Our Best Team

[Grumpy]

I expect many will disagree, especially our younger fans, but in My opinion this would be our best Team of all time:-
Derek Edwards
Richie Blackmore
Arthur Atkinson
John Joyner
Justin Carney
Alan Hardisty
Roger Millward
Kevin Ward
Kevin Beardsmore
Brian Lockwood
Bill Bryant
Bob Lidner
Malcolm Rielly
Subs. Keith Hepwoth, Bruce Burton, Denis Hartley, Tawera Nikau.
Near misses were Juicey Adams from the thirties. Adrian Vowles, Tony Kemp, Kenny Pie and Denzyl Webster from the fifties and others too numerous to mention
I'd love to see others opinions on this.

[Tamworth Tiger]

Great post.
I don't disagree with much. Blackmore wasn't really a winger was he, but outside backs were never Cas's strong point, so I'm struggling to come up with an alternative other than someone like Singe,Fenton or Richardson.
Heppy has to start with Chuck and Dennis Hartley needs to be on from the start to show them whose in charge.
I would lose Lidner and juggle the pack around to find room for either Crooks or Steve Norton

[the machine]

Singe over carney amd id love to see dean sampson in their, loved him growing up as a kid

[Fumper27]

Going from players I've seen live in a Cas shirt:

Steadman
Ellis
Eager
Shenton
Carney
Chase
Ford
Crooks
Clark
Sampson
Fritz
Nikau
Vowles

Lynch
Barry Johnson
Raper
Gibbs

[Tamworth Tiger]

On reflection and rating them both very highly, I would go for Steadman over Edwards

[Grumpy]

Good points Tamworth Tiger. I was torn between Edwards and Steady, also Wardy and big Denis. As for your team Frumper, that would take some beating too.
Great posts and thanks for your input.

[tigerfeat]

what a team..id have steady for derek edwards and singe for blackmore id also have vowlsey on my bench

[gale123]

Since my first season ticket (99) I would go with
1) dorn
2) Dixon
3)Shenton
4) eager
5) carney
6) orr
7) Davis
8) Huby
9) Clark
10) Nutley
11) fritz
12) harland
13) vowels

Bench: Sampson Holmes chase manu

[duke street 10]

1st game down the Lane was in the early 80's so....

Steadman
Ellis
Blackmore
Eager
Carney
Orr
Ford
Ward
Kevin Beardsmore
Sampson
Crooks
Fritz
Nikau

Subs. Clark,Huby,Gibbs,Joyner

[SWISS TONY!!]

got to say i prefer Belcher as a full back, steadman was classy but belcher was all round better full back.
i cant believe people prefer carney to plange, david would have chewed up and spit out carney! would have been a good match up though

[duke street 10]

got to say i prefer Belcher as a full back, steadman was classy but belcher was all round better full back.
i cant believe people prefer carney to plange, david would have chewed up and spit out carney! would have been a good match up though

Well i would agree about Belcher but only got to see him a couple of times when he was over in 1988?, think he was injured a while when he was here too. But he was fantastic in those Canberra & Queensland sides back then.

[tigerfeat]

belcher was a quality player but i can still see steady getting ball and slicing his way up field id go with steady weve had so many good players when you think about it

[SWISS TONY!!]

FWIW

belcher
plange
blackmore
joyner
ellis
steadman
ford
ward
beardsmore
crooks
gibbs
nikau
reilly

clark, sampson, lidner, chase, eager, bartrim the subs bench could go on and on lol

[SWISS TONY!!]

belcher was a quality player but i can still see steady getting ball and slicing his way up field id go with steady weve had so many good players when you think about it

im deffo not knocking steadman, was a pleasure to watch, can still see him dancing round the back of the aussies in that 3rd test over there, cant remember ther year, 92 i think. think graham was the first of the modern day full backs, basically half backs thats converted to full back to give them space to match thier vision and ability. but id still have him at 6

[Danny Boy]

Graham Steadman
StJohn Ellis
Arthur Atkinson
John Joyner
Roger Millward (mainly played for us as wing)
Alan Hardisty
Keith Hepworth
Dennis Hartley
Daryl Clark
Kevin Ward
Bill Bryant
Bob Lindner
Malcolm Reilly
Subs. Bruce Burton, Barry Johnson, Kevin Beardmore, Lee Crooks

[tigerfeat]

i carnt remember roger millward ever playing on wing my memory not what it was having said that tho

[Danny Boy]

i carnt remember roger millward ever playing on wing my memory not what it was having said that tho

He couldn't get in at half back very often, as there was always Hardisty there, plus Edwards, who was also a natural stand off, that's why the club sold him to HKR for £6,000, although it was a lot in those days, it still wasn't nearly enough, wish we could have held onto him and the 70's might have been a much better time for us.

[Grumpy]

I remember seeing Roger Millward at Hunslet in the Yorkshire cup. He played on the left wing and scored a hatrick.
Does anybody remember the BBC covering the under seventeens on Sunday mornings. Cas had Roger as the top star with Dougy Walton and Ronnie Willet and I think a skinny Ian Stenton who developed into a top class centre
I can't see any player pushing Chuck out of the team. All the alternatives are very good players, but none could lace Hardisty's boots. In my opinion our greatest ever player.

[TT Tiger]

From my watch (about 92 onwards)

Steady
Ellis
Blackmore
Eager
Gay ( I thought he was outstanding on the wing in defence)
Orr ( maybe botica in his prime)
Ford
Crooks
Raper
Sampson
Fritz
Mike smith
Nikau

Vowels
Bartrim
Huby
Nutley

[Anglo]

I'm not a Cas fan and I know he probably pre-dates some fans' first memories but I'm amazed Steve Norton hasn't even made the bench in any of the nominations so far, terrific player he was.