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Your best Wycombe XI of the EFL era

PLAYERS "OWNED" BY WYCOMBE ONLY

Here's mine (4412) Based on what I have seen.

Martin Taylor

Matt Lawrence
Jamie Bates
Roger Johnson
Mickey Bell

Dave Carroll
Curtis Thompson
Keith Ryan
Matt Phillips

Steve McGavin

Sean Devine

Subs:
Paul Hyde
Anthony Stewart
Paul McCarthy
Matt Bloomfield
Darren Currie
Sam Vokes
Adebayo Akinfenwa

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  • Williamson and Guppy in the starting X1 for me.
    Probably JJ over Bell now too.

  • Martin Taylor

    Danny Senda
    Jamie Bates
    Mike Williamson
    Craig Woodman

    Dave Carroll
    Matt Bloomfield
    Keith Ryan
    Matt Phillips

    Steve McGavin

    Tommy Mooney

    Subs:
    Matt Ingram
    Anthony Stewart
    Jason Cousins
    Steve Brown
    Darren Currie
    Sean Devine
    Andy Rammell

  • Jocky, Stallard, Senda, Tyson, Vinnicombe, Betsy all deserve a mention.... I'm sure there's more.

  • Martin Taylor

    Jason Cousins
    Anthony Stewart
    Mike Williamson
    Joe Jacobson

    Gareth Mccleary
    Josh Scowen
    Dave Carroll
    Darren Currie

    Nathan Tyson
    Sam Vokes

  • @PrinceOfCrowell said:
    Martin Taylor

    Jason Cousins
    Anthony Stewart
    Mike Williamson
    Joe Jacobson

    Gareth Mccleary
    Josh Scowen
    Dave Carroll
    Darren Currie

    Nathan Tyson
    Sam Vokes

    No subs?? Gone back to the early GA days where he made up some of the bench?

  • Martin Taylor

    Matt Lawrence
    Jason Bates
    Paul McCarthy
    Joe Jacobson

    Dave Carroll
    Keith Ryan
    Michael Simpson
    Steve Guppy

    Nathan Tyson
    Sean Devine

    May be showing my age.

  • Martin Taylor

    JJ
    Evans
    Williamson
    Cousins

    Guppy
    Doherty
    Thompson (Steve)
    Carroll

    Vokes
    Tyson

    There are so many that could also be in there. Bell, McCarthy, Bates, Ryan, Brown, Simpson, Currie, Betsy, McCleary, Devine, Garner, Rammell.....the list goes on and on

    We've been very lucky to see so many amazing players over the years

  • I want to see Mawson, Eze and Torres back in the quarters, could someone put them in their line up for me please.

  • Taylor

    Jacobson
    Stewart
    R Johnson
    Cousins

    Betsy
    Brown
    Ryan
    Carroll

    Tyson
    Garner

    (Couldn’t leave Betsy or Carroll out so Betsy has had to go on the left hand side. Only saw a handful of games in 1993/94 which is the only reason Guppy not in my team).

  • Taylor

    Grimmer
    Stewart
    R Johnson
    Jacobson

    Scowen
    Doherty
    Saunders

    McCleary
    Akinfenwa
    Tyson

  • That is a hell of a team! (although Grimmer ahead of Cousins is clearly madness, much as I love him)

  • Taylor

    Cousins
    R Johnson
    Williamson
    Jacobson

    Carroll
    Ryan
    Brown
    Phillips

    Tyson (1st stint)
    Akinfenwa

    Subs
    Ingram
    P Mccarthy
    Guppy
    Senda
    Currie
    Simpson
    Devine

  • Taylor

    Cousins
    McCarthy
    Evans
    Jacobson

    Ryan
    Guppy
    Brown
    Carroll

    Tyson
    McSporran

  • Taylor

    Cousins
    McCarthy
    Bates
    JJ

    Scowen
    Torres
    Ryan

    Akinfenwa
    Tyson
    Devine

  • FmGFmG
    edited February 2022

    Taylor

    Cousins
    Pierre
    Williamson
    JJ

    Scowen
    Brown
    Bulman

    McSporran
    Tyson
    Bayo

  • edited February 2022

    Lots of different things at play with such discussions like this one.

