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Post by mattador78 on Aug 16, 2016 9:59:32 GMT
Reading the Greenhoff thread got me thinking about favourites from our youth. Of your unsung stoke heros so not a Banks,Hudson or Matthews our legends who was your unsung hero and would you play them now. For me it was rooster loved how direct he was and creating chances for steino, would i play him now maybe just for getting the ball in the box or at least shooting at the first opportunity not the 10th.
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Post by travellingstokie on Aug 16, 2016 10:05:08 GMT
Johnny Butler for me, especially after his silky moves at vale park crossing for steino!
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Post by OldStokie on Aug 16, 2016 10:32:46 GMT
Eric 'Alfie' Skeels. Without a doubt the best man-marker I've ever seen at Stoke. He played more than 500 games for us in every position except goalie and centre forward. He was Waddo's Mr Dependable. A great unsung hero.
OS.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Aug 16, 2016 10:32:46 GMT
John Butler. Fantastic footballer. Very popular amongst the supporters but never really had his own song until he stormed down the wing to cross for Steino at Fail Park.
He was the very definition of an unsung hero amongst a much loved team. To some degree, the same could be said of Lee Sandford. Cranson and Overson got all the plaudits but Sandford and Butler was superb players in their own right and playing at a level with us well below what their ability actually was.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Aug 16, 2016 10:39:54 GMT
Eric 'Alfie' Skeels. Without a doubt the best man-marker I've ever seen at Stoke. He played more than 500 games for us in every position except goalie and centre forward. He was Waddo's Mr Dependable. A great unsung hero. OS. Yes, Skeels for me as well for the same reasons as OS gives. With honourable mentions for Harry Burrows and John Mahoney. They'd be my 3 from the late 1960s and early 70s. EDIT: The early John Mahoney was a bit hit and miss but he developed into a fine midfielder with a superb engine.
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Post by tpholloway1 on Aug 16, 2016 10:47:36 GMT
Eric 'Alfie' Skeels. Without a doubt the best man-marker I've ever seen at Stoke. He played more than 500 games for us in every position except goalie and centre forward. He was Waddo's Mr Dependable. A great unsung hero. OS. This.
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Post by jimmygscfc on Aug 16, 2016 11:16:43 GMT
Eric 'Alfie' Skeels. Without a doubt the best man-marker I've ever seen at Stoke. He played more than 500 games for us in every position except goalie and centre forward. He was Waddo's Mr Dependable. A great unsung hero. OS. Yes, Skeels for me as well for the same reasons as OS gives. With honourable mentions for Harry Burrows and John Mahoney. They'd be my 3 from the late 1960s and early 70s. EDIT: The early John Mahoney was a bit hit and miss but he developed into a fine midfielder with a superb engine. Agree totally about Mahoney, John.
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Post by daveandeddy on Aug 16, 2016 11:19:46 GMT
Geoff Salmons was a big favourite in my youth
he had a great left foot
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Post by Theninjabadger on Aug 16, 2016 13:07:07 GMT
Honourable mention to Richard Cresswell and Leon Cort both were instrumental in our promotion and never really got any credit for it
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Post by cerebralstokie on Aug 16, 2016 13:16:23 GMT
I am surprised that the name of George Eastham has not been mentioned. He was a very intelligent player and had some game changing performances, not less than when he came on as a substitute in the 6th round of the League Cup against Man. U.at the Vic. in 1972. We were a goal down and he was instrumental in creating the two goals which we scored late on to win the tie.
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Post by mattador78 on Aug 16, 2016 14:58:51 GMT
Honourable mention to Richard Cresswell and Leon Cort both were instrumental in our promotion and never really got any credit for it Completly overshadowed by shola ameobis contribution😠
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Post by oslostokie1 on Aug 16, 2016 15:08:15 GMT
Nigel Gleghorn, Steve Simonsen and Glenn Whelan
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Post by stokie1954 on Aug 16, 2016 15:09:21 GMT
Geoff Salmons was a big favourite in my youth he had a great left foot Hudson,Mahoney and Salmons. Nice trio that was. Quite liked little Sammy Irvine as well later on.
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Aug 16, 2016 15:11:10 GMT
Jackie Marsh
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Post by armitagestokie on Aug 16, 2016 15:14:08 GMT
My fav 'Harry Burrows'
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Post by PotteringThrough on Aug 16, 2016 15:15:30 GMT
Simon Sturridge - the other "S" in that partnership. No I wouldn't play him.
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Post by stokie1954 on Aug 16, 2016 15:17:28 GMT
Don't forget Sean Wade. Sorry!.
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Post by lagwafis on Aug 16, 2016 15:29:36 GMT
Steve Foley and David Kevan from the 1992/93 promotion side. Both were grafters and they complimented the flair players like Steino, Gleghorn and Russell who were the fan favourites. Both struggled following promotion but they were important in the squad that got us there.
