John Holland

[sitwell]

1 Across. Why does everything have to be so cryptic? 9,7,5.

A**en*io*
S**k**g
C**ts

Its like nobs on facebook. 'Just had to rush to a and e '

 

[wizadry]

All 3 have pulled out due to a massive price hike ,would have been much bigger if we had gone up. Also heard that one of them employs a media relations company on big money and they advised them on the Ched fiasco ,instead of just keeping quiet. That company would have been fucked off sharpish for me. Guy I know told me it was Alpha rooms on the shirt but text me earlier saying he thinks its now flybe ,but thinks alpha maybe on also unless they've pulled. No Idea about the actual kit though.

The most crucial bit which is the actual kit and you don't know? Fucking useless!

 

[sitwell]

The most crucial bit which is the actual kit and you don't know? Fucking useless!

Don't know why I get involved at all to be honest ,I never wear colours Im superstitious and after all the defeats in the past when I wore them I never even wear red to a match. That's not friggin working either is it ,but Im really not kit bothered ,couldn't get into all the fuss last year. The only reason I have slight interest is I know 2 of last years sponsors really well for years.

 

[wizadry]

Don't know why I get involved at all to be honest ,I never wear colours Im superstitious and after all the defeats in the past when I wore them I never even wear red to a match. That's not friggin working either is it ,but Im really not kit bothered ,couldn't get into all the fuss last year. The only reason I have slight interest is I know 2 of last years sponsors really well for years.

Have you tried going bollock naked? That might work for us next year.

 

[sheffielder]

As long as it is the red and white striped version of what Argentina's kit looks like I don't give a shit.

 

[FriethBlade]

It's not difficult, our commercial team should get on the phone to both Wilkinson Sword and Gillette, let each of them know we are talking to the other and let the bidding begin to sponsor the Blades.

The connection with the badge and Sheffield steel will be too much to resist and we will bag a high profile sponsor who can promote their product with loads of different initiatives.

 

[BushBlade]

It's not difficult, our commercial team should get on the phone to both Wilkinson Sword and Gillette, let each of them know we are talking to the other and let the bidding begin to sponsor the Blades.

The connection with the badge and Sheffield steel will be too much to resist and we will bag a high profile sponsor who can promote their product with loads of different initiatives.

Sheffield United; the best a man can get.

Not even that bloke from Britain's Got Talent would swallow that.

 

[Grappler]

I think Dean Hammond is being sponsored by Old Spice, and Paul Coutts by Stannah Stair Lifts. Scougall has a short term sponsorship at the start of the season with "Debenhams - Back To School".

 

[BushBlade]

I think Dean Hammond is being sponsored by Old Spice, and Paul Coutts by Stannah Stair Lifts. Scougall has a short term sponsorship at the start of the season with "Debenhams - Back To School".

And McNulty must be sponsored by Pringle.

 

[wizadry]

And McNulty must be sponsored by Pringle.

And Diego by American baseball caps.

 

[wizadry]

And McNulty must be sponsored by Pringle.

And Collins was sponsored by Pink Grip because his shit certainly stuck with us.

 

[Kev Gee]

Good riddance.

The way they tried to dictate to us over the ched affair and score some cheap publicity was a disgrace.

If I was kmc i would have fucked them off on the spot and paid the rest myself.

It cant have been that much money.

 

[Oreyt]

....or that West Side magazine if it is still going .
UTB

Jesus, Westside

Do you remember those "Society" pics in the back? Permatanned estate agents and their fat daughters at Baldwin's Omega? Faaaackin ell.

And the articles where they's try to wring a genuinely engaging article out of the subject of combi-boilers or replacement flat roofs?

That c*nt Irvine Patnick was always in it too.

 

[Snowman]

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Should have been sponsored by these last season

That is one fuckin brill shirt. Love Green me!

 

[freddyp]

1 Across. Why does everything have to be so cryptic? 9,7,5.

A**en*io*
S**k**g
C**ts

Is the answer Attention Seeking Cunts? Took me 2 hours. Next?

 

[Snowman]

Jesus, Westside

Do you remember those "Society" pics in the back? Permatanned estate agents and their fat daughters at Baldwin's Omega? Faaaackin ell.

And the articles where they's try to wring a genuinely engaging article out of the subject of combi-boilers or replacement flat roofs?

That c*nt Irvine Patnick was always in it too.

I'll have nowt bad said about the last Conservative MP for Hallam only on the basis that he intervened on behalf of my Dad in his battle with British Steel over his pension which results in my 92 year old mother still getting half his pension too keep her going. Other than that, take as many pot shots as you like.

 

[sitwell]

Is the answer Attention Seeking Cunts? Took me 2 hours. Next?

I got Chris Waddle

 

[bornablade]

It's not difficult, our commercial team should get on the phone to both Wilkinson Sword and Gillette, let each of them know we are talking to the other and let the bidding begin to sponsor the Blades.

The connection with the badge and Sheffield steel will be too much to resist and we will bag a high profile sponsor who can promote their product with loads of different initiatives.

Don Draper's a Blade.

 

[Bladesman]

I would like us to have Laver back as sponsors.

I would have said Wards as well BUT isn't it brewed in Stockport or somewhere these days?

