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vorpal blade said:
Simon Grayson?
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Local lad from Stannington, career was finished soon after by a knee injury which meant he could play but then couldn't do much for a couple of days. He is/was a pig fan and founder member of their band along with that self publicist Hemmingham
 
what the heck are they trying to be?

Who else but those idiots have got the brass-neck to decide they are going to play their 3 tunes over and over again, in stadiums all over the world heard live on TV while they know they've never had a music lesson in their lives?
 
essex blade said:
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Must be the previous league match to our 2-0 home win against Sunderland in October 15th 1966 when the BLUT were open to spectators for the first time. Looking up, the previous home game was a midweek League Cup match against Burnley but the daylight rules it out when identifying the match in the photo. We beat West Brom 4-3 on Saturday 1st October so this must be the match in the photo as the BLUT looked almost completed.

We wore white shorts for home games from September 6th (Spurs brought their black shorts so the ref ordered us to wear white shorts- we won 2- 1) to December 7th (lost 3-2 to Birmingham in the League Cup quarter final). The white shorts brought us luck as we won 7 home league and cup matches, drawing once but in the next three home games we drew once and lost two before wearing black shorts. It was decided in summer 1967 that we would wear white shorts for the home games in 1967-68 season but it didnt bring us much luck
 
vorpal blade said:
what the heck are they trying to be?

Who else but those idiots have got the brass-neck to decide they are going to play their 3 tunes over and over again, in stadiums all over the world heard live on TV while they know they've never had a music lesson in their lives?
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I know 2 or 3 of them used to be members of Stannington Brass Band
 

Golden Gordon said:
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My old stomping ground, Local Boozer early 80's . Frank White band seemed to be a regular act,Thursdays or Sundays.
 
Tunstall Fred said:
Sadly been closed down for a couple of years,rumours about it being a Chinese or Thai restaurant appear to be false,more likely to become flats[/
Heard the same TF , supposedly had to have2 failed business there before they'd agree to convert to flats ... watch this space .. spent many an hour in there , shirt to see the demise of a good boozer and Handsworth as a drinking area
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Heard the same TF , supposedly had to have2 failed business there before they'd agree to convert to flats ... watch this space .. spent many an hour in there , shirt to see the demise of a good boozer and Handsworth as a drinking area
 
Jon Slinn said:
My old stomping ground, Local Boozer early 80's . Frank White band seemed to be a regular act,Thursdays or Sundays.
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Talent contest on a Sunday night, mid 80's. One of my old school classmates dad used to play the spoons on stage just to get a free pint :D I took the then girlfriend in there, it was the first time she had been up north and thought it was hilarious.
 
Neuschwanstein said:
Talent contest on a Sunday night, mid 80's. One of my old school classmates dad used to play the spoons on stage just to get a free pint :D I took the then girlfriend in there, it was the first time she had been up north and thought it was hilarious.
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FFS Making me feel a right old b'stard. Good mix of old and young. wise and piss heads.

Rumours its now gonna be a KFC - SHAME. My past gone forever.
 

Given the footprint of the football and cricket pitches why was no thought given to building the new football ground north to south so to speak i.e rotating the football pitch through 90 degrees.

We wouldn't have ended up with the mish mash the Lane is becoming now with lopsided stands proposed towering above others all hemmed in.

Could possibly have got a 50,000 stadium if they'd turned it round.

Could have been done in stages with the new South stand being an 'end' somewhere near the cricket pavillion. The other stands altered over time.
 
BladeFisher said:
Given the footprint of the football and cricket pitches why was no thought given to building the new football ground north to south so to speak i.e rotating the football pitch through 90 degrees.

We wouldn't have ended up with the mish mash the Lane is becoming now with lopsided stands proposed towering above others all hemmed in.

Could possibly have got a 50,000 stadium if they'd turned it round.

Could have been done in stages with the new South stand being an 'end' somewhere near the cricket pavillion. The other stands altered over time.
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The "new" South Stand nearly bankrupted as it was. Those plans would have finished off at that time.
 
BladeFisher said:
Given the footprint of the football and cricket pitches why was no thought given to building the new football ground north to south so to speak i.e rotating the football pitch through 90 degrees.

We wouldn't have ended up with the mish mash the Lane is becoming now with lopsided stands proposed towering above others all hemmed in.

Could possibly have got a 50,000 stadium if they'd turned it round.

Could have been done in stages with the new South stand being an 'end' somewhere near the cricket pavillion. The other stands altered over time.
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How many times would we have filled a 50,000 capacity ground, especially given the dross we've suffered in the five years up to 2016/2017?
 
Fisher, twisting the ground round 90º has been considered in the past, in the 1960s when I thought their was an idea of an athletics track (before Brealey had a similar idea but without turning the pitch around) and a Commonwealth Games bid???, most recently in the mid 1990s when I thought Laver were going to donate the land of their sawmills, wood yards etc. to SUFC. I brought it up with the owners at that time but I think it was regarded as a bridge too far, far too much reconstruction would have to have been undertaken - in the 1990s it was just a sentence or two's worth of chat, nought more. At the same time, Sheffield Council were urging United to think about moving to Attercliffe Road to the middle of that lately lost Stadium.
 
BladeFisher said:
Given the footprint of the football and cricket pitches why was no thought given to building the new football ground north to south so to speak i.e rotating the football pitch through 90 degrees.

We wouldn't have ended up with the mish mash the Lane is becoming now with lopsided stands proposed towering above others all hemmed in.

Could possibly have got a 50,000 stadium if they'd turned it round.

Could have been done in stages with the new South stand being an 'end' somewhere near the cricket pavillion. The other stands altered over time.
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The council would have scuppered any such scheme by United,even if we had the vision and money to do such a bold and enterprising thing.

I blame the Duke of Norfolk the tight git,he should have given us more of his land
 
Twisting the ground through 90 degrees would be financially unsound. It would mean rebuilding most, if not all of the ground and few clubs would be able to take on that sort of commitment.

Don Valley Stadium was mooted but, if I recall, only once the plans for the athletics stadium had been announced. Football pitches with running tracks round them make them a bit soulless, in my opinion.

If Don Valley had been designed with football in mind then it may have been a runner ( no pun intended).

Man City got it right with the City of Manchester stadium following the Commonwealth Games which was designed to be used as a football stadium from the start.

On the other hand look at the mess that is the London City ground. An athletics stadium with the football bits cobbled together as an afterthought.

At the moment Bramall Lane is a Goldilocks ground. Not too big, not too small but just about right.
 

Eddiecolquhounsleg said:
Twisting the ground through 90 degrees would be financially unsound. It would mean rebuilding most, if not all of the ground and few clubs would be able to take on that sort of commitment.

Don Valley Stadium was mooted but, if I recall, only once the plans for the athletics stadium had been announced. Football pitches with running tracks round them make them a bit soulless, in my opinion.

If Don Valley had been designed with football in mind then it may have been a runner ( no pun intended).

Man City got it right with the City of Manchester stadium following the Commonwealth Games which was designed to be used as a football stadium from the start.

On the other hand look at the mess that is the London City ground. An athletics stadium with the football bits cobbled together as an afterthought.

At the moment Bramall Lane is a Goldilocks ground. Not too big, not too small but just about right.
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And dont forget the location is nigh on perfect
 
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