Top 10 Wingers in our history

[dannyboi-ffc]

Right let's give this a go. Obviously by wingers I mean outside left and right fro  the old fashioned formations.

1) Leggatt
2) Barrett
3) Stevens
4) Boa Morte
5) Mitten
6) Houghton
7) Conway
8) Steed
9) O'Driscoll
10) Clint Dempsey

Steed as far as I remember played the majority on the right side as we had players like Clark, Leggy and Sean in the middle. And whilst Dempsey also wasn't a 'winger' he played 90% of his games on the left.

Bit harsh on Simon Davies. Didn't know enough about Barry Lloyd so any info on him would be great. Other than that, again a pretty decent 10 that we should be proud of.

Anyone who shouldn't be there or more importantly should be? Who would they replace? And who have I been harsh/generous on with their position.

Over to you

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[gerrys]

Barry Lloyd wore the number 10 shirt, making him inside-left.

[snarks]

Not sure I'd include Dempsey, but I would include Duff

[e4b]

Conway should be 4 or 5

[filham]

Dannyboi, how could you possibly leave Duff of your list, some kind of punishment is needed for such an indiscretion.

1. Boa
2. Dufff
3.Mitten
4.Leggat
5.Stevens
6. Barret
7.Steed
8.Houghton
9. Conway
10.Dempsey

I have left out my all time favourite, Tosh. To put him in  list in any other position than number one would diminish
the true value I hold for him but I can't in all honesty take Boa of the top spot.

I have therefore left Tosh off the list but he will quickly be placed top of the list of most loveable players.

[Chutney]

Simon Davies and Damien Duff should both be considered, certainly Duff should!

[RaySmith]

Tosh Chamberlain, Johnny Key, Brian 'Pat' O'Connell, who took over Tosh's role, Peter Marinello, briefly at Fulham. who'd been the new Geoge Best, coming from Scotland to Arsenal with much fanfare, though in the end he only matched Best in the self destructive, boozing stakes.

I also think of Duff as a winger, but not Dempsey. The thing is you don't really get wingers in the old sense - players who mainly hugged the touchline, and sped down it, beating the full back -hopefully - and supplying crosses for strikers.

[RaySmith]

Can't modify posts - but George Best was a brilliant winger, of course, though he didn't play as one for Fulham - more a  midfield role.

[St Eve]

Barry Lloyd wore the number 10 shirt, making him inside-left.

Not a winger

[St Eve]

George Best, Peter Marinello

[davew]

What about George Best????

[filham]

What about George Best????

Of course Best was the greatest but was wiith us for less than a season, didn't play as a conventional winger and if you take length of service and loyalty into account I would rather have any of those other players that have been mentioned.

[nose]

dempsey should never be on any top 10 list
simon davies was brilliant and deserves to be there
was leggatt a winger, I thought he was more of an inside forward
Duff was brilliant but what bout clive walker, he was also brilliant (half the time and the other half hopeless)
Houghton for sure top class... barrett and conway about equal
o driscoll, I do not think so, hje was lucky to be in a great team and his shortcomings masked.
marinello was awful and best didn't player as a winger for us.
steed absolutely deserves to be in the list

[Dodger53]

I don't really remember Johnny Key but I do remember listening to my dads opinion of him on the way home from the match and they were never complimentary.

[fulhamfan]

you've missed out Duff and Simon Davies you plonker

[Twig]

Tosh Chamberlain number one for me.  Duff and Davies for sure.  One other wide player worth an honourable mention has to be Bjarne Goldbeak. 

[Barrett487]

Right let's give this a go. Obviously by wingers I mean outside left and right fro  the old fashioned formations.

1) Leggatt
2) Barrett
3) Stevens
4) Boa Morte
5) Mitten
6) Houghton
7) Conway
8) Steed
9) O'Driscoll
10) Clint Dempsey

Steed as far as I remember played the majority on the right side as we had players like Clark, Leggy and Sean in the middle. And whilst Dempsey also wasn't a 'winger' he played 90% of his games on the left.

Bit harsh on Simon Davies. Didn't know enough about Barry Lloyd so any info on him would be great. Other than that, again a pretty decent 10 that we should be proud of.

Anyone who shouldn't be there or more importantly should be? Who would they replace? And who have I been harsh/generous on with their position.

Over to you

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It's not easy putting a list of wingers togethers, as there are a few who could be considered to have 'tended to play on the right or left side of midfield' that wouldn't be considered a traditional style winger. For me, it's also hard to include or exclude players before my time. On that basis i suggest the following list.


1/ Graham Leggatt
2/ Les Barrett
3/ Tosh Chamberlain
4/ Jimmy Conway
5/ Luis Boa Morte
6/ Arthur Stevens
7/ Charlie Mitten
8/ Damian Duff
9/ Simon Davies
10/ George Best

I didn't feel that i could leave Best out, despite being with us for such a short time, but the nine above him were more influential.

[dannyboi-ffc]

Should have remembered George Best. Davies I can understand the fuss but Duff??? If we are talking the greatest 10. I thought people would realise and be open minded that anyone who played on the left or right of midfield and not in the middle would be classed as on the wing. Maybe I should have been more specific.

Leggatt was an outside forward. So he counts. 

I'm actually gobsmacked at the calls for Duff. I didn't even consider him. I don't think he was better for Fulham than any of those from what I've been told and my own experiences. The only one he could beat for me is Dempsey.

It's very difficult to come up with a 10 when I've only seen from 94 onwards and even then I was only 6 years old. I thought by adding Duff and Davies over people like Mitten and Conway that I would be seen as very biased to my own era. And personally I didn't think Duff was better than  Davies anyway.

At least it's got you debating anyway.

[FPT]

I've read all of these posts you've done Danny, and to be fair, you've tried to take into account the entire history.

I'm 20, so I can't look much further than Davies, Duff, Dempsey (perhaps not an actual winger but played left more often than not) Boa Morte, Malbranque etc.

[GorgeousGus]

Paul Brooker - Julian Hails - even in the dark old days we had one or two - although the opposition were respectively poorer.

Terry Parmenter, Bobby Howfield (4 against Ipswich in the 10-1 game) Bjarne Goldbaek