Keith Edwards Agenda

[derryblade]

No one's suggesting that telling it how it is, is wrong, it's the negativity that goes with it how about we were under the cosh 2nd half but a great 3 points that's how I see it. No mention by an ex player about tired legs and minds after a gruelling week he should know all about that if he put a shift in.But then he was dropped more than once by Porterfield for lack of work ethic. As Adkins says forget the performance embrace the points

As I have said I use Blades player for every match, he is not negative in every game and does get credit when due.

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

I remember on the day after Heath quit as our manager in December 1999, Look North asked KE who he thought should be our new manager. KE responded saying that he would take the job and explained how he would change things at the club. At the time he had no coaching qualifications and I thought his response was embarrassing.

Many a true word spoken in. Jest , but we're we are , could KE have done any worst than some of the so called professional managers SUFC have employed over the years.

IMO we have more to worry about and sort out than complaining about Keith Edwards radio summaries.

UTB.

 

[sitwell]

I remember on the day after Heath quit as our manager in December 1999, Look North asked KE who he thought should be our new manager. KE responded saying that he would take the job and explained how he would change things at the club. At the time he had no coaching qualifications and I thought his response was embarrassing.

He seemed to always resent Warnock getting the job ,found it very difficult to praise him ,embarrassingly sometimes looking at where we are now.

 

[SwissBlade]

I may not get much support on this thread but this is my honest opinion.
Accepted that a summariser gives his opinion on the game I think Edwards is far too critical of blades performances.It's always it s this it should be that but rarely gives credit where due,colchester is a good example.3 away games in a week with the first against man utd in a big big FA cup game with the mental and physical demands incurred. Followed by a tough game (Wigan) away with a remarkable 3-3 draw also a very demanding game.I wasn't at Colchester but it sounded like a team that in the 2nd half was running on empty(under them circumstances a great win).As Edwards is an ex pro he would be expected to show some insight as to the demands these three games brought,No!! he was not very complimentary and lucky to win.,very disappointed in him..
In my book the summariser should support the club ,I don't think Edwards does (yes give a fair assessment but be positive) is he in it just for the cash,it would be great if he got excited when we score or win a match
a supporter would react he doasnt (that big goose who pigs nicknamed bamby goes berserk when they score a bit of that would be great).He doasnt have the passion of a supporter could radio sheffield find one
(or could we recommend one).
It might sound as though I don't like Edwards but I don't know him as a person so I can't comment on that,
but he was a great scorer for us and I enjoyed his time playing for us.

finlaytheblade if anything Edwards was quite pissed off when we scored. Not what you'd expect from a Blades biased summariser, right?

However, i think theres more to it. He's watched us for years, notably he followed us week in week out under Warnock and whilst he wasn't Warnock's biggest fan he saw that Warnock and Blackwell got the basics right
- Passion
- Organised
- Physical
- Grafters

In the main, Warnock's side tried its best to ensure we defended set pieces, at least tried to be creative with set pieces and had men that could cross the ball, Central midfielders who were all rounders (Tonge, Jags, Brown and even Monty). Defenders were no nonsense, so were attackers.

I seem to remember at the time that his biggest gripe was that we didn't play pretty enough, nor did we get it on the deck.

Since then we've had
Robson - Unorganised, tried to play football. Generally shite
Blackwell - Started well, Organised, Physical, Passionate, Grafters, but were only OK
Speed - Not there long enough
Adams - Edward's mate, shite
Wilson - Still reeling from his mate getting sacked, but got us playing properly and winning.
Weir - Shite
Clough - Organised, Passion, bit of graft, not physical nor exciting, but got some decent results, but ultimately got some shite results. Cup runs put a smile on Edwards face
Adkins - Came with such a reputation, but has proved no better and no worse than Clough.

However, Colchester was a game that Edwards thought that a side going for promotion (apparently thats us) should be not just winning, but dominating.

I really see Edwards point, not sure he has an agenda except he wants perfection. Sadly in this division we're not going to get it. I think edwards expected so much more from Adkins, like the rest of us... Sadly instead of being excellent, he's just ok. That to me is Edwards issue.

 

[Willie Carlin]

He said how it was and he was right very lucky to come home with the points.

 

[finlaytheblade]

He certainly doesn't do it for the money ,they pay shit all and are only allowed one overnighter a year per club. One of my mates is an ex Chesterfield player who did the same job for them for a while ,until he did 6 games in a row and then they played the pigs at the new ground in the first sell out ,(and he is a pig) and they didn't call him and got John Duncan instead ,but its only about 100 quid ,or it was anyway. John McGovern told us the same , he works for Radio Nottingham ,but hes actually a fan and enjoys free transport and entry to the matches but gets paid peanuts ,maybe Edwards is the same. Don't forget Staton and his mates wont be high earners either ,basic journalists wages for the BBC will be shite.

 

[finlaytheblade]

£100 in sky rocket not a bad pay day for watching your club

 

[sitwell]

Not when you've been earning Pro footballers wages.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

£100 in sky rocket not a bad pay day for watching your club

That'll put the fuel in the van.

 

[Pierre's PC]

That'll put the fuel in the van.

With some of our players, more like the Sunshine Bus

 

[Northyorksblade]

Whether Keith talks complete sense or complete rubbish is irrelevant in my book. He just talks too much

I tune in to listen to "full match commentary" and get 10 mins of commentary and 80 minutes of our Keith hedging his bets so he can always remind us how he told us so

I'm sure he knows what he's on about, but just wish he'd shut the fk up sometimes and let us hear the match

Treble like!

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

The defensive side of the game is alien to him.

It is to Adkins as well.

 

[Silent Blade]

He seemed to always resent Warnock getting the job ,found it very difficult to praise him ,embarrassingly sometimes looking at where we are now.

Has he ever praised any of our managers?

 

[him behind you]

QUOTE="Silent Blade, post: 915252, member: 2270"]Has he ever praised any of our managers?[/QUOTE]
As I said earlier Silent, could he be Barney

 

[BushBlade]

Spot on Finlay, one of the club legends, and he is so negative towards us.
He influences the brain dead, who ring Praise and Grumble on a Saturday evening to slag us off, and have not even been!

How can people who haven`t been to the game, ring a phone in and comment on it?

Because they're fuckwits who love the sound of their own voices, phoning in makes them feel important and nothing else in their sad little lives does.

 

[Groucho Blade]

Have I missed the rumour in this thread???

 

[Bartleby]

How can people who haven`t been to the game, ring a phone in and comment on it?

that really pisses me off as well. There's one who always says "I haven't been but my son has" as if that somehow qualifies him to do it. Attention seeking trolls.

 

[metalblade]

Keith tells it how it is I know this might not be to the liking of the happy clapper brigade but FFS wanting someone to create like piggy Pearson does when we score beggars belief. Who the hell wants to listen to a biased loud mouthed gob shite like Pearson ? Carry on Sir Keith.