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Check out the line-ups from our first game of the 2014-15 season....

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This featured the strange Clough 'experiment' of starting with the untried centre-back pairing of McGahey and Alcock.

Thankfully, times have changed!
 

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Flint was pretty solid that game and Freeman ran us ragged a bit

One player has survived from that game for us, deservedly so.

We were piss weak and BCFC deserved their win.

pommpey
 
Clough compounded his peculiar transfer window with a peculiar team selection, and we paid for it.

I said after the Swansea game that I was reminded of the Bristol City game as I felt that one of the reasons we'd lost was team selection (no Sharp and the Lundstram/Evans axis in midfield).

Of course, it only took Wilder 2 games to change things and we are back on track.

Clough, by contrast, never sorted is centre half problem and the 5-5 draw at Swindon, our last game of the season, featured 4 full backs in defence....
 
coaxingstar71 said:
Check out the line-ups from our first game of the 2014-15 season....

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This featured the strange Clough 'experiment' of starting with the untried centre-back pairing of McGahey and Alcock.

Thankfully, times have changed!
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Daft as it sounds, those 2 played quite well on the day though. From what I recall anyway. Less could be said for the team over the rest of the season.
 
Memory is a little hazy, but I remember thinking that McGahey actually played ok, but Alcock looked like what he was, a full-back playing out of position.

This of course was the bewildering time that Clough bombed out what was thought to be his first choice centre-back pairing of Collins and Butler.
 
That line up is so bad it’s scary. Who signed all that pile of crap?
It’s a painful reminder to me of a season where we were so bad I wanted to get up and leave during the match on many occasions as I couldn’t stand the mind numbing frustration of watching the awful performances (with a few exceptions)

That team sheet highlights what a transformation Wilder has overseen.
 
Just goes to show, what Wilder has done for us, from that squad there to now. We really do have a special manager
 
pommpey said:
One player has survived from that game for us, deservedly so.
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In 2015 I though Bash was part of the problem. Not really good enough for the 3rd division and the kind of average trier that we had to replace to get promoted.

Fortunately I wasn't wearing a hat otherwise I'd have severe indigestion.

Absolte full credit to HMS Bashambauer.

pommpey said:
We were piss weak and BCFC deserved their win.
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We started okay and I even though Higdon might have been what we were looking for. That was his 'best'* game and it was downhill from there.



* All things are relative
 
RedandWhite said:
Just goes to show, what Wilder has done for us, from that squad there to now. We really do have a special manager
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I just checked on the 2016-17 season

Disastrous 0-3 reverse at home to Southend (whereby we all thought, 'here we go again') an expoected loss to Millwall, a surprising win vs Oxford and then 0-1 down at Gillingham on telly.

Then Freeman scores a scrappy, typically battling goal and we press to get the penalty at the death. Talk about wrestling victory from defeat.

The start of the revolution for me. Suddenly I started to believe.

pommpey
 



ChipButtyBlade said:
Someone do a "where are they now" post.
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1 Mark Howard: currently first choice keeper for League One Blackpool

16 Ben Davies: still playing at the age of 37, plying his trade in the National League North for Boston
2 Craig Alcock: released by Doncaster at the end of last season and has yet to find a new club
17 Harrison McGahey: first choice centre half for Rochdale in League One
3 Bob Harris: playing for AFC Telford in the National League North

10 Stefan Scougall: back in Scotland playing for SPL side St Johnstone where he has one goal in six appearances so far this season
6 Chris Basham: the sole representative of that awful game still at United (and deservedly so)
22 Louis Reed: benchwarming for Peterborough in League One
7 Ryan Flynn: also back in Scotland playing for SPL side St Mirren

21 Michael Higdon: retired 18 months ago, last seen putting in some awful on-pitch but outstanding in-canteen performances for Bangor in the Welsh Premier League
9 Jamie Murphy: now at Rangers but out for the season with knee-knack

Subs
13 George Willis: quit the professional game, now (I think) coaching at United's academy
15 Neill Collins: managing Tampa Bay Rowdies in the second tier of the US league
8 Michael Doyle: still playing at Coventry in League One
20 Jamal Campbell-Ryce: signed for Stevenage in League Two in July but has yet to make a league appearance
11 Jose Baxter: back from a second drugs ban, now at League Two Oldham (with current Blades loanee Sam Graham)
12 Marc McNulty: aside from Basham, the only member of this squad to be in the Championship. Now at Reading
18 Chris Porter: becoming a cult hero back at Crewe; three goals in six appearances this season (two goals in the Chuckaturd Trophy win at Tranmere)

So:
2 in the Championship (Basham & McNulty)
3 in the Scottish Premiership (Murphy, Flynn & Scougall)
4 in League One (Howard, McGahey, Reed, Doyle)
3 in League Two (Campbell-Ryce, Baxter, Porter)
2 in the National League North (Harris, Davies)
2 retired (Willis, Higdon)
1 in America (Collins)
1 without a club (Alcock)
 
Revolution said:
and the Lundstram/Evans axis in midfield
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more so, these two.

Will keep having to banging the same drum - a team revolves around proper footballers in midfield who can make the right decisions with the ball.

We have them in the team now - with another gem to come back in........heaven :)

UTB
 
coaxingstar71 said:
Memory is a little hazy, but I remember thinking that McGahey actually played ok, but Alcock looked like what he was, a full-back playing out of position.

