Macsheffield United

[Darren]

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

On a pedantic point of information, Peattie was born in England (though his family movced to Scotland when he was a child).

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

On a pedantic point of information, Peattie was born in England (though his family movced to Scotland when he was a child).

Which still makes him more Scottish than Stuart McCall

 

[metty]

For goal scoring/poaching ability, Andy Walker deserves a mention

 

[Guesty]

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.

Ah thanks, I thought there was one but I was struggling to remember who it was.

There's an old woman who sits a couple of rows in front of me at the Lane and during one debacle just after we sold Tebily she shouted 'Tebily would have stopped that, you sold him 'cos he's black! You're a racist Heath just like your old boss!".

 

[Darren]

Ah thanks, I thought there was one but I was struggling to remember who it was.

There's an old woman who sits a couple of rows in front of me at the Lane and during one debacle just after we sold Tebily she shouted 'Tebily would have stopped that, you sold him 'cos he's black! You're a racist Heath just like your old boss!".

I never thought Tebily was anything special. He made his debut on 26/3/99 at home to struggling and ultimately relegated Oxford. At that point we looked a reasonable bet for the play offs, but Tebily gave away the last minute free kick which saw us lose 2-1 and we only picked up 1 point from the following 3 games and ended up 8th.

I was alaways when we got over £1m for him in the summer.

 

[Guesty]

I quite liked Tebily but I was pretty young at the time. As I remember he was physically very imposing but struggled against tricky players.

That defeat to Oxford, was that the game just after Holdsworth left? I recall my Dad saying we lost to Oxford and both goals were very preventable, down to a lack of organisation because Reg wasn't there.

 

[Darren]

I quite liked Tebily but I was pretty young at the time. As I remember he was physically very imposing but struggled against tricky players.

That defeat to Oxford, was that the game just after Holdsworth left? I recall my Dad saying we lost to Oxford and both goals were very preventable, down to a lack of organisation because Reg wasn't there.

I think it was. As I recall we let him and Stuart go on the transfer deadline day, Thursday the 25th (the Oxford game was on the 26th) and brought in Tebily, Georges Donis and Andy Campbell (loan). As ever, that bit of transfer business probably costs us the play offs.

 

[Guesty]

Ha, I've dragged that one back!

Holdsworth was my favourite player at the time too, as well as being vital in defence. Stuart was a damned good player too, after a slow start.

 

[Darren]

Ha, I've dragged that one back!

Holdsworth was my favourite player at the time too, as well as being vital in defence. Stuart was a damned good player too, after a slow start.

Yes, you can see why Bruce buggered off at the end of the season. Probably his 4 best players - Saunders, Borbokis, Stuart and Holdsworth - were flogged during the course of the season and he wasn't allowed to spend any money to replace them. If memory serves the only money he was allowed to spend was around £30K on that titan of the defence Anders Jacobsen (we got Kozluk and Hunt plus money in part exchange for Borbokis).

 

[sitwell]

I quite liked Tebily but I was pretty young at the time. As I remember he was physically very imposing but struggled against tricky players.

That defeat to Oxford, was that the game just after Holdsworth left? I recall my Dad saying we lost to Oxford and both goals were very preventable, down to a lack of organisation because Reg wasn't there.

Tebilys nickname at Celtic was Bombscare ,which speaks volumnes.

 

[Grecian2000]

I was alaways when we got over £1m for him in the summer.

I wasn't, I was glabasmackeroonied.

 

[Darren]

I wasn't, I was glabasmackeroonied.

Bloody hell - senile dyslexia here I come....

 

[Silent Blade]

I never thought Tebily was anything special. He made his debut on 26/3/99 at home to struggling and ultimately relegated Oxford. At that point we looked a reasonable bet for the play offs, but Tebily gave away the last minute free kick which saw us lose 2-1 and we only picked up 1 point from the following 3 games and ended up 8th.

I was alaways when we got over £1m for him in the summer.

We made a good profit thanks to John Barnes who signed him!

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

Tebilys nickname at Celtic was Bombscare ,which speaks volumnes.

Cos he farted a lot?

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Yes, you can see why Bruce buggered off at the end of the season. Probably his 4 best players - Saunders, Borbokis, Stuart and Holdsworth - were flogged during the course of the season and he wasn't allowed to spend any money to replace them. If memory serves the only money he was allowed to spend was around £30K on that titan of the defence Anders Jacobsen (we got Kozluk and Hunt plus money in part exchange for Borbokis).

I agree but Spackman got slagged off by you for buggering off when he had 5 of his players sold by the board against his wishes. I think any self-respecting manager around that time would have left as they weren't being allowed to "manage".

 

[Darren]

I agree but Spackman got slagged off by you for buggering off when he had 5 of his players sold by the board against his wishes. I think any self-respecting manager around that time would have left as they weren't being allowed to "manage".

Consistency is a vastly overrated virtue...

 

[God]

ahh good old jinking Jimmy Johnstone, what memories. I can remember seeing him at Filbert Street (may have been FA cup) jinking past 2 players attempting a pass, kicking the ground and falling flat on his face!!!!

 

[mattbianco1]

You can add McGinn & McGinty to this list

 

[sitwell]

 

[Guesty]

You can add McGinn & McGinty to this list

McGinty is from Kent and represents the ROI at Youth Level.