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Title: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Belle_Vue on March 24, 2017, 01:05:32 pm
2 votes for two positions

Friend included, in my opinion played better at Centre back. But will include for Left back vote also
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: swintonrover on March 24, 2017, 01:07:17 pm
Rob Jones?
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Belle_Vue on March 24, 2017, 01:11:11 pm
Added! Technical fail...
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: NickDRFC on March 24, 2017, 01:13:16 pm
Ask me again in a couple of years and Baudry will hopefully have edged out Mills.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Belle_Vue on March 24, 2017, 01:16:03 pm
Possible, also a few youngsters in and around the team that could make our great 11. Mandeville wouldn't get past Sharp, Bludell, etc. But maybe in a few years
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: mushRTID on March 24, 2017, 04:42:51 pm
Iv gone for khumalo, thought he might get a few more...class!
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: balbyrover on March 24, 2017, 04:54:52 pm
Matt Mills and Rob Jones.
Khumalo was great for us too. Shame he got injured
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on March 24, 2017, 05:31:06 pm
If the poll was for most influential then Rob Jones would have been one of my picks but in terms of being better quality at the higher level then Mills and Shackell for me.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: NickDRFC on March 24, 2017, 05:36:15 pm
If the poll was for most influential then Rob Jones would have been one of my picks but in terms of being better quality at the higher level then Mills and Shackell for me.

I don't think it should be read in absolute terms - if so there would be no point having anyone other than Mills, Shackell, Khumalo and Friend on there. I read it as who was the best relative to the league we were in at the time. For example, Mcindoe must be a shoe-in for the left wing spot but he never played with us in the Championship.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Syme on March 24, 2017, 05:36:56 pm
Jimmy O'Connor played a decent amount of games at centre back as well.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: donnievic on March 24, 2017, 06:51:40 pm
Shackell and)Khumalo
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: roversdude on March 24, 2017, 08:28:51 pm
Can't believe so few voted for Steve Foster
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: DRNaith on March 24, 2017, 08:41:07 pm
Are we voting for best two individuals, or should we be thinking about them as a potential team pairing?
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: besty on March 24, 2017, 08:42:40 pm
Loved Albrighton,his passion awesome  :scarf:
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Mr1Croft on March 24, 2017, 08:43:27 pm
Everyone who has voted and not included Gordon Greer wants to take a long hard look at themselves.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: ravenrover on March 24, 2017, 08:54:32 pm
I'd vote for Butler but can't see him on the list :whistle:
No Meite?
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: hoolahoop on March 24, 2017, 08:59:39 pm
Gone for Mills and Lee . Mills was a shoe -in  but I was right in thinking our old captain would be forgotten - his goal never will be. :)
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Campsall rover on March 24, 2017, 09:10:25 pm
Shakell and Mills are by far and away the best 2 centre backs since the year 2000
They played at championship level and were high quality centre backs at that level.
As good as Foster and Albrighton were at league 2 level they would not ever have been good enough to play in the Championship.
The only ones in that list to get close to Shakell and Mills was Rob Jones. His leadership was outstanding. The other was Khumulo
As for Gordon Greer he was fairly ordinary for us but went on to become a very accomplished centre back after he left us.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Campsall rover on March 24, 2017, 09:13:02 pm
Yes Graeme Lee was outstanding at League 1 level but his championship days had passed him by when he came to Rovers.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Campsall rover on March 24, 2017, 09:31:12 pm
There is one centre back that has been missed off that list that should be on it. DAVID WHEATER who was on loan to us from Middlesbrough and was outstanding for us in my opinion.
I said at the time he was with us that he would go on to play for England at full international level. He did get into the England squad briefly but never quite fulfilled his true potential.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: roversdude on March 24, 2017, 09:31:25 pm
Just pre 2000 Steve Nicol was one of the finest
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: DRNaith on March 25, 2017, 07:05:17 am
No Darren Moore?
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Campsall rover on March 25, 2017, 08:18:09 am
No Darren Moore?
After the yr 2000
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Belle_Vue on March 25, 2017, 07:39:30 pm
Mills be far, shackell closely followed by Jones.

I think Baudry could be up there in a few seasons.
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Belle_Vue on March 25, 2017, 07:40:02 pm
Shame we could never get Khumalo back due to international clearance
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Herman Hessian on March 25, 2017, 11:00:01 pm
Just pre 2000 Steve Nicol was one of the finest

Nicol's one of the top ten players to have ever pulled on a Rovers shirt, in my slightly deluded opinion...
Title: Re: Best 11 - Centre Backs
Post by: Al4475 on March 26, 2017, 09:52:58 am
Since 2000 - Mills and shackell for sure