players you were happy to see leave

[Robbie]

How has Ian Hamilton got away with no comments yet?
Michael Twiss.
Lee Baxter....

 

[The Fox]

We've had some crappy players who we all wanted shut of but apart from the absolute crappy players i was glad to see the back of Kabba .

May sound harsh but the bloke just got on my tits . Bad attitude and dived if any player came within 2 foot of him.

 

[Bramley]

Ian Hamilton, jesus that takes me back.

I'll see your Ian Hamilton and raise you Jonathan Hunt...

 

[Robbie]

I'll see your Ian Hamilton and raise you Jonathan Hunt...

Made me laugh, but still I'd rather have Hunt in the team than Hamilton.... mind you - I'd rather have AIDS than either person in the team.

 

[Bramley]

Don't forget Axel Smeets, Davy Gysbrechts and Andy Woodward (shocking). Also Paul Hall and John O'Connor. James Thomas and Nicolas Weber. Shane Nicholson.

 

[Guesty]

God for a moment I thought that said Alan Woodward!

Most of these players are disliked because they were just a bit rubbish. I've always liked the fact that most returning players to the Lane get a good reception, unlike a lot of clubs I could think of! Only Marcelo, Brown and Devlin's departures left a sour taste for me, and most players get a least a warm round of applause when Gary reads their name!

 

[super_pig]

how about len de goey, barry butlin..viv busby.. there are loads from the haslam era

 

[CM14blade]

Is John Ebbrell excluded on purely medical grounds, or does he fit with the waste of good money category?

 

[Grecian2000]

Can't believe we're way down page 4 and no-one has mentioned Denis Longhorn. Truly awful player. A combination of Carneys bottle, Monty's skill, Howards fitness and McCalls pace (at 40).

Add to the list Gary West, Phil 'he's got . . . nose' Thompson, John Burridge and Derek Richardson. Four players I disliked intensely.

 

[Kev Gee]

Geoff Horsfield or Seck!

 

[judge]

kevan hurst
once a pig always a pig

the piggy twat even had wednesday as his favouite team and chris waddle as his favourite player in his green un profile

 

[Darren]

Can't believe we're way down page 4 and no-one has mentioned Denis Longhorn. Truly awful player. A combination of Carneys bottle, Monty's skill, Howards fitness and McCalls pace (at 40).

Add to the list Gary West, Phil 'he's got . . . nose' Thompson, John Burridge and Derek Richardson. Four players I disliked intensely.

Burridge? He was a bit of an arse granted (remember those sheepskin coats he used to advertise in the programme? "be like Budgie"), but he was a decent goalie. When he left in 87, we replaced him with Andy Leaning and we all noticed the difference...

 

[judge]

andy leaning is the vertebrae of uniteds think tank

 

[Darren]

Which leads me wuickly on to ranking goalies of the 80's. I would go for:

1. Tracey
2. Burridge
3. Segers
4. Tomlinson
5. Benstead
6. Waugh
7. Poole
8. Conroy
9. Hansbury
10. Richardson

 

[Grecian2000]

Sorry Dazzler can't be havin that.

Budgie was a con man. Lot's of rapport with the fans but piss poor when it really mattered.

Remember the "greatest goal ever scored" by Steve Wigley. Cancelled out by the great man 10 minutes later.
I particularly remember two games at Shrewsbury where he cost us points. One was when poor Brian Smith (might even have been his debut) hit a perfectly adequate back pass that he let bounce of his chest and then looked accusingly at the distraught Smudger and Pritchett bought it and blamed Smithy in the Green Un.

I remember two good games out of his entire Blades career. One at Grimsby and in the 3-0 at Portsmouth.

 

[Revolution]

He played well in his debut vs Wimbledon as well.

 

[Darren]

Sorry Dazzler can't be havin that.

Budgie was a con man. Lot's of rapport with the fans but piss poor when it really mattered.

Remember the "greatest goal ever scored" by Steve Wigley. Cancelled out by the great man 10 minutes later.
I particularly remember two games at Shrewsbury where he cost us points. One was when poor Brian Smith (might even have been his debut) hit a perfectly adequate back pass that he let bounce of his chest and then looked accusingly at the distraught Smudger and Pritchett bought it and blamed Smithy in the Green Un.

I remember two good games out of his entire Blades career. One at Grimsby and in the 3-0 at Portsmouth.

