Nominations for favourite Norwich player ever?

[littleyellowbirdie 2,511]

Becchio: if he had been played more we'd have definitely stayed up that season. 🙃

Edited November 23, 2021 by littleyellowbirdie

[Bali Canary 11]

Trevor Hockey,  he made Norman Hunter look like a puddy cat 😂

Edited November 23, 2021 by Bali Canary

[thebigfeller 200]

Both these teams are far too attacking. We've had such a huge list of creative and attacking midfielders and forwards throughout our modern history, but far fewer central defenders and especially defensive midfielders (I genuinely considered Safri for the second team, just to give it some balance!) - but that fits with the club's ethos, so hey ho. I even considered Steen Nedergaard instead of Aarons, just because the latter is so good offensively, so questionable defensively. 

These teams both date from the mid-80s onwards. I just don't know enough about the players before that time to include them, so apologies to the likes of Ashman, Peters, Keelan, Stringer, MacDougall, Fashanu etc. 

All time First XI

GK Robert GREEN

RB Ian CULVERHOUSE

CB Steve BRUCE

CB Dave WATSON

LB Mark BOWEN

DM Jeremy GOSS

CM Ian CROOK

AM Wesley HOOLAHAN

RW/F Ruel FOX

LW/AM/F Emiliano BUENDIA

CF Chris SUTTON

Manager: Mike WALKER

All time Second XI

GK Bryan GUNN

RB Maximillian AARONS

CB Jon NEWSOME

CB Craig FLEMING

LB Adam DRURY

CM Andy TOWNSEND

AM/F Darren HUCKERBY

RW Dale GORDON

LW Darren EADIE

F Craig BELLAMY

CF Dean ASHTON

Manager: Dave STRINGER

Oh, and my favourite ever? 3rd Gordon 2nd Robins (who I've not even included in either team!)... and 1st, the one and only Ian Culverhouse. Years and years ahead of his time, and a fantastic sweeper as well as right back or wing back. Probably the brains behind our rise through the divisions under Lambert too.

Edited November 23, 2021 by thebigfeller

[TeemuVanBasten 3,327]

9 hours ago, The Great Mass Debater said:

I honestly thought he was the next Shearer

Definitely heading towards a respectable number of England caps at the least.

[TeemuVanBasten 3,327]

Interesting that we had people on here a couple of years ago claiming that we had our best ever team, but not a single Farke era player is getting a mention. I'll take that as people seeing sense! 

Edited November 23, 2021 by TeemuVanBasten

[kirku 1,332]

3 hours ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

Interesting that we had people on here a couple of years ago claiming that we had our best ever team, but not a single Farke era player is getting a mention. I'll take that as people seeing sense! 

Absolutely spot on - if you entirely ignore the posts about Emi, Pukki, and Aarons.

[Mutley 73]

My all time hero is Kevin the cat Keelan.

Others I would include - 

For inspirational: Has anyone mentioned Martin O'Neill? He almost single-handedly got us promoted in1981 when he arrived late on in that season, on loan from memory. And he scored that magnificent late winner at Pootlaoo Road from a free kick in a later spell. I would add Grant Holt to this section

For class: Martin Peters, Darren Huckerby, Ian Culverhouse, Ian Crook, Emi Buendia

For dependable: Mark Bowen, Adam Drury

For attitude and fire: Robert Fleck

For leadership: Duncan Forbes, David Stringer, Dave Watson, Steve Bruce, Malky McKay, Craig Fleming, Dion Dublin, Iwan Roberts

For being unsung but reliable: Colin Suggett, Gary Holt (three lungs)

For breaking my heart when leaving: Hugh Curran, Kevin Reeves, and loads more

 

 

[TeemuVanBasten 3,327]

I don't understand why Darren Kenton didn't go on to achieve greatness in his career.

You literally couldn't beat the Kenton. 

[TeemuVanBasten 3,327]

27 minutes ago, kirku said:

Absolutely spot on.

As per usual.

[kirku 1,332]

23 minutes ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

I don't understand why Darren Kenton didn't go on to achieve greatness in his career.

You literally couldn't beat the Kenton. 

I thought the same. I remember predicting that him and Green would get England caps.

Didn't pan out, perhaps a bit undersized..

[Midlands Yellow 3,942]

No Danny Mills fans? 

[Big Vince 318]

6 hours ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

Interesting that we had people on here a couple of years ago claiming that we had our best ever team, but not a single Farke era player is getting a mention. I'll take that as people seeing sense! 

From the names being mentioned, Mr Chase and Sir Arthur eras better than Delia!🤣

[AJ 1,218]

Chris Llewellyn! 

[C.I.D 302]

Barry Butler

Phil Kelly 

Tommy Bryceland 

Ron Davies

Edited November 23, 2021 by C.I.D

[cornish sam 945]

Favourite player for.me would have to be Eadie, he was the first Norwich player that I had a poster of on my wall. There have been better players both before and since (though were it not for injuries after leaving us Eadie could have gone on to greatness), but he was my first...

