Admit it.

[ourbob]

Who voted for our midfield genius?

Not on this site anymore but found whilst trawling for summat else.

 

[McGrath]

What would happen if Coutts checked this site, saw that and thought Fuck it... I hate these bastards I'm off to sign for the pigs

 

[Sean Thornton]

What would happen if Coutts checked this site, saw that and thought Fuck it... I hate these bastards I'm off to sign for the pigs

Do you check under the bed and in the wardrobe for bogeymen?

 

[McGrath]

Do you check under the bed and in the wardrobe for bogeymen?

Doesn't everyone?

 

[ourbob]

That's me leaving the landing light on.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Tbf, Chris Wilder might well have cast a vote for him at that point.

 

[boo radley]

What would happen if Coutts checked this site, saw that and thought Fuck it... I hate these bastards I'm off to sign for the pigs

Yes as if Carlos would have got his career back on track. He must be so grateful to the club and the fans for sticking by him.

 

[Revolution]

Whoever voted for Coutts must not have had the ability to predict the future. A vote for him after his performances and lack of effort that season was entirely justified.

I find it bizarre that people keep dredging up threads in an attempt to prove that people were wrong about Coutts. They weren't wrong. He was underachieving massively at the time.

He's playing well now - as he has done for over a year - and is a vital part of the team. I'm glad we have him. But the idea he's always been like that is laughable.

 

[Bristol Blade]

The problem with Coutts at the time was that he was clearly a step up from the rest of your ge team in terms of quality, but most of the time he looked like he couldn't be arsed. Looking back, maybe that was due to ongoing effects from his injury and lack of pre-season training.

The thing that really stands out for me though was an article with a Scottish newspaper where he was laughing about not being able to stick to the diet the club had set him, and I do remember thinking 'what a wanker'.

All credit to him and Wilder for turning it around. I have no doubt he'd be able to cut in the PL now.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

The problem with Coutts at the time was that he was clearly a step up from the rest of your ge team in terms of quality, but most of the time he looked like he couldn't be arsed. Looking back, maybe that was due to ongoing effects from his injury and lack of pre-season training.

The thing that really stands out for me though was an article with a Scottish newspaper where he was laughing about not being able to stick to the diet the club had set him, and I do remember thinking 'what a wanker'.

All credit to him and Wilder for turning it around. I have no doubt he'd be able to cut in the PL now.

No account was taken by most fans that he’d been out for 15 months injured some time prior to us signing him. I made this point back then and drew a comparison with Lee Williamson who was also unimpressive at times when he first joined us. Anyone with a football brain could see there was a classy footballer there but he was playing in a poor team in the wrong position (right wing back) by an idiot of a manager.

Beginning of last season when we struggled in the first few games I posted on here that he should be in the team because we needed his composure and passing. (That met with hostility from some).

I can’t predict the future, but I can tell a good footballer when I see one. Credit to Wilder for motivating him and playing him in the best position. And credit to Coutts himself for working hard to get back to his best.

And as to those fans who like to abuse their own players on these forums, don’t worry, the players aren’t that fickle that they’ll read this and put in a transfer request. Every club has them.

 

[Pinchy]

Whoever voted for Coutts must not have had the ability to predict the future. A vote for him after his performances and lack of effort that season was entirely justified.

I find it bizarre that people keep dredging up threads in an attempt to prove that people were wrong about Coutts. They weren't wrong. He was underachieving massively at the time.

He's playing well now - as he has done for over a year - and is a vital part of the team. I'm glad we have him. But the idea he's always been like that is laughable.

He was a high quality player recovering from a major injury, as some of us pointed out at the time and continue to point out. There was no ‘lack of effort’ but rather lack of match fitness, as some of us pointed out at the time and continue to point out.

We’re uncomfortable with quality here in S2. We much prefer the parochial familiarity of shadow-chasing ragamuffins who can’t play football.

 

[Harrisblade]

We’re uncomfortable with quality here in S2. We much prefer the parochial familiarity of shadow-chasing ragamuffins who can’t play football.

Then why are 26,000 turning up for every home game and tickets for Blades at away games so difficult to get hold of?

 

[Pinchy]

Yes as if Carlos would have got his career back on track. He must be so grateful to the club and the fans for sticking by him.

