Our new manager is.....

[JJ Sefton]

Pinchy's idol loves the hoof.

 

[Pinchy]

Were you at Leicester celebrating promotion??
Celebrating hoofball??

Yes, of course. I've explained many times that Bassett was the right man at the right time. That time has gone. The whole world, save for a bunch of backwoodsmen in S2, has moved on.

I really, really despair.

 

[Darren]

No of course not. Why would they? They are all hoping against hope that Muckanettles Morgan might become available.

Weir made mistakes. He had to go. He knows that; I know that. You Hoofers are using him in a wholly flawed attempt to discredit proper football whilst advancing your favoured alehouse 'style'. Why? Do you seriously not like attractive, match-winning, trophy-winning football?

I fear I shall have to re-direct the men in white coats when they come for me.

What are you on about? I seriously don't know why you perpetuate this ridiculous hoof nonsense. I presume you find it amusing. No-one else does anymore.

I don't know how many times and how many people have to repeat this, but all we want is for United to win matches. We really don't care how those wins are achieved. We have no brief for either "hoof" or any other style. If Weir's approach had won matches we would loved him. As it didn't, we don't.

 

[blade too long]

That makes no sense whatsoever I'm afraid. But what's new?

in every game no team passes the ball for 90 minutes , barca apart now and then whats hard about that , they throw in the odd long balls. At man utd , they play hopeful balls into space, Arsenal played some outstanding football yesterday and scored some unbelievable goals , but had large patches in the game where they looked vulnerable, man city spent 600 million got done at stoke despite out playing them , its football , nothing guarentees success except outscoring the opposition definitely not passing football

 

[alcoblade]

Yes, of course. I've explained many times that Bassett was the right man at the right time. That time has gone. The whole world, save for a bunch of backwoodsmen in S2, has moved on.

I really, really despair.

There's really no need to ask if you do standup. This is comedy Gold.

UTB

 

[kop_blade9]

They believe in pass and move, as do I. That's why, much to your disappoint, the next manager will most certainly be a proponent of proper football, not your favoured WIER rubbish.

Changed it to make it read right

 

[brownie4583]

When Tony Agana stuck the ball in the net Pinchy was moaning that he hadn't passed it sideways to Paul Wood instead.

Should have played 4-5-1 that season,with Tony Philliskirk on his own up front passing around defence and midfield throughout the game,losing every week and battling relegation down to Division 4,would have been much better!

 

[JJ Sefton]

Should have played 4-5-1 that season,with Tony Philliskirk on his own up front passing around defence and midfield throughout the game,losing every week and battling relegation down to Division 4,would have been much better!

Ambitious. I'd have dropped Philliskirk and gone for a 4-1-5 with Cliff Powell as a libero behind a midfield five.

 

[brownie4583]

Yes, of course. I've explained many times that Bassett was the right man at the right time. That time has gone. The whole world, save for a bunch of backwoodsmen in S2, has moved on.

I really, really despair.

So you ARE a secret hoofball fan then!
and i presume you were celebrating at BDTBL on April 30th 2006 against Palace when we were again promoted to the top flight,again through success of Warnock and 'hoofball'

 

[brownie4583]

Ambitious. I'd have dropped Philliskirk and gone for a 4-1-5 with Cliff Powell as a libero behind a midfield five.

Or maybe a 5-5-0 with Gannon and Bradshaw to drop back into defence when not attacking 7-3-0

 

[kop_blade9]

Yes, of course. I've explained many times that Bassett was the right man at the right time.

So you were all for the Bassett style yet now you deride it and call people names because of it.
A little hypocritical me thinks.

 

[blade too long]

Zonal progressive football at its best
passing the football 5 times into the opposition net in 90 minutes , proper passing football

 

[JJ Sefton]

Or maybe a 5-5-0 with Gannon and Bradshaw to drop back into defence when not attacking 7-3-0

We could have put Tracey up front so he could catch any stray forward passes and punt them back to Benstead.

 

[kop_blade9]

So how is Morgan doing?

He's doing everything right.

For once I agree with you

 

[oldblade]

He's doing everything right. His abject surrender at Yeovil and subsequent nonsensical comments were particularly impressive. All this after his outstanding stint with the development squad.

We should appoint him immediately with a lifetime contract before he's snapped up by a Champions League outfit.

Upanatem!

Very good. Now answer his question (for a change)

 

[brownie4583]

Zonal progressive football at its best
passing the football 5 times into the opposition net in 90 minutes , proper passing football

Ahhhh the good old days.....and i'm sure i saw Pinchy on the pitch!

 

[oldblade]

Yes, of course. I've explained many times that Bassett was the right man at the right time. That time has gone. The whole world, save for a bunch of backwoodsmen in S2, has moved on.

