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Clayton INCE - Walsall



The Trinidad & Tobago keeper has come a long way, literally, since being hailed as the Best Goalkeeper in the Caribbean in the late 1990s. After establishing himself at Crewe, a move to Coventry didn't work out but he's more than making up for lost time with Walsall as the Saddlers celebrate their promotion campaign.

Craig PEAD - Walsall

Craig has been one of Walsall's most consistent performers this season as he looks to get back to the level he once played with Coventry City. He is still remembered by Sky Blues' fans for the 30-yard wonder goal he scored against Wimbledon at the old Highfield Road, and it didn't take him long to become a firm favourite at the Bescot either.

Michael NELSON - Hartlepool

Having done the non-league rounds at Spennymoor and Bishop Auckland, Michael's league break came at Bury where he made 74 appearances, scoring eight goals, before returning to his native North East to sign for Hartlepool, for whom he's again performing like he did when he joined the club in 2003. A key player in Pools' record-breaking unbeaten run this season.

Christopher WESTWOOD - Walsall

Having started his career at Wolves, Chris returned to the West Midlands at the start of the 2005-2006 season after clocking up over 250 appearances for Hartlepool. He was signed by former Walsall boss Paul Merson who, having labelled Chris the best defender in the division at the time, made him club captain within days of his arrival at the Bescot.

Ritchie HUMPHREYS - Hartlepool

According to research, when Ritchie burst onto the scene with Sheffield Wednesday in the mid-90s, he was described by Dutch legend Johan Cruyff no less as 'the next Marco Van Basten'! Ritchie may not have quite hit those heights, but he's certainly highly regarded at Hartlepool for whom hes made well over 200 appearances.

Lee FRECKLINGTON - Lincoln

Having begun his footballing education at Norwich City's Academy, Lee went on to Lincoln's Centre of Excellence before making his league debut for the Imps, under former manager Keith Alexander, in the 2004-2005 season. A Republic of Ireland B international, Lee has been a mainstay in the City midfield this season, attracting interest from above.
Dean KEATES - Walsall

Midfielder Dean began his career with hometown club Walsall and was was a key member of the Saddlers' midfield in their rise to the old Division One in 1999. He moved to Hull City in 2002, and on to Kidderminster and Lincoln City before returning to Walsall in 2006. Once again he's been playing a starring role as the Saddlers hit the promotion trail once more.

Andrew MONKHOUSE - Hartlepool

Only fitting that a player called Monkhouse - 'Monkey' to his mates - should find himself playing for the 'Monkeyhangers', but that's the story for Andy, and it's been a happy one since he joined the club last year, initially on loan, because that was when Pool embarked on their record unbeaten run. What's more Andy had the pleasure of scoring the winner against his old club Swindon.

Tommy DOHERTY - Wycombe (on loan from QPR)

Northern Ireland international Tommy's career went off the boil after being farmed out on loan by QPR, initially to Yeovil, but he's back and buzzing again during his loan spell with the Chairboys, for whom he's enjoying a second spell after a break in his loan contract around Christmas. Tommy's again showing the form that brought him 33 goals in 156 appearances for Bristol City.

Izale McLEOD - Franchise

The former Derby striker, who also had a loan spell with Sheffield United, is a Dons' cult hero having scored goals all the way - more than 50 in just over 100 games - since joining the club at the start of the 2005-06 season. Already well through the 20-goal mark this term, he was recently named by the Football League as the division's Player of the Year.

Jermaine EASTER - Wycombe

Jermaine travelled around a bit - taking in spells at Stockport, Wolves, Hartlepool, Cambridge and Boston - before settling at Wycombe, although it didn't 'happen' for him straightaway. But this season hes been in sparkling goalscoring form and his partnership with the experienced Tommy Mooney is as good as anything in the division. Now a Welsh international.

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Are they having a fucking giraffe?

Fuck me, some of those players are mildly crap at best.

Team of the season? My fucking foot are they.

hahaha monkhouse  :x

No Jerel Ifil is truely shocking....

Fuck me, what a load of shite that is. The same clayton ince who was stuck on line and let lukas run right towards him when we played them at the bescot earlier in the season, is better than phil smith :?

Jermain easters only in it because he had a good bit of form at the start of the season. He's been crap recently, couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo. What about forrester, stallard etc.

what a joke

To have not one single solitary Swindon player is a fucking joke - FACT!

Seriously, that is fucking bollocks.

I dont think any of our players have been that great so its fair enough to be honest.

Jerel Ifil and Phil Smith must've been in with a good shout.

Phil Smith has been nothing less than magnficant - FACT!

Phil Smith has been steady,even pretty good but best in the league??  nah

Jerels been pretty good but still cocks up alot again not the best in the league imo

Oh fuck off back to Plant Smash 8)

agreed. apart from peacock i think we have an industrious team, then some lazy fucks on the periferies

Yeovil is right.  We are lucky to go up after some of our performances

Jerel hasnt put a foot wrong

Much better than Westwood or Pead

How did Whalley not get in it? I mean he's been ever present at home this season... :-))(

Clayton Ince gets GK of the season!  :shock:  :mrgreen:

Jerel Ifil gets booked too frequently to be in that list imo

ah yes, bookings thats what really matters  :|

Ash usually i agree with most of what you say but that is bollocks mate.we are 3rd and still have a slim chance of the title,we are 6 points clear of 4th and 14 clear of 5th.That is not lucky at all imo you cant be lucky over 40 odd games

Clayton fucking Ince. Did they just pull the names out of a hat or something?

