A team of Jimmys to take on Napster's team of Johns

[Yorkshire Blue]

Stannard
???? Stirling ???? Evans
Corbett McAlinden ????? Walker
Shankley Fryatt


What position did Jimmy Duthie and Jimmy Lawler play?

 

[OldBlueLady]

Lawson.........

 

[Rob Noxious]

Stannard
???? Stirling ???? Evans
Corbett McAlinden ????? Walker
Shankley Fryatt


What position did Jimmy Duthie and Jimmy Lawler play?

More 'riddles' than answers here, YB...:)

 

[Napster]

Stannard
???? Stirling ???? Evans
Corbett McAlinden ????? Walker
Shankley Fryatt


What position did Jimmy Duthie and Jimmy Lawler play?

Duthie was a wing-half. Lawler was a RM according to

http://www.shrimperzone.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-29473.html

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

More 'riddles' than answers here, YB...:)

LOL

I've worked it out from my trusted old copy of the Official History of the Blues which helpfully reproduces the formation from a match against Northampton in 1953 and has them both as half-backs.

I'll switch to the traditional 2-3-5 formation

Stannard
???? Evans
Duthie Stirling Lawler
Corbett McAlinden Shankley Fryatt Walker

but that still leaves me short of a Jimmy at right full-back.

 

[Crawliano]

Riddle? A lanky streak of **** renowned for his marauding runs and his speciality of playing up in cup competitions where he would dribble his way all over both legs just when the opposition think they're over and done with him.

 

[turkishm]

Jimmy Nelson, right back i believe, Jimmy McAlinden mid field i think, Jimmy Thomson, forward.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Jimmy Nelson, right back i believe, Jimmy McAlinden mid field i think, Jimmy Thomson, forward.

And that completes my team:

Stannard
Nelson Evans
Duthie Stirling Lawler
Corbett McAlinden Shankley Fryatt Walker

I'm pretty confident they could hold their own: Jimmy McAlinden, one of the club's greatest ever players would pull the strings in midfield; Jimmy Evans is a legendary full-back who once top-scored from full-back and was like McAlinden an international could sort out the defence; whilst Jimmy Shankley is one of the club's greatest ever goal-scorers. Add in solid players like Stirling, Duthie, Fryatt, Stannard and Lawler who were all regular contributors and we'd be a match for Napster's Johns.

 

[OldBlueLady]

You don't want my suggestion of Jimmy Lawson then? ;)

 

[MountainDrew]

You don't want my suggestion of Jimmy Lawson then? ;)

Jeez! its James Lawson!

JIMMY? ..... JIMMY?..... ANYONE! lol


get a grip!

 

[canveyshrimper]

Jeez! its James Lawson!

JIMMY? ..... JIMMY?..... ANYONE! lol


get a grip!

Isn't Jim or Jimmy a derivative of James?

 

[WickfordShrimper]

Jimmy McAlinden ..Niece works here with me... She was well made up hearing I was a Shrimper, she says her family in Northern Ireland all still look out for the Southend United Results all the family have fond memories and up to his death always spoke of his days at Southend United

 

[fbm]

Isn't Jim or Jimmy a derivative of James?

Yes... and I see James Walker is in there

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

**bump** for Naps

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

from what my father told me jimmy stirling was a nasty piece of work. being a centre half if jimmy was injured/fouled by an opposition forward (or any other opposition player for that matter). the southend crowd knew that the culprit was going to cop it. and sure enough with the ball at the other end of the field... opposition player was 'discovered' laid flat out on the ground with no one anywhere near him and the officials none the wiser.