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For those of you too young to remember what a great side we had in the early eighties. Think this was the year we finished runners up in the old first division.

 

Steve Williams with a couple of great goals in this one

 

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Paul Williams was appointed in the coaching role. Steve Williams was a classy right/central midfield player that came through the youth system late seventies and early eighties was gutted when he went to the Arse. Did win the first of his five or six england caps with us though

 

Is Paul Williams with us as well? That could get confusing!

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For those of you too young to remember what a great side we had in the early eighties. Think this was the year we finished runners up in the old first division.

 

Steve Williams with a couple of great goals in this one

 

 

84!wasn't it finished runners up only to an offside goal by Liverpool. I think that is right anyway.

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Alan Ball or Jimmy Case. That is what we are still missing in midfield, a general with guts, experience and quality

 

Alan Ball - not only a brilliant individual player but someone who would raise the game of everyone around him to get us promoted again.

 

(as much as I admire Channon, Paine,Davies,MLT,KK, and Golac, Ball was the inspiration for us).

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Derek Reeves, Ron Davies and Goeorge O'Brien up front.

 

Cliff Huxford Jimmy Gabriel and Terry Paine in the middle.

 

Tommy Traynor Ivan Golac John Mc Grath Tony Knapp at the back.

 

Niemi in Goals

 

 

ottery st mary as clear favourite to manage and coach..

 

I would like Tony Knapp replaced by Mel Blyth or Jimmy Steele

 

Derek Reeves by Mick Channon and Cliff Huxford by Brian O'Neill

 

Any chance?

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Sorry, I am the Manager and those young upstarts will only get on the bench:rolleyes:

 

OK - I only saw Reeves once so I dont really know what he was like

 

but the best I saw Huxford was in a night game v Derby County (I will check in Match of the Millenium which I have here signed by both Ted Bates and MLT )

 

We won 6 4 with Huxford in goal because of injuries to Hennigan and Godfrey April 1 1964 no substitutes 9 men

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Derek Reeves, Ron Davies and Goeorge O'Brien up front.

 

Cliff Huxford Jimmy Gabriel and Terry Paine in the middle.

 

Tommy Traynor Ivan Golac John Mc Grath Tony Knapp at the back.

 

Niemi in Goals

 

 

ottery st mary as clear favourite to manage and coach..

 

Forgive me if I'm wrong, and I don't know about the others, but I thought that Ron Davies was really crocked? I'm sure that Tijuana Tim said something about him having a pretty serious operation a while back. I don't think he'd be a good signing to bring back, personally. Niemi is a good shout though, mate.

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Forgive me if I'm wrong, and I don't know about the others, but I thought that Ron Davies was really crocked? I'm sure that Tijuana Tim said something about him having a pretty serious operation a while back. I don't think he'd be a good signing to bring back, personally. Niemi is a good shout though, mate.

 

 

Still bring big Ron back..even on crutches or a bath chair....:rolleyes:

 

Would still get off the ground and beat all in the air....;)

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Been following saints since late 80's, no one player has individually had such an effect on the team than the man himself, Saint Matthew Le Tissier.

 

Good enough to get in the Brazil side as per Pele's comments, chased by berlusconi for the world dominating Milan side of the 90's and without whom, God knows on how many occasions we would have gone down.

 

What other player contributed to this effect to saints?

 

Legend on every sense of the word.

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Trouble is the vast majority of players cited wouldn't stay on the pitch more than 10 minutes in our day and age. I played a few friendlies with Tommy Traynor when I was a young man and he was an ex saint already, dirty ?? then ....well no, it was accepted but today, straight red at the first tackle, even Case and Ball would fall foul of the refereeing nowadays.I used to live a few houses down from Terry Paine and his(first) good lady, didn't often get involved in kids kickabouts in the street but on the few occasions when he did.....well

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Terrific subject...of course I would say Big Ron, but I will surprise a few and say 'no', you have to have wing service for a player like him. Keggy was great and the windmill boy, whereas personally I thought Mark (the original) 'Psycho' Dennis was awesome and the whole left side of our team in it's heyday...didn't need a winger and FB, just Psycho. In today's game Bale is the same - maybe better, however not as much of a cult or character.

 

At the end of the day you'd have t'say MLT....or, dare I say it? Shearer for his brilliance post-SFC.

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Arguably other ex-players would be better for the 'team', but it has to be Le Tissier.

The sheer pleasure of knowing that the best player in England is playing for us, that every game there will be a moment when he does something magical that no other English player could do, not always a goal, sometimes a pass, a flick or an amusingly laidback walk to the cornerflag. All that and knowing that he'll never leave us, even when the big boys come knocking. Knowing that every other fan, despite their teams success or history is envious that we get to see Matthew Le Tissier everyweek, whereas they only get to see him once a year.

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Arguably other ex-players would be better for the 'team', but it has to be Le Tissier.

The sheer pleasure of knowing that the best player in England is playing for us, that every game there will be a moment when he does something magical that no other English player could do, not always a goal, sometimes a pass, a flick or an amusingly laidback walk to the cornerflag. All that and knowing that he'll never leave us, even when the big boys come knocking. Knowing that every other fan, despite their teams success or history is envious that we get to see Matthew Le Tissier everyweek, whereas they only get to see him once a year.

 

Great post and so, so true.

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Alan Ball - not only a brilliant individual player but someone who would raise the game of everyone around him to get us promoted again.

 

(as much as I admire Channon, Paine,Davies,MLT,KK, and Golac, Ball was the inspiration for us).

 

Got to agree with this but it would be even better to have them all in the current side!

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