Your best Saints team 2012-2023 Prem era

Yeah, actually he was playing in my first ever game at the The Dell.

 

You've missed some real humdingers in here. How could you forget Weird Al Jankowitz? Played a total of one minute for us; got sent off, and we get thrashed 9-0. And that after throwing a strop for not being picked. Total legend.

Thierry Small. Looked completely out of his depth, against Championship opposition. Almost scored a belter of an own goal. Hauled off at half-time, never to play again.

Elyounoussi. Four million appearances, and only one assist.

F*ck, so many from this season's squad, sadly, AMN, Orsic, Onuachu...

 

You're right. Unfortunately for us it's an almost endless list to choose from. But I tried to pick ones that were familiar names to me and also had a few games under their belt

 

Vegard Forren.

 

Fraser
Clyne Toby Virgil Bertrand
Morgan Wanyama
Mane Lallana Jay
Ings

Boruc, KWP, Lovren, JWP, Hojberg, Davis, Tadic, Lambert, Pelle

Obviously it's the pre-injury Jay. Two hardest decisions were Clyne v KWP, and Wanyama v JWP. Would happily have gone either way.

 

Quite good teams when you look at it. I am sure they would be top 4 material. So Saintsy to be what if!

 

So for me the goalkeeper one is tricky. We never actually had a proper great goalkeeper this time in the prem. Both Forster and Boruc were backed up by fantastic defenders. Forster was never the same after that Vassell goal away to Villa where he came out and got done. Boric had moments of absolute madness. I would slightly edge towards Boruc as he could save in the corners. RB is Clyne. Definitely got the best years out of him. CB pairing of Toby and VVD LB Bertrand. Shout out to Shaw, I think he's a 100% passion player.
I'm going with big Vic and Morgan. Then it's the guy we never replaced, the creator Tadic just in front, Mane left. Lallana right and the unit Pelle up top.

 

Which goal is this? Losing my mind over here trying to piece it together but not sure I can

 

It was the one assisted by Dean Saunders.

 

That's the one. After that FF wouldn't leave his goal line.

 

Boruc
Clyne Fonte VVD Bertrand
Schneiderlin JWP
Tadic Mane Lallana
Lambert

Pelle narrowly missed out, as did Steven Davis Cedric and KWP. Wanyama was great for us too.

 

High-flying XI: Forster, Tino, Alderweireld, VVD, Shaw, Morgan, JWP, Mane, Lallana, JRod, Pelle. - Poch

'If my life depended on a result' XI: Forster, Clyne, Fonte, VVD, Bertrand, Romeu, JWP, Davis, Tadic, Lambert, JRod. - Koeman

Cult favourite XI: Boruc, JWP when we forced him into being a wingback, Maya, Hooiveld, Djenepo when we forced him into being a wingback, Cork, Wanyama, Stu, Tella and his lovely smile, Long, Gabbiadini. - Ralph

 

Forster
Fonte V Dijk Alderweireld
Tadic Cork Schneiderlin lallana
Pelle Lambert Ings

Manager Poch

Would concede a fair amount of goals but would be fun to watch

 

Welcome to the madhouse sootysaint1

 

Couldn't access my main account or my email on my tablet so created a new one. Still logged in on the phone haha

 

In lockdown I made a Saints team on FM like this to see how we’d get on

we played in an ahead of our time 3-2-4-1 formation


Forster
Alderweireld VVD Shaw
Wanyama Scneiderlin
Tadic Lallana Davis Mane
Pelle

 

Sod yer then Bog off. To be honest I should've twigged.

 

Forster

KWP
VVD
Fonte
Shaw

Romeu
Schneiderlin

Tadic
Mane
Ings

Lambert

manager Poch

As others have said, very tough decisions all over the park. I prefer us when we played with a central hold up striker and I gave the nod to Rickie, because I think he was the better overall footballer to Pelle.

it’s hard to ignore Ings individual goal scoring achievements.

how would our teams fair against a 92-05 best of?

 

Niemi, Le Tiss, and Beattie would all get into my XI, but I'm not sure anyone else from that era would.

Killer, for example, was a top CB. But not in the same league as Virgil or Toby.

 

Dodd better than any RB we’ve had recently


Niemi and Le Tissier yes

Beattie might struggle unless you play a front 2