    Someone like Roger Johnson was clearly a quality player, as he went on to play in the premier league. But for us I don't think he was anywhere near the finished article and for me Williamson's top level for us was superior.

    You think about Tony Adams, albeit a bit of a maniac, coming in, and thinking he was either a left back, or a striker (!). And there were thoughts at the time that Williamson and Johnson needed a more experienced defender to help them along.

    However, that last half a season we had from Williamson I thought he was absolutely imperious. Probably only Mawson could rival him (and of course we didn't own him, so can't be included in this debate).

    On another note, McCarthy and Bates was probably the best combination we fielded, but I couldn't say either were better individually than Williamson.

  • Half of these line-ups don't work

  • I'm not even going to bother trying, I'd pick my team then remember all the people I'd also like to put in, almost impossible task for me

  • @ReturnToSenda said:
    Half of these line-ups don't work

    Mine would reach the Premier League

  • @HolmerBlue said:
    I'm not even going to bother trying, I'd pick my team then remember all the people I'd also like to put in, almost impossible task for me

    Exactly how I felt when I started having a go!

  • Martin Taylor
    Jason Cousins
    Joe Jacobson
    Paul McCarthy
    Gary Doherty
    Darren Currie
    Josh Scowen
    Michael Simpson
    Steve Guppy
    Simon Garner
    Andy Rammell
    Subs
    Jamie Bates
    Dave Carroll
    Nathan Tyson
    Gareth Mcleary
    Sean Devine

  • I’m with @HolmerBlue and @YorkExile about this thread but that hasn’t stopped me having a glance at all the suggestions. Several interesting things caught my eye, the most remarkable being the unprecedented unanimity about Martin Taylor being our best ever goalkeeper. Oh for a Martin Taylor now.

    Another interesting aspect was the way the selections gave clues, if not to the age of participants, at least to the length of time they’ve been following the Mighty Wanderers.

    @Chris, for example, must be even younger than I thought. As for @ChasHarps, I know he goes back a long way (and any omission of players from the early ‘nineties wouldn’t be the result of failing memory!).
    With his choice of two fullbacks and a centre half, I wasn’t sure if he was reflecting the current era or had gone back to the days of half backs and inside forwards. I’m now getting my own back on @ReturnToSenda for occasionally baffling me with statistical wizardry.

  • Speaking of wizardry, there's a bloke in the family stand who looks like a wizard and I am this close to asking him to magic up a win.

  • @perfidious_albion said:
    I want to see Mawson, Eze and Torres back in the quarters, could someone put them in their line up for me please.

    I would have loved to but out of that list, Torres was the only one who we can include as Mawson & Eze were never "our's"

  • I'm guessing when people have included Betsy & Tyson, they are thinking about their first stint at the club and not their second!

  • @Otter87 said:
    I'm guessing when people have included Betsy & Tyson, they are thinking about their first stint at the club and not their second!

    Same with Guppy, and arguably every player we've had?

    That's one for another thread though.

  • Has Scowen been better in his second spell?

  • He's a different player now, quality, but maybe without that initial eye catching level that saw him sold on?

  • Just for the record, although I'm abstaining... Martin Taylor and Steve Guppy would both definitely be in my team

  • Martin Taylor

    Jason Cousins
    Paul McCarthy
    Mike Williamson
    Joe Jacobson

    Dave Carroll
    Steve Brown
    Josh Scowen
    Steve Guppy

    Simon Garner
    Adebayo Akinfenwa

    Subs:
    Paul Hyde
    Jamie Bates
    Michael Simpson
    Jermaine McSporran
    Kevin Betsy
    Nathan Tyson
    Andy Rammell

    So many others that have been left out!

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