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On matters concerning Rangers, my Grandfather and old man rarely agreed. We sat together in Section G of the old main stand for a decade from mid-60s to mid-70s. I was positioned between them and experienced the sniping growing to heavy artillery exchanges every other fortnight. If you view a photo' of Section G, I am the one of several hundred NOT replete in a bunnet. One player had both singing from the same hymn sheet, the Deedle Dawdle aka Wullie Waddell. Waddell was one of a number of Rangers who had their careers interupted by the several years of World War two. Post conflict, Rangers offensive capabilities were sustained by Waddell and Thornton MM. Rangers iron curtain defence were pitted against Hibs famous five forwards and any forward ball was latched on to by pacey Waddell. He dragged Rangers up the park and regularly released crosses for Willie Thornton to finish. Rangers domination in decade immediately after the was was built on solid defence but, it was Waddell and Thornton that created and scored the vital trophy winning goals. Wullie Henderson made a dynamic impact, his arrival saw Alec Scott depart for Everton. Direct running with pace and a feign followed by a low hard shot. Wullie was precocious and gallus with it, bags of swagger. Often, we hear Jinky did not receive the number of caps his play deserved. An inconvenient fact not parroted by the our separated brethren is that when Jock Stein took temporary controll of Scotland for 1966 world cup qualification, he selected Henderson more often than Jinky because Wullie was more direct and effective. He morphed into a probing midfielder, lots of give and go and, was important in both ECWC sides of '67 and'72. Tommy McLean arrived from Killie and he became the threat to Wullie in the way Wullie threatened Scott. Tommy was a thoughtful winger and possessed a range of chips and crosses to keep most defences on their heels. He formed a wonderful partnership with Sandy Jardine on the right flank and a most effective partnership with DJ up front. His crossing was pin point. Another player who benefitted from Tommy's know how was Alfie Conn. Sandy would overlap, DJ would stretch to the last man up front and, Alfie would come short with a ton of space to work within. I thought Trevor Steven could be the new Tommy and, apart from leaving for Marseille too early in his first spell and almost constant injury in his second; it could have happened, he was most gifted. I watched Brian Laudrup's Ibrox debut against Motherwell in the company of my Dad. After 20 minutes he turned and stated Laudrup's crouched start and stop, start surging running style was reminiscent of Waddell. In the 88th minute with the teams' tying 1-1 and, the 'Well had a corner; the ball was cleared to the right of our penalty area and, Laudrup took off running the length of the pitch. He laid the ball off to big Dunc' and he finished to secure a 2-1 victory. He had it all and gave the opposition the fear. He turned a Charlie Miller lob into the Dundee United box into a worldy nine in a row clinching header. I vote Brian Laudrup.

Somebody crocked already? Should have known. This is Rangers.

Fantastic post once more 26th 👏🏻

On the day I post the final results, I was going to invite everyone to post their own teams. I suppose you could add subs to that.

I did .... but you said it was........😂

Yeah, probably. Although I suspect there are some players we'd hold out for a really big offer for as we'd rather not lose them at this stage, and others we'd let go more easily.

Laudrup for me given I'll want to have two actual strikers in front of him.

The mythical unanimous vote if @Rousseau disqualifies the non-Laudrup voters.

Laudrup. (Now Lock the thread). It would be a tragedy if Laudrup didnt get in the team. Best ever player to play in the blue shirt for me. A good mention though to Trevor Steven, Alex Mikhailichenko and Peter Huistra but Laudrup was from another planet.

This is true for every player on our books, or it should be.

Agreed. I picked Baxter for the inside left position, but Laudrup has to be in the GOAT team, so he's my pick for the right. Laudrup.

I used to be very much Tam Buffel Loyal 😄He was easily better than Windass 👍