Edited November 23, 2021 by cornish sam

[C.I.D 302]

1 hour ago, Big Vince said:

From the names being mentioned, Mr Chase and Sir Arthur eras better than Delia!🤣

eras is an anagram of A.R.S.E .............very apt in your case 🤪

[The Great Mass Debater 1,078]

On 23/11/2021 at 08:20, TeemuVanBasten said:

Interesting that we had people on here a couple of years ago claiming that we had our best ever team, but not a single Farke era player is getting a mention. I'll take that as people seeing sense! 

I ran a series of posts in a 'cup' competition pitting Norwich squads against each other. Farke's first championship winning team won in terms of votes

[Nora's Ghost 157]

Josh Sargent.

 

Time to move on.

[king canary 7,580]

14 minutes ago, The Great Mass Debater said:

I ran a series of posts in a 'cup' competition pitting Norwich squads against each other. Farke's first championship winning team won in terms of votes

Recency bias.

[YellowCanary 11]

Just had a quick scan through and can’t see that Graham Paddon has been mentioned,unbelievable,a wonderfully gifted player and free kick specialist                                  

 

 

 

[TheGunnShow 5,932]

David Strihavka, Fernando Derveld, Shaun Carey and Cedric Anselin, anyone? 😉

[Bournemouth Mafiosa 0]

Keelan, Bowen, Forbes, Watson, Culverhouse, Suggett, Safri, Crook, Hucks, Ashton, MacDougall

[chicken 2,604]

14 hours ago, king canary said:

Recency bias.

I don't even recall anyone saying that the Farke team was the best we'd ever had... (though I remember some saying Buendia was the best player we'd ever had).

Quite the opposite in fact. The vast majority of folks on here summed up Farke's side much like Lamberts in that it exceeded the sum of it's parts through pure hard work and graft.

Folks could say that of the Norwich City side of the early '90's but honestly, that would be an utter disservice. Fox, Bowen, Sutton, Robbins, Eadie, Crook, Ekoku and more, all had some flair and ability about them too. Fox would just skin people, Crook could pick a pass as good as any. Sutton is arguably the most successful player to be produced by our club and be "local" (he was born in Nottingham but we'll ignore that).

Personally though, I really dislike these "best Norwich player ever" type of things. You will rarely get votes for players who were playing more than 50 years ago. Often it will be players from the last 20-30 years. How many will say Martin Peters? Yet he was a coup grander than landing Huckerby and he arguably inspired us just as much at the time. 

[wcorkcanary 4,329]

On 20/11/2021 at 01:55, Mat McGoo said:

safri for the Man u wonder goal

He defo got a worldie v Newcastle,  did he get one v manure too?

[wcorkcanary 4,329]

On 23/11/2021 at 12:01, kirku said:

Absolutely spot on - if you entirely ignore the posts about Emi, Pukki, and Aarons.

Selective  knowitallisms is what TuB does best.  Sweeping judgements  short on truth. 

[Lord Horn (again) 130]

Kevin Keelan....end of

[Sheva 123]

Can’t see any mention of probably the greatest player to play for Norwich, although past his best years. Still managed to inspire the team to their greatest trophy, 1985 Milk Cup.

Mick Channon 

 

Edited November 29, 2021 by Sheva

[Besthorpe-48 102]

Keelan aarons forbes Fleming ashman buendia crook skipp peters gavin hunt.

Subs krul stringer Norman (monty) Sutton (senior) hockey vrancic deehan Sutton ( junior)punton

Being a goalkeeper in the 60s it's got to be keelan.

 

[king canary 7,580]

22 hours ago, chicken said:

I don't even recall anyone saying that the Farke team was the best we'd ever had... (though I remember some saying Buendia was the best player we'd ever had).

Quite the opposite in fact. The vast majority of folks on here summed up Farke's side much like Lamberts in that it exceeded the sum of it's parts through pure hard work and graft.

Folks could say that of the Norwich City side of the early '90's but honestly, that would be an utter disservice. Fox, Bowen, Sutton, Robbins, Eadie, Crook, Ekoku and more, all had some flair and ability about them too. Fox would just skin people, Crook could pick a pass as good as any. Sutton is arguably the most successful player to be produced by our club and be "local" (he was born in Nottingham but we'll ignore that).

Personally though, I really dislike these "best Norwich player ever" type of things. You will rarely get votes for players who were playing more than 50 years ago. Often it will be players from the last 20-30 years. How many will say Martin Peters? Yet he was a coup grander than landing Huckerby and he arguably inspired us just as much at the time. 

Yeah I agree its impossible due to your own biases and your own knowledge range. I'm in my early 30's and my first season as a season ticket holder was 01/02 so players like Hucks, Drury and McVeigh will mean much more to me than they might to someone who had been going since the 70's.