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Definitely, loved the enthusiasm and joy when they played, that both Mickey Weir and Keith Wright showed. If you are too young, watch some old videos on you tube. Loved Hibs through and through.Quote:
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Darren McGregor too. These boys all lived our childhood dreams, you could see it on their faces. Also got to mention Riordan. He scored some great goals, and against them. Imagine scoring one of Riordan's screamers against them, then running over to your mates in the terracing to celebrate.
John McGinn.
Had loads of good players around him but he was the absolute heartbeat of that team for me.
Sauzee and Latapy very close behind. They were incredible players.
Strange one but Chick Charnley was a huge favourite. Ability was frightening. Just wonder how good he could have been if he'd screwed then nut in his younger days. Remember him scoring from the half way line.
PG Stanton. Special mention to Jimmy O & SDG
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Latapy 🙏
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Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Got too many ! FAMOUS FIVE,MICKY WEIR,ALAN GORDAN,CONRAD LOGAN ,STANTON, WRIGHT More than that ! Isn't it great we have had such class players! O TO BE A:flag::flag::flag:
Pat Stanton
Top 5 over the years:
Kevin Harper
Franck Sauzee
Sir David Gray
John McGinn
Efe Ambrose (was a baller for us)
King Paddy Stanton
My season ticket years were 93-97, which explains my choices.
1 - Crunchie - always loved to see him in the team and on the wing and always felt he gave his all.
2 - Kevin Harper - ditto
3 - Leighton - safest pair of hands in goal in my Hibs years.
Special mentions to;
4 - David Farrell, just felt he had a 'never give up' approach.
5 - Danny Lennon - watched him v Aberdeen once and thought we'd unearthed another Crunchie.
I really liked Michael O’Neill. A really classy player who I loved watching play
From midfield to sweeper :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Aldot1981
Yeah I was at that game , no cameras saw it either if I recall . Alloa in the cup wasn’t itQuote:
Originally Posted by Since452
Pat Stanton will always be a legend to me but the player I idolised as a teenager in the mid 60s was " The Rebel" Eric Stevenson.
Stevie was a wonderful player brilliant winger more tricks than a bag full of monkeys would hug the touchline always beat his full back and nine times out of ten ended up getting hauled down inside the box for the Penalty King Joe Davis to convert the awardQuote:
Originally Posted by Alfred E Newman
Took an unofficial day off from Ayr United to nip away and watch Hibs win the League Cup in 1972
A Hibee through and through
Pat Stanton head and shoulders above the rest.
Peter Cormack whose mannerisms we all copied in the playground.
Along with Gerry Baker,the Rebel was my hero as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfred E Newman
When Ian Brennan ran the Bonnyrigg Hibs bus,they use to pick up some of us Clerry boys at the Rainbow pub for away games.
I sat beside Eric on the bus one time.
Now i can talk a glass eye to sleep, but i was speechless with Eric.:lips seal
Gerry Baker would sometimes give Jimmy O a lift home after training.
So that was me, a 10/11 yr old offering Gerry a bourbon biscuit to go with his cuppa our ma poured for him:greengrin
Gerry of course arrived at Hibs after having won a Scottish Cup medal with St Mirren.
Now Turnbull was Hibs trainer then.
He must have been jealous of Gerry's medal !!
A pal in Clerry back then was a very good artist/drawer. Ran in the family
We made a banner and he painted a big Bumble Bee on the cloth.
Our Gerry Bee Flag !!
Alex Cropley. The best pound for pound tackler in the business.
Pat Stanton.
Sauzee for me. It hit different when he had to retire as a player, he just had an aura about him.
Such a difficult question but Andy Goram stood out for me as did Pat.
Don’t see anyone mention Broony. His attitude and self confidence were a total inspiration when I was wee and crap at football. Still crap at football now mind….. should choose more inspiring role models perhaps :rolleyes:
Absolutely no dispute about that. Ferocious and fearless.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
Only one patrick gordon stanton
Question should be after Mr hibs who was your favourite player as no one can touch Mr hibs should name a stand after him
The fav Tornado of both Messrs O'Rourke and Stanton. Mine too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Roxyhibee
Gordon Smith because he was Gordon Smith and I was a kid.
