The best player to ever play at Field Mill?

[stagshead]

But not the greatest lol

[BigGuy]

DKD hits the bar after great skill

He hasnt been here long, greatest player already ?

[ParisStag]

DKD hits the bar after great skill

He hasnt been here long, greatest player already ?

Hahaha oops

[wayno cordiniho]

Akins

[cassellswasmagic]

Moore must be the best to have graced the FM turf. It was before my time…mine would be seeing Suarez maybe…but he’s not won a World Cup.
Definitely has to be Moore! Even Pele said he was the best. Has Gordon Banks or any other World Cup winners played at FM?

[Sneag]

Moore must be the best to have graced the FM turf. It was before my time…mine would be seeing Suarez maybe…but he’s not won a World Cup.
Definitely has to be Moore! Even Pele said he was the best. Has Gordon Banks or any other World Cup winners played at FM?

Alan Ball, Martin Peters, Geoff Hurst?

[yaxhamstag]

Remember seeing Peter Beardsley play for Hartlepool (I think) when he was at the end of his career but he was still way too good for anyone else on the pitch.

Same with Chris Waddle when he came with Torquay. Played in centre mid and hardly left the centre circle the whole game, but his skill level was so evident. Some of his passes were sublime, and the vision he had for picking the pass was unbelievable. Sadly for them, his team mates were not of the same calibre and what would have been a superb pass often came to nothing as they weren't reading the game in the same way !!

Funny, I nearly mentioned Waddle in my post. You’re right, their teammates just weren’t on the same wavelength and great passes were wasted. I think Beardsley was subbed that game, presumably for being too good

[cassellswasmagic]

Moore must be the best to have graced the FM turf. It was before my time…mine would be seeing Suarez maybe…but he’s not won a World Cup.
Definitely has to be Moore! Even Pele said he was the best. Has Gordon Banks or any other World Cup winners played at FM?

Alan Ball, Martin Peters, Geoff Hurst?

Moore still the best…they’re some set of players though!

[ST4GS]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

[cassellswasmagic]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

Can’t argue with that and i think there’s an argument for Suarez or Bobby Moore. Is there anyone that could push those two?

[pemill]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

Great players wouldn't have cheated the way Suarez did against us, a great player would have told the ref the goal shouldn't have stood or immediately go down the other end and score an o.g. to make amends. No doubt a great footballer but in the sense of being a 'great' not for me.

[Dave Wayne]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

Can’t argue with that and i think there’s an argument for Suarez or Bobby Moore. Is there anyone that could push those two?

Glen Hoddle ?

[Sneag]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

You could argue that while Best was a more gifted talent, Ball was the better pro.

Ball was the last World Cup winner score at Field Mill (thanks google)

[Rob]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

Can’t argue with that and i think there’s an argument for Suarez or Bobby Moore. Is there anyone that could push those two?

Glen Hoddle ?

He'd be mine, agree with pemill about Suarez and never saw Moore. Hoddle was a fantastic player who should have had 150 caps.

[TheMyTStags]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

Great players wouldn't have cheated the way Suarez did against us, a great player would have told the ref the goal shouldn't have stood or immediately go down the other end and score an o.g. to make amends. No doubt a great footballer but in the sense of being a 'great' not for me.

By that logic is Maradona not a great? Suarez is a cheat, undeniably. However whilst he was at Barcelona he was probably the 3rd best player in the world and without Messi and Ronaldo would probably have 2 ballon d'ors at least. I'm not old enough to have seen him but was Moore ever at that level?

[Sneag]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

Great players wouldn't have cheated the way Suarez did against us, a great player would have told the ref the goal shouldn't have stood or immediately go down the other end and score an o.g. to make amends. No doubt a great footballer but in the sense of being a 'great' not for me.

By that logic is Maradona not a great? Suarez is a cheat, undeniably. However whilst he was at Barcelona he was probably the 3rd best player in the world and without Messi and Ronaldo would probably have 2 ballon d'ors at least. I'm not old enough to have seen him but was Moore ever at that level?

I don't think you can compare players from different eras. It's a totally different game to 50/60 years ago.

[garlic]

Nobody going to mention George Best, ok he was playing with Fulham at the time, but he was still George Best ( and wasnt Bobby Moore in the samer Fulham team?). Personally, it has to be Duncan McKenzie.

[TheMyTStags]

Don't think the critrria of winning world cups should count too much otherwise Alan Ball would outrank George Best. So just by judging a player by ability I would go Luis Suarez by a country mile. World class player who is probably under rated due to his antics.

Great players wouldn't have cheated the way Suarez did against us, a great player would have told the ref the goal shouldn't have stood or immediately go down the other end and score an o.g. to make amends. No doubt a great footballer but in the sense of being a 'great' not for me.

By that logic is Maradona not a great? Suarez is a cheat, undeniably. However whilst he was at Barcelona he was probably the 3rd best player in the world and without Messi and Ronaldo would probably have 2 ballon d'ors at least. I'm not old enough to have seen him but was Moore ever at that level?

I don't think you can compare players from different eras. It's a totally different game to 50/60 years ago.

Not with complete accuracy, no. However the point of the thread is to kind of do that. And I'd suggest that, even with Moore's world cup win and obvious sentimental value to England, Suarez has potentially done more from an individual standpoint in his career, albeit playing for the best side for a long period.

[TheMyTStags]

Nobody going to mention George Best, ok he was playing with Fulham at the time, but he was still George Best ( and wasnt Bobby Moore in the samer Fulham team?). Personally, it has to be Duncan McKenzie.

Didn't know George Best had played at field mill. But if he did, then yeah that would be the clear answer

[Billy the fish]

Jamie vardy ( fleetwood ) Steve Bull ( wolves ) John Stead ( Huddersfield) just a few

[CassellsCap]

Ian Botham

[stagmanrob]

Anyone remember the old County Cup games in pre-season, when Forest were last in the Prem and I think they finished 3rd (?) that season....

Stan Collymore was at his peak then, before his big money move to Liverpool, then subsequently his mental health issues and love for dogging and domestic violence.

He was simply unplayable and scored a hat-trick, including one of the best individual goals I have seen at Field Mill.

He could have been some player if he'd have continued on that trajectory, he was something else for a year or so.

[Captain Cunno]

Jamie vardy ( fleetwood ) Steve Bull ( wolves ) John Stead ( Huddersfield) just a few

Have we really gone from George Best to Jon Stead ?

[scotsstag]

Anyone remember the old County Cup games in pre-season, when Forest were last in the Prem and I think they finished 3rd (?) that season....

Stan Collymore was at his peak then, before his big money move to Liverpool, then subsequently his mental health issues and love for dogging and domestic violence.

He was simply unplayable and scored a hat-trick, including one of the best individual goals I have seen at Field Mill.

He could have been some player if he'd have continued on that trajectory, he was something else for a year or so.

I wonder if it was down to his then manager who would definitely have kept both his feet firmly planted on the ground.
Just a thought/opinion.

[Rob]

Nobody going to mention George Best, ok he was playing with Fulham at the time, but he was still George Best ( and wasnt Bobby Moore in the samer Fulham team?). Personally, it has to be Duncan McKenzie.

Didn't know George Best had played at field mill. But if he did, then yeah that would be the clear answer

I was at the Fulham game in the late 70s, I don't think George played.