Definition of happy clapping

[sitwell]

Thing is, patience has gone out of the window in direct proportion to our finances.

Chedwyn is a £3m luxury we can no longer afford in his current hasn't scored since decimalisation state. We will need to find a buyer in summer.

Play him at right back and sell him to saggy chops.

 

[William Large]

Play him at right back and sell him to saggy chops.

Saggy Chops!

 

[alcoblade]

EVANS is a victim of the shite system we play. Henderson (somehow) scores goals but he is shocking. EVANS was poor yesterday but can you blame him when the service is so bad.

so Evans is great, but can't score because of shite service. Henderson is shite because he somehow scores goals, despite the shite service. Len's right, the world has gone mad....

Other than pace, power, creativity, skill, nous or finishing ability, Evans is the complete striker.

UTB

 

[happyhippy]

EVANS is a victim of the shite system we play. Henderson (somehow) scores goals but he is shocking. EVANS was poor yesterday but can you blame him when the service is so bad.

Would that be Hendersonpen, just like Beattiepen? I am not always a happy clapper, you know. Sometimes, I am a thoroughly pissed off clapper.

 

[Foxy]

What would happen if I stood up in the AGM and asked 'Mr McCabe, can you update me on the current financial state of Blades Realty?'

I would get asked to leave or a get a load of corporate shite thrown back at me. He wouldn't answer the perfectly sensible questions raised by a few on here.

So what you are saying, is that because you've already decided what he would say, you won't ask him?

Why not ask him and give him the opportunity to surprise you?

I know a number of people that have and have been pleasantly surprised.

 

[sitwell]

EVANS is a victim of the shite system we play. Henderson (somehow) scores goals but he is shocking. EVANS was poor yesterday but can you blame him when the service is so bad.

A bit of effort might help.

 

[lenners]

Thing is, patience has gone out of the window in direct proportion to our finances.

Chedwyn is a £3m luxury we can no longer afford in his current hasn't scored since decimalisation state. We will need to find a buyer in summer.

You've just found the one upside to our financial meltdown, we can get rid of the worst (big money) centre forward since Guthrie.

 

[raul]

Play him at right back and sell him to saggy chops.

Ah, but what if he loans him back??

 

[AlienWoodward]

You've just found the one upside to our financial meltdown, we can get rid of the worst (big money) centre forward since Guthrie.

Jesus Chris Guthrie and Steve Ludlam what a nightmare it was seeing those two run out in the same team together.
I can honestly say i'd take Ched and Ginger any day over those two

 

[lenners]

Jesus Chris Guthrie and Steve Ludlam what a nightmare it was seeing those two run out in the same team together.
I can honestly say i'd take Ched and Ginger any day over those two

Whatever happened to Steve Camack?

 

[sitwell]

Whatever happened to Steve Camack?

He was landlord at The Princess Royal in Woodhhouse Mill last I heard ,Ludlam was a postman on Woodseats after getting the bullet from Worksop Town ,Guthrie was a Rent boy in Cambodia.

One of these isn't true ;-)

 

[lenners]

He was landlord at The Princess Royal in Woodhhouse Mill last I heard ,Ludlam was a postman on Woodseats after getting the bullet from Worksop Town ,Guthrie was a Rent boy in Cambodia.

One of these isn't true ;-)

Which of the first two is it?

 

[Nick Jansky]

Which of the first two is it?

He's gotcha!!

It was the last one. He's a rent boy in Bolivia.

His signing was the first time in my youg life that eager anticipation turned to the bitter ashes of disappointment once I saw the useless great fooker play. Sarfend certainly lifted our leg on that one. Sums up the Blades for me. Top 6 finish, followed by signing him. Same as it ever was.

 

[lenners]

He's gotcha!!

It was the last one. He's a rent boy in Bolivia.

His signing was the first time in my youg life that eager anticipation turned to the bitter ashes of disappointment once I saw the useless great fooker play. Sarfend certainly lifted our leg on that one. Sums up the Blades for me. Top 6 finish, followed by signing him. Same as it ever was.

