Nick I think is probably suffering from the old recency bias (thats a thing right?). With Tubby the furthest you have to go back really for his players are either the late 90s with Heggem or early 00s with Pellegrino. Nicks got the likes of Whelan and Nicol who were at their best in the 80s, Riedle won the World Cup in 1990, you're looking mid-90s for Babbel as a CB as well as Fowler and Macca at their best. If you're going by each player at their best I think he's probably got the better team man for man, but Tubbys attack would destroy that defence.