[Albion] Is this really our best squad ever?

[Icy Gull]

Ward scored 16 in his only full season in the top flight with us.
1 in 11 the following season though but he wanted out then.

Fair enough, I am wrong I have a memory of him struggling in the First Division. 16 goals for a bottom of the table team is indeed impressive. Good, he is almost single handedly responsible for me being an Albion fan

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Hugo you are 100% correct. I am old enough to remember the team that finished higher in the old first division. Difficult to judge across eras, but I genuinely believe the current crop are just one player away from being top 10. I think we all know who I think that player is. Once that player is acquired, then this group will be correctly entitled the best ever. Until then... they are not..,


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Is it.....a striker?

I read your post a bit too quick, there, and thought you were actually going to unveil him

 

[WATFORD zero]

I think this is our best squad ever, but they are very young. It may simply take a season or two to put it beyond doubt

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

When we achieve our highest ever league finish we will achieve our highest ever league finish.

In my opinion, we already have the best squad of footballers ever assembled by the Albion.

Yep. 100% this.

Reminds me of questions about health in the UK. Taking annual noise out of consideration (we have some obvious noise right now) if you want to make an assessment of 'progress' based on UK health then, yes, we have never been healthier. Immediately someone will say 'we were healthier before processed food'. No we weren't; poverty, crap housing and extreme social inequality much of it enshrined in law meant average Brits were smaller and died far sooner than today and any benefits of a diet based on local vegetables and cheap cuts of fresh meat were massively offset. So, I'm sorry, the old First Division squad are no match for today's. The opposition, of course, are also different class. I'd even say that Poyet's last squad were considerably better than the old first division side. Hughton's promotion side certainly were.

 

[Swansman]

Its always difficult to compare players from different eras in football. I think if you take a modern Premier League striker like Neal Maupay who has trained with modern methods for all his career and put him in a time machine heading back to 1980, he would score 50 goals unless someone slaughtered him. Its not really a fair comparison. Only in the last ten years or so the number of sprints in football increased with 40% or so, I dont think there is any data to compare with 1980 but presumably the difference is even greater.

 

[vagabond]

Is it.....a striker?

I read your post a bit too quick, there, and thought you were actually going to unveil him

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[b.w.2.]

Is it.....a striker?

I read your post a bit too quick, there, and thought you were actually going to unveil him

Lol [emoji23]


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[Super Steve Earle]

This team has so much potential, I think I shall call it the Team of the Twenties. Do you think it will catch on

 

[Seagull58]

Its always difficult to compare players from different eras in football. I think if you take a modern Premier League striker like Neal Maupay who has trained with modern methods for all his career and put him in a time machine heading back to 1980, he would score 50 goals unless someone slaughtered him. Its not really a fair comparison. Only in the last ten years or so the number of sprints in football increased with 40% or so, I dont think there is any data to compare with 1980 but presumably the difference is even greater.

He would have been kicked on the achilles in the first couple of minutes to slow him down and then booted up in the air in the first 10 if he was causing trouble. if he'd thrown himself to the ground looking for a pen 1. he wouldn't have got it and 2. he would have been lifted up by the throat and sternly told to behave.