Your all time Brighton and Hove Albion XI

[Byrne & Small]

Keeley, - Painter, Foster, Dublin, Calderon - Penny, Case, Curbishley, Brady - Saunders, Nelson.

Subs: Zamora, Nogan, Gall, Conner, Wilson.

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Grummitt
Stevens - Lawrenson - Foster - Williams
Ryan - Case - Horton - O'Sullivan
Ward - Zamora

8 of those are the same as mine.

Ward/Zamora will surely be in 99% of people's teams, as will Lawrenson and Foster for those old enough to remember the glory days.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

mark walton

joe o'cuerill joe dolan robbie pethick zoumana bagayoko

david lee agustin battipiedi value gislason


jamie moralee michael mahoney-johnson sam williams

No no my friend...he wants the best eleven,not the worst...did make me smile though!

 

[chez]

As good as Wardy or Zamora?

Not as good as Ward but better than Zamora IMO.

 

[chez]

Keeley

Chapman
Foster
Lawrenson
Stevens

Penny
Case
Gotsmanov
Curbishley

Byrne
Ward

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

Not as good as Ward but better than Zamora IMO.

Maybe he was but his impact for Brighton was not as profound as Bobby's

 

[kevtherev]

It's amazing that Michael Robinson never seems to get a look-in in threads such as these.

This is a very good point, Wardy is quite rightly a Brighton legend and will always get in 99% of these teams.But it could be argued that Robinson, Saunders and Zamora were(and in Bobbys case still is) better players than Ward. Purely based upon their performances at the highest level in this country. They are certainly the best four Albion strikers of the modern era, with the likes of Byrne, Connor, Nelson behind them,,,,,,and in a few months time I belive CMS will be right up there with these names as well.

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

8 of those are the same as mine.

Ward/Zamora will surely be in 99% of people's teams, as will Lawrenson and Foster for those old enough to remember the glory days.

7 the same as my team, I put Gary Stevens in at centre back but arguably by putting him at full back and Foster at centre half then the team is stronger.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

I think several of our current squad have the potential to make it into an all time Albion XI but for now my choice is:

---------------Beeney-------------
Keown Lawrenson Foster Stevens
Horton Case O'Sullivan Penney
---------Ward Zamora------------

Subs: Corrigan, Nelson S., Napier K., Irvine, Saunders, Nelson G, Robinson M.

Manager: Gus Poyet

So many others to choose from eg Nogan, Bennett, Mellor, Byrne, Mortimer, Wilson D. I would have included Alex Dawson but today's refs would have a fit.

Peter O'Sullivan is a legend for me - we had some great midfielders over the years but he did the business in our most successful period so couldn't leave him out.

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

Thats a strong looking team. Is Keown good enough to get in??

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Not sure a team of Peter Wards would keep too many clean sheets.

Grummitt
Stevens, Foster, Lawrenson, Gatting
Case, Horton, Wilson, O'Sullivan
Zamora, Ward

Subs (7, to make Gus happy): Beeney, Calderon, Ryan, Gregory, Robinson, Saunders, G Nelson.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

I acknowledge that Keown's career really took off once he returned to Arsenal but in the season he spent with us you could see he was class, and hard with it.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

7 the same as my team, I put Gary Stevens in at centre back but arguably by putting him at full back and Foster at centre half then the team is stronger.

Stevens at full-back and Foster at centre-half. Hmmm, maybe. The abiding memory is that it didn't really work out in the 1983 Cup Final Replay.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

My bad. It was a Stevens-Foster centre-back partnership in the 1983 Cup Final replay, with Gatting as right-back.

 

[Trelford Mills Guide Dog]

Graham Moseley

John Gregory Steve Foster Mark Lawrenson Gary Stevens

Dean Saunders Nobby Horton Paul Clark Stevie Penney

Peter Ward Bobby Zamora

 

[Pondicherry]

Moseley

Stevens Foster Lawrenson Nelson
Penney Case Wilson Saunders
Robinson Zamora

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Forgot to mention Bobby Smith - sadly I missed seeing him play by a couple of years but given he was a very recent England international and scoop signing from Spurs at that time he ought to be in the all time Albion squad at least? I guess he was a Michael Robinson sort of player ie a big, whole hearted goal scorer.

 

[Seagulljohn]

How about mike ring ?

Runs and hides

 

[Pondicherry]

Having picked Sammy Nelson in my team above - I Wikied him to see what Brighton info the page had. I had forgotten how many time he played for Northern Ireland (51) who were good then including the 1982 World Cup Finals whilst a Brighton player. Also his daughter is married to Matt Prior according to the all seeing Wiki.

 

[Paskman]

Moseley
Gregory Lawrenson Foster Williams
Case Horton Saunders Gotsmanov
Ward Worthington

Subs (7) Zamora, Robinson, Byrne, Stevens ,Gordon Smith, O'Sullivan, Corrigan

A lot of the current bunch might well be in there soon!