Best Southend XI ever - Right Midfield

[Suffolk Blue]

Has to be andy ansah, top top bloke and proper winger

What he said. Andy Ansah was one of those players who alone was worth the entrance fee to watch.

Great attitude, and ability. Gave his best footballing years to the Shrimpers.

OOh Andy Ansah!!!

 

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[Pubey]

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...was a left winger

 

[turkishm]

Sort these wingers out

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Martin Ling

 

[Ex-Member1]

I'd go with Phil Chisnall- great but never quite achieved his full potential..but would be in the team today for sure.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Ron Poutney

I'm with fbm on this one, but like Roald Dahl, there's a missing 'n' there mate, a la 3 'n's in Ron Pountney...:)

 

[chapperzUK]

Has to be andy ansah, top top bloke and proper winger

Andy is one of those players that I would have loved to watched (from the comments on here and other websites).

Wasn't he on "Wayne Rooney's Street Striker" as a judge? Also I believe he has two sons who play for Arsenal (future Southend stars maybe :D)

 

[canveyshrimper]

I'm with fbm on this one, but like Roald Dahl, there's a missing 'n' there mate, a la 3 'n's in Ron Pountney...:)

...and 4 if you call him Ronnie. ;)

 

[DTS]

Andy Ansah all day - He is a total shoe in.

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Carl Pettefer

 

[Rob Noxious]

Andy Ansah all day - He is a total shoe in.

Hmmm...always thought of him more as a third forward than a right-sided midfield player.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Hmmm...always thought of him more as a third forward than a right-sided midfield player.

Me too Rob, this slot is actually quite tricky to fill with a proper right sided midfielder.

 

[Ron Manager]

Me too Rob, this slot is actually quite tricky to fill with a proper right sided midfielder.

From memory he played both roles and I can recall he had a good run in the team as a right winger/wide midfield. However that's a good few years ago - getting on for 20 now - so my memory may be playing tricks on me there.

 

[turkishm]

From memory he played both roles and I can recall he had a good run in the team as a right winger/wide midfield. However that's a good few years ago - getting on for 20 now - so my memory may be playing tricks on me there.

Your memory is not playing tricks on you, he played in mid field, but his eye for a goal had him playing up front as well.

 

[Ron Manager]

Your memory is not playing tricks on you, he played in mid field, but his eye for a goal had him playing up front as well.

Indeed it did. I remember a midweek game away to Leyton Orient, standing on the big open terrace watching him get the winner.

 

[turkishm]

Indeed it did. I remember a midweek game away to Leyton Orient, standing on the big open terrace watching him get the winner.

And his first hattrick, in a 7 0 drumming of Torquay, ah the memorys.

 

[Southend Neil]

Not sure this is still open but surely Jonathon Hunt. In my 24 years, the 2nd best right sided player I have seen behind Ansah. Class player and played a key role in the exciting Fry team.

 

[fbm]

The trouble here is that we are trying to fill a team based on a 4-4-2 formation when teams used to play 2-3-5 and then 4-3-3 with modern variations being 4-5-1 and 4-1-2-1-2. I remember for a while in the 1970's we played 4-2-4 with Colin Morris and Gerry Fell the wide players, and Micky Laverick and Ron Poutney the midfielders who did the job of 4 players. It was like playing 4-4-4 at times!

In the olden days of 2-3-5, there used to be two full backs, a centre half, left half and right half (equivalent of left mid and right mid except they were always more defensive minded) and up front a centre forward, inside left, inside right plus outside left and outside right (wingers).

So the most appropriate modern day formation would be 3-4-3, which is hardly played by anyone.

Therefore trying to actually match up a right sided player is hard, when you consider wingers like Colin Morris and defensive players like Carl Pettefer.

Tough one.

 

[Rob Noxious]

The trouble here is that we are trying to fill a team based on a 4-4-2 formation when teams used to play 2-3-5 and then 4-3-3 with modern variations being 4-5-1 and 4-1-2-1-2. I remember for a while in the 1970's we played 4-2-4 with Colin Morris and Gerry Fell the wide players, and Micky Laverick and Ron Poutney the midfielders who did the job of 4 players. It was like playing 4-4-4 at times!

In the olden days of 2-3-5, there used to be two full backs, a centre half, left half and right half (equivalent of left mid and right mid except they were always more defensive minded) and up front a centre forward, inside left, inside right plus outside left and outside right (wingers).

So the most appropriate modern day formation would be 3-4-3, which is hardly played by anyone.

Therefore trying to actually match up a right sided player is hard, when you consider wingers like Colin Morris and defensive players like Carl Pettefer.

Tough one.

It is a tough one, mate, but I still think we're right to have Ron there, who could attack and defend. He was a right-sided midfield player, not a winger...and Lib's was asking us for noms for right midfield. I guess it's all about opinions and everyone else is still allowed to have them even though they're wrong to disagree with us...;)