| Best Saints team you've ever seen. 14:46 - Jun 4 with 3571 views | saint901 |
Pick 11 first teamers and two subs based on ALL the players you've seen turn out for us. Mix and match players who are alive, dead, played once or played hundreds of times.
Aim is to have the best team we could have ever fielded.
We'll start with keeper and a back 3/4/5.
Later midfield and forwards - unless you want to do them all together.
For me (all more than 100 appearances)
Keeper - Shilton
Right back - Soares
CB - John McGrath
CB - Mark Wright
Left Back - David Peach |  | | |  |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:24 - Jun 4 with 3050 views | PatfromPoole |
Soares!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 |  |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:31 - Jun 4 with 3038 views | SaintNick |
For me
Shilton ( No contest he was the best keeper in the world during his time with Saints)
Right back - Ivan Golac
Central defender Mark Wright
Central defender Virgil Van Dijk
Left back - Mark Dennis |  |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:35 - Jun 4 with 3028 views | SFC_Referee |
Is this for how they’ve turned out, or simply how good they were for us? So like would Bale be a contender as a fullback or the winger he was for Madrid? |  |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:35 - Jun 4 with 3031 views | PatfromPoole |
Niemi
Bridge
Van Dick
Michael Svensson
Dodd | |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:36 - Jun 4 with 3025 views | PatfromPoole |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:35 - Jun 4 by SFC_Referee |
Is this for how they’ve turned out, or simply how good they were for us? So like would Bale be a contender as a fullback or the winger he was for Madrid? |
Surely based on their time at Saints (?).... | |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:02 - Jun 4 with 2989 views | Butty101 |
For me
GK Shilton
Right back - Clyne
Central defender Wright
Central defender Virgil Van Dijk
Left back - Bertrand
Honorable mentions to Bridge, Shaw, Dodd, Fonte, Alderweireld Nemi and Svensson |  |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:05 - Jun 4 with 2963 views | SFC_Referee |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:36 - Jun 4 by PatfromPoole |
Surely based on their time at Saints (?).... |
Well if that’s the case, I’m sure I may have forgotten a player or two but for me I’d go with…
GK: Artur Boruc
LB: Luke Shaw
CB: Jose Fonte
CB:Vergil Van Dijk
RB: Kyle Walker-Peters
CM: James Ward-Prowse
CDM: Morgan Schneiderlin
CM: Adam Lallana
LW: Sadio Mane
ST: Rickie Lambert
RW: Dusan Tadic
Subs: Oriol Romeu & Danny Ings [Post edited 4 Jun 20:17]
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:05 - Jun 4 with 2962 views | saint901 |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 15:36 - Jun 4 by PatfromPoole |
Surely based on their time at Saints (?).... |
Based on how they played for Saints.
Not necessarily the best, perhaps the ones you enjoyed most or who you thought were entertaining or committed or anything else that makes them stand out for you.
Nothing is off the books (but Mark Dennis - really - he was always a red card waiting to happen). | | | |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:36 - Jun 4 with 2916 views | 1teeminants |
1. Peter Shilton
2. Mick Mills
3 . Mark Dennis
4. Mark Wright
5. Virgil Van Dijk
6.Steve Williams
7.Matt Le Tissier
8. Mick Channon
9. Ron Davies
10. Kevin Keegan
11. Terry Paine
Subs
Ronnie Ekelund
Marian Pahars [Post edited 4 Jun 16:44]
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:42 - Jun 4 with 2907 views | 1teeminants |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:05 - Jun 4 by saint901 |
Based on how they played for Saints.
Not necessarily the best, perhaps the ones you enjoyed most or who you thought were entertaining or committed or anything else that makes them stand out for you.
Nothing is off the books (but Mark Dennis - really - he was always a red card waiting to happen). |
Dennis was the best left back we’ve had by a country mile ffs. Just because he was hot headed doesn’t mean to say he wasn’t the best . | |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:51 - Jun 4 with 2891 views | saint901 |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:42 - Jun 4 by 1teeminants |
Dennis was the best left back we’ve had by a country mile ffs. Just because he was hot headed doesn’t mean to say he wasn’t the best . |
No point being the best of you're watching from the stands?
I'm going for a 4-3-1-2 formation.
So I need three midfield players.
Central defensive mid - Nick Holmes
Alongside Steve Williams and Alan Ball. | | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:55 - Jun 4 with 2876 views | Heisenberg |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:05 - Jun 4 by SFC_Referee |
Well if that’s the case, I’m sure I may have forgotten a player or two but for me I’d go with…
GK: Artur Boruc
LB: Luke Shaw
CB: Jose Fonte
CB:Vergil Van Dijk
RB: Kyle Walker-Peters
CM: James Ward-Prowse
CDM: Morgan Schneiderlin
CM: Adam Lallana
LW: Sadio Mane
ST: Rickie Lambert
RW: Dusan Tadic
Subs: Oriol Romeu & Danny Ings [Post edited 4 Jun 20:17]
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MLT ??? |  |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 17:05 - Jun 4 with 2862 views | Heisenberg |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:55 - Jun 4 by Heisenberg |
MLT ??? |
Not the best but more favourite players
Shilton
Golac
Fonte
Claus
Franny
Steve Williams
Keegan
MLT
Pahars
Ricky Lambert
Terry Paine | |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 17:11 - Jun 4 with 2847 views | 1teeminants |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:51 - Jun 4 by saint901 |
No point being the best of you're watching from the stands?
