Loan Updates

[Rodley]

5 games sounds a bit excessive to say the 'fan' grabbed him first. GLTTL.

Apparently he punched the air and got bitten by a dog though

 

[Iceybabey]

Apparently he punched the air and got bitten by a dog though

Over my head that one pal

 

[Pinchy]

Back to your poisonous best. I made some tentative comments on Long, based on comments by people who have been watching him perform well in a relegation-threatened team, and on my own earlier observation (directly behind the goal at the Kop end) of a skilful young keeper who played behind a poor defence, mainly well, before suffering a crisis of confidence as young keepers sometimes do. I was merely suggesting that serious consideration be given to keeping him at the Lane, by the people whose judgement I trust. Your clever-clever use of offensive nicknames and attacking points of view that I have never expressed demonstrate that you have little respect either for young footballers or your fellow Blades.

Skilful? He can’t catch a football. On the odd occasion he isn’t frozen in the six yard box as the ball passes him by, he fumbles it or parries the shot straight into the path of the opposition. His fear of crosses equals that of Count Dracula. I saw him play a lot of games. There was little or no skill. Wishing it were otherwise is futile.

His performance on his debut was one of the worst I have ever seen.(Bladey Boybanders has been banging the drum for him to play, by the way. Sounds familiar?). He improved very little and well earned the title Calamity George. It was a long time before he got any stick from the fans. His lack of confidence stemmed directly from his lack of ability. He’s rubbish.

 

[Chali 2na]

I’ve seen him play. He isn’t. Calamity George lacks all the basics, as noted time after time.

As for Little Louis, mixed feelings from supporters of a non-League team. Who’d have thought it? No reports, of course, on League One substitute Mustavim Back-Whiteman because we had the sense to get rid permanently.

Bringimback. Bringalltheuselessfuckersback.

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Skilful? He can’t catch a football. On the odd occasion he isn’t frozen in the six yard box as the ball passes him by, he fumbles it or parries the shot straight into the path of the opposition. His fear of crosses equals that of Count Dracula. I saw him play a lot of games. There was little or no skill. Wishing it were otherwise is futile.

His performance on his debut was one of the worst I have ever seen.(Bladey Boybanders has been banging the drum for him to play, by the way. Sounds familiar?). He improved very little and well earned the title Calamity George. It was a long time before he got any stick from the fans. His lack of confidence stemmed directly from his lack of ability. He’s rubbish.

 

[Woodwardfan]

Reed, Long and Hussey are all out of contract so it's not entirely in United's hands whether they stay or not.

I wouldn't offer Reed or Hussey anything. Not sure about Long.

Reed 'Player of the Season' as forecast!!

Actually the club have taken up the extra year's option on his contract.

 

[Woodwardfan]

Long is an experienced first team keeper now. 169 first team appearances under his belt.

I'm sure we would not recognise the unhappy young lad who left us last year.

Difficult one for Wilder to judge. There is a very good keeper in there somewhere. Whether there is a good keeper with the temperament to play for a big club is another matter.

 

[Liverpool blade]

Pre season this, pre season that...

What the fuck is up with some of these players and their fitness?

And let's get Hanson back. Absolutely top player.

. Reading that. I don't think any of them would fit in our squad apart from long maybe????. Let's just release them and look for better players.
Love the quote about Hanson!!. Lol

 

[mancunianblade]

Has any footballer in the history of Football taken as long as Lavery to get back to “full fitness” seems to have spent his entire time under contract with us in the state of “not fully fit”

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Skilful? He can’t catch a football. On the odd occasion he isn’t frozen in the six yard box as the ball passes him by, he fumbles it or parries the shot straight into the path of the opposition. His fear of crosses equals that of Count Dracula. I saw him play a lot of games. There was little or no skill. Wishing it were otherwise is futile.

Let’s look at those points objectively shall we.

“He can’t catch a football” – he clearly can, anyone that can’t wouldn’t be playing regularly as a goalkeeper. He will occasionally make an error.

“On the odd occasion he doesn’t freeze in the box” – he has just been arguably the best player in a club that’s done well to avoid relegation. That he had confidence issues with us was clear, but let’s not pretend that being part of a relegation-threatened team, where any mistake might cost the team a goal responsible for its relegation, is somehow an easy, safe, pressure-free environment.

“He fumbles it or parries the shot straight into the path of the opposition” – you could accuse Moore and Blackman of being guilty of both at times this season.

“Wishing otherwise is futile” – blindly sticking to a view in the face of evidence that undermines it is more futile. Shock though it may be, it is possible for a player at 24 to have improved from what he was up till then.

 

[The Crab]

Long is an experienced first team keeper now. 169 first team appearances under his belt.

I'm sure we would not recognise the unhappy young lad who left us last year.

Difficult one for Wilder to judge. There is a very good keeper in there somewhere. Whether there is a good keeper with the temperament to play for a big club is another matter.

