Hi bit of fun
just curious what people best and worst team would be made only of players from the Walsall failure years . Starting the summer after dean smith left 2016
Could we get a team from that bunch that would have made us nice and safe in league 1 and what team would be instant relegation to the non league?
We had a team that was nice and safe in league one, the season after smith left.
Best
Rushworth
Devlin
McCarthy
Guthrie
Pring
Kinsella
Edwards
Ginnelly
Oztumer
Tyler Roberts
Cook
With the right manager, that could easily be a mid table league one team.
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Rico did start the following season after Deano left so technically he fits the criteria. Him or Pring?
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Yeah I was thinking that. I’d have Etheridge and J O’C in there aswell in that scenario.
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Just re read and it is FROM 2016 onwards 
Rico only just sneaks in, right? He was gone by the September wasn’t he?
Yes - sold on transfer deadline day (31st August that year?)
Played the first game of the season against AFC Wimbledon, then dislocated his shoulder away at Oldham
Cook 100% has to be the main striker in that period.
Worst
Osadebe
Osadebe Osadebe Osadebe Osadebe
Osadebe Osadebe
Osadebe Osadebe Osadebe
Osadebe
He’s that bad he deserves a team to himself 
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Gillespie
Kinsella - Wilson - Guthrie - Leahy
Cuvelier - Chambers - Edwards
Oztumer
Bakayoko - Roberts
A team good enough to win 3-0 at Doncaster in 2016/17 and to have us more than comfortably in mid table. Indeed, by 10th March 2017, we were in 8th position with a 13-13-10 record and only a couple of wins off the play-offs.
You’ve got your seasons mixed up there Shrops. That 3-0 win at Donny was 17/18.
Was it? Ah well, same argument - we had a perfectly decent mid-league one team back then. Some cracking players in there.
Anyway, thanks for pointing it out.
Watch it and weep for those days when we had classy players and a team with togetherness. Yes Oztumer, but also watch Edwards, and great work by Bakayoko for the 3rd.
Which was declining badly in the second half of the season.
In all seriousness for worst
Dunn
Martin - Ward - Mills
Makris - Liddle - Guthrie - Osadebe - Osei Yaw
Gaffney - Shaibu
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The Joe Edwards injury was a massive part of that. He was such an important player. He’s subsequently shown at Plymouth just how good a player he is, and he was in top form for us when he got the injury.
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Makris that transfer was as dodgy as prince Andrew
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Yeah I agree with that. I loved how Edwards could play anywhere from right back, left wing back, central midfield or even in one of the attacking midfield roles and still be effective.
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Dunn (from Wrexham)
CCM
J.Clarke*
Mills
Ismail
Guthrie
Liddle
Moussa
N’Goy
Shaibu
Osei - Yaw
Subs - Osbourne, Hardy, Bielek, Nolan, Jackson, C Taylor, (have no idea how many subs are used in today’s game anymore!)
*Controversial, I know. But in his first season I think, there was a spell where every other game or so, we’d be conceading silly goals and they’d often be attributed to him. I think he hit little form patched towards the back end of seasons, so perhaps gets remembered more fondly. But to my memory, both him and Mr Viking were quite dissapointing additions after the initial excitement of a solid spine to the team.