This of course was the bewildering time that Clough bombed out what was thought to be his first choice centre-back pairing of Collins and Butler.
Click to expand...
That was the beginning of the end for Clough discarding two experienced centre back like he did was typical of the Clough personality while our manager it came back to bite him on the bum all season,culminating in the Swindon debacle.
He was supported by a good budget (better than most of our recent managers
but his stubbornness cost us a good chance of promotion and ultimately his job.
Having started his stewardship so well it was mighty disappointing for it to end the way it did.I like most blades were right behind him until that fatal preseason when all logic went out of the window.How can an experienced manager start a season throwing his two experienced centre backs away with no real cover,
I think Clough sacked himself really.
 
Balham Blade said:
1 Mark Howard: currently first choice keeper for League One Blackpool

16 Ben Davies: still playing at the age of 37, plying his trade in the National League North for Boston
2 Craig Alcock: released by Doncaster at the end of last season and has yet to find a new club
17 Harrison McGahey: first choice centre half for Rochdale in League One
3 Bob Harris: playing for AFC Telford in the National League North

10 Stefan Scougall: back in Scotland playing for SPL side St Johnstone where he has one goal in six appearances so far this season
6 Chris Basham: the sole representative of that awful game still at United (and deservedly so)
22 Louis Reed: benchwarming for Peterborough in League One
7 Ryan Flynn: also back in Scotland playing for SPL side St Mirren

21 Michael Higdon: retired 18 months ago, last seen putting in some awful on-pitch but outstanding in-canteen performances for Bangor in the Welsh Premier League
9 Jamie Murphy: now at Rangers but out for the season with knee-knack

Subs
13 George Willis: quit the professional game, now (I think) coaching at United's academy
15 Neill Collins: managing Tampa Bay Rowdies in the second tier of the US league
8 Michael Doyle: still playing at Coventry in League One
20 Jamal Campbell-Ryce: signed for Stevenage in League Two in July but has yet to make a league appearance
11 Jose Baxter: back from a second drugs ban, now at League Two Oldham (with current Blades loanee Sam Graham)
12 Marc McNulty: aside from Basham, the only member of this squad to be in the Championship. Now at Reading
18 Chris Porter: becoming a cult hero back at Crewe; three goals in six appearances this season (two goals in the Chuckaturd Trophy win at Tranmere)

So:
2 in the Championship (Basham & McNulty)
3 in the Scottish Premiership (Murphy, Flynn & Scougall)
4 in League One (Howard, McGahey, Reed, Doyle)
3 in League Two (Campbell-Ryce, Baxter, Porter)
2 in the National League North (Harris, Davies)
2 retired (Willis, Higdon)
1 in America (Collins)
1 without a club (Alcock)
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Magahey fouled Lavery to concede a pen the other night in the checkatrade trophy.
 
RammyBlade said:
7 midgets in that side and as soon as I saw that dwarf Alcock was at centre half I knew Clough had lost his marbles
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Incidentally Alcock has signed for the mighty Cheltenham Town from being a free agent today! Like Signor Diego his career is going down the shit pipe!
 
Anyone know how many tickets we got allocated ? Working in Bristol ( nailsea ) at the minute in my camper van directly on the bus route to Ashton gate :D free electric in my building site compound ! Bringing my mrs next Friday they saying away end 3600 how many they given us ?
I’m on it Monday general sale UTB
 
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We've come a long way. I had forgotten how poor we really were. Basham aside, the only player from that day that would get in our squad would be Jamie Murphy as a fringe player.


I actually thought Higdon looked alright that day but after that was shocking. I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about his performance at home to Notts Co that year. Half man half wardrobe
 
Same thoughts here the only player who might get in our team now other than Basham is Jamie Murphy
 



Balham Blade said:
1 Mark Howard: currently first choice keeper for League One Blackpool

16 Ben Davies: still playing at the age of 37, plying his trade in the National League North for Boston
2 Craig Alcock: released by Doncaster at the end of last season and has yet to find a new club
17 Harrison McGahey: first choice centre half for Rochdale in League One
3 Bob Harris: playing for AFC Telford in the National League North

10 Stefan Scougall: back in Scotland playing for SPL side St Johnstone where he has one goal in six appearances so far this season
6 Chris Basham: the sole representative of that awful game still at United (and deservedly so)
22 Louis Reed: benchwarming for Peterborough in League One
7 Ryan Flynn: also back in Scotland playing for SPL side St Mirren

21 Michael Higdon: retired 18 months ago, last seen putting in some awful on-pitch but outstanding in-canteen performances for Bangor in the Welsh Premier League
9 Jamie Murphy: now at Rangers but out for the season with knee-knack

Subs
13 George Willis: quit the professional game, now (I think) coaching at United's academy
15 Neill Collins: managing Tampa Bay Rowdies in the second tier of the US league
8 Michael Doyle: still playing at Coventry in League One
20 Jamal Campbell-Ryce: signed for Stevenage in League Two in July but has yet to make a league appearance
11 Jose Baxter: back from a second drugs ban, now at League Two Oldham (with current Blades loanee Sam Graham)
12 Marc McNulty: aside from Basham, the only member of this squad to be in the Championship. Now at Reading
18 Chris Porter: becoming a cult hero back at Crewe; three goals in six appearances this season (two goals in the Chuckaturd Trophy win at Tranmere)

So:
2 in the Championship (Basham & McNulty)
3 in the Scottish Premiership (Murphy, Flynn & Scougall)
4 in League One (Howard, McGahey, Reed, Doyle)
3 in League Two (Campbell-Ryce, Baxter, Porter)
2 in the National League North (Harris, Davies)
2 retired (Willis, Higdon)
1 in America (Collins)
1 without a club (Alcock)
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Cheers Balham Blade that was painful to revisit.
 
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