Guest Distraught! Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Des Walker & Viv Anderson Hands down the best two we've ever had and would have worked very well together. Would be our pairing now if they were a few years younger. What, like about 35 years younger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 From the video it doesn't look like that happened like that at all. Blue tinted spectacles? Hence my stating "Not quite as I remember it actually..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh_weds_we_love_you Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Nigel Pearson and Des Walker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 What Anderson did at Hillsbrough was remarkable. Rons conversation of a 35 year old right back to centre half was a master stroke. To Captain a club to a cup final at 38 years of age just shows what great condition he was in, what great reading of the game he had. His timing in his headers was superb. His head was like a magnet to the ball in both penalty boxes. The irony is who knows what sort of centre half he could have been if he had been converted there in his mid 20's rather than late thirties. He might have been one of the best in the game and I suspect could have had an even longer International career as Stevens if I remember rightly had taken the right back birth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh_weds_we_love_you Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Seeing these videos remind me just how bad Gordon Watson realy was! :Hirsty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Peak Viv Anderson versus Madjid? Not a chance! ..in your opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Seeing these videos remind me just how bad Gordon Watson realy was! :Hirsty: Pearce and 'Flash' were the footballing equivalent of putting thick kids in the top stream at school and hoping being with the clever kids would make them brighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York_Owl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Agree with Pearson and Walker or Lyons and Walker but I'm going to go with Ian Knight and Des. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KivoOwl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Tommy Crawshaw and Peter Swan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying-owl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Pearson and Walker for me too. They were actually at the club at the same time for a month or so too, but only played a few games together. I remember at the time not being too disappointed about Pearson leaving; he'd broken his leg the season before and didn't look the same player when he came back in. I also thought his lack of pace was a major problem, and was chuffed to bits when we brought in Walker. Looking back I think it was perhaps a mistake to sell him though. He'd only just turned 30, after all, and did go on to have a few good years at Middlesbrough. Andy Pearce was essentially his replacement too. Didn't he just run it off??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F. Spiksley Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Des and Nigel. Viv as sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 (edited) Our most distinguished centre backs of all time have probably been Tommy Crawshaw and Des Walker? We haven't had a colossal centre back for years, not since Des Walker. Probably the closest we've had to one in the past 10 or so years is Anthony Gardener? Des Walker was the best ever centre-back I've seen play for Sheffield Wednesday during my lifetime. The most notable centre-backs to have played for us that I can think of were: Tommy Crawshaw; Tony Leach, Walter Millership (the original converted centre-forward/centre-half), Peter Swan, Vic Mobley, Gerry Young, Mick Lyons, Mark Smith, Nigel Pearson, Viv Anderson and Des Walker. However the central defensive partnership that I'd like to have seen the most out of all of our all time central defenders would be Vic Mobley and Des Walker. They'd have been a formidable and colossal partnership to say the least. Edited February 6, 2014 by MilansMissingMarbles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Quite a few mentions for Lyons. Certainly a warrier. Tough as a tree and with bravery rarely seen. A player who'd stick his head in amongst the flying boots. There can have been few tougher players at S6 over the years. He was so hard I suspect had he not made it as a pro he could have carved out an alternative career as a drill bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Quite a few mentions for Lyons. Certainly a warrier. Tough as a tree and with bravery rarely seen. A player who'd stick his head in amongst the flying boots. There can have been few tougher players at S6 over the years. He was so hard I suspect had he not made it as a pro he could have carved out an alternative career as a drill bit. That's true. Although from what I've seen of the likes of Gerry Young, Vic Mobley and Don Megson they looked formidable and as tough as they come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Flashman Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Nige and Des for me. Combination of power , pace and strength in the air. He was so hard I suspect had he not made it as a pro he could have carved out an alternative career as a drill bit. Just too young to have seen Lyons but love the description !! Just a bloke. Being dragged along in a world that moves too quick for it's own good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark.flem Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Warhurst & Walker for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 This is how central defenders should be built.... They don't build them like this anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkingatthemoon Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 des walker peter swann. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogers Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Walker and Anderson or Thome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfmanjack Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Kivo, with his selection of Crawshaw and Swan, can't possibly have a clue what he's talking about. He sounds a bit like Mansfield Mick, basing his opinion on the opinion of others. It's surely got to be based on people you've actually seen play. Swanny actually retired from football at least seven or eight years before Kivo was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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