Greatest Leeds 11 With a Twist

[billie1]

Whenever this has been debated , my greatest 11 seems largely to come from The Don's era ( with the exception of Nigel Martyn and John Charles ) . So I limited myself to a maximum of 4 players from any era and it made the debate of who to leave OUT of the Don's great side extremely interesting .The eras I came up with were as follows

1. Pre Don ( eg Charles )
2. Don ( eg Bremner )
3. Post Don / 2nd div years ( eg Currie )
4. Sgt Wilko ( eg Dorigo )
5. GG / DOL ( eg Radebe )
6. Decline,Fall,Resurrection ( eg Kasper )

I know numerous players overlap eras , so I got round that by placing them in the era when they were at their peak .

I came up with the following team including 5 subs

Martyn/Reaney Radebe Ferdinand Dorigo / Strachan Bremner Giles Speed /Charles Clarke

Subs Kasper ! Woodgate Currie McCallister Beckford

As you can see I used up my full quota of players from the Don's era ( Reaney ,Bremner , Giles , Clarke ) ,Sgt Wilko ( Dorigo , Strachan , Speed , McCallister ), GG/DOL ( Ferdinand ,Martyn ,Radebe ,Woodgate ) ,and the other 4 players from the remaining eras . I included Ferdinand because I think his one full season with us was the best of his career culminating in his performances at the 2002 world cup. That might not sit easily with everyone but hey its just my opinion . I even had fun working out for myself which era to place players in but its not an exact science . I know this thread has been done to death but I certainly enjoyed putting in a few arbitary rules which did give a different take on it . ( It's the close season so I'm bored already)

[1964white]

Good god Billie, i gonna have to think about this one

How to find a place for Yeboah could be difficult too, although i could play JC at centre half where he was equally adept as in his centre forward role

Bremner, Giles, Clarke, are certs from the Revie era & maybe Cooper as we have always had dodgy left backs in the main

Will come back to you later, Billie

Must press on, a couple of hours of work required unfortunately

[1964white]

( It's the close season so I'm bored already)

Youv'e made a good point Billie, another site i visit almost closes down for the summer months

We'll all have to come up with some tasty threads to create healthy debate during the pre-season period

Something to get our teeth into i suggest !

[The Subhuman]

Harvey
Kelly
Cherry
Bremner
Radebe
Charlton
Strachan
Currie
Hankin
Clarke
Wallace


Flynn
Martyn
Cantona
Sheridan
Madeley
Yeboah
Graham


I've restricted myself to those I've seen play in white, and also from a purely favorite player angle too

[1964white]

Harvey
Kelly
Cherry
Bremner
Radebe
Charlton
Strachan
Currie
Hankin
Clarke
Wallace


Flynn
Martyn
Cantona
Sheridan
Madeley
Yeboah
Graham


I've restricted myself to those I've seen play in white, and also from a purely favorite player angle too

Hankin

[billie1]

I saw Ray Hankin score a cracking goal at Upton Park once . Shut the entire ground up . Might have been his finest hour !

[The Subhuman]

Hankin

always a favorite with me in the late seventies, 32 goals in 83, always seemed to find the net when I was there and I wanted to include someone from that era, course he always seemed to geting sent off to....and I was always the rebel

thought I'd get more stick for Cantona tbh

[The Subhuman]

I saw Ray Hankin score a cracking goal at Upton Park once . Shut the entire ground up . Might have been his finest hour !

saw him score at the Bridge, I remember that one well, think that was the same season as the West ham one, saw the 2 he got at Bristol too that season..which was the first season I saw multiple Leeds games 77 I think I was 15 impressionable and saw 6 or 7 away games that season..so yeah 64 "Hankin"

just checked 19 goals that season ....

[1964white]

thought I'd get more stick for Cantona tbh

Why ?

He had a touch of class

[The Subhuman]

Why ?

