Taking into consideration any player who played for Hibernian in the 1980s, what would be your best XI of the decade?
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Taking into consideration any player who played for Hibernian in the 1980s, what would be your best XI of the decade?
Alan Rough
Jackie McNamara
Arthur Duncan
Gordon Rae
Tommy Craig
George Best
John Collins
Gordon Durie
Steve Archibald
Willie Irvine
Steve Cowan
Open to much argument I'm sure.
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Originally Posted by green glory
Replace Best with Benny and you're about right :wink:
Goram
Snedden (did we have any other right back that decade - possibly end of Brownlie's career?)
McNamara
Rae
Hunter
Collins
Kane
May
Durie
Archibald
Irvine
GK. Andy Goram
RB. Allan Sneddon
LB. Graeme Mitchell
CH. Craig Paterson
CH. Tommy McIntyre
LW. Joe McBride
CM. John Collins
CM. Pat McGinlay
RW. Michael Weir
CF. Gordon Durie
CF. Steve Archibald
You must include Mickey Weir in any team
Callum Milne for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by supershotmo
goram
willie miller
gordon hunter
gordon rae
Graeme mitchell
john collins
paul kane
pat mcginley
mickey weir
gordon durie
steve archibald
Mickey would be the first name on the sheet for meQuote:
Originally Posted by scuttle
Can't believe Joe Tortolano hasn't rated a mention? :confused:
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Think McIntyre selection depends if he is judged on his play in the 1980s (poor and rarely a starter) and from 1991 onwards when he became an exceptional player.Quote:
Originally Posted by supershotmo
Retirspectively would maybe swap Weir (or maybe Rice) for Irvine in my team.
Would that not be the same of pat mcginley, I thought it would be early 90s he turned into a proper footballer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Baker II
GK. Andy Goram
RB. Willie Miller
LB. Graeme Mitchell
CH. Craig Paterson
CH. Gordon Hunter
LW. Joe McBride
CM. John Collins
CM. Paul Kane
RW. Michael Weir
CF. Gordon Durie
CF. Steve Archibald
I'd put Pat McGinlay in but he played his best football in the 90's. All Scottish team too! Nae chance of that ever happening again.
Id have Benny on the bench.Quote:
Originally Posted by keekaboo
Sorry to bring this one back to the top but I couldnt resist it.
Rough
Schaedler
Rae
Mcnamara
Sneddon/kane
Thomson
Callaghan
Collins
Weir
Irvine
Durie/archie
I think thats maybe my favourite side rather than the best one. Beating the yams in the Tom Hart Cup in my first ever Hibs game, killie 8-1, celtic 6-3 with benny getting a hat trick, joe getting 2 in the last 15 mins at tynie after blobbo had herts 2-0 up (with me in the herts end coz i was only allowed to go with my older mate who was a jambo) Standing in the shed at tynie with a hibs scarf on hoping rough wouldnt lose a goal in the edinburgh select v bayern munich was it? Bobby Thomson doing a de canio on the linesman in the days before it was fashionable! Oh the glory days of the eighties when the streams of pish at tynecastle were round your feet at half time not on the park sneaking another win against us.
Sorry got lost in nostalgia, hi im Highland Hibby, just joined so its nice to meet you all and a pleasure to be onboard :pfgwa
oops didnt mean to post that twice!
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Goram
Miller
Mitchell (did we have any other LB's in the 80's?)
Rae
McIntyre
Collins
Weir
Kane
Archibald
Durie
McCluskey
Subs - Beadie, Sneddon, Tortolano!! (IIRC you could only have 2 subs on the bench in the 80's eh?)
Rough
Sneddon
Rae
Chisholm
Mitchell
Weir
Kane
May
Collins
Houchen
Archibald
Goram
Kane
Rae
Hunter
Mitchell
Collins
Weir
Milne
Archiegoal
Durie
Cowan
Archibald seems to be the common denominator.
What a fantastic thing it was to have him as a player.
nae Benny you are having a laugh top man was Benny.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulSmith
The team that beat hertz 2-1 at ER to end a barren spell against them. 17 October 1987
I remember Goram, Sneddon, Rae? Hunter? Mitchell? Possibly Chisolm?
Kane May Watson Collins,
Strikers cannot remember. Cowan?
Main things I remember are May and Kanes goals.
And a couple of saves by Goram near the end.
The pitch invasion
What a day
with my tongue firmly in my cheek
Dave Huggins
Ian Hendry
Jim Brown
Mark Fulton
Rikki Fleming
Billy McLaren
Jas Brown
Billy Kirkwood
Stewart Beedie
Bobby Torrance
Joe Ward
SUBS - Mark Caughey, Stuart Turnbull, Gary Murray
Manager - Bertie Auld
Money could'nt buy that team !
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Originally Posted by Gala Foxes
Although to be fair one of my most memorable Hibs goals was a Stuart Turnbull diving header at Tannadice early 80's in what was our first win at that ground for donkey's years
That was some night. I thought it was a re-arranged new year's day fixture? The crowd was massive and we were rammed on the old east terrace. Official attendence was around 26,000-my erchie.Quote:
Originally Posted by darwenhibby
Nae suggestion's for Brian Rice's inclusion? He was one the better player's in our midfield of the mid eighties?