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God help the keepers that played behind the likes of Williams, Collins, McEvelely and Westlake.

As good as Moore and Blackman are I wonder how they would have performed behind that line up!

Mind you we did have Maguire around that time ish and he's world class (well, really, really good) so erm, do I have a point here? o_O
 
McEveley had a great start to his career and was highly rated. Not sure what element it was that he lacked but plenty of teams before and after us have given him a game. Maybe he's wonderful in training and a really nice bloke? Either way he's played over 350 league games but not started more than 80 at any one club. Id say that' the sign of a sub standard journeyman
 
Rodley said:
Off the top of my head, in the last few years the following left backs were worse:-

Daryl Westlake
Marcus Willliams
Jasper Johns
Aidy White
Stephen Jordan
Joe Mattock
Toni Kallio
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Stephen Jordan was steady if unspectacular and played in a higher division for us.

Joe Mattock bust his leg in front of a bunch of Leicester fans who seemed to be celebrating that fact. Which I thought was a pretty scummy thing to so... I don't recall any standout poor performances.

As for Jasper Johns, he never played for us anyway so how can you judge
 
John Street West Terrace said:
Nosworthy ... old ten bob head the ball came of it anywhere but straight & he had the positionally sense & mobility of cow with CJD
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Nosworthy ... How many goals did he cost us because he thought he could dribble the ball out defence like Rio Ferdinand.

I swear we'd have not got relegated if he'd have just wellied it into the stand everytime
 
nicksufc said:
I know everyone has rewritten history to state that they were both terrible, but both had runs in the team where they were exceptional. McEveley was awesome in the League Cup run in particular whilst 2,000 Unitedites at Ipswich on the last day of the season were chanting 'Blackwell, sign him up!' about Nosworthy, after another quality performance. Just shows you what we know...
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I think the problems with Nyron started occurring when Speed took over from Blackwell and tried to get him and the rest of the cloggers to play football on the deck.

Nyron was good when he just stuck to the basics of defending
 
mosbolad said:
God help the keepers that played behind the likes of Williams, Collins, McEvelely and Westlake.

As good as Moore and Blackman are I wonder how they would have performed behind that line up!

Mind you we did have Maguire around that time ish and he's world class (well, really, really good) so erm, do I have a point here? o_O
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Imagine Lee Baxter behind that backline :eek:
 
McGrath said:
Stephen Jordan was steady if unspectacular and played in a higher division for us.

Joe Mattock bust his leg in front of a bunch of Leicester fans who seemed to be celebrating that fact. Which I thought was a pretty scummy thing to so... I don't recall any standout poor performances.

As for Jasper Johns, he never played for us anyway so how can you judge
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Johns made at least one appearance for the first team and looked absolutely atrocious.

Jordan and Mattock weren’t as bad as Westlake and Williams but ran them very close. Mattock looked like he was dialing it in most games. You’ve forgotten how crap they were - I thought Deadbat was very lenient in his end of season appraisal...

Stephen Jordan was brought in after he had looked set to sign for Portsmouth in pre season after leaving Burnley. He had shown promise in his early days at Man City but now his career seemed to have stalled. United offered him a one year deal seeing they needed some competition at left back. He came in against Preston and did fairly well and was in the team for the next month or so but his performances were mixed and he, like Taylor, before him was poor positionally and did not seem to get tight enough to his man or be alert to danger. He then was dropped before picking up an injury when he returned. This seemed to be the pattern for much of the rest of the season as he would play a few games, then maybe get injured or be taken out due to poor performances and then return and the same would happen. Remember one wretched mistake at Leeds which led to the winning goal. He only actually played 14 games in total and from December onwards only started 2 games before being released in early April. Another signing that was a total failure and when he did play he did not really look up to it often being part of a defence (with others) that threw away goal after goal. He had a decent left foot but again like many others we signed seemed to think he was better than he actually was when all we wanted was someone to do the basics. Unsure what his future holds now he hasbeen released by two Championship teams in successive seasons and will probably have to start again down the leagues but he is now 29.

Grade E-

Joe Mattock was another loan signing Adams made in an attempt to shore up the defence. He was out of the reckoning completely at West Brom after they signed him for decent money from Leicester but at 20 is still thought to have a big future. He did not really convince in his spell at the Lane and was another left back that was probably better going forward than defending. For fear of repeating myself (sorry) he was another that gave his winger too much time and seemed to simply; disappear from his position at key times! Completely one footed to the point where he would never use his right foot. He has a decent left foot and got a few crosses in that caused problems in his spell but he routinely made daft mistakes throughout his loan and I cannot really recall one game where I can say he played well in.

