Everton Players - Last 15 Years

[Ruairi77]

Matt Le Tissier wasn't part of Sunderland's best side.

Try again.

AFAIK Southampton have never won the league, so a team holding its own in the top flight could, by their standards, be considered a great team. LeTissier was pivotal to that team and there fore a club legend

 

[chicoazul]

He's a legend of this era, like Dunc. Like it or not in this (my) era, we're not all that. That doesn't mean we can't have players who make a gigantic impact on the club and the fans. Whilst past legends had higher levels of skill and ability, that reflected the era. The past 20 years have been more dogged and less pretty, and so players with a lot of grit and passion like Dunc and Timmy are what I consider to be modern day legends.

It's beyond arrogant that older fans think they have the right to tell me who is and isn't a highly subjective word of praise. Ferguson and Cahill, that's it for me. Cult heroes are the likes of Tommy G, Lee Carsley, Dave Watson etc, I think.

Ultimately "legend" means different things to different people, from different eras. But like my dad told me about Southall and Sheedy and my Granddad told me about Ball and Harvey, I'll be telling my kids about Big Duncan Ferguson and Tiny Tim Cahill. No the tales won't be as glamorous, but I'll tell them with as much pride and passion and the hairs will still stand up on the back of my neck.

I get exactly what you're saying like, but i think it's silly to draw a set of rules about what does and doesn't define an Everton legend.

Tim Cahill is an Everton legend to me because of his unique style, being small but so strong in the air, getting Everton and more broadly scousers, giving everything to Everton even when he was travelling to and from Australia for international duty, the goals he scored against the shoite, and the fact that he along with Arteta was one of the standouts of the past decade. He played through injuries when others would have rested themselves, and he provided some of the most memorable moments of the past ten years.

He will be the player people remember from the Moyes era.

With all due respect you're too young to appreciate what an Everton legend is.

Latchford was fantastic but many wouldn't even have him down as a legend. You can bracket Ferguson and Cahill in with him. Inspirational players for us but not one of the all times greats.

Legends inspire Everton to win stuff. That's what we've done throughout time and although it's a barren time now were still the fourth best team the country has seen and set the pace for large periods of the game.
hi RuFus
One day you'll realise your folly and witness hopefully a true Everton legend.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

He's a legend of this era, like Dunc. Like it or not in this (my) era, we're not all that. That doesn't mean we can't have players who make a gigantic impact on the club and the fans. Whilst past legends had higher levels of skill and ability, that reflected the era. The past 20 years have been more dogged and less pretty, and so players with a lot of grit and passion like Dunc and Timmy are what I consider to be modern day legends.

It's beyond arrogant that older fans think they have the right to tell me who is and isn't a highly subjective word of praise. Ferguson and Cahill, that's it for me. Cult heroes are the likes of Tommy G, Lee Carsley, Dave Watson etc, I think.

Ultimately "legend" means different things to different people, from different eras. But like my dad told me about Southall and Sheedy and my Granddad told me about Ball and Harvey, I'll be telling my kids about Big Duncan Ferguson and Tiny Tim Cahill. No the tales won't be as glamorous, but I'll tell them with as much pride and passion and the hairs will still stand up on the back of my neck.

The true test is time, I suppose. If in 25 years, kids are still talking about Tim Cahill with the same reverence I talk about Alex Young (without ever having seen him live), then we can say he's a legend.

 

[Ruairi77]

I get exactly what you're saying like, but i think it's silly to draw a set of rules about what does and doesn't define an Everton legend.

Tim Cahill is an Everton legend to me because of his unique style, being small but so strong in the air, getting Everton and more broadly scousers, giving everything to Everton even when he was travelling to and from Australia for international duty, the goals he scored against the shoite, and the fact that he along with Arteta was one of the standouts of the past decade. He played through injuries when others would have rested themselves, and he provided some of the most memorable moments of the past ten years.

He will be the player people remember from the Moyes era.

I agree with all of that, the guy bleeds blue and I love him but its all about opinion and I think there are a handfull of elite Everton players through out the clubs history and Tim is in the group just behind them, along with Ferguson. Thats just my opinion mind.

 

[bluejock]

I'm not saying anyone shouldn't see him as a legend as is their want. Just that I don't. Doesn't mean I love him any less mind, just I have differing views on what constitutes a legend than some of you.

 

[RFUS]

The true test is time, I suppose. If in 25 years, kids are still talking about Tim Cahill with the same reverence I talk about Alex Young (without ever having seen him live), then we can say he's a legend.

Fair play. That's a good assessment.

But I'd wager, given how strongly blues young enough to have kids in 25 years seem to feel about Timmy, that they will be.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

For the record, I consider Dave Hickson an Everton legend despite not having a winners medal.

 

[Summerskin]

A team holding its own in the top flight could, by their standards, be considered a great team. /QUOTE]

These are the standards of most people at Goodison I think, they seem to think we'd be doomed without Davey.

 

[RFUS]

I'm not saying anyone shouldn't see him as a legend as is their want. Just that I don't. Doesn't mean I love him any less mind, just I have differing views on what constitutes a legend than some of you.

Fair enough. It seems that this particular opinion is massively affected by the periods in which you've witnessed the blues.

Which is to be expected.

 

[The-Golden-Vision]

Cahill to me is like a modern day Mike Lyons.

 

[bluejock]

For the record, I consider Dave Hickson an Everton legend despite not having a winners medal.

Agree with this. Would add Bob Latchford to the list too.

 

[Brennan]

For the record, I consider Dave Hickson an Everton legend despite not having a winners medal.

Absolutely shot through the 'legends win things' argument with that one.

Cahill will be a modern day Dave Hickson, i can see him being linked to our club for decades to come.

 

[Allezfan]

Arguing over whether or not someone fits the definiton of a term with no fixed definition strikes me as somewhat pointless, if I'm honest.

 

[RFUS]

Agree with this. Would add Bob Latchford to the list too.

To be honest I understand people keen to separate Cahill and Ferguson from Ball, Dean etc. Because those players represent Everton as one of the country's best teams, even one of the world's best. Embracing someone who hasn't offered silverware or world class ability in the same way could be seen as embracing comparative mediocrity.

I just think circumstance matters and I really thought that as Evertonians, we wanted -- nay, demanded -- more than just ability? Whilst the RS will revere DJ battering scum because they've got an eye for a pass, I was proud to be a blue because whilst we know quality, we know character.

Now would I say Dixie Dean was a bigger legend than Tim Cahill? Obviously. That doesn't mean that Cahill can't be a legend, or Latchford, or Hickson.

 

[chicoazul]

Fair enough. It seems that this particular opinion is massively affected by the periods in which you've witnessed the blues.

Which is to be expected.

How? Wouldn't the arl blues who've witnessed plenty of players be better positioned to decide who really is an all time great rather than you bad FIFA Xbox playing blerts who listen to frankly sh*te music and consider that jarg Madonna tit Lady Gaga and sh*te Whitney f*cking Rhianna to be DA BEST EVA LOL.