Cloughie should take a leaf out of his dad's book

[Hodgyman]

Clougie Jnr has made quite a number of signings for us but not all have come good for us. His dad wasn't immune from the odd purchase that didn't meet expectations but was smart enough to offload the duds quickly to minimise the adverse effects of playing sub-standard players on team performances.This was in contrast to many managers who are not too keen on admitting their mistakes.

One purchase of Mr Clough Snr which he wasn't satisfied with was John Sheriden ( the same man that managed Plymouth on Saturday).He was bought to play for Leeds but was swiftly offloaded to our neighbours at S6 after Cloughie saw him training.

We have too many sub-standard players on our books, some of which were signed by Nigel that need the same treatment, starting with McCarthy. Let's have a January sale to clear the way for better players, even if fewer in number.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

He got rid of Butler pretty sharpish

 

[Hodgyman]

He got rid of Butler pretty sharpish

A good start, plenty more to go

 

[Rufus Smalls]

And win back to back European Cups ........ Young man !

Promotion this season would be fine actually .

UTB.

 

[Silent Blade]

One purchase of Mr Clough Snr which he wasn't satisfied with was John Sheriden ( the same man that managed Plymouth on Saturday).He was bought to play for Leeds but was swiftly offloaded to our neighbours at S6 after Cloughie saw him training.

.

Quickly got rid of Asa Hartford, Ian Wallace, Peter Ward, Danny Wilson, Gary Megson, Justin Fashanu and David Currie too

 

[Grecian2000]

Quickly got rid of Asa Hartford, Ian Wallace, Peter Ward, Danny Wilson, Gary Megson, Justin Fashanu and David Currie too

Didn't he once say Megson was incapable of trapping a medicine ball, or was it a bag of cement? Quality either way.

As an aside:

1. Do medicine balls still exist?
2. What was the fucking point of them in the first place?

 

[vorpal blade]

1. Yes they do, I have one here beside me.
2. You grind them up and sprinkle them in your green tea to cure sniffles. It started in China.

A lot of 'chinese medicine' is balls.

 

[Wapping Blade]

Didn't he once say Megson was incapable of trapping a medicine ball, or was it a bag of cement? Quality either way.

As an aside:

1. Do medicine balls still exist?
2. What was the fucking point of them in the first place?

1. Yep - I was using one the other week

2. Presumably to combine weight (they're heavy) with agility, i.e throwing and catching it

 

[Grecian2000]

Good stuff.

I'd hate to think there might be a generation of kids who aren't getting them chucked at their heads for pissing about on the "wall bars".

 

[Silent Blade]

Didn't he once say Megson was incapable of trapping a medicine ball, or was it a bag of cement? Quality either way.

As an aside:

1. Do medicine balls still exist?
2. What was the fucking point of them in the first place?

Bag of cement it was but I also recall Bill Shankly saying that Ted MacDougall couldnt trap a bag of WET cement !

 

[Hodgyman]

Strangely enough, I commented that Higdon couldn't trap a bag of cement at Saturday's match. I also said that he made Baliotelli look a workaholic by comparison.

 

[MiserableBlader]

I prefer this comment 'If Peter Withe drops any deeper he'll be getting in Peter Shiltons way'
Get somebody up front and in the box FFS

 

[blade too long]

we have to wait for the window to unload , and then hope someone takes them

 

[sitwell]

Strangely enough, I commented that Higdon couldn't trap a bag of cement at Saturday's match. I also said that he made Baliotelli look a workaholic by comparison.

He ate one before kick off though.

 

[boo radley]

That's it Nige, get on the booze early.

 

[blade too long]

on the bright side only 3 weeks till the january window opens

 

[Hodgyman]

He ate one before kick off though.

What did he eat, a bag of cement or Baliotelli ?

 

[sitwell]

both but he shared with Ruben Reid and Jose to be fair.

 

[Darren]

Good stuff.

I'd hate to think there might be a generation of kids who aren't getting them chucked at their heads for pissing about on the "wall bars".

Do they still play "pirates" in gym lessons at school.

Now there was a game to bring out the sadist in the games teacher (not that it took much).....

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Do they still play "pirates" in gym lessons at school.

