Ex-Legends Poll!

Who was the better player at the club, Craig Bellamy or Jonathon Woodgate?

Craig apparently had 93 apps and 28 goals in 4 or so seasons. He provided constant pace and goal-threat from the left hand-side, but was fairly good with crossing it onto Alan Shearer's noggin as well.

Woodgate was with us for a fairly brief period in comparison, 2003-2004, and made 28 appearances. He wasn't with us as long, but whilst he was at the club he was considered pretty much the class of the league at CB, and it really showed when he played. Like Bellamy, he was prone to injury niggles, but thankfully for us the really bad ones seemed to happen after he left.

 

Bellers for me, I'm a sucker for a Welshman...

 

Woody. The best defender I've seen.

 

Woody was a much better team player while Bellamy was for #1 all the time. A great player on his day if only his head and heart had been right.

And his mouth of course.

 

With a name like that you would be!

 

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Bobby said that Woody was the most gifted natural defender he had seen

 

Woodgate was a better player, but Bellamy did more for the club.

 

I misread the question! I voted for Bellamy as thought he did most for the club. Didn't realise it was who was the better footballer as that is Woodgate.

 

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As class as Woodgate was for us, Bellamy is one of the finest attackers we've let go for me. He was incredibly technically gifted as well as possessing fantastic pace, as I think stands out by the fact he'd still more than likely get a game for a top premier league club. Excitement wise, Bellamy electrified support, and as a youngster at the time, that novelty is a major factor in the vote. Looking back, though. the quality of CB Woodgate not only had to work with and keep clean sheets, but made to look good, is testimony to the ability he had. I put them together purposefully because I think it's a difficult choice, and it was pissing me off the other ones had run away winners

The demise of Woodgate has been epic. World class, to now probably not even being considered a worthy steed for a primary school class donkey-ride... Class is, as they say, permanent, yet Woodgate showed very little of that at Stoke... So maybe MrT's right, aliens are secretly embedding clones into the human colony on the preemptive road to takeover...

 

Epic is a good description of Woody's demise. Could have dominated England for years if he stayed fit.

 

I'm learning how to speak Welsh.

" Good evening Blodwyn, lie back and press that in " ........at least I think that's he said.

 

Shame his body couldn't cope with the rigours of the game really, because he had it between his ears no question. I wonder how much is luck and home much is down to genetics, and whether such injury-susceptible players will be identified and perhaps managed differently in future...

 

I just cut the middle man out and have learnt to speak sheep.

 

I remember being gutted that Woodgate was injured for the Uefa cup semi vs marsille away! I never thought that about Bellamy (as good as he was (probably cause shearer was there)) but still! This Poll should be kept with the 2 options changing each week

 

Are you up for that G?

 

Woodgate

 

Bah, I don't believe ewe!

 

To me, the answer is obvious. Has got to be Bellamy.

We were all spoiled by the fact that our main striker was a certain Alan Shearer, and so we didn't realise what we had in Bellamy.
If Bellamy were to be with us now, at the form he had then, he would 100% be our 1st choice striker. What is underrated about him is that despite being one of the traditional speed merchants, he was also a terrific finisher. Wiki shows he's scored 128 goals in 350 appearances. Not bad I say. After he left I felt the team (on the pitch) really missed his playmaking ability.
He has scored boatloads of goals wherever he went, and only quality players really are able to do that. I've seen him score all sorts of goals, with his left , right, bursting past defences, great finishes... It's a pity he was such a locker room cancer that Shearer had to say what he said to him.

On Woodgate, he was really injury prone, and that really docks a lot of points on him being a better player for the club. You're not playing if you aren't. For all his defensive prowess, he only managed to turn up for 28 games out of about 50 possible games (38 + 1/2 a season) and that's just too little for me. As for how good he was, he was definitely our best centreback. But we can't judge players well if there's too small a sample size, or Xisco would've been our best player by a mile. And then comparing Bellamy who did play over a hundred games for the club I'd have to go with Bellamy on this one.

 

Woodgate for me - shame he was so injury prone.

My Dad, who's been going to the game since the 50s still reckons he was one of the best centre halves he's seen in a black and white shirt