Worst Ever Boro 11 - We have our team!

Hap said:
Just looking that up. I was there, but don't remember him playing a single league game. I remember him taking a free kick at a night game, that I thought was a cup match.
it was a long time ago. 🙈
I remember a low fizzing free kick, going wide. And BIG shorts... It looked like he was towing a caravan.
I guess it is his place in the worst team 😂
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“His lasting contribution to Boro folklore will be his legendary half-time pep talk when he told his team-mates trailing 1-0: "Pass, pass, goal, goal, nightclub, lager, lager."

I can only remember him scoring from a free kick/corner.. then looking knackered!
 
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Nicky Mohan wore the Number 3 aug-nov 89/90 season Cooper must have been injured? Then Jimmy Phillips signed in March

Owen McGee also wore the no.2 & 3 shirt in the 90/91 season

98/98 craig Harrison had a spell as the club's left back too before Dean Gordon claimed the No.3 shirt the following season
 
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newyddion said:
I think I’m softening my stance on a few of these.. Mido’s broken pelvic bone has put him in a different light. Kris Boyd could be a contender for being the softest ‘big lad’ I’ve ever seen play football. Britt Assombalonga could get the nod for failing to match Fatty Boyd’s total with us in his last season.
However, Marlon King should be in there really.. should never had been at the club imo. Not wanted by his club Wigan and then sent back by his loaning club Hull.

As annoying as Adam Hamill was.. he wasn’t as annoying as Adam Johnson. He was a left winger with us told us it was either him or Stewart Downing in the team as he couldn’t play in the same side as him. Then he went to Man City and did not live up to his potential, didn’t do what was asked of him.. then back home to Sunderland. He’s not going to make any other boro XI

Kevin Thomson was a big disappointment.. but I think premier league appearances should count for something.

Maybe we could adopt 3-5-2 in memory of our worst ever manager?

Struggling with a central defender and another winger..
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Glad you have remembered Sean St Ledger, didn’t we have to pay for him to leave as we had him on loan with a view to a permanent signing?!
 
Otto42 said:
Glad you have remembered Sean St Ledger, didn’t we have to pay for him to leave as we had him on loan with a view to a permanent signing?!
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We had him on a loan with an option to sign. Something daft like £2m loan and £4m transfer fee. We cut the deal short and just paid the loan fee.

That was utter insanity!!
 
Luca Brazi said:
This is a tough one. Good ones - easy. John Craggs, Curtis Fleming and Luke Young etc. Richard Liburd could be good entertainment - I once saw him slalom his way out of the penalty area, beating about 5 players on the way, with the entire crowd shrieking ‘Get Rid!!’ with increasing hysteria with every touch. But I think for sheer disappointment I’d also go with Justin Hoyte. Luke Young had been SO good, and I think we all assumed that Hoyte would pretty much slot in and be just as good. Which, unfortunately, was just like assuming Rudy would be the new Hickton.

And although Luke Young was very good and Curtis was a great servant, I’d still say that Craggsy is probably the only truly great RB we’ve had.
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Fleming 😄
 
Left back is another tough one. Again, good (great) ones pretty easy - Terry Cooper, Stan Anderson, Frank Spraggon, Christian Zeige (unbelievably good) and Frank Q.

Not so good ones - most of the rest really, by comparison. I guess it’s got to be Branco though, for sheer ‘wtf?’ Expecting a Brazilian genius, and instead got a rather rotund Sunday Leaguer who looked like a local Kebab shop owner who was only given a game ‘cos we were ‘one short’.
 
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Our relegation season.. can’t help thinking that if we had spent the Branco money on.. anyone else and played that person instead.. we might just have made it over the line.
 
Luca Brazi said:
Curtis was a great defender. It’s fair to say he was not so good going the other way.
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Fair enough we all have different opinions. Mine is he was a very average player. A lot of Boro fans will disagree but I watched him get roasted, in the Premier League especially, many a time. Luke Young however was class, absolutely agree. Just wasn't here long enough.
 
18MFC76 said:
Fair enough we all have different opinions. Mine is he was a very average player. A lot of Boro fans will disagree but I watched him get roasted, in the Premier League especially, many a time. Luke Young however was class, absolutely agree. Just wasn't here long enough.
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I’d have to disagree re Curtis, he was a solid but unspectacular full back. Certainly shouldn’t be anywhere near this topic in my opinion.

Anyway left back position to be finalised tomorrow morning !
 
Doesn't help with the debate for worst because these guys were top notch, but I loved both Ian Bailey and Franck Quedrue at left back and neither have been mentioned here so I'm gonna post this!
 
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