He had a touch of class

wonderful player who went to "them" I thought that was a no no round these parts...personally I don't care who they play for after us or from whence they came

tbh I also had a real quandry of whether to pick Flynn over Bremner too, I saw Bremner twice I think and Flynn on a lot more occasions, but I thought I'd play safe

[1964white]

tbh I also had a real quandry of whether to pick Flynn over Bremner too, I saw Bremner twice I think and Flynn on a lot more occasions, but I thought I'd play safe

Me too !

Was at scum when Flynn scored the winning goal, never thought i see us win at OT again until Jermaine had his say

Bremner was a wise choice btw

[1964white]

Right here goes

Martyn

Sterland Charles Radebe Cooper

Strachan Bremner Giles Speed

Clarke Yeboah

Sullivan Ferdinand Currie Mcallister Beckford

[The Subhuman]

Me too !

Was at scum when Flynn scored the winning goal, never thought i see us win at OT again until Jermaine had his say

Bremner was a wise choice btw

Hankin scored against manure too....should make him a legend

[billie1]

Right here goes

Martyn

Sterland Charles Radebe Cooper

Strachan Bremner Giles Speed

Clarke Yeboah

Sullivan Ferdinand Currie Mcallister Cantona

Our teams are not dissimilar 64 ! I debated the full backs Sterland / Reaney and Dorigo / Cooper for ages . I plumped for Reaney because any one who could put George Best in his back pocket deserves his place in ANY team . That meant no place for Cooper because Bremner , Giles and Clarke were givens . Interesting that you chose Cantona . I wonder bow different our history might have been had he not left and been the catalyst for reviving the fortunes of another .

[Twiggster]

King Billy has scored more goals against scum than any Leeds player, as I remember? Should make him an automatic choice if that is your criteria.....

[1964white]

Our teams are not dissimilar 64 ! I debated the full backs Sterland / Reaney and Dorigo / Cooper for ages . I plumped for Reaney because any one who could put George Best in his back pocket deserves his place in ANY team . That meant no place for Cooper because Bremner , Giles and Clarke were givens . Interesting that you chose Cantona . I wonder bow different our history might have been had he not left and been the catalyst for reviving the fortunes of another .

Yes i had the same problem with the full backs, plus i wanted to find a place for Madeley as he could play almost anywhere when asked to by Revie, sadly the Rolls Royce misses out. Best never had a good game v Reaney

As for Cantona, i saw his last game for Leeds down at Watford in a League Cup game which we deservingly lost as we were simply awful on the night. Eric was subbed, tbh it seemed he didn't want to be at Leeds anymore, shame as he had an abundance of class !

I also would love to seen Yeboah in a top Leeds team, he was awesome in what was an average/mid table prem side

[joelufc20]

I remember doing a thread like this with players from your era of following. Well here is mine and as I was not born till 83 there is no REVIE players in my team.

Martyn

Sterland
Radebe
MATTEO
Harte

Strachan
Mccallister
Batty
Gradel

Yeboah
Viduka

[Twiggster]

I remember doing a thread like this with players from your era of following. Well here is mine and as I was not born till 83 there is no REVIE players in my team.

MASSIVE FAIL!

[wisconsinWHITE]

Martyn

Reaney
Charles
Hunter
Dorigo

Lorimer
Strachan
Bremner
McAllister
Kewell

Viduka

[billie1]

Yes i had the same problem with the full backs, plus i wanted to find a place for Madeley as he could play almost anywhere when asked to by Revie, sadly the Rolls Royce misses out. Best never had a good game v Reaney

As for Cantona, i saw his last game for Leeds down at Watford in a League Cup game which we deservingly lost as we were simply awful on the night. Eric was subbed, tbh it seemed he didn't want to be at Leeds anymore, shame as he had an abundance of class !

I also would love to seen Yeboah in a top Leeds team, he was awesome in what was an average/mid table prem side

Using my crieria of only 4 from any era , Cantona would be your 5th from the Wilko days along with Sterland , Speed , Strachan and Gary Mac .Guess you'll end up with Ray Hankin after all , or John Hawley or Aiden Butterworth or Gwyn Thomas , the list is endless .