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bassett or weir

  • harry bassett

    Votes: 49 87.5%

  • davey weir

    Votes: 7 12.5%
  • Total voters
    56
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Simple question , whose football would you rather watch ?
You have 20 pounds for entrance to watch either bassetts team or weirs current sufc side
 

At least under Bassett we created chance after chance.
 
Not even a contest - Bassett mixed the rough and ready with the sublime
With a side including Deano & Agana scoring for fun, Jocky with many assists as well as goals from the flanks,
Hodges and Gannon pulling the strings (and both being able to deliver a top class dead ball) Gayle a tower of strength at the back, Add Gage, Rostron, Whitehouse, and Bob Booker to the mix and you have entertainment with a capital E.
Not withstanding we had three of the best goalies in the league with Tracey, Kelly and Rees all on the books at the same time !
Compare those players who Basset motivated to perform well beyond their expected capabilities against the current shower of sh!te who lack talent, skill, heart, passion, pace and strength !
Also compare the managers - unfortunately their teams mirror their personalities !
 
Given there are only two styles of football in existence and both managers are exemplar exponents of the binary art we call the beautiful game, I'm expecting everyone to be able to respond to this poll without comment!
 
Rodley said:
Given there are only two styles of football in existence and both managers are exemplar exponents of the binary art we call the beautiful game, I'm expecting everyone to be able to respond to this poll without comment!
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Are you suggesting there's something in between? Don't let pinchy know.

:-)

UTB
 
DronnieBlade said:
Thats right.

Give the new lad even more grief by comparing him with one of (if not the) most succesful UTD managers in the last 30 years.

After 7 games .....

Inspired !!!!!
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David Weir is being paid very handsomely (in relative terms) and football is a results business - to date he has failed to produce results - we are now in the relegation zone, have been overtaken by a club deep in debt, playing their home games at a little ground miles away and started the season on -10 points.
At present he deserves grief, he has had a full pre season, signed 6-7 players, only won one game (and that against a ten man bottom of the table woeful side) and has not got a striker on the books who has scored a goal this season in competitive matches.
I don't feel sorry for David Weir, I expected him to do a good job given his credentials and his past playing experience.
Clearly, he is not up to the task!
 
I personally don't see the point of this comparison. Naturally most people would choose the winning football as the most entertaining but Bassett managed the Blades two decades ago when you could have sustained success playing that way. How many teams can you name now that are playing that way and flying through the divisions.......?

I can name a few clubs off the top of my head that are currently hitting a brick wall trying to play direct/percentage football. The current group of players we have wouldn't win regularly if you asked them to play in any style imo.
 
DronnieBlade said:
Thats right.

Give the new lad even more grief by comparing him with one of (if not the) most succesful UTD managers in the last 30 years.

After 7 games .....

Inspired !!!!!
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After 7 League games

Weir P7 W1 D1 L5 F5 A12 Pts 4
Bassett P7 W2 D0 L5 F4 A11 Pts 6

Not much in it and yes we did go on to be relegated.
 
Bassett was the right man for his time. He gave us four seasons of top flight football against all the odds. It was a fantastic time for all of us who experienced it and I for one am grateful.

He was, however, very much a man of his time. The game passed him by a very long time ago. He is now a dinosaur who long since became unemployable in football management.

It's a ridiculous question. Try Harris or Bassett and restrict your question to those of us who lived through both. Remember this: our attendances, even at top level, were embarrassing under Bassett. Many, many people voted against his style with their feet. His last 18 months at The Lane were appalling with crowds down to around 10,000.

So, if you're asking: Bassett, but it's a ludicrous, irrelevant and meaningless comparison.
 

Pinchy said:
Bassett was the right man for his time. He gave us four seasons of top flight football against all the odds. It was a fantastic time for all of us who experienced it and I for one am grateful.

He was, however, very much a man of his time. The game passed him by a very long time ago. He is now a dinosaur who long since became unemployable in football management.

It's a ridiculous question. Try Harris or Bassett and restrict your question to those of us who lived through both. Remember this: our attendances, even at top level, were embarrassing under Bassett. Many, many people voted against his style with their feet. His last 18 months at The Lane were appalling with crowds down to around 10,000.

So, if you're asking: Bassett, but it's a ludicrous, irrelevant and meaningless comparison.
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now you know how we all feel
 
Time didn't pass him by. He got old. Like everybody does. You may as well say Brian Clough became a dinosaur. If DB was around now, a young man, he would be just as successful as he was back then. Football has moved on, my arse.
 
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KenMcnaughtsNuts said:
Time didn't pass him by. He got old. Like everybody does. You may as well say Brian Clough became a dinosaur. If DB was around now, a young man, he would be just as successful as he was back then. Football has moved on, my arse.
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I've seen some nonsense on here. That's in the top ten. Bassett would play hoofball. It wouldn't work.

In case you hadn't noticed, Wimbledon are extinct and Watford now play proper football. What's John Beck doing these days.

Interesting that you mention your arse. I disagree with it's opinion.
 
Stoke failed miserably in the premiership with hoof. It's yesterday's football. They should get Weir in.

:-)

UTB
 
Pinchy said:
The other 94% of the Premiership clubs need to sort themselves out. Hoof is the Word.
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In the real world there's Swansea and Stoke, and believe it or not (drum roll) a whole spectrum in between, that dare to occasionally lift the ball off the floor.

UTB
 
Allardyce it is then! Or Bassett? Or Warnock? Or Wilder?

Back to the Future at Jurassic Lane. Happy Days!
 

It was a serious question - not seen anything of Oxford but thought they had the reputation of playing on the deck?
 
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