Our best winger

[peter w]

To follow on from the recent topic on Tony Daley I thought I'd ask the question. So, who, in your opinion is the best winger at VP. I undoubtedly will have missed one or two, so feel free to add your suggestions. Was Harry Burrows a winger? He's not going in because I don't know.

Strictly speaking Peter Mac wasn't, but he will go in.

[Rotterdam]

Morley for me...if just for that cross in rotterdam.

[Exeter 77]

Has to be Morley - for his consistency and goals.

[joe_c]

What about Ian Ormondroyd?

[SammyInStafford]

What? No Stumpy?

Well, in all honesty Johnny McLeod was no world beater but when you're eleven years old and you see a traditional dribbler it makes an impression.
Saw Harry Burrows as well. Again, never set the world on fire but an out and out winger.
If you'd have asked these guys to track back and be tactically aware about the attacking threat on the flanks from a wingback they'd look at you as if you'd just arrived from the planet Zob.

[Oscar Arce]

For an out- and-out winger who stuck to the touchline Willie Anderson was from the old school, but I remember him as a bit infuriating.
Didier Six was a great crosser of the ball but did'nt stick around too long.
Stumpy McLeod I just about remember, the bow legged little winger from the old Scottish dribbling tradition...nah.
Daley was hit and miss, and also not a great crosser but a brilliant runner with the ball...
Graydon has to come close not only for his great wing play but he scored lots of important goals and helped the early years of Andy Gray with regular teasing crosses, hung up high in front of the Holte End goal...
Anyone remember David Rudge?
But for productivity, it also just has to be the legend that is Tony Morley for me.

[richardhubbard]

Got to be Morley purely for the goal v Everton

[The Man With A Stick]

What about Ian Ormondroyd?

He was signed (on the same day as that w**kstain Callaghan - I had a poster of them both on one of my school books!) from Bradford as a striker and converted to a winger, wasn't he?  There can't have been many other 6' 4" wingers in the game.

[D.boy]

Morley for me.
Daley was fantastic on his day and scored some superb goals but was too inconsistent.

[JD]

Has to be Tony Morley for me. When this guy was on form he was unstoppable.  =D>  =D>

[Big Dick Edwards]

What would England give now for a goalscoring left winger like Morley now?

[Big Dick Edwards]

Anyone remember David Rudge?

I do. He was one of my favourite players when I was a kid. I don't really know why - he wasn't a regular was he?

[WarszaVillan]

Morely for about two or three seasons was fantastic. best in the business. He seemed to get sussed out after a while and began to fade after the European Cup season, and then overtaking by a young Walters and his cheeky step over

[Big Dick Edwards]

Morely for about two or three seasons was fantastic. best in the business. He seemed to get sussed out after a while and began to fade after the European Cup season, and then overtaking by a young Walters and his cheeky step over

I got the impression success went to Morley's head a bit. I remember seeing the players on the pitch before the Charity Shield game against Spurs at Wembley. Morley had dyed his hair blonde during pre season and was wearing a white jacket. While this flash behaviour is normal nowadays, successful footballers didn't generally tend to do this sort of thing in the Eighties.

[dave.woodhall]

It's hard to comment on players you never saw play, but Peter McParland's record speaks for itself.