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The best Spurs team of all time - right wing forward

Who is the best right mid, right wing, right inside forward, or inside right to play for Spurs?

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Jack L. Jones
A quick recap of what we're doing

Right. The best Spurs team of all time.

We'll have a different thread for each position over the coming weeks. The thread will be open for a while for nominations and the most frequently mentioned players will be going into a poll on the same thread.

The team will line up 4-2-3-1. Modern style.

Anyone who comes into the thread, doesn't read what we're doing and posts their full best team of all time, gets laughed at.
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The eight position up for grabs - right midfield, right wing, right inside forward, right wing forward or inside right, take your pick.

who you think is best. A poll will be added when it looks like we have a few players to pick between.
 
Aaron Lennon should be on this list. His first season was a blinder especially after the disappointment of Wayne Routledge that season. Qualification for the CL, his goal against Chelsea and of course his continual destruction of Evra anytime they met!!

Would Simon Davies be valid as well? He was once voted player of the season by ze fans.
 
ideally I'd have had Hoddle on the right side here, seeing as another inexplicable selection has been made my vote goes to Waddle
 
The amazing Cliff Jones, along with Blanchflower, Mackay and White one of the four world-class stars of the Double side.

Whenever he picked up the ball from within our own half he would go on a thrilling box-to-box run, taking on and beating every opponent for speed as well as trickery along the way before more-often-than-not getting up-ended from behind by exasperated defenders and winning us a free-kick around the edge of their area.

The sheer number of times this happened every match brought the inevitable accusations of diving, and it's hard to deny he sometimes went down too easily.

But if mazy, flying runs were his trade-mark there was also much more to his game than that. He scored all kinds of goals, and plenty of them, none more spectacular than what became his speciality, the flying header, often from either a John White or Terry Dyson corner. It's fair to assert no-one has scored more goals like that since, indeed it seems nowadays to be a dying art.
 
Waddle
Anderton
Paul Allen
Lennon

But for me it has to be Cliff Jones.

IIRC he was most commonly a LW, but played RW through the double season and the years around that (i.e. his/our peak; to accommodate Dyson on the left).
 
If you have resolved to play 4231, then Greaves should come into contention here. I don't see him as an out an out line leader. We have a few of those to choose from, including Smith, Chiv, Berbs, Klinsmann, Kane etc. Greaves simply must be in the team so I would have him here as right inside forward, with Bale on the other side.

4231 virtually precludes the choice of outright wingers with overlapping full backs the preferred methodology.
 
There are two for me who I have to pick from, Waddle and Jones and both could play on either flank. Jones was the quickest player I have seen at the lane he could catch pigeons Sir Bill once said that if they left the gates open during a game he would be off running down the high road. The guy was fantastic in the air and so brave and would score 20 gaols a season, he was another player ( like Mackay) who recovered from a broken leg and recovered ( a lot of players failed to do that in those days). He was that good Juventus tried to buy him from us and offered 100,000 pounds but Sir Bill turned them down saying he was priceless.

Waddle for me is the best flank player I have seen at the Lane ( and that includes Bale etc). the link up he had with Hoddle and Allen during that time was brilliant and he supplied a lot of the 49 goals Allen scored that season.
 
Lennon and Anderton are the best two I have seen. From our history, I think Cliff Jones is a good shout and we surely need a bit more '61 representation in this team.

It's between Jones and Waddle, both players who could play on either flank.
 
I only briefly saw Cliff Jones in the mid 60s and he was largely playing on the left with Jimmy Robertson on the right. But from what I hear he was an outstanding winger with a good goal scoring record.

Chris Waddle is the stand out player over the last 30 years or so and more recently Aaron Lennon. I strongly rated Jimmy Pearce in the late 60s and early 70s and thought he was rather underrated during that time. Sadly he had to retire through injury before he fully reached his potential.

Others who might be considered would be Peter Taylor and Darren Anderton while Gareth Bale also played many games on the right during his last couple of years at Spurs.

Difficult decision between Jones, Waddle and Bale, but as Bale is likely to be competing with Ginola for the left wing position, I would narrowly favour Chris Waddle out of the other two.
 
For me Jones was simply the best, but Waddle was not too far behind.

When he first arrived he was often heckled by the boo-boys who totally misjudged him because of his stooping, languid style. True, it did also take him a while to find his feet but once he got going he became unstoppable. Though far from being the first to use the step-over he had it off to a fine art and used it to great effect down either flank to bamboozle defenders before lining up a twenty-yard shot that brought him a fair few spectacular goals.

The season he really came into his own was 1988-89, the season Gazza arrived and needed time to find his feet. With the likes of Fenwick and Fairclough at the back and the rabbit-caught-in-the-headlights Bobby Mimms in goal we were never going to be that tight and we got off to a very poor start. But by the time Mimms was replaced by Thorstvedt and Chrissy got going with his dazzling solo runs we gradually hauled our way up the table, and it was mainly through his brilliance that we wound up in a very creditable sixth place that season.
 
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Abbeyspur said:
Difficult decision between Jones, Waddle and Bale, but as Bale is likely to be competing with Ginola for the left wing position, I would narrowly favour Chris Waddle out of the other two.
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That's broadly my feeling too

Jones probably beating Waddle at RW

And then a run off between Dyson, Ginola and Bale at LW
 
the dza said:
Lennon and Anderton are the best two I have seen. From our history, I think Cliff Jones is a good shout and we surely need a bit more '61 representation in this team.

It's between Jones and Waddle, both players who could play on either flank.
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Anderton is still criminally underrated because of the myth about his injuries.

He clocked up about 400 games for us and was our outstanding player of the 90s (IMO ahead of Teddy)
 
parklane1 said:
There are two for me who I have to pick from, Waddle and Jones and both could play on either flank. Jones was the quickest player I have seen at the lane he could catch pigeons Sir Bill once said that if they left the gates open during a game he would be off running down the high road. The guy was fantastic in the air and so brave and would score 20 gaols a season, he was another player ( like Mackay) who recovered from a broken leg and recovered ( a lot of players failed to do that in those days). He was that good Juventus tried to buy him from us and offered 100,000 pounds but Sir Bill turned them down saying he was priceless.

Waddle for me is the best flank player I have seen at the Lane ( and that includes Bale etc). the link up he had with Hoddle and Allen during that time was brilliant and he supplied a lot of the 49 goals Allen scored that season.
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Now waddle was a winger who could beat his man and put in an accurate cross. Not terribly athletic though.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Anderton is still criminally underrated because of the myth about his injuries.

He clocked up about 400 games for us and was our outstanding player of the 90s (IMO ahead of Teddy)
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Anderton was a good player, but for me Teddy was the best. One of my favourite ever Spurs players.
 
Waddle was more regularly threatening than Anderton, so my vote will be going to him. Not happy though, as he was only with us for five minutes, like a lot of others who will get into this side, such as Modric and Bale et al. Legends should be long termers, five seasons at least. So bugger it, I'm voting for Anderton. He was almost as good and stuck by us when things were pretty crap. That has to count for something.
 
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