First impressions...

[Silent Blade]

Peter Dornan. Came from Linfield as the new George Best. Played 3 times. Got homesick. Went home.

He said he wasnt enjoying being a professional footballer and having to think about football all the time so he went back to part time contract at Linfield

 

[CM14blade]

Sun Jihai.
Fantastic singing, played well, got sent off, in came Kyle Naughton from the Academy and we never saw him again

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

Peter Dornan. Came from Linfield as the new George Best. Played 3 times. Got homesick. Went home.

What a build up he got before he arrived Nick, was certainly no George Best, crushing disappointment.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Sun Jihai.
Fantastic singing, played well, got sent off, in came Kyle Naughton from the Academy and we never saw him again

I liked him , although I never heard him sing .

Was it the song that Man City had for him ?

" Singing aye aye yippee Sun Jihai
Singing aye aye yippee Sun Jihai
Singing aye aye yippee, his mother's got a chippie
Singing aye aye yippee Sun Jihai "

 

[1889]

Jonas Wirmola, made his debut v Wimbledon at Bramall Lane, bullied John Fashanu and never gave him a kick all game. Sadly a performance never to be repeated.

Paul Coutts seemed to be here forever before blossoming into the most valuable player in the squad, before having his leg broken at Burton

 

[blade too long]

Ian Rush and Peter Withè

Knew they were near the end when we got them had no idea they'd retired months before in their heads

 

[grafikhaus]

In a similar vein to Brian Howard, Leon Britton. Great little sub cameo debut.

Mind you, I'm not sure he was entirely dogshit. Just dogshit for us.

Britton was 'in the wrong place at the wrong time' for us. After playing 295 times for Swansea, he played under four managers within the space of five months at the Blades and eventually asked to return to his former employer, stating that his previous transfer had been a "mistake" and that he "should never have left Swansea". Back there, he played another 166 games for The Swans (mostly in the PL), so obviously had summat abaht him.

 

[Sikkim]

I'll start with Brian Howard. Was awesome for Barnsley and then in that brief sub appearance on debut, looked like we'd pulled off a stormer.

Thing is he didn’t actually do that much on his debut. If I recall he managed to find a few players with short passes and didn’t play it long.

That was all that was required at the time to make us coo over a player.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Peter Hetherston. Arrived from Scotland as the next big thing. Hit the post or bar about 15 times in a dozen or so matches and then disappeared back to the sweaties.

Steve Finnieston was the answer to our long standing centre forward issue. Looked decent initially, turned out to be made of balsa.

 

[blade too long]

Got to add John Ebbrell
Our million pound first
Looked fabulous for 10 minutes
Then stretchered off never to be seen again. What was at the time 5 seasons worth of investment gone

 

[Silvio Morris]

I would agree John Ebrell

I was gutted when Tony Tony Tony Agana left for Warnock's Notts County, but unfortunately his injuries would hamper his career.

 

[TJB.]

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[Tezza1889]

Shipperley played a big role in us getting promoted that year - thought he did a really good job myself! For someone who was clearly nearing the end of his career.

I’ll always remember Leicester shitting themselves when he cane on against them, think it was first game of the season, scored a great header..

Was good for us in my opinion..

 

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Ignore the angry reaction, just another tester!

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Thought this thread was going to be about the new Forum design.🖥

 

[wizadry]

Ignore the angry reaction, just another tester!

How did you do that Switch? It might be handy at some point.

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

How did you do that Switch? It might be handy at some point.

If you're using a desktop I'm not sure, but for mobile if you click and hold the "like" button, a few new options appear.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

At the risk of blashpemy, how about a certain Mr Sharps second spell? By no means all his fault and definitely a victim of circumstance; the idiots we had in charge at the time deciding to play him on the wing for example., But he was the great white hope at the time; a genuine goal scorer, one of our own that could become a legend. Thankfully, he got there, just about 8 years later than expected.

See Kevin Blackwell

 

[Booker4]

Jonas Wirmola, made his debut v Wimbledon at Bramall Lane, bullied John Fashanu and never gave him a kick all game. Sadly a performance never to be repeated.

Paul Coutts seemed to be here forever before blossoming into the most valuable player in the squad, before having his leg broken at Burton

I often wondered (at the time anyway!) why he went back to Sweden so soon having looked so composed at the Lane? I saw the Wimbledon game and he looked good in his other games too and it's not like we were blessed at centre half because, with all due respect to two Blades favourites, Gayle and Beesley were past it. Dave Tuttle was the other and he looked class, shame he got injured and then we sold him.

 

[wizadry]

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[gavtheblade]

Vincent pericard was fucking abysmal.

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

Vincent pericard was fucking abysmal.

He wasn’t that good !

 

[tyke1889]

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[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

When we signed florent Cuvellier I was adamant he was just what we needed.

Add James Wallace to that who past managers had said he was PL quality if he could just stay fit....

 

[georgethecat]

When we signed Barry Hayles I was delighted. That went well.

 

[bricktop]

I thought Jose Baxter would be an absolutely brilliant signing for us

 

[Snowman]

I expected more from the Higgopotomus
I was disappointed to lose Lee Evans
I obviously know sweet fa

One player I knew was shite and I was right was Jon Cullen. You youngsters can google him.

 

[S64 Blade]

Shipperley played a big role in us getting promoted that year - thought he did a really good job myself! For someone who was clearly nearing the end of his career.

His overhead kick against Preston, at home, was pure genius.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

A lot of these do turn out to be strikers – I also thought Hayles was a really shrewd signing at the time.

I’m going to go with Iffy Onuora. The minute he was linked I thought he was perfect – exactly the right person to partner Asaba, reigniting their successful strike pairing at Gillingham. While you’d never wish injury on anyone, his season-ending injury a handful of games in paved the way for Wayne Allison to emerge as the hero.

 

[AnglesWithDirtyFaces]

I often wondered (at the time anyway!) why he went back to Sweden so soon having looked so composed at the Lane? I saw the Wimbledon game and he looked good in his other games too and it's not like we were blessed at centre half because, with all due respect to two Blades favourites, Gayle and Beesley were past it. Dave Tuttle was the other and he looked class, shame he got injured and then we sold him.

I think his last game was away against Wimbledon at Shelhurst Park, no body had a good game that day.

Back then I used to go to the away games on Kaz's coaches and some how we managed to blag our way in to their players lounge for drinks after the game, you could tell from looking at Jonas that he had played his last game.

That game at home against Wimbledon when he bullied Fashanu was one of the best debuts I've ever seen, you could hear the sound of the post when he bashed the Fash in to it from the Kop