Best Rovers Team Youve Seen

[Bbrovers2288]

I like berg but I can’t imagine him tearing up and down the wing in the modern game so for me right back would have to be Emerton.

i also really liked ripley on the right wing , would be a close call between him and Bentley.

wouldnt get in the team but some handy subs to have would be paul warhurst and lars bohenian. 

We have had several star names that have reached us at the end of their careers so I’m guessing your referring to their actual rovers careers otherwise the likes of fowler, djorkaeff, Salgado, Suker would need to be involved 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

12 hours ago, 47er said:

Guess its your age but Berg was not in the same class as Newton. still a great player though!

Yeah Newton had it all at fullback. I liked Berg but he wasn't in Newton's class. He could play right or left back like a natural, good enough to play in both positions for a top England team. How many of them are there these days that can do that ? Too many one footed wonder today.

I thought that Andy Mac and Matt Jansen were great players and I saw them both many times but if I was bringing on a forward sub for my team it would have to be Bellamy. You'd hate to have to mark him. He was seriously quick with a mean streak and he could finish.

Edited February 28, 2019 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Hanks]

Too young to remember Fred Pickering before he left for Everton and he was a shadow of his former self when he returned.

                                                              Friedel

                                   Newton England Hendry Le Saux

                                     Douglas Tugay Clayton  Duff

                                                Shearer Sutton                                            

 

 

[CP Company Lad]

Late 70s early 80s i attended quite a few Rovers games with my Grandad and cousins. I was at Gigg Lane when Promotion was sealed. It was rammed behind the goal is all i can remember.

My team would be made up of players i remember from that era....

                        Bradshaw

Rathbone  Fazakerly  Keeley  Brannigan

Miller  Parkes   Stonehouse  Brotherstone

             Bell            Garner

Happy days. Smax and Waggon Wheels from the kiosk on the Riverside Paddock and we used to sneak through some broken wooden slats into the seats above. 

Edited February 28, 2019 by CP Company Lad

[Bigdoggsteel]

8 hours ago, Biz said:

                     Friedel

Kenna Berg Hendry Le Saux

                     Tugay 

Ripley                            Duff

                  Dunn

           Shearer    Cole

Subs;

Roque Santa Cruz

Pedersen

Sutton

Samba

Emerton

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Kenna. Our Dennis Irwin! 

[CP Company Lad]

Whats the opinion of Chris Sutton on here ? Bit of a nasty piece of work by all accounts and upset Tim Flowers i am led to believe which resulted in Shearer giving him a slap.

Sherwood was also a gobshite apparently.

[old darwen blue]

57 minutes ago, CP Company Lad said:

Late 70s early 80s i attended quite a few Rovers games with my Grandad and cousins. I was at Gigg Lane when Promotion was sealed. It was rammed behind the goal is all i can remember.

My team would be made up of players i remember from that era....

                        Bradshaw

Rathbone  Fazakerly  Keeley  Brannigan

Miller  Parkes   Stonehouse  Brotherstone

             Bell            Garner

Happy days. Smax and Waggon Wheels from the kiosk on the Riverside Paddock and we used to sneak through some broken wooden slats into the seats above. 

Nice one pal, you’ve more Rovers history than some on here!

[CP Company Lad]

8 minutes ago, old darwen blue said:

Nice one pal, you’ve more Rovers history than some on here!

Long time ago pal but very very happy days. Remember a toffee shop just up LBR near where Bargain Booze is now on the corner. Gone now. He used to park behind a shop called motalas ? Further up on the straight. 

Think I even had a Rovers bobble hat at one point  with my Blue parka with the orange lining and fake fur round the hood 

Edited February 28, 2019 by CP Company Lad

[old darwen blue]

Snorkel jacket!!!!

[CP Company Lad]

Just now, old darwen blue said:

Snorkel jacket!!!!

That's the one pal. Cheap version probably.

 

[speeeeeeedie]

I never saw Douglas, Clayton, Pickering, England, or Newton play so can't include them.

The 1995 title winning teams wasn't blessed with world class talent, outside of Alan Shearer, but it was a very effective unit that played to its strengths.

Here's my attempt;

                                 Friedel

Berg           Nelsen                Hendry             Le Saux

 

Bentley           Tugay           Warhurst                 Duff

 

                        Shearer          Bellamy

I'd not argue if Henchoz got in ahead of Hendry as that back 4 needs some pace, and maybe Batty for Warhurst as Rovers only saw fleeting glimpses of how good he was.

[DeeCee]

1 hour ago, CP Company Lad said:

That's the one pal. Cheap version probably.

 

Yeah, original parkas were fishtails lol

[CP Company Lad]

Just now, DeeCee said:

Yeah, original parkas were fishtails lol

Mine was blue and didnt have a fishtail. A snorkel like my mate said. The 4th of 5 lads you could fight and wear shit clothes and get away with it.

[DeeCee]

Green ex army from Slingers army and navy stores, about a fiver when a pair of Levi's/wranglers were about the same price. God I'm old ?

[Miller11]

Really enjoying seeing these!

