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diehardmariner
July 21, 2023, 12:47pm
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Question on the BBC Sport Daily today asking which player from 20 years ago would you want in the current squad?

2003-04 wasn't a great season for us with a ridiculously high turnover of players too. Groves and Macca didn't have the best of seasons either so I'm gonna say no to both of them (only from that season, of course).

Based on that season alone it can only be Phil Jevons for me. Him cutting in from that left hand side would cause carnage in this division. Be a very, very decent option if we were going two up top too.
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July 21, 2023, 1:06pm

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None of our players from 20 years ago could get in this team.

They are all 20 years older !!!!       


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Wouldn't want any of the players but would want that beautiful kit.


JESUS AT THE CENTRE
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Quoted from diehardmariner
Question on the BBC Sport Daily today asking which player from 20 years ago would you want in the current squad?

2003-04 wasn't a great season for us with a ridiculously high turnover of players too. Groves and Macca didn't have the best of seasons either so I'm gonna say no to both of them (only from that season, of course).

Based on that season alone it can only be Phil Jevons for me. Him cutting in from that left hand side would cause carnage in this division. Be a very, very decent option if we were going two up top too.


If we are talking about as they were 20 years ago then Grovesy was past his best and it was his final season in professional football.

Michael Boulding or Phil Jevons for me, both had decent scoring rates for us at opposite ends to the season really, Boulding dicked off to Barnsley mid-season after reportedly not being chuffed about Grovesy being sacked and Jevvo got a second wind and was banging them in for a while, he ended up going to Yeovil at the end of the season and that was the beginning of him being a prolific scorer.


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Iain Anderson was a good player so probably him.

It's actually scary looking back how close we were to staying up despite the mess going on behind the scenes and the high turnover of players. Groves was let go after a disastrous spell January into February featuring hammerings by Port Vale and Oldham but the mercenary manager and players on loan didn't do much better in saving a season that had jumped off a cliff after a decent enough start. There were claims that Groves had lost the dressing room at the time but keeping faith and seeing if he could turn it around would probably have been no worse than bringing in somebody else for the last few months who knew he was out of contract no matter what happens so had no stake in the season.
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Quoted from Kris2
Iain Anderson was a good player so probably him.

It's actually scary looking back how close we were to staying up despite the mess going on behind the scenes and the high turnover of players. Groves was let go after a disastrous spell January into February featuring hammerings by Port Vale and Oldham but the mercenary manager and players on loan didn't do much better in saving a season that had jumped off a cliff after a decent enough start. There were claims that Groves had lost the dressing room at the time but keeping faith and seeing if he could turn it around would probably have been no worse than bringing in somebody else for the last few months who knew he was out of contract no matter what happens so had no stake in the season.


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July 21, 2023, 2:40pm
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Stuart Cambell had a very good season that year and we cashed in 200K in the summer of 2004.
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Wouldn't want any of the players but would want that beautiful kit.


It hasn't dried out yet from going in the wash 20 years ago!
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Boulding for his goals..  Mind you Campbell was a cracking player...
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