Top 5 favourite Everton Centre Backs

[SerenityNigh]

'sake, 50 years? I've been watching about 10, so here goes:

1. Stones (when I watch him I still sometimes swoon like those California girls when he panenka'd the Juve keeper)
2. Jags
3. The Milkman
4. Yerry (nothing is more fun than watching Yerry play those 6 matches every season)
5. Tarkowski (especially his smile after leaving something in the tackle)

That Coady bloke is ok too, but haven't seen him enough, and I like Godfrey a lot but not sure he's a CB.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

I suppose it was difficult to turn down a club like Arsenal anyway and the fee was good. But i think it was one of those scenarios where it began to dawn on us that we could no longer compete with certain clubs in the market (whereas a few years before Cottee would choose Everton ahead of them).

I think we got Kenny Sansom as Martin Keowns replacement. Kenny like us was well on the slide by that point. Arsenal sure have adapted to modern football way better than Everton unfortunately.

 

[Raino85]

My big Everton take, and it may only be that i started going around 1994!
I never rated Dave Watson
Jagielka was twice the player

 

[Rita_Poon]

Materazzi (WC winning captain)
Ferrari
Pistone
Hibbert
Neville

5 from left field at the very least...

 

[witchdoc187]

My big Everton take, and it may only be that i started going around 1994!
I never rated Dave Watson
Jagielka was twice the player

You probably didn't think big Nev was that good either if you started watching then.

 

[Stevie Nicks Bootleg]

My big Everton take, and it may only be that i started going around 1994!
I never rated Dave Watson
Jagielka was twice the player

Your clueless Everton take more like. Still, well done.

 

[Blue Heart]

Labone, Ratcliffe, Watson, Stones, Jagielka.

(Apologies to John Hurst.)

 

[Stevie Nicks Bootleg]

You probably didn't think big Nev was that good either if you started watching then.

I'm sure there are Stoke fans on some social media platform now saying that Jags is not a patch on Shawcross.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Your clueless Everton take more like. Still, well done.

As much as i like and respect Jags, that was a post from someone who knows less than nothing about this club tbh.

 

[Acrobat]

In my lifetime,

Ratcliffe
Mountfield
Watson
Gough
Stones

I was aware of Lyons, but too young to appreciate him. Wish I had seen Labone play.

 

[RFCbluenose]

Its interesting to see Richard Gough's name mentioned a few times on this thread. He is a bit of a club legend at Rangers but I was never totally sure how he got on at Everton. I probably assumed he had left it too late to go to a major English team at that point in his career.

 

[Brendan Janus]

My big Everton take, and it may only be that i started going around 1994!
I never rated Dave Watson
Jagielka was twice the player

You been on the sauce mate !

 

[blindbert]

Great to see Brian Labone get a mention (by you and quite a few others) He would certainly be in my top five.
Technically though, none of us saw him play for Everton in the last 50 years, as his last game was in 1971 ? ?
My God! We are all getting old ?

Brian Labone would be top of my list, one of the best of his era, although I was lucky enough to see Bobby Moore play too. I believe they were paired together for that game against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup.

 

[degsy]

Labone
Labone
Labone, labone labone
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[Drumblue]

In my time:
Labone.
Ratcliffe.
Mountfield.
Watson.
Distin.