CONFIRMED Ryan Leonard

[Maidenhead]

Tell me your name

Why the fck should I?

You made this call

 

[SteveBlade]

Apparently if two posts in a potential incoming player thread are more than 8 and a half hours apart the transfer then becomes impossible.

Good thing I saw this when I did!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Leonard has the option of handing in a transfer request. That will mean he gets less money from the deal though. He cannot be forced to remain under contract if he chooses to make a formal request to leave. At some point soon this waiting game will be over I suspect.

 

[Snowman]

Yes. Yes. No. Yes.

 

[Sirius]

Tell me your name

Don't tell him Pike

 

[Pinchy]

Thanks, but there is absolutely no need to apologise. If I go onto another message board I understand that some will give me a bit of a tweak. I was stupid enough to venture on to Millwall's board once.....that was fun.

I'd like to apologise on behalf of all genuine football loving Blades for the damage inflicted on the beautiful game by the likes of Dinosaur Dave Bassett, Ol' Big Nose Warnock and Semi-Pro Blackwell.

The grotesque anti-football "played" by mediocrities like Vinnie Jones, Paul Williams, Jostein Flo, Mark Morris, Wally Fucking Downes, Nick Montgomery, Michael Doyle and countless others, was a disgrace to the shirt worn by Tony Currie, Alan Woodward, Len Badger. I am truly sorry.

We aided and abetted Charles Hughes and John Beck in bringing the Sunday League to professional football. We dispensed with skill, creativity, vision and style, in favour of a "Kick it Long; Kick it Hard; Kick it High" philosophy of despair. We sought to destroy proper football over many decades. I unreservedly apologise.

Even today, here in S2, there are those who yearn for a '3 pass rule' whereby possession is automatically turned over after a team's third touch of the ball. We like the results under Wilder but don't like the way in which they are achieved. We long to gerritforrard and gerritintbox. We want nowt-fancy, upanatem, Neanderthal pub football. We want to see football as ugly, outdated and out of place as an ill-fitting toupée.

For all this, I am ashamed and sincerely apologise. Pele forgive us.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

Even today, here in S2, there are those who yearn for a '3 pass rule' whereby possession is automatically turned over after a team's third touch of the ball. We like the results under Wilder but don't like the way in which they are achieved. We long to gerritforrard and gerritintbox. We want nowt-fancy, upanatem, Neanderthal pub football. We want to see football as ugly, outdated and out of place as an ill-fitting toupée.

I know lots of Blades. This obsessive, self-loathing fantasy of yours reflects the views of precisely none of them.

 

[Harrisblade]

I know lots of Blades. This obsessive, self-loathing fantasy of yours reflects the views of precisely none of them.

You've got that wrong!
It isn't self-loathing, he loathes everybody BUT himself and is selfishness personified.
Only his opinions count.
Basically an ignorant prat.

 

[I should coco]

Even today, here in S2, there are those who yearn for a '3 pass rule'

Thousands of 'em. Could be millions.

A whole army of fifth column hoofists, who fortunately exist only in Pinchy's mind.

 

[Westran]

I'd like to apologise on behalf of all genuine football loving Blades for the damage inflicted on the beautiful game by the likes of Dinosaur Dave Bassett, Ol' Big Nose Warnock and Semi-Pro Blackwell.

The grotesque anti-football "played" by mediocrities like Vinnie Jones, Paul Williams, Jostein Flo, Mark Morris, Wally Fucking Downes, Nick Montgomery, Michael Doyle and countless others, was a disgrace to the shirt worn by Tony Currie, Alan Woodward, Len Badger. I am truly sorry.

We aided and abetted Charles Hughes and John Beck in bringing the Sunday League to professional football. We dispensed with skill, creativity, vision and style, in favour of a "Kick it Long; Kick it Hard; Kick it High" philosophy of despair. We sought to destroy proper football over many decades. I unreservedly apologise.

Even today, here in S2, there are those who yearn for a '3 pass rule' whereby possession is automatically turned over after a team's third touch of the ball. We like the results under Wilder but don't like the way in which they are achieved. We long to gerritforrard and gerritintbox. We want nowt-fancy, upanatem, Neanderthal pub football. We want to see football as ugly, outdated and out of place as an ill-fitting toupée.

For all this, I am ashamed and sincerely apologise. Pele forgive us.

If it's been that bad for you throughout the years why do you still bother?

You've created a fictional situation where you believe you are the only person who speaks any sense, I have a few friends who think like that and I consider them narcasists. In reality you're just one person with his own opinions and the more you try and force the same sorry story across where only you know what every single one of the thousands of Blades fans want, the more people will think you're ridiculous and you speak crap.

In reality there are many fans with many opinions of how the game should be played, that will differ from season to season, game to game and even sometimes several different ways in one games. It's subjective you see, it depends on the resources available, the managers way of playing, the opposition, lots and lots of different things and most football fans see that, clearly you don't.

 

[I should coco]

You've created a fictional situation where you believe you are the only person who speaks any sense,

In the Land of the Blind Pinchys, the one-eyed Pinchy is king.