I was a season ticket holder in those halcyon days but didn't go to away games so can't comment on the Shrewsbury game. I recall the Blackburn howler (remarkably similar to a howler by Alan Kelly v Oldham in Dec 96 - a speculative long shot that the keepr misjudged and let in). However, I can't recall any other massive errors by Burridge at the Lane, which can't be bad for a near 3 year spell at the Lane.

 

[Revolution]

However, I can't recall any other massive errors by Burridge at the Lane, which can't be bad for a near 3 year spell at the Lane.

When we lost at home to Stoke in 1985-6 Burridge cost us the game by racing off his line, hesitating, and trying to go back, and then was lobbed for the winner standing in no man's land.

the Blackburn equaliser - scored by former Pig John Lowey - was hit straight at Burridge but he muffed the catch and it slipped in off his arm. I remember the Oldham goal in the sense I recall Kelly should have saved it, but can't remember whether or not he actually got a touch.

 

[Darren]

However, I can't recall any other massive errors by Burridge at the Lane, which can't be bad for a near 3 year spell at the Lane.

When we lost at home to Stoke in 1985-6 Burridge cost us the game by racing off his line, hesitating, and trying to go back, and then was lobbed for the winner standing in no man's land.

the Blackburn equaliser - scored by former Pig John Lowey - was hit straight at Burridge but he muffed the catch and it slipped in off his arm. I remember the Oldham goal in the sense I recall Kelly should have saved it, but can't remember whether or not he actually got a touch.

Ah yes, I remember the Stoke error - but 2 errors in nearly 3 years ain't that bad either Anyway he did have a half decent top division career (Blackpool, Villa, Palace, Wolves and Southampton) and played well into his 40's, so he can't have been that bad.

The Oldham goal involved a shot from about 40 yards out. It hit Doug Hodgson on its way to goal which slightly altered its flight, but not to any massive extent. Despite this, Kelly seemed unable to manage the slight positioning change necessary and watched the ball fly in.

 

[Revolution]

Was Gary Kelly playing for Oldham in that match Darren?

I remember about a year after vs Bury in the Cup Kelly misread a long range shot from Andy Gray (the other one, not the Sky one) which he should have had, although it was a very blusterly day which didn't help.

 

[Coily]

Remember the ad in the programmes in the mid 80's:

Be like Budgie!

Which implied that you should also look like a twat in a sheepskin coat.

Tomlinson started really well for us, as I remember he made a penalty save on his debut (against Southend I think) but didn't kick on as we thought he would. That he is #4 on Darren's list, and that **** Segers #3 just shows how lean the 80's were in the most part.

 

[Camden Blade]

Which leads me wuickly on to ranking goalies of the 80's. I would go for:

1. Tracey
2. Burridge
3. Segers
4. Tomlinson
5. Benstead
6. Waugh
7. Poole
8. Conroy
9. Hansbury
10. Richardson

I liked Keithy Waugh. He had a bad eczema problem but I thought he was a good goalie. But maybe that is because of the association with that great season we enjoyed in the fourth. I don't think Tomlinson or Segers should be above him. Conroy and Richardson were poor. And Burridge held cult like status for some reason but i couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Joe Bolton held similar cult like status but it was a poor team really. Glenn Cockerill and Edwards were the quality players of the side of the later Porterfield era. Since Tracey we've been blessed with good keepers.

 

[dingledog]

Paul Devlin, he believed his own ego and became a right little sh-t.

 

[blades1889]

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Seriously? Tell me you are shitting me.....Some bloody classic players there, nice off the pitch, played their hearts out! You're a blade right?

 

[Large Mendonca]

Willie Falconer?

Most of the worst ones have already been mentioned.

Axel Smeets and Lee Baxter my particular favourites (in a bad way)

 

[GAZBLADE]

Alex Notman, Alan Fettis, James Howard, Graham Benstead, Gabrieli, Brian Howard..etc

 

[Guesty]

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Peter Ndlovu

No apostrophe in Jags either.

 

[DrammenBlade]

I was happy when Anders Jacobsen left, why did we buy him???

 

[SRBlade]

Donald Peattie

No ey! (as i'm sure i've stated before) Owd Peattie was my lecturer at college.

Was he really THAT bad?

although he would always mention how Deane was a donkey To which i would always laugh off and refer to his 100+ goals for the blades