Macsheffield United

All advertisments are hidden for logged in members, why not log in/register?

sitwell

sitwell

Big member
Joined
Aug 6, 2009
Messages
19,423
Reaction score
36,185
Location
worksop
Have we ever had such a Scottish influence in the club before ?
 



Throughout the summer (1889) there was speculation as to who was going to be playing for United. In July the Independent reported that the team “will consist mainly though not entirely of Scotchmen”, and that several “have already arrived”. An unsympathetic local paper found it hilarious that United “tried two men from north of the border who rejoiced in the nom de plume of ‘Jones’ and ‘Smith’…just imagine two Scotsmen with such names!” “The talk of half a dozen is all bosh”, the Telegraph reported in an effort to quell its readerships fears over a kilted invasion of the city.
 
Last seasons team had a large Scottish influence ................................................... they all should have been wearing skirts. ;)
 
Walthy and Darren may know more than I do, but I'm fairly sure our championship winning team had more than a smattering of Scotsmen. In the pre-world war 2 days of course (1934-8ish) , Jock Dodds was banging them in with great regularity and again I think we had 3 or 4 Scots in that team.
 
John Harris was the greatest Scottish influence on the Blades, and his Currie/Woodward team played a brand of football never equalled in the city before or since - if the latest manager manages to put together a team half as good, even this forum will be happy.
 
Ernest Needham said Billy Hendry was the best player he has played with and learned a lot about captaincy (the captain had a lot of influence at the club these days) from him

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hendry

Other Scots who played for us that were popular with our fans were Billy Boyd (scored a hat trick against Wendy), Jock Dodds, Billy Hodgson, Eddie Colquhoun and Jim Brown. Willie Hamilton was very talented but frustrated the management because of his lifestyle. Jock Stein spoke highly of him (see link below)

http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/20111221/flashback-willie-hamilton_2262950_2554944
 
our current list of jock players-
Collins
Kmac
Flynn
Murphy.
I reckon a few more added to this come August.
 



who would be our best ever Scot then ? Macphail ,Macallister Brown ?
 
The 70's was a golden era for Scottish football in general with some of th best players in the English First Division being Scottish (Dalglish, Jordan, Lorimer, Bremner, McQueen, Law, Souness, Hansen to name only a few) and United had a few decent Scottish players in that successfulish team of the mid 70's - Colquhoun, McAlister, Scullion, Bone and a bit later Jim Brown.
 
Darren said:
The 70's was a golden era for Scottish football in general with some of th best players in the English First Division being Scottish (Dalglish, Jordan, Lorimer, Bremner, McQueen, Law, Souness, Hansen to name only a few) and United had a few decent Scottish players in that successfulish team of the mid 70's - Colquhoun, McAlister, Scullion, Bone and a bit later Jim Brown.
Click to expand...

It would have to be Colquhoun for me then .
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
Ralph Gaudie who played up front towards the end of that season and midfielder Kenny McKay were both Scots.
Click to expand...

Ralph Gaudie has got to be one of the bravest ever Blades player (I read about his bravery in Nick Udal's book of the 1897-98 season). For me Doug Hodgson is the bravest ever Blade I have seen
 
Guesty said:
Heh.

Although Howard Kendall wasn't keen on anyone who came from further afield. Allegedly.
Click to expand...

I give you Paul Parker.

If we are making allegations of racism against United managers (and we can safely do so in this case as he is dead), we need look no further than Ian Porterfield. He did not sign one black player for United when he was manager (and freed the only one we had when he came - Trenton Wiggan, though, admittedly, Wiggan was pretty rubbish) at a time when black players were starting to come into the professional game in numbers.

There may have been valid reasons for this for all I know and if memory serves, he did at one time try to sign Tony Cunningham, so perhaps any such allegations would be rubbish.
 



Of the players I've seen Tom McAllister would have become one of the greats but for Rodney Marsh. Eddie Colquhoun got capped for Scotland in an age of fine Scottish centre-backs. So they would take it for me playing-wise but the Scot with the biggest influence at BDTBL would have to be John Harris.


But then again nobody has mentioned Don Peattie and Duggie Brown :rolleyes:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

1973Blade
Ex United players who didn't fulfill their potential
Replies
4
Views
313
The Crab
The Crab
P
Selles gets another record
Replies
0
Views
336
programmechap
P
P
Ten scorers in December
Replies
5
Views
607
Blade In Flame
B
1973Blade
Time to bring back a familiar face as manager...
Replies
3
Views
487
Lightsoot
L
Deadbat
United 3 Leicester 1 - report / ratings
Replies
28
Views
2K
Grappler
G

All advertisments are hidden for logged in members, why not log in/register?

All advertisments are hidden for logged in members, why not log in/register?

Back
Top Bottom