Oli McBurnie

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RowTBlade10 said:
Oli McBurnie - need I say more! Imagine if he was still a blades striker - but some fans didn’t want him? The mind boggles
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This site, thankfully, is only a small representation of Blades fans. The vast majority of normal fans were desperate for us to sign him.

Being on here for a lot of folk is like being in the Moonies and thinking the rest of the outside world thinks like them and behaves like them.
 
Turned down a contract offer from Wilder after spending summer training with the club before pissing off to Spain.

Spent 5 years here and couldn’t play more than 4 games in a row without having a month out.

Went on a horrendous run without a goal which ended up with the Kop chanting ‘McBurnie scores, we’re on the pitch’ most weekends.

Wanted to come and train at the club while he looked for other offers (we were right to tell him to get fucked after falling for it the previous season)

£20m for 26 goals in 146 appearances. Less than 30 games a season and 5 goals a season. 3 in 34 for Las Palmas in a farmers league. It’s easy to say with the benefit of hindsight we should have signed him but everything about the previous six years suggests we were right to stay well clear.
 
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What a conundrum, is it the player or how he was played? This year seems to indicate that he absolved do it so what was it about us that meant it didn’t work? We could see there was real talent there. As a Wilder fan in general, you have to ask whether despite the player “liking” Wilder, did the coaching team do enough to ensure he was playing to his ability? In hindsight I’m really not sure that they did.
 
KMC-1889 said:
Turned down a contract offer from Wilder after spending summer training with the club before pissing off to Spain.

Spent 5 years here and couldn’t play more than 4 games in a row without having a month out.

Went on a horrendous run without a goal which ended up with the Kop chanting ‘McBurnie scores, we’re on the pitch’ most weekends.

Wanted to come and train at the club while he looked for other offers (we were right to tell him to get fucked after falling for it the previous season)

£20m for 26 goals in 146 appearances. Less than 30 games a season and 5 goals a season. 3 in 34 for Las Palmas in a farmers league. It’s easy to say with the benefit of hindsight we should have signed him but nothing about the previous six years suggests we were right to stay well clear.
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Revisionist nonsense
 
KMC-1889 said:
Turned down a contract offer from Wilder after spending summer training with the club before pissing off to Spain.

Spent 5 years here and couldn’t play more than 4 games in a row without having a month out.

Went on a horrendous run without a goal which ended up with the Kop chanting ‘McBurnie scores, we’re on the pitch’ most weekends.

Wanted to come and train at the club while he looked for other offers (we were right to tell him to get fucked after falling for it the previous season)

£20m for 26 goals in 146 appearances. Less than 30 games a season and 5 goals a season. 3 in 34 for Las Palmas in a farmers league. It’s easy to say with the benefit of hindsight we should have signed him but everything about the previous six years suggests we were right to stay well clear.
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Think the third paragraph is not complete bullshit
 
The good bits for us:

  • Hecky Promotion season
  • Our top scorer in the PL season including an equaliser against Man Utd
  • great at defending corners
  • culture carrier

The bad bits:

  • injured for large stretches
  • always looked like he’d ran a marathon immediately before the game
  • couldn’t kick a ball properly
  • off field issues like phone stamping and drink driving definitely impacted his performances

I’d have taken him back last summer in a heartbeat, but I don’t think he’d have stayed fit or got much service in this Blades team.

Happy for him that he got to score a winner at Wembley, a dream for most kids involved with football and he’s achieved it. I also think he should be World Cup bound, Scotland are bobbar and they shouldn’t be turning their noses up at someone with 17 goals in the English Championship, it’s worth 30 goals in the SPL.

There’s no need to declare him as being either amazing or crap, he’s neither.
 



RowTBlade10 said:
Oli McBurnie - need I say more! Imagine if he was still a blades striker - but some fans didn’t want him? The mind boggles
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Makes a whole team not just a player to bring a promotion season together as cliche as that may sound. Yes he probably would have scored a few but unless that helps the defence it doesn’t really matter. Personally I would have liked him back here as he is a good championship striker but what formation are we playing him in
 
jt64 said:
Indeed. That was a massive percentage of Billy Sharp's career but nobody here pisses on his chips
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Can’t compare Billy Sharp’s Blades career with McBurnie’s. There’s no comparison. One is a bona fide legend, the other is nowhere near being that. 117 goals v 26 goals.
 
dexter101 said:
Really pleased for the lad.

