Message from FourFourTwo - HNA? Campaign

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Hello,
FourFourTwo magazine here. We need your help!

We're now working on our April issue, which is a Football League special.

Within it, we are to display a 'Perfect XI' for every Football League club
(ie. a dream team of the best players to ever represent that club).

As such, we're looking for a match-going supporter from each team who knows
the club's history to give us their views as part of the decision process.

The 72 fans who help us out will each get their name in the magazine
alongside their respective team.

What formation would you pick? Which 11 players? And which manager? Clearly
the formation has to be workable - you can't pick five forwards, for
example!

If you'd be interested in helping us out, and you think you could
objectively pick a team + manager based on the club's history (and not just
over the last decade!), we'd love to hear from you.

Please email: charlie.ghagan@haymarket.com (there's no need to send a team
quite yet though)

Thanks!
FourFourTwo

Should we make a collective effort and send it to FourFourTwo under the HobNob Anyone? name.

Manager -

GK -
DL -
DR -
DC -
DC -
MR -
ML -
MC -
MC -
ST -
ST -

We could all suggest a team and the players with the most mentions will get into the overall team. I'll tally up the results and announce the final team before Saturday.

[Top Flight]

Manager: Coppell

It's difficult with Reading not to pick players from the recent past, as the last 10 years or so has been by far the most successful period in the clubs history. So I would pick:

GK: Hislop
RB: Murty
LB: Shorey
CB: Ingimarsson
CB: Williams
RW: Little
CM: Sidwell
CM:
LW:
Just behind the striker: Sigurdsson
CF: Doyle

I'm not sure who the other CM should be and the LW... I don't really want to choose Stephen Hunt or Convey

[LoyalRoyalFan]

GK - Steve Death
RB - Murty
LB - Shorey
DC - Williams
DC - Ingimarsson
RM - Gilkes
LM - Robin Friday
MC - Parkinson
MC - Mick Gooding
ST - Trevor Senior
ST - Kevin Doyle

Manager - Coppell

[Wycombe Royal]

Gilkes on the left wing, but I'd probably say it has to be Hunt even though I don't like him.....

Parky in central midfield?

[Row Z Royal]

Brazil

[Svlad Cjelli]

[No Hoops]

Hislop
Murts
Matthew Upson
Dariusz
Shorey

Little
Simon Osbourne
Robin Friday
Kebe

Quinn
Doyle

Manager

Sir Steve is a Royal

[Handsome Man]

If it is a dream team, we don't have to pick successful or excellent players that nobody liked

Hislop

Murty
Gilkes
Curle
A Williams

Sidwell
Bowman
Kebe

Horrix
Senior
Friday

[specialjon]

I guess Upson isn't possible as he was only a loan player but for me the best cb to play for Royals.

Surely dariusz wdowczyk was better than Ivar and Death better than Shaka?

Ah, Simon osborne I'd still pay money to watch him play now!

[Tutti Frutti]

Death, Murty (c), Shorey, Hicks, Wdowczyk, Little, Sigurdsson, Sidwell, Gilkes, Friday, Senior

Subs: Marcus, Ivar, Harper, Doyle, Webb, Osborn, Parky

Manager: Coppell

As one-season wonders go, Gylfi was better than Osborn.

[Barry the bird boggler]

OK. Let's give some names from the past to jog people's memories, this is not meant to be an exhaustive list (there'll be some obvious names missing) just a reference point with some suggestions to start from. I have only included players who were signed permanently.

Goalkeepers

Gary Westwood, Steve Death, Alan Judge, Steve Francis, Shaka Hislop, Adam Federici, Steve Mautone, Marcus Hahnemann, Phil Whitehead, Simon Shepherd, Peter van der Kwaak, Scott Howie, Gary Phillips

Defenders

Ray Reeves, Dick Spiers, Maurice Evans, Steve Richardson, Graham Murty, Nicky Shorey, Darius Wdowczyk, Keith Curle, Mark White, Steve Hetzke, Martin Hicks, Steve Wood, Ivar Ingimarrson, Ibrahima Sonko, Ulises De La Cruz, Adrian Williams, Adrian Viveash, Steve Brown, Adrian Whitbread, Matt Robinson, Chris Casper, Gary Peters, Matt Mills, Alex Pearce, Shaun Cummings, Ian Harte, Andy Griffin, Marcus Williams, Paul Bodin, Gareth Davies, Keith McPherson

Midfielders

Gylfi Sigurdsson, Brynjar Gunnarsson, Jay Tabb, Brian Howard, Jem Karacan, Neil Webb, Steve Sidwell, James Harper, Kevin Watson, Keith Jones, Darren Caskey, Mick Gooding, Tom Jones, Phil Parkinson, Mick Tait, Les Taylor, Ross Jenkins, James Lambert, Grant Brebner