For me there are some really tough choices. I’d go for Wilcox over Duff, but I’d like to find a place for them both... and Sellars! Gordon Cowans was unreal... but can’t shift Tugay. We’ve had some excellent centre backs, which makes our current indifference towards them all the more frustrating. And while he’s not in the league of some of the strikers we’ve had over the years, I’d love to see Gestede getting his head on Wilcox/Ripley crosses... he’d score bucket loads!

 

                                  Friedel

Berg          Moran            Nelsen      Le Saux

Ripley        Batty               Tugay       Wilcox

                   Shearer          Garner

 

subs: Mimms, Hendry, Atkins, Cowans, Duff, Speedie, Gestede

[CP Company Lad]

Just now, Miller11 said:

Really enjoying seeing these!

For me there are some really tough choices. I’d go for Wilcox over Duff, but I’d like to find a place for them both... and Sellars! Gordon Cowans was unreal... but can’t shift Tugay. We’ve had some excellent centre backs, which makes our current indifference towards them all the more frustrating. And while he’s not in the league of some of the strikers we’ve had over the years, I’d love to see Gestede getting his head on Wilcox/Ripley crosses... he’d score bucket loads!

 

                                  Friedel

Berg          Moran            Nelsen      Le Saux

Ripley        Batty               Tugay       Wilcox

                   Shearer          Garner

 

subs: Mimms, Hendry, Atkins, Cowans, Duff, Speedie, Gestede

Nice team that. Batts = le saux ?

[blueboy3333]

Batty got lucky that night. Le Saux would have battered him. 

Soft Yorkshire tw.... 

 

[Songman]

                Friedel

Berg   Hendry   Nelsen   Le Saux

Bentley  Tugay  Sherwood Duff

              Shearer Jansen

Subs

Flowers, Moran, Flitcroft, Ripley, Dunn, Newell, Cole.

Five or six captains in that line up, and a couple more on the bench. Goosebumps from the memories ?.

 

 

[AllRoverAsia]

We have been blessed with some class players over the years. Makes for very nostalgic reading.

I hope that we are turning away from a low point in our players history. 

I doubt that I will remember many of the current crop in a few years from now,  if I'm still around. 

[oldjamfan1]

On 28/02/2019 at 01:30, old darwen blue said:

Nobody has picked our record goal scorer despite selecting forwards like Bellamy, Cole and McCarthy. Ok oldJamFan has him as a sub  

 

Just unbelievable. 

 

In fact my take on it:

                             Garner

Garner       Garner       Garner     Garner

Garner       Garner       Garner     Garner

                    Garner       Garner

 

Sub. Shearer

I know mate. I did struggle with leaving out all the players from our (old) 3rd and 2nd division days, but for all the likes of Faz, Killer, Brothhead, Barker, McKenzie etc were wonderful at that level and gave us some amazing memories, if this is based on ability I have seen at least 10 Rovers forwards that were better than Garns. And even if we were picking just from that era, Archibald and Speedie were both twice the player Garner was. I put him in as a sub for sentimental reasons only.

Doesn’t affect his legend status though ? 

Edited March 1, 2019 by oldjamfan1

[Colt Seavers]

13 minutes ago, oldjamfan1 said:

I know mate. I did struggle with leaving out all the players from our (old) 3rd and 2nd division days, but for all the likes of Faz, Killer, Brothhead, Barker, McKenzie etc were wonderful at that level and gave us some amazing memories, if this is based on ability I have seen at least 10 Rovers forwards that were better than Garns. And even if we were picking just from that era, Archibald and Speedie were both twice the player Garner was. I put him in as a sub for sentimental reasons only.

Doesn’t affect his legend status though ? 

 

Fair points, but Garner always seemed to score in cup ties against 1st Division sides so I am confident that he could have stepped up. I don't see contemporaries such as Cottee or Adrian Heath as significant upgrades on Simon and I think he would have scored plenty at the higher level. 

[SBlue]

In our current formation

 

                     Friedel

Berg   Hendry   Nelsen   Warnock

            Tugay       Flitcroft

 Bentley         Dunn          Duff

                     Shearer   

 

 

[Exiled in Toronto]

A team covering the three divisions:                  

                     Sir Roger

Sir Keith   Hendry     Hunter     Le Saux

Rippers    Tugay    Knighton    Duffer

             Shearer       Bellamy

[Herbie6590]

Disappointing lack of fans of Bristol, Doncaster & Tranmere infiltrating the board....?

[oldjamfan1]

8 hours ago, Colt Seavers said:

 

Fair points, but Garner always seemed to score in cup ties against 1st Division sides so I am confident that he could have stepped up. I don't see contemporaries such as Cottee or Adrian Heath as significant upgrades on Simon and I think he would have scored plenty at the higher level. 

We will never know. He was certainly an instinctive finisher who could also put a good cross in and will always be a legend to me.

I do however know that the following strikers who have followed in his footsteps were all better players than Simon Garner:

Speedie

Archibald

Newell

Sutton

Shearer

Jansen

McCarthy

Bellamy

Santa Cruz

Cole

Yorke

Yakubu

And that is just off the top of my head.