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I'm sure he will get a good reception from the Blades fans on friday night but I do feel like he should be held in higher regard in Blades folklore! That FA cup run and semi-final first half against Hull was something special and I'd rate the experience as high as last season. We were two leagues below the Tigers and another set of circumstances in the 2nd half we could have been FA cup finalists. With all the money squandering around in the Prem that was incredible.

There are a few special days we will all look back on as Blades fans and that day at Wembley was certainly one of them, Clough did us proud and made us proud to be a Blade! Cheers Nige
 



hardytm2004 said:
I'm sure he will get a good reception from the Blades fans on friday night but I do feel like he should be held in higher regard in Blades folklore! That FA cup run and semi-final first half against Hull was something special and I'd rate the experience as high as last season. We were two leagues below the Tigers and another set of circumstances in the 2nd half we could have been FA cup finalists. With all the money squandering around in the Prem that was incredible.

There are a few special days we will all look back on as Blades fans and that day at Wembley was certainly one of them, Clough did us proud and made us proud to be a Blade! Cheers Nige
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Was it the only time we scored 3 away from home with him?

For every Hull, there's plenty of Yeovil, Crewe, Swindon etc nightmares.

I'll grant him the Cup run though. Provided some bright moments in some otherwise rough days. Will we ever score a 120th minute winner again?
 
billyblademan said:
Was it the only time we scored 3 away from home with him?

For every Hull, there's plenty of Yeovil, Crewe, Swindon etc nightmares.

I'll grant him the Cup run though. Provided some bright moments in some otherwise rough days. Will we ever score a 120th minute winner again?
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On Valentine's Day 2015 we beat Champions Bristol City 1-3.

And how can you forget the 5-5 at Swindon!?
 
billyblademan said:
Was it the only time we scored 3 away from home with him?

For every Hull, there's plenty of Yeovil, Crewe, Swindon etc nightmares.

I'll grant him the Cup run though. Provided some bright moments in some otherwise rough days. Will we ever score a 120th minute winner again?
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Seem to remember 5 at Rochdale, 5 at Notts County, 3 at Bury and one or two others when Ched was banging them in for fun.

But for a miscarriage of justice, things might have been very different. Wish him well but not on Friday!
 
billyblademan said:
Was it the only time we scored 3 away from home with him?

For every Hull, there's plenty of Yeovil, Crewe, Swindon etc nightmares.

I'll grant him the Cup run though. Provided some bright moments in some otherwise rough days. Will we ever score a 120th minute winner again?
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No, we scored 3 at Bristol City the season they got promoted, outplayed them and looked like a promotion side ourselves.

Also scored 3 at Colchester in the same season.
 
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Danny04 said:
Turned a possible relegation season into an outside promotion push in his first season, with a run to the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Play-offs in his second, with a League Cup semi-final thrown in.
Third-highest win percentage of the 29 permanent members Sheffield United have ever had.
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What did the Romans ever do for us?

Nice guy, but at a time/club where we simply needed more horsepower - as Sir Tufty has shown.
 
I cant hate Clough because without him, we could well have gone down to League 2 and probably never have come back. And if we were ever in a position where we looked like heading for a relegation battle, I’d take him back in a shot for a short spell.

He makes teams tough to beat and grinds out points, which is incredibly tedious to watch but effective when your in a scrap and every point is precious. Clearly thats no use in a promotion push, which is why McCabe was right to move on (at the time Adkins looked a great move).

To me Clough’s a Steady Eddie- a guy you bring in to keep you up/steady the ship. A lower league Sam Allardyce.
 



Dull tactics, dull performances, poor use of subs. Set us up well when underdogs in cup games and badly for bread and butter league games we should have been winning comfortably. Out of his depth.

Good riddance. Poles apart in ability to Wilder or his dad or even the newsagent nepotistic sibling that used to help him out.
 
Danny04 said:
Turned a possible relegation season into an outside promotion push in his first season, with a run to the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Play-offs in his second, with a League Cup semi-final thrown in.
Third-highest win percentage of the 29 permanent members Sheffield United have ever had.
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The cup runs seem to distract everyone from just how bad that second season was.

30 points off top spot when we were rightly favourites to win the division.

Embarrassingly, hideously, needlessly negative, soul crushingly boring football.

Negligent mismanagement of the centre half situation.

Loaded the squad with dross on good contracts.

And God knows how many more things. He even refused to acknowledge we'd failed after the Swindon game.

