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In 2005 we were terrible, capitulated at Fratton and deserved to go down. We did however suffer from lots of injuries and were ultimately 1 goal from survival!

 

 

I think the current lot are worse.

 

I would laugh at a combined team [emoji44]

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In 2005 we were terrible, capitulated at Fratton and deserved to go down. We did however suffer from lots of injuries and were ultimate 1 goal from survival!

 

 

I think the current lot are worse.

 

I would laugh at a combined team [emoji44]

 

Hows this for a combined worst team in Ralphs favourite 5-3-2

 

Gunn

Valery

Davenport

Stephens

Kenton

Bernard

JWP

Prutton

McCann

Long

Blackstock

 

Smith

Vestergaard

Le Saux

Jakobsson

Romeu

Obafemi

Best

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Combined team, assuming we’re trying to make it good.

 

Niemi

 

Telfer - Yoshida - Vest - Le Saux

 

Oakley - Romeu - Prutton

 

- - - - - Svensson

 

- - - Crouch - - Ings

 

 

 

 

Bench: McC, Higgy, Cédric, McQ, Redmond, Camara, Phillips

 

Good grief was I struggling at CB.

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Combined team, assuming we’re trying to make it good.

 

Niemi

 

Telfer - Yoshida - Vest - Le Saux

 

Oakley - Romeu - Prutton

 

- - - - - Svensson

 

- - - Crouch - - Ings

 

 

 

 

Bench: McC, Higgy, Cédric, McQ, Redmond, Camara, Phillips

 

Good grief was I struggling at CB.

 

an injured Svensson still gets in on one leg. Thats a terrible side you gave made there. Terrible.

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svensson didn't play a match, Dodd only 4, Oakley only 7. It's not really fair to include them. Claus was past his best (as was Dodd).

 

That’s what I was going with, their form/fitness in these particular years. For e.g. I’d have Mk.1 Bertrand in the side but not Bertrand 6S, which has a cracked screen and doesn’t support iOS3.5.2.4.1.

 

For 2005 FF read 2019 Lemina

Djenepo maybe but he’s not proven himself yet.

Phillips/Ings/Camara is umpires call (I eventually went with Ings for his goals) and probably the only genuinely pleasant dilemma in that whole team.

Redknapp and Oakley can take it in turns to be fit for 60 minutes.

2005 Claus was one of the worst displays I’ve seen over a season from any saints player, let alone captain. Full of mistakes, bottled it when the going got tough.

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When thinking of the class of 2005 I feel nostalgic. Our current bunch make it very easy to do.

 

That season we beat Liverpool and Spurs at home, the Skates twice at home. Had a reasonable cup run, played some decent attacking football at times and had Peter Crouch and Camara.

 

This season we have.................... Erm............. Djenepo, Boufal and a win against a laughable bunch in League 1 who are meant to be our main rival.

 

The crushing lows from 04/05 against Everton and Boro at home, Spurs and the Skates away have been blown out of the water by that game v Leicester.

 

2019/20 makes 04/05 look good.

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Combined team, assuming we’re trying to make it good.

 

Niemi

 

Telfer - Yoshida - Vest - Le Saux

 

Oakley - Romeu - Prutton

 

- - - - - Svensson

 

- - - Crouch - - Ings

 

 

 

 

Bench: McC, Higgy, Cédric, McQ, Redmond, Camara, Phillips

 

Good grief was I struggling at CB.

 

Yoshida :lol:

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In 2005 we were terrible, capitulated at Fratton and deserved to go down. We did however suffer from lots of injuries and were ultimately 1 goal from survival!

 

 

I think the current lot are worse.

 

I would laugh at a combined team [emoji44]

 

Current team far, far worse imo. That 2005 team were missing Pahars, Oakley, and the ginger Svendsson through injury - arguably our best attacker, midfielder and defender. This current lot aren't weakened by injury, if they are weakened by anything it's shockingly negligible recruitment, but ultimately they are just weak.

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Do we have a single player now that you would expect to play well? I haven't seen much football at all this season, but from what I see here:

 

Romeu is our only decent midfielder one week, hopeless the next.

Adam deserves a chance/should never be selected again

Yoshida is the only one with passion/shouldn't be near the first team

Boufal is our only good player/isn't fit to wear the shirt

Danso needs to play/is laughably inept at this level

Valery is an exciting young player who creates stuff/is a hopeless liability

Bertrand is our only class player/never puts in a shift anymore

 

 

Pretty much all of those players have been announced as needing to be played and should never be playing. I don't think I've seen much criticism of Ings this season, that's something.

 

In 2005 we were actually very unlucky to draw a few key matches and that team could have stayed up with a bit more discipline. Goals at the death against Middlesboro, Everton and Arsenal seem to stand out.

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