MedwayModernist
Vital Squad Member
Given the threads going, where someone mentioned the difference between greatest and best, I thought I'd start a thread on your most entertaining GIlls XI. Think Keegan era Newcastle...
So mine is as follows, in a 442
Jim Stannard - Cigar and celery
Dave Nosworthy - I remember him taking the piss out of a Millwall left back once both athletically and verbally in the 4-3 win way back in the day.
Pennock - Own goals and his column in the local paper
Ashby - good player and seemed to be fun, beer cans outside Stoke City after staying up for instance
Southall - the long range goals, crossing, and stories about him in Pennock's columns...
Jarvis - just ludicrously fast and fun to watch schooling right backs time after time with a smile on his face
Hessy - brilliant player, liked to try and ref the game, once literally rugby tackled a forest player and didn't get a red
Dack - brilliantly talent player, plus ridiculous stories about him int press is always funny
John Hodge - old fashioned out and out winger
Super Bob Taylor - worldy after worldy after worldy
Akinbiyi - so fast and fun, but was still fairly crap at finishing, which I found made him fun to watch.
Edit - this is based on me watching from approx 94, so I've never seen the ilk of Morgan, Yeo, Shearer, Cochrane, Bruce, Cascarino, Mehmet, Elsey, Hilliard etc etc etc are
So mine is as follows, in a 442
Jim Stannard - Cigar and celery
Dave Nosworthy - I remember him taking the piss out of a Millwall left back once both athletically and verbally in the 4-3 win way back in the day.
Pennock - Own goals and his column in the local paper
Ashby - good player and seemed to be fun, beer cans outside Stoke City after staying up for instance
Southall - the long range goals, crossing, and stories about him in Pennock's columns...
Jarvis - just ludicrously fast and fun to watch schooling right backs time after time with a smile on his face
Hessy - brilliant player, liked to try and ref the game, once literally rugby tackled a forest player and didn't get a red
Dack - brilliantly talent player, plus ridiculous stories about him int press is always funny
John Hodge - old fashioned out and out winger
Super Bob Taylor - worldy after worldy after worldy
Akinbiyi - so fast and fun, but was still fairly crap at finishing, which I found made him fun to watch.
Edit - this is based on me watching from approx 94, so I've never seen the ilk of Morgan, Yeo, Shearer, Cochrane, Bruce, Cascarino, Mehmet, Elsey, Hilliard etc etc etc are