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Not sure if we've ever asked this, genuinely curious as to who the winner might be.

Roll up, roll up, favourite Fulham player with reasons.

Well, now that PK is gone it's Zamora!

Get back Bobby we NEED you!

Think it has to be Hangeland for me.

Scores memorable and important goals (a winner against Arsenal, a goal against Shahktar to keep us in Europa, a last minute equaliser this season against Villa), always seems to come out to applaud the fans, part of an ever important and effective defensive partnership with Hughes.

A classy player who could easily play for a Champions League side if he wanted - but seems to love the club. Hope we have him for the rest of a long career.

Baird
this is a player that has taken a lot of stick from members on this board and the other site, but he has stuck with it got on with his job.
Personally i think it is well out of order that he has been benched in favour of Pantsil, but he won't moan about it, he will just keep on going.

Baird for Captain

Its close between Baird and Digger but Super Simon just edges it for me because he gets s game occasionally.

I am with Schwarzer. I think he is a really nice, intelligent and dedicated guy. I will be gutted if he leaves. Hangeland, Zamora and dempsey are close behind.

I went for Dempsey because he's our longest serving player (bar Davies maybe), he's improved massively after fighting for a starting position under both Coleman and Hodgson, he's scored a lot of goals including some memorable and important goals, comes across a genuinely nice bloke (albeit a bit shy) and he can also rap.

Difficult.

Hughes, Hangeland, Baird, Zamora, Davies....very difficult.


ok....Hughes, virtually ever present and a true unsung Fulham hero! :clap_hands:

Eddie Johnson.....(pity vote)

Aaron Hughes...dependable match in and match out.

Gera...knew he was a good player when he joined but was made to play out on the wing first season.
Once AJ got injured it allowed him to move forward and we saw the best he can offer. Class player who I felt was unfairly left out the side earlier this season and who I think Hughes does not rate or want and would not be surprised to see him go in Jan. shame.

I voted for Pants, just to see him doing the lap made my day against Sunderland.

Don't really have a favourite player, hurts when they leave to 'further their careers' i.e Steed and Sean Davis.

For the sake of this vote: Panstil.

Home town hero Simon Davies for me

It's an interestingly ambiguous question: character or performance? The player I still find most fascinating to watch remains Murphy. When he makes space in a crowded midfield by a shrug of the shoulders, the many on this board who remember Haynes will surely agree that he's our nearest thing since. I also quite like what I sense of him as a character, albeit the same goes even more for Hangeland and Hughes. The Murph by a neck.

Quote from: Jimpav on December 20, 2010, 06:47:53 PM
I went for Dempsey because he's our longest serving player (bar Davies maybe), he's improved massively after fighting for a starting position under both Coleman and Hodgson, he's scored a lot of goals including some memorable and important goals, comes across a genuinely nice bloke (albeit a bit shy) and he can also rap.

Me too - I think he is an exciting player to watch - I love that good old US do or die attitude - I still miss McGod.

Aha my second favourite Hughes seems to be making steady progress in the vote as well.  Very satisfying to see him appreciated.

Simon Davies for me. Always working hard for his team, maybe he lacks the cutting edge some times, but as said, always there for the team.

Maybe that I'm a bit framed after just watching the Hamburg-match all over again, but be it!

First, let me say that it is very nice to have so many real candidates for this particular poll.

Second, let me say Aaron Hughes

I cant possibly choose a favorite and for me that is always a sign of how much I love the team.  But since you asked the logical answer is Damien Duff.

Baby, if you're feelin' good.
And baby if you're feelin' nice.   :drums:
You know your man is workin' hard, he's worth a DEUCE!

What do the results above show? Maybe that we do not see ourselves as a one man team, and its about team ethic.No real superstars, something I would like to continue given some of the big names we are linked with for Jan.

But of course Dempsey! Elm,  :tom: are you kidding me.

Quote from: b+w geezer on December 20, 2010, 09:19:32 PM
It's an interestingly ambiguous question: character or performance? The player I still find most fascinating to watch remains Murphy. When he makes space in a crowded midfield by a shrug of the shoulders, the many on this board who remember Haynes will surely agree that he's our nearest thing since. I also quite like what I sense of him as a character, albeit the same goes even more for Hangeland and Hughes. The Murph by a neck.

Unsurprisingly that sums up my view perhaps because we've expressed it to each other countless times.

I like intelligence in a player and Murphy absolutely runs the show on the field and you sense is a strongly influential, positive influence off it.

He also gives the impression of being in love with the game and that's becoming less and less apparent in highly paid players.

Big Murphy fan, thrilled at the *concept* of Hangeland and Hughes, everything about them, but when I get to the ground and listen for the team news the player I want to hear is in the team is Dempsey.    Love the way he plays the game, even when it's going badly. 

Quote from: richie17 on December 21, 2010, 08:46:02 AM
Big Murphy fan, thrilled at the *concept* of Hangeland and Hughes, everything about them, but when I get to the ground and listen for the team news the player I want to hear is in the team is Dempsey.    Love the way he plays the game, even when it's going badly.  

