Best no. 8 since 1999

[Darren]

Amazingly. Brown won 100% of the votes for the no.7 shirt. I can't see anyone else matching that.

Our dream squad is now.

1. Paddy Kenny
2. Matt Lowton
3. Wayne Quinn
4. Nick Montgomery
5. Chris Morgan
6. Phil Jagielka
7. Michael Brown

On the nightmare side, for the no. 6 spot it was a battle royal betweeh Hunt and Nosworthy, with our Nyron narrowly coming out on top. The nightmare squad is now.

1. Steve Simonsen
2. Daryl Westlake
3. Gary Flitcroft
4. Danny Higginbothan
5. Rob Kozluk
6. Nyeon Nosworthy

For the no.7 spot for that squad, as no-one but Brown got a vote, there is a run off elsewhere for everyone else for that spot.

Time for the no. 8's. As before, you only vote for thne time the player wore that shirt. Players wore other shirts as follows:

Ndlovu: no.16 2001-04
Peschisolido: no. 16 Jan-Feb 01 and no,10 2002-04
McCall: no.24 2004-05
Gray: no.19 Feb-May 2004

I don't think we need any designated nightmares candidates here.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

90% of this team is just going to be the 2002/2003 crew.

Warnock is God. We love hoof!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Gotta be the leg-end that is Antony Stokes. Where's his cousin/nephew or whoever it was that posted on here? He'll vote him in!

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Gotta be the leg-end that is Antony Stokes. Where's his cousin/nephew or whoever it was that posted on here? He'll vote him in!

I can still picture him blasting a pre-match shot into the kop and taking out a woman who was carrying armfulls of food up the steps. Not funny for her, but hilarious from afar

 

[Revolution]

Anthony Stokes, the answer to the question "how can we be sure that the standard of football in Scotland is not as high as in England?"

Taylor, Murphy and Flynn are of course further examples.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

If I could vote for a combination of the bits of each that were good it would be much easier.

McCall - brilliant for first 3/4 of 2002-3, slower and slower for the rest
Andy Gray - penalties and goals but a lot of standing or walking about
Curtis Woodhouse - never been so happy with the terms of a transfer out of the Lane, home-grown hero that he was
Peter Ndlovo - did his best work in another shirt number
John Stead - some marvelous work in patches in the Prem, one of the bravest headed goals since Edwards at Bolton
Akinbiyi - scored against the pigs

Guess it reflects the constant demand for a quality midfielder that never arrived!

 

[Darren]

Anthony Stokes, the answer to the question "how can we be sure that the standard of football in Scotland is not as high as in England?"

Taylor, Murphy and Flynn are of course further examples.

I read somewhere once that given that the population of Scotland is about a tenth that of England, the 12 teams in the SPL are equivalent to the top 120 teams in England. So the bottom of the SPL is about conference national standard and the middle of the table is generally no better than the English 3rd and 4th divisions.

That also means that, at Falkirk, Taylor was whacking in goals at Conference North or Northern Premier League level.

 

[Revolution]

Andy Gray - penalties and goals but a lot of standing or walking about

Remember when people used to complain about rubbish players like James Beattie and Andy Gray who used to do nothing but score goals?

Good times.

 

[super_pig]

Andy Gray only scored penalties.. he was like an NFL special teams section by himself

 

[Darren]

On second thoughts I am designating Stokes as a nightmare candidate. So hello, if you want your vote to count please explain why you voted for him. Otherwise, Stokes reverts to zero.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

90% of this team is just going to be the 2002/2003 crew.

Warnock is God. We love hoof!

Only problem is pete , he also bought most of the cack as well .

 

[iggle-theblade]

thats it though from 99 to now the Warnock years have been the best if you take it back and go late 80's to 99 then the majority would be Bassett players Deane Agana Hodges ect which some what proves the Blades way is hoof mixed with a bit of football at times every other manager we have had has not lasted long enough to build a team like Bassett and Warnock did ??

Maybe we have to take a step back with Warnock to go forward ???

 

[stannyblade]

Only one winner for me - Wish we had a Macca now

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Gotta be the leg-end that is Antony Stokes. Where's his cousin/nephew or whoever it was that posted on here? He'll vote him in!

Its not me by the way .

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Only one winner for me - Wish we had a Macca now

We almost did , but he did'nt want the job .

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

thats it though from 99 to now the Warnock years have been the best if you take it back and go late 80's to 99 then the majority would be Bassett players Deane Agana Hodges ect which some what proves the Blades way is hoof mixed with a bit of football at times every other manager we have had has not lasted long enough to build a team like Bassett and Warnock did ??

Maybe we have to take a step back with Warnock to go forward ???

Prior to Bassett we were never, ever associated with long-ball football at all. Not that I'm saying you're one of the nouveau Skyfan twats Iggle, who think football was invented in 1992 but there's decade after decade of no 'hoof' in our histoy!

 

[sheffielder]

One fucking vote for Doyle over McCall. OK, who is off their tits?

 

[iggle-theblade]

Prior to Bassett we were never, ever associated with long-ball football at all. Not that I'm saying you're one of the nouveau Skyfan twats Iggle, who think football was invented in 1992 but there's decade after decade of no 'hoof' in our histoy!

i started going in 1983 with my dad aged 3 so my earliest memories are the Bassett years as i was too young before that. i have heard stories off my dad of Curie Woodward Hockey and also that the team that went down to the 4th division, i am not saying return to the hoof but we something needs to change.

not saying bring Warnock back [though i wouldn't say no] but a change to a more mixed style of play is needed.

 

[Gavlar]

Remember when people used to complain about rubbish players like James Beattie and Andy Gray who used to do nothing but score goals?

Good times.

That's what we said about Blackman last year

 

[Houso]

One fucking vote for Doyle over McCall. OK, who is off their tits?

Never mind that, Doyle currently has more votes than Britton.

You're on the board aren't you Michael?