I'm going for a 4-3-1-2 formation.
So I need three midfield players.
Central defensive mid - Nick Holmes
Alongside Steve Williams and Alan Ball. |
Clueless pal how can you put Nick Holmes in there ? good player but not the best by a long way. [Post edited 4 Jun 17:13]
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 17:40 - Jun 4 with 2788 views | franniesTache |
GK: Shilton
RB: Bertrand
CB: VVD
CB: Mark Wright
LB: Bridge
LM: David Armstrong
CM: Jimmy Case
RM: Keegan
AM: Le Tiss
ST: Pahars
ST: Lambert |  | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 18:57 - Jun 4 with 2720 views | grumpy |
Shilton
Dennis
Vergil Van Dijk
Mark Wright
Ivan Golac
Ball
Matt Le Tissier
Steve Williams
Gareth Bale
Mick Channon
Kevin Keegan
subs
Svensson
Ron Davies |  | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 20:13 - Jun 4 with 2652 views | SFC_Referee |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 16:55 - Jun 4 by Heisenberg |
MLT ??? |
Well I thought we were picking the ones we actually saw play ourselves? As yeah I sure would’ve loved to have seen him play, but seeing how I’m not over 40, unfortunately I didn’t get the opportunity to do so | |
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 07:46 - Jun 5 with 2492 views | areasix |
Niemi
Rodrigues
VVD
Fonte
Golac
Williams
D Armstrong
Le Tissier
Channon
Keegan
Pahars
Oriol Romeu
Bale | | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 09:53 - Jun 5 with 2424 views | Ifonly |
One of the problems with this type of thing is you can't really compare players across time. Take Ivan Golac. He was a decent player, a fans favourite and did well for Saints. But, as a player he wasn't a patch on KWP or Clyne for that matter. If he was available today, he might be behind Bree in the pecking order.
Also, not a popular view, but I reckon that by the time he'd developed, Tim Flowers was doing a better job for Saints than Shilton did. | | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 09:57 - Jun 5 with 2419 views | saint901 |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 17:11 - Jun 4 by 1teeminants |
Clueless pal how can you put Nick Holmes in there ? good player but not the best by a long way. [Post edited 4 Jun 17:13]
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The cohort of young players which included Nick, also included me. He clearly "made it", I did not.
Consequently I played in the same team as Nick a number of times. He was solid, dependable, always available for a pass, protective of other players and generally always geeing up other players and being unselfish himself.
When he made the first team, he was the same.
This is not about the "best" players but rather those who appeared for us who we enjoyed watching and who we think brought a little extra to the team.
For me, Nick fits that description. | | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 10:50 - Jun 5 with 2396 views | franniesTache |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 09:57 - Jun 5 by saint901 |
The cohort of young players which included Nick, also included me. He clearly "made it", I did not.
Consequently I played in the same team as Nick a number of times. He was solid, dependable, always available for a pass, protective of other players and generally always geeing up other players and being unselfish himself.
When he made the first team, he was the same.
This is not about the "best" players but rather those who appeared for us who we enjoyed watching and who we think brought a little extra to the team.
For me, Nick fits that description. |
Yeah it's funny how often the players that make it aren't the "best" players, i used to play football with Lukas Jutkiewicz as he grew up near me (his sister was in the same year at school with the sister of one of my best mates).
He was definitely not the most naturally gifted or "best" player out of our group, but he was definitely the most serious about playing and hardest working.
The best player i played with never got further than playing for Totton occasionally as he enjoyed going on out on the piss more than training | | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 12:33 - Jun 5 with 2355 views | SaintNick |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 09:53 - Jun 5 by Ifonly |
One of the problems with this type of thing is you can't really compare players across time. Take Ivan Golac. He was a decent player, a fans favourite and did well for Saints. But, as a player he wasn't a patch on KWP or Clyne for that matter. If he was available today, he might be behind Bree in the pecking order.
Also, not a popular view, but I reckon that by the time he'd developed, Tim Flowers was doing a better job for Saints than Shilton did. |
What this thread has pointed out is just how many great players we have had and it is hard to compare them, Golac played 167 League games for Saints, Nathaniel Clyne played just under half that with 89, Golac was a very good right back for Saints.
Not sure I can agree with you about Flowers, Shilton was the undisputed best goalkeeper not only in England but the World during his time at the Dell, but he was only about 3rd/4th choice for England at best
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| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 12:59 - Jun 5 with 2335 views | MattFinish |
Manager: Ronald Koeman
GK: Antti Niemi
RB: KWP
CB: Toby Alderweireld
CB: Virgil van Dijk
LB: Ryan Bertrand
MFD: Matt Le Tissier
MFD: JWP
MFD: Ronnie Eklund
STR: Sadio Mané
STR: Rickie Lambert
STR: Marians Pahars |  | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 13:27 - Jun 5 with 2312 views | saint22 |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 17:05 - Jun 4 by Heisenberg |
Not the best but more favourite players
Shilton
Golac
Fonte
Claus
Franny
Steve Williams
Keegan
MLT
Pahars
Ricky Lambert
Terry Paine |
where is Terry Hurlock? | | | |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 13:28 - Jun 5 with 2311 views | franniesTache |
| Best Saints team you've ever seen. on 13:27 - Jun 5 by saint22 |
where is Terry Hurlock? |
Ooooh? | | | |
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