Top five Scottish players of your generation.

Eoin Jess
Andy Tod
Billy McKinlay
Gary Locke
Juanjo

alan rough
stewart kennedy
baldy bloke who isn't very good, missed open goal v Norway
tennents extra
bells

Bet they could all spell their own usernames though, MORPTEH.

1 Baxter
2 Dalglish
3 Law
4 Bett
4 Gilzean

maybe alias, except slim jim

DENIS LAW
PAT CREARAND
KENNY DALGLISH
DAVE MACKAY
JIMMY JOHNSTONE

tennents extra
bells


Gascoigne and T Adams were big fans I believe, MORPTEH.

Do wah, CRERAND is not admissible since he's now Irish. According to him that is.

SORRY DONT KNOW WHAT YOIUR TALKING ABOUT HE WAS SCOTTISH AND PLAYED FOR MAN UTD,

CHARLTON .BEST ,LAW AND CREARAND IT WAS THE MAGNIFICENT 4 NOT 3

Kenny Dalglish

Martin Buchan

Willie Miller

Gordon Strachan

Denis Law

bremner
dalglish
souness
mcgrain
moncur

law
dalglish
souness
Hansen

after that struggling a bit so what about

hendry

thought he played snooker!

Mark Hateley

McClair, McStay, McCoist? None of these worth a mention? Gary McAllister too?

donny osmond
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bremner



Haha! Bremner's bottle blowing:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/history/50th-anniversary-spurs-legend-breaking-2908331#.Uua8xbTFLIU

McCoist? McStay? Are you sane?

Do wah, Pat Crerand was born in Glasgow of Irish parentage. On radio 5 live recently, he himself claimed to have adopted Irish nationality.

Please yourself.

Mo Johnston

James McGrory
Paul McStay
Johnstone
Tully
Murdoch
Auld
Hay

Thats seven but they were that good

..

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/the-50-greatest-scottish-footballers-day-1-x.20524207

Andy Goram is a shocking omission imo.

steve Nichol ?

ALIAS I DIDNT KNOW HES NOW DECIDED HES IRISH ,HE DRANK TOO MUCH THATS WHY HE THINKS HES IRISH

HE WAS ALWAYS SCOTS WHEN HE PLAYED FOOTBALL ,HE HAD A PUB FOR YEARS IN ALTRINGHAM

HE USED TO SERVE HAGGIS AND CHIPS AS BAR MEALS

Hansen
Souness
Gough
Rioch
Dalgleish

G Hall, you don't happen to be a 'tic fan do you?

Oh, and it's pushing it to put McGrory and Hay  etc in the same generation.


While I'm at it, Paul McStay wouldn't qualify as a top five 'tic player of his OWN generation. Vastly overrated.

dalglish
hansen
souness
gemmill
robertson

I  thought Andy Goram  was a great goalkeeper and vastly underrated.

dalglish
hansen
souness
hutchison
ian st john
gary mccallister

Richard Gough
Davie Cooper
Mo Johnston
Ally McCoist
Andy Goram

Dalglish
Souness
Hansen
Strachan

Plus one from
Lorimer
McStay
Jordan
Gray
MacAllister

If you pick Andy Goram, you should only be allowed three other players.

Hot Shot Hamish should be on most lists.

Darlo.

Other posters who mention McStay...............

paul Hartley
craig Gordon
john Robertson
steven pressley (even though he's a snakey bastard)
neil McCann

john white

dennis law

jim baxter

kenny dalgleish

graham souness

Eddie Gray was the greatest Scottish player.

no he wasn't.

and he played for the greatest ever British team(i don`t support them) Leeds 69-73

Ally 'Give me 8 gilt edge chances and I'll put 1 away' McCoist Though his goal against Switzerland in Euro 96 was a screamer.