Then Joe Baker. The first in my age group playing in the first team. When you're 15/16 guys of 25/26 are ancient.
Gordon Smith could most certainly touch him.Quote:
Originally Posted by zitelli62
Obviously you have to be of a certain age but there's doesn't seem to be any doubt that he was our greatest player. 5 league championship medals.
Lawrie Reilly always reckoned that he was the best player he played with or against.
Only Sir Tom Finney was on a par according to Reilly.
That said I know the thread is a about your favourite player and for the record Pat Stanton is my favourite player.
McGinn, followed by Gray, Murphy, Boyle and Beuzelin.
My ex father in law told me GS was the best football player he’s ever seenQuote:
Originally Posted by ancient hibee
David Gray - the only choice for me.
I remember a debate on Sportsound many years ago where a panel of pundits were debating whether or not Brian Laudrop was the greatest player to have played in Scotland. General consensus was yes, but the late Bob Crampsey, who was on the panel dismissed this notion and said that in his opinion Gordon Smith was by far the greatest footballer he had seen play in Scotland.Quote:
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Seen mair meat on a Butcher’s pencilQuote:
Originally Posted by Roxyhibee
Heart of a lion
Yep , and the brain to matchQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Remember his cross field passing ?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibees 7062
A joy to behold
So many to choose from but for that one moment at Hampden in 2016 that we all knew, finally, at long last, had just won us the holy grail, it can only be Sir David Gray.
The only Hibs player with more tattoos of him on Hibs fans than any other.
Frightening Billy . Hibs classQuote:
Originally Posted by BILLYHIBS
Pat Stanton
Willie Hamilton,followed by Joe baker n Pat Stanton.
Joe Baker and,Shades.
Aye mine is starting to look like Auld Mother ReillyQuote:
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Same here, he was no where near the best, certainly wasn't the fastest but watching him dance past defenders like the unlikely result of a romance between Rudolf Nurejew and a hippopotamus was a thing of beauty.
Good shout.Quote:
Originally Posted by HibbyDave
So many of them, but early heroes would be Jim Scott & Neil Martin, then overall would have to be Pat Stanton
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Mickey Weir or Wee Lewey… hard choice !
The late great Willie Hamilton for me,a genius with the ball at his feet and amazing vision. Surprised nobody has mentioned him.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Hi-Bee
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Originally Posted by bournehibby
Peter Cormack was my childhood hero, devastated when he left. Closely followed by Pat Stanton.
I think childhood heroes remain favourites for life but SJM runs them close.
Le God for me , Latapy a very close 2nd
I forgot who said itQuote:
Originally Posted by loanheadhibby
It may have been Matt Busby,or another great footballer/manager who played here and down South just after the war and into 50s
The quote was something like
" Had Gordon Smith been English/played in England,he would most likely have been knighted as Tom Finney and Stanley Matthews were for services to the game"
He was on a par with those old greats of the game.
There is no doubt he was Hibs(and arguably Scotland's(not including non Scots) finest player,post ww2 ....
.Maybe ever in Hibs case.
The SFA of that era capped Gordon less than he should have been,in favour of rAngers winger Willie Waddell.
Not much changes !
Sorry H18S, that one slipped past. :embarrass (great minds tho)Quote:
Originally Posted by H18S NX
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I suppose having both a favourite player/s and a best player you saw in a Hibs jersey is ok!Quote:
Originally Posted by bournehibby
Gerry Baker and Eric Stevenson where my favourites as a schoolboy.
But Willie Hamilton was without doubt the best/ most gifted Hibs player of the 60s,and some!.
Football genius is not to strong a description for Willie.
Dont just ask me...... Jock Stein thought so too.
As did Jimmy O'Rourke and Pat Stanton,as they did of Joe Baker.
I can assure younger fans here who revere Boyle and SJM before ,Willie Hamilton would have excited you just like they do.. and some!
