COLCHESTER United have boasted some talented players in their ranks, over the last decade.

And as the 2010s draw to a close and the New Year approaches, with the help of Gazette readers, we want to assemble our very own U's dream team from the last ten years.

Starting with goalkeepers, we'd like you to help us produce a Colchester United team of the decade.

The goalkeepers in the running are Ben Williams, Mark Cousins, Sam Walker and Dean Gerken.

Williams proved a pair of safe hands for Colchester for three years, between 2009 and 2012.

Playing 115 league games for the U's, the former Manchester United youngster won the Player of the Year award in the 2009-10 season before leaving to join Hibernian.

Cousins came through the youth ranks at Colchester and made his debut for them in August, 2007.

He went onto play more than 50 times in the league for the U's, before leaving to join Dagenham and Redbridge in 2014.

Walker was a fans' favourite during his spell at Colchester, whom he joined on a permanent basis in 2014 following two successful loan spells.

The former Chelsea keeper played more than 200 times for the U's during his five-and-a-half year spell with the club, before leaving to join Championship club Reading in 2018.

Current U's keeper Gerken returned to the club where he emerged through the youth ranks earlier this year.

The 34-year-old is enjoying a great season for Colchester, having played for them between 2002 and 2009 during his first spell with the club.

We'll move onto full-backs and centre-backs tomorrow and when all the names are in, we'll narrow them down to make our Gazette all-star U's XI for the last decade.