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Legends Way fan vote: choose the 14 legends

andysafc85 said:
Not a women’s football fan but ahe’s a Sunderland lass who has had a brilliant career.

She’d be an inspiration to young lasses going to the match who see her name on there.
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Despite never having played for the first team…

Let’s build statues for Henderson and Pickford.

The mags could do one for Carrick if all goes well at Man Utd.
 

HarrogateMackem said:
I wish they hadn't done a fan vote in all honesty and let Rob Mason choose! We're no doubt going to see the classic recency bias and the fact people don't know a lot about our history understandably.
I really hope we can celebrate our grand history, and shout about stuff beyond '73! Some names for people to consider (imo).
  1. Raich Carter is regarded as the greatest player ever to play for our fantastic team. A massively gifted inside forward who captained the club to the 1936 league title and the 1937 FA Cup. A local lad too.
  2. Len Shackleton, "the Clown Prince of Football," was a maverick entertainer who dazzled crowds at Roker Park with outrageous skill and an maveric streak that made him a fans' favourite but kept him on the wrong side of the football establishment, earning him far fewer England caps than he deserved
  3. Ted Doig was a Scottish goalkeeper who joined Sunderland in 1890 and spent 14 years at the club, winning the league title and establishing himself as one of the finest keepers of the Victorian era.
  4. Johnny Campbell, another Scot, was a prolific striker during the "Team of All the Talents" period in the 1890s when Sunderland won three league championships in four years, a dominance that has never really been matched.
  5. Charlie Buchan arrived in 1911 and went on to score 224 goals for the club across 16 years, making him one of the greatest forwards in English football before the Second World War
  6. Bobby Gurney holds the club's all-time scoring record with 228 goals between 1925 and 1939, and was the spearhead of the 1936 championship and 1937 FA Cup winning sides.
  7. George Holley was a skillful inside forward who scored over 150 goals in the decade before the First World War, won 10 England caps, and is probably the most unjustly forgotten great player in Sunderland's history imo.
  8. James Allan, founded the club in 1879 as a schoolteacher, making him the reason any of this exists at all.

I imagine Quinny is in with a shout, and Gary Bennett and Super Kev - as they're within our lifetime. And Hurley is obviously amazing too - but he does have the gates?
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Monty, SNQ, Dave Watson, Colin Todd
 
I'm expecting them to find a way to fix it to have one in but there shouldn't be any women on there. None of them have achieved nowhere nesr enough at the club.

Would be disrespectful to dozens of others.
 
Rob the Ref said:
As stated in previous posts I think number should be increased to 20, perhaps places being held back for glaring omissions.
Bit worried voting goes like the Roker End vote that pleased some disappointed others.
For me players like Irwin, Ashurst and Armstrong played a lot but were average players so don’t merit legend status but others might think differently. Similarly Todd was my favourite player but his achievements were elsewhere.
Suggestion for missing names - Arthur Bridgett, Patsy Gallacher.
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Ted Doig
George Holley
Charlie Buchan, Dave Halliday
Johnny Mapson, Raich Carter, Bobby Gurney
Len Shackleton
Stan Anderson, Charlie Hurley
Bobby Kerr, Dave Watson, Gary Rowell
Kevin Phillips
 
Peter rowell said:
Thanks mate, hope you don't think I was having a go at you with my comment, I haven't seen who your picks were, I didn't know if you had picked my dad or not. When you said 1978 it just caught my eye, as that was during my dads time, I'm just so proud of my dad and don't want people to forget him
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Irrespective of whether he makes the 14 here (I think he should and have voted for him by the way), he will never be forgotten here mate. Don't ever worry about that.
 
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Luke O’Nien should be on there. I know he’s still playing for us but think I will contact the Club. Some names I am surprised at e.g. ‘73 team. Denis Tuery for example fucked off to Man City not long after. Not a legend for me. Nor is Micky Horswill.
 
Peter rowell said:
Thanks mate, hope you don't think I was having a go at you with my comment, I haven't seen who your picks were, I didn't know if you had picked my dad or not. When you said 1978 it just caught my eye, as that was during my dads time, I'm just so proud of my dad and don't want people to forget him
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His hattrick against the mags will be getting replayed by Sunderland fans not born yet long after we are all gone. That's the definition of a legend in my book. Believe me, if there was video footage of us doing them 9-1 at St James' I'd be watching it on YouTube before every derby. As long as there is a Sunderland AFC your dad will be remembered.
 
Clough
Porterfield
Rowell
Kerr
Ball
Gabbiadini
Carter
Shackleton
Hurley
Phillips
Quinn
Watson
Bennett
Bob Murray

No monty cos of stand etc
 
TallPaul said:
I included him and never saw him play. Deserves it based on the stories passed on from my Dad
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Exactly this from me, wasn’t even born then but when I was a kid I heard stores about Rowell from my dad at every match, same with Shackleton from my grandad. Those 2 players I don’t think will ever be forgotten and rightly so, I think O’Nien will be this generations especially with the car tie up to join us to finally playing and being MOTM in the premier league.
 
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