Hibernian FC Dream Team

[Macaroon]

Goalkeepers have been selected! Results are above.

Andy Goram makes the starting XI with Jim Leighton in the subbies.

As this wonderful (most of the time ) board has users spanning across multiple generations of Hibernian history it would be great fun to see what everyone's dream team would be. Including the eleven best players you can remember being at this club. It would be great if we all came together to decide on one community dream squad for the whole of hibs.net.

Here's how it will work:

I will edit this post to include a Poll for the community's Dream XI Goalkeeper, with a number of nominations through you folk! I'll open the poll and then the two winners of the poll after 1 day will go into the squad.

I'll then go in and edit the poll to Central defenders, and this will repeat for each position on the pitch, namely:

Goalkeeper - 2 Winners
Central Defenders -3 Winners
Wide Defenders - 3 Winners
Central Midfielders - 4 Winners
Wide Midfielders -3 Winners
Strikers - 3 Winners

After a few days we will have an 18 man squad of the Hibs.net Community dream team! Sounds good eh

A couple of quick rules to keep it run smoothly!

• You may only vote for a player if you saw him play in the flesh in the green and white. This gives a better overall picture of the whole community rather than who you "just know was the best"
• Poll's for a player's position will be open for roughly 24 hours before results are taken. (Time scale open for change if too long)
• I will post a message in the thread asking for peoples nominations for a position. There will be no more than 10 nominees for each position.

Currently taking nominations for Central Defenders, just post who you think should be in it

You may also want to post your own personal dream team from what you've witnessed as a Hibernian fan. As I am young my team will be both limited and possibly controversial in that I may have grossly misjudged some of the earlier players! Regardelss, here's mine:

Nick Colgan

Whittaker - McPake - Caldwell (Despite being an arse) - D Murphy

Beuzelin - S. Brown - K. Thomson

Shiels

Riordan - O'Connor

I reckon that side could easily split the old firm now-adays. If only!

[Liams]

Welll at the fine old age of 17 my team is also very limited, so I'm gonna go with..

MAKA (I don't care what you say, I loved him)
Whitty
Mcpake
Jones
Murphy
Brown
Boozy
KT
Stevenson (or even pallson, early days)
Benji
Young oconnor or Fletcher

[neilmartinrocks]

leighton
wittiker mcpake jones murphy
katie latapy suazee sproule

o'connor riorden


subs burridge hogg boozie stevenson stokes.

[Dunbar Hibee]

Simon ****ing Brown?!?!?!

[jgl07]

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As this wonderful (most of the time ) board has users spanning across multiple generations of Hibernian history it would be great fun to see what everyone's dream team would be. Including the eleven best players you can remember being at this club. A player is available for selection if you saw him play in the flesh in the green and white. If you're feeling particularly nostalgic you may want to include the subs

As I am young my team will be both limited and possibly controversial in that I may have grossly misjudged some of the earlier players! Regardelss, here's mine:

Nick Colgan

Whittaker - McPake - Caldwell (Despite being an arse) - D Murphy

Beuzelin - S. Brown - K. Thomson

Shiels

Riordan - O'Connor

Subs:
Simon Brown
Ivan Sproule (Super sub)
Steven Fletcher
Zemmama
Gary Smith
Ian Murray
Anthony Stokes

I reckon that side could easily split the old firm now-adays. If only!

Why include Colgan as Goalkeeper yet exclude Franck Sauzee and Russell Latapy? No Mixu, no John O'Neil, no Kenny Miller.

That is before we start looking at earlier generations such as Keith Wright, Darren Jackson, Gordon Hunter, Jim Leighton, Micheal O'Neill, Kevin McAllister, etc.

[Macaroon]

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Why include Colgan as Goalkeeper yet exclude Franck Sauzee and Russell Latapy? No Mixu, no John O'Neil, no Kenny Miller.

That is before we start looking at earlier generations such as Keith Wright, Darren Jackson, Gordon Hunter, Jim Leighton, Micheal O'Neill, Kevin McAllister, etc.

Simple answer, because of my age.

