Players that got us over the line

[wak1889]

Read the OP again.

OK Depends what the line is Brian Deane then

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Trevor Hockey and John Hope in 1971

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I was about to type exactly the same .

Before their arrival we had begun to falter and ship too many goals with Hodgy having lost all confidence and the defence in general coming under too much pressure .

From the minute these two came in there was an immediate transformation , leading to us going on a fabulous run and eventual promotion .

Glory Days .

 

[coaxingstar71]

Well as there were no transfer windows at the time we signed cockerill, Morris or hodges then they are irrelevant, the January transfer window only came in in 2003, you are mentioning players we signed in the 80s and 90s so they are irrelevant to the OP

I said "If I'm understanding the point of the OP", so maybe I didn't understand correctly and perhaps you do.

I neither know nor care, to be honest.

 

[wak1889]

I said "If I'm understanding the point of the OP", so maybe I didn't understand correctly and perhaps you do.

I neither know nor care, to be honest.

I don't think any of us understood it but you were more correct than I was

 

[thehet]

Hammond

 

[Champagneblade]

Who’s the best player in history that ‘got us over the line’

For me this is players like, Hanson, Madine, Stearman etc. who if you saw them in Sheffield you’d probably tell them “we wouldn’t of gone up without you” but everyone knew they had to move on at the end of a successful season.

Glynn Hodges.

Rather not going down than going up.

He proved a catalyst to keep us up.

We even sold tickets for a Grand National sweepstake to raise the funds!

 

[Willglynning]

Hammond

Lots of unseen work at getting us over a theoretical line.

 

[Blacksea]

All the Burnley team that only lost 0-2 to Hull

 

[CrookesBlade]

Neil Shipperley (unsavoury behaviour aside)

Adi Akinbiyi - goals against Pigs and Derby won us 6 vital points in the promotion race.

 

[Wards]

Jay O'Shea

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

He got us over the line and himself down the line

..while Jose Baxter did a line

 

[SuperSonicBlade89]

Shipperly ?

It would be Ade Akinbadbuy for that season. Unfortunately.

Ships had a great 1st half of that season. Scoring a bicycle kick, somehow.

 

[Geordie Blade]

Paul Wood contributed a lot during the run-in for the 1989-90 promotion season.

 

[Chief14]

Cranie

 

[sufc323]

Don’t think anything will come close to the transfer window in Jan 2019, every player had some positive contribution to get us over the line.

Madine
Dowell
Crainie
Norwood (made permanent)

 

[sufc323]

Craig Short was a decent experienced head for a season too

 

[Silent Blade]

During the 1938-39 promotion season we sold Jock Dodds who was our star player to Blackpool in March 1939 but we had already bought Jimmy Hagan from Derby in November 1938. Jimmy scored a hat trick in the 6-1 win against Spurs in the last game of the season.

 

[darleyblade]

Len Allchurch in 1961. Signed on deadline day, scored 6 in the last 8 games.

Thanks for that, Silent. One of my all-time favourite players. I remember him dribbling down the right wing, sticking close to the touchline, with the ball seemingly glued to his foot. No one could get it off him.