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The best Spurs team of all time - number 10, attacking midfielder, second striker

Who is the best #10, AM or second striker to play for Spurs?

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    50
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I was looking at the appearances list on wikipeida again and noticed a few things.

1. Ledley and Sol are both on 315 appearances, with 14 and 15 goals, respectively.

2. Darren Anderton (354) and Ledley King (315) weren't always injured.

3. By the end of this season Harry Kane will have made more appearances for us than Gazza. Gascoigne (112) only played a few more times than Corluka (109\) and Adebayor (106) and less than Tim Sherwood (118).

4. Peters played 260 games (76 goals), Sheringham 277 (125) and White 179 (51).

5. Dyson and Bale have similar numbers, but Terry Medwin has better: Bale 203 (55), Dyson 209 (55), Medwin 215 (77).

P.S. I'm still undecided for this position.
 
Spur of the moment said:
Wow really? He was outstanding, of that there's no denying, and I'm a big, big fan, but I honestly don't ever remember being gobsmacked quite as much as when watching Bale.

Just goes to show, Stop! Hammer time.
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Indeed it is, I do not think there is much difference in their goals to games ratio but I believe that Waddle had more assists then Bale. Two great players but for me Waddle was up with Jones as our best two flank players.
 
parklane1 said:
Indeed it is, I do not think there is much difference in their goals to games ratio but I believe that Waddle had more assists then Bale. Two great players but for me Waddle was up with Jones as our best two flank players.
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I'm not so sure about comparing their goalscoring records, given Bale played a lot of his games at FB. Besides, for me it's much more about how they wowed me than bald stats alone. Bobby Smith was one of our most prolific goal-scorers ever but I'm sure you can also remember how often he looked a complete numpty missing so many sitters. He could look a clown one minute then score a blinder the next. Even an average striker would have notched up impressive scoring stats in that Double side.
 
It's between Teddy and Gazza for me. I am going to have a think about it and vote tomorrow
 
I've voted for Teddy. He won't win, but he's one of my all-time favourite Spurs players and I think he's a legit vote for a second striker role in the side. A real class player.
 
the dza said:
I've voted for Teddy. He won't win, but he's one of my all-time favourite Spurs players and I think he's a legit vote for a second striker role in the side. A real class player.
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Agreed. He's winning at the moment! The #10 has to chip in with a lot of goals, and Teddy was Mister Goals
 
Gazza for me. Not just because he wowed everybody with the sheer brilliance and audacity of his mazy runs, but because for most of the time he was with us he was almost bigger than Diana. The gloss from the incredible hype around him reflected onto us and would have helped raise our profile around the world.

Some of Teddy's gloss tarnished for me when he joined United. Don't blame him for that but I found it hard to swallow at the time.
 
jts1882 said:
I was looking at the appearances list on wikipeida again and noticed a few things.

1. Ledley and Sol are both on 315 appearances, with 14 and 15 goals, respectively.

2. Darren Anderton (354) and Ledley King (315) weren't always injured.

3. By the end of this season Harry Kane will have made more appearances for us than Gazza. Gascoigne (112) only played a few more times than Corluka (109\) and Adebayor (106) and less than Tim Sherwood (118).

4. Peters played 260 games (76 goals), Sheringham 277 (125) and White 179 (51).

5. Dyson and Bale have similar numbers, but Terry Medwin has better: Bale 203 (55), Dyson 209 (55), Medwin 215 (77).

P.S. I'm still undecided for this position.
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Note that Bale's record is IMHO better because it was later in his Spurs career that he played in the forward position. I still think he is one of the best Spurs has had in that slot and as such I am boycotting the above vote (also helps that there is no option). Without him, I doubt we would have finished as high as we did those years.
 
afsoc4life said:
Note that Bale's record is IMHO better because it was later in his Spurs career that he played in the forward position. I still think he is one of the best Spurs has had in that slot and as such I am boycotting the above vote (also helps that there is no option). Without him, I doubt we would have finished as high as we did those years.
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That's undoubtedly true.

If someone had made a strong case for him being included in this poll, he would have been. I asked several times for someone to make that case and no one did.
 
Spur of the moment said:
Gazza for me. Not just because he wowed everybody with the sheer brilliance and audacity of his mazy runs, but because for most of the time he was with us he was almost bigger than Diana. The gloss from the incredible hype around him reflected onto us and would have helped raise our profile around the world.

Some of Teddy's gloss tarnished for me when he joined United. Don't blame him for that but I found it hard to swallow at the time.
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The Gloss returned for me when I was at WHL and he missed a penalty for United first time back at WHL :D. Never heard a louder sheer than when he smashed it into the bar!
 
This is the hardest vote so far. All the others had a clear winner or I was able to quickly reduce it to a simple choice. Here I'm not sure who to pick or even what type of player to pick, primarily playmaker or goalscorer.

This is where I would have picked Hoddle, so it would be easy to pick Gazza here, but I won't. Hoddle is going to be the chief play maker so we need goals here, just in case Greaves has a bad day and the wide players (Jones and Bale?) aren't chipping in. I also have reservations on whether 112 games is enough to make the cut for legend. There is also the fact that I didn't see much of Gazza with us. I had moved to the US in a period when football coverage was minimal (virtually nil) and there was no web, so the late 80s and a lot of the 90s was a bit of a footballing dark age for me. Then again, I've heard people who went to the games say a similar thing.

I'm going to pick an inside forward here and it's between White, Peters and Sheringham. White is literally a legendary player, a player with skills that people tell tales about with wonder, and one who met an untimely end. He also fits both playmaker and goalscorer categories. But I didn't see him play and I've already picked several from the double team. Then there is Peters, who was in the team I became a Spurs fan with, and Sheringham, who was one of the few lights in those dark ages. When does the poll close?
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
Gilzean!
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I placed my vote for Gazza, I've woken this morning with a nagging thought that I should have gone for Gilly, I can't get Greavsies quote out out of my mind, and seeing as he is a shoe in for the forward role I should have weighted that accordingly

Greaves said he was the best player he ever played with, which considering some of the team mates he had, not just at Spurs mind, that is high praise indeed

I implore you all to refresh your memory of the great man by searching for him on YouTube, some gold on there
 
Gazza for me as before Bale he was our best player in my lifetime from where i started to go regularly

Sheringham was great but is a horrible cnut so i wouldn't vote for him unless it was for emptying bins
 
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