Grade E
 
Mceveley im sure personally is a lovely guy but business is always easily in my worst defence. he was a liabilty competing every weekend with collins to be opposition best attacker. i wanted him out post Swindon 5-5 & some how he was made captain

i enjoyed chatting to a tranmere fan who i know on Twitter through motorsport & hos reply was brilliant
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Poor Jay.

Remember seeing him in a home game v Barnsley (first game he was tried as a centre half, I think?) & he was magnificent.

Sadly, he never reached those heights again.
 
BrownTonge said:
Was he the worst defender to play more than 30 games for us in our entire history?
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Feels like a lifetime since we last had a Worst player in our history thread which didn’t contain a good half dozen of the current line up.
 
Rodley said:
Off the top of my head, in the last few years the following left backs were worse:-

Daryl Westlake
Marcus Willliams
Jasper Johns
Aidy White
Stephen Jordan
Joe Mattock
Toni Kallio
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Don't think many of those got 30+ games for us though! McEveley was just as bad at centre half as he was at left back. Its weird because like someone alluded to on here, he had a huge reputation as a teenager and i think he was a wonderkid on Football Manager in about 2004 or something. Not that it means a lot, but I think it made him become a bit more of a household name among football fans before he'd even done anything. I wonder what the highlight of his career was.
 
CrookesBlade said:
No. Put a few decent shifts in but legs had clearly gone by the end.

As has been said before we’ve had worse.
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People keep saying that but struggle to name more than one or two contenders. It's like the 'Is Kyle Walker the best right back in the world?' argument. Everyone says 'NO WAY' but then can't name a better one.
 
LoughboroBlade said:
MOTM at Old Trafford according to this thread: https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/captain-mceveley.44045/

I have practically no memory of this game, so can’t comment on the accuracy of these claims...
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He played really well that game and many other games around the same time if memory serves me right, what people struggle with is giving praise when it’s due and he deserved some at that time because my word did he have some stinkers for us and he got enough pelters from the likes of myself so credit where it’s due no matter what the agenda is.
 
And to think that one of Madkins first pearl of wisdom was to appoint McEveley as team captain, after he had been part of the Swindon 2nd leg play off shambles.

Jesus wept. Was the loon trying to get himself the sack?

At least McShite tried, I will say that for him. He was utter gash...but he tried. More than can be said of some of the other total twats we had that season such as Mr Unseen work Hammond, and Mr lets stick the fingers up and tell my own fans to fuk off after playing like i couldnt give a fuk Woolford. Or the never to be forgotten stink the place out like a rotting Sammon.
 
This is a thread to make me shudder - I'll just throw two more names into the hat
Johnny Ertl - 35 appearances apparently - ok more defensive mid (allegedly) but the slowest man ever to make a living as a pro footballer
Fucking McMahon - 60 odd appearances - apart from a couple of decent free kicks just loathed him. always seemed to give away needless fouls in dangerous areas.
 
I am astonished by the number of posts saying he " always gave 100 per cent " or " he always tried his hardest " etc. etc.

It is precisely because he did none of those things that he is in my top 3 of the players I have most disliked in all my many years of watching the Blades.

He was a total conman, always giving the impression that he was trying his best but, at the same time, abdicating responsibility at every opportunity. Backing off, claiming offside, pointing to other players were all part of his repertoire and occasionally throwing in a wild reckless tackle,just to make it look as if he was committed to the cause.

The fact that these sly tactics fooled some on here is disappointing, but the fact that he fooled two experienced managers was both mind boggling and disastrous for our club.

He never fooled me. - after two matches I had hIm down for the imposter that he was, because I'd seen it all before in a small number of other players who had played for us and, fortunately, Chris Wilder also recognised it and fucked him off in no time which gave me a great deal of pleasure and a lot of optimism for the future.
 



McGrath said:
Nosworthy ... How many goals did he cost us because he thought he could dribble the ball out defence like Rio Ferdinand.

I swear we'd have not got relegated if he'd have just wellied it into the stand everytime
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Wasn't he reportedly on £25k a week? Luckily most of which was paid by his parent club
 
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