[Confirmed] Adams & Cork gone

[SteelCity Blade]

I fully agree with this. However, there are plenty of clubs in Leagues One and Two who have put together decent sides on a shoestring budget; nothing stopping us doing the same.

Indeed and thats what we need to try and do, but our style of play cannot come first in our present situation. We need to look at what sort of player we can potentially get and build a strategy from that moving forward. We have to be realistic is all I'm saying because we dont have the finances to pick and choose.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

A squad of 20-25 Sheffield United players and a manager who lasts the season would be nice

 

[LSF]

If that's too much too soon, at least pop into the 20th. You might bump into Beckenbauer, Platini and Bergkamp. Not a bad spine, that.

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But it's quality rubbish LSF. Composed with loving care especially for you :hug:

I guess if we start winning next season, we can all think we are playing lovely football. Winning kind of changes the goggles you view the game through. Win = lovely football. Lose = turgid shite.

 

[beechblade]

A squad of 20-25 Sheffield United players and a manager who lasts the season would be nice

I'll second that.

 

[super_pig]

>Only our fans would even tolerate this ragamuffin, sterile, mind-numbing, upanatem non-football
pinchy.. that is some post!.. grade f**king A mate..
i find it mind boggling that some of our fans think that if you play fancy football you are bound to lose.. anyone at the top of the league play hoofball?.. no.. because it is not the most effective method.. and all this guff about .. aah well we can't afford messi so we'll have to play hoofball.. brighton don't play hoofball (they would murder us) and neither do huddersfield.. the players are around in the lower divisions.. we need to find them.. donny's progress has slowed recently because they are pretty much playing the second 11.. (and still didn't get relegated)

and as for this..
>because we dont have the finances to pick and choose
hello wakey wakey.. we are in the third division.. we are f**king man utd down here mate.. we should be able to beat up 'any' team financially with our supporter base at this level

 

[shorehamview]

Whereas Hoofball always looks shit - Win, lose or draw!

Proper football is simple - Pass and Move not Hoof and Hope.

I am always amused by the ludicrous notion that Hoofball is somehow more effective at gathering points. It isn't.....

When does a pass become a hoof? At what precise point of the ball's travel does it cease to be a "precision pass" and become a "speculative welly"?

I'm interested. Do you sit and watch armed with a laser range-finder, picking on long passes? If they travel over the set distance does your applause for a good pass morph into booing for the hoof?

Or is it the team, or the player? Glenn Hoddle used to like to play long balls, but he never seemed to hoof it. Man Utd seem to play "probing passes" which are never a hoof irrispective of who the ball goes to, be it Berbatov, Hernandez or those five Sikh fellas in the crowd. Whereas of course if a Sheffield United player plays a long ball it's hoofing, regardless of the end result of either killing the hot-dog seller or a move that ends in a goal.

Most teams mix up their style of play. Sometimes the pass required is short, sometimes long. I'd just like to know at what precise distance "hoof" applies.

 

[gavtheblade]

nice one rich-especially pointing out the tubanators!

 

[Pinchy]

When does a pass become a hoof? At what precise point of the ball's travel does it cease to be a "precision pass" and become a "speculative welly"?

I'm interested. Do you sit and watch armed with a laser range-finder, picking on long passes? If they travel over the set distance does your applause for a good pass morph into booing for the hoof?

Or is it the team, or the player? Glenn Hoddle used to like to play long balls, but he never seemed to hoof it. Man Utd seem to play "probing passes" which are never a hoof irrispective of who the ball goes to, be it Berbatov, Hernandez or those five Sikh fellas in the crowd. Whereas of course if a Sheffield United player plays a long ball it's hoofing, regardless of the end result of either killing the hot-dog seller or a move that ends in a goal.

Most teams mix up their style of play. Sometimes the pass required is short, sometimes long. I'd just like to know at what precise distance "hoof" applies.

Precise long passes targeted to feet or in a players stride are part of the beautiful game. The team retains possession and the attack flourishes. Currie and Hoddle were notable exponents. It was a delight to behold.

Long aimless punts in the general direction of the opposition goal, culminating in a messy 50/50 scramble for possession or the ball sailing merrily into Row Z, are Hoofs. Michael Doyle and Nick Montgomery are notable exponents. It is excruciating to behold.

Its quite simple really.

I'll leave you to decide which variety our bunch of inept plodders are capable of. Here's a clue:

We :heart: Hoofing.

P.S. Our chairman made it abundantly clear tonight that an end to this wretched hoofing will be an essential part of the remit for our new manager.

Hallelujah!

 

[shorehamview]

I'll leave you to decide which variety our bunch of inept plodders are capable of. Here's a clue:

We :heart: Hoofing.

Give over. The league position clearly shows us to be not as shit as Scunny. Mind you, as Olle is fond of saying, the league table lies.

Fuck knows what that means though. And I'm sober, if a little giddy of kipper right now.

So carry on with your hoofiness. I'd rather we played football that got promotion. A mixture of hoofy and tipp-tappy. We could call it, well, football.

Have a shark.