Decent Blades players you'd completely forgotten about

[davidblade]

Nick "Monty" Montgomery

I think the word decent was in the title of the thread

 

[Bladepicker]

Scott Marshall on loan from Arsenal. One of the classiest centre backs I had seen. Never understood why his career never kicked on.

 

[SteveBlade]

Glen Little basically had Messi's brain.

 

[CrookesBlade]

Billy Clarke & Matt Phillips on loan.

Ian Bennett was a decent enough stand in keeper when called on.

Marcelo

Didn’t Des Hamilton have a decent loan spell with us? Can’t remember if he was any good or not.

 

[Jan Age]

Jonas Wirmola

 

[metalblade]

What abiut him, I've forgot what they call him ?

 

[YorkBlade]

Always used to like Paul Devlin and think he is kind of a forgotten player

The shouts of SKIN 'IM whenever he started running at some one... not said enough at games these days

Always shouted 'control that Devs' as he routinely had balls pinged at him and he could kill them dead. Great little warrior with fine ball control, dribbling skill and crossing ability. Shame he left the way he did.

 

[Silent Blade]

What abiut him, I've forgot what they call him ?

Dean Hammond

 

[JJ Sefton]

I was shopping with the Mrs and during my day dreaming, for no reason whatsoever, David Tuttle came into my head.

Decent centre half that I'd totally forgotten had ever played for us.

Any others?

Not a Blade, but I was peering through the fogged up window of a Bedford Astramax a little while ago and Stan Collymore popped into my head.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Andy Barnsley .. Rolls Royce of a defender with a deft touch & an eye for goal and an air of calmness from the Paul McGrath mould .. must be considered one of the most unluckiest uncapped players to dorn the red & white shirt

 

[I should coco]

must be considered one of the most UGLIEST uncapped players to dorn the red & white shirt

There you are, fixed that for you.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

There you are, fixed that for you.

Quality ISC

 

[Russ]

Andy Barnsley .. Rolls Royce of a defender with a deft touch & an eye for goal and an air of calmness from the Paul McGrath mould .. must be considered one of the most unluckiest uncapped players to dorn the red & white shirt

How you doin’ Andy?

 

[Large Mendonca]

Jonas Wirmola

Bleedin 'ell you stole my thunder

1993/4 season, thought we'd got a real star in the making at centre half - then he suddenly disappeared !

I think he was homesick ???

 

[wavy-blade]

Glenn Cockerill. Never gets a mention on here. Fcking best midfielder we had around that time by miles

 

[pommpey]

I just wish we had a cabbage patch playing surface to stifle the excellent football being played by the players we always sell to pay for the Desso.

I'll just leave this here, lovey

Peterborough United 1 - 3 Sheffield United (Cowshit Stadium)
Swindon Town 0 - 2 Sheffield United (Mudbath Lane)
Sheffield United 1 - 3 Bury (Superduper Desso)
Sheffield United 2 - 3 Colchester United (Superduper Desso)
Sheffield United 1 - 2 Milwall (Superduper Desso)
Sheffield United 2 - 4 Shrewsbury Town (Superduper Desso)
Scunthorpe 0 - 1 Sheffield United (The Anushole Ground)
Sheffield United 2 - 3 Peterborough United (Superduper Desso)
Colchester United 1 - 2 Sheffield United (Satan's Very Own Angry Bullet Spewing Hot Diahorrea Onto The Pitch Stadium)
Sheffield United 0 - 2 Wigan Athletic (Superduper Desso)
Doncaster Rovers 0 - 1 Sheffield United (Not a bad stadium. Pitch is a horror show in February though. And Jamie Murphy cracked in a 25 yarder the previous season with 10 men, but that's irrelevant … )
Sheffield United 0 - 1 Burton Albion (Superduper Desso)
Chesterfield 0 - 3 Sheffield United (For Fuck's Sake The ref's gotta call this one off Stadium)
Shrewsbury Town 1 - 2 Sheffield United (Jesus fucking Christ. Get Me Wellies Ground)
Sheffield United 0 - 2 Scunthorpe (They like playing on the Superduper Desso, do Scunny)

Oh, and

Sheffield United 0 - 1 Morecambe (who?)

