Fans' Ultimate XI revealed

[Saint Garrett]

No idea how this was picked, sure there are a few names missing...!

 

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-03-28/southampton-fans-ultimate-xi-revealed-seacity-museum

 

 

GOALKEEPER

 

• Peter Shilton

 

DEFENDERS

 

• Jason Dodd

• Claus Lundekvam

• José Fonte

• Wayne Bridge

 

MIDFIELDERS

 

• Alan Ball

• Matt Le Tissier

• Adam Lallana

 

STRIKERS

 

• Rickie Lambert

• Mick Channon

• Alan Shearer

 

SUBS: Antti Niemi, Mark Wright, Francis Benali, Ivan Golac, Morgan Schneiderlin, Terry Paine, Kevin Keegan.

 

MANAGER: Lawrie McMenemy

 

ASSISTANT MANAGER: Nigel Adkins

[Colinjb]

Lallana?

 

Nope, this isn't worth taking seriously.

[ericb]

That must've been done via social media, because all it shows me is that the majority of people that did it were really young.

[shurlock]

That side would get destroyed.

[saint peter]

Seriously Nivea boy? ... Do me a favour!!!

[Fan The Flames]

That must've been done via social media, because all it shows me is that the majority of people that did it were really young.

 

Would young people vote for Channon and Ball.

[Pamplemousse]

Benali on the bench, I know he's a cult hero but part of our best ever team? No.

[Graffito]

No Bale.

[beatlesaint]

The fact Lallana is included but Terry Paine is only a sub says all you need to know really.

[Nordic Saint]

As I recall, it was a multiple choice type of poll, with only 3 choices for each position, not an open one. The defensive options especially excluded some better defenders than ones that were available to vote for. This would certainly not be most fans' ultimate Saints XI if they could pick any player they wanted to. Dodd, Bridge and Lundekvam would have struggled to even get into our team in recent years, with the exception of this one.

[trousers]

Other than making it easier for the organisers, what was the point of having a short list?

[VectisSaint]

Bit of a joke really. Fonte, Lallana, ridiculous. Doddsy, great bloke but best LB, not even sure he would be top 10. Franny, definitely having a laugh, legend yes, but ultimate XI, hahaha.

[Bananaman]

No Bale? Claus over Killer? Nivea Queen? & that back four would get smashed.

[Batman]

No Bale? Claus over Killer? Nivea Queen? & that back four would get smashed.

 

Why bale? Bridge was better for us

[Dellman]

Wot no Terry? You can not be serious

[aintforever]

Three up front and Le Tiss as a holding midfielder - that would work well!

[miserableoldgit]

Keegan on the bench? Ron Davies?

 

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[norwaysaint]

Bridge was definitely better for us than Bale. I'm not sure Shearer was one of our best strikers for similar reasons of peaking much later.

[Norm]

Not too bad, only missing Terry Paine, Ron Davies, Ivan Golac and Tommy Traynor! (OK, perhaps including TT is a little fanciful!)

[SFC Forever]

Then there are two England full backs that both played for us at same time Bill Etherington and Alf Ramsey.

[Lord Duckhunter]

Dodd, Claus, Lallana, Fonte, Lambert FFS, who picked this side. Half the side should be nowhere near an ultimate 11. **** me I could name 10 centre halves better than that pairing.

 

Adkins and Lawrie, what a ****ing joke. Ted & Lawrie head and shoulders above the rest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited 28 March, 2018 by Lord Duckhunter

[Nordic Saint]

Dodd, Claus, Lallana, Fonte, Lambert FFS, who picked this side. Half the side should be nowhere near an ultimate 11. **** me I could name 10 centre halves better than that pairing.

 

Adkins and Lawrie, what a ****ing joke. Ted & Lawrie head and shoulders above the rest.

