It goes without saying that Jimmy McIroy owns the top spot in perpetuity.

But who comes in at number 2?

Brian O'Neill? Never saw him myself but heard good things

Older fans would say Jimmy McIlroy to that question. My granddad said that Bob Kelly was by far our best ever player.

ClaretTony wrote:Older fans would say Jimmy McIlroy to that question. My granddad said that Bob Kelly was by far our best ever player.

Jimmy himself said that.

djemba-djemba wrote:Jimmy himself said that.

An old bloke who he used to see Jimmy Mac in Scott Park used to tell him he wasn’t as good as Kelly. I’m sure the old bloke was call Bob Lord.

Well every day's a school day it seems

DOBBO.

Difficult, but I would just about go for Brian O'Neil, with apologies to Connelly, Adamson, Morgan, James, Pointer and Nick Pickering.

Willie Irvine didn't do too badly for us.

Ralph

Coates

For contribution to Burnley FC, Jimmy Adamson.

Comb

Tough one to answer as I doubt anyone on here saw Bob Kelly play. However my Dad always said that Kelly and Jimmy Mac were our two best players so that's good enough for me.

I saw plenty of Jimmy Mac and if Kelly was anywhere near as good he must have been one hell of a player. Incredibly just a couple of weeks ago Bob Kelly was a pointless answer on the BBC programme Pointless when the presenter did not appear to know he even played and starred for Burnley.

Since Mac the best player I've seen in a Burnley shirt is Steven Defour.

Royboyclaret wrote: Incredibly just a couple of weeks ago Bob Kelly was a pointless answer on the BBC programme Pointless when the presenter did not appear to know he even played and starred for Burnley.

What was the question?

djemba-djemba wrote:What was the question?

It was a pictorial question with 5 players including Bob Kelly and also from memory Ian Wright. The question was to name the oldest player to have scored for England in an international match.

Wright was obviously a high scorer but our man Kelly was a pointless answer.

Technically I’d say Defour from my time watching.

Apart from Les Thompson obviously.

Glen Little for me

Taffy

ClaretTony wrote:An old bloke who he used to see Jimmy Mac in Scott Park used to tell him he wasn’t as good as Kelly. I’m sure the old bloke was call Bob Lord.

I remember this story from the old board, probably about fifteen or so years ago.

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Technically I’d say Defour from my time watching.

Apart from Les Thompson obviously.

I too, loved those 20 minutes.

FactualFrank wrote:I too, loved those 20 minutes.

Only time you've actually watched?

djemba-djemba wrote:What was the question?

Just checked and Bob Kelly was almost 35 years old when he scored for England against Scotland at Wembley in March 1928. Of course he was no longer a Burnley player at that time.

Leighton James or Dave Thomas

Joe Jakob

Ralph Coates for me.

Erasmus wrote:Ralph Coates for me.

midfield general (apart from when on the wing! )

certainly for 3 or 4 seasons Ralph was

here, there and every f***ing where!

Willie Morgan gotta be a contender

all the real legends were before my time, I don't think I could decide who the best Burnley player I've seen is never mind the second. It's difficult to judge given the depths we sunk too !!

CT, it would be interesting if you did one of your polls with players of a particular decade then do an ultimate top 5 for example

Some of you have very short memories. I remember watching burnley in 1921 Best Burnley team ever.. Only Jimmy Mac would get into that team.

claretblue wrote:midfield general (apart from when on the wing! )

certainly for 3 or 4 seasons Ralph was

here, there and every f***ing where!

Even played centre-forward in both legs against Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt in European Fairs Cup in 1966/67.

Pretty versatile was Ralph.

claret54 wrote:Some of you have very short memories. I remember watching burnley in 1921 Best Burnley team ever.. Only Jimmy Mac would get into that team.

Just a mere 30 games unbeaten that season, claret54!

Tommy Boyle at his finest.

I agree with Jimmy Mac Number1 but for number 2 it's close between Willie Morgan, Trvevor Steven and Lee Dixon. Lets face it it's a matter of opinion as we have had so many great players.

It's a dead heat for me.
Ralph Coates & Brian O'Neil or should I have written Brian O'Neil & Ralph Coates.

No surprise to see many references to Brian O'Neil on this thread. A very popular Claret was the pocket dynamo.

Royboyclaret wrote:No surprise to see many references to Brian O'Neil on this thread. A very popular Claret was the pocket dynamo.

And yet when the voting was done for the photographs around the ground he wasn’t selected.

Would have been Jon Walters but for his unfortunate injury

TheFamilyCat wrote:Comb

Did someone call?

To answer the question in MY time, O'Neil was Number 2 to Coates's Number 1