We should all be grateful that we have a Rolls-Royce of a footballer gracing the Desso and at the heart of our excellent team. Vice-captain too, which speaks volumes for what Tufty thinks of him.

If only he chased aimlessly all over the pitch like a carrier bag in a gale and regarded the football as a temporary nuisance to be offloaded anywhere to anybody, eh?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

There was no ‘lack of effort’ but rather lack of match fitness.

That’s fairly speculative – the truth was we simply couldn’t tell, and the likelihood in my opinion was that it was both. His turnaround wasn’t simply him turning it on with a return to match fitness – he made a clear effort to up his game. Wilder has alluded to that when asked about the turnaround.

There’s no real problem with suggesting Coutts didn’t fancy it that season under Adkins, as very few in the team seemed to.

 

[Pinchy]

Then why are 26,000 turning up for every home game and tickets for Blades at away games so difficult to get hold of?

In the forlorn but fervent hope that their favourite son will one day return to chase dem shadows whilst proper footballers use him as a training aid.

The Bladey legend:

 

[Pinchy]

That’s fairly speculative – the truth was we simply couldn’t tell, and the likelihood in my opinion was that it was both. His turnaround wasn’t simply him turning it on with a return to match fitness – he made a clear effort to up his game. Wilder has alluded to that when asked about the turnaround.

There’s no real problem with suggesting Coutts didn’t fancy it that season under Adkins, as very few in the team seemed to.

Equally, there’s no real problem with suggesting that in S2 we have far more than our fair share of unsophisticated, parochial dullards who don’t know quality when it’s in front of their eyes.

 

[JohnDenver]

We should all be grateful that we have a Rolls-Royce of a footballer gracing the Desso and at the heart of our excellent team. Vice-captain too, which speaks volumes for what Tufty thinks of him.

If only he chased aimlessly all over the pitch like a carrier bag in a gale and regarded the football as a temporary nuisance to be offloaded anywhere to anybody, eh?

Hang on, aren’t we in danger of contradictory imagery within our S2 metaphors? Static traffic cones or energetic carrier bags?

I don’t know what to think now...

 

[Revolution]

That’s fairly speculative – the truth was we simply couldn’t tell, and the likelihood in my opinion was that it was both. His turnaround wasn’t simply him turning it on with a return to match fitness – he made a clear effort to up his game. Wilder has alluded to that when asked about the turnaround.

There’s no real problem with suggesting Coutts didn’t fancy it that season under Adkins, as very few in the team seemed to.

As I have pointed before, Coutts has publicly admitted in more than one interview that he was deliberately playing within himself prior to Wilder being appointed. His reasoning was that he was worried about getting injured again.

I may well have done the same thing had I been him, but the fact remains that Coutts deliberately did not give 100%. It was not just an injury. He did not try as hard as he could have. And that was why Wilder stuck him on the transfer list.

And let's remember the original reason why Coutts got in the side against Southend. Wilder was desperate. There was no one else to turn to. Credit to Coutts, and Wilder, but there was a certain element of good fortune about Coutts' promotion to the first XI. It was not a plan Wilder had hatched pre season.

 

[coaxingstar71]

We should all be grateful that we have a Rolls-Royce of a footballer gracing the Desso and at the heart of our excellent team. Vice-captain too, which speaks volumes for what Tufty thinks of him.

If only he chased aimlessly all over the pitch like a carrier bag in a gale and regarded the football as a temporary nuisance to be offloaded anywhere to anybody, eh?

Like - just for the 'carrier bag in a gale'.

 

[8lade]

Who voted for our midfield genius?

You could also ask who voted for our owners? Huh! Only putting enough money in to sustain a league 1 team's promotion challenge.
Or Cuvelier? A classy player before he was injured.
And others on the list would also have reason to feel hard done by (playing to the best of their ability but just not being good enough).

 

[Harrisblade]

Equally, there’s no real problem with suggesting that in S2 we have far more than our fair share of unsophisticated, parochial dullards who don’t know quality when it’s in front of their eyes.

Pinchy, I've no real problem with you promoting yourself as some sort of football expert (God knows - no one else will) but why can you only promote yourself by slagging off others?
Does constant, repetitive, gratuitous insult make you feel superior?

 

[ourbob]

Whoever voted for Coutts must not have had the ability to predict the future. A vote for him after his performances and lack of effort that season was entirely justified.

