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There have been a few lists for combined Blades/Pigs XI and a Flops XI what about a vetrans United, last pay day, almost in the knackers yard XI.

Here's my selection

Budgie
Ken McNaught, Phil Thompson, Ugo Ehiogu, Stewart Houston
Jimmy Johnstone, Dennis Mortimer, John Ebbrell, Terry Twwwwwwwat Curran
Ian Rush, Don Givens
 

Jon Ebbrell was still quite young I think, even if he only played 45 minutes for us. The three obvious replacements would be Bruce Rioch, McCall or Speed?
 
McNaught wasn't that old - he just had to retire through injury. Played well before that too.

Phil Thompson though - bang on the money!

Peter Withe should have a place in that team.
 
themaninblack said:
Jon Ebbrell was still quite young I think, even if he only played 45 minutes for us. The three obvious replacements would be Bruce Rioch, McCall or Speed?
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Ah, but one of the caveats was "almost in the knackers yard" which fits Ebrell, surely.
 
themaninblack said:
Jon Ebbrell was still quite young I think, even if he only played 45 minutes for us. The three obvious replacements would be Bruce Rioch, McCall or Speed?
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Rioch's not a bad shout. We always used to urge him to use that famous long range shot, but I cannot recall him ever scoring.

McCall and Speed I would not include since McCall had a great season and then stayed on to coach and Speed likewise. They both have more about them than most of the others.

Tell you who else was good though, Sid Cowans and Paul McGrath - pure class both of them.
 
Latters said:
Surely Andy Goram must be in there somewhere. What were those tights all about?!
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Great shout - better than Budgie - who I didn't rate but loads loved him.
I thought he was crap.

Who could forget.
Two Andy Goram's
There's only two Andy Goram's
Classic!
 
Kenilworth said:
Rioch's not a bad shout. We always used to urge him to use that famous long range shot, but I cannot recall him ever scoring.

McCall and Speed I would not include since McCall had a great season and then stayed on to coach and Speed likewise. They both have more about them than most of the others.

Tell you who else was good though, Sid Cowans and Paul McGrath - pure class both of them.
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Rioch scored at Newcastle in a 3-1 win on 14/4/79.
 
Kenilworth said:
There have been a few lists for combined Blades/Pigs XI and a Flops XI what about a vetrans United, last pay day, almost in the knackers yard XI.

Here's my selection

Budgie
Ken McNaught, Phil Thompson, Ugo Ehiogu, Stewart Houston
Jimmy Johnstone, Dennis Mortimer, John Ebbrell, Terry Twwwwwwwat Curran
Ian Rush, Don Givens
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Curran wasn't in the knackers yard by any means. He was probably at the peak of his powers. Wednesday were mightily pissed off to lose him and we sold him on to soon to be champions Everton (for whom he won a league championship medal in 1984-85, albeit as a back up player).
 
Darren said:
Curran wasn't in the knackers yard by any means. He was probably at the peak of his powers. Wednesday were mightily pissed off to lose him and we sold him on to soon to be champions Everton (for whom he won a league championship medal in 1984-85, albeit as a back up player).
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Doesn't stop him being a TWAT of the first order, though does it?
Maybe he should be in a TWAT XI, with a captain's arm band, rather than a has beens XI. Cannot recall that he played that many times for the Toffs before being let out to pasture, though. Snufflegrunting, troughlicking, snorthoggling, curlypigpermed, pigletshagging, caravandwelling, trufflehunter.
 
Kenilworth said:
Doesn't stop him being a TWAT of the first order, though does it?
Maybe he should be in a TWAT XI, with a captain's arm band, rather than a has beens XI. Cannot recall that he played that many times for the Toffs before being let out to pasture, though. Snufflegrunting, troughlicking, snorthoggling, curlypigpermed, pigletshagging, caravandwelling, trufflehunter.
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You don't like him then?
 
Kenilworth said:
There have been a few lists for combined Blades/Pigs XI and a Flops XI what about a vetrans United, last pay day, almost in the knackers yard XI.

Here's my selection

Budgie
Ken McNaught, Phil Thompson, Ugo Ehiogu, Stewart Houston
Jimmy Johnstone, Dennis Mortimer, John Ebbrell, Terry Twwwwwwwat Curran
Ian Rush, Don Givens
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A place on the bench for Malcolm (I think that was his name) Barrass a centre half who was brought in from Bolton ? and was played in place of Joe Shaw. I remember he had greying hair and to me a young kid looked ancient and was one of the worst players I ever saw at the Lane
 

Walthamstow Snr suggests Keith Kettlebrough, Jimmy Johnstone, Vinnie Jones, John Hope and Alan Warboys. Actually, he suggested dozens more but theres only so many you can remember.
 
got to be adrian heath as manager and steve thompson as asst. manager,sure i saw him behind the counter in admirals the other day.
got to agree about peter withe as well - did see him score two though for birmingham i think ,against the blades whilst on loan with them
 
Craig Short was a has been when we signed him and after we lost away to QPR early in the promotion season I wrote him off. Ultimately though I think we got pretty good service out of him. Same with Lucketti.
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
So it's has-been who were shite in the red and white?

how poetic! :D
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Well we're not sure because the original poster has a few players who were undoubtably past their best but were still pretty good when they played for us!
 
Having just read that a 100 year old woman has just set a new world record and won a gold medal at the World Masters Games perhaps we should take this thread a bit more seriously.

There's been some good, bad and indifferent old 'uns mentioned but the one for me is Alan Hodkinson - England goalkeeper who was brilliant - trouble is he was only about 5'4" tall then so given that he must be about 83 now I should think he's shrivelled down to about the 5' mark. But I reckon if Manzoo can attack a penalty area that's at least 36 by 60 yards we could defend a goal that's say 5'3" by 5'6"

Mary

PS the 100 year old says she will be defending her record in 4 years time.
 
davidpinder said:
and Ian Rush
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Ian Rush was one of my first picks for this category.
Legend off football but absolutely bloody useless in a Blades shirt.

Mervyn Day, as I recall only played in one game (cue abuse from Darren on my limited recall of the past) for us and that was a 5-0 defeat at Wimbledon. He was only on loan so that does not count so much for me.

Martin Peters is an interesting shout, although he did "ghost in" as was his style, and score a few headed goals. Grief, were we crap in those days.
 

Guesty said:
Well we're not sure because the original poster has a few players who were undoubtably past their best but were still pretty good when they played for us!
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OK I'll grant you that Ugo was good, McNaught OK and Mortimer was reasonable but you are having a laugh with the rest. Budgie was well passed his prime when he joined us and I cannot understand why he held so much admiration from some Baldes cos he was not the best by a long chalk.

The thread was to see which crocks people remembered from years gone by - those with a high reputation but failed miserably at BDTBL when they signed permanently for a last throw at the dice.
 
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