All time 11…

[Librarian]

I'd find a place for Bracewell in here. Swap for Gueye?

Maybe so

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Southall

Gough Watson Ratcliffe

Steven Reid Bracewell Sheedy

King

Sharp Latchford

Sheeds might be a liability in a 352

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Southall

Gough Watson Ratcliffe

Steven Reid Bracewell Sheedy

King

Sharp Latchford

Sheeds might be a liability in a 352

Lots of running for Ratcliffe!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Lots of running for Ratcliffe!

Yep,but could cover with his pace and maybe just get away with even in that system!! it,just thought Gough was a Rolls Royce of a centre back,maybe just a case of right player,wrong time

 

[windymiller]

The problem with an all-time 11 is that, inevitably you are going to have to consider putting in players you have never seen play. For example, none of us have seen Dixie Dean play. Ok, maybe @Eggs and @Joey66 (sorry lads, couldn't resist!). Also, comparing players of different generations is essentially impossible. Would the players of the 60s cope with the modern nutrition and fitness standards? There's absolutely no way of knowing.

 

[StreetEndBlue]

Any all time Everton team would have Dixie in it but I'll just take the players from when I started supporting this club as a 7 yr old in 1983.

GK. Neville Southall
RB. Gary Stevens
LB. Pat Van Den Hauwe
CB. Kevin Ratcliffe
CB. Dave Watson
RW. Trevor Steven
CM. Peter Reid
CM. Paul Bracewell
LW. Kevin Sheedy
CF. Gary Lineker
CF. Graeme Sharp

Van Den Hauwe and Steven ahead of Baines and Kanchelskis might be a suprise to some but I couldn't split up that midfield as they worked perfectly in tandem with each other and were the engine room for the success we had and if I have Sheedy on the left I'd want a more defensive player behind him and Psycho Pat was a superb defender, helped us win trophies and no winger relished coming up against him.

 

[TheCount]

GK. Southall
RB. Stevens
LB. Baines
CB. Branthwaite
CB. Stones
RW. Rodriguez
CM. Arteta
CM. Ball
LW. Grealish
CF. Rooney
CF. Dean

 

[chrismpw]

Nev

Stevens
Labone
Ratcliffe
Wilson

Steven
Ball
Reid
Sheedy

Lineker
Royle

Bench

Pickford
Wright
Watson
V D Howe
Harvey
Husband
Lukaku
Young (GV)

Agreed .. but no place for Inchy on the bench even?

 

[chrismpw]

Any all time Everton team would have Dixie in it but I'll just take the players from when I started supporting this club as a 7 yr old in 1983.

GK. Neville Southall
RB. Gary Stevens
LB. Pat Van Den Hauwe
CB. Kevin Ratcliffe
CB. Dave Watson
RW. Trevor Steven
CM. Peter Reid
CM. Paul Bracewell
LW. Kevin Sheedy
CF. Gary Lineker
CF. Graeme Sharp

Van Den Hauwe and Steven ahead of Baines and Kanchelskis might be a suprise to some but I couldn't split up that midfield as they worked perfectly in tandem with each other and were the engine room for the success we had and if I have Sheedy on the left I'd want a more defensive player behind him and Psycho Pat was a superb defender, helped us win trophies and no winger relished coming up against him.

I still rate Mountfield above Watson, though both were great in different ways.

 

[Walken]

Southall
Coleman
Baines
Gough
Brainthwaite
Arteta
Fellaini
Cahill
Kanchekskis
Pienaar
Rooney

 

[Blue Roo]

gonna go with slipping some great ones into the current side on the premise that we are going to win the CL with this current lot

Pickford
Coleman JOB Branthwaite Baines
Arteta Reid Richarlison
James
Ndaiye Grealish

 

[Cruzazul]

Pickford

Coleman
Jags
Lescott
Baines

Arteta
Fellaini

Richarlison
Cahill
Pienaar

Lukaku

 

[Duncansback]

southall
coleman
watson
rats
baines
beardsley
sheedy
reid
kanchelski
ferguson
rooney

 

[roy vernon]

….i’d build mine around the only 3 definite ‘world class’ players I’ve witnessed at Everton; Alan Ball, Ray Wilson and Neville Southall.

Beyond that, a mixture of the ‘63, ‘70. and mid-80s teams I watched. Roy Vernon has an astonishing goalscoring record, so he’d need to be included, incredibly ahead of Alex Young. I do see Stones and Branthwaite as superior to Labone but neither has the longevity.

Can’t have the likes of Kanchelskis, Rooney, Lineker etc because they were here fleetingly, surely not considered as our greatest of all time.

Neville Southall
Tommy Wright
Ray Wilson
Brian Labone
John Hurst
Alan Ball
Peter Reid
Colin Harvey
Graham Sharp
Roy Vernon
Kevin Sheedy

Spot on Eggs,
You really can't leave Bally out of any team of former Everton greats, I know it's difficult for the younger blues to understand, but, he was just so much better than his contemporaries. The best Everton player I've seen in my 60 plus years watching the Blues.

 

[Joey66]

The problem with an all-time 11 is that, inevitably you are going to have to consider putting in players you have never seen play. For example, none of us have seen Dixie Dean play. Ok, maybe @Eggs and @Joey66 (sorry lads, couldn't resist!). Also, comparing players of different generations is essentially impossible. Would the players of the 60s cope with the modern nutrition and fitness standards? There's absolutely no way of knowing.

my grandad seen Dixie play - my late father watched T G Jones - in his opinion the best footballing Centre Half ever - Dixie Dean stated he was the best all round player he had ever watched ....