Old’er Uns Help please

[Pinchy]

Me too

Mine was at the Fiesta. Can’t remember if it was Bernard Manning or the Three Degrees. I always get them confused...

 

[B14Nco]

According to wikipedia, Doc Pace was 5' 8", Graham Shaw was 5' 8", Alan Hodgkinson was 5' 9"

Cheers!

 

[Pinchy]

Reece and Hockey should surely take the places of Gage and Ward. You could still have different kits.

Ward? Mitch Fucking Ward? Ahead of Reece and Hockey? Is this a serious proposition?

 

[B14Nco]

It's good work there, feller.

So - have I got this correct?
You have:
Brown, Gage, Sabella, Peschisolido, Sharp, Currie, Ndlouvo, ???, Edwards, ???, Bradshaw, Ward

Are the other two Holdsworth (or is it Doc Pace) and Booker?
Booker's hairs a bit light if it is.

Can't believe Deane and Agana aren't in there, yet.

Jow Shaw and Whitehouse.

I also need to slightly amend the heights of a few, Browny and Gages face.

Deane and Agana are 6 foot plus... they’ll go on the next couple of rows. I might need to change a few of their places as I move forward... as Gage, Whitehouse and Bradshaw are all 5’10 so might need to make room for a few more shorties.

 

[Silent Blade]

Our 8 greatest ever players are

Ernest Needham
Billy Gillespie
Fred Tunstall
Jimmy Hagan
Joe Shaw
Tony Currie
Alan Woodward
Brian Deane

Brian Deane 6 foot 2, TC 5 foot 10 are the two tallest out of the 8

 

[B14Nco]

Ward? Mitch Fucking Ward? Ahead of Reece and Hockey? Is this a serious proposition?

He was sat with his pals. Plus he still lives in Sheffield and has one of my pictures in his house.

 

[B14Nco]

Our 8 greatest ever players are

Ernest Needham
Billy Gillespie
Fred Tunstall
Jimmy Hagan
Joe Shaw
Tony Currie
Alan Woodward
Brian Deane

Brian Deane 6 foot 2, TC 5 foot 10 are the two tallest out of the 8

Okay I will ensure they’re all on. Thanks again.

 

[Silent Blade]

Okay I will ensure they’re all on. Thanks again.

Are you worried that the likes of Needham, Gillespie and Tunstall are not ideal for marketing reasons?

 

[snootyfenooty]

I’m completely with ya. That’s why I asked... Bobby Davison will get in there and yet apart from ‘that night’ didn’t really do owt compared to a guy that played 500 times for us?.

Thing is (and I guess this is the decision I need to make) I either I go popularity or historical. Prime example is I’ve popped Joe Shaw on there... and although I might not have done him justice not many know who he is.

I know I should put Needham on there Just unfortunately don’t think most will recognise him. Appreciate the input tho!

Yeah but if you go on recent popularity then you won't get much further than Duffy, Clarke, Fleck and Brooks et al thanks to bouncing day. Reckon a bit of respect is due to the proper legends.

Only a suggestion mind, it's your show!

 

[Chali 2na]

Yup.

Plus I’ve got a Tony Currie commission going in the club shop and while I’ve been chatting to them there has been the floating of the ‘possibility’ of a few things going in the match day programme... my Aim is to pitch/convince them that it should be the central poster in there.

I'll certainly take one. (Assuming it's reasonably priced: it is Yorkshire tha knows)

Best of luck getting into the club shop and program by the way mate.
They should consider trying to work with more people like yourself, Presty and whoever came up with those Laver hats - would be a nice change from the generic merchandise in the club shop.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

View attachment 40277 Right then. I’ve atarted a 1889-2018 Team picture. See Above. (It’s not I repeat not going to be a Sheffield United eating lunch on a metal girder looking out over Sheffield - although I might do that at some point )

Anyway. I want to add a sprinkling of historic legends. My issue is I have no clue how tall they were!

I’ve got a good idea for e.g Edwards, Hemsley, Woodward etc but the ones I’m struggling with that I’m going to add are:

Derek Pace
Graham Shaw
Jimmy Hagan
Len Badger
Alan Hodgkinson - 5’9 (I think?).
Tony Kenworthy

Do any of you happen to know ‘roughly’ how tall these guys were?

