Time machine to May 1995....

[TheVelourFog]

buy as many of Pires, Henry, Cannavaro, Ronaldo, Zidane, Buffon etc as possible

easy this

 

[Groucho]

Quietly hopeful I'll experience the same again this season.

What are you talking about?

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

View attachment 83977How many of these would get in our current side?

At their peaks, quite a lot.
Even based off May 95:

Southall. (Immense that day)
Watson.
Unsworth (outstanding at the time)
Parkinson
Ferguson
Limpar

These 6 walk into our current starting 11.

Amokachi
Horne
Hinchcliffe
Ablett
Rideout
Stuart

All make the squad too.

 

[adi dassler]

View attachment 83977How many of these would get in our current side?

Loads of that squad would make today's squad imo:
Southall (and would make first 11)
Hinchcliffe
Watson (would make first 11)
Ablett
Parkinson (first 11)
Horne
Stuart
Ferguson (first 11)
Rideout
Limpar (first 11)

 

[Furey1878]

View attachment 83977How many of these would get in our current side?

Southall, Watson, Dunc, Hinchcliffe, Limpar, Horne and/or Parkinson for sure.

Stuart, Unsworth and Ablett on the bench maybe.

Southall
Watson-------Holgate
Coleman------------------------Hinchcliffe
Gomes---------Horne
Limpar-------------------------------Bernard
Ferguson---Richarlison
​

Bench:
Pickford
DCL
Parkinson
Baines
Unsworth/Ablett
Rideout
Stuart

 

[Armaghtoffee]

View attachment 83977How many of these would get in our current side?

I have no memory at all of Paul Holmes at Everton.

 

[cooperman]

Southall, Watson, Dunc, Hinchcliffe, Limpar, Horne and/or Parkinson for sure.

Stuart, Unsworth and Ablett on the bench maybe.

Southall
Watson-------Holgate
Coleman------------------------Hinchcliffe
Gomes---------Horne
Limpar-------------------------------Bernard
Ferguson---Richarlison
​

Bench:
Pickford
DCL
Parkinson
Baines
Unsworth/Ablett
Rideout
Stuart

As much as I rate hinchcliffe (corners especially) Baines is a much better all round player.

 

[Lanolin]

There's a lot of revisionism about Royle's time here, mainly because he was the last manager to win us a trophy. He clearly did a brilliant job at first, but things had gone badly, badly south before he left.We'd won 2 of our last 14 league games, one of which was home to Forest who finished bottom with 20 odd points, it also included a run of 6 consecutive defeats. We got knocked out of the cups that season by York and Bradford, despite being drawn at home to both. Some of his signings (Hottiger, Thomsen, Barrett, Gerrard) regularly make it into the 'all time worst' discussions on here. I love Joe Royle, but he wasn't a great manager.

 

[Furey1878]

As much as I rate hinchcliffe (corners especially) Baines is a much better all round player.

Baines in his prime is 100% in there, but I'm having Hinchcliffe purely for delivery haha

 

[cooperman]

There's a lot of revisionism about Royle's time here, mainly because he was the last manager to win us a trophy. He clearly did a brilliant job at first, but things had gone badly, badly south before he left.We'd won 2 of our last 14 league games, one of which was home to Forest who finished bottom with 20 odd points, it also included a run of 6 consecutive defeats. We got knocked out of the cups that season by York and Bradford, despite being drawn at home to both. Some of his signings (Hottiger, Thomsen, Barrett, Gerrard) regularly make it into the 'all time worst' discussions on here. I love Joe Royle, but he wasn't a great manager.

We would've gone down that season if it wasn't for the great start we had.