www.altyfans.co.uk
General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: HashtagAlty on December 31, 2019, 09:38:10 AM
-
Let's hear your thoughts on the best team (based on the players in their prime)
Any players who played for us starting from Ebbsfleet v Altrincham - Saturday, 16 January 2010 (2-1 win) to Altrincham v Southport, Saturday 28th December 2019 (3-0 win)
Team that opened the decade:
13. Russell SAUNDERS, 6. Shaun DENSMORE, 2. James SMITH, 12. Robbie WILLIAMS, 5. Greg YOUNG; 7. Robbie LAWTON, 16. Anthony DANYLYK, 4. Tom KEARNEY, 3. Matt DOUGHTY; 19. Chris SENIOR, 17. John McALISKEY. SUBS: 9. Colin LITTLE, 10. Chris DENHAM, 11. Nicky CLEE. 18. Michael WELCH, 24. Adam CARDEN
-
Coburn; Densmore, Havern, Hannigan, White; Watmore, Richman,. Moult, Clee; Reeves, Hulme.
Subs Thompson, Young, Poole, Little, Walshaw.
-
Coburn, Densmore, Hannigan, Young, Watmore, Kearney, Moult, Clee, Reeves, Little. Subs. Walshaw, Hulme, White, Thompson, Johnson
-
Let's hear your thoughts on the best team (based on the players in their prime)
Any players who played for us starting from Ebbsfleet v Altrincham - Saturday, 16 January 2010 (2-1 win) to Altrincham v Southport, Saturday 28th December 2019 (3-0 win)
Team that opened the decade:
13. Russell SAUNDERS, 6. Shaun DENSMORE, 2. James SMITH, 12. Robbie WILLIAMS, 5. Greg YOUNG; 7. Robbie LAWTON, 16. Anthony DANYLYK, 4. Tom KEARNEY, 3. Matt DOUGHTY; 19. Chris SENIOR, 17. John McALISKEY. SUBS: 9. Colin LITTLE, 10. Chris DENHAM, 11. Nicky CLEE. 18. Michael WELCH, 24. Adam CARDEN
I'm sure there were many others who post on here who can say they were at that game too. Tom Kearney was a Rolls Royce of a player before his serious injury.
Coburn; Densmore, Havern, Hannigan, White; Watmore, Richman,. Moult, Clee; Reeves, Hulme.
Subs Thompson, Young, Poole, Little, Walshaw.
That's pretty much spot on for me. Much of Little's best work for us was in the previous decade so him being on the bench even though he is a total legend is fair. Most talented player in the 2010s was Duncan Watmore, obviously the famed individual goal at home to Corby but I recall more the away game against the same team where we were about 4-0 up in 30 minutes and he simply blew them away.
Favourite matches off top of my head would be:
1. Guiseley play off final (obvs)
2. Macc 2014 with James Lawrie's flukey last minute winner
3. York City away FA Cup win
4. Beating Chester away win in a snowstorm Christmas 2014
5. Thrashing Stockport 3-0 at home in 2013.
-
I’m sure everyone will have their own criteria but, for me, we’ve had 2 comfortable mid-table National League finishes in the past decade. And so it would take something special for anyone to justify a place in a ‘team of the decade’ who didn’t play in either of those sides.
Coburn
Densmore
Hannigan
Havern
Doughty
Watmore
Cavanagh
Kearney
Clee
Little
Reeves
Subs:
Deasy
Young
Leather
Moult
Walshaw
-
I’m sure everyone will have their own criteria but, for me, we’ve had 2 comfortable mid-table National League finishes in the past decade. And so it would take something special for anyone to justify a place in a ‘team of the decade’ who didn’t play in either of those sides.
Coburn
Densmore
Hannigan
Havern
Doughty
Watmore
Cavanagh
Kearney
Clee
Little
Reeves
Subs:
Deasy
Young
Leather
Moult
Walshaw
Was thinking along the same lines, would say current squad has potential to match those “heady heights” with a little tinkering.
-
i agree with mat , but would consider changing cavanagh for moult .
-
Wow. What a horrible task.
Probably go with Mats with Moult instead of cavanah.
-
Coburn
Densmore
Young
Hannigan
White (I've not really been convinced by any of our left backs to the same extent as other positions)
Clee
Moult
Kearney
Watmore
Hulme
Reeves
Subs
Drench (I know he hasn't played enough games to justify this but I'd still pick him over TT when fit and the rest have never convinced)
Havern
richman
Little (pre-2010 vintage would replace Reeves)
JJ (just so I've got cover on both wings and can drop Nicky back to cover LB - I might be over thinking this!)
-
I’m sure everyone will have their own criteria but, for me, we’ve had 2 comfortable mid-table National League finishes in the past decade. And so it would take something special for anyone to justify a place in a ‘team of the decade’ who didn’t play in either of those sides.
Coburn
Densmore
Hannigan
Havern
Doughty
Watmore
Cavanagh
Kearney
Clee
Little
Reeves
Subs:
Deasy
Young
Leather
Moult
Walshaw
Jones for Havern, Moult in for Cavanagh
-
Coburn; Densmore, Havern, Hannigan, White; Watmore, Richman,. Moult, Clee; Reeves, Hulme.