I really, really despair.

And yet you seem quiteha

When Tony Agana stuck the ball in the net Pinchy was moaning that he hadn't passed it sideways to Paul Wood instead.

Also he thinks Paul Peschisolido and Steve Kabba should have refused to put the ball in the net against Forest in the 2003 play off semi-final, because there hadn't been enough passes before they received the ball. I mean, the total indignity of scoring after one pass. Whatever next.

 

[JJ Sefton]

How Pinchy thinks games should be decided.

 

[Pinchy]

What are you on about? I seriously don't know why you perpetuate this ridiculous hoof nonsense. I presume you find it amusing. No-one else does anymore.

I don't know how many times and how many people have to repeat this, but all we want is for United to win matches. We really don't care how those wins are achieved. We have no brief for either "hoof" or any other style. If Weir's approach had won matches we would loved him. As it didn't, we don't.

I don't know how many times, or to how many people I have to repeat this, but: History shows us the best way to win football matches and trophies. A cohesive team unit, comprising players of high levels of technique and skill (relative, of course, to the level at which they play), retaining clean possession of the football, passing accurately and creatively to each other, making intelligent off the ball runs so as to create space for forward movement, suffocating the other team's space when they have the ball, playing at an even tempo but with capacity for rapid changes of pace and direction.

That, as succinctly as I can put it, is proper football. It is light years away from the ragamuffin, shadow-chasing, Gerritintbox world of prehistoric S2. It owes nothing to Dave Bassett, or Charles Hughes, or Kevin Blackwell, or Mickey Adams or any other notable dinosaurs. It does not envisage numpties like Kozluk and Montgomery as it's players of the century. Anyone looking for Comedy Gold need look no further than that proposition.

That's what I'm on about. It is not funny; it is an absolute delight, by contrast to thoughtless, brainless, hopeless Hoof. It is your prerogative, and that of others, of course, to enjoy ale house football, in the comfort of your Bladey time warp.

As a matter of interest, which Tug-O-War team do you all support? I think we should have a poll.

 

[blade too long]

I get what Pinchy wants , we all would love to return to Tony Currie sitting on the ball when 5-0 v Arsenal , but just now we have to be patient and build back up to it , but I hope to see it one day again before Im consigned to the big Athiest Starbucks internet cafe in the Quantam time space differential

 

[JJ Sefton]

The thing is that everyone wants to see

A cohesive team unit, comprising players of high levels of technique and skill (relative, of course, to the level at which they play), retaining clean possession of the football, passing accurately and creatively to each other, making intelligent off the ball runs so as to create space for forward movement, suffocating the other team's space when they have the ball, playing at an even tempo but with capacity for rapid changes of pace and direction

and no-one wants to see

thoughtless, brainless, hopeless Hoof

and what baffles me, as well as many others on here I imagine, is why you have concocted and persist with this tedious, unamusing, non-existent schism with you vs everyone else? It's like Assault on Precinct 13 with no-one outside the Police station.

 

[oldblade]

That's what I'm on about. It is not funny; it is an absolute delight, by contrast to thoughtless, brainless, hopeless Hoof. It is your prerogative, and that of others, of course, to enjoy ale house football, in the comfort of your Bladey time warp.

As a matter of interest, which Tug-O-War team do you all support? I think we should have a poll.

Can you please show me the posts where people on this forum have indicated that that is their preferred style of play.

 

[Darren]

I don't know how many times, or to how many people I have to repeat this, but: History shows us the best way to win football matches and trophies. A cohesive team unit, comprising players of high levels of technique and skill (relative, of course, to the level at which they play), retaining clean possession of the football, passing accurately and creatively to each other, making intelligent off the ball runs so as to create space for forward movement, suffocating the other team's space when they have the ball, playing at an even tempo but with capacity for rapid changes of pace and direction.

That, as succinctly as I can put it, is proper football. It is light years away from the ragamuffin, shadow-chasing, Gerritintbox world of prehistoric S2. It owes nothing to Dave Bassett, or Charles Hughes, or Kevin Blackwell, or Mickey Adams or any other notable dinosaurs. It does not envisage numpties like Kozluk and Montgomery as it's players of the century. Anyone looking for Comedy Gold need look no further than that proposition.

That's what I'm on about. It is not funny; it is an absolute delight, by contrast to thoughtless, brainless, hopeless Hoof. It is your prerogative, and that of others, of course, to enjoy ale house football, in the comfort of your Bladey time warp.

As a matter of interest, which Tug-O-War team do you all support? I think we should have a poll.