I find it bizarre that people keep dredging up threads in an attempt to prove that people were wrong about Coutts. They weren't wrong. He was underachieving massively at the time.

He's playing well now - as he has done for over a year - and is a vital part of the team. I'm glad we have him. But the idea he's always been like that is laughable.

Jesus Christ,it's banter.
I found it when not looking for anything blades related.

Chill.

 

[Revolution]

Pinchy, I've no real problem with you promoting yourself as some sort of football expert (God knows - no one else will) but why can you only promote yourself by slagging off others?
Does constant, repetitive, gratuitous insult make you feel superior?

Whenever I read thing like this, I feel grateful for the ignore button.

I hope someone remembers to remind the football expert that he disapproved of and ridiculed the appointment of Chris Wilder as our manager. What did he call it? Bladey Bladey parochialism or something?

 

[coaxingstar71]

This again!

Thread I started after the 0-0 v Barnsley at the end of the Adkins reign....

https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-enigma-that-is-paul-coutts.46215/

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Equally, there’s no real problem with suggesting that in S2 we have far more than our fair share of unsophisticated, parochial dullards who don’t know quality when it’s in front of their eyes.

Where Coutts was concerned, even those that wanted him gone at the end of 05/06 would say that there were signs of a good player. The problem was application of his talents – something the player admitted he didn’t help with his effort at the time, and which the manager was sceptical would improve when he arrived. The annoyance I had with Coutts was that he clearly was someone with quality, but wasn’t applying it. I can excuse cloggers that put in maximum effort as they are doing their best with their limitations. I am less forgiving of quality that is wasted through lack of effort. Credit to Coutts for turning it around (and for Wilder for persevering), but we shouldn’t revise his career history to suggest his first two mediocre seasons were purely down to lack of fitness.

 

[I should coco]

He was a high quality player recovering from a major injury, as some of us pointed out at the time and continue to point out. There was no ‘lack of effort’ but rather lack of match fitness, as some of us pointed out at the time and continue to point out.

Pinchy looking on for a 'like' with good sensible stuff.

We’re uncomfortable with quality here in S2. We much prefer the parochial familiarity of shadow-chasing ragamuffins who can’t play football.

Tough pal. The straw men must have nicked the 'like' I was about to give.

Hang on, aren’t we in danger of contradictory imagery within our S2 metaphors? Static traffic cones or energetic carrier bags?

It's the 'hoofers' you see. No contradiction at all in the great mind of Pinchy.

Only in S2.....

 

[mosbolad]

Whenever I read thing like this, I feel grateful for the ignore button.

I hope someone remembers to remind the football expert that he disapproved of and ridiculed the appointment of Chris Wilder as our manager. What did he call it? Bladey Bladey parochialism or something?

Was it this Revolution?

Pinchy on Wilder or Tufty as now appears to be his preferred title.....

"He wouldn't get a mention if he had no United connections. He's a complete nonentity.

Bladey Bladey Claptrap. It never changes. Sack a manager with a proven record of success after less than a season and bring in a former Blade on the back of 15 years of not much.

Only in S2....."

Or maybe this?

"Nonentity. Fucking Bladey Bladey Nonentity. Read and learn."

Read and learn Revolution! Read and learn........

 

[boo radley]

We should all be grateful that we have a Rolls-Royce of a footballer gracing the Desso and at the heart of our excellent team. Vice-captain too, which speaks volumes for what Tufty thinks of him.

If only he chased aimlessly all over the pitch like a carrier bag in a gale and regarded the football as a temporary nuisance to be offloaded anywhere to anybody, eh?

Yes your right we should all be grateful that he realised the fans who were calling for him to up his game had a point. The fans who were making the same points as Chris Wilder should be praised. And your also right that he now runs around with much more purpose and plays far less long balls straight out of play rather than that carrier bag you describe or the road cone you used to post as a pictorial representation of him.
It seems he is learning a lot of lessons from Alan Knill, Chris Wilder and taking on board the examples John Fleck shows him.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Where Coutts was concerned, even those that wanted him gone at the end of 05/06 would say that there were signs of a good player

Kinell. Where did those 11 years go?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Sorry I'm late to the thread guys.

Am I too late for the cap doffing?