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Offline Handsworth Wood Villa

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Best ever Brummie player?
« on: July 03, 2015, 02:01:34 PM »
Gil Merrick?

Gary Shaw?

Daniel Sturridge?

Offline Tom_Mc9?

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2015, 02:02:43 PM »
I can't look any further than Darius Vassell.

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2015, 02:07:46 PM »
There's only one Ian Taylor!

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2015, 02:14:54 PM »
It's a straight toss up between Isaiah Osbourne and Darren Byfield...

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2015, 02:24:30 PM »
Hard to choose between Tony Daley,Mark Walters and Gary Shaw .If pressed i would go for Shaw

Offline Gerrin

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2015, 03:14:06 PM »
Currently probably Daniel Sturridge.

Mark Walters would get my vote for all time in my lifetme.

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2015, 03:22:48 PM »
Robert Hopkins.  Obviously.

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2015, 03:32:04 PM »
Hard to choose between Tony Daley,Mark Walters and Gary Shaw .If pressed i would go for Shaw

Call me biased, but Shaw at his brief peak was on another planet to anyone else. Which other Brummie was a star at world level? Then again, if Walters had played for us three or four years earlier you could have said the same about him.

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2015, 03:42:44 PM »
Hard to choose between Tony Daley,Mark Walters and Gary Shaw .If pressed i would go for Shaw

Call me biased, but Shaw at his brief peak was on another planet to anyone else. Which other Brummie was a star at world level? Then again, if Walters had played for us three or four years earlier you could have said the same about him.

I'm with Dave on this one...

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2015, 03:55:10 PM »
Alan Smith had a pretty good career.

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2015, 04:40:06 PM »
Got to be Gary Shaw for me one of my favourite players.

Offline nigel

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2015, 05:45:49 PM »
As Dave says, Gary Shaw was on a different planet. One of the all time greats with Gordon Cowans.
Mark Walters was a fantastic player, probably one of the most skilful players we've had,  unfortunately, he came into a team that was on a bit of a slide.
« Last Edit: July 03, 2015, 09:18:49 PM by nigel »

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2015, 06:14:58 PM »
Gary Shaw is the one who comes to mind first (as far as players in living memory are concerned). I did think about Sid Cowans but wasn't he born in County Durham?

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2015, 08:38:01 PM »
Gary Shaw.

Offline Fuse

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Re: Best ever Brummie player?
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2015, 08:55:06 PM »
Gary Shaw - both Juventus and Real Madrid wanted to sign him - true story

 


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