[Albion] Albion Mount Rushmore

[BadFish]

Precisely.

He is making a video as we speak, complaining he has missed out for being and old white dude.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

- Bobby Zamora
- Peter Ward
- Tony Bloom
- Dick Knight

I agree with your player selections.
Players who stood out.
Has to be goalscorers.
(Nobody has mentioned him yet by 6 on my list is Murray.)

 

[Mackenzie]

Wardy
Tank
Spider
Nobby

 

[TugWilson]

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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Same here except Ernie Wilson our most played player for Bobby - sorry Bobby

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Wardy
Tank
Spider
Nobby

Now there’s a combo.

 

[Giraffe]

I’m a striker. I like strikers.

Ward, Nelson, Zamora, Murray

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Rollings
Horton
Ward
O'Sullivan

 

[Han Solo]

Does it feature a Billy and Bjorn?

My subjective Brighton mountain - the reasons for my continued hangarounding - would have to feature a somewhat uncanny (disturbing?) mix of Graham Potter, Bozza, Tony Bloom and Neal Maupay or whoever played the biggest role in making it last more than a season.. not sure how the Japanese tourists are going to feel about it.

More objectively speaking that Charlie Webb guy obviously needs to be in, Lewis Dunk makes sense given he has been a key player for the majority of the clubs best years and a few of the not so good ones, Tony Bloom who over time will have more influence over the clubs history than anyone else and perhaps a random non-named activist supporter from the 90s. And in the middle, a golden statue of Graham Potter.

 

[Reddleman]

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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Pascal Gross has had as much is not more of an impact than any player in our history.

 

[Reddleman]

I would do a player from each era

Ward, Zamora, Gross and of course Bloom

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Pascal Gross has had as much is not more of an impact than any player in our history.

Fair comment.

I shamefully have a goal scorer bias.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Pascal Gross has had as much is not more of an impact than any player in our history.

Quite. All things considered, I would not go with a Mount Rushmore but one of those hulking and huge Soviet type statues just of Gross. I’d stick it on top of the i360.

 

[Robinjakarta]

I have heard it said and been shown evidence this is not the case.
Much posted on this on NSC over the years.

You are right, and there's plenty of evidence including from the man himself, yet there always seems to be one who comes up with this nonsense.

 

[Robinjakarta]

4 Albion icons, set in stone, who are your 4?

I go; (for a multitude of reasons)

Alan Mullery (All time greatest manager)
Mark Lawrenson (The greatest player, to date, to pull on an Albion shirt)
Dick Knight (From the boardroom)
Lewis Dunk (modern day great)

Horton (our greatest captain) for Dunk. Otherwise the same for me.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Horton (our greatest captain) for Dunk. Otherwise the same for me.

Port Vale's Nobby Horton? That one?

No thanks.
The player needs to have had his career pinnacle with us, or declared his allegiance to our club to be considered

 

[5Ways Gull]

I couldn't possibly boil down my 50 odd years supporting to lust 4 legendary individuals. I personally think Micky Adams is very important in our history, he was the manager that got us going back in the right direction. But you probably wouldn't put him anywhere near the 4 "most important "

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Bloom
Knight
Dunk
Ward

 

[Skuller]

Gully
N Wisdom
Ernest
Locadia

 

[grubbyhands]

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

Hard to argue with that>

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Bloom
Knight
Dunk
Ward

I don't think you can argue with that