Best of - the future

[Darren]

We will be finished with my best of since 1999 polls in early November and I thought I would extend it to have "best of" squads for the 70's, 80's and 90's . Obviously there were no squad numbers back then (except in 93-4 - see below), so I will just do the poll on the basis of 1-11 with the winner getting the 1-11 number shirt in the squad and the runner up getting a 2nd 11 squad number - so runner up in no.2 would get no.12, runner up in no.1 would get 13, runner up in no.3 gets 14 and so on, so we end up with a 22 man squad for each decade. The same principle would operate for the least votes in the nightmare squad.

You would qualify for a number you would either have to have played 10 or more games in that number, or, if you have played 20 or less games have played at least half your games in that number or if you don't qualify on that basis to have played your most games in that number.

We did, of course, have squad numbers in 93-4 and I thought the players with numbers 1-11 would go into the polls for that number, whereas the ones with numbers 12 on would be allocated numbers based on where they generally played so Flo would be 9, Tuttle 5 etc.

When we have done all 3 decades and 1999-2013, we could then have the winners for all four sets of polls for numbers 1-22 in grand polls to get the best and worst United squads since 1970.

Might be fun...

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Alan Woodward gets my vote as best in my 40 yrs of suffering..much better than Currie and showed loyalty, which is why he was better than Currie. Terry Garbett, Steve Faulkner, awful.

 

[Caveblade]

Geoff Salmons, Billy Dearden, Woody, Currie, Badger et al, if only someone had told me this was the best it would ever get!

 

[CG Blade]

Terry Garbett. Worst player ever to grace the red and white stripes. Makes me shiver just thinking of his name

 

[Grecian2000]

Alan Woodward gets my vote as best in my 40 yrs of suffering..much better than Currie and showed loyalty, which is why he was better than Currie. Terry Garbett, Steve Faulkner, awful.

I love Woody to bits, it shouldn't be overlooked he submitted several transfer requests in his time and "loyalty" basically meant the club would choose not to sell him.

You might regret that last sentence in time . . . . !

 

[JJ Sefton]

Might be fun...

Maybe, more specifically, you could compare squads/teams that played in the third tier (79-81, 82-84, 88-89, 11-?)?

 

[Bath Blade]

Terry Garbett. Worst player ever to grace the red and white stripes. Makes me shiver just thinking of his name

I hope his daughter doesn't read this forum!

 

[Grecian2000]

Terry Garbett. Worst player ever to grace the red and white stripes. Makes me shiver just thinking of his name

His only moment of distinction was getting booked BEFORE we'd even kicked off at Carrow Road. Classic moment.

 

[CG Blade]

I hope his daughter doesn't read this forum!

and if she does! still my opinion

 

[judge]

I was hoping this would be some kind of pyschic prediction thread of next seasons team

 

[stannyblade]

I was hoping this would be some kind of pyschic prediction thread of next seasons team

Division 3 Champions.

 

[BladeFisher]

I love Woody to bits, it shouldn't be overlooked he submitted several transfer requests in his time and "loyalty" basically meant the club would choose not to sell him.

You might regret that last sentence in time . . . . !

When did he submit them?

 

[Grecian2000]

I haven't got Silent and Dazzlers memory for these things (being normal like!) but he was often doing so in the '70's when these sort of events were big news. Probably only for show (or a bit more wedge) but always made the Star and the board always made a big thing of turning him down.

For the record TC/Woody/Badger are my all time favourite Blades should anyone think I'm blackening the great mans name.

 

[BladeFisher]

I haven't got Silent and Dazzlers memory for these things (being normal like!) but he was often doing so in the '70's when these sort of events were big news. Probably only for show (or a bit more wedge) but always made the Star and the board always made a big thing of turning him down.

For the record TC/Woody/Badger are my all time favourite Blades should anyone think I'm blackening the great mans name.

Woody my hero too.

 

[Silent Blade]

His only moment of distinction was getting booked BEFORE we'd even kicked off at Carrow Road. Classic moment.