Dempsey is a hard working player and is fun to watch. Very creative with the ball! Down to earth guy who isn't stuck on himself or has an attitude either. Plus he has a beautiful wife!  :dft012:

Dempsey by a touch of mascara hiding a black eye, so many other potentials. Baird probably the closest I came to not selecting Deuce, also Schwarzer (though he's blotted his copy book of late and I don't want to see any Australians winning anything for the next month or so) and Murphy the other possibles. Nice to have so many possibles but for me Dempsey never stops trying his heart out and gets my vote for that.

'Plus he has a beautiful wife!'

Pretty sure Mrs Murphy's a sort too - the blonde that used to be in Hollyoaks before they were all models isn't she? In that way Murphy should be the winner, ugly guy gets pretty girl, inspiration for us all!

Quote from: BalDrick on December 21, 2010, 08:54:02 AM
'Plus he has a beautiful wife!'

Pretty sure Mrs Murphy's a sort too - the blonde that used to be in Hollyoaks before they were all models isn't she? In that way Murphy should be the winner, ugly guy gets pretty girl, inspiration for us all!

She is indeed.  And she's from Tooting, I recently heard.   Local hero of sorts then.

Would say it's a photo finish between Dempsey, Gera and Hangeland.

I did chose from players that actually plays for us, BUT my vote did go to Stoor as I know how good he was before Roy completely destroyed any sort of confidence the lad had. Sad to see his talent be wasted like this. -"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

Ummmm who voted for Fredrik Stoor???

"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

I'm pretty sure you'll get your Christmas wish. There's a lot of dead wood (not slating the player per se, I know nothing about the guy) that'll need culling if we're really going to be (part) paying the wages of the likes of Santa Cruz and Bentley.

Quote from: os5889 on December 21, 2010, 10:02:52 AM
Ummmm who voted for Fredrik Stoor???

See above...

Quote from: BalDrick on December 21, 2010, 10:08:28 AM
"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

I'm pretty sure you'll get your Christmas wish. There's a lot of dead wood (not slating the player per se, I know nothing about the guy) that'll need culling if we're really going to be (part) paying the wages of the likes of Santa Cruz and Bentley.

I hope you are right, and agreed, Stoor should be considered dead wood for Fulham as I can never see him get back to his old self with us. 

Quote from: Nick the Swede on December 21, 2010, 10:11:12 AM

Quote from: os5889 on December 21, 2010, 10:02:52 AM
Ummmm who voted for Fredrik Stoor???

See above...

Quote from: BalDrick on December 21, 2010, 10:08:28 AM
"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

I'm pretty sure you'll get your Christmas wish. There's a lot of dead wood (not slating the player per se, I know nothing about the guy) that'll need culling if we're really going to be (part) paying the wages of the likes of Santa Cruz and Bentley.

I hope you are right, and agreed, Stoor should be considered dead wood for Fulham as I can never see him get back to his old self with us. 

Stoor is a strange one, Im sure when we signed him and then Pantsil that everyone (including Roy) felt Stoor would be the number one RB, but Pantsil got in first and it never really worked out for Stoor.
To be fair when he has played he has been pretty crap, but he will look back at this as 3 wasted years.

but he will look back at this as 3 wasted but no doubt very well-remunerated years

Stupid industry that rewards a man for basically doing nothing but making up the numbers. Have no idea if Stoor the man will be happy or unhappy about that, but I do know the football world's full of people who would be happy.

Quote from: BalDrick on December 21, 2010, 10:35:15 AM
but he will look back at this as 3 wasted but no doubt very well-remunerated years

Stupid industry that rewards a man for basically doing nothing but making up the numbers. Have no idea if Stoor the man will be happy or unhappy about that, but I do know the football world's full of people who would be happy.

He's been wanting away for a very long time, and has made some less than clever remarks about Roy/Fulham for not letting him go in the Swedish media. Having been a fan of Fredrik since he came through the ranks of the youth system in my "local" club at the age of 14 I think it is safe to say that he'd rather play regularly and make less money than the opposite.

But you are right BalDrik too many slackers in Football these days to whom money seems more important than the game.

MJG:
Yeah, I think we all saw it in that way. Sadly he got injured just before his debut and Pantsil did a job for us and the rest is, as they say, history.

But he could have taken the Baird approach and waited for an opportunity which he was determined to take.

Mouthing off in the press and playing badly when given a rare opportunity is not the way to impress and when Hughes arrived he had a clean slate no matter the issues with Hodgson.

Quote from: TonyGilroy on December 21, 2010, 10:51:25 AM

But he could have taken the Baird approach and waited for an opportunity which he was determined to take.

Mouthing off in the press and playing badly when given a rare opportunity is not the way to impress and when Hughes arrived he had a clean slate no matter the issues with Hodgson.

Agreed, he hasn't handled the situation well at all. (Poorly advised by his agent?)

