Sleeping Giants? - Blades "catatonic"

[oldblade]

No Wolves in the list, I'm surprised at that.

They were in the premier league at the time that the article was written. To be a sleeping giant you have to be outside of the top division.

 

[oldblade]

Giant?

Let's not get too drunk on a term that's used and abused on many a footballer and club.

We've NEVER been a Giant, nor will we ever will be, not in this lifetime.

I disagree.

I think a club that won the league championship, came runners up twice and got to 3 FA Cup finals (winning two of them) - all in the space of 6 consecutive seasons can fairly be regarded as a giant of that particular time.

 

[blade too long]

we were a giant club only till 1926 a big club , never below 11th in the second tier up to 1975
but 90 years without a pot to polish,
we cant say anyone on here as ever seen us as gigantic
and in the past 40 years we have only bettered 15th in the top league once

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

I disagree.

I think a club that won the league championship, came runners up twice and got to 3 FA Cup finals (winning two of them) - all in the space of 6 consecutive seasons can fairly be regarded as a giant of that particular time.

Mr OldBlade.

You may be old, possibly older than some on here perhaps?

Unless you are between the ages of 113 and 118, which if you are, I doff my cap, but if I think you may be pulling a leg or two, they were not in your lifetime, as they were not certainly in mine. The clue in my post "not in this lifetime" ...

I stand to be corrected on your age.

cc Lydon

 

[oldblade]

Mr OldBlade.

You may be old, possibly older than some on here perhaps?

Unless you are between the ages of 113 and 118, which if you are, I doff my cap, but if I think you may be pulling a leg or two, they were not in your lifetime, as they were not certainly in mine. The clue in my post "not in this lifetime" ...

I stand to be corrected on your age.

cc Lydon

You said (and I quote) "We've NEVER been a Giant". The facts state otherwise. I think that by any reasonable measure it is fair to say that we were once a giant and we are not any more.

I wasn't aware that a club could not ever have been a giant unless the events that made it a giant had occurred within the living memory of it's supporters.

 

[Kenilworth]

You said (and I quote) "We've NEVER been a Giant". The facts state otherwise. I think that by any reasonable measure it is fair to say that we were once a giant and we are not any more.

Oh, yes we are.


.... it's just that we are taking a little nap, for the moment.

 

[oldblade]

Oh, yes we are.


.... it's just that we are taking a little nap, for the moment.

Or maybe we just shrank in the wash...

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

People are entitled to opinions, he most likely said it to generate more calls.

You said (and I quote) "We've NEVER been a Giant". The facts state otherwise. I think that by any reasonable measure it is fair to say that we were once a giant and we are not any more.

I wasn't aware that a club could not ever have been a giant unless the events that made it a giant had occurred within the living memory of it's supporters.

I said, and I quote...

"We've NEVER been a Giant, nor will we ever will be, not in this lifetime."

Wake Up OldMan and raise your game.

Onset.

 

[oldblade]

I said, and I quote...

"We've NEVER been a Giant, nor will we ever will be, not in this lifetime."

Wake Up OldMan and raise your game.

Onset.

As I read it "not in my lifetime" refers to your belief that we will never be a giant in the future , not that we never have been one.

And the thread itself refers to sleeping giants, not sleeping giants over a set time period.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

As I read it "not in my lifetime" refers to your belief that we will never be a giant in the future , not that we never have been one.

And the thread itself refers to sleeping giants, not sleeping giants over a set time period.

These winter nights must fly by.