Dream Team- The right back

[Lord Snooty]

4 minutes ago, N0rtherner said:

 

Definitely agree on the game being rougher and having changed a lot over the years. Just seeing some of the players back in the 80s, early 90s, I thought they were phenomenal but when I start comparing their life off the pitch to the amount of practice and "professionalism" that goes with the game today, it feels like a very different situation.

 

They were phenominal. To be World Class and supping 8 pints and smoking 20 fags a day shows real commitment!

[shandypants]

4 minutes ago, OWL1969 said:

He still is around now, he was better 25 years since.I believe he's now got a less athletic physique,

 

There’s always one

 

You knew what what I meant. 

[Ronnie Starling]

Roland was pure class. He was the most professional player we had with his preparation for games from the warm up to how he would cope with his opponent. Look at how he dealt with Lee Sharpe in the league Cup final who was the young player of the season that year.

[shandypants]

1 minute ago, Lord Snooty said:

 

They were phenominal. To be World Class and supping 8 pints and smoking 20 fags a day shows real commitment!

...and they were the lightweights!!!

[shandypants]

1 minute ago, Ronnie Starling said:

Roland was pure class. He was the most professional player we had with his preparation for games from the warm up to how he would cope with his opponent. Look at how he dealt with Lee Sharpe in the league Cup final who was the young player of the season that year.

Trevor Francis?

[shezzas left peg]

Hard to answer mi 'Lord. 

Loved the rampaging runs and goals from Mel Sterland. 

Its not often you get a side where one of your biggest goal threats is your right back and scored well above his share of goals during his time with us. 

 

Roland nilsson though was also a different class, but in a different way. 

Read the game brilliantly, hardly ever made a mistake and had fantastic positional sense and teamwork. 

 

Loved both for different reasons, so for me it's a really tough choice to separate them. 

If we're after an entertaining gung ho side playing swashbuckling football I'd pick Mel, but if we're picking the best most all round team we could have put out, Roland edges it. 

[lanzaroteowl]

Loved Zico.

 

But Roland was the best right back in the World whilst he was playing for us.

We can't say that for any other of our players in their position in living memory.

 

So an easy vote for Roly

[shandypants]

4 minutes ago, lanzaroteowl said:

Loved Zico.

 

But Roland was the best right back in the World whilst he was playing for us.

We can't say that for any other of our players in their position in living memory.

 

So an easy vote for Roly

Maybe apart from Waddle. I can’t think of many better right wingers in world football during the first two years he played for us. He came to us from, arguably, the best side in Europe at that point in time and improved further. 

[lanzaroteowl]

10 minutes ago, shandypants said:

Maybe apart from Waddle. I can’t think of many better right wingers in world football during the first two years he played for us. He came to us from, arguably, the best side in Europe at that point in time and improved further. 

 

I'm not one for doing down our legends.

But I don't recall Waddle winning many international caps whilst playing for us.

[OWL1969]

I'm a massive fan of Mel, but sorry Zico you didn't get my vote.

We won't see the likes of Roland again in my lifetime or probably else's. 

Can we a 1st reserve for each position?

 

[OWL1969]

Just now, lanzaroteowl said:

 

I'm not one for doing down our legends.

But I don't recall Waddle winning many international caps whilst playing for us.

Due to the idiot in charge at the time, he didn't even get one whilst with us.

 

[Lord Snooty]

 

Top of the English assists column in 92/93

Peter Beardsley and Chris Waddle

Both omitted from the England team.

 

[waynecoyne14]

ray blackhall must be one of the worst i've seen

[Hedwig]

It can only be Roland Nilsson for me.

His professionalism, attitude & work-rate was something modern day footballers should aspire to..

 

The way he played, he glided across the turf, SWFC's very own Kaiser, and the way he had young Lee Sharpe (arguably the best prospect in the English game), in his pocket in the Rumbelows Cup Final in 1991 was something truly to behold..

There have been some good contenders in more recent years, namely, Buxton, Hunt, but when it comes down to it, they simply don't come close..

 

[Lord Snooty]

3 minutes ago, waynecoyne14 said:

ray blackhall must be one of the worst i've seen

 

£20,000 from Newcastle.

140 games.

 

 

[shandypants]

11 minutes ago, lanzaroteowl said:

 

I'm not one for doing down our legends.

But I don't recall Waddle winning many international caps whilst playing for us.

 

10 minutes ago, OWL1969 said:

Due to the idiot in charge at the time, he didn't even get one whilst with us.

 

This^^^. I remember there being a debate at the time about Waddle not being included plus also Taylor’s mismanagement and subsequent falling out with Gary Lineker who was one of if not the best striker in the world at the time. 

[sternlad]

1. Roland Nilsson - one of the best all round footballers seen at S6...ever.

2. Mel Sterland - big hearted local lad made good, took some stopping in full flight.

3. Wilf Smith - good overlapping full back.

All the above played in the top flight for Wednesday and all were capped at some level (I think?)

Honourable mention for Rodrigues who was a Welsh international but perhaps was past his sell by date when he came to Wednesday from Southampton. (Again, I think?)

[Avon barksdale]

Easy vote . Number 2  is Roland Nilsson. Arguably our greatest player ever. 

[York_Owl]

31 minutes ago, waynecoyne14 said:

ray blackhall must be one of the worst i've seen

There's another defender whose surname begins with a B but I can't say his name.

[Lord Snooty]

8 minutes ago, York_Owl said:

There's another defender whose surname begins with a B but I can't say his name.

 

Kenneth?