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Legends Way fan vote: choose the 14 legends

Botchie said:
There's two of them who captained their country, won domestic, European and international honours too.
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What did they do at Sunderland though? If that's the criteria, then Jordan Henderson should be nominated.
Superkenwynejones said:
Maybe so but all of her success happened after Sunderland.

If that’s the logic then Jordan Henderson should have one
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I should have read the whole thread!
 
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Very difficult to narrow it down. Done mine with mostly lads from a bygone age. Included Quinny, SKP and then Bobby Kerr and Porterfield from the 73 side from more recent days.
 
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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I’d also add Tom Watson who managed the Team of All the Talents - and led us to 3 league titles in 4 years (came 2nd the other year).
 
If you’re going to include any SAFC Women it would have to be Keira Ramshaw. Did a million times more for SAFC Women than Jill Scott. Just gone for the mainstream low hanging fruit there
 
Gary Bennett has to be in there . .

He's probably in my top 3 favourite Sunderland players I've seen play.
 
Armstrong, Sorensen, Gray and the two lasses all seem like mad options to me. The 73 lads get trotted out all of the time and tremendous achievement that it was, they probably shouldn't be favoured over the players that won multiple trophies for us. Problem is none of us saw them play.

That's the problem with a history like ours.

I've gone with the below:

Quinn
Phillips
Rowell
Kerr
Porterfield
Hurley
Shackleton
Allen
Doig
Carter
Gurney
Halliday
Buchan
Campbell
 
Numbers 2 - 9 all won the league title.

The rest are personal choices.

Hugh Wilson should have been in there. He captained us to 3 league titles.
 

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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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Aye. I seriously doubt those inclined to vote will be prepared to do the necessary homework.
All the lads who won the league or cup should be in automatically. ONLY THEN should the relative failures no matter how popular be up for vote.
 
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