Greatest Town Players

Kevin Donavon on the right in our promotion season, always remember him beating defenders and banging one in. The most talented footballer has to be Serge Makafo, he dribbled the ball like Messi but the problem was he didn't know which goal he was attacking.

Quoted from 28195

Kevin Donavon on the right in our promotion season, always remember him beating defenders and banging one in. The most talented footballer has to be Serge Makafo, he dribbled the ball like Messi but the problem was he didn't know which goal he was attacking.

Last seen dribbling down the Laceby By Pass going West

Quoted from Garth

This should have been titled Favourite players, how can you compare Batch with Reddy regarding greatness

Can't see why anyone should be infantile enough to disagree with your common sense. Greatness is a subjective word, it's a matter of opinion. Perhaps the best way round it might be to compile and compare a list of "greats" for each position. So you could have something like:-

goalkeepers

Tweedy
Moulson
Williams
Wright
Batch
Coyne
Crichton
etc.

defenders

Betmead
Buck
Chilton
Jobling
Cockerill (Ron)
Rathbone
Moore
Crombie
Keeble
Futcher
etc

midfield

Bestall
Conner
Cullen
Foster
Ross
Waters
Cunnington
Cockerill (John)
Groves
etc

wingers

Maddison
Fell
Hill
Scott
Pennington
Brace
Donovan
etc

forwards

Glover
Robson
Briggs
Crosby
Hunt
Rafferty
Tees
Green
Mendonca
Birtles
Wymark
Drinkell
etc

Quoted from Garth

This should have been titled Favourite players, how can you compare Batch with Reddy regarding greatness

Not everyone here saw every player play. Sure there are legends everyone knows about from decades ago and there is plenty of material to read and understand why they were great but many players a lot including myself know nothing about and even for our older fans it's like "my old man told me about him".  "greatest players" is a generational thing. People are more attached to the players they grew up on and cheered for and the great players they saw. They have less attachment to names in a book that played for us in the 60's and 70's before they were even born.

Craig Disley - delivered us back into the football league.

Someone puy John Oster? he barely a town player really and chose Gateshead over us. room 101 for him!

Someone puy John Oster? he barely a town player really and chose Gateshead over us. room 101 for him!

Quoted from Kris2

Not everyone here saw every player play. Sure there are legends everyone knows about from decades ago and there is plenty of material to read and understand why they were great but many players a lot including myself know nothing about and even for our older fans it's like "my old man told me about him".  "greatest players" is a generational thing. People are more attached to the players they grew up on and cheered for and the great players they saw. They have less attachment to names in a book that played for us in the 60's and 70's before they were even born.

But - that only reinforces the point that greatness is subjective. It is also relative so we need to think a bit. If there were players appearing for Town week in week out at the equivalent of the PL level in the 1930s and playing in FA Cup semis, then they are obviously much better players than someone who scored at Wembley in a Conference play off final. That is not to criticise or do down the 2016 promotion winners or the fans who have only known recent bad times. It's a simple fact of life, we have to take more evidence than only our own eyes or like Garth said, it is just  "favourite" players, not "greatest" players.

I think special mention should be made about Alec " Ginger " Hall who was a mainstay of the team in the 1930's when we were in the old first division. Not only was he a great, much feared half-back, he was also a part-timer and worked as a joiner throughout the week. It has been mentioned that some Saturdays he worked in the morning ( on the docks ) and then cycled on his carrier bike to Blundell Park to play in the afternoon.