Goram
Dalglish
Souness
Strachan
Cooper (on his day)

Anyone born after about 1989 is going to struggle with this

Billy Bremmner
Graeme Souness
Kenny Dalglish
Archie Gemmil
Dennis Law

Born in 1991 :D  1) gary macallister 2) colin hendry 3) billy mckinley 4) barry ferguson ( in his prime ). I can only name 4  :(

jimmy johnstone.
jim baxter.
bobby lennox.
kenny daglish.
gordan Mcqueen.

special mention for john ohare for sheer guts,not because he,s related.

Who cares about any of this? I'd rather name my top 5 f

Who cares about any of this? I'd rather name my top 5 five favourite cheeses.

lfc1971 27 Jan 14 23:18 Joined: 06 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 2,895 | Blogger: lfc1971's blog
and he played for the greatest ever British team(i don`t support them) Leeds 69-73




Only sane posts allowed, thanks.

Johnny_Mustang 28 Jan 14 08:21 Joined: 18 Feb 07 | Topic/replies: 2,895 | Blogger: Johnny_Mustang's blog
Who cares about any of this? I'd rather name my top 5 five favourite cheeses.




OK. I believe Kerrygold have a few nice ones. Otherwise, if you don't care, why don't you disappear?

King Kenny in a league of his own, best British player ever, never mind Scottish.


Honorable mentions must go to

Willie Pettigrew
Willie Donachie
Tommy Callaghan
Frank McDougall
Andy Ritchie

Mackay
Baxter
Bremner
Law
Dalglish

Baxter was my boyhood hero and whilst he played many of his best games against Celtic, the hoops fans generally forgave him because he saved his very best for England! The better the opposition, the better he played. Dalglish was the last truly great Scottish player.

Dalglish
Souness
Hansen
McStay
McAllister

I'm showing my relative youth here -

Gary McAllister

John Collins

Andy Goram for a couple of years was sensational

My first qualifying campaign was Italia 90 when Mo Johnston played in France. He went badly backwards when he came back. One of my mates was in Nantes a few years ago and there was a picture of Mo Jo on a pub wall.

Paul Lambert even though I watched the 1997 Champions League final again recently and it's incredible how your mind plays tricks. I thought he snuffed Zidane out the game. Juve were different class, unbelievable that Dortmund won 3-1. Lambert set up the opener though so he is in for that.

With the possible exception of Dave Mackay, every single one of the players mentioned on this thread could be melted down and fused together and they still wouldn't be as good as Ian Durrant would have been.

Bollux jed.

Honorable mentions must go to

Willie Pettigrew
Willie Donachie
Tommy Callaghan
Frank McDougall
Andy Ritchie


EH? mentions for what? OK, I've been fished, now be serious please!

Has anybody mentioned John Wark, one of the greatest Liverpool and Scottish players.

He was pretty much the complete midfielder and scored a tremendous number of goals.

Crisp77 27 Jan 14 22:01 
Hot Shot Hamish should be on most lists.

Good shout lfc1971, was unbelievable for Ipswich as well. What a lovely team they had at the time.

Baxter was my boyhood hero and whilst he played many of his best games against Celtic,



In all the games he played against Celtic he only ended up in the losing side twice.

Yes Jed he was already a super player at Bobby Robsons Ipswich and with Eric Gates, and all
the rest of that team its hard to see a weakness. Then there the 2 dutch midfielders,such a
team!

They were part of the best game of football I have ever seen - Spurs beat them 5-3 the week before Christmas in 1980 and the game was played in a howling gale and tropical downpour.

I think Wark held the scoring record in a UEFA Cup season for quite a while until Klinsmann broke it. That's when it was taken seriously and hard to win.

Some older players my dad still raves about;

Danny McGrain
Sandy Jardine
Eddie Gray
John Robertson
Alex Young
Bobby Murdoch

charlie cooke

pat nevin

kenny dalglish

grahame souness

alan hansen

Kenny Roberts was a tough midfielder.

And John Collins was class.