Also... I’m not intending on adding (Gil Reece, Cec Coldwell, Ernest Needham, Mick Jones or Trevor Hockey) would this be a mistake?

Any help would be appreciated.

Hockey would be a good addition because of his unusual appearance if nothing else. Looked more like a pirate than a footballer!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Our 8 greatest ever players are

Ernest Needham
Billy Gillespie
Fred Tunstall
Jimmy Hagan
Joe Shaw
Tony Currie
Alan Woodward
Brian Deane

Brian Deane 6 foot 2, TC 5 foot 10 are the two tallest out of the 8

Anti-goalkeeper discrimination? Or are you counting Woodward...?

 

[Silent Blade]

Anti-goalkeeper discrimination? Or are you counting Woodward...?

Not really, If I had to pick a best ever X1, it would be either Hodgy or Foulke in goal.

Gough, "Smiler" Smith, Burgin, Tracey and Kelly are the other candidates

 

[sitwell]

Hockey would be a good addition because of his unusual appearance if nothing else. Looked more like a pirate than a footballer!

If that's the case just put Captain Blade in

 

[sitwell]

Not really, If I had to pick a best ever X1, it would be either Hodgy or Foulke in goal.

Gough, "Smiler" Smith, Burgin, Tracey and Kelly are the other candidates

Macallister was better than all of them in my opinion.

 

[LSF]

Mine was at the Fiesta. Can’t remember if it was Bernard Manning or the Three Degrees. I always get them confused...

Mine was in the Windsor Hotel on the Wybourn, along with TC, no, not that one..... The other unfortunate git.

 

[spongebobblade]

Our 8 greatest ever players are

Ernest Needham
Billy Gillespie
Fred Tunstall
Jimmy Hagan
Joe Shaw
Tony Currie
Alan Woodward
Brian Deane

Brian Deane 6 foot 2, TC 5 foot 10 are the two tallest out of the 8

Harry Johnson?
Jimmy Dunne?
Both record holders in there own right

 

[Silent Blade]

Harry Johnson?
Jimmy Dunne?
Both record holders in there own right

Yes, but they were helped by the change of offside rules in 1925 and many goalscoring records were broken

 

[B14Nco]

Are you worried that the likes of Needham, Gillespie and Tunstall are not ideal for marketing reasons?

Not at all.

 

[B14Nco]

Yeah but if you go on recent popularity then you won't get much further than Duffy, Clarke, Fleck and Brooks et al thanks to bouncing day. Reckon a bit of respect is due to the proper legends.

Only a suggestion mind, it's your show!

Agreed. They’ll get on there. They’ll all get on there.

 

[B14Nco]

So to be clear... these are going on (plus all the 80s players onwards).

Doc - 5’7

Graham Shaw - 5’8

Gil Reece - 5’7

Cec Coldwell - ?

Ernest Needham - ?

Jimmy Hagan - 5’8

Len Badger - ?

Mick Jones - 5’10

Trevor Hockey - ?

Alan Hodgkinson - 5’9

Tony Kenworthy - ?

Billy Gillespie - 5’9

Harry Johnson - ?

Jimmy Dunne - 5’10

Paul Stancliffe - 6’2

Fred Tunstall - 5’7” 1/2

Colin Morris - ?

William Foulke - 6’4

Alan Woodward -

Eddie Colquhoun - ?

See you in 2020.

 

[Silent Blade]

So to be clear... these are going on (plus all the 80s players onwards).

Doc - 5’7

Graham Shaw - 5’8

Gil Reece - 5’7

Cec Coldwell - ?

Ernest Needham - ?

Jimmy Hagan - 5’8

Len Badger - ?

Mick Jones - 5’10

Trevor Hockey - ?

Alan Hodgkinson - 5’9

Tony Kenworthy - ?

Billy Gillespie - 5’9

Harry Johnson - ?

Jimmy Dunne - 5’10

Paul Stancliffe - 6’2

Fred Tunstall - 5’7” 1/2

Colin Morris - ?

William Foulke - 6’4

Alan Woodward -

Eddie Colquhoun - ?

See you in 2020.