Didn't we have similar issues with Steve Finneston? About £100,000 a couple of years later and bobbins, though possibly injury prone?

 

[Nick Jansky]

Didn't we have similar issues with Steve Finneston? About £100,000 a couple of years later and bobbins, though possibly injury prone?

Injury prone. Had a groin injury that finished his career not long after signing, another John Ebbrell if you like.

But I do remember A brilliant piece of writing in the otherwise very ordinary journalistic career of the late Tony Pritchett. Discussing said injury, he made reference to it being of real concern, "not least to Mrs Finnieston."

Very risque for the Star in the late 70s!

 

[lenners]

Injury prone. Had a groin injury that finished his career not long after signing, another John Ebbrell if you like.

But I do remember A brilliant piece of writing in the otherwise very ordinary journalistic career of the late Tony Pritchett. Discussing said injury, he made reference to it being of real concern, "not least to Mrs Finnieston."

Very risque for the Star in the late 70s!

I can't work out if we were worse in the late 70s or mid 80s for sheer crapness.
In the late 70s, Steve Charles was supposed to be the next big thing.
In the 80s, it was David Frain.
It's a toss-up.

 

[AlienWoodward]

I can't work out if we were worse in the late 70s or mid 80s for sheer crapness.
In the late 70s, Steve Charles was supposed to be the next big thing.
In the 80s, it was David Frain.
It's a toss-up.

I bumped into David Frain a few years ago running a diy shop in crookes. He said united paid him £150 a week. At the same time he was running up and down the wing on a hundred and fifty quid I was being paid £200 a week to manage a jewellers shop. !! To think years previously I would have thought he was earning more than me when I saw him play

 

[Nick Jansky]

It's a toss-up.

You could insert various other adjectives in place of "toss". The whole period was a particular low in a generally underwhelming last 40 years.

Worst player I ever saw play for the Blades is still Mark Blount. I was at Bury the night they dumped us out of the League Cup and he gave the worst performance I have ever seen a Blades player give. It was at the very end of Bassett's reign. I'll never forget that night, we were stuck in a traffic jam on the Mancunian Way on the way to the game when the OJ Simpson verdict was announced. Everybody in the cars surrounding us looked as amazed as us. Paul Holland scored a late consolation as we were walking back to the car. And I never leave games early.

Talking of former players, my youngest daughter's best friend is Emma Todd, daughter of Mark. I see him a lot in the school playground, and what a great bloke he is.

 

[JohnDenver]

Worst player I ever saw play for the Blades is still Mark Blount. I was at Bury the night they dumped us out of the League Cup and he gave the worst performance I have ever seen a Blades player give.

The really scary thing about Mark Blount is that Bassett said he was a vastly improved player. I distinctly remember Bassett saying he thought he'd dropped a real bollock in signing Blount, but then the guy came on leaps and bounds (apparently).

Can you even begin to imagine!?!

 

[AlienWoodward]

The really scary thing about Mark Blount is that Bassett said he was a vastly improved player. I distinctly remember Bassett saying he thought he'd dropped a real bollock in signing Blount, but then the guy came on leaps and bounds (apparently).

Can you even begin to imagine!?!

He's still playing apparently at Gresley Rovers
http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/sheffutd/sheffutd.htm

 

[Nick Jansky]

He's still playing apparently at Gresley Rovers
http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/sheffutd/sheffutd.htm

We signed him from Gresley Rovers in the first place.

Jonathan Hunt is still playing non league. Read about him in the Non League Paper last week. He had one fantastic game for us, but the rest were completely toilet.

I still regularly watch Steve Hawes playing for Stocksbridge Park Steels. I think he is the youngest ever player to appear for us in the PL. Another very nice lad, usually sits on the team bus to away games (which the fans can travel on for £5) with his nose in a book.

 

[happyhippy]

He was landlord at The Princess Royal in Woodhhouse Mill last I heard ,Ludlam was a postman on Woodseats after getting the bullet from Worksop Town ,Guthrie was a Rent boy in Cambodia.