One odd thing was all these reports coming from Motspur Park saying that Stoor was the fastest player in the squad etc. He never really showed it the few times he got to play. Then again, before coming to us he was an amazing crosser of the ball too  :tom:

When Huges arrived my guess is that he was at a point of no return mentally. The mental status is obviously where he has failed, Baird, Gera et al should have been good examples for him really.

Anyhow, enough off-topic back to FoFers favourite players!

I read an article in the Swedish press when a Swedish journalist visited Motspur Park.  Hodgson at the time said that Stoor was really struggling with the pace of the game and that his passing wasn't what it needed to be.  Hodgson thought it would come around, or at least said as much, but it never really has.

I wonder if Stoor is an example of how personality affects performance.  I've never forgotten how miserable he's always looked during warmups,a nd while you can't always judge a book by its cover, if he is prone to introspection/wallowing then his time in England will presumably have become something of a vicious circle.   Frustrating because every time I've seen him I've seen something to like in his play (with the converse also being true), but alas, it hasn't happened.

Quote from: Nick the Swede on December 21, 2010, 11:00:52 AM

Quote from: TonyGilroy on December 21, 2010, 10:51:25 AM

But he could have taken the Baird approach and waited for an opportunity which he was determined to take.

Mouthing off in the press and playing badly when given a rare opportunity is not the way to impress and when Hughes arrived he had a clean slate no matter the issues with Hodgson.

Agreed, he hasn't handled the situation well at all. (Poorly advised by his agent?)

One odd thing was all these reports coming from Motspur Park saying that Stoor was the fastest player in the squad etc. He never really showed it the few times he got to play. Then again, before coming to us he was an amazing crosser of the ball too  :tom:

When Huges arrived my guess is that he was at a point of no return mentally. The mental status is obviously where he has failed, Baird, Gera et al should have been good examples for him really.

Anyhow, enough off-topic back to FoFers favourite players!

The crossing's what I was referring to.  In that league cup game against Leicester he whipped in some delicious looking crosses.    You can see that the talent's there.   But equally he was involved in a couple of the goals we let in that night, and has looked a bit shaky several times since.

I voted Gera.

I like his attitude, work-rate, consistency and overall contribution.

Quote from: b+w geezer on December 20, 2010, 09:19:32 PM
It's an interestingly ambiguous question: character or performance? The player I still find most fascinating to watch remains Murphy. When he makes space in a crowded midfield by a shrug of the shoulders, the many on this board who remember Haynes will surely agree that he's our nearest thing since. I also quite like what I sense of him as a character, albeit the same goes even more for Hangeland and Hughes. The Murph by a neck.

Deliberately left it for the reader to decide!

If you're a meritocrat (is that even a word?!) you may well pick the 'best' player, but others may prefer workmanship or personality or laps of honour or good chants or whatever.

Perhaps I should have titled this 'who's name do you have on the back of your shirt?'. But some people might have many shirts and names, or you might get tight bar stewards like me who have only a few trusty shirts with no names on.

I love how open it is, by the way. We really are a team, aren't we?

All the first teamers have a vote..apart from Etuhu. Under valued or over rated?

Quote from: MJG on December 21, 2010, 12:35:12 PM
All the first teamers have a vote..apart from Etuhu. Under valued or over rated?

Which season?

Last season he was undervalued.

This season, whether through direction from Hughes or what, he's contributed a lot to our poor play. An adventurous Etuhu looked fantastic for the first few games, but since Zamora's injury it has meant a lack of shape in centre midfield and City really made us pay for it.

Ladies & Gentlemen I give you John Pantsil, my Lord

I voted for Aaron Hughes, although Simon Davies was a close second for me.

Dempsey.  Initially because we hail from the same backwater part of East Texas, but to a greater extent for his play and the heart he shows.

Second would be Aaron Hughes.  I've really gained an appreciation for his unsung contributions to the side in the last year or so.

Demps for me, always giving 100% and the only one looking to score goals at the moment

I voted Dembélé. It is more a vote of "get back soon, Moussa" then anything else. He was decisive in the game against Wolves. If he hadn't scored those two, we would really be in the relegation spot.

Quote from: sipwell on December 23, 2010, 10:18:54 AM
I voted Dembélé. It is more a vote of "get back soon, Moussa" then anything else. He was decisive in the game against Wolves. If he hadn't scored those two, we would really be in the relegation spot.

Good for you sipwell, backing your fellow countrymen.

I can tell Finnister hasn't voted. EJ is still at zero.

For me, gotta be Dempsey.....or Hughes.....or Pantsil....or Gera... or Hangers....Oh! there's Salcedo..and Murphy...how can I leave out Simon?...gosh Mark and my God, I left out Bobby. Yea, I guess that's my vote.

Quote from: YankeeJim on December 23, 2010, 06:14:43 PM
I can tell Finnister hasn't voted. EJ is still at zero.

For me, gotta be Dempsey.....or Hughes.....or Pantsil....or Gera... or Hangers....Oh! there's Salcedo..and Murphy...how can I leave out Simon?...gosh Mark and my God, I left out Bobby. Yea, I guess that's my vote.

Yankee that's the way I was thinking, I could vote for them all but then I remembered duff . . .  .and beer.