Needham 5 foot 6
Woody 5 foot 9

 

[sitwell]

I would say Kenworthy is about 5'10 ,same as me when I met him in The Crown last year.

 

[bladesrus]

Where's Dean Hammond?

Asked that during many a game. No-one ever seemed to know

 

[DifferentClass]

Loving the attention to detail on Pesch

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Our 8 greatest ever players are

Ernest Needham
Billy Gillespie
Fred Tunstall
Jimmy Hagan
Joe Shaw
Tony Currie
Alan Woodward
Brian Deane

Brian Deane 6 foot 2, TC 5 foot 10 are the two tallest out of the 8

Silent do you keep goalkeepers away from your greatest ever players for United? After reading about all our great players (from 1889 onwards) I always have a very fixed view on who our best ever players are, my top 5 would be:-

Needham
Hagan
Currie
Gillespie
Foulke
with J Shaw not far off in 6th spot.
For the rest of a top 10 I think Woodward, Hodgkinson, Badger and G Shaw are prime candidates.

Perhaps Hagan and Currie I include as 2nd and 3rd due to my dad's view on them, and Foulke as 5th choice as it would appear he was the Gascoigne or Beckham (or dare I say Currie ... yes) of his day ie the standout best player / personality. I always feel for a United top 10 or top 20 where do the 3 big goalscorers - Johnson-Dunne-Dodds - of the interim years fit in, or of later years Doc Pace. And what of the other players from the golden age, who won a league title, FA cup winners medals and England caps, 'Cocky' Bennett, Tommy Morren, Harry Thickett and Fred Priest, amongst a few others. Going back to the interim years, your man Fred Tunstall and George Green (our second most capped England player, who I know very little about), where do they come in 'SUFC best of' (Tunstall 3rd in your list). And what of the players in my lifetime (since the mid 70s), given how far our great club has fallen over the last 40 years, where do Edwards, Deane, Tracey, Kelly, Brown and Jagielka fit in with any best of lists???

 

[fishpie]

Jow Shaw and Whitehouse.

I also need to slightly amend the heights of a few, Browny and Gages face.

Deane and Agana are 6 foot plus... they’ll go on the next couple of rows. I might need to change a few of their places as I move forward... as Gage, Whitehouse and Bradshaw are all 5’10 so might need to make room for a few more shorties.

Nick. You've nailed Dane Whitehouse's face. His hair needs some more work..Otherwise the perms I paid for, for (too) many years were wasted!. Looking forward to the end result. No pressure about who's in and who isn't..Just get it right.....UTMB

 

[diode_blade]

View attachment 40277 Right then. I’ve atarted a 1889-2018 Team picture. See Above. (It’s not I repeat not going to be a Sheffield United eating lunch on a metal girder looking out over Sheffield - although I might do that at some point )

Anyway. I want to add a sprinkling of historic legends. My issue is I have no clue how tall they were!

I’ve got a good idea for e.g Edwards, Hemsley, Woodward etc but the ones I’m struggling with that I’m going to add are:

Derek Pace
Graham Shaw
Jimmy Hagan
Len Badger
Alan Hodgkinson - 5’9 (I think?).
Tony Kenworthy

Do any of you happen to know ‘roughly’ how tall these guys were?

Also... I’m not intending on adding (Gil Reece, Cec Coldwell, Ernest Needham, Mick Jones or Trevor Hockey) would this be a mistake?

Any help would be appreciated.

That is Brill, I know his time was short with us Matt and we have just been talking about him on here over the last 2 weeks but what about adding Mel Rees (RIP) sat in the center (6.18 feet).

 

[Superblades]

Whitehouse would get my vote to be added to it.

 

[B14Nco]

That is Brill, I know his time was short with us Matt and we have just been talking about him on here over the last 2 weeks but what about adding Mel Rees (RIP) sat in the center (6.18 feet).

Yeah second row for the keepers - which I will be going with the following 6.

Simon Tracey 6’0

Mel Rees 6’2

Fatty Foulke 6’4

Alan Kelly 6’2

Paddy Kenny 6’1

Alan Hodgkinson 5’9

I know Kenny might not be popular with some but he was in goal for a vast proportion of my Blades watching life.