Has Been XI

[Guesty]

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.

I have to hold my hands up here and say I don't actually remember anyone but Ehiogu and Ebbrell playing for us (and Ebbrell had a good 45 minutes!).

I misread your next post which named Speed and McCall too.

 

[Deadbat]

End of the road Blades

The likes of McCall, Cowans, Ehiogu, McCall, Speed etc have been good servants.

Basing it in on what one of the posters said that it was a thread 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.

Many of these were internationals and won a lot of honours but for the most part at United they were just well past it and other than the odd glimse it showed they had 'about done.' Some right footers hae to play down the left.....

---------------------Andy Goram----------------------
Earl Barrett---Phil Thompson--Steve Bruce--Paul Parker
David White---Nigel Spackman---Gary Flitcroft--Brian Marwood
---------------Ian Rush--Peter Withe

 

[Darren]

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.

As if by magic...

Day's only game was indeed a defeat at Wimbledon on 2/5/92. We lost 3-0, but he did save a late pen from John Fashanu.

 

[Darren]

The likes of McCall, Cowans, Ehiogu, McCall, Speed etc have been good servants.

Basing it in on what one of the posters said that it was a thread 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.

Many of these were internationals and won a lot of honours but for the most part at United they were just well past it and other than the odd glimse it showed they had 'about done.' Some right footers hae to play down the left.....

---------------------Andy Goram----------------------
Earl Barrett---Phil Thompson--Steve Bruce--Paul Parker
David White---Nigel Spackman---Gary Flitcroft--Brian Marwood
---------------Ian Rush--Peter Withe

Barrett was only on loan and I think you are unfair on White. He played well in the latter part of the 1995-96 and part of 96-97 scoring a fair number of goals for someone playing predominantly on the right wing.

Also, Withe had a reasonable first season (85-86) and was only past it in the next two seasons.

 

[mickle-blade]

What about this for a recently passed on Xl.
Brings back a few memories for us 'old uns'.
1 Mel Rees
2. Cec Coldwell
3. Graham Shaw
4 Harry Latham
5 Joe Shaw
6 Trevor Hockey
7 Jimmy Johnson
8 Jimmy Hagan
9 Doc Pace
10 Mick Hill
11 Gil Reece
Subs from . Alf Ringstead, Harold Brooks, Willie Hamilton. (need a goalie any suggestions)RIP all of them.

 

[Bakewell Blade]

Hao haidong ?! I remember his only game in the carling cup against Cheltenham (I think) what a player !

 

[Darren]

Hao haidong ?! I remember his only game in the carling cup against Cheltenham (I think) what a player !

Actually he came on as a sub in the FA Cup game against Colchester at the Lane on 7/1/06.

 

[themaninblack]

Lion vs Tiger

I was wondering how a team selected from the quality old-timers (Cowans, McGrath, Hatton) would get on against our current first team. Then it struck me, wouldnt it be great if only we could see Big Bad Billy Whitehurst go ten rounds, sorry, 90 minutes, with Captain Morgan? Thats a confrontation I'd pay good money to see!


Not that I would actually pay to see a lion fight a tiger of course...I think...

 

[themaninblack]

Or a gorilla and a bear. I might pay to see an angry wasp fight a dragonfly, but defeat for the dragonfly would be heartbreaking.

God that England game was dull.