Reality is, if wilder was here in the summer, we would have signed him. Selles didn't want him, so we didn't.

If we signed him, we wouldn't have signed Bamford.

Would we have done any better this season with mcburnie instead of bamford? No. Our defence was terrible.
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Not sure if selles didn't want him , Mcb said he was interested about coming back , but when he contacted some of the players , they advised him not to come back as it was a shit show !!
 
KMC-1889 said:
Turned down a contract offer from Wilder after spending summer training with the club before pissing off to Spain.

Spent 5 years here and couldn’t play more than 4 games in a row without having a month out.

Went on a horrendous run without a goal which ended up with the Kop chanting ‘McBurnie scores, we’re on the pitch’ most weekends.

Wanted to come and train at the club while he looked for other offers (we were right to tell him to get fucked after falling for it the previous season)

£20m for 26 goals in 146 appearances. Less than 30 games a season and 5 goals a season. 3 in 34 for Las Palmas in a farmers league. It’s easy to say with the benefit of hindsight we should have signed him but everything about the previous six years suggests we were right to stay well clear.
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You left out that he wore a bucket hat well and had someone field indiscretions that were sucked up by the adoring kop and seems to have now found a manager who provides a style of play that suits him, while also managing to stay in jury free

A sub optimal time here. Bang average for us.

No great loss.
 
54yrblade said:
You left out that he wore a bucket hat well and had someone field indiscretions that were sucked up by the adoring kop and seems to have now found a manager who provides a style of play that suits him, while also managing to stay in jury free

A sub optimal time here. Bang average for us.

No great loss.
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Have a listen to his post match interview.
 
I was hot and cold about him.
He was excellent in our box at defending corners. Sadly the opposite in opponent box when attacking corners. Too often gobbing off at officials.
However there were times when he scored some crucial goals. Particularly the equaliser against Man Utd.
For a centre forward though he didn't score enough for us. But we didn't exactly always play to his strengths.
Look at how well he's done at Hull this season with the right service.
On a free I think he would have been worth a punt if he'd have come. Certainly a better option than Cannon. ( who may hopefully come good next season)
Would have been interesting to see how well McBurnie and Bamford would work out together up top.
 
Nick Jansky said:
Can’t compare Billy Sharp’s Blades career with McBurnie’s. There’s no comparison. One is a bona fide legend, the other is nowhere near being that. 117 goals v 26 goals.
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I'm not trying to do that in the slightest? Merely saying that was a huge part of Sharp's game. If someone was to stick a photo of someone next to "poacher" in the dictionary, Sharp being in that image would not be in the slightest bit unreasonable.

That said, I would guess that if you did a goals per 90 played comparison of the two for us, solely looking at the top two divisions (where McBurnie has played exclusively after he was 20, as opposed to Sharp bagging 50 in two seasons in the "pub league"), it would be an awful, awful lot closer than you would think.
 
I was one of his biggest critics, because he’s slow, ambles about and consequently rarely presses the opposition effectively, also very, very rarely will you see him strike a ball cleanly when shooting.

But I will concede that he is deceptively good at retaining possession in tight situations and finding a teammate, he shields and protects the ball well and he’s dangerous in both boxes because he gets on the end of well delivered crosses.

There’s no doubt he’s matured and is a better player, with an improved work ethic now than he ever was for us. Hull Citys style of play certainly suits him and he’s had a great season but as daft as it sounds, I still wouldn’t want him back?
 



Last 20-30 minutes of the match today he hardly touched the ball just jogged round pressuring the forwards. Hull going forward he laid off the ball to the left side with Hull in acres of space. He gets in the box cross comes in keeper fumbles it and McB happens to be in the right spot at the right time. A £200 million goal.

That being us we would have been given offside (forget who it was in offside position might have been Gelhart)

Luck ? Skill ? Lets see how he does in the PL.
 
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