1 Chris Iwelumo
2 Tom Bennett
3 Kenny Miller
4 Alex Rae
5 Jim McCalliog

FFS Kenny Burns.

memory playing tricks on me...

Charlie Adam?
he playd for Liverpool

I don´t think there´s one Scottish player from the last 20 years that can compare with the classic pool of players Scotland produced from 1960- 1980.

Charlie Nicholas another shocking omission...

Billy Bremner
Kenny Dalglish
Paul Sturrock
Denis Law
Danny McGrain



I can't think of anyone more recent than the 80s that anyone outside of Scotland or their own club might have heard of.

Charlie Nicholas another shocking omission...


Agree TtO, but Arsenal ruined him imo. Now put him in today's Arsenal, in his prime, different story.

craig johnstone

Not a single mention of Joe Jordan.

No mention of Jocky Wilson

Jocky Wilson makes No.2 in the "fattest Scottish backsides ever" list. A long way clear of No.3, but a distance behind Kenny Dalglish.

@ Alias 

Richard Gough another top class omission.

His wife has a lot to answer for TiptheOdds. He was an awesome player.

There are just so many top class Scottish players from the 70s and 80s to choose from. Every top team had its share of Scots:

Liverpool - Dalglish, Souness, Hansen, Nicol, Hutchison
Arsenal - Charlie Nicholas
Leeds - Bremner, Lorimer, Gray, McAllister
Spurs - Gough, Archibald, Sullivan
Ipswich - Wark, Gray
Everton - Sharp, Ferguson, Ferguson B
Chelsea - Nevin, Burley, Speedie, Durie, Spencer, Clarke
Derby - Gemmill, Rioch
Man Utd - Law, Jordan, McQueen, Buchan, Morgan, Strachan, McClair, Goram
Nott Forest - Robertson, O´Hare, Burns
West Ham - Ray Stewart
Newcastle - Jim Craig

these are just the ones I can remember...

Er, er, er, SULLIVAN?

He was brilliant only if you had advance warning of the goals he was going to chuck in. One at Leeds was absolutely comical.

another two of my boyhood heroes were scottish

tony green, sadly injury cut short his career, but he was lightyears ahead of his time

another newcastle scottish great was jimmy smith, a huge talent and kicked out
of the game before he was 30

only 10 scotland caps between them, a reflection on injury and also
the vast amount of scottish talent around at the time

maybe you´re right jed, I can only remember Neil Sullivan looking the part, can´t really remember how good he was.

I can. And he was beyond desperate.

Wark, Hansen, Dalglish, Nicol and Souness all magic players. Duncan Ferguson could and should of been amongst the top, frightening amount of talent north of the border back in the day.

Phil O`Donnell
Paul McStay
Paul Lambert
Craig Burley
chic Charnely

Jockie Wilson
Sandy Lyle
Stephen Hendry
Andy Murray
Henrik Larsson

Larsson , we wont ever see a player like him in scotland again i dont think

Daglish
Souness
Goram
Goram
Billy Conelly

When did Larsson become Scottish?

his son is allowed to ply for scotland so maybe thats why he named him

hs signed with helsinborg at 17 hopefully he returns to celtic with his dad one day

Jim Baxter (The best ever Scottish player)
Jimmy Millar
Davie Wilson
Ralph Brand
Eric Caldow

a little bias creeping in there aka

Kenny Dalglish
Davie Cooper
Danny McGrain
Graeme Souness
Jimmy Johnstone

a little bias creeping in there aka

Agreed Outpost . My acctual 5 from that period would be

Jim Baxter
Jimmy Johnstone
Denis Law
Alan Gilzean
Ian St John

the answer is probably based on which generation you would rate as the best time in Scottish football. my five in no particular order would be
danny mcgrain
sandy jardine
Kenny dalglish
davie cooper
jimmy johnstone. I am fairly sure both mcgrain and jardine were included in the world cup 1974 select team of the tournament. maybe someone could confirm..