Bouncing Owl Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 3 hours ago, sexpistol said: David Hirst has said his favourite partner was Williams. Ye, striking partnerships are worked on complimenting each other. Mark bright was an excellent target man, dalian Atkinson was an exciting front man and warhurst was incredible for a period but Hirst/Williams complimented each other perfectly. Hirst was the main man but Williams ran his nads off, created space for Hirsty and also laid chances on a place for him. It was an excellent partnership. I also liked the burton and tudgay partnership - it was a lesser level but they complimented each other well at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1961OWL Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Hirst and Williams Andy Mac and T.C. Tommy Tynan and Rodger Wylde ( pure nostalgia sorry) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ka58 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Shetland Owl said: Hirst & Bright, great partnership I think you’d be surprised how little they actually played together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 I still stick with fantham and layne coz I saw them but just looked up Dooley and sewell ..46 goals in 30 games Dooley ,23 goals 35 games sewell which kind of blows all the others away . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jack the Hat Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, soldierboyblue said: Good grief I was thinking the same. Like fish out of water compared to the others. Also my second least favourite pairing was hirst and Williams because Williams was only championship standard - slow and lightweight. Each to their own I suppose. id go hirst with either Atkinson warhurst or Bright. Also liked Roger Wilde Tommy Tynan Andy mac and terrycuran in any combination for nostalgia reasons. Edited April 10, 2020 by Jack the Hat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 Atkinson and Hirst played together for 1 season.....we were relegated Good foundation for saying they were our best ever forward partnership Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jack the Hat Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ian said: Atkinson and Hirst played together for 1 season.....we were relegated Good foundation for saying they were our best ever forward partnership Not withstanding it was a bit of a freak we were relegated - they were certainly not the reason we went down. In fact you could argue scoring 31 goals for a relegated team is harder than one doing well. Anyone who thinks Williams is better than Atkinson just because he is unselfish has different criteria than me for what makes a good striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Jack the Hat said: Not withstanding it was a bit of a freak we were relegated - they were certainly not the reason we went down. In fact you could argue scoring 31 goals for a relegated team is harder than one doing well. Anyone who thinks Williams is better than Atkinson just because he is unselfish has different criteria than me for what makes a good striker. It wasn’t a freak at all....we got less points than all but 2 other teams in the league which is exactly the same as most other teams that get relegated every season 31 goals in a season between 2 players is hardly a rousing endorsement for “best partnership ever” given that for many years 30 for 1 was seen as the benchmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Jack the Hat said: Not withstanding it was a bit of a freak we were relegated - they were certainly not the reason we went down. In fact you could argue scoring 31 goals for a relegated team is harder than one doing well. Anyone who thinks Williams is better than Atkinson just because he is unselfish has different criteria than me for what makes a good striker. We aren’t talking about good strikers we are talking about best ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamwestsleftear Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 the powerful andy booth, with an Italian brooding just off him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LondonOwl313 Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 It depends whether you do it on a relative basis to other teams at the time or an absolute basis in direct comparison with each other. If it’s the first then it has to be from a time where we were one of the best teams in the country, so early 90s or 60s. If it’s a direct comparison then as an example, I think Fletcher is far better than Andy Booth yet the latter was the main striker for a mid table prem team. The game moves on and evolves. I rewatched the 91 cup final when it was shown on YouTube and the standard of play was lower than the top of the championship is now. So Hooper and Fletcher would probably be up there on that basis, but still likely behind Hirst and Bright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerson Thome Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 6 hours ago, Jack the Hat said: I was thinking the same. Like fish out of water compared to the others. Also my second least favourite pairing was hirst and Williams because Williams was only championship standard - slow and lightweight. Each to their own I suppose. id go hirst with either Atkinson warhurst or Bright. Also liked Roger Wilde Tommy Tynan Andy mac and terrycuran in any combination for nostalgia reasons. Wasn't Williams the fastest player we had in the team at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 3 hours ago, Emerson Thome said: Wasn't Williams the fastest player we had in the team at the time? No Hirst was, but Williams wasn’t slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scilly owl Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Bannister and Varadi.... I was confident that one or both of them would score every time they played together, and they usually did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plonk Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Prendergast and Joicey. Andy Mac and TC Banno and Varadi. Hirst and Williams/ Atkinson / Bright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurujuan Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 It’s hard to define really, what is a good pairing The best pairings are not always the ones that produced the most goals. Strikers do not, or should not, act as a separate entity, they are part of a side constructed of eleven players. It is after all, a team sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 The most exciting and complete partnership I've seen us have during my time following Wednesday in the modern era was our first strike partnership I saw in David Hirst and Dalian Atkinson. For me they'd closely be followed by David Hirst and Dalian Atkinson's successor Paul Williams. However, Hirst and Atkinson, seemed to have everything a partnership needs, in goals, pace and power. Modern era I'd say Hirst and Atkinson out of the forwards I've seen, although statistically many other partnerships bettered them but all time I'd think it would probably have to be Andrew Wilson and whoever partnered him in the pre-war golden era or John Fantham and Keith Ellis or David 'Bronco' Layne in the post-war era? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerson Thome Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Lots of shouts for Hirst and Atkinson on here. I'm sure if we did a 'best-ever central midfield partnership' then Sheridan and Palmer would be top. And even a best-ever centre back partnership then Pearson and Shirtliff would be in the mix. So, you do have to wonder, have the eff we managed to get relegated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jack the Hat Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 13 hours ago, Emerson Thome said: Wasn't Williams the fastest player we had in the team at the time? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Varadi & Bannister Hirst & Bright Hirst & Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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