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Pavilionaire

Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
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Knight - Foster (with headband) - Dunk - Bloom

4 strong iconic leaders across 6 decades.
 
















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Pliny the Gull

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Mar 4, 2024
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Great question.
There are many.
But to answer in those I really loved going to watch.
P Ward
K Nogan
J Crumplin
B Zomora

Obviously T Bloom, D Knight, A Mullery.

As an aside. There are 4 that in different circumstances I would love another season of.
L Brady (mgr)
Vicente
J Texiria
A Fati
 


Superphil

Superphil

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Jul 7, 2003
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In a pile of football shirts
Reinault
De Zerbi
Bloom
Ward

And I’m struggling as I had to leave out Dick Knight.
 


BadFish

BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
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Tony Bloom, Dick Knight, Kerry Mayo, Kerry Mayo.

Obvs
 






Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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severnside gull said:
Lawrenson never tires of disrespecting the club and puts us down at every opportunity. Lost any right to a place among our greats
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I have heard it said and been shown evidence this is not the case.
Much posted on this on NSC over the years.

He doesn't figure for me because he was a bigger legend at Liverpool.
I don't go in for sloppy seconds.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

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Lady Whistledown said:
If you'd posted this twenty years ago, Lawrenson would have been nailed on.

I don't think he is now, however. Much more associated with Liverpool, and doesn't have nearly enough of a connection with fans (across all generations) to pick up enough votes in an imaginary poll on this subject.
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Precisely.
 






Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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hans kraay fan club said:
The age of the posters really shouldn't. Anyone, of any age, NOT selecting Charlie Webb, really needs to sort out their lack of knowledge of Albion's history.

As a player (1909 - 1915), scored 73 goals in 248 games, including the winner in the Charity Shield - our only major honour. He was also the first Albion player in history to win a full international cap (for Ireland).
Then (re)enlisted in the army, at the outbreak of WWI, served on the Western Front, and was interned as a POW in Germany.
Was offered the job of rebuilding the Albion after demob, and served as first team manager for TWENTY EIGHT YEARS! - and after that as club secretary.

Personally I'd select Webb as 'greatest manager', so that I could choose Tommy Cook as the 'greatest player'. For those that don't know of Cook:

The club's all time record goal-scorer, with 123 goals from 209 games - some achievement in isolation - but elevated to immortality by concurrently scoring 32 centuries for Sussex and serving with heroism in BOTH World Wars.

True LEGENDS, both.

So my list in full would be:

CHARLIE WEBB
TOMMY COOK
TONY BLOOM
LEWIS DUNK
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Snap WRT the first two. For reasons I explained elsewhere.
Bloom not - I picked only former players.
Dunk was my number 5 choice. Behind Ward and Zamora.
The latter two also explained earlier.
 








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METALMICKY

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:
For me they have to be former players even if they went on to greater legend as manager of the club

Charlie Webb, Tommy Cook, Peter Ward, Bobby Zamora.

Those who fancy recent players, I would caveat that most of our current squad are head and shoulders above Ward and Zamora in terms of quality, but none have (yet) had the same impact.

These stats will never be surpassed:

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Can't argue with that selection.
 


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Brovion said:
Still don't agree with Dunk, but the rest of your post is spot on. You actually missed out the fact that Cook was Albion's first full England international. Even now that's still quite a selective group (Cook, Ward, Foster and Dunk are the only four I think).

Also I believe Cook was the first ever 3rd division player to be selected for England.
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Agree, and...
Ben White is the fifth.
 


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