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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: AltyRobin on March 15, 2021, 11:09:46 PM
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With Kevin Ellison’s celebration at weekend it got me thinking of some great players we’ve had in the past and what an ultimate XI would look like from my time watching Alty from 1991.
I’m bound to forget someone but here goes mine. Not including loanees.
S. Coburn
S. Cross G. Young T. Hannigan D. Adams
T. Kelly I. Craney
D. Watmore R. Colclough K. Ellison
C. Little
Subs: N. Morton, K. Russell, A. Reid, C. Sharratt, S. Terry
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Wot, no Reevesy ?
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No Nick Daws?
No Showler?
No Mad Dog or Talbs?
Kingy, JR, Jeff Johnson, Ken McKenna?
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Here's my team from my favourite players i have seen play...
GK:Stuart Coburn
(Apps689)
RB:Stan Allen
(Apps620)
CB:John Owens
(Apps507)
CB:Mark Maddox
(Apps348)
LB:John Davison
(Apps678)
RW:Duncan Whatmore
(Apps58,goals15)
CM:John King
(Apps215)
CM:Graham Heathcote
(Apps533,goals147)
LW:Kevin Ellison
(Apps51,goals23)
SKR:Jeff Johnson
(Apps507,goals141)
SKR:Damien Reeves
(Apps332,goals166)
Subs:
GK:Jeff Wealands
(Apps:273)
CB:Mal Bailey
(Apps262)
FB/MID:Shaun Densmore
(Still playing - over 400Apps)
MID:Jake Moult
(Still playing - 400Apps)
STK:Ken McKenna
(Apps100,goals56)
STK:Colin Little
(Apps277,goals114)
STK:John Rogers
(Apps276,goals133)
Wish we had any of the above strikers now to fill our no.9 'problem' role!
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Answered this a couple of times and probably give a different team on different reflections, but:
Stuart Coburn
Shaun Densmore
Mark Maddox
Tom Hannigan
Ryan Shotton
Duncan Watmore
Robbie Lawton (c)
Jake Moult
Josh Hancock
Damian Reeves
Colin Little
Subs: Ian Craney, Colin Potts, Val Owen, Scott Leather, Rod Thornley, Danny Adams, Tony Thompson
Manager: Lee Sinnott*
*Parky takes over this side with a mid table National League finish.
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Byrom Harrison.
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Every time I do this there are probably little differences, but today I'm going with:
Coburn
Cross Ellender Reid Wiggins
Terry Daws Anderson Showler
McKenna Little
Subs:
Wealands
Hodson
Carmody
Reeves
Harris
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Every time I do this there are probably little differences, but today I'm going with:
Coburn
Cross Ellender Reid Wiggins
Terry Daws Anderson Showler
McKenna Little
Subs:
Wealands
Hodson
Carmody
Reeves
Harris
Given your 'personal' picture (don't know the correct term, being a bit of a luddite,😉), I'm quite surprised at one glaring omission!
😂😂
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Every time I do this there are probably little differences, but today I'm going with:
Coburn
Cross Ellender Reid Wiggins
Terry Daws Anderson Showler
McKenna Little
Subs:
Wealands
Hodson
Carmody
Reeves
Harris
Given your 'personal' picture (don't know the correct term, being a bit of a luddite,😉), I'm quite surprised at one glaring omission!
😂😂
Ha ha! I never saw Kingy play for us, unfortunately.
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Did we ever get to the bottom of the team of the last decade?
I think the consensus was:
Coburn
Densmore Havern Hannigan Griffin
Watmore Moult Richman Clee
Reeves Hulme
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Did we ever get to the bottom of the team of the last decade?
I think the consensus was:
Coburn
Densmore Havern Hannigan Griffin
Watmore Moult Richman Clee
Reeves Hulme
Leather over Havern for me. I know it isn't entirely practical as an XI but I'd have Hancock in over Richman, otherwise struggling to think of many changes. Great side that.
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I've been privileged to see so many great players giving me so many magic moments over the last 55+years supporting the Super Robins. I couldn't begin to whittle it down to a best eleven.
All I would say is that any 'best' team and squad would have to find places for Jackie Swindells and Johnny King.
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My all time fav team from players i've seen since late 70s is above... but if i had to pick a team from last decade it would be as follows...
Coburn
Densmore Havern Leather Griffin
Watmore Moult Lawton Clee
Reeves Hulme
Subs: Thompson, Hannigan, Richman, Hancock, Lawrie
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With so many greats over the years I couldn't keep a best XI down to 11 players!
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Where is Chris senior ? 8)
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Where is Chris senior ? 8)
He's the ultimate magic sponge man for the team isn't he?
PS. With Rod Thornley to be the masseur! 😉
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I am sure we have done this recently but I have to amend it because Colclough is that good and will battle it out with Ellison.
Coburn
Densmore
Danny Adams
Shotton
Hannigan
Ellison or Colclough
Watmore
Craney
Daws or Harris
Little
McKenna
Subs Reeves, Showler, Leather, Moult, Cross & Ellender
I also loved Keith Russell, some finisher but going more on appearances.
