Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

Hello all
I just came up with an idea for something in the programme and wondered what you all thought of it...

It's a very simple concept - fans pick their Stanley dream XI of players they've seen in the red shirt and give a few reasons why. Just to provoke a debate and get other fans talking really.

This would be very easy to do - just an email to a pre-set address with the players, reasons and formations, name and picture of the "manager" i.e. you!

It could even be started on here with a few selected to go in the programme to kick us off.

Thoughts (and your dream teams if at all possible!) please...

Dan

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

The team that finished on Saturday would do for me, with Bobby Grant making up the eleven.:D

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

Very quickly

1) Mick Finn ( played professionally at the highest level)
2) Cav (still Stanley's most sucessful captain)
3) Liam Richardson (again played at the highest level)
4) Phil Edwards ( Mr Consistancy)
5) Jonathon Smith ( Stanley thro + thro)
6) Dave Baron ( fantastic holding midfielder, + to make up for '62)
7) Andy Todd ( superb in Conf winning season)
8) Ian Craney ( top goalscorer midfielder)
9) David Hargreaves( goal scoring record surely will never be beaten)
10) Paul Mullin ( Stanley legend)
11) Gary Roberts (from Welsh non league to FL in two season!!)

Subs + Coaching Staff : Coley, Jimmy, Dibs + Cooky

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

It was done recently in the Observer I think....

Mine was 3-5-2

Jamo-Legend

Cav-Legend
Edwards - Legend
Smithy - Legend

Proccy - Legend
Shirley - Legend
Craney - Legend
Roberts - Legend
Boco - Legend

Mullin - Legend
Coleman - Legend

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

I think from everyone that did it Smithy, Edwards, Roberts, Mullin were ever presents

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

Going well so far! I'll let the thread run for a bit and then PM a few of you to get more details etc if that's okay...

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

All my reasons were in the paper, and Macca's probs best use someone new.......

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

Rob Elliot
I always find it difficult to decide between him and the flying Scot, but Rob was the best one out of the million-and-one 'keepers in the Conference winning season so he gets it this time.
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Peter Cavanagh
The most successful captain in Accrington Stanley's history. Fast, committed full-back. Awesome set-piece taker. Blighted by injury but never held back when he got back on the field.
Phil Edwards
"If Phil was 6ft 3in he'd be playing in the Premier League!". We've heard it a hundred times before but it's true. The best footballing brain in the current team.
Jonathan Smith
Smithy's invaluable place in our rise through the non-league pyramid has become something of legend; "he could head a ball fifty yards put couldn't pass it six!". Smithy was 100% committed in his game and always had a word for the fans. A retro Kempo.
Leam Richardson
It's such a shame injury has held Leam back for so long. A quick, strong defender who isn't afraid to get forward. The Roberto Carlos to Cav's Cafu.
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Russ Payne
Incredibly skilful and comfortable on the ball for a non-league player. Bloody nice fella, too. The best thing about Russ is he never knew how good he was.
Simon Carden
Vastly underrated player in my opinion. Talented player with bags of goals in him. His hat-trick against Burscough is one of my most prominent Stanley memories.
Mike Marsh
In my opinion, the main reason why we won the Unibond.
Andrew Procter
Proccy's gone from "headless chicken" to "Gerrard-esque" in the ten(ish) years he's been here at Stanley. Has come on leaps and bounds since taking the captain's armband.
Gary Roberts
Scared the bejesus out of all who went up against him with skill, pace and a wicked left foot. Just beats Prendergast as Gary could play up front just as well as on the wing. His goal against Torquay was akin to Gazza vs. Scotland in '96.
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Paul Mullin
Legend.

Subs:
K.Arthur, D.Kempson, R.Hollis, P.Burns, I.Craney, R.Prendergast, L.James

Re: Stanley dream team - your thoughts please
 

Was gonna say we did this a while back.

Mine was....


GK Robbie Elliott
RB Cav
LB Steve Hollis
CB Phil Edwards
CB Johnny Smith

RW Andy Todd
LW Gary Roberts
CM Mike Marsh
CM Ian Craney

FW Bobby Grant
FW Paul Mullin

Subs

Arthur, Prendergast, Barry, Boco, Kempson, Symes, Lutel