1988 v2010 : Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:36 pm  

just a little bit of fun but would any of the 1988 yorkshire cup final winning team get into the 2010 squad and if so who and why......

1.spencer
2.ET
3.schofield
4.stephenson
5.gibson
6.ashton
7.lyons
8.crooks
9.maskell
10.waddell
11.brooke cowens
12.powell
13.heron

14.backo
15.medley

Re: 1988 v2010 : Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:45 pm  

E.T,Schoey,Powell,Lyons and Heron would get into the current squad imo.
Their quality more than earns it.

Re: 1988 v2010 : Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:18 pm  

Gibson might have got a game and he was pretty nippy in his day (Anyone remember him 'surfing' on Offiah's thigh ?)

Whilst perhaps not at his time at Leeds, I'd have loved us to have had David Stephenson in his day and really apart from the likes of Brad Godden, there's not been a centre as good as him since, in terms of timing and being able to put his winger in to acres of space.

Medley might have got in , under the decent coaching we have now, as one of the best free-running forwards we've had.

Re: 1988 v2010 : Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:56 am  

If Lee Crooks had been around today, with full-time professionalism and a different drinking culture, he could have been awesome. His handling skills were fantastic for such a big bloke.

Re: 1988 v2010 : Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:49 am  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

If Lee Crooks had been around today, with full-time professionalism and a different drinking culture, he could have been awesome. His handling skills were fantastic for such a big bloke.

Thats the unknown quantity on all of these fantasy threads.

There is no doubt that in that 1988 team there was a great drinking culture (Town Hall Tavern after that final - yup, I was there )and in one respect its what bonded the team, on the other hand if we accept modern sports science then it would have had a derogatory effect on the players personal performances, we didn't notice it at the time because the drinking culture was widespread throughout all teams, the pitch was levelled.

One exception was Hilary Stanley of course, and we all know how far ahead of his contemporaries he was.

Can you imagine Schofield if he had laid off the booze and benefited from the sports science concepts in todays game ?

Or would he have been stifled, was his talent a natural talent that he didn't have to think too hard about, do players like that benefit from being moulded and manipulated or are they best left to their own devices - is Danny McGuire as inventive now as he was in his early career ?

If, what, how...