Suit or tracksuit?

[Cheshire Cat]

What worries me is that Morgs has been sat in the stand all season 'getting a better impression of how the game is going" yet nothing much has changed on the pitch recently. Of course we don't know how much input he had with the previous management and the final decisions would have been with DW but it is concerning.

Which is my worry too.

That said, many thought that much of our better footballing in 2002/3 was down to Blackwell's influence. I've managed to erase most of the memory of how that turned out exactly - but I have a sense it wasn't great...

 

[Billyblade]

I want him jogging round the pitch pumping the fist in the air to the fans in every stand and rorring at us, challenging us to roar back at him!

Somebody help me out with a vague memory here.
Did I dream that after a match at Grimsby (or could have been Hull!) during the late 80's, Wally Downes (or was it Billy Tightshirt?) ran round the perimeter of the pitch several times and Blades fans were hanging over the fences (remember them?) to high-five him.
Sketchy, I know, and far too many brackets for one post, but someone please help!

 

[Linz]

Who is gonna be the good cop and who is the bad cop out of Morgs and Unsworth?

I wouldn't flippin' mess with either in a bad mood, regardless of what they're wearing.

 

[SwissBlade]

What worries me is that Morgs has been sat in the stand all season 'getting a better impression of how the game is going" yet nothing much has changed on the pitch recently. Of course we don't know how much input he had with the previous management and the final decisions would have been with DW but it is concerning.

This is not the place to discuss such trivial matters...

This is about real issues. What he wears will severely affect the way he manages.

 

[Compound_Legend]

 

[Compound_Legend]

Somebody help me out with a vague memory here.
Did I dream that after a match at Grimsby (or could have been Hull!) during the late 80's, Wally Downes (or was it Billy Tightshirt?) ran round the perimeter of the pitch several times and Blades fans were hanging over the fences (remember them?) to high-five him.
Sketchy, I know, and far too many brackets for one post, but someone please help!

I can remember Bob Booker high fiving people on the away end at Bury in the pouring rain,after we beat them 2-1 thanks to Toddy and Deano..that was March '89 in the 3rd Div promotion run in

 

[vorpal blade]

Managers never get the look right. Floppy worsted (lounge) suits never were suitable for a winter's night. The 'country' look is far more suitable, tweed jacket, thinner trouser either colourful corduroy or moleskin. Derry tweed flat-cap and MOST importantly outdoor brogues. You can take the measure of a man immediately by his shoes. Thin soled 'italian' things beloved by the managerial classes are USELESS when pacing up and down on turf. Go for a pair of heavy brogues by 'Trickers' or someone else from Northants.

All of which could be 'set-off' by a varsity scarf with a longitudinal stripe (obviously).

You see the upper-classes and farmers do 'outdoors' very well, think race-horse trainer don't think pissed oik at Donny races.

English Eccentric might be Morgan's idiom, though an old NCB Donkey Jacket might better catch the mood of the moment?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Somebody help me out with a vague memory here.
Did I dream that after a match at Grimsby (or could have been Hull!) during the late 80's, Wally Downes (or was it Billy Tightshirt?) ran round the perimeter of the pitch several times and Blades fans were hanging over the fences (remember them?) to high-five him.
Sketchy, I know, and far too many brackets for one post, but someone please help!

It was Hull away, April 86, drew nil nil but it wasn't Wally Downes, I cant remember who it was. But it did happen.

 

[Wapping Blade]

Managers never get the look right. Floppy worsted (lounge) suits never were suitable for a winter's night. The 'country' look is far more suitable, tweed jacket, thinner trouser either colourful corduroy or moleskin. Derry tweed flat-cap and MOST importantly outdoor brogues. You can take the measure of a man immediately by his shoes. Thin soled 'italian' things beloved by the managerial classes are USELESS when pacing up and down on turf. Go for a pair of heavy brogues by 'Trickers' or someone else from Northants.

All of which could be 'set-off' by a varsity scarf with a longitudinal stripe (obviously).

You see the upper-classes and farmers do 'outdoors' very well, think race-horse trainer don't think pissed oik at Donny races.

English Eccentric might be Morgan's idiom, though an old NCB Donkey Jacket might better catch the mood of the moment?

Keith Hill is the nearest I've seen try for that look and he got pelters!

 

[dingledog]

Tracky for me today

 

[boo radley]

Straight jacket. We all know managers look best with their arms folded

 

[Billyblade]

It was Hull away, April 86, drew nil nil but it wasn't Wally Downes, I cant remember who it was. But it did happen.

Thanks fella. Thought I wasn't dreaming! Would love to know who it was. Anyone?

 

[Linz]

Tracky for Morgs.

And someone managed to wrap one round Unsworth as well. That man is flippin' solid.

 

[Darren]

Somebody help me out with a vague memory here.
Did I dream that after a match at Grimsby (or could have been Hull!) during the late 80's, Wally Downes (or was it Billy Tightshirt?) ran round the perimeter of the pitch several times and Blades fans were hanging over the fences (remember them?) to high-five him.
Sketchy, I know, and far too many brackets for one post, but someone please help!

I am pretty sure that was the game at Hull on 27/2/88. We won 2-1 and Downes was a sub but didn't come on. At the end Bassett made him to run round the pitch a few times as some kind of bizarre fitness routine.

 

[Billyblade]

I am pretty sure that was the game at Hull on 27/2/88. We won 2-1 and Downes was a sub but didn't come on. At the end Bassett made him to run round the pitch a few times as some kind of bizarre fitness routine.

Cheers Darren, thought it was Wally Downes, and I thought it was later than 86.
Seem to remember he was an unused sub as well.
It was bizarre. We were still in the ground cos the police kept us in and I'm sure he went round the pitch about 3 times

 

[Kev Gee]

Tracky for Morgs.

And someone managed to wrap one round Unsworth as well. That man is flippin' solid.

Unsworths build reminds me of Johnny Bravo.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

According to Gibbon the barbarian tribes of Second Century AD Germania would ride into battle wrapped in the skins of their vanquished foes.

Might be a look.

He can turn up on Tuesday wrapped in sredded Swindon shirts?

 

[Pinchy]

It's as irrelevant as the 'arms folded' nonsense. The manager should wear a suit and club tie in my opinion. No-one was ever motivated by the sight of a track-suit.

 

[TarquinDelouche]

I agree with the suit, but a club tie seems a bit cheap and lacking imagination.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

He can turn up on Tuesday wrapped in sredded Swindon shirts?

shredded

 

[Pinchy]

I agree with the suit, but a club tie seems a bit cheap and lacking imagination.

A cravat, then?

 

[TarquinDelouche]

A cravat, then?

A cravat requires a pipe. The first time I see a manager wearing a cravat and smoking a pipe on the touchline, I'm switching my allegiances.

 

[Pinchy]

A cravat requires a pipe. The first time I see a manager wearing a cravat and smoking a pipe on the touchline, I'm switching my allegiances.

Can we compromise on a bow-tie and bowler hat?

 

[TarquinDelouche]

Can we compromise on a bow-tie and bowler hat?

Throw in a monocle and we have a deal.

 

[Linz]

A cravat requires a pipe. The first time I see a manager wearing a cravat and smoking a pipe on the touchline, I'm switching my allegiances.

Surely that sort of get-up also requires a quilted smoking jacket?

 

[mickerz-blade]

Tracky for Morgs.

And someone managed to wrap one round Unsworth as well. That man is flippin' solid.

So that's where the old hot water tank jacket went that we threw out.