Can only really pick from my life time, as a young kiddo was probably Pat McGinlay, mad he only ever got a Scotland B cap. Remember being at that game with my unle as well, was right here at Easter Road. Type of midielder that would be a perfect piece of the jigsaw for tenacity and driving forward etc that we need right now, Magennis is a good player but when he comes back I'm going to be scared anytime he starts limping slightly be panicking thats him out for ages again.
Modern times was hard between Sauzee, Latapy or Mcginn but was just something about Latapy, every time the he had the ball in the final third everyone would be on their feet and the skills he possessed techincal wise were immense. I heard stories about him being late for training a lot before us, we all no he liked a party and im sure I read he smoked too. Probably if he was more disciplined we would never have seen him here though !
Maybe not as complete as the others in terms of overall ability but Mowbray turned Ivan Sproule from a rough diamond with pace playing part time fitbaw in Ireland to being a cult hero who on his day was brilliant and totally got the club. Similar to Boyle in that sense kind of although, when we did that swap deal he looked alright but he has not just improved the way he pushes himself and has levelled up every single season since he came is mad, he's like a totally different player to the one we signed. Honestly thought it was just rumours and hope he was coming back, must have been a few teams interested in him apart from Aberdeen who were mentioned. He clearly loves the club and gets us too.
Both have to be a couple of our best ever bargain steal of singins like, sure we signed Sproule for like less than grand, and Boyle was a swap deal for Harris if I remember right? I remember seeing Harris in that cup game when we were 3-0 down and came back to win and keeping thinking after his injury he will get back to how he was that game against Falkirk look where both have ended up in their careers, was definitely a great deal for us.
Bit of a rant there sorry lol but aye I find it hard to pick one id pick McGinlay for when I was a kid and started liking football but since being a kid probably Latapy even though I was still just a late teen by time he got booted by Mcleish, mad he was still coming off the bench and changing games for Falkirk when he was about 40.
I’ve a feeling my new favourite player is gonna be Arry . Very keen to be here and no the full dinky . Will certainly brighten the place up
Very hard for me, the 3 best players IMO were Willie Hamilton, Gordon Smith and Frank Sauzee, but it's difficult to split them although they were very different players in many way, all sublime though. Willie Hamilton would have been one of the all time Scottish greats if Stein had stayed at Hibs, but that was never going to happen unfortunately.
Pat Stanton.
Joe Baker, with Willie Hamilton a closed second.
Derek Riordan for me.
He isn’t the greatest to ever play for Hibs, but watching a local lad living the dream playing for his favourite club and banging in goals of the type those of us who could only fantasise about scoring for Hibs was just a joy to behold.
Sauzee for me, but loved Stevie Cowan and Goram back in the day, and Hibs era Scott Brown was up there as well.
SJM by miles. Did literally nothing but play and behave like an absolute legend, from the moment he walked through the door to the moment he left. I feel he was as important as anyone to us lifting the cup, just through his presence in the dressing room.
Very unfortunately, my interest in football dipped at a point that coincided with Sauzee and Latapy's presence here - I went to the odd game but I don't remember a huge amount.
In terms of just loving a player, Boozy and Sproule are certainly up there. Both incredibly endearing characters and, on their day, thrilling to watch.
I loved Broony when he was here, but his time at Celtic defines him, really.
O'Connor and Riordan in their first spell were brilliant, true fans on the pitch, but their second spells were a bit meh by comparison.
If Leigh had stayed, he would probably be up there with our greatest ever players...but he didn't. That one season he was on fire was fun though (even though we were a bit gash).
Got to be Sauzée. The guy just oozed class and even in his mid 30s strolled every game I saw him play. His footballing brain was seconds ahead of anyone else on the pitch. Plus he seemed to genuinely enjoy his time in Scotland & the affection he got from the fans.
SJM
Prior to him it was guys like Deeks, Latapy, Jackson, and Collins.
Chris or Darren😀Quote:
Originally Posted by Gloucester Hibs
I loved Mixu..gave his all every match, hat trick against the Hearts and such a nice guy
Sauzee for me:flag:
Could ask Derek or John also :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz