If you had to stick with this formation, with 3 at the back, attacking wing backs etc - what would be your ideal Cardiff team using only players from the last 20 years, (at their peak for us)?
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If you had to stick with this formation, with 3 at the back, attacking wing backs etc - what would be your ideal Cardiff team using only players from the last 20 years, (at their peak for us)?
Alexander
Loovens
Hudson
Bamba
Giles
Whitts
Koumas
McNaughton
Rambo
Chopra
Bothroyd
mine would be
Marshall
McNaughton Gabbidon Connolly
Ramsey Medel Kavanagh Giles
Whitts
Bothroyd Moore
Ramsey at wingback is a bit of a stretch, but I was struggling for options there, and he did play at right back for us.
Twin towers up top for Ramsey and Giles to aim crosses at.
breaks my heart not to have mcphail in there, he'd be on the bench
Some left field selections here which need the players concerned to be at their very best to merit inclusion;-
Marshall
Blake
Gabbidon
Vidmar
Giles
Ramsey
McPhail
Ledley
Whitts
Bothroyd
Bellamy
In that sort of formation you need a ball winner and dirty dog
Boland or Bonner
You assume right, Nathan would be interesting in that position, but you only have to listen to his podcast to realise he probably wouldn’t have bothered to turn up if he was picked to play at the back - he’s from a different generation anyway.
Right wing back isa bugger to fill. Apart from Giles, I don’t think we have anyone from the time you talk of who could be called a proven performer at wing back and I don’t like playing him on the right, but no one else sprang to mind for me - think a young Ledley would have made a decent wing back though.
At their peak you have to play Robbie Fowler, Bellamy, Trevor Sinclair and Jimmy Floyd or are we only counting peak whilst at cardiff
Marshall
Hudson
Medel
Gabbidon
Ramsey
Gunnarsson
McPhail
Ledley
Whitts
Bellamy
Bothroyd
Super Kev is not a wing back I agree but I'm not thinking of many we've had that could play rwb, my memory is shit as well.
Swap Rambo and Koumas, I dunno, I just wanted them 3 in the team as they're my 3 favourite midfielders I suppose I could slot Kav in there but now you're asking me to take one out and I don't want to.
I just did it for a bit of fun tbh didn't really think of how it would all work in a game situation
To be fair, I picked Vidmar based on what he did for Rangers, so my selection is a bit hypocritical, because players like Fowler and Hasselbaink didn’t even enter my mind - think Sinclair could have been a good right wing back.
but most of all there aren't too many other good candidates.
a young Joe Ledley is a good call.
Declan John seems like he might have been a better wing back than a full back or winger, bit probably not as effective as Giles has been.
Joe Bennett was good there as well. Probably a decent case for famous diarist Mark Kennedy as well
We haven’t got a great deal of candidates though have we when it comes to natural wing backs because we barely ever played with them until 2021. I can remember Joe Bennett playing there at Huddersfield a few years back and scoring twice and he also scored the winner at Rotherham in the snow last season, I think he could have had a good career playing there, but he was a full back first and foremost. I can’t think of anyone I’ve seen in the timescale Rjk talked about who could be described as a natural wing back, but Giles seems to be one - he looks more at home there than where McCarthy was using him.
RWB - Just getting in under the 20 year wire: Disco Des! Although I think he was only RWB at Newcastle. Or Jordi Osei-Tutu, although that's based on about 40 minutes of action.