 

[bornablade]

I would like us to have Laver back as sponsors.

I would have said Wards as well BUT isn't it brewed in Stockport or somewhere these days?

I think Jennings in Cumbria took on the Ward's name. Can't see how they can produce the same beer when they're using different water.

It's like going to see the Drifters or the Four Tops and all the original line-ups have changed.

 

[stringjunior]

I think Jennings in Cumbria took on the Ward's name. Can't see how they can produce the same beer when they're using different water.

It's like going to see the Drifters or the Four Tops and all the original line-ups have changed.

Trigger's brush

 

[Grappler]

I think Jennings in Cumbria took on the Ward's name. Can't see how they can produce the same beer when they're using different water.

It's like going to see the Drifters or the Four Tops and all the original line-ups have changed.

It's not the same beer, I remember reading The Star, years ago, when draft and bottled Wards first made a comeback, and people wrote to the paper saying it didn't taste the same. The head brewer from Wards wrote to the Star and said that while the new draft and bottled Wards is good beer, it is not, and never could be, "Wards", because as you say, the water used is different. He went on to explain that the high sulphur content in the local water was what gave Wards it's distinct taste (and smell, if it was a bad pint!), so there was only one place that could make Wards and that was the Wards brewery in Sheffield.

I think Jennings have the right to use the name "Wards" for bottled beer, and Vaux had the rights to use the Wards name for draft beer. They used to have the new Wards draft on in the Wetherspoons/Sheaf Island, on the old Wards brewery site. Nice pint, but not Wards.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Yeah because all the top 10 from the NYSE and FTSE are lining up to throw sponsorship deals at a midtable League 1 club.

No but Flybe seem interested

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

It's not the same beer, I remember reading The Star, years ago, when draft and bottled Wards first made a comeback, and people wrote to the paper saying it didn't taste the same. The head brewer from Wards wrote to the Star and said that while the new draft and bottled Wards is good beer, it is not, and never could be, "Wards", because as you say, the water used is different. He went on to explain that the high sulphur content in the local water was what gave Wards it's distinct taste (and smell, if it was a bad pint!), so there was only one place that could make Wards and that was the Wards brewery in Sheffield.

I think Jennings have the right to use the name "Wards" for bottled beer, and Vaux had the rights to use the Wards name for draft beer. They used to have the new Wards draft on in the Wetherspoons/Sheaf Island, on the old Wards brewery site. Nice pint, but not Wards.

Saved a bottle of Wards to down when the pigs fucked up, think it last two weeks.

 

[Bladesman]

Trigger's brush

 

[Kenilworth]

Flybe have sponsored Exeter City for years - their HQ is at the airport, there. Presume they have some new routes from Donny/Sheff and want to promote that?

 

[stringjunior]

Oddly, flybe's ads keep appearing on The Stir's United pages. Either it's deliberate placing, or Google knows I've been looking at flights recently, although not with flybe.

Mildly interesting.

 

[Boxer Blade]

Flybe have sponsored Exeter City for years - their HQ is at the airport, there. Presume they have some new routes from Donny/Sheff and want to promote that?

Exeter play in red and white stripes as well, can somebody have a look at last seasons kit so we know what ours is going to be this season

 

[Ginger Gnome]

It's not the same beer, I remember reading The Star, years ago, when draft and bottled Wards first made a comeback, and people wrote to the paper saying it didn't taste the same. The head brewer from Wards wrote to the Star and said that while the new draft and bottled Wards is good beer, it is not, and never could be, "Wards", because as you say, the water used is different. He went on to explain that the high sulphur content in the local water was what gave Wards it's distinct taste (and smell, if it was a bad pint!), so there was only one place that could make Wards and that was the Wards brewery in Sheffield.

I think Jennings have the right to use the name "Wards" for bottled beer, and Vaux had the rights to use the Wards name for draft beer. They used to have the new Wards draft on in the Wetherspoons/Sheaf Island, on the old Wards brewery site. Nice pint, but not Wards.

When Wards and Vaux breweries closed, some of the Vaux directors set up the Double Maxim Beer Company to keep making Double Maxim, they own the rights to almost all of the old names from the two breweries like Samson and Lambtons, although they used to have Wards bottled by Jennings and then by Robinsons as they didn't have the space to make it all themselves. Wards cask was made by Robinsons in the early 00s, then they launched a keg version.

In 2007, Maxim opened a new brewery in Houghton-le-Spring and took back production of Ward's bottles and cask themselves. The keg Ward's Smooth is still made by Robinsons in Stockport as they presumably own the recipe to that.

 

[Grappler]

When Wards and Vaux breweries closed, some of the Vaux directors set up the Double Maxim Beer Company to keep making Double Maxim, they own the rights to almost all of the old names from the two breweries like Samson and Lambtons, although they used to have Wards bottled by Jennings and then by Robinsons as they didn't have the space to make it all themselves. Wards cask was made by Robinsons in the early 00s, then they launched a keg version.

In 2007, Maxim opened a new brewery in Houghton-le-Spring and took back production of Ward's bottles and cask themselves. The keg Ward's Smooth is still made by Robinsons in Stockport as they presumably own the recipe to that.

Thanks for the info, if only "real" Wards could make a comeback!