As I patiently explained to coco (and he never replied to when I did) that's a fucking hatful of points (27) we just pissed away on our Superduper Desso pitch, y'think? Especially when we did so blummen well away on shitholes like Shrewsbury and Colchester, who'd already beaten us on the Desso.

So, take your theory and moisten it a little, make it into a liddle biddy torpedo shape, lie on your side, get relaxed, lift up one knee to your chest, take a breath and hold it, find your fart-piece and slip the motherfucker in. Push it deep, so it won't come out next time you come out with bollocks like you have done. The stats uphold my side of it. They refute yours. We played just as well away - in some cases better - on shitbox cowfields as we did on the wonder pitch. If you don't believe me, have another look. If you don't believe me even then, have another look. It won't change each time you do.

Strangely, as soon as we got a decent manager and players (i.e the following season), our fortunes changed. And here we are. In Wilder we trust.

Ta ra

pommpey

 

[Jan Age]

Bleedin 'ell you stole my thunder

1993/4 season, thought we'd got a real star in the making at centre half - then he suddenly disappeared !

I think he was homesick ???

Sorry pal.... yeah a real man mountain played a handful then as you say went back home....

 

[TTMeysh]

Willie Falconer. Quality midfielder totally unsuited to Late Bassett style of play.

Bruno Rebeiro was another who looked a class above, albeit in flashes.

 

[Newbury Blade]

Billy Clarke & Matt Phillips on loan.

Ian Bennett was a decent enough stand in keeper when called on.

Marcelo

Didn’t Des Hamilton have a decent loan spell with us? Can’t remember if he was any good or not.

Marcelo’s greatest moment: scored at Coventry, took his shirt off and threw it into the crowd ..: he had an identical shirt on underneath.

 

[torridon]

Always remember a screamer he scored at Tangmere.

That should of course be Tranmere!

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Gary Speed. Thought he looked every bit a class above anyone else on the pitch when I saw him play. Same applies for Ugo Ehiogu who also, under Blackwell (even though Robson brought him in) was a big player for us.

Once Blades, Always Blades, RIP.

 

[Captain]

Michael Vonk, Dutch centre half scored two headers from corners against Stoke Shitty at Victoria Ground, top centre arf!4-0 up at half time.

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

Toni ‘Bonecrusher’ Kallio

Came on loan from Fulham to shore up the defence, keep us in the Championship and cement Mickey Adams’ status as Blades legend.

Except he was shit.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

What abiut him, I've forgot what they call him ?

I know who you mean - or am I thinking about whatsisname .........

 

[Revolution]

October 1986. I remember he got into a terrible understanding with John Burridge early in his debut and almost gifted Huddersfield a goal. Dont remember him much about him in his spell for us

He missed a bouncing ball and Burridge collided with him or a forward as he came out. Burridge was concussed, but played on, and had no memory of the game.

We were unbeaten in his 5 match spell. He went back to his parent club though (Villa). He ended up at Port Vale where he stayed for years, playing well against us in the 0-0 draw at the Lane on a wet night in 1989.

He was involved in a bizarre incident in 1994-5 in our 2-0 win at Vale. It was 0-0 late on and Flo had just put a good chance wide when Glover gave away a penalty by turning and punching Littlejohn in the face. He was given a red card and Whitehouse scored the pen. Lord knows why he did it.

 

[1889]

Jonas Wirmola

I remember his debut (I think) against Wimbledon, he was superb, never gave John Fashanu a kick.
Thought we’d unearthed a gem, sadly didn’t stay around for very long

 

[Jan Age]

Andy Walker

 

[Plymouthblade]

Franz Carr used to scare a few defenders when he ran at them from the wing, tricky little winger when I was first baptised at the Lane , UTB

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Always used to like Paul Devlin and think he is kind of a forgotten player

The shouts of SKIN 'IM whenever he started running at some one... not said enough at games these days

One of my favourite players when I was younger. Loved watching him.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

How you doin’ Andy?

.. his name came up in conversation in the boozer last week .. in the worst players to ever wear a Blades shirt subject