Blades Yorkshire XI

[Linz]

Seeing as it's Yorkshire Day, who would make it into your Yorkshire Sheffield United XI?

 

[stannyblade]

Gary Cahill (even though he supports the Massive)
Whitehouse
Mitch Ward

 

[S64 Blade]

Brian Deane

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Seeing as it's Yorkshire Day, who would make it into your Yorkshire Sheffield United XI?

Kenny
Walker Morgan Cahill Naughton
Bradshaw McCall Whitehouse
Sharp Deane Mendonca

Subs:- Tomlinson, Maguire, Ward, Montgomery, Slew

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Before my time but didn't most of the legendary '71 side come through from local junior football?

Stancliffe should be in there somewhere too. Andy Barnsley can sweep out the changing rooms afterwards.

 

[SheepdipBlade]

Gary Cahill (even though he supports the Massive)

Wasn't Cahill from Dronfield - Derbyshire? Used to see his grandfather (another Piggy Fan) in the Hallows quite regularly.

 

[Darren]

Before my time but didn't most of the legendary '71 side come through from local junior football?

Stancliffe should be in there somewhere too. Andy Barnsley can sweep out the changing rooms afterwards.

NOt many of the 71 side did - off the top of my head the side and their birthplaces were:

1. Hope - Shildon Co. Durham
2. Badger - Sheffield (went to the same school as my dad)
3. Hemsley - Stoke
4. Flynn - Workington
5. Colquhoun - Prestonpans, Scotland
6. Hockey - Keighley, Yorks (though he later managed to play for Wales!)
7. Woodward - Chapeltown
8. Salmons - Mexborough
9. Dearden - Oldham
10, Currie - Edgware, Middlesex
11. Reece - Cardiff

So, only 4 Yorkshiremen and only one born in Sheffield as then was (though Chapeltown came into Sheffield in 1973). Only Woodward, Badger and Salmons came through the youth set up.

 

[mekkyblade]

Seeing as it's Yorkshire Day, who would make it into your Yorkshire Sheffield United XI?

Definately Tim Bresnan!

 

[judge]

Micheal palin

 

[Cheshire Cat]

NOt many of the 71 side did - off the top of my head the side and their birthplaces were:

1. Hope - Shildon Co. Durham
2. Badger - Sheffield (went to the same school as my dad)
3. Hemsley - Stoke
4. Flynn - Workington
5. Colquhoun - Prestonpans, Scotland
6. Hockey - Keighley, Yorks (though he later managed to play for Wales!)
7. Woodward - Chapeltown
8. Salmons - Mexborough
9. Dearden - Oldham
10, Currie - Edgware, Middlesex
11. Reece - Cardiff

So, only 4 Yorkshiremen and only one born in Sheffield as then was (though Chapeltown came into Sheffield in 1973). Only Woodward, Badger and Salmons came through the youth set up.

Cheers for that - funny how our Dads' memories grow rosier with age.

 

[alcoblade]

Micheal palin

Is he a Blade or a Pig?

UTB

 

[stannyblade]

Is he a Blade or a Pig?

UTB

Im sure he is a Pig

 

[travellingblade]

I'd have Mick Jones in the Yorkshire Blades.

Funny, I'd always thought that he was in the 1971 winning line-up, but then I'm an old git.

 

[S64 Blade]

Is he a Blade or a Pig?

UTB

He's a Blade I think. There's a Sheffield United pocket watch on the cover of one of his books and he mentions checking the United scores whilst in the arctic or somewhere else equally as desolate.

 

[Darren]

I'd have Mick Jones in the Yorkshire Blades.

Funny, I'd always thought that he was in the 1971 winning line-up, but then I'm an old git.

Unfortunately he was born in Notts - near Worksop.

 

[alcoblade]

He's a Blade I think. There's a Sheffield United pocket watch on the cover of one of his books and he mentions checking the United scores whilst in the arctic or somewhere else equally as desolate.

Twas a joke fella - I think we've nailed the fact that he's "primarliy" a blade.

UTB

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Think Mendonca was from Sunderland and Tomlinson was another from Dronfield.

 

[Silent Blade]

Unfortunately he was born in Notts - near Worksop.

In a village called Rhodesia!

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Think Mendonca was from Sunderland and Tomlinson was another from Dronfield.

Paul was born in Rotherham. His family moved to Dronfield some years later. His dad was the landlord of the Hyde Park pub