 

 

 

 

 

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It's all about opinions but as a rule of thumb, the number of full international caps for ones of the world's top football nations is a useful guideline when selecting all-time XIs for a team which has spent most of its history in a top league. Dodd doesn't have any. Fonte has 28 caps for Portugal and a European Championship winner's medal, Lallana has 34 caps for England so far and will probably go on to win more than 50 and even Lambert has 11 England caps. I remember back in the 1960s when any Saints player who had ever played for England was considered to be one of our all-time great superstars. I'm really not sure why Dodd is there. Like Benali and Kelvin Davis, he played a lot of club games for us but he was never an international class player.

[saintadjg]

Probably my strongest side since I started watching saints on a regular basis circa 95.

Niemi

Clyne VVD Killer Shaw

Vic Spider

Mane LeTis Eyal

Beattie

[bpsaint]

As I recall, it was a multiple choice type of poll, with only 3 choices for each position, not an open one. The defensive options especially excluded some better defenders than ones that were available to vote for. This would certainly not be most fans' ultimate Saints XI if they could pick any player they wanted to. Dodd, Bridge and Lundekvam would have struggled to even get into our team in recent years, with the exception of this one.

 

Bridge was class for us, and an England international- he’d have certainly got into our side if he was good enough for Chelsea.

 

Not sure how Claus made it into that team over Killer, Deano, Toby and Van Dijk.

[Saint86]

Probably my strongest side since I started watching saints on a regular basis circa 95.

Niemi

Clyne VVD Killer Shaw

Vic Spider

Mane LeTis Eyal

Beattie

 

That is a very nice team, and in truth a similar time period to mine.

 

I would include either Ball/Wallace/Lallana for Eyal though.

 

Stiker wise, Beattie was very good for us in the prem. I would have him or Rickie.

[Saint Garrett]

Pahars?

 

 

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[Lets B Avenue]

Pahars?

 

 

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Not as manager. Latvia lost to Gibralter at the weekend.

[Shance]

That defence.

 

Lallana

[Hatch]

who organised that vote?

they should be publicly named and shamed

[Roger]

Team should be:

Shilton

Clyne Wright vvd bridge

Williams ball

Paine le tiss channon

Davies

[ladysaint]

I think one of the criteria’s was that they had to have played 200+ games for Saints.

[Lord Duckhunter]

It's all about opinions but as a rule of thumb, the number of full international caps for ones of the world's top football nations is a useful guideline when selecting all-time XIs for a team which has spent most of its history in a top league. Dodd doesn't have any. Fonte has 28 caps for Portugal and a European Championship winner's medal, Lallana has 34 caps for England so far and will probably go on to win more than 50 and even Lambert has 11 England caps. I remember back in the 1960s when any Saints player who had ever played for England was considered to be one of our all-time great superstars. I'm really not sure why Dodd is there. Like Benali and Kelvin Davis, he played a lot of club games for us but he was never an international class player.

 

Your criteria only works if caps are of the same value throughout the years. Nowadays they throw them round like confetti. Lambert & Lallana wouldn’t have got anywhere near a cap when I started watching the game. Allan Clarke got 19 caps, Ray Kennedy 17, Howard Kendall 0, Tony Currie 17, Jimmy Case 0, Stan Bowles 5, Rodney Marsh 9, Peter Osgood 4, John Hollins 1, Alan Hudson 2, I could go on and on.

 

Lallana wouldn’t even get in our best side this century, let alone of all time.

 

Fonte is nowhere near our best centre half despite winning 28 caps and the euros.

 

 

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[GGalpin]

It's all about opinions but as a rule of thumb, the number of full international caps for ones of the world's top football nations is a useful guideline when selecting all-time XIs for a team which has spent most of its history in a top league. Dodd doesn't have any. Fonte has 28 caps for Portugal and a European Championship winner's medal, Lallana has 34 caps for England so far and will probably go on to win more than 50 and even Lambert has 11 England caps. I remember back in the 1960s when any Saints player who had ever played for England was considered to be one of our all-time great superstars. I'm really not sure why Dodd is there. Like Benali and Kelvin Davis, he played a lot of club games for us but he was never an international class player.

 

Le Tiss had eight England caps, Carlton Palmer had 18.

 

That's all you need to know about that particular guideline.