For me, the issue is this. Has playing "out of the spotlight" improved him as a player and just as importantly (especially for a position I know well) his confidence? Or is it that he has simply found his level, something that happens to many a player.

It's an important position, especially when you are a team that is hoping to kick on like we are.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Skilful? He can’t catch a football. On the odd occasion he isn’t frozen in the six yard box as the ball passes him by, he fumbles it or parries the shot straight into the path of the opposition. His fear of crosses equals that of Count Dracula. I saw him play a lot of games. There was little or no skill. Wishing it were otherwise is futile.

His performance on his debut was one of the worst I have ever seen.(Bladey Boybanders has been banging the drum for him to play, by the way. Sounds familiar?). He improved very little and well earned the title Calamity George. It was a long time before he got any stick from the fans. His lack of confidence stemmed directly from his lack of ability. He’s rubbish.

The first 6 words of your post show that you are on a wind-up or a vendetta for reasons I do not understand. When I first saw Long in the Academy, behind a strong defence including Maguire and Kennedy, one of the things which impressed me was how he came for crosses and caught the ball with confidence. Behind a dodgy League 1 defence, as a gangly teenager against some burly attackers, he did have problems, but the ability is there, and on the evidence of the comments from Wimbledon, now he is an experienced keeper, there is a case for looking at whether we seek to develop his potential further. That is all I said. How do you justify your opening comment?
1. All Wimbledon fans are ignorant?
2. Roy has an agenda, and has deliberately mis-represented their views?
3. You have powers of understanding that the rest of us mere mortals are incapable of appreciating, a prophet unrecognised in his land?
4. Other? (Please explain)

 

[Stretch]

Nice to see Louis and George being rated so highly. Shame about the others, especially Thomas who I hoped would kick on.

 

[Eric Cartman]

Obviously more than meets the eye with Thomas.

We were warned.

 

[Revolution]

Has any footballer in the history of Football taken as long as Lavery to get back to “full fitness” seems to have spent his entire time under contract with us in the state of “not fully fit”

Ched Evans this time around
James Wallace

 

[Revolution]

Let’s look at those points objectively shall we.

“He can’t catch a football” – he clearly can, anyone that can’t wouldn’t be playing regularly as a goalkeeper. He will occasionally make an error.

“On the odd occasion he doesn’t freeze in the box” – he has just been arguably the best player in a club that’s done well to avoid relegation. That he had confidence issues with us was clear, but let’s not pretend that being part of a relegation-threatened team, where any mistake might cost the team a goal responsible for its relegation, is somehow an easy, safe, pressure-free environment.

“He fumbles it or parries the shot straight into the path of the opposition” – you could accuse Moore and Blackman of being guilty of both at times this season.

“Wishing otherwise is futile” – blindly sticking to a view in the face of evidence that undermines it is more futile. Shock though it may be, it is possible for a player at 24 to have improved from what he was up till then.

I assume you must be arguing with Pinchy.

I genuinely don't understand why anyone still engages with that boring troll.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I assume you must be arguing with Pinchy.

I genuinely don't understand why anyone still engages with that boring troll.

For what it's worth, my instinct is never to give up on people. Some of his posts are good, and if he would only give up on the 2 or 3 wind-up postures he adopts constantly, for reasons I cannot fathom and he will never explain, we would be able to engage properly with his views. And I feel the need to speak up every time he attributes views to the majority of us, which are in fact views that nobody has expressed. Occasional visitors to the Forum would get a strange view of us lot if they took literally what he says. Mind you, we are a pretty strange lot...

 

[Revolution]

For what it's worth, my instinct is never to give up on people. Some of his posts are good, and if he would only give up on the 2 or 3 wind-up postures he adopts constantly, for reasons I cannot fathom and he will never explain, we would be able to engage properly with his views. And I feel the need to speak up every time he attributes views to the majority of us, which are in fact views that nobody has expressed. Occasional visitors to the Forum would get a strange view of us lot if they took literally what he says. Mind you, we are a pretty strange lot...

I gave up on him. He's the only person I've ever put on ignore. Reading his posts is a waste of my time.

 

[mancunianblade]

Ched Evans this time around
James Wallace

I’ll give you Ched believe Wallace was just injured all the time.

Seems every interview ever given which refers to Lavery seems to refer to him as not 100% or lacking match sharpness

 

[Ricky]

Lavery's been unlucky to be fair but it's time to get rid. Can't wait forever.

 

[Grappler]

Agree with most others, a shame about Thomas, the only player with pace on our books!

 

[blade.i.am]

Just been reading that Cheltenham are interested in signing Hussey

 

[Danetheblade]

Unpopular opinion here, but I'd keep long if and it's a big if we don't sign a keeper. Feel he's got over the confidence issues, the big thing he was lacking was a voice. If he can command his area, I see no real problems with him being at least back up.

 

[metalblade]

Better for us and better for Long if he makes his career elsewhere. If he returned the crowd would be waiting for him to make a mistake and he would, you sometimes can't unravel the past and it is better to move on for both parties.