Subs Thompson, Young, Poole, Little, Walshaw.
This is closest for me, too - in a 442 the team picks itself apart from a centre back to partner Hannigan, and a left back (where we haven't had a real long-term standout performer) - was gonna go with Doughty but his first spell was pre-2010.
Surprised no mention of Leather so far.
I'd find places for JJ and Hancock from the current crop on the bench.
-
Coburn; Densmore, Havern, Hannigan, White; Watmore, Richman,. Moult, Clee; Reeves, Hulme.
Subs Thompson, Young, Poole, Little, Walshaw.
This is closest for me, too - in a 442 the team picks itself apart from a centre back to partner Hannigan, and a left back (where we haven't had a real long-term standout performer) - was gonna go with Doughty but his first spell was pre-2010.
Surprised no mention of Leather so far.
I'd find places for JJ and Hancock from the current crop on the bench.
Adam Griffin was a fine left back at Conf North level, having also won the league with Hyde prior to joining Alty and winning promotion here. And he didn’t look out of place in our mid-table National League side either, before a considerable decline in his second Conference season.
Matt Doughty was a class player at left back, even in his second spell, and it was easy to see why he would likely have had an extensive football league career if not plagued by injuries and other off-field ‘issues’ in his younger days.
Which one you would put in a ‘team of the decade’ for the 2010’s is up for debate, but I certainly don’t think it’s a position where we’d struggle to find a worthy candidate.
-
Coburn; Densmore, Havern, Hannigan, White; Watmore, Richman,. Moult, Clee; Reeves, Hulme.
Subs Thompson, Young, Poole, Little, Walshaw.
This is closest for me, too - in a 442 the team picks itself apart from a centre back to partner Hannigan, and a left back (where we haven't had a real long-term standout performer) - was gonna go with Doughty but his first spell was pre-2010.
Surprised no mention of Leather so far.
I'd find places for JJ and Hancock from the current crop on the bench.
Adam Griffin was a fine left back at Conf North level, having also won the league with Hyde prior to joining Alty and winning promotion here. And he didn’t look out of place in our mid-table National League side either, before a considerable decline in his second Conference season.
Matt Doughty was a class player at left back, even in his second spell, and it was easy to see why he would likely have had an extensive football league career if not plagued by injuries and other off-field ‘issues’ in his younger days.
Which one you would put in a ‘team of the decade’ for the 2010’s is up for debate, but I certainly don’t think it’s a position where we’d struggle to find a worthy candidate.
I'd completely forgotten about Griffin, to be honest - I'd go with him.
I've decided my starting centre back is Havern, with Leather on the bench (as a utility full back too).
-
Stuart Coburn
Shaun Densmore | James Jones | Tom Hannigan | Nicky Clee
Simon Richman | Jake Moult
Duncan Watmore |Josh Hancock | John Johnston
Jordan Hulme
Subs
James Walshaw
Damian Reeves
Tom Marshall
Scott Leather
Connor Hampson
-
Who was Cavanagh? I have no recollection of him at all.
-
Coburn, Dens, Griffin, Luca, Young, Moult, Kearney, Hancock, Watmore, Clee, Little
Reeves, Wally, Cavanagh, Marshall, Tomlinson
-
Good to see Tom Marshall get a couple of mentions, him and Hannigan would have made a great partnership in my opinion.
-
Who was Cavanagh? I have no recollection of him at all.
Central midfielder signed in the summer of 2014. Bags of football league experience, bags of quality. Exactly the sort of signing you should be making when you get promoted to the National League.
Made players around him look comfortable at the level too, many of who fell into a Peter Cavanagh shaped black hole the following season after he left in the summer to take up a coaching role elsewhere.
Depends on what criteria you are using. If you are considering overall contribution to the club over the past 10 years, then Jake Moult strolls in ahead of him. If you are selecting the best 11 players to play for the club over the decade, then Cavanagh is an absolute shoo-in for me.
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
-
Who was Cavanagh? I have no recollection of him at all.
Central midfielder signed in the summer of 2014. Bags of football league experience, bags of quality. Exactly the sort of signing you should be making when you get promoted to the National League.
Made players around him look comfortable at the level too, many of who fell into a Peter Cavanagh shaped black hole the following season after he left in the summer to take up a coaching role elsewhere.
Depends on what criteria you are using. If you are considering overall contribution to the club over the past 10 years, then Jake Moult strolls in ahead of him. If you are selecting the best 11 players to play for the club over the decade, then Cavanagh is an absolute shoo-in for me.
I asked him to contact the club on Twitter (I watch Rochdale every now and then, they were surprised to see him released).
He said 'thanks will do' and he was named in the very next line up. Surreal to see him captain the team v Bristol Rovers a few weeks later.
Shame we couldn't have had him for longer.
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
little
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
little
Not in Brian Flynn’s team
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
It’s not for me to tell people who they should or shouldn’t have in their own personal team of the decade. However, if I was Damien Reeves and I’d scored 150+ goals in 6 seasons during the 2010s, at a better than 1 in 2 strike rate, scored goals in 3 different seasons at National League level (in an otherwise forgettable decade for the football club), passed 40+ goals in consecutive Conf North seasons (in sides not challenging for the title), and I still couldn’t get into everybody’s team of the decade, then I’d be wondering what more I could possibly do as a forward...
