HighfieldBlade
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Your dedication paid off!Yes, He scored our third and fifth. I was at Blackpool that weekend but took the train to Sheffield and back to watch the match and it was worth it!
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Your dedication paid off!Yes, He scored our third and fifth. I was at Blackpool that weekend but took the train to Sheffield and back to watch the match and it was worth it!
September 11th 1971. Blades 2 (Dearden, Scullion) Spurs 2 (Peters, Gilzean) 40,000 plus crowd, top of the league. Spurs score their goals in the last minute of each half.
Goals can be seen below starting from 2:05
My abiding memory of the game is when it was a 3-4, Deane and a Brighton defender were chasing a high through ball, when the Brighton goalie came for the ball as well and he and the defender collided as the ball sailed on with Deane, now alone, jogging after it. Around 12 yards out, the ball was coming to land and Deane could have trapped it and tapped it in. He decided to take it on the volley and ballooned it over the empty goal :-(
I thought that was it, but it all turned out well in the end.
CorrectL to R.. Ted H., martin chivers, Eddie C ??
Friday September 22nd 1967.
The day we sold Mick Jones to L**ds.
I was only 5 then and not into football yet but I remember years later my dad telling me that he was gutted that we sold Jones to L**ds. There were many Blades fans who went to the ground protesting at the sale of our star player. I read in Keith Farnsworth's book of "Football in Sheffield" that the club were willing to turn down the £100K offer from L**ds but what probably made Dick Wragg accept the offer was that one of the L**ds directors would vote him into the FA International Committee. Looking at the Morning Telegraph Archives at the Central Library some years ago I saw a photo of a glum looking John Harris (with his arms folded) speaking to the press outside the players entrance at John Street which summed up the anger felt by him and the Blades fans
The below is from http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/index.htm
On 22 September, Don Revie smashed the club's transfer record by paying Sheffield United £100,000 for 22-year-old Mick Jones, the holder of two full England caps. Jones had scored 63 goals in 149 games for the Blades and the move outraged Bramall Lane boss John Harris, who complained "it would be the biggest mistake the club had ever made." He came close to resigning over the affair.
Revie had been trailing Jones for a year, but had continually been given short shrift. However, Sheffield had reinforced their midfield by buying Willie Carlin from Carlisle United for £40,000 and the money from the Jones deal was needed to balance the books. Revie was delighted to have got his man, though new chairman Albert Morris claimed it was "a heck of a lot of money to pay for a player."
Jones himself claimed, "I cannot say that I am glad to leave Sheffield, but it was too good an offer to refuse. I don't want to leave my colleagues or the loyal supporters at Sheffield. I hope the Leeds crowd will be as good to me." It was a muted commitment to the Elland Road cause, but Jones' hard working displays quickly won him a fan base in the West Riding.
Friday September 22nd 1967.
The day we sold Mick Jones to L**ds.
I was only 5 then and not into football yet but I remember years later my dad telling me that he was gutted that we sold Jones to L**ds. There were many Blades fans who went to the ground protesting at the sale of our star player. I read in Keith Farnsworth's book of "Football in Sheffield" that the club were willing to turn down the £100K offer from L**ds but what probably made Dick Wragg accept the offer was that one of the L**ds directors would vote him into the FA International Committee. Looking at the Morning Telegraph Archives at the Central Library some years ago I saw a photo of a glum looking John Harris (with his arms folded) speaking to the press outside the players entrance at John Street which summed up the anger felt by him and the Blades fans
The below is from http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/index.htm
On 22 September, Don Revie smashed the club's transfer record by paying Sheffield United £100,000 for 22-year-old Mick Jones, the holder of two full England caps. Jones had scored 63 goals in 149 games for the Blades and the move outraged Bramall Lane boss John Harris, who complained "it would be the biggest mistake the club had ever made." He came close to resigning over the affair.
Revie had been trailing Jones for a year, but had continually been given short shrift. However, Sheffield had reinforced their midfield by buying Willie Carlin from Carlisle United for £40,000 and the money from the Jones deal was needed to balance the books. Revie was delighted to have got his man, though new chairman Albert Morris claimed it was "a heck of a lot of money to pay for a player."