For some reason, don't ask me what. I remember seeing Colgan play and remember him as a great Goalkeeper. It may be a slight, sub-conscious bias as I am a goalkeeper but I have no memories of the likes of Sauzee, Latapy, Zitelli, O'Neil etc. Not of them playing in the flesh anyway. I was around 4 years old at the time of the 6-2 game (I think, I've not double checked) and that was around the time I started attending games, although I missed the 6-2 game because I had a cold my dad tells me!

[Macaroon]

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Simon ****ing Brown?!?!?!

I knew he would be a controversial choice!

He was the one responsible for that near post cock-up vs Hearts am I right? At that time I still judged player's abilities on whether I liked them or not. And something about Brown appealed to me!

[SteveHFC]

Colgan

Whittaker
Fenwick
Sauzee
Laursen

Latapy
Brown
McGinley
Harper

Riordan
Mixu

Subs:
Andersson
Jones
Lovell
O'Neil
Jack
Luna
Miller

[Kenny1875]

Stack
Whittaker - Jones - Murray - Murphy

Brown - Boozy - KT - Riordan

Miller - Fletcher

[JohnStephens91]

My team would look like this:

Daniel Andersson

Steven Whittaker - Rob Jones - Ian Murray - Ulrik Laursen

Franck Sauzee

John O'Neil - Guillaume Beuzelin

Russel Latapy

Derek Riordan - Mixu Paatelainen

Subs bench would be this:
Nick Colgan
Gary Smith
David Murphy
Mathias Jack
Grant Brebner
David Zitelli
Tam McManus

[HoboHarry]

Goram

Brownlie McPake Sauzee Schaedler

O'Neil Jack Latapy Duncan

O'Rourke Gordon

[Macaroon]

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Goram

Brownlie McPake Sauzee Schaedler

O'Neil Jack Latapy Duncan

O'Rourke Gordon

I'd be pretty chuffed if I was McPake looking at that!

[edinburghhibee]

Leighton
Whittaker
McPake
Jones
Murphy
O'Neill
Latapy
Sauzee
Scott Brown
Wright
Agathe

Goram
Laursen
Jack
Riordan
Jackson

[silverhibee]

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My team would look like this:

Daniel Andersson

Steven Whittaker - Rob Jones - Ian Murray - Ulrik Laursen

Franck Sauzee

John O'Neil - Guillaume Beuzelin

Russel Latapy

Derek Riordan - Mixu Paatelainen

Subs bench would be this:
Nick Colgan
Gary Smith
David Murphy
Mathias Jack
Grant Brebner
David Zitelli
Tam McManus

That team is superb.

But Tam wouldn't make my bench.

[JohnStephens91]

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That team is superb.

But Tam wouldn't make my bench.

He only made mine because I seem to remember him working his ar*e off every time he played. It was a straight up fight between McManus, Steven Fletcher or Paco Luna for that last spot on the subs bench as a striker. I'm limited to what I have seen and made an impression on me when I was younger ie Division 1 season onwards. Gah it is just too hard, I'm glad my first 11 is great. Which striker would you have replaced Tam with out of interest?

[silverhibee]

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He only made mine because I seem to remember him working his ar*e off every time he played. It was a straight up fight between McManus, Steven Fletcher or Paco Luna for that last spot on the subs bench as a striker. I'm limited to what I have seen and made an impression on me when I was younger ie Division 1 season onwards. Gah it is just too hard, I'm glad my first 11 is great. Which striker would you have replaced Tam with out of interest?

O'Connor, in case Mixu got injured.

[JohnStephens91]

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O'Connor, in case Mixu got injured.

If you were wanting an extra body in there for strength surely you should have gone for 'The Tank', Eduardo Hurtado. He weighed the same as Bobby Williamson. We should do a terrible Hibs team, like a Nightmare team and see what horrors we can unearth! A few names instantly spring to mind...