Now there was a game to bring out the sadist in the games teacher (not that it took much).....

I thought it was an essential requirement rather than a hidden one? We had one that took great delight in whacking the straddlers and strugglers in Pirates with the taped end of the climbing ropes in the gym.

He was also the rugby equivalent to Brian Glover in Kes. He played for Sheffield Tigers at the time and seemed to really enjoy big booming tackles against the Casper types. Twat!

 

[Fulwood Blade]

When I think back to my first year at senior school and the circuits we had to do in gym lessons - H&S would go bonkers these days.

Being made to climb a rope suspended from a 30 foot ceiling and you only really succeeded by touching the ceiling is the stuff of nightmares these days - kids don't know they are born !

Thinking back, no one ever got injured which probably shows how pampered kids are these days and how H&S has actually gone too far.

UTB

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

When I think back to my first year at senior school and the circuits we had to do in gym lessons - H&S would go bonkers these days.

Being made to climb a rope suspended from a 30 foot ceiling and you only really succeeded by touching the ceiling is the stuff of nightmares these days - kids don't know they are born !

Thinking back, no one ever got injured which probably shows how pampered kids are these days and how H&S has actually gone too far.

UTB

Plenty got injured back in my day, mostly inflicted by the PE teachers themselves.

 

[Darren]

I thought it was an essential requirement rather than a hidden one? We had one that took great delight in whacking the straddlers and strugglers in Pirates with the taped end of the climbing ropes in the gym.

He was also the rugby equivalent to Brian Glover in Kes. He played for Sheffield Tigers at the time and seemed to really enjoy big booming tackles against the Casper types. Twat!

Did his surname begin with M?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Did his surname begin with M?

No H, though it should've been T or C

 

[Darren]

No H, though it should've been T or C

Ah, I thought you were talking about ny rugby teacher at Newfield. He played for Sheffield RFC rather than the Tigers I believe and on one occasion lifted up the Casper like character in a rugby game, who had been studiously avoiding the ball, and bodily dropped him in a pool of mud.

I am amazed that some people were able to get jobs as teachers.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Ah, I thought you were talking about ny rugby teacher at Newfield. He played for Sheffield RFC rather than the Tigers I believe and on one occasion lifted up the Casper like character in a rugby game, who had been studiously avoiding the ball, and bodily dropped him in a pool of mud.

I am amazed that some people were able to get jobs as teachers.

The only light relief was when a PE teacher covered an academic lesson. Jocks humiliated by nerds as the Americans would have it.

 

[Kenilworth]

It makes you wonder how they were treated at school before they became adults and then selected teaching as their vocation
Probably more of the same and that's how it perpetuates.

None of my PE teachers were sadistic at Ted's - just pretty lethargic and mostly, a bit of a doss.

Actually, come to think of it - forcing us to play Rugby in a horizontal hail storm up at Castle Dyke was not too fluffy.
We all had blotches on our hands and thighs where the hail smacked into us - the game was eventually abandoned when nobody could see the changing rooms or orientate themselves to see where they actually were.

Playing Rugby was bad enough!

 

[Fulwood Blade]

I am amazed that some people were able to get jobs as teachers.

Not really when there were people around such as Jimmy Saville and Cyril Smith (after what the media have said/intimated)- teachers were probably mild in comparison.

UTB

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

I am amazed that some people were able to get jobs as teachers.

In or about 1973 a maths teacher at our school appeared at Sheffield Crown Court for kidnapping. He had chloroformed his housekeeper and tied her up because he thought she was trying to break up the marriage of some friends of his. Pending the court case, he was suspended from teaching, presumably on full pay. He was eventually given a suspended prison sentence, the judge commenting that his motives were honourable even if his methods weren't.

The very next day, he was back at school teaching as if nothing had happened. Unbelievable, but true.

Mind you, he did have to put up for ever after with kids behind his back getting their handkerchiefs out, putting them over their mouths and staggering about only to stand bolt upright as soon as he turned round.

Different times.

 

[Trafford]

Bag of cement it was but I also recall Bill Shankly saying that Ted MacDougall couldnt trap a bag of WET cement !

I liked Jimmy Greaves' comment which may, or may not, have been about Lee Chapman - "he can trap a ball further than I can kick it"