David, I agree that Phil Neal was superb until he played a few years past his best and Alex Lindsay was exceptional but to suggest Tommy Smith was as good as Steve Nicol, as a full-back, turns your comments into an advert for Specsavers! Sorry, mate, a really good CB but not top notch at full-back. If we went down the list of great LFC players, for every position, I bet my ‘perfect team’ would be different to just about everybody else’s as we’ve all got different favourites . . . but what a list to choose from, eh?
Anyway, glad to see you agree with the notion of specialists, like Hyypia, as opposed to players who can ‘do a job’ in several positions. That, after all, was what I was trying to get across.
Just for fun, my team would be Clemence – Nicol Hansen Lawrenson Hughes – Keegan Souness Gerrard Barnes – Rush Dalglish with Lindsay, Thompson or Hyypia, McDermott, Kennedy, and Hunt and Fowler on the bench. Beat that!
Sorry if I’ve missed any body out . . .

Do you not remember Phil Neal, Alex Lindsay or even the ‘stand in’ Tommy Smith playing full back for Liverpool? – I don’t think Steve Nichol was better than any of them.
However, I do agree that it is preferable to have a dedicated centre half like Sammi Hyypia operating there than a convertee.