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whats your  all time swindon 11 ?  :)

Without thinking much about it: Swindon Town 1992/93 season squad + Plus making room for Shearer and Fjortoft!

The problem with this type of discussion is we only know the players we have seen, and that means only Reg can talk about how good Maurice Owen was.

If it's an all time XI then I think a place has to be found for Harry Morris and Harold Fleming, neither of whom I saw play.

isnt there one we all voted on and was stickied at the top of one of the forum. I think the original incarnation of sonic youth did it

All time team is indeed a toughy. If however I had to pick a whole team which I actually saw play together, that would be easy. It would be the 1990 Ardiles Play Off side:

1. Digby
2. Kerslake
3. Bodin
4. McLoughlin
5. Calderwood
6. Gittens
7. Jones
8. Shearer
9. White
10. McLaren
11. Foley

Subs: Hockaday, Simpson

Can't believe you did not pick yourself in the team

I didn't play in that particular team though. I came along a couple of years later ;)

                          Digby

Thomas    Calderwood    Harland    Bodin
                         Hoddle
              Moncur            McLoughlin   
   Walters                                      Rogers
                        Fjortoft

Subs:  Downsborough, Culverhouse, McHale, Moss, Shearer, Mayes

What part of 11 don't you understand?

So much hate :)

wot about micky hazzard, he was fucking superb ;)

I thought XI was Latin for "squad"

went round in circles, but superb circles

Liking that team.

I will go with what i have seen

Digby
Kerslake(first time)
Bodin
Calderwood
Taylor
Hoddle
Hazard
Horlock
Fjortoft
Shearer

and my wildcard?


Charlie Austin

not that im old enough but surely any all time town team must include mr. rogers........ :hmmm:

DRS did'nt see him Scott.........as he states ;)

Are you playing 4-3-3 with Charlie included or are you missing a player? Cox was/is a better player than Austin!

What about Paul Rideout

what about paul hunt

                             Digby

              Gittins    Lorenzo   Calderwood
Thomas                                             Bodin
                           Kamara
              Moncur                 Hoddle
                    Shearer   Fjortoft

Can I pick Elton John? Probably the best performance i've seen at the county ground.

I'm in a bizarre situation where, although I picked watched a game in the premier and I was more than aware of the team during that time, I never really got into football until I could get there on the backs of friends parents'. My own parents never gave a shit.

I sometimes wonder if my football loving (for what it is - posting on message boards and not going to games), could have been different if I'd been lucky enough to have a football loving mother or father. On the reverse view, It does mean I've been a fan (up and down, sideways and rubbish) on my own back from a young age, but then less emotional investment and guilt from not going to games.

My 16th and 17th birthday presents were season tickets, and I'm not from a family where you get big birthday presents. I think I saved up to pay for some of my 16th.

I think that bothers me now, in that I don't see football as that important. Apart from really deep down. I'll bee honest here, it hurts when we lose, but I haven't been able to justify tickets for years. And, if I'm honest, games are never that enjoyable anymore. Do you have to like football games to be a Swindon Fan?

The all time eleven (on which I'm distracting my self) is a strange ask.

I think it's more interesting if you ignore careers and base it on one off appearances.

In which case I'll put forward:

Frank Talia (Charton vs Swindon. feb/mar ish 99/00)

more to follow  am really really durnk

(RB) Manatee Fireworks

(LB) Firework 'Maldini' Manatee

(CB) Shaun 'Manatee' Taylor

(CB) reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss

From what i've seen..


Lucas,
Sheehan, Gurney!!, Cuthbert, Sean O'Hanlon
Milner, Miglioranzi, Douglas, Howard
Cox, Parkin


Keeper is a bit of a bad area for me!, and Andy Gurney is just to good!

All opinions Dell isn't it.In my opinion Charlie has better work rate better in the air better touch,the only thing he isn't better is long range goals

I was thinking about this the other day. Much as I love Charlie I have to say Cox was better.

O'Hanlon?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

at right back...

Going on Crispys limited years - the best right back we've had is probably Big Kev.

Digby.
Trollope, Gittens, Taylor, Ramsey.
Rogers, Kamara, McHale, Moss.
Shearer, Mayes.


Subs Jimmy Allan, Calderwood, Bamber, Hazard, Foley, Tom Jones, Bodin.

