[Confirmed] Neill f*cking Collins

[raul]

And Lenners was right wasn't he?

 

[Blade82]

Epic bump

If only mickey had took the advice given on here!!

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

According to claimer on bladesmad. A decent candidate for the 'worst players we've ever had' thread.

Please Micky, no.

It's finally over

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Fairly average player from what I've seen of him - better than Ertl, Lowry, Nosworthy, Bartley? Debatable. Though would if the rumour's true at the very least be a permanent signing, so would arguably have more to lose through failure than the loanees. Though arguably with less ability to do anything about it...

Little did I know then that Collins would be one of the chief beneficiaries of our relegation and extended stay in League 1...

 

[Esablade]

What's the big secret Foxy? What does Batho do for his wedge? What is he doing and why isn't he telling us?

Also, what does Birch do for his circa £300k? I'm sure Birch's skills mean that he could probably earn more elsewhere if he really wanted to but why is a relatively small business like SUFC with imo a relatively easy set of financial circumstances or set of circumstances no different any other business (ie save every penny) paying a chief exec circa £300k. I would say £150k for someone to run a business like SUFC.

...seems like the playing wage bill is not the only one disproportionate to L1.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/apr/18/premier-league-directors-earnings

"found that the average UK chief executive's salary last year was £215,879, while the average director's salary for a company of up to £249m turnover, which is all Premier League clubs except United, was £150,876.

A minority of clubs did not greatly exceed that, with £200,000 paid to the Swansea City chairman Huw Jenkins, £256,000 to a director unnamed in the accounts at Aston Villa, £135,000 at Blackburn Rovers, and £266,000 at Newcastle, presumed to be Derek Llambias, the managing director."

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Fairly average player from what I've seen of him - better than Ertl, Lowry, Nosworthy, Bartley? Debatable. Though would if the rumour's true at the very least be a permanent signing, so would arguably have more to lose through failure than the loanees. Though arguably with less ability to do anything about it...

What's gets me is how the fans can spot shite from day one but the professionals employed by the club can't.

 

[derryblade]

Nobody not even Collins would say he is the most talented of footballers, but he gave 100% effort. For a player so shite amazed past and present managers selected him 200 times, Christ these managers must be shite. Good luck Collins you weren't the worst player to pull on a blades shirt by a long way, judging by NA overall recruitment so far there might be worst to come.

 

[Ricky]

Well, at least we can say Collins delivered what we expected.

 

[ReeceofBDTBL]

Never grown to despise a player so much as I did him. Did he boll0cks like have a good attitude, some of our fans seem to go into autopilot with any rubbish player who doesn't hand in a transfer request and leeches around the club as being 'passionate'.

Thank god we'll never see him in a Blades shirt again, he symbolises our entire stay in league one so far.

God it's been a long 5 years.

 

[Gavlar]

I'm no fan of Collins, but in fairness to him, in the first season we went down, him and Harry were totally solid at the back and he looked like he had found his level. Granted after that he went rapidly down hill tho.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Wow. Did Collins have us under a gypsy curse? That half of football was about the most positive I've seen in a year at. BL

 

[Bladesman]

Wow. Did Collins have us under a gypsy curse? That half of football was about the most positive I've seen in a year at. BL

He seems to have been part of the problem at the club.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

100% record in the post-Collins era.

 

[bornablade]

It's 2.45pm in the home dressing room. Adkins is about to deliver his final team talk but instead he switches on Collins interview from RS. The response is the players go out there feeling 10 feet tall with an attitude of proving someone wrong.

Thanks Neil.

 

[ReeceofBDTBL]

I'm no fan of Collins, but in fairness to him, in the first season we went down, him and Harry were totally solid at the back and he looked like he had found his level. Granted after that he went rapidly down hill tho.

They still conceded a decent amount of goals to be fair and it's more that we scored over a hundred goals that we got 90 points that season. Didn't exactly have copious amounts of defending to do when we were mainly controlling games or on the attack.

Total 5hite and good riddance, my heart sank whenever I saw him on the team sheet.