Favourite Scapegoat

[mattbianco1]

Who's the best we've ever had?

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Who's the best we've ever had?

Shame we can’t pick more than one. Dead heat between Monty and the ginger Messi where I sit in the south stand amongst the morons

 

[mattbianco1]

Shame we can’t pick more than one. Dead heat between Monty and the ginger Messi where I sit in the south stand amongst the morons

Coutts was a big one. You know when Clough used to play him as a right winger

 

[SuperBobbyHatton]

John Gannon must be up there. The hammer he took at matches was terrible.

 

[FMBlade1]

Ched Evans?

 

[Akinbiyi]

If we’re balancing the harshness of the bile against the quality of the product on the pitch - Monty is by far the best. Horrendous stick he got but in that Prem season he was unbelievable.

 

[mattbianco1]

If we’re balancing the harshness of the bile against the quality of the product on the pitch - Monty is by far the best. Horrendous stick he got but in that Prem season he was unbelievable.

Throughout his career TBH.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Michael Doyle for me, awful player.

 

[raimond]

Bobby Ford for me. He was the original. Monty, Doyle, Hammond all nowt but imposters

 

[CarlMcBlade]

It’s hard to imagine now. But Bob Booker divided opinion awfully when he first came.

 

[Bearlie]

I once had a drink on eccy rd with a few players Monty Quinn etc .Montgomery was far and away the most professional out the lot of them .He never touched a drop his attitude and will to succeed was immense.

 

[Tony]

Tony Wagstaffe, Bob Widdowson, Denis Finnegan.

 

[Badger Blade]

Michael Doyle for me, awful player.

Absolutely, he is a massive symbol of our decline, the fact he played over 200 games for us makes me feel ill and shows just how shit we really were.

As for the poll, got to be Monty, poor guy used to get dog's abuse yet various versions of our team in League One would have been crying out for a player like him.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Michael Doyle for me, awful player.

Hang on. I thought we were discussing players who didn’t deserve to be slagged off and hence are scapegoats?

If we are discussing terrible players then the answer is obviously Andy Taylor.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Gannon and Hoyland take some beating, some blades are still booing them

 

[Bladesman]

Montgomery and rightly so.

 

[Geordie Blade]

John Gannon must be up there. The hammer he took at matches was terrible.

Despite being our leading source of assists during our most successful period of the last 40 years!

 

[super_pig]

Shame we can’t pick more than one. Dead heat between Monty and the ginger Messi where I sit in the south stand amongst the morons

Monty was a shocking 'player'.. player?? i once saw a proper punch up in the Westfield corner over that prat.

 

[super_pig]

Absolutely, he is a massive symbol of our decline, the fact he played over 200 games for us makes me feel ill and shows just how shit we really were.

As for the poll, got to be Monty, poor guy used to get dog's abuse yet various versions of our team in League One would have been crying out for a player like him.

so much so that they were queuing up to buy him.. NOT.

 

[blade too long]

Lundstram won last seasons scapegoat of the season award

Hes scuppering his chances of 2 in a row by being decent

 

[elgoog44]

Ched Evans?

you feeling left out Ched?

 

[Houston_Blade]

Hang on. I thought we were discussing players who didn’t deserve to be slagged off and hence are scapegoats?

If we are discussing terrible players then the answer is obviously Andy Taylor.

I blamed Michael Doyle for everything that went wrong at the club while he was here, he was a scapegoat for me, but I justified this by the flagrant trade descriptions act violation of him calling himself a 'professional footballer'.

 

[essexblade73]

John Gannon must be up there. The hammer he took at matches was terrible.

Yep remember standing on the old kop and he went down injured, some dicks were cheering

 

[essexblade73]

It’s hard to imagine now. But Bob Booker divided opinion awfully when he first came.

He did! Then he became a cult hero.

 

[Eza Blade]

There was a couple of lads on Kop sat in front of me who was hammering Monty all game against QPR. They was just looking for excuses for bartering him. The best was “why does he always set off running on his left foot, surely his right would be better” Pelters for pelters sake or what!!

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Michael Doyle for me, awful player.

I wouldn`t necessarily agree with that. We won a higher percentage of matches when he played than when he didn`t.

 

[Badger Blade]

Neill Collins is another that needs adding to the scapegoat list. George Long also

 

[Oohaah! Bob Bookah!]

John Gannon

 

[Houston_Blade]

I wouldn`t necessarily agree with that. We won a higher percentage of matches when he played than when he didn`t.

Look, I have no axe to grind with Michael, I'm fairly sure he'd have made a great traffic policeman with all the shouting, pointing and looking busy that he did. It just so happened that he decided to come and play for the Blades instead and he was really bad at it. No one will ever convince me otherwise, my eyes know what they saw.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Who's the best we've ever had?

Don't know about the best but Gil Reece was the first. When subs were introduced in the 60s he always seemed to be the one who Harris pulled off. Those were in the days of a single sub and they weren't even used half the time.

Those mentioning the likes of Collins and Doyle are getting the term "scapegoat" mixed up. They were just fucking wank.