In reality there are many fans with many opinions of how the game should be played

...and do you know, they are ALL wrong.

 

[Blade for Sale]

I'd like to apologise on behalf of all genuine football loving Blades for the damage inflicted on the beautiful game by the likes of Dinosaur Dave Bassett, Ol' Big Nose Warnock and Semi-Pro Blackwell.

The grotesque anti-football "played" by mediocrities like Vinnie Jones, Paul Williams, Jostein Flo, Mark Morris, Wally Fucking Downes, Nick Montgomery, Michael Doyle and countless others, was a disgrace to the shirt worn by Tony Currie, Alan Woodward, Len Badger. I am truly sorry.

We aided and abetted Charles Hughes and John Beck in bringing the Sunday League to professional football. We dispensed with skill, creativity, vision and style, in favour of a "Kick it Long; Kick it Hard; Kick it High" philosophy of despair. We sought to destroy proper football over many decades. I unreservedly apologise.

Even today, here in S2, there are those who yearn for a '3 pass rule' whereby possession is automatically turned over after a team's third touch of the ball. We like the results under Wilder but don't like the way in which they are achieved. We long to gerritforrard and gerritintbox. We want nowt-fancy, upanatem, Neanderthal pub football. We want to see football as ugly, outdated and out of place as an ill-fitting toupée.

For all this, I am ashamed and sincerely apologise. Pele forgive us.

I still bear the scars from the self flagellation I was forced to carry out as we regularly took the likes of Man Utd, Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea to the fucking cleaners. The ignominy!

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

You've got that wrong!
It isn't self-loathing, he loathes everybody BUT himself and is selfishness personified.
Only his opinions count.
Basically an ignorant prat.

Self-loathing, in the sense that he clearly has some sort of issue with his own roots in "S2" that he projects onto this fantasy of a hoof army.

 

[Pinchy]

And yet we won't be waiting long for the next instalment of "How great Dave Bassett was". We never are. You miss one dinosaur; another comes round the corner.

It doesn't happen at any of his other clubs and football beyond the S2 wastelands regards him as a brief and long-forgotten stain on its character, like Hughes, Beck and all the other non-footballing "three passes are more than enough" drivel fraternity.

The membership of this forum is predominantly Bassett generation and by Pele, it shows. I'm just sorry you hoofers know nothing better, which fact is reinforced by your inability to understand that there is a right way to play this game: Proper football, not upanatem, underdog, nowt-fancy shadow-chasing.

Luckily Tufty understands it. That's why he and I use the same terminology and 90% of you try to ignore it.

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[I should coco]

And yet we won't be waiting long for the next instalment of "How great Dave Bassett was". We never are

Could that possibly be because he actually was 'great' for us?

Two promotions and 4 seasons in the promised land after a gap of 14 years was one thing. Getting to Wemberlee and turning over Manyoo, Liverpool, Cheslki and the Arse etc was another.

You've made it crystal clear you didn't like his football but as far as I can see you have never admitted if you enjoyed any of those wonderful times. Well...?

 

[I should coco]

I'll start you off.

Leicester away 1990 (my best ever Blades game by some) - any good for his Pinchyness?

 

[Harrisblade]

I'll start you off.

Leicester away 1990 (my best ever Blades game by some) - any good for his Pinchyness?

Pinchy doesn't do "enjoyment" unless it fits his very strict criteria that only he really understands.
Bit like Sheldon Cooper in the 'Big Bang Theory' only not acting

 

[Sothall_Blade]

And yet we won't be waiting long for the next instalment of "How great Dave Bassett was". We never are. You miss one dinosaur; another comes round the corner.

It doesn't happen at any of his other clubs and football beyond the S2 wastelands regards him as a brief and long-forgotten stain on its character, like Hughes, Beck and all the other non-footballing "three passes are more than enough" drivel fraternity.

The membership of this forum is predominantly Bassett generation and by Pele, it shows. I'm just sorry you hoofers know nothing better, which fact is reinforced by your inability to understand that there is a right way to play this game: Proper football, not upanatem, underdog, nowt-fancy shadow-chasing.

Luckily Tufty understands it. That's why he and I use the same terminology and 90% of you try to ignore it.

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Strangely enough, you are nearly always the first one to mention Bassett on a thread.
Usually when the thread has nothing whatsoever to do with him.
Like a thread about Ryan Leonard of Southend for example.

There is only one bloke on this website who has an unhealthy obsession with Dave Bassett.

 

[Blade58]

I'll start you off.

Leicester away 1990 (my best ever Blades game by some) - any good for his Pinchyness?

Was mine also, followed by the 3-1 win at Pigsville, followed by the play-off semi at the Lane against Florist

 

[Pinchy]

Could that possibly be because he actually was 'great' for us?

Two promotions and 4 seasons in the promised land after a gap of 14 years was one thing. Getting to Wemberlee and turning over Manyoo, Liverpool, Cheslki and the Arse etc was another.

You've made it crystal clear you didn't like his football but as far as I can see you have never admitted if you enjoyed any of those wonderful times. Well...?