The reason I went Craney is because he was in the poorest Alty team and was basically a one man team with his performances each week.
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No mention of the late great Jackie Swindells ... Surprising.
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Has there ever been a worse 11 mentioned on here?
Andy Dawber
Simon Woodford
Brian Kilcline
Danny Higgingbotham
LB ?
Brian Smikle
Fabio Bassangue
Chris Young
Billy Hasler-Cregg
Jamie Menagh
Byron Harrison
Manager: Neil Young
Struggling to think of a left back that’s been as bad as some of these
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Has there ever been a worse 11 mentioned on here?
Andy Dawber
Simon Woodford
Brian Kilcline
Danny Higgingbotham
LB ?
Brian Smikle
Fabio Bassangue
Chris Young
Billy Hasler-Cregg
Jamie Menagh
Byron Harrison
Manager: Neil Young
Struggling to think of a left back that’s been as bad as some of these
LB would be Dave Swannick, I reckon.
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I would have gone for Peter Frankish between the sticks.
PS. That is if our northern Irish international Bobby Irvine is unavailable.
I seem to recall Freddie Pye saying in the Robins Review something like "he will never make such mistakes in an altrincham Jersey again. His contract has been cancelled" after his last stand out performance.
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1. A Gorton
2. P Densmore
3. C FFRRREEEMMMMAAAAAN
4. P France
5. P Ellender
6. I Craney
7. D Watmore
8. A Smith
9. C Little
10. D Reeves
11. P Showler
12. R Harris
13. S Coburn
14. A Reid
15. C Sharrett
16. A Green
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What I find great about this thread is how you can get an idea of the age of the posters by the choices they've made! 😂😂😂
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Nobody's picked former England internationals Tommy Banks or Charlie Mitten yet 😂
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Or jeb the goat 🐐 as mascot (decades before Rocky!) 😂🤣😂🤣
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Nobody's picked former England internationals Tommy Banks or Charlie Mitten yet 😂
Or Les Campbell.
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Or jeb the goat 🐐 as mascot (decades before Rocky!) 😂🤣😂🤣
Woah. Woah jus a cotton pickin' minute please. Jeb the goat?
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Alty mascot in the pre WW2 days. Apparently buried somewhere near the corner of the golf road and pop side.
Hope they don't dig him up when they lay the new pitch!
(if they haven't already!)
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Maybe he's the cause of the waterlogging problems in that area of the pitch 🐐
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Alty mascot in the pre WW2 days. Apparently buried somewhere near the corner of the golf road and pop side.
Hope they don't dig him up when they lay the new pitch!
(if they haven't already!)
Poor old Jeb will be well rotted down by now.
Does anybody have photos of Jeb, preferably when s/he was alive?
Ta.
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Alty mascot in the pre WW2 days. Apparently buried somewhere near the corner of the golf road and pop side.
Hope they don't dig him up when they lay the new pitch!
(if they haven't already!)
Poor old Jeb will be well rotted down by now.
Does anybody have photos of Jeb, preferably when s/he was alive?
Ta.
How old do you think I am? 😂🤣😂🤣
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Alty mascot in the pre WW2 days. Apparently buried somewhere near the corner of the golf road and pop side.
Hope they don't dig him up when they lay the new pitch!
(if they haven't already!)
Poor old Jeb will be well rotted down by now.
Does anybody have photos of Jeb, preferably when s/he was alive?
Ta.
Photographed in the directors box at Northwich Victoria in 1937:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9f/83/4a/9f834a995d8a7ae67986ac887c53112c.jpg)
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Alty mascot in the pre WW2 days. Apparently buried somewhere near the corner of the golf road and pop side.
Hope they don't dig him up when they lay the new pitch!
(if they haven't already!)
Poor old Jeb will be well rotted down by now.
Does anybody have photos of Jeb, preferably when s/he was alive?
Ta.
Photographed in the directors box at Northwich Victoria in 1937:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9f/83/4a/9f834a995d8a7ae67986ac887c53112c.jpg)
He’s nowt but a Kid...
I’ll get me coat
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Or the legendary Jackie Swindells.
My grandad would pretend his fingers were Swindells and showed me how he played and scored on his dining table.
Use to tell me he liked scoring 5 a game haha.
229 games 195 goals.
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I have always thought Jackie was the ultimate goal poacher. I remember once an opposition fan (in the good old days when there was a lot of friendly unaggressive banter at games) saying that he did nothing in games except for popping up two or three times a game to score.
He seemed to think that was a bad thing.
Wasn't Jimmy greaves talked of in a similar manner?
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I have always thought Jackie was the ultimate goal poacher. I remember once an opposition fan (in the good old days when there was a lot of friendly unaggressive banter at games) saying that he did nothing in games except for popping up two or three times a game to score.
He seemed to think that was a bad thing.
Wasn't Jimmy greaves talked of in a similar manner?
I can almost hear that away fan giving JS adverse criticism convinced he was talking sense. 😂 😂 😂