Gribz 850 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I remember Walter saying how he envied Advocaat's squad with all the top internationals on the bench. Smith had the likes of Cleland, Nesbitt and Murray on the park and a load of journeymen and kids on bench like Bolan etc. We had some great first team players but we didn't have strength in depth. If we didn't have all our best players fit and on form then we had a good chance of having a bad game. Need to look up a squad list to find and example. Scott Nisbet was part of the 92-93 side that got to the semi finals, he scored against Marseille at Ibrox in the 2-2. But looking at our squad off the top of my head from the mid 90s (1993-97 to be more specific) under Walter: Keepers: Goram Maxwell Snelders Thompson Niemi Defenders: Gough Petric Brown Pressley Boli McPherson Stevens Roberston Moore (but played midfield) Cleland Porrini Bollan Bjorkland Midfielders: I Ferguson McInnes Gascoigne Durrant Steven Murray Miller (Charlie) Huistra Mikhailichencko McCall Gattuso Laudrup Van Vossen Albertz Forwards: McCoist Hateley Durie Bo Andersen Ferguson (Duncan) McSwegan Negri Salenko 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Night Owl Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Would Durrant be listed as World Class had it not been for that thug in an Aberdeen shirt ? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 6,002 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Probable that he would have developed into world class. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 850 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Here's the squad for AEK Athens. Andy Goram Basile Boli Richard Gough Dave McPherson David Robertson Ian Ferguson Stuart McCall Brian Laudrup Gordon Durie Duncan Ferguson Mark Hateley Sub on for Durie: Ian Durrant 69 Actually looking at that it was a pretty good team. But then AEK are a far bigger club than most Rangers fans give them credit for. I do think that part of it was that the 3-5-2 system just didn't work - with those players anyway, and especially with Boli who didn't fit in it at all. Yeah that is a good team on paper. But it goes back to the case where we played individuals rather than as a team like in 92-93 and in Advocaats first 2 seasons. He obviously played this: _____________________Goram_____________________ ______McPherson___Gough____Boli_____________ Laudrup____Ferguson___McCall_____Robertson ____________________Durie____________________ _____________Ferguson____Hateley___________ When a more effective team IMO would have been a 4-4-2 below. I know Durie isn't a left midfielder but he could go down the left channel. I remember his first season in 1994 against Kilmarnock in a cup semi final where he played there and did well setting up 2 goals. ____________________Goram_____________________ McPherson_____Gough____Boli______Robertson Laudrup______Ferguson___McCall____Durie____ _______________Ferguson_____Hateley_________ 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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