Postion vacant: Scapegoat

[Linz]

Due to recent restructuring, a position has become vacant within an exciting multinational organisation.

The successful candidate must be willing to work within budget constraints.

For more details, please contact:

Midfield
c/o Sheffield United Football Club HQ
Lagos
Nigeria

 

[Highbury_Blade]

If i was Flynn, i'd be very, very, very worried.

 

[SwissBlade]

If i was Flynn, i'd be very, very, very worried.

Well there is an opening on the left now...

 

[Linz]

Even second-in-command Quinny has gone.

"Come on Quinny" man will be bitterly disappointed.

 

[Foxy]

Even second-in-command Quinny has gone.

"Come on Quinny" man will be bitterly disappointed.

If he's owt like the "run wit ball Hutchison" man, he'll continue to shout it for at least another season and a half.

 

[Kev Gee]

I would like to put myself forward for this position.

I like to run around alot.
Tackle (badly)
And i love the club.
I only ask for 5K a week.

 

[sitwell]

'For fuck sake tonge' man still shouts it behind me

 

[Revolution]

You can pick any of them. None of them are any good.

 

[super_pig]

position not to be filled due to restructuring

btw if you don't think KMac is any good i worry for your sanity

 

[Bladesman]

Chris Porter will be the new scapegoat or perhaps Williams.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I wonder if we'll see any hints in the secret footballer column...

Edit: Oops wrong thread!

 

[UnitedBlade]

I wonder if we'll see any hints in the secret footballer column...

Edit: Oops wrong thread!

Doubt it as it isn't Kitson

 

[Bladesway]

If only John Gannon could come back.

 

[mpjacko]

Don't worry, Porter has it all wrapped up

 

[blader]

Chris Porter will be the new scapegoat or perhaps Williams.

Yes but, in Williams' case, does it count as being a "scapegoat" if you're genuinely sh*te?

 

[metalblade]

Kitson can be my new scapegoat, only here due being a "friend" of the McCabe clan.

 

[super_pig]

nothing to do with scapegoats.. some players are genuinely crap but some fans are so blinkered in their desire to support everything to do with the club that they feel that they cannot question anything to do with the club in case others might think them as not being proper fans.. if you're crap at your job, then you will get stick. it is the same in any workplace and football is no different
gannon was massively underrated IMHO.. people forget that if it wasn't for his fantastic set piece delivery a certain Brian Deane wouldn't have scored so many goals.. he was almost like a special teams player.. just on for the deadball kicks

 

[Pinchy]

nothing to do with scapegoats.. some players are genuinely crap but some fans are so blinkered in their desire to support everything to do with the club that they feel that they cannot question anything to do with the club in case others might think them as not being proper fans.. if you're crap at your job, then you will get stick. it is the same in any workplace and football is no different
gannon was massively underrated IMHO.. people forget that if it wasn't for his fantastic set piece delivery a certain Brian Deane wouldn't have scored so many goals.. he was almost like a special teams player.. just on for the deadball kicks

Absolutely. This 'scapegoat' thing is a safety-net for the apologists of a player who has been a shadow-chasing, clueless embarrassment of a liability to our club for ten resource-draining, ball-losing, penalty-conceding years.

Scapegoat? No. Waste of a shirt? Absolutely.

At least there were the comedy moments: The diagonal straight-line run to the touchline and beyond; the time he hoofed it sky-high, fell on his arse and the ball landed on his head; the passes so far off target as to defy the most sophisticated of GPS devices.

Thanks, Monty.

 

[Large Mendonca]

At least there were the comedy moments: The diagonal straight-line run to the touchline and beyond; the time he hoofed it sky-high, fell on his arse and the ball landed on his head; the passes so far off target as to defy the most sophisticated of GPS devices.

Thanks, Monty.​

You forgot his "throat passes" delivered at around 80 mph

 

[sitwell]

6 managers ,some who have played at the highest of levels all picked him as first choice in midfield , but a solicitor says he was a waste of a shirt and an apologist of a player who was a clueless embarrassment of a liability to our club for 10 years.

Thanks Pinchy

 

[secretchief]

The fact that he didn't command a transfer fee at any stage during his entire career says as much, if not more, than the fact that managers who inherited him in their squad played him.

Some of our managers played him. Equally, innumerable managers saw no merit in buying him. If history tells us anything it's that every single good player we've ever had has been sold. He is not on that list.

 

[Stafford Blade]

6 managers ,some who have played at the highest of levels all picked him as first choice in midfield , but a solicitor says he was a waste of a shirt and an apologist of a player who was a clueless embarrassment of a liability to our club for 10 years.

Thanks Pinchy

well said that man...

The ultimate internet message board know nowt

 

[bettsyblade86]

The fact that he didn't command a transfer fee at any stage during his entire career says as much, if not more, than the fact that managers who inherited him in their squad played him.

Some of our managers played him. Equally, innumerable managers saw no merit in buying him. If history tells us anything it's that every single good player we've ever had has been sold. He is not on that list.

What a completely moot point. How much in transfer fee's have Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs combined been sold for? How many managers haven't bought them? Only one club manager has ever selected them! They must be shite.

 

[Pinchy]

I don't know who this solicitor is but he's spot on with that!

 

[secretchief]

What a completely moot point. How much in transfer fee's have Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs combined been sold for? How many managers haven't bought them? Only one club manager has ever selected them! They must be shite.

Don't be ridiculous. Are you implying they weren't sold because no-one would have wanted to buy them?

We are talking about a player that no-one ever wanted to buy, at a club who has a track record of selling all their talent, not obvious world-beating clubs trying to keep epoch-making players. There is no comparison.

 

[oldblade]

Due to recent restructuring, a position has become vacant within an exciting multinational organisation.

The successful candidate must be willing to work within budget constraints.

For more details, please contact:

Midfield
c/o Sheffield United Football Club HQ
Lagos
Nigeria

No, owing to the restructure the position of scapegoat has now been changed. It's now a non-playing role filled by Mr Kevin McCabe!

 

[oldblade]

Don't be ridiculous. Are you implying they weren't sold because no-one would have wanted to buy them?

We are talking about a player that no-one ever wanted to buy, at a club who has a track record of selling all their talent, not obvious world-beating clubs trying to keep epoch-making players. There is no comparison.

I thought it was pretty obvious that Bettsyblade86's comments were an attempt to bring some tongue in cheek humour to the thread, as well as introducing a different tak on things. But then I forgot that Mongomery is up there with McCabe in that noone must ever say anything positive about him.

 

[secretchief]

I thought it was pretty obvious that Bettsyblade86's comments were an attempt to bring some tongue in cheek humour to the thread, as well as introducing a different tak on things. But then I forgot that Mongomery is up there with McCabe in that noone must ever say anything positive about him.

In that case I will both say something positive and continue the tongue in cheek humour by saying it's good he's gone.

 

[essexblade87]

No, owing to the restructure the position of scapegoat has now been changed. It's now a non-playing role filled by Mr Kevin McCabe!

Check and Mate

 

[Princess Annes Dog]

All this scapegoat nonsense is just that, nonsense. If a player isn't very good, some fans are honest enough to call it. If someone thinks a player isn't cutting it then again, they have the right to voice an opinion.

There are no scapegoats, just points of view and if certain players are seen as a bag of shite then why should they be heralded as "100% Blades" simply because they run around a lot?