The Hotel End

You can cast three votes; first preference 3 points, second preference 2 points, third preference 1 point.

Round 5 - Center Mids

Eligible Players (>40 appearances since 2002/03)

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Ian Taylor
Bradley Johnson
Marc Leonard

This is a tricky one - difficult to decide between "best" and "favourite", which are not necessarily the same thing!

I'm going for...

Chris Hargreaves
Ian Taylor
Marc Leonard

1 Hargreaves
2 John Joe
3 Guttridge

Ian Taylor
Marc Leonard
John-Joe O'Toole

Grimes nearly crept in at 3 because he was quality, but couldnt bring myself to leave JJOT out

O'Toole
Hargreaves
Leonard

1) Marc Leonard
2) Ian Taylor
3) Bradley Johnson

What Manny said.

John Joe
Marc Leonard
Ian Taylor

Shame that theres no Thornton, so I will go for:

Leonard
Taylor
Harsley

JJOT
Leonard
Crooks

Leonard
Hargreaves
John Joe

Taylor
O’Toole
Bradley Johnson

Nobody’s bullying that mid

Just looking at the G/A stats - it's crazy how productive Matty Taylor was for his in that first season. If we'd have kept the 15/16 squad and upgraded Byrom to Taylor I think we'd have been flying in League One.

It's also a shame to see how productive D'Ath was. Really thought he was going to kick on with us for a while.

Ian Taylor
JJOT
Hargreaves

Probably the hardest call yet.
Leonard obvious one missing but wanted to keep to players we owned.

He was great from set pieces and arguably justified his place in the team with his goal contributions, but was otherwise poor for us and a liabiilty on and off the ball.

Now we are talking.

1. JJOT
2. Leonard
3. Ryan Gilligan - firstly because it won't impact on the vote but mainly because it will p*ss Marvo off.  :P ;D

1. JJOT
2. Leonard
3. Bradders

First one up, exactly my choice as well (unless I’m allowed to vote for Ian Taylor 3 times.

I think to accommodate Taylor at that age you'd have to concede he's not going to do much running off-the-ball. We had him, Revell, Richards and Paul Anderson who were all blowing by the 70th minute mark.

I also rated D'Ath, but may have benefited from being in extremely good team for that division. Probably not the player you'd want went scrapping near the bottom, but was surprised he didn't sustain much of a league career after us. We've had no end of players who looked technically very good but ultimately ended up non-league.

Also not surprised Giles Coke failed to register a single assist despite being a relatively attacking, selfish player.

And by no means the best player, but Ryan Watson probably has a shout at best run of form. There was a patch where he either scored or looked to every game.

Arguably one of the most naturally talented we've had. Could easily been a Championship player if he applied himself.

I was listening to a podcast with Mick McCarthy and he described how Kev's brother (Sean) had exactly the same problem. Rated him as the best player at Sunderland but couldn't rely on him as he constantly turned up overweight or hungover.

Ian Taylor
JJ
Marc Leonard

Marc Leonard
Bradley Johnson
Matt Crooks

1)Marc Leonard
2)John Joe
3) Bradley Johnson

1. JJOT
2. Leonard
3. Hargreaves

We should get the final team together to play at Hoskins testimonial!

With all the managers who kept picking him in his team's dugout and one or two characters on this forum who don't rate him in the other dugout !

Absolutely. Such a waste of a talent, but then he did spend most of his spare time in Hakamous bar.
I also had to include Paul Harsley because I presented him with a player of the season award on the pitch pre match.  ;D

JJOT
Gutteridge
Ian Taylor

Hardest one yet. I too left out loanees.

I. Taylor
B. Johnson
M. Taylor

1. John-Joe O'Toole
2. Ian Taylor
3. Marc Leonard

Marc Leonard
John Joe O'Toole
Jack Sowerby

On a related note - here's my campaign submission for Gabbiadini in preparation for the next vote. (15:33)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhN_YhvgUY

JJOT
Johnson
Leonard

Matt Grimes
Marc Leonard
Matt Crooks

Leonard
Johnson
Crooks

JJOT
Johnson
Leonard

JJOT
Sowerby
Gutteridge

Grimes and Crooks were far better after leaving us no.

 I always thought Matty Crooks was a real class act and totally stood out in that Cobblers side. I remember watching him score an excellent hat trick in the murk at Macclesfield one rain soaked Tuesday evening.

Taylor
JJOT
Bradley Johnson

He was real class, but went missing too often for my liking.

Playing in the MLS now following in the footsteps of the good doctor.

Are Hull in the MLS now?
Crooks was sent off while playing for them this afternoon.

+1 he seemed to give up very easily if the chips were down. I got the impression he didn't want to be here. Clearly a talented player though as proven by his career

Hadn’t realised he’d come back from Utah, Utah….

When we doing the Strikers

Bas Savage
Benny Ashley Seal

Surely it's a no brainer

More to the point, when do we get to select our favourite bench and legendary treatment room?