I have decided after much deliberation to stick with exactly the same candidates, I ask you to vote for your alternative centre back partner from who you voted in the first poll, I will then add up the 2 highest percentages from the first and second polls and then put in the 2 highest! If you have not voted on the first Centre Back poll then please go to that and vote on that one as well as this one. The results may take a little longer as I am away for a week with work.... My votes went with J Mac & David Holdsworth .... I was going to go for Bolton but I only saw him a number of times, was pure class though ...
Again having only heard of two of the candidates i have had to go for them, JDM and Tiny, however i would love to see those two play a few games, that would be formidable.
I have now voted for Ian Bolton (1977 to 1983). If you didn't see him you need to know he cost just £12,500 and he started off with Sam Ellis. He could do most things and was usually very composed even at level 4, level 3, level 2 and then the top flight. I don't have the stats to hand, but he also anchored midfield for spells as GT blended teams together as the club went through the divisions. They don't make players like him any more.
Just to recap, my team so far has been Coton Rice McClelland Bolton Rostron Strangely all of these were purchased, but I will be blending this solid if a little unspectacular backline with some of our most exciting homegrown talent when the other positions come up for discussion.
Just to recap, my team so far has been Coton Rice McClelland Bolton Rostron Strangely all of these were purchased, but I will be blending this solid if a little unspectacular backline with some of our most exciting homegrown talent when the other positions come up for discussion.
I met Ian Bolton once and he had the most extraordinary eyes! Blue but as if he had 100 watt light bulbs behind them! Anyway, fantastic player and a great long ball passer of the ball - 60 yard bullets - one of the reasons we got a reputation of being long ball merchants.
Funny isn't it - tv pundits used to have multiple orgasms if Glenn Hoddle did that once or twice in a game. Our Ian could do it frequently, and we got labelled 'long ball'. No justice!
I think that the way the poll is setup for duplicate positions (central defence, midfield and strikers) unwittingly leans towards the 80s. If people only got one vote, we had slightly longer to vote because the second choices matter, and we picked the top two, it would have been a photo finish between Bolton, Taylor (slightly surprisingly in my opinion), DeMerit and Page. As things stand, McClelland supporters can and seemingly have put their weight behind Bolton, knowing that McClelland is home and dry. It certainly would have been a crime if Bolton lost out to Taylor, so on those grounds I'm happy with the outcome. But it might be worth having another look at the method before we do the central midfielders and strikers.
Happy for any ideas if you want to change it, managed to get on line on my iPod in montreal! Happy days . I think we should revert to an open poll where you can vote twice for strikers and midfielders, so we would have 10 candidates and the top 2 win, let me know if your happy with that or new ideas r welcome ?
Ian Bolton for me no one took a penalty kick like Ian Bolton. If the keeper got near it he went in the back of the net with the ball. I remember one away match V Rotherham when Ian Bolton took a free kick in his own half and I can remember the commentator Ian Helm saying thats gone a long way and its gone over mountfields head the keeper is crestfallen. Oh yes and us Hornets were going mad. Good old days...