-
Colin Little was not only a goalscorer, he was a superb footballer too.
Forgot to add, he'd grace our present team too.
-
Colin Little left Alty in 2010. A shoe-in for the previous decade but not the past one.
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
little
Not in Brian Flynn’s team
Technically, Colin Little isn't eligible for this team, as he didn't play for Alty in this decade, as he retired in 2010 & the decade technically started in 2011.
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
little
Not in Brian Flynn’s team
Technically, Colin Little isn't eligible for this team, as he didn't play for Alty in this decade, as he retired in 2010 & the decade technically started in 2011.
Maybe, however the opening question on the thread was using Jan 2010 - Dec 2019 as the reference.
Colin Little undoubtedly a player from the previous decade. However, if selecting a best 11 on ability rather than sentiment/overall contribution, within the timeframe above, then I’d still have a 2010 Colin Little amongst the best 11 players to represent the club.
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
It’s not for me to tell people who they should or shouldn’t have in their own personal team of the decade. However, if I was Damien Reeves and I’d scored 150+ goals in 6 seasons during the 2010s, at a better than 1 in 2 strike rate, scored goals in 3 different seasons at National League level (in an otherwise forgettable decade for the football club), passed 40+ goals in consecutive Conf North seasons (in sides not challenging for the title), and I still couldn’t get into everybody’s team of the decade, then I’d be wondering what more I could possibly do as a forward...
Just going back to look at my selection again, I'd consider Reevesy at his peak feeding off Jordan Hulme a mouth-watering prospect.
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
little
Not in Brian Flynn’s team
Technically, Colin Little isn't eligible for this team, as he didn't play for Alty in this decade, as he retired in 2010 & the decade technically started in 2011.
Maybe, however the opening question on the thread was using Jan 2010 - Dec 2019 as the reference.
Colin Little undoubtedly a player from the previous decade. However, if selecting a best 11 on ability rather than sentiment/overall contribution, within the timeframe above, then I’d still have a 2010 Colin Little amongst the best 11 players to represent the club.
Good point, Matt.......based on this, I would amend my team as follows:-
Stuart Coburn
Shaun Densmore | James Jones | Tom Hannigan | Nicky Clee
Simon Richman | Jake Moult
Duncan Watmore |Josh Hancock | John Johnston
Jordan Hulme
Subs
Colin Little
Damian Reeves
James Walshaw
Tom Marshall
Scott Leather
-
I am going to argue a technicality - if we are looking at the most influential player in each position over the decade, I nominate Greg Wilkinson to sit on the bench
-
I am going to argue a technicality - if we are looking at the most influential player in each position over the decade, I nominate Greg Wilkinson to sit on the bench
He was the most influential player for about one minute ;D
-
I am going to argue a technicality - if we are looking at the most influential player in each position over the decade, I nominate Greg Wilkinson to sit on the bench
He was the most influential player for about one minute ;D
...but what a minute...
-
Colin Little would be first name of the team sheet for team of the century, but not sure he had a major influence in the decade just gone.
Largely agree with comments and particularly pleased so many people recognising just what a special player Hulme is.
I would also try and find room for Walshaw in the team - to me he was out key player in the 2013/14 promotion season - heart of a lion, fantastic work rate, managed to form a great partnership with Reevesy even though they appeared to hate each other! We wouldn't have gone up without Walshaw in the team, and who knows what might have happened if he had stayed on.
Nicky Clee is to me, Watmore aside, the most naturally gifted player we have had at Moss Lane in years, but I would play him left midfield rather than left back - JJ I would have a bench for a 30 minute run out when Clee runs out of steam.
Final mention - Bill if we are going to have Wilkinson in on a technicality, then we must also have Kyle Perry for his kung foo challenge on the Guiseley keeper that led to the goal!
-
Well Coburn, Densmore, Watmore and Clee get in everybody’s team......Have I missed anybody
It’s not for me to tell people who they should or shouldn’t have in their own personal team of the decade. However, if I was Damien Reeves and I’d scored 150+ goals in 6 seasons during the 2010s, at a better than 1 in 2 strike rate, scored goals in 3 different seasons at National League level (in an otherwise forgettable decade for the football club), passed 40+ goals in consecutive Conf North seasons (in sides not challenging for the title), and I still couldn’t get into everybody’s team of the decade, then I’d be wondering what more I could possibly do as a forward...
Just going back to look at my selection again, I'd consider Reevesy at his peak feeding off Jordan Hulme a mouth-watering prospect.
Was thinking this myself - doing what Little and Senior did, except we probably wouldn't just be aimlessly lumping the ball up to them like we did in those days :-\
-
Coburn
Dens
Smith
Hannigan
White
Kearney
Moult
Watmore
Hancock
Clee
Reeves
Subs
Thompson
Young
Richman
Denham
Hulme
-
You'd have pick a formation first.
Not going to attempt this, but Hannigan and Kearney are 100% in whatever formation