Richard Cresswell's another good shout. Certainly not the answer once we got to the Premier League but scoring double figures in a side that won promotion, often while played out wide, was very good going. Fuller and Lawrence got most of the praise that year ( also featuring in the PFA team of the season) but Cresswell and Sidibe deserved just as much credit for making that front four click together.
I think Ray Wallace gets overlooked these days but he was fantastic in 1995/96 when we reached the play offs, even winning player of the year ahead of Sheron and Sturridge. He wasn't the same player after Gleghorn left.
Richard Forysth too in his first 18 months with us. He scored some very special goals. Injuries didn't help, nor the way the club was going at the time. He deserved to be remembered better, rather than one of the many faces we cleared out at the end of the Brian Little disaster.
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Post by no1972 on Aug 16, 2016 16:11:01 GMT
Mahoney ,Alan Hudsons engine.Picked him up from Crewe,great ball winner ,won the ball then gave it to Huddy to do his magic.Lawire Leslie was also one of my heroes.
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Post by riccyfuller93 on Aug 16, 2016 16:18:35 GMT
Kenwyne Jones.
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Aug 16, 2016 17:45:43 GMT
Calvin Palmer great versatile player who truly looked at home whichever position he played, Skeels and Mahoney have already been mentioned both good shouts ,I think Alan Dodd also did not always get the credit he deserved ,partly due to Alan Durban playing him out of position.
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Post by DunnetHeadMoonraker on Aug 16, 2016 18:18:15 GMT
It's Harry Burrow,s for me. A great signing from Villa who is my favourite wide boy in all the time I've supported Stoke. He was fast , direct and had a ferocious shot. I can still picture the goal he scored when we won at Newcastle in the 70/71 season. After scoring he turned round and gave a thumbs up to Tony Waddington who was in the front row of the stand right behind me. I caught the same train back to Sheffield where I was a student as our team who had a compartment reserved for them. During the journey the compartment was completely empty and I suspect that Waddo was treating his team to some ' refreshments ' in the buffet car on the train. At Sheffield station there was a coach waiting for the team.
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Post by pigshead on Aug 16, 2016 18:24:28 GMT
Dave Bamber ,a Ledge in his own lifetime.
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Post by ST1 Stokie on Aug 16, 2016 18:31:24 GMT
Eric Skeels,Harry Burrows and Bluto
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Post by thepirehillpoet on Aug 16, 2016 18:40:43 GMT
Terry Henfleet.
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Post by thicknthin on Aug 16, 2016 18:41:14 GMT
Steve Foley and David Kevan from the 1992/93 promotion side. Both were grafters and they complimented the flair players like Steino, Gleghorn and Russell who were the fan favourites. Both struggled following promotion but they were important in the squad that got us there. Richard Cresswell's another good shout. Certainly not the answer once we got to the Premier League but scoring double figures in a side that won promotion, often while played out wide, was very good going. Fuller and Lawrence got most of the praise that year ( also featuring in the PFA team of the season) but Cresswell and Sidibe deserved just as much credit for making that front four click together. I think Ray Wallace gets overlooked these days but he was fantastic in 1995/96 when we reached the play offs, even winning player of the year ahead of Sheron and Sturridge. He wasn't the same player after Gleghorn left. Richard Forysth too in his first 18 months with us. He scored some very special goals. Injuries didn't help, nor the way the club was going at the time. He deserved to be remembered better, rather than one of the many faces we cleared out at the end of the Brian Little disaster. Hi Dave 😉 Cresser maybe but I have to disagree with Kevan, he was one of the most limited players we have ever had. Not rubbish, but not good either. He did everything in a completely average fashion, 6/10. More of a symptom of the mess the club were in at the time than a bad reflection on him, see also Ronnie Sinclair.
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Post by thepirehillpoet on Aug 16, 2016 18:42:41 GMT
Alan Bloor, Howard Kendall and I always felt Dave Kevan gave it everything and more.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Aug 16, 2016 18:44:54 GMT
Eric 'Alfie' Skeels. Without a doubt the best man-marker I've ever seen at Stoke. He played more than 500 games for us in every position except goalie and centre forward. He was Waddo's Mr Dependable. A great unsung hero. OS. Yes, Skeels for me as well for the same reasons as OS gives. With honourable mentions for Harry Burrows and John Mahoney. They'd be my 3 from the late 1960s and early 70s. EDIT: The early John Mahoney was a bit hit and miss but he developed into a fine midfielder with a superb engine. And Mike Bernard
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Post by baystokie on Aug 16, 2016 19:16:37 GMT
Alec Ormston and John 'anything above grass is mine' McCue.
Honourable mention to Harry Burrows
Would play Alec or Harry as they guaranteed goals from wing positions
Not sure that John would last the game - many of his tackles would now get yellows. Tbh, most of the 1947 team apart from Franklin, the Mountfords, Stan and Fred Steele were unsung outside the Potteries.
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Post by johnnypotter on Aug 16, 2016 19:18:05 GMT
Sean Haslegrave, John Farmer, Sammy Irvine and Paul Randall.
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