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This was put to me the other day and is good fun.  The problem with favourite all-time XIs is that they are invariably an amalgamation of the 69 and 93 teams.  So try this one.  Your favourite XI of players who have joined the town since our premier league relegation.  This means anyone appearing in the premier league and stayed on (Digby, Horlock, Fjortoft, Taylor etc) are ineligable.  No loans allowed - they would make up the majority of the side.

Took me a while but I came up with this:

GK: Mildenhall
DR: Culverhouse
DC: Heywood
DC: Reeves
DL: Davis

MR: Walters
MC: Leitch
MC: Woan
ML: Ndah

CF: Parkin
CF: Cox

Subs: Allison, Gurney, Howard, Mooney, Evans (GK).

We haven't been that good for the past 15 years have we?

What a chore like task :)

we've done alright for wingers and forwards really, haven't we?

This has stumped me as I usually just list the 1992/93 squad + a couple of others as my all-time favourite team!

this does highlight how shit we've been for years.
parkin and cox.
that's it.

Especially if you cannot count the likes of Shaun Taylor, Bodin, Fjortoft, Digby et al

I dont think that side looks to bad to be honest.

Mildenhall is a decent L1 keeper (apart from when facing us, nice one Mildy!!)

Culverhouse although past his best was very good for us

Heywood and Reeves let the side down

Sol Davis did alright for himself.

Mark Walter even now would tear L1 full backs apart I expect, he was class.

Leitch was a decent enough battler in the middle and Woan was quality on the ball

Ndah was decent when he wasnt injured.

Cox & Parkin good strikers but the likes of The Chief and Iffy (deserves a mention, even if as a manager he wasnt brilliant] scored goals in the Championship - the other two didnt.

I'd say that side would beat our current side.

What a fucking shite defence that is too - bar Culverhouse.

Reeves? The man was dreadful and only looked better as we slid down the division until he reached his level - and he was about the best of the lot - see M. Seagraves, M. Robinson.

We haven't been able to defend for 15 years have we?

GK: Steve Mildenhall

DL: Sol Davis
DR: Ian Culverhouse

MC: Scott Leitch
MC: Danny Invincibile
MC: Ian Woan
MC: Mark Walters
MC: Stefani Miglioranzi

SC: Simon Cox
SC: Wayne Allison
SC: George Ndah

I've decided our defenders are so bad we shall play as few of them as possible

no Parkin?

Infact, looking at the defenders we have had you'd be better off playing Miglioranzi there. He always did alright when called on.

Tricky, Allison and Ndah both did well for us in Division One, so I wanted to pick them both. Was tempted to play 4 up front for a laugh. Looking back now, we've had a lot of good strikers and not much at the back.

i don't think there's 11 players since 2002 (that's as far back as i can remmber) that i'd put in a side.

migs would be the player i built my side around. i'd also make him bionic

Steve Mildenhall

Mark Robinson (you dont play over 300 games if you're shit. I always liked Robinson)
Ian Culverhouse
Alan McDonald
Sol Davis

Mark Walters
Scott Leitch
Ian Woan

Wayne Allison
Sam Parkin
Simon Cox

 I'm surprised Theo Walcott doesn't get a sniff of this side....he be in mine.

Be he?

He Be Gee Bees...

I can't help being Wiltshire....norvern monkey.

Brian Borrows surely?

Ouch.

Of permanant players (not loanees) I came up witht his lovely collection of skillful playmakers, goalscorers and stoppers.....see, we could do worse than we have already!

Jimmy Glass

Gareth Hall
Gary Elkins
Terry Fenwick
Jason Drysdale

Bobby Howe
Lee Collins
Ricky Shakes
Aaron Brown

Steve Cowe
Joey Bumchump

That must be the single worst collection of professional footballers ever.  Fair play to you.  We have watched some crap over the years.

Peter Brezovan

Sol Davis
Jerel Ifil
Ady Williams
Andy Gurney

Mark Walters
Miglioranzi
Scott Leitch
Brian Howard

Simon Cox
Sam Parkin


Brezovan gets in for the way he played before he broke his arm. The central defence is a bit embaressing. Ive gone for a partnership that looked good in League 2! Even more unfashionable would be Heywood/Reeves and when you look back, those two did get the shut outs in 2001 that kept us up. Up front you could just as easily go for Ndah and Allison. But my midfield is definately the best selection!

Both Woan and Invincible are a mistake. At the time we had very few exciting players, which made them seem a bit better.

How could you forget Hewlett? Damn you jj......

Yes, shame on you jj.

He's be a super sub along with Daisy Duke.

No votes for Thorney?

Hate to be the one to pick at old wounds, but Comminges should be in there somewhere.

Strong on either flank, big throw, nice hair, and a hot-head to boot.

He must have squared up to an opponent on average once every 30 minutes of game time during his stay here.

Sure he'll make JFW's team  ;)

No loans.

He was here permanently for a bit though, Scott Leitch was a loan initially if I remember.

Boom boom. I don't think Nemo got the pun.

Richard Dryden in defence. :) ;)

Yep, missed that one completely. He was originally on loan though, so could work on both levels.

GK- Mildenhall
LB -Sol Davis
RB -Commingues
CB -Culverhouse
CB - Ben Martin
LM -Walters
RM -Ndah
CM - Leitch
ST - Parkin
ST - Cox
ST - Opara

Didin't Robinson have something of a falling out with John McGinley - lamping him and getting sent off, therefore elevating him to legend status in my book ever since!

Mark Robinson was fucking shit.  £600k my arse.