Guest Posted 14 March 2014 Posted 14 March 2014 I think Pearson would win. They were good...we are better! so we're better than a team that won the league cup twice and ended top ten in the prem 3 or 4 years running? tee's nothing to back up that view apart from the act we're currently too good for the championship. lennon, izzet, savage was our best midfield for at least 30/40 years. you're kidding yourself.
Scoobyrob Posted 14 March 2014 Posted 14 March 2014 Old team hands down for me. The 3/5/2 formation got the best out of our old squad to stop teams like our new team playing. The new team would play more attractive football for sure but the old team would be more street wise. I think we have the potential now to one day be better but not yet. Walsh, Elliot and Taggart would cause havoc on set pieces and the 3 man midfield would stop the balls to our quick players at source. If we keep improving as we are and add a few stronger players in certain positions in the summer it may be close next year.
Mickey O'Neil Posted 14 March 2014 Posted 14 March 2014 so we're better than a team that won the league cup twice and ended top ten in the prem 3 or 4 years running? tee's nothing to back up that view apart from the act we're currently too good for the championship. lennon, izzet, savage was our best midfield for at least 30/40 years. you're kidding yourself. I've never been mad enough to say we are too good for this league. I wasn't stating fact either. Just my opinion.
Guest Basildon Fox Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Until the current team with a few additions line up against the big boys of the Prem the question is impossible to answer. A couple of decent additions to the team we already have and who knows where we can go.
MajorDanby Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 I remember Gerry Taggart fondly. Back then (98/99?) I was still going with my old man. He hated Taggs for at least the first half season he played for us. Called him two tonne Taggart. Looking back with good reason, he was slow, lumbering and made lots of mistakes. Then suddenly something just clicked, one of the most complete turnarounds I have ever seen suddenly becoming almost unbeatable. Suffice it to say, that nickname was quickly dropped come 99/00
dorsetboy Posted 15 March 2014 Author Posted 15 March 2014 to achieve what mons team did is going to take some doing. i dont just mean from a playing point i mean from a fans point in those few years we had countless wembley apperences , top ten finishes ,european football and 2 cup wins you could make the trek to places like liverpool on a weds night not even doubting a positive result of some sort as a fan its going to take a lot to recreate those times but maybe this is the time again. on a side note loved a tweet from linekar in the week saying hes already sorted it with the bbc to make sure we are top of the opening motd programme
Hungry Hungry Fox Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Fantastic was it settled? Just adding my thougts to proceedings It's a debate that will never be settled
Hungry Hungry Fox Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Playing devils advocate here but you could say that the current team that is steam rolling the league at present is better than the team that just crept into the play offs under MON ;-)
cc_star Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Taggart left back? Knocky would destroy him. Watching those two in the same camera shot would be like watching it in slow motion.
cc_star Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Savage Izzet Lennon Guppy was proven to be the second best midfield in the Prem behind Beckham Scholes Keane & Giggs from a stats point of view. We're not at that level... yet!
cc_star Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Kaamark would man mark Vardy and he wouldn't get a kick! Aka Juninho League Cup final Wembley. Our wingers would get some serious space! Man mark Drinkwater! (the most passes in opposition half in the league) That would limit our abilities
suffolk fox Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Our wingers would get some serious space! Man mark Drinkwater! (the most passes in opposition half in the league) That would limit our abilities Please........What just like Middlesborough did in that final with two Brazilians and an Italian superstar up front. Errrrrrr I don't think so. As other posters have indicated until the current crop win two league cups, finish top ten three times in the premiership they do not even come close. In a very poor Championship this season.
LJS Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Possibly the best performance I ever saw from an O'Neill side was when we destroyed Sunderland 5-2, shortly before things changed dramatically for the worse. That team, I believe, is on a different level to our current line up. Having said that, there is huge potential with what we have at our disposal now and if we keep everyone together and the Thais continue to back us then there's no reason why the ghost of O'Neill can't be laid to rest and his achievements surpassed. All ifs and buts at the moment but the future looks very bright. I walked away from that Sunderland game genuinely believing that we were on the brink of something very special indeed. In that era we lacked two things; strength in depth and a proper goalscoring partnership. It looked as though, with. Heskey and Collymore, we might have cracked the latter. Our lack of strength in depth saw us suffer a terrible run of form over that winter as a result of an injury crisis. And yet we finished just twelve points off fourth placed Liverpool. As brilliant as that era was people sometimes forget how close we were to becoming truly great. The league was more competitive back then (although we moaned about the glass ceiling even at that time) and UEFA had just started allowing fourth place teams into the Champion's League. We weren't a million miles away. We were probably two or three players short, looking back. In some ways that era represents a missed opportunity. Probably no specific instance more so than allowing Taylor all that cash to spend. We weren't to know that at the time, of course. Most felt he was an excellent appointment, myself included. But can you imagine if the job had gone to somebody more capable? A strong squad (minus Heskey and Lennon, mind), bags of money, a new stadium on the way. We were a great proposition. I'm just glad we might have the chance to do it all over again. EDIT: Turns out there were just three CL places that season and the one that followed. But we still only finished fourteen points off third placed Leeds. That's unthinkable now.
MooseBreath Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Six months ago I would have said the old team would have won by a mile. Now I think the old team would still win but only by a few hundred yards. Mainly due to the emergence of Moore, Vardy's turnaround and Drinkwater and James getting stronger by the game. Those two aren't at the same level as Izzet and Lennon yet, but could be. Moore could be as good as Elliot one day. Vardy could score as many goals as Claridge or Cottee.
cc_star Posted 15 March 2014 Posted 15 March 2014 Please........What just like Middlesborough did in that final with two Brazilians and an Italian superstar up front. Errrrrrr I don't think so. As other posters have indicated until the current crop win two league cups, finish top ten three times in the premiership they do not even come close. In a very poor Championship this season. League Cup is a very different proposition now with everyone but Arsne Wenger going for it these days, whereas back when we won it the big 6 treated it as a joke & inconvenience!Top half Prem finish is the only relevant comparison that transcends the ever changing nature of the game.
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