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And so without further ado, I give you my XI:

Foster

Dawson --- McAuley --- Evans --- Gibbs

Mulumbu

Barnes --- Morrison --- Brunt

Odemwingie --- Lukaku


Subs: Olsson, Reid, Scharner, Yacob, Gera, Long, Rodriguez

Foster - just the best keeper we had in decades, full stop
Dawson - tempted to pick Steven Reid, but fond of the way we nurtured him from lower league player to Prem regular
McAuley - one of the great football rags-to-riches stories, and proper servant to the club
Evans - shite captain, but on talent alone he was our best centre-half since the Seventies
Gibbs - hasn't fully had chance to flourish over a couple of tough years, but probably our best LB since Statham
Mulumbu - iconic player at his best, always fondly remembered, scored the winner against Villa in 2011
Brunt - a game-changing player on his day, and one of the last loyal club men
Morrison - as above
Barnes - a five-month loanee in our team of the decade seems daft, but without his impact, we might have gone straight into a downward spiral after relegation
Lukaku - another loanee, but what a loanee; we'll always be his breakthrough club, and to his dying day he'll never celebrate a goal against us
Odemwingie - Molineux, February 2012; and all the rest


Let's hear your thoughts and your picks!  

Not bad.. in fact very good. But where would you fit in Kevin Phillips, Jason Koumas, Kamara, Koren,

In my team of the 2000s! (To be fair, Koren did play for us at the very beginning of this decade, but he's the only one out of those mentioned, and I consider his contribution to have been mainly in the 2000s, as Di Matteo pretty much froze him out on arrival).