Fraser Digby
Colin Calderwood – Shaun Taylor – David Kerslake – Paul Bodin
Kevin Horlock – Ray McHale – John Moncur -
Don Rogers – Jan Fjortoft – Charlie Austin

Bench: Dave Syrett – Chris Kamara – John Gittens

Digby

Trollope
Taylor
Calderwood
Bodin

Walters
Moncur
Kamara
Ndah

Rogers
Austin

Downsborough

Trollope
Taylor
Calderwood
Bodin

Hoddle
McLoughlin
Horlock

Rogers
Fjortoft
White

Thats based on my 22 years plus video footage i've seen and to be honest i'm not even 100% set on that

plus it's also a bit of a cheat picking two left backs as the full backs, but others have done it, therefore i shall too.

Richard McKinney
Sean O’Hanlon
Mauro Almeida
David Duke
Juan Cobain
Colin Heath
Nicky Nicolau
Patrick Collins
Darren Dykes
Jamie Slabber
Petr Mikolanda

No Shaun Close?

Didnt realise kurts brother played for us?

Best Team Since season relegated from the premiership
Digby
Bodin
Taylor
Greer
Amankwaah

Howard
Horlock
Douglas
Walters

Cox
Austin

Worst Team
Glass
Heisleberg?
Elkins
Ruddock
Cobian

Duke
Mchugh
Howe
Andy Williams

Griffin
Opara

Amankwaah the best right back we've had in the last 16 years? I've not been watching us that long, but I find that very hard to believe

i can only remember kerslake (second spell) cobian, mark robinson , o'hanlon, gerrard, lapham, ok then maybe minge was a better player but i only just remembered him care to add anymore?

Amankwaah, you having a laugh?

Also we've had alot worse midfielders than Andy Williams

name a better right back then the only other one was minge in the last 16years, funny seeing people disagreeing but not adding a name to support it

name a worse left winger in the last 16 years apart from AOB

Ian Culverhouse

he was good yes but i dont think he was as good going forward as manky is but he was better defensivly

Robbo, Culverhouse, Darras all better than Amankwaah..

Worse midfielders- Mark Robertson, James Williams, Darren Dykes, Sebastian Ruster, David Stroud,

What's a defenders main priority? Clues in the name

never saw darren dykes play and james williams played cb/cm not left wing cant remember ruster and never saw stroud play .

robbo was a shite right back biggest waste of money we have wasted i only saw darras play one season and i was 7 so i cant remember. this team is based on the players i have seen play

oh right so every full back jobs are just to defend i think a better full back would be one that can do both like manky

No it should be their strongest attribute in my opinion

If we have an attacking full back we always moan they dont defend enough. If we have a very defensive full back we moan they dont get forward enough.

purely based on players i've seen in the flesh donning the shirt.

                               digby

kerslake       calderwood      taylor          bodin

                               hoddle


            foley            kamara         barnes

                   shearer           fjortoft

bench.
No keeper worthy
hazard
white
gittens
moncur
parkin

But Culverhouse always played in middle for us.  Had he played much at rb, then, I'd agree. 


Ruster looked alright against Boston (?) as I recall.

Hardly made an impact did he. 'bring on the frenchman' chant was the best thing about him

Absolutely.  I'm sure that after the Boston (?) game his old French club started asking for cash, UEFA found in their favour so we got rid.

Anyone agree that Nicky 'Buzzer' Summerbee is worth a shout?

at full back? i never saw him play here when he was young. only once when he came back for the 1 game a few seasons ago

He's in my team.

Left Back

eh?

Based on players I saw with my own eyes.....

                             J Allen
Kerslake       Calderwood      Taylor          Ford
Moss            Hoddle            Kamara        Barnes
                   Mayes           Fjortoft

Subs

Digby
Hazard
Gittens
Rowland
Parkin
Summerbee
Stroud

Plus loads more of fringe quality players far too numerous to mention.

Should have Paul Allen in goal  :wink:

Why not take a different twist on this debate. Rather than picking players from the teams over the years why not choose the best Swindon Team as a whole from a season but you can only pick players that played in that season. For example would the 1989/90 Ardiles Team be a better team than the Hoddle 1992/1993 team. Would these teams have been better than the 1993/94 team and then where does the 1968/69 or 1969/70 teams with Rogers and all compare.

For me in my time watching the town it would be the 1989/90 team

Digby, Kerslake, Bodin, Gittens, Calderwood, McLaren, Tom Jones, Foley, McLoughlin, Shearer & White

I reckon my memory must be shit as last seasons team was the best I can remember seeing. I watched the Leicester play off final again recently and thought we were terrible in comparison to our best performance from last season.