[aussie_hibee]

It's hard for me as I never saw latapy, riordan or others due to the timing of my holidays.
Right to left

Goram

Whittaker
sauzee
Jones
Murphy

Weir
Boozy
John Collins
M O'Neill

Wright
Jackson

[Steve20]

Goram

Whittaker
Jones
Sauzee
Murphy

O'Neil
Jack
Latapy
Collins

Riordan
Jackson

[hibbybrian]

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Welll at the fine old age of 17 my team is also very limited

Just approaching middle age at 57 I'm spoilt for choice so will give a few candidates for each position (I missed out on the McLeish era so didn't see Sauzee, Latapy etc play so going by the rules I've excluded them from my list)

Goalkeepers: Goram, Leighton, Rough, Ronnie Simpson

Right Backs: Brownlie, John Fraser

Left Backs: John Parke, Erich Schaedler, Joe Davis

Right Half: Pat Stanton, Des Bremner

Centre Half: John McNamee, John Madsen, Jim Easton

Left Half: John Blackley, Jackie McNamara, John Baxter

Outside Right: Alex Edwards, Peter Marinello, Jim Scott

Inside Right: Willie Hamilton, Peter Cormack, Jimmy O'Rourke, Ralph Callachan

Centre Forward: Joe Baker, Joe McBride Snr, Alan Gordon, Colin Stein

Inside Left: Neil Martin, John Collins, Alex Cropley

Outside Left: Eric Stevenson, Arthur Duncan

[happiehibbie]

Andy Goram
John Brownlie John Blackley Craig Patterson Murphy


EdwardsSauzee Stanton Cropley

Alan Gordon Steve Archibald


I wont name subs

[Barney McGrew]

Goram

Whittaker
Sauzee
Jones
Murphy

Collins
O'Neil
Latapy
Crunchie

Archie
Keith Keith Keith

[number9dream]

Leighton
Sauzee Paterson Caldwell
Whittaker Latapy Brown Collins Laursen
Durie Fletcher

Goram
Murphy
Riordan
Wright
McNamara
McGinlay
Tortolano

[sparkiedelpaco7]

Daniel Andersson

Steven Whitacker -- Frank Sauzee -- James McPake -- David Murphy

Mickey Weir -- Scott Brown -- Russell Latapy -- David Zitelli

Keith Wright -- Derek Riordan


Subs

Jim Leighton
Ian Murray
Kevin Thompson
Pat McGinlay
Garry O'Connor
Steven Fletcher
Paco Luna

[jdships]

I look back on 72 years since I saw my first match at ER which makes it very difficult to be objective !!
I have gone " with my heart" and chosen those who entertained me the most over the years.
Sadly very few from the last decade were even in with a shout !!!

Younger
Brownlie
Shaw
Stanton
Madsen
Sauzee
Smith
Johnston
Reilly
Turnbull
Ormond

Subs
Goram
Blackley
Edwards
Baker
Cropley
Jack
Preston

[Cracker]

Goram
Brownlie.McNamee Blackley Schadler
Marinello Stanton Sauzee Duncan
Gordon O`Rouk
That would do for me!

Subs
Leighton
Easton
Duncan B
Edwards
Martin

[easty]

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Goram
Brownlie.McNamee Blackley Schadler
Marinello Stanton Sauzee Duncan
Gordon O`Rouk
That would do for me!

Subs
Leighton
Easton
Duncan B
Edwards
Martin

I am pretty good.

[easty]

...........................Goram

..Whittaker......Jones......Caldwell.......Murphy

..........................Sauzee

................Latapy............Brown

...McAllister..................................Riordan

.......................Paatalainen

[Hiber-nation]

Goram

Brownlie
Sauzee
Blackley
Murphy

Edwards
Stanton
Latapy
Cropley

O'Rourke
Gordon

Subs:
Leighton
Schaedler
McNamara
Weir
Collins
Best
Riordan

[The_Exile]

Would be good to have 4 polls running, 1 for GK, 1 for DEF, 1 for MID, and 1 for ATT, 10 players on each, highest 4 get put into the dream team, you'd get a fairly accurate picture of what the messageboard seen as the dream team, for me, I'm 29 and only really started following football when I was around 10.

Mines is below, hardest part was choosing between Jackson and Keith Keith Keith.

GK - Leighton

Def - Murph
Def - Sauzee
Def - Jones
Def - Whit

Mid - McGinlay
Mid - Latapy
Mid - Boozy
Mid - Brown

Att - Keith Keith Keith
Att - Riordan

Sub GK - Andersson
Sub Def - Miller
Sub Mid - Murray/Jack
Sub Att - Jackson