That was in February 1974. He didnt play the ball forwards after two or three attempts but I thought it was for the beginning of the 2nd half?

 

[Silent Blade]

When did he submit them?

After Arthur Rowley got the sack in August 1969, Len Badger requested a transfer too at the time. I think it was because the players were unhappy that Harris and Wragg didnt settle the bonus dispute at a meeting in Holland (Rowley whisked the players off to a horse race meeting at Hilversum) where the 1st team were playing pre-season friendlies. The other time I remember Woody asking for a transfer along with TC was in January 1976 (it was headlines news in the Green Un on the day we lost 1-0 at Arsenal). Sirrel offered Woody the captaincy in the Summer which made Woody decide to withdraw his transfer request

 

[Grecian2000]

That was in February 1974. He didnt play the ball forwards after two or three attempts but I thought it was for the beginning of the 2nd half?

Pretty sure it was at the start Silent. He DID play the ball forward and the referee didn't realise which way we were kicking and booked him for, as you say, persistently not playing the ball forward. The booking was recinded as it was the man in blacks mistake.
Out on a limb here, because those grounds I've been to a number of times sort of blend into one another these days, but wasn't the game in jeopardy right up until after 2pm because of bad rain and did we lose 2-1 with Ted Hemsley (of all people) scoring an injury time "consolation" whilst half the away support was on their way out, causing an Ibroxesque return up the stairs for quite a few?

As a side note, Carrow Road with its ever changing "away end" is one of only 8 grounds that I've seen United play from all four sides.

 

[Silent Blade at work]

Pretty sure it was at the start Silent. He DID play the ball forward and the referee didn't realise which way we were kicking and booked him for, as you say, persistently not playing the ball forward. The booking was recinded as it was the man in blacks mistake.
Out on a limb here, because those grounds I've been to a number of times sort of blend into one another these days, but wasn't the game in jeopardy right up until after 2pm because of bad rain and did we lose 2-1 with Ted Hemsley (of all people) scoring an injury time "consolation" whilst half the away support was on their way out, causing an Ibroxesque return up the stairs for quite a few?

As a side note, Carrow Road with its ever changing "away end" is one of only 8 grounds that I've seen United play from all four sides.

I was at my boarding school that weekend. It rained heavily in Newbury on the Sunday so the compulsory Sunday Walk was cancelled so I was able to watch "The Big Match" on TV. I cannot remember which match was the main match but after that they did show a few minutes highlights of the Norwich v Blades match. I think Ted MacDougall and David Stringer scored for Norwich before Hemsley's consolation (he was grounded battling for the ball, swung his leg out to kick the ball and assisted by the wind, it ballooned over keeper Kevin Keelan and and into the net. My mates were saying to me that it was a fluke goal!). I do remember TV showing the Terry Garbett incident and you might be right that it was at the start of the game

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Pretty sure it was at the start Silent. He DID play the ball forward and the referee didn't realise which way we were kicking and booked him for, as you say, persistently not playing the ball forward. The booking was recinded as it was the man in blacks mistake.

So the referee confronted by 10 men wearing red and white shirts in one half and ten in yellow shirts in the other half, didn't realise which way we were kicking!?

Did that really happen? If so , he much be the worst referee ever!

 

[Selly]

If so , he much be the worst referee ever!

I'll bet he could at least count to 2 correctly...

 

[Grecian2000]

So the referee confronted by 10 men wearing red and white shirts in one half and ten in yellow shirts in the other half, didn't realise which way we were kicking!?

Did that really happen? If so , he much be the worst referee ever!

Yes it really did. Three times we tried to kick off and after the third the yellow card went up. Much argument from the team and he eventually let us kick off at the fourth attempt.
It was bizarre, as no-one knew why he kept making us re-take the kick off and why Garbage was booked until the report in the Star on Monday when it revealed what he'd done. He can't have done much else wrong otherwise he'd be on my referee "hate" list.