Best player from our doldrums years (1980 to roughly 2009)

[Keeper!]

Moody and possibly the softest player to ever wear our colours. When he was annoyed with a teammate on the pitch it would seemingly take him an age to get over it.

"softest player"
True but we have had our fair share of those.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Moody and possibly the softest player to ever wear our colours. When he was annoyed with a teammate on the pitch it would seemingly take him an age to get over it.

Yeah, fair.

I assume others have mentioned Distain who I always liked.

 

[Manc in London]

We can't as he was the player I was going to mention as my favourite :)

And Damarcus B but that's in part cuz he's a Yank.

Surely not! :)

I am guessing you are not going to refer to his emotional intelligence, reliance when the chips were down, team work and willingness to get stuck in :)

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Surely not! :)

I am guessing you are not going to refer to his emotional intelligence, reliance when the chips were down, team work and willingness to get stuck in :)

I played wing growing up so that's why :). I liked Bellamy a lot too but he's a "new boy" by this thread's definition. I didn't say SWP cuz I figure everyone already did.

 

[Manc in London]

I played wing growing up so that's why :). I liked Bellamy a lot too but he's a "new boy" by this thread's definition. I didn't say SWP cuz I figure everyone already did.

If it's any consolation, I would pick Petrov ahead of Rick Holden :)

 

[kingn6]

Not a chance that David James was better than Tony Coton.

He was not closet rag so that makes him better :-)

 

[Irish Blue82]

Tony coton, he saved us from a certain relegation a couple of times.

He would have saved us again if Alan Ball had played once he got fit in 95/96!

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

Ok, you lot - you've asked for it now.
Bobby Shinton, Stuart Lee.

Beat that.

Kare Ingebrigtsen? Stephen Jordan? (I know some people rated Jordan, I don't remember seeing him have a good game)

 

[I'm With Stupid]

A couple of quality loans in Van Buyten and Foe. I was so pissed off both times when we didn't take up the option to buy and instead pissed the same money it would have cost up the wall on players that were nowhere near as good.

For me, it's SWP. But I supposed technically speaking it was Anelka.

 

[kismet]

Trevor Francis and Nicolas Anelka so far ahead of anyone else we had during that period.