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Re: My favourite Barnsley XI

Heinz Muller

Nicky Eaden
Arjan De Zeeuw
Gerry Taggart
Darren Barnard

Adam Hammill
Neil Redfearn
Craig Hignett
Ricardo Vaz Te

Ashley Ward
David Currie

 

Re: My favourite Barnsley XI

Muller

Stones
Foster
Morgan
Hassell

Redfearn
Howard
Vaz Te

Dyer
Ferenczi
Shipperly


Put ferenczi in there purely on the form he was in when he first signed for us. I haven't been luck enough to have been watching barnsley as long as many on here to see many half decent strikers.

 

Re: My favourite Barnsley XI

Watson
Eaden
De Zeew
Tyler
Barnard
Higgnet
Redfearn
Howard
Hendrie
Ward
Vaz Te

Subs
Muller
Taggart
Stones
Sheridan
Bosancic
Fjortoft
Wilkinson

 

Re: My favourite Barnsley XI

1st XI


Steele


Eaden

De Zeeuw
Hassell
Taggart

Barnard

O'Connell
Redfearn
Hignett

Shipperley
Ward


2nd XI


Watson


Stones


Foster
Appleby
Davis


Thompson


Butterfield
Drinkwater
Howard


O'Grady
Hendrie




182nd XI



Bullock

Wiseman
Flynn
Brown
Kennedy

Donovan
Frimpong
Greening


Naylor
Regis
Knight

 

Re: My favourite Barnsley XI

1 Pierce
2 Stones
3 Barnard
4 Glavin
5 Futcher
6 McCarthy
7 Redfearn
8 Hignett
9 Hirst
10 Aylott
11 Banks

I was surprised that Hirsty didn't get a pick, the most promising youngster to leave Oakwell prior to Stones. I thought about big jan Molby and Kenny burns as they are two of the most decorated players we've had but it's fair to say they both peaked a while before we got them!

 

Re: My favourite Barnsley XI

Hirst and Stones weren't far off mine, but neither really were with us long enough to consider them above the players I chose. Another six months or so and they'd have been in. Undoubtedly the best two home grown players we've produced since McCarthy.

 

Re: My favourite Barnsley XI

I think it's interesting how we've had many promising youngsters who haven't gone on to achieve their potential but with Hirst and Stones both had that extra something. I agree their Barnsley careers weren't especially long but even in such a short period they showed that they were something special.

 

The Best of Barnsley

GK David Watson (1992-98)

RB Nicky Eaden (1991-2000)
CD Pat Howard (1964-71)
CD Mick McCarthy (1977-83)
LB Phil Chambers (1970-85)

RM Stewart Barrowclough (1969-70 and 1981-83)
DM Jacob Butterfield (2007-11)
AM Steve Agnew (1984-91)
LM Ian Banks (1979-83 and 1989-92)

ST David Hirst (1985-86)
TM David Speedie (1978-80)

A team made up of players who came to us via our academy/youth system.

 

The best eleven I've seen personally.


Watson

Stones
De Zeeuw
Taggart
Barnard

Hignett
Redfearn
Anderson
Vaz Te

Hendrie
Ward

 

Where's Danny Blanchflower, Tommy Taylor et al? What about one of the heroes from 1910-12?

 

The team that I have listed is the best that I could come up with of players that I have actually seen playing for Barnsley, who were developed by the club during the 50 years that I have been watching it regularly. I was very much assisted in preparing this team by the reference work "The Who's Who of Barnsley FC" by Grenville Firth and David Wood. Tommy Taylor would of course qualify, but I did not personally see him play for Barnsley. Danny Blanchflower does not qualify because he previously played for Glentorran in Ireland, and also I never saw him play for Barnsley. The cup final teams are, of course, well before my personal experience.

I am sure that, like me, you are surprised that the quality of the Best of Barnsley team is not better, particularly the mid-field and forwards. We are currently being told that the academy will provide the young players that will take the club forward. But in the last 20 years only 4 players made the shortlist from which I selected my team. They were Chris Morgan (1996-2003), Chris Barker (1998-2003), Jacob Butterfield (2007-11) and John Stones (2012-13). If that is the best that we can do, then the academy/youth system looks like a false hope.