Chedwyn

[Tyler Durden]

Blimey, I never intended on upsetting folk or creating arguments.

Just asked a question on how odd it will be for him and if he'd be more likely to acknowledge fans or just shoot down the tunnel.

Didn't offer my opinion or insult our fans, just asked a question which some people seem to have taken personally.

Calm down, the Blades are going up!

Just so you know, I wasn't having a go at you, just the idea that he should be acknowledged at all on that day.

 

[FMBlade1]

I doubt it was him planning to take legal action against us, but if it was a real story I imagine we'd have heard about it by now, probably was just needless tabloid speculation.

Its a shame, in any other circumstance getting 35 goals in a season to lead us to promotion would usually be enough to be considered a hero. His performances merited it, the system failed him and us, so he's not a hero and is pretty much irrelevant like all our former players are.

I for one will be enjoying each and every game like the rest of you


Edit: Though Tyler, when successful ex-players return don't we acknowledge them some way? If so he deserves a polite round of applause when his name is called out, don't know why he should be treated any differently. Of course odious chants are to be avoided.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Unfortunately, there is still a body of opinion amongst some Blades fans, that the mere donning of a red and white striped shirt is all that is required to return this particular player to the form that scored 35 goals. I said when he was released that he'd had a long time out of the game and would never return to those heights again, his form at Chesterfield is confirming that.

He's no different to any other ex-player appearing at the Lane. Some get booed, some get applauded. He might get both, he might get totally ignored but he certainly isn't due any special consideration. My hunch is that he'll be injured!

 

[Dec]

Indeed you don't get jailed for being an idiot, but being an idiot can get you jailed.

It shouldn't have got him jailed, though, which you agree with. So it's a bit unfair to blame the failed promotion on him after he unjustly served 2.5 years behind bars.

If he didn't get sent down, his form suggests he would've kept scoring. Or as others have said, we may have sold him and freed up some budget to spend on someone better than Hoskins.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

The question was whether he derailed our promotion campaign, not his guilt/innocence.

Even the most harden Ched fan boy should be able to acknowledge that it did derail our promotion bid.

Not forgetting that his inadequacies in 2010/11 contributed to our relegation in the first place. He is at least partially responsible for us even needing a promotion bid from this league.

 

[HillmortonBlade]

Blimey, I never intended on upsetting folk or creating arguments.

Just asked a question on how odd it will be for him and if he'd be more likely to acknowledge fans or just shoot down the tunnel.

Didn't offer my opinion or insult our fans, just asked a question which some people seem to have taken personally.

Calm down, the Blades are going up!

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Unfortunately, there is still a body of opinion amongst some Blades fans, that the mere donning of a red and white striped shirt is all that is required to return this particular player to the form that scored 35 goals. I said when he was released that he'd had a long time out of the game and would never return to those heights again, his form at Chesterfield is confirming that.

A bit harsh to judge him on his form in a relegation team

 

[PeteBlade]

Victim blaming.

I really have heard it all when it comes to the Ched obsession.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

A bit harsh to judge him on his form in a relegation team

Maybe, but I spoke with a friend who watches Chesterfield who thinks he's part of the reason that they've got relegated.

Then again he did think Ernie Moss was a quality player!

 

[Tyler Durden]

It shouldn't have got him jailed, though, which you agree with. So it's a bit unfair to blame the failed promotion on him after he unjustly served 2.5 years behind bars.

If he didn't get sent down, his form suggests he would've kept scoring. Or as others have said, we may have sold him and freed up some budget to spend on someone better than Hoskins.

A team in such form throughout the season doesn't capitulate like that without being seriously unsettled. The issue hung like a black cloud over us in those final weeks and he has to bear his share of responsibility for that.

It's not a question of him being sent down. It's the fact that his actions created the situation in the first place.

 

[Dec]

A team in such form throughout the season doesn't capitulate like that without being seriously unsettled. The issue hung like a black cloud over us in those final weeks and he has to bear his share of responsibility for that.

It's not a question of him being sent down. It's the fact that his actions created the situation in the first place.

The issue was around the club for a fair while before he actually got sent down and the team (and Ched) were coping fine and winning games at a canter.

If he didn't get sent down (which he shouldn't have), it's difficult to argue against the possibility that promotion could quite easily have been achieved.

 

[Tyler Durden]

The issue was around the club for a fair while before he actually got sent down and the team (and Ched) were coping fine and winning games at a canter.

If he didn't get sent down (which he shouldn't have), it's difficult to argue against the possibility that promotion could quite easily have been achieved.

He was jailed on 20th April. From 21st April onwards we didn't win another league game. He may have not deserved a jail sentence for rape, but his actions put him in a position to be out of the team at the most crucial point.

 

[Dec]

He was jailed on 20th April. From 21st April onwards we didn't win another league game. He may have not deserved a jail sentence for rape, but his actions put him in a position to be out of the team at the most crucial point.

My point is that he shouldn't have been jailed, so harsh to blame him.

Gonna leave it here as we're just gonna go round in circles at this point and I've done enough Ched debating to last a few lifetimes...

 

[Fanny magnet]

My point is that he shouldn't have been jailed, so harsh to blame him.

Gonna leave it here as we're just gonna go round in circles at this point and I've done enough Ched debating to last a few lifetimes...

