. One of the better pundits also. Trying to remember if he ever played against Town. Probably not. As a flair player i sense his frustration when working as a pundit...he just wants to show them. I feel sure he never played against Town. Early in his career i went especially to watch him in a friendly at Dartford. He was very special. One of the few teams I've never seen Town play against - Spurs. Keep hoping we'll get drawn against them in the cup and I'll get to White Heart Lane before it shuts.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2015 15:37:41 GMT 1
Non Town - Gazza. Town - Stewart. Surprised you've opted for a striker tbh, knowing your dislike for attacking football Imagine saying that.
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Post by doggusdave on Oct 1, 2015 15:37:51 GMT 1
You could almost smell the fear coming off the opposing keeper as Kindon's huge pale thighs came thundering at them with the ball at his feet or chasing down an errant backpass. It was the era of fairly short shorts which probably added to the effect. A tactic in those days was if Town kicked off 1st half, the ball was hoisted high into the opposing penalty box, and as their keeper leapt to catch the ball, Kindon smashed into him, flattening him. It was bizarre how few bookings this generated, and the result was a keeper spent the rest of the game petrified of high balls. In the modern game, many of those challenges would invoke a red card.
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Post by detox on Oct 1, 2015 15:47:25 GMT 1
I think me favourite team was in 1965-66, I had so many favourites in what was a fantastic season..if not the best I've seen.. Oldfield McNab Atkins Nicholson Coddington Meagan McHale Massie Leighton Quigley O'Grady Gilliver Dinsdale Weston We missed out on promotion to league one by 3 points after only winning 2 of our last 10 games, and ended up 4th. The last game we had 25,000..we also had 25,000 against Bolton, 31,000 against Man City, and the average that season was 18,000. We also had almost 50,000 in Leeds rd for a cup tie against Wednesday.. we had the meanest defence in the league...I think I'd name Nicholson, Meagan, Oldfield and McNab as my favourites..I was 16 at the time... Despite the disappointment at the end, it was a brilliant season and we got loads of publicity, esp in the Daily Express 'cos the sports writer was a Town fan !! One of my favourite seasons too even though we missed promotion. I would be 3 or 4 years younger than your good self and would walk from Newsome for each game, and loved arriving at the top of the kilner bank, where you could look down and see what the crowd was likely to be and start feeling the atmosphere. Tony Leighton was my hero in those days but I think it would have to be "Big" (and that was the name the girls I worked with gave him) Frank for me as my all time favourite, although (as I have mentioned in another thread somewhere) his was a bloody awful autobiography. ..and of course that summer we had the World Cup to enjoy ...
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Post by gledholt terrier on Oct 1, 2015 17:54:45 GMT 1
As a flair player i sense his frustration when working as a pundit...he just wants to show them. I feel sure he never played against Town. Early in his career i went especially to watch him in a friendly at Dartford. He was very special. One of the few teams I've never seen Town play against - Spurs. Keep hoping we'll get drawn against them in the cup and I'll get to White Heart Lane before it shuts. Where were you in '71! (4-1 defeat with Gilzean murdering us but Town played pretty well)
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Post by ACW on Oct 1, 2015 18:38:34 GMT 1
Non town was a toss up between Gazza and Zidane Town, I always thought Gorre and Wijnhard were good lekkers Town: Gorre, Stewart and Marsden Non Town: Zidane, Gazza and Paul Scholes
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Post by ACW on Oct 1, 2015 18:44:54 GMT 1
Although i dont think i have mentioned it on here as a kid i also supported Spurs. I sometimes even hitch-hiked to London to see them. My first love was Peters but then Glenn broke the mould. Hoddle was peerless, one of the greatest English talents of all time. Enjoy.... Hoddle and Waddle were great to watch...shame Waddle kept on playing past his best as it fades our memory, although I'm all for footballers keeping going as long as they possibly can and dropping down the leagues etc. Typically you're not playing football at any level for longer than you did, so you've got to make the most of it and extend the time when you can call yourself a "footballer". There don't seem to be too many of those players nowadays who can magic space and time in the centre circle, and hit a perfectly measured pass 40 yards in to someone who because of the quality of the delivery is able to receive it comfortably rather than be in a losing % battle with two defenders. I suppose Beckham could do it at his peak, but the latter proponents of this art, like Gerrard etc, seem messy by comparison. Probably its rose tinting, and throw in that defenders are decent footballers and athletes now, whereas 30 years ago (and 10 years ago) they were just the players who weren't good enough to play in midfield or up front. Think I preferred a Hoddle to a Keegan or Dalglish, there was something ever so, " I'm a better footballer than you lot, and you know it, but I'm not going to rub your faces in it and lord it over you, I'm just going to ensure I give my team the best possible chance of winning" about him. Plus, in the playing fields, I WAS Glenn Hoddle. Although I was David Harvey too!! "Hoddle and Waddle were great to watch." Not on Top of the Pops they weren't! Diamond Lights! Waddle looked like he wanted the world to end, but Hoddle was bloody loving it!
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 1, 2015 18:52:05 GMT 1
One of the few teams I've never seen Town play against - Spurs. Keep hoping we'll get drawn against them in the cup and I'll get to White Heart Lane before it shuts. Where were you in '71! (4-1 defeat with Gilzean murdering us but Town played pretty well) Now you mention it I do remember seeing Gilzean and Martin Chivers at our place. Maybe that was the season before. I missed a lot of games in those two seasons because I was playing myself on Saturday afternoon.
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