Wingers

Jimmy Kebe, James Henry, Michael Antonio, Jobi McAnuff, Hal Robson-Kanu, Michael Meaker, Michael Gilkes, Bobby Convey, Glen Little, Seoul, Neil Smillie, Jim McIntyre, Steve Hunt

Forwards

Jimmy Quinn, Jamie Cureton, Martin Butler, Ron Blackman, Pat Terry, Percy Freeman, Robin Friday, Trevor Senior, Phil Stant, Dean Horrix, Kevin Bremner, Kevin Doyle, Dave Kitson, Trevor Morley, Mark McGhee, Leroy Lita, Shane Long, Noel Hunt, Craig Maskell, Steve Moran, Colin Gordon, Francis Joseph, Kerry Dixon, Stuart Lovell, Nicky Forster

[Gordons Cumming]

I’ve been supporting Reading FC since 1969 so my team will reflect that time period.

GK – Steve Death
DL – Nicky Shorey
DR – Graeme Murty
DC – Adie Williams
DC – Martin Hicks
ML – Michael Gilkes
MR – Gordon Cumming ( )
MC – Phil Parkinson
MC – Neil Webb
ST – Robin Friday
ST – Trevor Senior

Manager – Steve Coppell (using a 4-4-2 formation obviously )

[brendywendy]

cant see further than this^^^^ tbf

[Ian Royal]

Don't really qualify for this...

But my offering would be:

Coppell

Death
Murty
Shorey
Wdowczyk
Ingimarsson
Sidwell
Sigurdsson
Little
McAnuff
Kitson
Doyle

Bit lightweight across the middle maybe. I can see McAnuff being controversial ahead of Convey, Gilkes & Kebe.

EDIT: Eep! Where can I put Friday... he simply has to be in there! Parky, Caskey & Harper unlucky to miss out for me.

[Wimb]

For me (post 95)

GK: Shaka

RB: Murty
CB: Wdowczyk
CB: Ingimarsson
LB: Shorey

RM: Little
CM: Sidwell
CM: Gooding
LM: Gilkes

FW: Doyle
FW: Forster

Manager: Sir Steve

[handbags_harris]

This is a bit like me and an extensive restaurant menu - in the same way that indecision is abound with what you want to eat, how the hell do you choose between different players? Would love to do this but I, for one, would never be satisfied with who I pick in particular positions.

And with all due respect to the likes of Webb, Sanchez, Friday, Gilkes, Kerr, Dillon, Hislop, Wdowczyk, A Williams, Quinn, Taylor and the many others who have set this club alight with their footballing prowess, who could really look further than the following?

Hahnemann, Murty, Shorey, Sonko, Ingimarsson, Little, Convey, Sidwell, Harper, Doyle, Kitson.

[Ferris]

Hello,
FourFourTwo magazine here. We need your help!

We're now working on our April issue, which is a Football League special.

Within it, we are to display a 'Perfect XI' for every Football League club
(ie. a dream team of the best players to ever represent that club).

As such, we're looking for a match-going supporter from each team who knows
the club's history to give us their views as part of the decision process.

The 72 fans who help us out will each get their name in the magazine
alongside their respective team.

What formation would you pick? Which 11 players? And which manager? Clearly
the formation has to be workable - you can't pick five forwards, for
example!

If you'd be interested in helping us out, and you think you could
objectively pick a team + manager based on the club's history (and not just
over the last decade!), we'd love to hear from you.

Please email: charlie.ghagan@haymarket.com (there's no need to send a team
quite yet though)

Thanks!
FourFourTwo

Should we make a collective effort and send it to FourFourTwo under the HobNob Anyone? name.

Manager -

GK -
DL -
DR -
DC -
DC -
MR -
ML -
MC -
MC -
ST -
ST -

We could all suggest a team and the players with the most mentions will get into the overall team.

Can we put the Beast in there just for the lolz?

[Ups and Downs]

I'd just like to wish the person who has to compile this definitive Dream Team luck.

[papereyes]

Manager: Coppell

It's difficult with Reading not to pick players from the recent past, as the last 10 years or so has been by far the most successful period in the clubs history. So I would pick:

GK: Hislop
RB: Murty
LB: Shorey
CB: Ingimarsson
CB: Williams
RW: Little
CM: Sidwell
CM:
LW:
Just behind the striker: Sigurdsson
CF: Doyle

I'm not sure who the other CM should be and the LW... I don't really want to choose Stephen Hunt or Convey

I'd suggest Friday and Death should be in on legendary merit and I'd also put Wanklyn in for the LOLZ.

[papereyes]

Phil Stant? LOL

Hard as, but not a legend.