I did. I followed them home and away. Leicester was fantastic. Wembley was an embarrassment. The Pigs gave us a football lesson from first to last.

He was the right man at the right time, I've said that repeatedly but I have come to realise that his legacy has done damage to our reputation (Wimbledon of the North etc.) and distorted the way our fans see football. Many of them, despite your protestations, would still rather be upanatem underdogs gerrinstuckin and gerrinitintbox rather than defeat the opposition by playing better football which, to the horror of S2 diehards, is actually the "right way" (as Tufty often emphasises, but people pretend he doesn't).

The most risible of all S2 myths is that his football philosophy has the slightest application in the 21st century. Hence the occasional calls (most recently when rightly sacked by Chesterfield) for the return of that useless article and nowt-fancy advocate Morgan to some sort of coaching role. Incredible, but true.

I want my team to play football better than I could ever imagine, not a supercharged version of what I could watch in a public park. Tuftyball is streets ahead of anything ever produced by DD or OBN. Ask Kevin Gage if I've got it wrong.

 

[wizadry]

I did. I followed them home and away. Leicester was fantastic. Wembley was an embarrassment. The Pigs gave us a football lesson from first to last.

He was the right man at the right time, I've said that repeatedly but I have come to realise that his legacy has done damage to our reputation (Wimbledon of the North etc.) and distorted the way our fans see football. Many of them, despite your protestations, would still rather be upanatem underdogs gerrinstuckin and gerrinitintbox rather than defeat the opposition by playing better football which, to the horror of S2 diehards, is actually the "right way" (as Tufty often emphasises, but people pretend he doesn't).

The most risible of all S2 myths is that his football philosophy has the slightest application in the 21st century. Hence the occasional calls (most recently when rightly sacked by Chesterfield) for the return of that useless article and nowt-fancy advocate Morgan to some sort of coaching role. Incredible, but true.

I want my team to play football better than I could ever imagine, not a supercharged version of what I could watch in a public park. Tuftyball is streets ahead of anything ever produced by DD or OBN. Ask Kevin Gage if I've got it wrong.

.....and that pub football you disrespect quite a lot is exactly where this "tuftyball" came from.

Bradway pub.

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Are we signing Leonard or not ?

 

[SteveBlade]

Are we signing Leonard or not ?

Have you not seen the Jagielka thread?

No time for this shit anymore.

 

[Fanny magnet]

I'd like to apologise on behalf of all genuine football loving Blades for the damage inflicted on the beautiful game by the likes of Dinosaur Dave Bassett, Ol' Big Nose Warnock and Semi-Pro Blackwell.

The grotesque anti-football "played" by mediocrities like Vinnie Jones, Paul Williams, Jostein Flo, Mark Morris, Wally Fucking Downes, Nick Montgomery, Michael Doyle and countless others, was a disgrace to the shirt worn by Tony Currie, Alan Woodward, Len Badger. I am truly sorry.

We aided and abetted Charles Hughes and John Beck in bringing the Sunday League to professional football. We dispensed with skill, creativity, vision and style, in favour of a "Kick it Long; Kick it Hard; Kick it High" philosophy of despair. We sought to destroy proper football over many decades. I unreservedly apologise.

Even today, here in S2, there are those who yearn for a '3 pass rule' whereby possession is automatically turned over after a team's third touch of the ball. We like the results under Wilder but don't like the way in which they are achieved. We long to gerritforrard and gerritintbox. We want nowt-fancy, upanatem, Neanderthal pub football. We want to see football as ugly, outdated and out of place as an ill-fitting toupée.

For all this, I am ashamed and sincerely apologise. Pele forgive us.

All those words and no substance

 

[Bergen Blade]

Pinchy doesn't do "enjoyment" unless it fits his very strict criteria that only he really understands.
Bit like Sheldon Cooper in the 'Big Bang Theory' only not acting

Give him a break, it's tough being the only proper-football fan in the city.

 

[wizadry]

Give him a break, it's tough being the only proper-football fan in the city.

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Pinchy won't mind this, just make sure you don't portray him as Mr Bassett.

 

[alcoblade]

Luckily Tufty understands it. That's why 90% of fans, but ironically not me, were behind his appointment.

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Fixed that for ya

 

[Jonboy60]

Live near Southend, and Phil brown his trying to get a central defender and midfielder in by the week-end.
As reported by the local rag (The echo). Don't know if it as any bearing to the Leonard debate, but thought I would post anyway.

 

[Shrimperama]

Live near Southend, and Phil brown his trying to get a central defender and midfielder in by the week-end.
As reported by the local rag (The echo). Don't know if it as any bearing to the Leonard debate, but thought I would post anyway.

No it has no bearing whatsoever. We have lost a centre back and right midfielder to other clubs.

 

[wizadry]

Live near Southend, and Phil brown his trying to get a central defender and midfielder in by the week-end.
As reported by the local rag (The echo). Don't know if it as any bearing to the Leonard debate, but thought I would post anyway.

No it has no bearing whatsoever. We have lost a centre back and right midfielder to other clubs.

Well that told you Jonboy!