Jones himself claimed, "I cannot say that I am glad to leave Sheffield, but it was too good an offer to refuse. I don't want to leave my colleagues or the loyal supporters at Sheffield. I hope the Leeds crowd will be as good to me." It was a muted commitment to the Elland Road cause, but Jones' hard working displays quickly won him a fan base in the West Riding.
After. End of November 1967. My dad was surprised that we got £100K for him as he thought he was ok but nowhere as good as Jones. He scored only 1 goal in 17 games for us in the 1967-68 seasonDid Birchenall go before or after Jones?
No like for this post, Silent. I'm still fuming about itFriday September 22nd 1967.
The day we sold Mick Jones to L**ds.
I was only 5 then and not into football yet but I remember years later my dad telling me that he was gutted that we sold Jones to L**ds. There were many Blades fans who went to the ground protesting at the sale of our star player. I read in Keith Farnsworth's book of "Football in Sheffield" that the club were willing to turn down the £100K offer from L**ds but what probably made Dick Wragg accept the offer was that one of the L**ds directors would vote him into the FA International Committee. Looking at the Morning Telegraph Archives at the Central Library some years ago I saw a photo of a glum looking John Harris (with his arms folded) speaking to the press outside the players entrance at John Street which summed up the anger felt by him and the Blades fans
The below is from http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/index.htm
On 22 September, Don Revie smashed the club's transfer record by paying Sheffield United £100,000 for 22-year-old Mick Jones, the holder of two full England caps. Jones had scored 63 goals in 149 games for the Blades and the move outraged Bramall Lane boss John Harris, who complained "it would be the biggest mistake the club had ever made." He came close to resigning over the affair.
Revie had been trailing Jones for a year, but had continually been given short shrift. However, Sheffield had reinforced their midfield by buying Willie Carlin from Carlisle United for £40,000 and the money from the Jones deal was needed to balance the books. Revie was delighted to have got his man, though new chairman Albert Morris claimed it was "a heck of a lot of money to pay for a player."
Jones himself claimed, "I cannot say that I am glad to leave Sheffield, but it was too good an offer to refuse. I don't want to leave my colleagues or the loyal supporters at Sheffield. I hope the Leeds crowd will be as good to me." It was a muted commitment to the Elland Road cause, but Jones' hard working displays quickly won him a fan base in the West Riding.
Just imagine Woody, TC, Willie Carlin and Mick Jones. My first experience of relegation in 1968 may never have occurred.
I don't think "may" is the right word. There's always the possibility of injury, of course, but I think it's safe to say that, barring serious injury, that relegation would not have happened if we'd kept Mick Jones. In the previous two seasons he'd scored 36 goals in 73 league games, as near as damn it a 50% strike rate, and he'd kept that up with 4 in the first 8 games of the 1967-68 season. There were 34 games left when he was sold. Mick Hill replaced him and scored 6. An ever-present Jones, scoring at his usual rate, would have contributed a further 17. Even if he'd missed a few games - he'd missed a total of nine in the previous two seasons - and not quite kept up his strike-rate he'd still have contributed several more goals than Hill did and we were only just relegated. It went to the last game.
But when he was sold, United's record was P7 W1 D2 L4 F11 A20 pts 4. Despite Jones' goals, we were shipping goals at the other end (we had lost the 3 games before his sale 4-2. 4-2 and 5-2). Perhaps the crap defence would have seen us relegated?
Probably would have been 3-0 up in the home game against Fulham? A 3-3 draw rather than 2-3 defeat would have saved us!But we had that defence all season and nearly avoided relegation. It would only have taken a slight improvement in the goals scored column for us to stay up and the very strong likelihood is that the retention of Mick Jones would have done the trick.
I reckon Mick scored 50 goals for United before he was 21.I don't think "may" is the right word. There's always the possibility of injury, of course, but I think it's safe to say that, barring serious injury, that relegation would not have happened if we'd kept Mick Jones. In the previous two seasons he'd scored 36 goals in 73 league games, as near as damn it a 50% strike rate, and he'd kept that up with 4 in the first 8 games of the 1967-68 season. There were 34 games left when he was sold. Mick Hill replaced him and scored 6. An ever-present Jones, scoring at his usual rate, would have contributed a further 17. Even if he'd missed a few games - he'd missed a total of nine in the previous two seasons - and not quite kept up his strike-rate he'd still have contributed several more goals than Hill did and we were only just relegated. It went to the last game.
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