first blades player you....

[away ends always empty.]

Colin morris
Any of the Charlie's angels (original)
Olivia Newton John
Keith Edwards

 

[BushBlade]

Colin morris
Any of the Charlie's angels (original)
Olivia Newton John
Keith Edwards

Good call. I've just realised I had boyhood crushes on a lot of attractive women but only ever 'worshipped' Edwards. And I didn't really worship him, I just wanted to be him. For three reasons; he scored a lot, he played for us, a girl I fancied thought he was fit.

 

[snootyfenooty]

I don't get this thing about Sabella when these threads pop up. He didn't play many games for us, didn't score many goals and didn't like cold weather. He was part of the team that got us relegated and worst of all, hid behind the referee for most of the BDM match after getting an early clog. Apart from a few flashes of brilliance, he really did fuck all of note for us. As the saying goes, the older we get, the better they were...

 

[Kabba Kabba Doo]

Tough between Morgan, Jagielka, Brown and Tonge, honourable mention for Steve Kabba too

 

[BanbridgeBlade]

Deano is the obvious one, but i'm also gonna say Gage & Wilder were players I admired.

Growing up I had the misfortune of playing fullback so always looked out for ours at games. Like them I may not have been the most skillful but was more than able to make a tackle!!

Also met Gage after the Palarse playoff final loss & he was distraught. Made me respect him even more.

 

[Mouth of the South]

I don't get this thing about Sabella when these threads pop up. He didn't play many games for us, didn't score many goals and didn't like cold weather. He was part of the team that got us relegated and worst of all, hid behind the referee for most of the BDM match after getting an early clog. Apart from a few flashes of brilliance, he really did fuck all of note for us. As the saying goes, the older we get, the better they were...

It may be a while before people reminisce about how good Hammond, Woolford and Sammon were...

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

....worshipped.

70s we had Currie.
80s Edwards.
90s Deane. (and late 80s)
00s Brown
This decade.....Conor Sammon.

What was your boyhood crush.

Me. Old Keith Edwards.

Jimmy Hagan

 

[Grecian2000]

Jones/Birchenall in equal measures.

I wonder how many would have given it the old "good business" bollocks if the internet were around when my heart got broken for the first time?

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

....worshipped.

70s we had Currie.
80s Edwards.
90s Deane. (and late 80s)
00s Brown
This decade.....Conor Sammon.

What was your boyhood crush.

Me. Old Keith Edwards.[/QUOTE

Alan Woodward first but then Currie gradually took over. Watching him glide past opponents whilst blowing kisses to the crowd was just magic, and he looked like a god.

 

[Esablade]

Dean Hammond...yes, I am Nigel Adkins

 

[CarlingBlade]

First season loved Booker, Agana, Bryson, however Deano was always the main man.

Loved it when we signed Vinnie Jones, a player who someone else had heard of.

It became harder to love em after that, the Sheffield lads are always loved, Bradders etc and loved Jan Aage and his celebrations.

Sharp these days, a Blade, a real fan and doing it for his club.

 

['Doc' Pace my hero]

'Doc' Pace,top player,top man.He was a great goal scorer,good with both feet and the best header of a ball i've seen in the great red and white stripes.He was top scorer in 6 successive season in the late 50's early 60's,all this for the princely sum of £12k,what a bargain,what a player !!

 

[Nade]

Christian Nade for me, funnily enough.

He was always a trier and I liked that. The Arsenal game showed what he was capable of and he showed glimpses at other times too, although he never really fulfilled his potential at the Blades. I liked him though and I was gutted when Robson got rid of him, because he'd have terrorised the Championship if you ask me.

Thankfully I wasn't gutted for too long because I ended up becoming him in 2011. I have his memories and everything.

 

[Lower Drop Blade]

Alex Sabella even wrote to Jim'll fix it to meet him......he seemed a nice bloke whatever happened to him?

 

[71Blade]

im a bit old fashioned and whilst i do love a good flair player im more for the runs through a brick wall for you kind of player so a bit long winded but here is my long list over the years

John Gannon, John Pemberton, Paul Beesley, DEANO my fave BLADES player of all time, and Dane Whitehouse

Jags, Borbokis, Browny, Dellas and Monty just for the effort

Most improved Blades player i ever saw was the Big Aussie Defender Shaun Murphy what Warnock / Blackwell did with him was incredible

UTB

 

[Jonboy60]

Whenever there was a kickabout with mates, I was either mick jones or birchenall.

 

[lingsbord]

Hodgy
McAllister
Currie
Woody
Morris
Edwards
Deane
Agana
Whitehouse
Brown
DELLAS
Kelly
Borbokis
Fjortoft

er.......

er.......

Fleck?


Oh and yes, Grogan............."I should be happy"

 

[Gimli]

Whitehouse - career tragically cut short, first player i idolised as a young kid.
Katchouro - not sure why, but always like him.
Tracey - stalwart and great servant of the club.
Brown - the 02-03 season will live long in the memory and he was responsible for many of the best moments from that season.
Morgs - gave his all in every game, and you knew that he was someone who wanted to win as much as we did in the stands.
Cresswell - a battler, got booed at the start but proved many wrong
Sharp - twice binned off, finally getting to lead the line as captain of the team he supports
Jake Wright - another who proved doubters wrong, a leader and also shows that you don't have to be the fastest or most skilful to be a great defender.

 

[dazzlingblade]

Sabella when I was a kid. Edwards when I started going to matches regularly.

guess we are the same age roughly. same 2 for me!

 

[Cheets]

guess we are the same age roughly. same 2 for me!

Err, my dad told me about them (coughs).

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Dane Whitehouse. Forever my hero.

Good call , particularly when he scored in both games v the pigs .
His unbridled joy at scoring was brillant to see , well for the handful of minutes I saw at the uncertified death trap .

 

[tomtheblade]

First heroes- Deane and Kelly.. club legends

Later, Peschi, Kabba & Jags

Morgs was the cult hero. Can still hear the sound of the Kop singing 'Morgan, knock him out, Morgan Morgan knock him out' when something had kicked off on the pitch

 

[Sharp_1992]

Ndlovu - with my earliest memories of United being very late 90s early 2000 it was amazing to see a player do a step over.

 

[snootyfenooty]

It may be a while before people reminisce about how good Hammond, Woolford and Sammon were...

I'll probably get a deja vu moment whilst out foraging during my second reincarnation as a dung beetle.

 

[LE3blade]

guess we are the same age roughly. same 2 for me!

sabella
edwards
deane
morgan

hands off debbie harry i saw her first

 

[cahill]

TC, hon mentions to Geoff Salmons ( no relation), Gil Reece, Dearden, Badger, Woodward, Mick Jones, Sherman, Hockey,

 

[elgoog44]

Dane Whitehouse. Forever my hero.

I am Friends with his cousin, who is of all things a pig, in fact one side of his family are pigs.

Although he did get me a few autographed bits so not a bad Piggy.

 

[elgoog44]

Mine would be Chris Morgan, Michael Brown and Jags

 

[Silent Blade]

Since 1970

Currie
Woodward
Salmons
Edwards
Deane
Tracey
Whitehouse
Brown
Fleck

 

[Captain]

Strange one but really felt Petr Katchuro was bloody great!From Belarus signed by the late great Howard Kendall