All time 11…

windymiller said:
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.
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The best midfield ever in blue - the Holy trinity Ball Harvey & Kendal - they could pass the ball to one another in the dark - Even CH stated they were better tha the 1980s great team as four were in midfield - they were a trio - breathtaking football in a class team broken up far to early .....
 

Southall
Stevens Jags Ratcliffe Baines
Steven Arteta Reid Sheedy
Lukaku Lineker

Hate to leave out Pickford, Kanchelskis and Bracewell in particular
 
bebo86 said:
Swap Arteta with Beardsley
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It was a close one ,Beardsley for me single handidly stopped Everton from plummeting far sooner than the Wimbledon 94 escape , way way to good for the team we had at the time , Arteta who was a sensational player full of grace and excellent technical ability was surrounded by better players than Beardsley was,but he’s on the bench 🤩😂
 

Eggs said:
….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
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I've heard many including Southall say that Sheedy was world class
 
roy vernon said:
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.
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The OP was "all time 11 that you'd seen". No doubt Ball is one of the GOATs, but most of us haven't seen him.
 
Probably a bit attacking, playing a 4-3-3, but has the ball playing midfield to feed the strikers. Top 4 finish in the modern game no problem.

Simonsen

Cleland
Keane
Kloldrup
Pistone

Klaassen
Nyarko
Linderoth

Angell
Stracqualursi
Niasse
 

blueboy72 said:
Nev
Stevens
Keown
Watson
Baines
Kanchelskis
Reid
Bracewell
Sheedy
Rooney
Lineker

Difficult to leave out
Ratcliffe
Steven
Latchford
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How can Keown possibly get in ahead of Mountfield or Ratcliffe ?
I'd find it hard to put him in ahead of even Jags or Lescott.

In fact I'd have Yobo in ahead of the cart .

Rest of it , for your era , can't disagree with too much
 
windymiller said:
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.
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Eggsy assisted half of Dixies goals in that season.
 
jazzy said:
How can Keown possibly get in ahead of Mountfield or Ratcliffe ?
I'd find it hard to put him in ahead of even Jags or Lescott.

In fact I'd have Yobo in ahead of the cart .

Rest of it , for your era , can't disagree with too much
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Just going on what I saw, think what keown went on to achieve and his England caps being a very unfashionable player speaks volumes. Venables picking Southgate ahead of him in 96 was a mad decision. You go back in history and you see average players in title winning teams , Kendall changed mountfield pretty quickly. I just think the early 90’s was changing time for us, we had a lot of small players and up against the likes of Wimbledon and palace it was keown and Watson keeping us in games. Even ratcliffe fell off a cliff and he wasn’t that old

Edit he wasn’t a cart horse was in an arsenal team winning trophies for a good few years. You don’t do
That being a cart horse and he probably got more England caps, than Watson, mountfield. Jags and lescott added together
 
blueboy72 said:
Just going on what I saw, think what keown went on to achieve and his England caps being a very unfashionable player speaks volumes. Venables picking Southgate ahead of him in 96 was a mad decision. You go back in history and you see average players in title winning teams , Kendall changed mountfield pretty quickly. I just think the early 90’s was changing time for us, we had a lot of small players and up against the likes of Wimbledon and palace it was keown and Watson keeping us in games. Even ratcliffe fell off a cliff and he wasn’t that old

Edit he wasn’t a cart horse was in an arsenal team winning trophies for a good few years. You don’t do
That being a cart horse and he probably got more England caps, than Watson, mountfield. Jags and lescott added together
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Little tidbit about keown first player to play for England not born when they won the world cup
 

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