Modern Cobblers Select XI [Centre Midfielder Vote]

[Fabbiadini]

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)

[Fabbiadini]

Ian Taylor
Bradley Johnson
Marc Leonard

[BackOfTheNet]

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

[itsme]

1 Hargreaves
2 John Joe
3 Guttridge

[Monkey]

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

[SC Cobbler]

O'Toole
Hargreaves
Leonard

[Manwork04]

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

[Zen Master]

What Manny said.

[lordjord]

John Joe
Marc Leonard
Ian Taylor

[Tabasco Kid]

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

Leonard
Taylor
Harsley

[606 Parklands_Cobbler]

JJOT
Leonard
Crooks

[Battery Man]

Leonard
Hargreaves
John Joe

[Winslow Lee]

Taylor
O’Toole
Bradley Johnson

Nobody’s bullying that mid

[SC Cobbler]

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.

[TVOR]

Ian Taylor
JJOT
Hargreaves

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

[Monkey]

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.

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.

[DavCobb]

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.  

[Bingers]

1. JJOT
2. Leonard
3. Bradders

[Melbourne Cobbler]

Ian Taylor
Bradley Johnson
Marc Leonard

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

[Fabbiadini]

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.

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.