Wilder's approach as our manager is perfect. Clough is the antithesis of Wilder. That says it all.
 
hardytm2004 said:
I'm sure he will get a good reception from the Blades fans on friday night but I do feel like he should be held in higher regard in Blades folklore! That FA cup run and semi-final first half against Hull was something special and I'd rate the experience as high as last season. We were two leagues below the Tigers and another set of circumstances in the 2nd half we could have been FA cup finalists. With all the money squandering around in the Prem that was incredible.

There are a few special days we will all look back on as Blades fans and that day at Wembley was certainly one of them, Clough did us proud and made us proud to be a Blade! Cheers Nige
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He's a counter attacking cup manager. He thrives at shit underdogs. He's useless at big clubs. He didn't progress Derby at all and shouldve won the league with United... but didnt.
 
With the money he wasted he should have got us promoted rather than coasting into the play-offs.

That said he provided some great cup memories and they would have been all the more sweeter had we won promotion.

He is still a manager that aims for a draw and anything more is a bonus. That mentality will only get you so far hence why his way of football works for the likes of Burton.
 
Hopefully a polite round of applause and we all move on

Really can’t be doing with us turning into the kind of fans who boo ex managers and players for the sake of it.

Saved us from relegation, gave us 2 cup runs and also left us with a load of shit to average players we couldn’t shift.

A mixed bag.
 
CrookesBlade said:
Hopefully a polite round of applause and we all move on

Really can’t be doing with us turning into the kind of fans who boo ex managers and players for the sake of it.

Saved us from relegation, gave us 2 cup runs and also left us with a load of shit to average players we couldn’t shift.

A mixed bag.
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Signed a few turkeys but also Basham, Coutts, Freeman, Adams, as you say, a mixed bag.
 
billyblademan said:
Was it the only time we scored 3 away from home with him?

For every Hull, there's plenty of Yeovil, Crewe, Swindon etc nightmares.

I'll grant him the Cup run though. Provided some bright moments in some otherwise rough days. Will we ever score a 120th minute winner again?
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No, we scored 5 vs Swindon.....and still went out.
 
Some excellent cup wins (Forest, Charlton) and the unforgettable Wembley semi-final v Hull (that applause that went round the ground near the end literally brought a lump to my throat) as everyone has said.

The stand out for me though was Villa away, we completely dominated them and the Blades support was just incredible!!

I do think he was a bit wasteful with the budget as well but I also believe that much of that was not being able to get his first choice signings (Coady, O'Grady etc)

No animosity from me as I don't think he had the huge wedge that many think he had.
 
If Nigel Clough took over a lower end unglamourous Premier League team in the relegation zone battling for survival.... I'd get straight down the bookies and put 50 quid on the staying up.

If Nigel Clough took over an ambitious Championship club looking to cement a play off place... I'd be straight down the bookies and put 50 quid on them missing out.
 
Ricky said:
The cup runs seem to distract everyone from just how bad that second season was.

30 points off top spot when we were rightly favourites to win the division.

Embarrassingly, hideously, needlessly negative, soul crushingly boring football.

Negligent mismanagement of the centre half situation.

Loaded the squad with dross on good contracts.

And God knows how many more things. He even refused to acknowledge we'd failed after the Swindon game.

Wilder's approach as our manager is perfect. Clough is the antithesis of Wilder. That says it all.
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Ricky said:
The cup runs seem to distract everyone from just how bad that second season was.

30 points off top spot when we were rightly favourites to win the division.

Embarrassingly, hideously, needlessly negative, soul crushingly boring football.

Negligent mismanagement of the centre half situation.

Loaded the squad with dross on good contracts.

And God knows how many more things. He even refused to acknowledge we'd failed after the Swindon game.

Wilder's approach as our manager is perfect. Clough is the antithesis of Wilder. That says it all.
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About sums it up proved in the cup games we had the tools for the job in the end he didn’t have bottle to see it through bottleless fucker
 



hardytm2004 said:
I'm sure he will get a good reception from the Blades fans on friday night but I do feel like he should be held in higher regard in Blades folklore! That FA cup run and semi-final first half against Hull was something special and I'd rate the experience as high as last season. We were two leagues below the Tigers and another set of circumstances in the 2nd half we could have been FA cup finalists. With all the money squandering around in the Prem that was incredible.

There are a few special days we will all look back on as Blades fans and that day at Wembley was certainly one of them, Clough did us proud and made us proud to be a Blade! Cheers Nige
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