One of these isn't true ;-)

Steve Ludlam used to have a pub in Retford. Can't remember which one though.

 

[Pinchy]

Yesterday showed us without any doubt whatsoever that our midfield players cannot control a football match without Monty being in there winning the ball.
They simply aren't good enough to out-football anyone.

He doesn't win the ball. The vast majority of his contact with the ball leaves the opposition in possession, either with the ball at their feet or taking some sort of dead ball kick, including penalties.

As for Quinn, I've certainly not forgotten his previous performances. Yes he causes less damage playing wide left than in his ludicrous outings in the centre but we really do need to move on from these stalwart liabilities. The pair of them are embarrassing the club.

 

[DuncDisorderly]

I half-heartedly went to the agm and hadn't read the annual report. I listened, didn't expect to hear much and only bothered to read it a few weeks ago when you could sense that what was being said in the transfer window wasn't necessarily going to transpire.

So. You were there, but you didn't do any reasearch when you had the opportunity, and couldn't be arsed to ask the awkward questions of the people best equipped to answer them when they were sitting in front of you.

Just wanted to get that straight, before you make your next thousand posts on why this research isn't done and the questions aren't being answered.

Cheers

Love and kisses

Dunc.

 

[Darren]

Injury prone. Had a groin injury that finished his career not long after signing, another John Ebbrell if you like.

But I do remember A brilliant piece of writing in the otherwise very ordinary journalistic career of the late Tony Pritchett. Discussing said injury, he made reference to it being of real concern, "not least to Mrs Finnieston."

Very risque for the Star in the late 70s!

Not quite. Finnieston played 20 odd games in 78-79 but managed only 4 goals. He was still on our books in 79-80 (and featured in the pre-season team photo), but never played a game and his contract was cancelled in Feb 80. He then went off to play for Addlestone and Weybridge in (I think) the Southern League.

 

[Darren]

Whatever happened to Steve Camack?

We flogged him to Chesterfield in early 1976. He then went on to have a very good career in the lower divisions, moving on to Scunthorpe, then Lincoln and then back to Scunthorpe. I may be wrong, but I think he is Scunthorpe's all time record scorer.

 

[sitwell]

Steve Ludlam used to have a pub in Retford. Can't remember which one though.

He used to run Aunt sallys at Broomhill and was also landlord of the Hermitage on London Rd (don't know what they call it now). Our Sunday league team migrated there from the Barrell and he used to train with us ,he was Ok but not outstanding.

 

[Revolution]

No, but he nearly did. He got two in the 4-1 win over Ipswich on 26/3/88 and, when we were 4-1 up, we got a pen in the last minute. Beagrie should have taken it but let Cadette take it to get his hat trick. The goalie saved a weakish effort.

It bears mentioning that in addition to his goal/penalty adventures Cadette also won a 500 quid holiday voucher in the Blades Revival draw at half time!

There was an odd goal in that match. Paul Williams got sent off for breaking Tony Humes' nose as Wally Downes was about to swing a free kick into the box. After all the fuss had died down, Downes swung in a low cross which everybody missed and it snuck into the corner of the net.

That game was sandwiched between 0-5 and 0-6 defeats...

I may be wrong, but I think he is Scunthorpe's all time record scorer.

He is indeed.

 

[Grecian2000]

I see him a lot in the school playground, and what a great bloke he is.

That's not a sentence you see very often.

Some hideous players mentioned in this thread but no mention of my all time Lane disaster Denis Longhorn. What a tool.

Mark Blount was unfortunate to have Mark Foran introduced alongside him at more or less the same time. As partnerships go I think we'd have been better off with Richard and Judy in the back four!

 

[Revolution]

I still regularly watch Steve Hawes playing for Stocksbridge Park Steels. I think he is the youngest ever player to appear for us in the PL. Another very nice lad, usually sits on the team bus to away games (which the fans can travel on for £5) with his nose in a book.

2 thoughts about this:

- Hawes can only be about 31/32 even now by my reckoning. Wow, he was an early starter

- If we are looking to raise money, let fans on the team coach for a fiver seems like a winner to me...