The OFFICIAL Liverpool Supporters thread

[The Real Laoislad]

Who would be your favourite Liverpool team,Not necessarily the best to have played for Liverpool or what the best formation that would suit the players picked  just those who you loved to watch or have fond memories of?
My memory only goes back as far as 1982 thats when i started to follow them I was 4years old so i will only use players from that year onwards
Mine would be.......

                                                         Bruce Grobbelaar

Steve Stanuton                         Jamie Carragher   Glenn Hysen             Rob Jones


John Barnes                              Ronnie Whelan    Steven Gerrard          Steve McManaman


                                               John Aldridge      Robbie Fowler

Manager: Kenny Daglish

Very hard to name just 11 as the likes of Neil Ruddock,Barry Venison,Ray Houghton etc are all favourites of mine too

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Aldo ahead of Rush

Get away outta that

[The Real Laoislad]

Aldo ahead of Rush

Get away outta that

There's always someone to complain 
I didn't say it was the best Liverpool XI but your favourite players,Aldo is my favourite footballer from any era

[brokencrossbar1]

                                      Brucie

Stevie Nicol    Mr Cool Hansen    Jamie Carragher     Steve Staunton


Steven Gerard   Souness      Jan Molby         John Barnes

                       Rushie             Peter Bearsdley

You could put so many in there and have another team, No real goalies to put in apart from Reina, could have the players mentioned by Laoislad, always liked watching Steve McMahon.  Also Craig Johnstone was a favourite of mine too.  

Thommo and Phil Thompson were very early memories of mine.  I would loved to have seen stevie heighway at his best.

[AZOffaly]

Good topic LaoisLad. (Favourites as opposed to all-time greatest). My opinion is skewed by the fact that my youth was spent in parallel with Liverpool winning everything (apart from the FA Cup really) so my 'favourite' players tend to be from the teams of the 80s, which might read like an All Time XI. But I am doing this with your criteria in mind.

Goalkeeper : Ray Clemence. I liked Brucie, but there was always a shade of 'dodginess' about him, from the occasional howler to his row with Macca against Everton. Clemence was a class act, and I remember crying when I hear he'd left Liverpool to go to the Spuds.

Back Four.

Phil Neal : Solid, dependable and a great penalty taker. We've had a dearth of top quality right backs, but he was the business.
Alan Hansen : Captain Cool himself. The best ball playing centre half the club has had.
Jamie Carragher : He wouldn't make my all time best team, but he is a great club man, and always gives his all.
Alan Kennedy : Barney Rubble scored the winning goal in two European Cup finals, as well as a few Riise-like drives from outside the box. I always liked him as a player.

Midfield.

Ronnie Whelan : a fantastic player, and Irish to boot. Always classy on the ball, and his goal against United in the Milk Cup final was great.
Steven Gerrard : A love-hate relationship with Stevie G. Sometimes he is a sulky hoor, but other times he single handedly drives Liverpool on, and when he shows that passion, he is fantastic.
Graeme Souness : The ultimate midfielder in a great Liverpool team, tackling, passing, shooting he could do it all, and he always gave his all for the Red shirt.
John Barnes : Edges out Steve McManaman because Banna had to overcome a series of different hurdles as well, and as he matured and went out to grass in the middle, he showed he could modify his game. His seasons from 1987/1988 to 1990 were some of the best wing play I've ever seen at Anfield.

Strikers
Rush : The ultimate finisher, and a long servant. Went away only to disover that Italy was 'like a foreign country', but came back as good as ever.
Dalglish : The man. My favourite Liverpool player of all time. King Kenny looked like a little junior B football player, but he had exquisite touch, a fantastic pass, a great eye for a goal and, of course, that huge arse which gave him loads of space from defenders.


Unlucky not to make it:
Lawrenson, Thompson, Lee, Molby, Fowler.

May make it soon :
Torres

[Minder]

James ( I know it may raise a few eyebrows but i thought he would be great when he joined from Watford)
Jones ( A potentially great career ruined by injury, i remember his first game v Utd just after signing, fed Giggs farts for breakfast)
Hansen (No justification needed)
Carragher (No justification needed)
Staunton ( A dearth of good LB's)
Barnes (From 87-90 was almost unplayable, again serious injuries blighted him. Favourite Liverpool player)
Souness ( Complete midfielder, makes Roy Keane look like an Irish League player)
Gerrard ( Love him or hate him he is still a class act)
Dalglish ( No justification needed)
Rush (No justification needed)
Beardsley (No justification needed)

[AZOffaly]

Hey Minder. I caught that. Was Robbie out drunk last night to get dropped so late in the day?

[Minder]

Hey Minder. I caught that. Was Robbie out drunk last night to get dropped so late in the day?

No, i forgot about Beardsley and i couldnt leave him off........That 87-88 team is my favourite team of all that i have seen, in fainess my criteria/memory is 1985 onwards but i have seen enough of Souness to include him.

[magpie seanie]

Laoislad - do you have problems with directions?

[AZOffaly]

Left, Right, it's all a state of mind

[ONeill]

Loved watching Beardsley. Could trap and control a cannonball fired at him from 3 yards.

[Shrewdness]

As a United fan, i was just wondering what you boys make of today's report that Chelsea have bid 40M for Torres.

Wouldn't Abramovich make you sick

For all the money he spends, the only thing that Chelsea had to parade last Sunday were their kids and WAGS

[Minder]

As a United fan, i was just wondering what you boys make of today's report that Chelsea have bid 40M for Torres.

Wouldn't Abramovich make you sick

For all the money he spends, the only thing that Chelsea had to parade last Sunday were their kids and WAGS

What is your source? £40 mill would maybe, maybe buy you his left leg.........

[gawa316]

As a United fan, i was just wondering what you boys make of today's report that Chelsea have bid 40M for Torres.

Wouldn't Abramovich make you sick

For all the money he spends, the only thing that Chelsea had to parade last Sunday were their kids and WAGS

What is your source? £40 mill would maybe, maybe buy you his left leg.........

I think its coming from the spanish press

[el_cuervo_fc]

As a United fan, i was just wondering what you boys make of today's report that Chelsea have bid 40M for Torres.

Wouldn't Abramovich make you sick

For all the money he spends, the only thing that Chelsea had to parade last Sunday were their kids and WAGS

What is your source? £40 mill would maybe, maybe buy you his left leg.........

I think its coming from the spanish press

It's on SKy sports

Reds reject Torres bid - report
Claims of £40million Chelsea offer
Last updated: 13th May 2008


Spanish reports claim that Liverpool have rejected a huge bid from Chelsea for Fernando Torres.

Radio Marca report that Roman Abramovich lodged a cheeky 50million euros (£40million) offer for Torres - who has shone on his debut season in England.


Liverpool are believed to have rejected the offer out of hand and did not discuss any possible deal as they have no intention whatsoever of selling the Spanish striker.


It is also claimed that Avram Grant tried to use his friendship with Liverpool's Yossi Benayoun to make it known to Torres, Chelsea's admiration.


However, Torres - who is readying himself to play a pivotal role for Spain at Euro 2008, is more than happy with life at Anfield and has no intentions of quitting less than 12 months into his Liverpool career.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_3558659,00.html