If you are serious (and I still don't think you are), what puzzles me as to why an intelligent man like you persists in setting up not just a straw man, but a straw army consisting of everyone else 0n this site apart from you. No-one has ever said that that they prefer "thoughtless, brainless hopeless hoof", We all want winning football, which Weir's football clearly was not. Weir was a terrible manager and I think it highly likely he will never get another managerial job. Given his record at SUFC, I hardly think anyone will be offering a job any time soon.

If you are serious, you seem to have a quite worrying persecution mania.

 

[sitwell]

Be interesting to see if Moyes and all the other guys who raved about Weir now offer him a job.

 

[Pinchy]

Can you please show me the posts where people on this forum have indicated that that is their preferred style of play.

Oh, there are far too many to do that and I haven't the time or inclination to do a search. Perhaps someone who has will do so. Some are quite explicit, others reveal their perversions by calling for the appointment of Pulis or Morgan, or the return of Warnock or, even more absurdly, Bassett, be it as manager or Director of Hoofball. Yet others give themselves away by the ferocity, rapidity and sheer hostility of their responses to any contribution I make in favour of proper, attractive football.

I don't know for sure what it is but I suspect it's a mixture of:

Northern Inverted Snobbery - "don't bring your fancy football oooop 'ere, just Gerritintbox" - there is certainly an element of that.

Knowing no better after far too many years of ale house football. Some of our younger fans have never seen a footballing Sheffield United team and believe such to be neither possible nor desirable. I feel sorry for them; Old(er) Blades have no such excuse.

A sort of "Barnestoneworth syndrome" - if you want the "good old days" back, just do it like we did then; Bring back Neville Davitt and all will be well.

A lack of awareness of life beyond S2, as evidenced by the Bladey "Bring Back" obsession. That is certainly alive and well.

 

[kop_blade9]

I don't know how many times, or to how many people I have to repeat this, but: History shows us the best way to win football matches and trophies. A cohesive team unit, comprising players of high levels of technique and skill (relative, of course, to the level at which they play), retaining clean possession of the football, passing accurately and creatively to each other, making intelligent off the ball runs so as to create space for forward movement, suffocating the other team's space when they have the ball, playing at an even tempo but with capacity for rapid changes of pace and direction.

As you appear to be describing Barcelona's style of play, do you really believe that this style is the blueprint for getting promotion from the 3rd tier of the English football league?

Deluded

 

[Pinchy]

As you appear to be describing Barcelona's style of play, do you really believe that this style is the blueprint for getting promotion from the 3rd tier of the English football league?

Deluded

Impatient. Read what I wrote, please. No-one ever does, of course. It would save many of you a lot of time and angst if you did.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Oh, there are far too many to do that and I haven't the time or inclination to do a search. Perhaps someone who has will do so. Some are quite explicit, others reveal their perversions by calling for the appointment of Pulis or Morgan, or the return of Warnock or, even more absurdly, Bassett, be it as manager or Director of Hoofball. Yet others give themselves away by the ferocity, rapidity and sheer hostility of their responses to any contribution I make in favour of proper, attractive football.

I don't know for sure what it is but I suspect it's a mixture of:

Northern Inverted Snobbery - "don't bring your fancy football oooop 'ere, just Gerritintbox" - there is certainly an element of that.

Knowing no better after far too many years of ale house football. Some of our younger fans have never seen a footballing Sheffield United team and believe such to be neither possible nor desirable. I feel sorry for them; Old(er) Blades have no such excuse.

A sort of "Barnestoneworth syndrome" - if you want the "good old days" back, just do it like we did then; Bring back Neville Davitt and all will be well.

A lack of awareness of life beyond S2, as evidenced by the Bladey "Bring Back" obsession. That is certainly alive and well.

You like Pulis and his style of play at Stoke.
You've said so on many occasions?
Are you a "pervert" like the rest of us?

 

[blade too long]

Older ones are not as misguided to think the currie woodward era is even remotely possible to emulate

Back then by comparison it was a fairly level playing field , 11v 11 was what it said on the tin
today , a select few clubs have 90% of the real talent and keep 40 % of it sat on recaro seats wasting their careers,
the talent was spread around more, you could get players in division 2 old money that had ability of a reasonable level , now the prem clubs have 24-28 players instead of 14 the talents not filtered down , we are playing with what would have been div 4 and conference players then, its about numbers, too much talent wasted as back up players so theres 2 for every place in the prem , its diminishing the quality diluting the English game

 

[MobileBlade]

Arsenal are lighting up the league at the moment with their delightful proper football - playing the right way. Guess what - it wins matches and puts you top of the league.

Couldn't agree with you more. The problem is at our level you don't have the players who are capable and quick in mind enough to play that way. Even Swansea and Brighton mixed it up in this division on their way out.