25 Aug 2017 11:58:41
Qn for Ed01 - How good was Tommy Smith and Ron Yeats in their heyday?

Would their style of play flourish in he modern day?

I think we are missing a real hard man in the team at the moment and wonder how they would do in the game as it's played nowadays.

{Ed001's Note - before my time mate.}

1.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 12:27:55
They wouldn't get in a fourth tier team
That's how they would get on
Games changed

Vice Verda imagine sturridge/ coutinho the rat
Playing in 50/ 60s with a Casey
Noooo chance.

2.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 12:39:59
Keeping in context with the Ex players, Ed01 if you are around. Why do you think the fans have forgotten Keegan. Often I think he doesn't get the recognition that he deserves. Some call him Daglish before Daglish. Never seen posters, songs or any kind of gestures for the man.

{Ed001's Note - because of the way he left and was replaced with the King.}

3.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 12:47:57
i thought this was an interesting question so i asked my father about them, he seen them play, and scouseeater in his opinion your very wrong as he says if huth and shawcross can play in the premiership, yeats and smith could definitely play in the premiership as they where far better in his opinion.

4.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 12:51:42
I was around to watch Tommy Smith and Ron Yeats in their heyday.
At that time Ron was pretty much unbeatable in the air and you didn't go anywhere near Tommy Smith unless you fancied a night in hospital.

In their day (let's not forget Tommy's goal in the European Cup Final) they were really special. But football has moved on and the hard men of the game are no more.

Players nowadays are super fit athletes and the rules have changed significantly since that time too.

Those two are, for me, an intrinsic part of the building blocks, along with a number of other players and managers, that are embedded in the history of Liverpool FC.

5.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 13:09:31
You wouldn't see today's player's Inthe tiger club after the match and these where honerable men but then there was no Bosnian rule as. for play yeatsy was a tower in the middle and smithy had some class as well as steel with today's dietary and training methods they would have walked into today's team.

6.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 13:26:26
For some reason, I don't remember Yeats that much, but definitely remember Tommy Smith. He was a mean looking, rugged brute that you'd want to stay the hell away from. Just like Souness or McDermott, you'd see them with the ball, and you'd want to step aside to let them get by, because they looked like they would run over you if you didn't. Unlike today's crop with manicured nails, gelled hair and matching multi-colored boots. I'll accept that maybe those players were not so gifted technically, but force of character drove them to the heights they all reached. Football was a far tougher game back then, and almost nobody ever looked at the réf when they landed on their butt. Just got back up, and got on with it.

7.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 13:51:43
Ed01 - Before my time

I knew women always lied about their age ;)

{Ed001's Note - ouch!}

8.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 15:02:37
Smith and Rowdy Yates?

Effectively like running into a brick wall.

{Ed025's Note - very strong, considering they had very little ability mate..

9.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 16:47:28
There's a story about Tommy Smith giving Jimmy Greaves a slip of paper as they ran onto the pitch at Anfield.
The slip of paper (allegedly) was the day's menu at the Liverpool infirmary.
Apocryphal perhaps, but Smith was a very good player as well as a hard man and he would walk into our team today.

{Ed025's Note - i remember him as a strawberry nosed yard dog who kicked the player more than the ball...a real knuckle dragger as ED002 would say DJP..

10.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 17:08:20
Look back at his performance in the '65 FA Cup win, and consider he scored a goal in a European Cup final.
Tommy Smith's image as a hard man has detracted from his reputation as a very good footballer.
The man is a legend.

11.) 25 Aug 2017
25 Aug 2017 18:36:25
Yeats and Smith had ample ability but the game was a lot harder then. But make no mistake, they could play as well; if they had been training under today's fitness schemes they would still have done ok. Oh for a modern day Yeats-like figure in the heart of our defence.