He should have acted more responsibly in the first place ,like someone who gave a fuck about the club it's supporters and even bizarrely enough his girlfriend

 

[RammyBlade]

Since he signed for Chezzy, eyes have been on the two fixtures against them.

The last time he was on the Bramall Lane pitch he scored a late goal to put United 3-1 up and all but secure us a place in the Championship.

Five years and two weeks later, he'll be back and it's highly likely that it will be a party for the home fans whilst the away team will be sunk to the fourth tier.

Is he likely to be mobbed and put in a Blades shirt or will he want to escape down the tunnel quickly?

Either way, it'll be an odd day for Ched Evans.

Why would we want to mob him and pt him in a Blades shirt - he isnt coming back and dont want him now as well as the fact that if he had kept it in his shorts in the first place we would have been up then

 

[Tyler Durden]

My point is that he shouldn't have been jailed, so harsh to blame him.

Gonna leave it here as we're just gonna go round in circles at this point and I've done enough Ched debating to last a few lifetimes...

Fair enough. For the record, we do both agree that he at least shouldn't have been jailed.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Not forgetting that his inadequacies in 2010/11 contributed to our relegation in the first place. He is at least partially responsible for us even needing a promotion bid from this league.

Spot on. Evans was dogshit for most of his time with us.

 

[PokerBlade]

If he features, give him the polite muted round of applause that plenty of ex-players get and be done with it.

The guy's done nothing for Chesterfield, largely owing to fitness problems, but still nothing. We're on our way up, without him, with the division's top scorer. What do we have to do to leave this behind us?

 

[PittsburghBlade]

And the fact that whilst we've already had a highly prolific goal scorer and consumate professional up front for the past two seasons, we've had to endure a load of boneheads squealing "sign Ched" all the time. Like he's a divine answer to a problem that doesn't even fucking exist.

I love billy to bits but him and ched aren't that different as we would all like to think, they both slept with a woman out of their relationship and one was a married one who got someone pregnant

 

[Rodley]

He had one decent season. He got himself in a situation, which rightly or wrongly, fucked our season up completely.

We don't owe him anything.

Anyone who cheers him needs their bumps feeling. He's yesterday's chip paper. Not fit to lace the boots of the first XI.

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

Ched Evans should be treated like the rest of the last 7 years

Consigned to history and forgotten about.

Along with Kevin Blackwell, mickey Adams, Danny Wilson, Neil Collins, Michael Doyle, Michael higdon and jay fucking mceverly

Goodbye and good riddance, one day we will look back a laugh about it.

Hopefully while we're waiting for MOTD to come on and moaning that we are on last again.

 

[blade too long]

On his day he could Destroy us , and we all know it .

no one can destroy us

 

[Barney]

The question was whether he derailed our promotion campaign, not his guilt/innocence.

Even the most harden Ched fan boy should be able to acknowledge that it did derail our promotion bid.

FMBlade1 is right though. Ched legally did nothing wrong. Therefore 'he' didn't derail anything, it was the wrongful decision in the first instance that did that. Whether that comes down to the lack of the extra evidence or whatever.

 

[Barney]

Indeed you don't get jailed for being an idiot, but being an idiot can get you jailed.

He was a prat, yes, but the fact that it got him wrongfully jailed is not his fault.

 

[mancunianblade]

He has more Yellow cards that's Goals this season and hasn't scored in 2017 I actually thought people had let it go and the club had finally got back to being bigger than the man. Obviously not.. wouldnt be surprised if given a choice between promotion this season or league one next season but amChed coming back they would go for the latter..

 

[COME BACK CHED]

no one can destroy us

Germans tried hard enough , oh and Brian Robson

 

[Davalon]

I know someone old enough to know better, who thinks Ched was a better player for us than Brian Gayle, John Gannon, Paul Beesley, Jamie Hoyland, Charlie Hartfield, to name but a few.

The mind boggles with a few people.

 

[itsinyerblood]

Redundant thread.

Tired, lame repetitive obsession by those who aren't paying attention to what's going on at United.

At least one ITK poster claimed that Wilder would be in for Evans in last January's transfer window, seems the football grapevine came a cropper with that one.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

he's part of the reason that they've got relegated.

Sounds familiar...

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Why would he be mobbed and put in a Blades shirt? Are we gonna do that to every ex-player who comes to the lane.

A player who arguably cost us our best chance of promotion,

why the fuck would he indeed!

On his day he could Destroy us , and we all know it .

The only day he destroyed any tem was the day he decided it would be jolly larks to pick up a drunk girl and have a three's up with his mate.

No doubt his behavior was inappropriate and stupid by the way, but 'it' was caused by other people's mistakes. You can't blame him for the fallout.
Its a shame, in any other circumstance getting 35 goals in a season to lead us to promotion would usually be enough to be considered a hero. His performances merited it, the system failed him and us, so he's not a hero and is pretty much irrelevant like all our former players are.

He was unprofessional in being there in the first place, not putting the club first or behaving in a way we should expect from our players. His actions cost us promotion and caused the club millions of pounds worth of negative publicity.
He took the best part £6 Million out of this club directly in wages and fee and delivered for three quarters of a season in league one. Do you really think he's a United hero for what he cost us, £6 Million plus everything else for a league one player?