Keith Curle Best Eleven/Worst Eleven

We got to the play offs with Raynes playing so he couldn't have been that bad!

We conceded 68 goals that season, hartlepool conceded 75 and were relegated. Don't think anyone could say any of our defenders did well under him.

Best XI:

GK: Mark Gillespie

RB: Gary Liddle
CB: Mark Ellis
CB: Clint Hill
LB: Danny Grainger

RM: Jason Kennedy
CM: Mike Jones
CM: Jamie Devitt
LM: Nicky Adams

ST: Charlie Wyke
ST: Jabo Ibehre

Subs:
Derek Asamoah
Kelvin Etuhu
Tom Parkes
Macaulay Gillesphey
Ashley Nadesan

Worst XI:

GK: Raphael Spiegel

RB: Matt Young
CB: Shaun Brisley
CB: Nathan Buddle
LB: Kevin Wright

LM: Junior Joachim
CM: Samir Nabi
CM: Bastien Hery
RM: Kris Twardek
ST: George Waring
ST: Ben Tomlinson

Subs:
Balanta
Rigg
McQueen
Pedro
O'Sullivan
Joyce
Bennett

Jamie Proctor. 4 grand a week and the bloody team didn't score for over a month.

Nobody mentioning Anthony Griffith

O'Sullivan wasn't as bad as some make out and Rigg helped maintain our league status.

Cant believe nobody has mentioned the mighty 'Cole Stockton'.

Some were saying on the Northampton board that Brisley might be on Curles wish list for defenders.

That one would shock me.

cufcmike wrote:

CottonEyeJoe wrote: Best XI:

GK: Mark Gillespie

RB: Gary Liddle
CB: Mark Ellis
CB: Clint Hill
LB: Danny Grainger

RM: Jason Kennedy
CM: Mike Jones
CM: Jamie Devitt
LM: Nicky Adams

ST: Charlie Wyke
ST: Jabo Ibehre

Subs:
Derek Asamoah
Kelvin Etuhu
Tom Parkes
Macaulay Gillesphey
Ashley Nadesan

Worst XI:

GK: Raphael Spiegel

RB: Matt Young
CB: Shaun Brisley
CB: Nathan Buddle
LB: Kevin Wright

LM: Junior Joachim
CM: Samir Nabi
CM: Bastien Hery
RM: Kris Twardek
ST: George Waring
ST: Ben Tomlinson

Subs:
Balanta
Rigg
McQueen
Pedro
O'Sullivan
Joyce
Bennett

Grainger and Gillespie aren't Curle signings...

Grainger was re-signed by Curle.

You had to have an A-Z of Carlisle to play spot the ball when Brisley tried to play it out of defense. It's a bit harsh to blame Curle for all of the failures. If we are going to sign half a dozen 18-year-olds every 6 months we are going to get 2 Nabis for every Leon Osman. Players like Brisley, Stockton, and Proctor were tracked for months though. To make it worse players like Proctor seem to be well thought of at clubs higher up the ladder which implies that Curle didn't know how to get the best out of them

I heard Keith might be coming back.

Yes, when you look at the list of signing, some of the fringe players who only played one or two matches, I would discount.
I don’t really like it, but it seems to be the way of things.
His worst signings, for me are the players that were intended as a more substantial part of the team, but failed.
Proctor (and) gamble didnt work, same with Stockton and Bennett.
Just seems inevitable that this will happen though.
The better signings are the ones that don’t seem as obvious.
The likes of Shaun Milller, Adams, Jones, Devitt, were very much well established players.
Signings that seemed of more dubious virtue or were less obvious , that turned out to do well include Wyke, Jabo, Hope, Parkes, Etuhu and Kennedy.
He let himself down with the likes of Joachim, Thomlinson and Pedro, but this revolving door of these types has been a theme for a long while now.

Best:

Bonham

Liddle
Ellis
Hill
Parkes

Jones
Joyce

Kennedy
Devitt
Adams

Wyke

Worst:

Speigel

McQueen
Buddle
Meppen-Walter
Wright

O’Sullivan
Nabi
Ward
Pedro

Tomlinson
Joachim

CottonEyeJoe wrote: Best XI:

GK: Mark Gillespie

RB: Gary Liddle
CB: Mark Ellis
CB: Clint Hill
LB: Danny Grainger

RM: Jason Kennedy
CM: Mike Jones
CM: Jamie Devitt
LM: Nicky Adams

ST: Charlie Wyke
ST: Jabo Ibehre

Subs:
Derek Asamoah
Kelvin Etuhu
Tom Parkes
Macaulay Gillesphey
Ashley Nadesan

Worst XI:

GK: Raphael Spiegel

RB: Matt Young
CB: Shaun Brisley
CB: Nathan Buddle
LB: Kevin Wright

LM: Junior Joachim
CM: Samir Nabi
CM: Bastien Hery
RM: Kris Twardek
ST: George Waring
ST: Ben Tomlinson

Subs:
Balanta
Rigg
McQueen
Pedro
O'Sullivan
Joyce
Bennett

Joe Mckee was a much worse signing than Joyce

munchymagic wrote: O'Sullivan wasn't as bad as some make out and Rigg helped maintain our league status.

O'Sullivan was absolutely dreadful for the last 6 months of his time here.

Will never have a bad word said about Bastien after that run and through ball for Deggsy at Anfield

Matt Young is the worst player I've ever seen in a Carlisle shirt

CCU wrote: Took a lot of thinking, but the worst XI should look something like this IMO...

George,
Young, Buddle, Wright,
Pedro, Ward, Smith, Hooper
Iliev, Waring, Joachim.

Good grief that’s truly horrendous...

I still would bet that they would put up a better fight than the late Abbott team and Kavanagh teams that we all knew would get humped by at least three goals before they took to the pitch - the worst thing was that they were our starting eleven as well and not like the above cobbled together rubbish, George being the best of the bunch.

Another thing worth noting is that the above squad is made up of short term contracts that will have cost little or loan players, Iliev only played once didn't he at Plymouth on a short term loan.

That Kavanagh team were on a fortune and were rubbish, if Keith hadn't brought in Asamoah then we would probably be non-league now.

Seems a long time ago now but we really were in the clart back then just like Northampton were when Keith took them over and he turned them around to at least take them away from the bottom so if he keeps them safe then he has done his job.

Sheridan however will be an interesting one as can he take Chesterfield clear?

I reckon he will as he will have funds at his disposal to at least gain a few places to make them safe.

I felt sorry for Shamal. He had several good games and was the first choice for a while. Then the Stevenage game.....

Markovitch wrote: I felt sorry for Shamal. He had several good games and was the first choice for a while. Then the Stevenage game.....

He wasn't terrible but he was a young player that wouldn't be consistent, and that is to be expected.

I was a bit miffed when he went back and didn't want to extend his loan period as it told me that he was lazy and didn't like the real game and just wanted the comfort of bounce games.

As for the Stevenage game, didn't matter that it was two howlers as we were shit and looked like we would never score so he cost us a point really.

Under Curle, the best 11 could easily be the worst 11 the week after.