Jimmy Dunne / Jamie Vardy record

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Silent Blade said:
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Is Dunne Keith Edwards' doppelganger?! He bears more than a passing resemblance (to me at least)...
 
Silent Blade said:
Back row l to r ; Tommy Sampy, Percy Thorpe, Pat Carrigan, Jack Kendall, Harry Hooper, George Green
Front row ; Sid Gibson, Bernard Oxley. Jimmy Dunne, Billy Gillespie, Fred Tunstall

Think the photo was taken during the 1930-31 season when Dunne scored 41 goals (plus 5 in FA Cup) in 41 league games

Regular newspaper headlines were "Tunnie-Dunnit" This was because of the number of times that outside left Fred Tunstall crossed for Jimmy Dunne to head the ball into the net.

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I can't imagine any of those lads shying away from a 50/50 tackle
 
Vardy just scored against Man U.

That 11 games in a row now?
 
Grappler said:
I think it is remarkable that the article says he did nothing for three years at SUFC, then suddenly, aged 24, he "exploded". What caused the change? How did he go from a player who did nothing of note for three years to being the most prolific striker in the top flight?

Fascinating stuff.
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Lots of credit must go to the Park Steels staff who worked hard on his attitude and helped him grow up.
 
Bladesman said:
Vardy just scored against Man U.

That 11 games in a row now?
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In addition to Vardy, Leicester look a pretty useful side and deserve to be up there at the top end of the Prem. But it's Leicester FFS...enough to piss ya off.
 
GRUMPY BLADE said:
Lots of credit must go to the Park Steels staff who worked hard on his attitude and helped him grow up.
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It's strange cuz physically he doesn't look anything special. He looks lightweight in fact. Good turn of pace and an eye for goal seems to do the trick.
 
Silent Blade said:
Back row l to r ; Tommy Sampy, Percy Thorpe, Pat Carrigan, Jack Kendall, Harry Hooper, George Green
Front row ; Sid Gibson, Bernard Oxley. Jimmy Dunne, Billy Gillespie, Fred Tunstall

Think the photo was taken during the 1930-31 season when Dunne scored 41 goals (plus 5 in FA Cup) in 41 league games

Regular newspaper headlines were "Tunnie-Dunnit" This was because of the number of times that outside left Fred Tunstall crossed for Jimmy Dunne to head the ball into the net.

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We could still do that headline with Done up front if we sign a winger in the JTW whose name has "Tun" in it somewhere.
 
If we sign otherwise random players just because of their names, we're bound to get some decent ones by the laws of probability.

I say go for it.
 



dunne.jpg Jimmy Dunne

1926–1934 Sheffield United 173 appearance (143 goals)

Signed by the Blades from New Brighton in February 1926 for £800. Top goalscorer at United for four consecutive seasons between 1929 and 1933. In early 1932 Arsenal offered United £10,000 for Dunne but were turned down. However in September 1933, after United hit financial trouble, they accepted a reduced fee of £8,250. Things didn't work as well as expected for Jimmy - he was dubbed the most expensive reserve in the game and he didn't play in the 1936 cup final as he had lost his place to the man who scored the only goal - Ted Drake. Dunne was sold to Southampton after only 28 appearances for Arsenal.

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HighfieldBlade said:
Does anyone know why someone has coloured in Jimmy's shirt in green stripes on his Wiki page?
Is it a genuine shirt or has someone got a grudge against us?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dunne
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Might have something to do with this, which I've just read & is pretty amazing.

Our all-time record holder for scoring in consecutive games in the English top flight "was a rebel, a socialist, and a member of the Irish Republican Army"!

"During the Irish Civil War in 1922-23, Dunne was jailed and only took up football seriously during five-a-side games while interned at Curragh and Portlaoise as a member of IRA’s ‘D’ Company.
He even spent time on hunger strike before his release from prison...".

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spor...-ira-soldier-who-joined-the-blades-1-7597899?


P.S. Perhaps best if no-one tells WalthamstowBlade about this - he'd have an aneurysm...
 
Alfreton14Blade said:
Might have something to do with this, which I've just read & is pretty amazing.

Our all-time record holder for scoring in consecutive games in the English top flight "was a rebel, a socialist, and a member of the Irish Republican Army"!

"During the Irish Civil War in 1922-23, Dunne was jailed and only took up football seriously during five-a-side games while interned at Curragh and Portlaoise as a member of IRA’s ‘D’ Company.
He even spent time on hunger strike before his release from prison...".

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spor...-ira-soldier-who-joined-the-blades-1-7597899?


P.S. Perhaps best if no-one tells WalthamstowBlade about this - he'd have an aneurysm...
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Could be Alfreton14Blade , I notice from the wiki page history that the photograph has recently been restored to the original black and white, which is good.
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Why? It was me what wrote this...

http://triumphanddisastersufc.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/chapter-6-decline-and-fall-1925-1934.html
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Ah, sorry, I'd missed that.

An interesting read. The best bit being about when, in the 27/28 season, "Harry Johnson hit a hat trick in fifteen minutes [against the pigs], the first player to score three in a major derby. 'Sheffield United won their replay against the Wednesday at Bramall Lane yesterday almost as they pleased', noted the Sunday Pictorial, 'even the big score of 4-1 in no way showing the difference in the teams'."

Any crumbs of comfort & all that!
 
Jimmy Dunne's record is worth ten times Vardy's.

In those days defenders were allowed to tackle and wanted to tackle rather than just dangling their legs. The ball weighed 5 times more and didn't swerve in the air leaving keepers looking daft. Goals were far harder to come by.
 
Woodwardfan said:
Jimmy Dunne's record is worth ten times Vardy's.

In those days defenders were allowed to tackle and wanted to tackle rather than just dangling their legs. The ball weighed 5 times more and didn't swerve in the air leaving keepers looking daft. Goals were far harder to come by.
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Are you able to prove it? With stats? I suspect that playing 235 might have compensated for the ball etc.
I don't know though, hence the question.

Edit. That was easier to find than I expected.

1932 average goals per match = 3.56
2014 average goals per match = 2.57
 
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BushBlade said:
Are you able to prove it? With stats? I suspect that playing 235 might have compensated for the ball etc.
I don't know though, hence the question.
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My dad used to say that while they may line up as 2-3-5 on the back page of the prgramme, they didn't actually play like that.
 
No idea how old your dad is but they did go from a genuine 235 to what was known as a 'WM' formation. I'll add more shortly when I've found my Walter Winterbotham book of coaching.
 



BushBlade said:
Are you able to prove it? With stats? I suspect that playing 235 might have compensated for the ball etc.
I don't know though, hence the question.

Edit. That was easier to find than I expected.

1932 average goals per match = 3.56
2014 average goals per match = 2.57
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Don't want to nitpick but in the 1931/32 season United only scored 80 goals in 42 games and were 7th that year. That's a low number by today's standards.
 
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