Doesnt ince have the most clean sheets in the league though or least goals conceded

Clayton Ince is shit FACT.....He's been a clown at every club he has played for and has never been any good. Just because he has conceded the least doesn't make him the best..........if Brez had been fit all season though he would have secured that place by an absoute mile!

When you look at the points total then yes we have got lots of points. Personally I can only think of 3 games where we totally outplayed the other team, walsall lincoln and yesterday.

I just havent thought we looked that good in most of our games this year.

I can't believe how bothered you all are. In fact, I find it highly amusing. Getting promotion is far better reward than getting your players in some list.

I'm sure Wycombe's fans are happy that 2 of their players got into the list.

When do we find out fans player of the year? surely Peacock will win that?

Thats a fucking joke! What a bunch of knobs.Could'nt even fit one swindon player in that.

End of the day it's our goals against figure which saves us.

We deserve to go up. Defence is as important as offence. We scored very little, but we're second best for goals conceded. To not be great in front of goal, but be great in defence is a sign of a good team who plays to the stengths in my eyes.

Remember a team who defends well and concedes few is rarely going to dick the opposition with their brazil like scoring.

Serie A anyone?

You sound like the great George Graham

In '85-'86 when we won the Div 4 title by 18 points, how many Town players got in the PFA Team that season?

NONE.

This is a poll done around Christmas, where Walsall were walking the league, until we beat them !!

I do agree that we haven't done anything special, but we should've had a couple of players in there.

Ince and Frecklington....WTF !!! :shock:

But does it really matter?

nah, not really.....I see that shit, always injured player got in there. Not good enough for us  :roll:  :wink:

couldn't give a shit.

smith and ifil have been good but nelson and westwood have probably been just as good if not better. unlucky for smith but oh well, he's not even our number 1.

I would argue though that i have not seen a better right back than jack smith this year

I would argue that you've been very drunk at most games and might not be the best judge of player.

then again Sturrock always seems drunk.

To choose a loan player in the form of that twat Doherty is a bit off.

Ah well - We're on course for Automatic Promotion - all the recognition and accolades Ifil and co really need.

I would not argue that

In real life i do, but very slightly more girly.  :D

I looked at the team and immediately came to the same opinion, until I see the name of Tommy Docherty there who has served at least 7 games suspension and is not even a Wycombe player, he's on loan!

Aside from the obvious deficincies in the team (look at League one and see no City players either), the whol PFA thing needs looking at.  I can't understand why they are voting in January - surely the voting shoyuld eb about now for awards in May time - it can't be that tricky to count up the votes surely.

Obviously these awards are voted for by the players.

I can only think of Mark Wright who has come out and fully praised Swindon. Most teams always say things along the lines of.....

"We shouldn't have lost today.... Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah"

I think this is evident within the results - because let's be fair, we haven't played truly outstanding football this season.

Still, to put Tommy Doherty in there...  :evil:

Football is just as much about defending as it is offending Ash. If we'd had a decent defence last season, we'd have been laughing with the amount of goals Fallon/Cureton scored/could score.

Fair point Tails, however what I am saying is we havent exactly enetertained in much of the games have we? Dont get me wrong I would have and still will take promotion on goal difference but to be team of the year we have to be entertaining in my opinion.  Personally I dont think many of our players have been brilliant this year.  Then again I dont care as long as we go up

I expect Walsall fans and even some Hartlepool fans will say exactly the same

ifil should have made it.apart from him dont think any others were worthy, with the possible exeption of phil smith.

I know  :shock:

The amount of times this season I've sat there and said "Walsall would win this league by a mile if they had a decent goalkeeper"...

He's shit

Welcome to League Two I guess! All the more reason to be greatful that we will shortly be leaving (fingers crossed).

I think when we've got going we've been superb, although this hasn't happened often enough and usually comes in 10 minute patches every other game... That could be down to the general hoof and foul tactic that most League Two teams employ I'm not sure, but I don't think it's a coincidence that when we've played teams who play football we look a lot better.

I think we could do well in League One next season with the current squad to be honest, with one or two obvious changes.

I can only judge on the one game I've seen him this season, and I must be honest that I've seen a lot better 'keepers than him. He was hillariously dodgy and him and Roper combined pretty much gifted Lukas his goal at the Bescot. Not taking anything away from Lukas of course because he still did well to turn and finish, but it could and probably should have been dealt with better considering Ince is the 'leagues best goalkeeper'.

They're more than welcome to the 'leagues best goalkeeper', I'm happy enough with the two best goalkeeepers in the league though.

Did anybody else find it slightly amusing that despite being the leagues current top goalscorer, Jamie Cunteton didn't get put in the Championship team?

Was talking to a Rotherham fan the other day

His opinion on Monkhouse was that he is ok in a winning team, but when he is required when the team is going through a losing run on a cold Tuesday night for instance he goes missing.

Will be interestingto see how he progresses when they go on a losing run

Brez and Evo would have made it if they'd stayed fit

Apparently these adwards were voted in December. Wycombe were in the top four, as was Walsall top of the league.

...so Monkhouse must have been in the team based on his performance for us?