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CornwallBlade said:
Aha! Gennel or Snicket though?
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Good question. But as a kid growing up, we had a "gennel", which was a short passageway between 2 terraced houses, ultimately a dead-end, in so much as it gave you access to either house - and no further. In the place where I grew up, Gennel was pronounced, "Jennel" as in Jennifer, but I've also heard it pronounced as "Ginnel", with a "g" as in the word "give".

A "snicket" however was a different thing to us. A snicket was an alleyway, usually a narrow one, that led from one place to another, often used as a short-cut maybe, but it wasn't a short entry between houses and a dead end like a gennel. It led to somewhere.

A good example of what we referred to as a snicket is the Pinfold at Mosborough. This is a very long narrow passageway that runs from the main Eckington to Mosborough road, eventually coming out on South Street in Mosborough. It's probably 100 metres long, or more, with high walls and is quite dark even in daylight. It's marked on the map below with a red dotted line that runs West from where it says A6135 on the map.

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It's a route I've taken many times as a kid. It would have led, at one time, to a "Pinfold". A place where locals were detained for bad behaviour. I don't know if the Pinfold is still there, but the snicket that led to it is clearly visible on the map and the bad behaviour of locals is still rife!

I'm sure there will be other interpretations of these words, but that's commonly how we'd describe the difference between a gennel and a snicket.
 
One of my favourite gennels runs between South View Rd and South View Crescent. It's quite a long, windy gennel, giving views of various back yards.

Back on topic, I don't hold with the once a Blade always a Blade mantra. Terry Curran played for us, for example, and I still think he is a twat.
 
Woodwardfan said:
Looking at George Long these days you can see he's grown up a lot since his spells in the first team which were as long ago as the 2013/14 season. He's 21 and will be 22 in November, 6'4" and the body and appearance of a full grown man these days.

He's played 89 first team games for three clubs but has not had a prolonged spell of first team football since 2013. He's an England U-18 and U-21 international.

Adkins has stated that he will give every squad player a chance and I hope Long impresses him. Potentially Long can be a very good keeper and of course time is on his side.

Mark Howard is 28 years old. When he arrived at Bramall Lane he was 25 with just 53 first team games at modest levels. He has now played 60 games for us and I'd describe him as an average keeper at his personal peak, good enough for League 1 and probably no higher.

I think Long has the potential to play much higher than this and I reckon he could become a big asset to the club if he develops as he should. I believe the time is right to invest in his and our future and give him another run in the first team. Long is a SUFC business asset and he needs developing, not just wasting his time on the bench. By all means send him out on loan to a carefully selected club but will he not do better than Howard if he gets off to a confident start in his first few games? Last season we dominated some home games and yet fell behind on the odd attack by the opposition, Howard has a slow reaction rate to long shots in particular. Food for thought?

As for George Willis I have only seen him briefly so I can't comment, but he is 21 and has no first team games as yet. Maybe he's the one who should go out on loan.
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Always interesting to go back and reflect.

Have a read of that thread back in 2012 and observe how young players should be given time to mature- especially goalkeepers.

Good luck to him. We sold him too soon and too cheap. We were in big clear-out mode though.
 
Cerberus Blade said:
Good question. But as a kid growing up, we had a "gennel", which was a short passageway between 2 terraced houses, ultimately a dead-end, in so much as it gave you access to either house - and no further. In the place where I grew up, Gennel was pronounced, "Jennel" as in Jennifer, but I've also heard it pronounced as "Ginnel", with a "g" as in the word "give".

A "snicket" however was a different thing to us. A snicket was an alleyway, usually a narrow one, that led from one place to another, often used as a short-cut maybe, but it wasn't a short entry between houses and a dead end like a gennel. It led to somewhere.

A good example of what we referred to as a snicket is the Pinfold at Mosborough. This is a very long narrow passageway that runs from the main Eckington to Mosborough road, eventually coming out on South Street in Mosborough. It's probably 100 metres long, or more, with high walls and is quite dark even in daylight. It's marked on the map below with a red dotted line that runs West from where it says A6135 on the map.

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It's a route I've taken many times as a kid. It would have led, at one time, to a "Pinfold". A place where locals were detained for bad behaviour. I don't know if the Pinfold is still there, but the snicket that led to it is clearly visible on the map and the bad behaviour of locals is still rife!

I'm sure there will be other interpretations of these words, but that's commonly how we'd describe the difference between a gennel and a snicket.
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When I used to live in S19 and knock around that area my and my mates used to use that route a lot my mate used to live in the private house on the Sheffield side , near mosboro hall
Thanks for your post nice memory of my yoof ,
 
Cerberus Blade said:
Good question. But as a kid growing up, we had a "gennel", which was a short passageway between 2 terraced houses, ultimately a dead-end, in so much as it gave you access to either house - and no further. In the place where I grew up, Gennel was pronounced, "Jennel" as in Jennifer, but I've also heard it pronounced as "Ginnel", with a "g" as in the word "give".

A "snicket" however was a different thing to us. A snicket was an alleyway, usually a narrow one, that led from one place to another, often used as a short-cut maybe, but it wasn't a short entry between houses and a dead end like a gennel. It led to somewhere.

A good example of what we referred to as a snicket is the Pinfold at Mosborough. This is a very long narrow passageway that runs from the main Eckington to Mosborough road, eventually coming out on South Street in Mosborough. It's probably 100 metres long, or more, with high walls and is quite dark even in daylight. It's marked on the map below with a red dotted line that runs West from where it says A6135 on the map.

View attachment 62210

It's a route I've taken many times as a kid. It would have led, at one time, to a "Pinfold". A place where locals were detained for bad behaviour. I don't know if the Pinfold is still there, but the snicket that led to it is clearly visible on the map and the bad behaviour of locals is still rife!

I'm sure there will be other interpretations of these words, but that's commonly how we'd describe the difference between a gennel and a snicket.
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Wonderful description- thanks. When I went to Netheredge Primary, there was a sweet shop (sadly no more) where I’d get my daily fix of coconut baccy or a quarter of victory V’s then head home via the snicket that ran past the shop and between the backs of houses for about 100 yards as a short cut towards Whitely Woods. My Nan used to live in Wayland Road Eccleshall and there was a Jennel between her terraced house and next door. No back garden just a shared tarmac yard. Despite that we had many epic footy matches (tennis balls only of course) and games of French cricket only cut short by the ball disappearing over the back wall and down into the lower terrace below - happy happy days.
 
I’d have him back tomorrow. He’s proving himself a very capable Championship keeper and would be great competition for Dean as opposed to the ‘cover’ we currently have.

Always liked George, never wrote him off but in honesty never saw him rising to the championship after his confidence got shot to bits. His move to Wimbeldon made him, and Grant McCann now speaks of him as a leader and future captain material. It would have broken lesser men or players, but it was the making of him.
Fair fucks George. Top lad, and solid keeper.
 



After we beat Hull 3 - 0 away, in the final run-in last season, I was having a pint in Broomhill after driving back from the game, lovely sunny evening, and who should come walking past laughing and joking but George and Simon Moore, with their respective other halves.

They obviously had both enjoyed the result of the game and were off for a celebratory drink.

As you say Silent Blade , "once a Blade............"
 
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