Worst Ever Boro 11 - We have our team!

Sticking with RBs for now. Barragam (sp?) simply for the constant foul throws and other general ineptitude. How the shiny fk can a professional footballer not know how to take a throw-in? Worse, after being punished for it multiple times, how could he fail to address the problem?

Hoyte was much maligned but was something of a whipping boy (a bit like Steffen) people decided that he was rubbish so they only remembered incidents that confirmed their own analysis (confirmation bias).
 
goalscrounger said:
If we are allowed to judge someone on 45 mins at right back, then Keith O'Halloran wins by a country mile sadly.
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He was a midfielder, although I remember his debut at home to Derby at right-back...got beat 4-2 and Gabbiadini traumatised him in that first half...
 
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B-Man said:
Alves and Assombalonga the worst strikers ever for Boro? Madness.

Lee Dong Gook, 0 goals in 23 appearances.
Aliadiere, 11 in 78.
Project Emnes, 24 in 141.
Gestede, 6 in 59.

Chris Killen under Strachan, christ on a bike.
Kike Sola, although I'm not sure he counts given he played so little, but bloody hell he was bad.
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Emnes and Aliadiere played plenty of those games on the wing and also were creative for others. You can’t just use goals vs appearances as an indication. I agree LDG was poor but he put a shift and lacked a bit of confidence and luck. Killen was absolutely awful agreed
 
BoroMart said:
Emnes and Aliadiere played plenty of those games on the wing and also were creative for others. You can’t just use goals vs appearances as an indication. I agree LDG was poor but he put a shift and lacked a bit of confidence and luck. Killen was absolutely awful agreed
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Liked a drink did LDG
 
Got to be Hoyte. Never witnessed a footballer being so frightened of a a football as much as this guy. If I forget to come back to this thread, please do not leave Kevin Tomson out of worst ever midfielder section. He could spend 90 mins just lethargically trotting around the pitch without touching the football or making a tackle.
 
Sticking with Neil Cox. Maybe not the worst player, but miles away from the standard we ought to have expected from him.
 
I’m sure he’s a smashing bloke and I laud his attitude, but I used to be so frustrated every week with Curtis. How hard can it be to roll the ball 15 yards to another player in the same colour shirt? Every single week for ten million games.
 
I’ve got Barragan and Hoyte neck and neck (8 votes each). Honourable mention to Chris Morris too.

Was going to wrap up the RB voting tonight but will leave it till tomorrow AM to see if we can get a winner. We’re not Southgate’s England and won’t be shoe horning multiple right backs into our nightmare team.
 
On a more general point - and this is obviously a generational thing - but I can't look beyond the 83-85 period for most positions here.

I was born in 1970 so my earliest Boro memories were of really good John Neal teams, but they very quickly broke up into the absolute dross that preceded relegation to the third tier. Even then though there were good players turning out for us, albeit briefly. Given that we had the likes of Heine Otto, Darren Wood, Stephen Bell and Peter Beagrie to name a few speaks volumes on how bad the rest of them were to have got us in the situation we were in.

I'd even ignore the latter half of 85-86 as that at least provided the nucleus of the side that would get us back to the top flight. But fückïñg hell, when I think of the likes of Mick Saxby and Ray Hankin I still shudder.
 
Chutney said:
On a more general point - and this is obviously a generational thing - but I can't look beyond the 83-85 period for most positions here.

I was born in 1970 so my earliest Boro memories were of really good John Neal teams, but they very quickly broke up into the absolute dross that preceded relegation to the third tier. Even then though there were good players turning out for us, albeit briefly. Given that we had the likes of Heine Otto, Darren Wood, Stephen Bell and Peter Beagrie to name a few speaks volumes on how bad the rest of them were to have got us in the situation we were in.

I'd even ignore the latter half of 85-86 as that at least provided the nucleus of the side that would get us back to the top flight. But fückïñg hell, when I think of the likes of Mick Saxby and Ray Hankin I still shudder.
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Absolutely.
It'll be strange when the midfield positions come up and barely any of the extremely poor players who were there in those days get a mention.
It's like that time has been forgotten.... Possibly because 75% of the supporters gave up on the team then.
 
Chutney said:
Sticking with Neil Cox. Maybe not the worst player, but miles away from the standard we ought to have expected from him.
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Cox is a far better shout than picking someone based on foul throws or because they weren't Luke Young.

Barragan to a point I can understand I suppose. He was just bang average, but the throw ins seem to have really wound people up (assume the same people think Ryan Shotton is our best ever full back because he could throw the ball really far).

Hoyte I'd be a bit embarrassed about if he gets the nod, he was a boo boy, based on a bad start, but he had a couple of decent seasons in the end. Strange how some just can't let their initial opinions towards a player go. We've had far worse.

Suppose the problem with Cox was he was actually very good for a year and a half and then absolutely terrible for a year and a half. Really really terrible. God knows how many points he cost us in that relegation season. Don't think his attitude was great either.
 
Looks like our right back is our very own Rory Delap - Anntonio Barragan !

Onto Left Back.

My vote is Branco (think he played more than 5 games, just) . More expectation vs reality. I was expecting a world beater and it ended up like when the old duffer from work comes to 5s when you are a bit short after claiming he was a bit handy at Sunday league 30 years ago.
 
Alzi said:
Looks like our right back is our very own Rory Delap - Anntonio Barragan !

Onto Left Back.

My vote is Branco (think he played more than 5 games, just) . More expectation vs reality. I was expecting a world beater and it ended up like when the old duffer from work comes to 5s when you are a bit short after claiming he was a bit handy at Sunday league 30 years ago.
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Branco has to go straight in there for me. £50k a week and he could hardly move!
 
Where did Phil Whelan play? Remember he was left footed - well, his left was the foot he preferred to use in a catastrophic manner - but can't recall if we played him CB or LB. Utter shight regardless, if not LB then I'll wait for the CB voting...
 
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