GREATEST EVER....LCFC WINGERS

[gerblod]

5 hours ago, sacreblueits442 said:

....Lenny Glover was the one that helped to draw me to the club!!!

Top 3

1. Mahrez

2. Glover

3. Guppy

Glover was an exceptional winger. Had he been in a team with serious intentions and not just serious talent, he might have had the rep. which his contemporary Mike Summerbee enjoys amongst us older football aficionados.

[smudger63]

6 hours ago, enmac said:

Honourable mention for Laurie Cunnigham, on loan during 85-86 season. 

In his pomp he was fantastic, but was well past his past when he was here briefly.

[smudger63]

Weller, Glover and Lynex are the ones that stick out for me. Guppy was Beckhamesque  with his delivery of a ball into the box, but he played mainly as a wing back more than a winger.   

[slymunn]

We played Vardy and Kane on the wings..do they count 😂

[Phube]

Imagine how good Guppy would have been if he didn’t have to defend as well?

 

Or imagine if Mahrez had to play wingback!?
 

 

[crisp packet]

Uuuup Tommy Wright uuuup Tommy Wright , was a get you off your seat winger in the early 90s . Class. 

[frakenfox]

34 minutes ago, slymunn said:

We played Vardy and Kane on the wings..do they count 😂

I'm not sure Kane can count.

[frakenfox]

Lynex was perhaps my true first love.

[fazzyfox]

Enjoyed watching the smooth classy style of Peter Weir on the left wing but in terms of output / achievement and performance probably doesn’t replace any of the OP’s top ten.

[weller54]

John Farrington.

[weller54]

15 minutes ago, frakenfox said:

I'm not sure Kane can count.

He has no problems counting his winners medals 😂

[SheppyFox]

Lloyd Dyer?? Why’s he not on the list 🤔 

[adejo92]

Got to be Mahrez, by a country mile.

 

Yes there's mixed feelings about how he left, but no one can deny what a talent he is and how good he was for us whilst here.

 

Big fan of Albrighton too. Always puts in 110%. I genuinely think that if we played with a big man up top, he'd have so many assists due to his ability to cross a ball being near perfect. 

[bald reynard]

2 hours ago, smudger63 said:

Weller, Glover and Lynex are the ones that stick out for me. Guppy was Beckhamesque  with his delivery of a ball into the box, but he played mainly as a wing back more than a winger.   

Completely agree with that, as regards 'historical' wingers. In recent years, it has to be Mahrez (much as we don't like to think about him now!). 

[Fox92]

Mahrez for me.

 

I watch him now and sometimes can't believe he was here. His touch, his vision, his ability to turn nothing into something is unbelievable. 

[volpeazzurro]

5 hours ago, gerblod said:

Glover was an exceptional winger. Had he been in a team with serious intentions and not just serious talent, he might have had the rep. which his contemporary Mike Summerbee enjoys amongst us older football aficionados.

I always think there are some nostalgic blue tinted glasses with Glover. When I used to watch him he only seemed to have about one good game in three or four.

[Sampson]

8 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said:

I always think there are some nostalgic blue tinted glasses with Glover. When I used to watch him he only seemed to have about one good game in three or four.

Same with most of the Bloomfield side. We'd go on terrible runs under Bloomfield - pretty sure some of our longest winless runs etc. still stand from the Bloomfield side and most seasons we were either battling relegation or just keeping our head above the relegation fight.

 

We did have a good season where we finished 7th in 76 but even that season we were draw specialists and didn't score that many but just ground out a lot of 0-0s and 1-1s - we actually only won 13 out of 42 league games that season and finished on a negative goal difference. Almost everyone in that Bloomfield side was very inconsistent and a sort of 1 game in 3 or 1 game in 4 type player - including Weller and Worthington.

[BoyJones]

When I first started going to Filbert Street, our wingers were Riley and Stringfellow, think Wills had just finished. Then came Billy Hodgson followed a few years later by Farringdon and Glover. All good players. I liked Glover because he did excite the crowd, but he was no world beater, 

 

Lynex deserves a mention, but after that we seemed to be unable to sign real talent (I didn’t really rate knockeart) Then Mahrez came along. In terms of sheer talent, control of the ball and the ability to change a game, we had never had a winger like him. I loved a lot of the old guys, but you can’t take it away from Mahrez, he was and still is a phenomenal talent.

[Sly]

11 hours ago, StevieLynex said:

Loads of games …… 

[An Away Move]

Staggered by the omission of Andrew Impey on this thread!

[Sampson]

5 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

Staggered by the omission of Andrew Impey on this thread!

Impey played as a full back and wing back for us.

 

He was more of a winger in his earlier days at QPR.

Edited 10 April 2022 by Sampson

[TonyN11]

11 hours ago, winteriscoming said:

Mahrez. Irreplaceable. 

..... so far.  Give us time ......

[hackenbacker]

11 hours ago, Lesterlad said:

He may not of been the best but he played for free to help us out

Nice bloke too.. he lives in the same compound as me in Qatar. 

[Shah johns]

Paul Reid was pretty good on his day.

[smudger63]

1 hour ago, volpeazzurro said:

I always think there are some nostalgic blue tinted glasses with Glover. When I used to watch him he only seemed to have about one good game in three or four.

Certainly in his last couple of years here he suffered with a bad injury and didnt play that much, and was never really as good as he had been pre the bad injury.