Blades players you thought looked decent but can barely remember

[Darren]

Martin Smith. Scored about 10 to 15 goals for us in the first half of the season and was promptly sold to Huddersfield and did nothing before seemingly falling off the face of the earth. I think he was potting around in the lower divisions after that but not sure.

He got 15 goals by Jan, but I believe was only on a 12 months contract, having been released by Sunderland in the summer. At that point Huddersfield were going for promotion from the 2nd tier under Steve Bruce whilst we were in a relegation fight. I assume Hudders offered him more money in Jan and we thought we would cash in, so off he went. Bad move as his time at United turned out to be the high point of his career

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

He got 15 goals by Jan, but I believe was only on a 12 months contract, having been released by Sunderland in the summer. At that point Huddersfield were going for promotion from the 2nd tier under Steve Bruce whilst we were in a relegation fight. I assume Hudders offered him more money in Jan and we thought we would cash in, so off he went. Bad move as his time at United turned out to be the high point of his career

Pretty sure he also verbally agreed a deal with Forest but the week after he joined Huddersfield?

 

[highpeakblade]

How about the Chinese Superstar Striker that came to the lane on a record fee??? Don't know if you remember much about it at the time but we paid a staggering £1 for a striker who in all fairness had a cracking goalscoring record for both his domestic clubs in China as well as the national team....you guessed yet?

"Hao Haidong" his name was!

Little did we know at the time but it seems that was about the time when McCabe was building bridges over in China and soon after we began our relationship with Chengdu and we all know the rest of the history with that one. I remember reading it on the back of the star and thinking bloody hell this is something different. A Chinese international at the lane at a time when there was only a few scattered around the top flights.

I think he mustered up a staggering ZERO performances for us, even Sun "Bruce Lee" Jihai managed a dozen or so for us! Glad we only paid a quid? We gave him a squad number but was he ever intended as a squad player? Nah it was a business move and wool pulled over our eyes!

 

[United Aren't Back.]

John Connaughton - played well for Man U in the 1-1 draw at BDTBL in April 1972. Never played one good game for us.

Gary Jones - on loan from Bolton in February 1975. Was going to be the new Martin Chivers but Furphy decided that he didnt "fit in" with the lads

Peter Dornan - highly rated at Linfield when he signed for us in late 1976. Left us after only few weeks as he thought professional football wasnt for him

his mate Steve mckee was promising on the left wing too

 

[shorehamview]

Steve Finnieston. Signed from Chelsea in 1978, he only played for a part of a season and had to retire through injury at 25. He's the main one that sticks in my mind, I suppose mainly because I was only 10 when he signed.

 

[brownie4583]

Trianausaurus Dellas.....remember him scoring a screamer at BDTBL,he went on to score the winning goal in extra time for Greece in 2004 European Championship semi-final in 1-0 win

 

[Superblades]

I'll start:
Jean Phillipe-Javary

He always impressed me, what happened to him?

 

[Silent Blade]

Silent what's your general knowledge like?

Specialist subject SUFC 1970-75 on Mastermind you'd piss it

My general knowledge isnt bad. My worst subject would be music and 2nd worst would be books. I like to watch "The Chase"

 

[Silent Blade]

his mate Steve mckee was promising on the left wing too

I think McKee had an unsual condition when playing football. When I saw him play for the reserves it seemed that a bit of blood came out of his nose throughout the match. On returning to my boarding school i asked my schoolmate from Northern Ireland who supports Linfield about what I noticed about McKee. He said it was the same when McKee played for Linfield but his team mates and the ref ignore it as if they know about it

 

[Kenilworth]

I noticed it anyway

It tickled my ribs

 

[LSF]

From the 60's.......
Willie Smith
Cameron Evans from Rangers, played one reserve game in pissing rain and pissed back off to Glasgow the next day!
Barry Gordine
Paddy Buckley, one of the fatter pro footballers I've seen!

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

He always impressed me, what happened to him?

Not sure, but he was really good for us and was unfortunate to be released by us. Mind you, at that time we had Brown/McCall/Monty/Tonge/Ndlovu etc.