St. Wane's Day?

[darleyblade]

I don't post very often on here - mainly laziness, I admit - though I do enjoy reading the (mostly) interesting and entertaining threads.

However, on a dismal Sunday afternoon I've been catching up with yesterday's paper and came across an article by Robert Peston (whose spoken delivery annoys me no end and who comes across better in print). He's a Gooner - maybe that's also why he annoys me no end - and he was saying he'd been at the recent match v Spurs, going on to refer to St. Totteringham's Day, when Arsenal fans celebrate the point in the season when their rivals can no longer finish above them.

I then started wondering whether we Blades could come up with something similar, given that - with due acknowledgement of the risk of upsetting the Footballing Gods - we stand a fair chance of finishing above the Fowls this season. The description has to sound something like their name and to indicate a collapse on their part.

We've got a head start in that there is already a "day" in their title, and there is one obvious word beginning with a "w" that would fit quite nicely, but in the interest of keeping this clean and printable elsewhere, the best I can come up with is St. Wane's Day. It sounds OK but lacks a bit of punch, somehow. Any other thoughts?

Since this a rare posting, I thought I'd just add that as someone whose first match at the Lane was in 1956 - 3-3 draw with Wolves when we were already relegated - I could only feel in complete awe of the bloke who was mentioned over the tannoy at half-time yesterday, whose first was in 1937 and who still has a season ticket. I'll end by saying that this current Blades team is the most attractive I've ever seen, apart from the one from the early '70s with TC and Co.

UTB

 

[Damski]

St Wendy's Day

 

[Damski]

OR St Anthony's day. He is the patron saint of pigs.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Bouncing day

 

[GodricBlade]

St Thank-Fuck-I’m-Not-A-Wednesday-Fan Day?
Celebrated every day except Feb 30th.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

St Woedins Day

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

St Wendyfail Day

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

St Malo day.

Patron saint of pig farmers.

Or

St Michael Day

Patron saint of bouncers.

 

[blade.i.am]

St Brooks

Patron saint of nutmeg

 

[drinksmat]

Robin Reliant Day (as per Trotters Independent Traders). A vehicle befitting our neighbours.

 

[Bladebri]

St Wednesday fuck it up again day

 

[Benny and the Blades]

Whoooo dodgey
.I'm keeping my powder dry till the day it happens....

 

[SalopianBlade]

St Wednes Day

 

[Steve Mackan]

Seeing as it will happen around mid-February, St Valentines Day.

 

[8lade]

No more momentum required day.

 

[Tom Bott]

St STY day.

St SWILL's day.

St NO-Chancieri day.

St SWFIUA day (Sheff. Wed. Fvucked It Up Again - day)

I like it, looking forward to naming that day.

Mind the gap.

 

[darleyblade]

Some good suggestions there, but my favourite is St Woedin's Day - thanks to Eddie's Leg. It's got the woe Wendy will be feeling as well as a reference to Odin, Norse god of (among other things) death and the gallows.

Bring it on...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

How's about a Greavsie day?

 

[Tom Bott]

OT I know but it has to be posted, thoughts from a little piggie in the Star/Sty.

Carlos the Clown is totally negative. Is there any wonder that the players have the same attitude? I've seen more exciting Subuteo games than the last 2 matches.

PML..

 

[Tom Bott]

Even funnier the Star seems to have pulled the article with CC blaming the fixtures again, well after a dubious penalty and one or their players allowed to stay on after an atrocious challenge he cannot blame the ref again.

There were so many comments from piglets telling him to FO the Star seems to have pulled (pork ?)the article.......
Wish I had linked it..

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...has-left-the-owls-at-a-disadvantage-1-8875541

Found it, the comments are priceless.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I don't post very often on here - mainly laziness, I admit - though I do enjoy reading the (mostly) interesting and entertaining threads.

However, on a dismal Sunday afternoon I've been catching up with yesterday's paper and came across an article by Robert Peston (whose spoken delivery annoys me no end and who comes across better in print). He's a Gooner - maybe that's also why he annoys me no end - and he was saying he'd been at the recent match v Spurs, going on to refer to St. Totteringham's Day, when Arsenal fans celebrate the point in the season when their rivals can no longer finish above them.

I then started wondering whether we Blades could come up with something similar, given that - with due acknowledgement of the risk of upsetting the Footballing Gods - we stand a fair chance of finishing above the Fowls this season. The description has to sound something like their name and to indicate a collapse on their part.

We've got a head start in that there is already a "day" in their title, and there is one obvious word beginning with a "w" that would fit quite nicely, but in the interest of keeping this clean and printable elsewhere, the best I can come up with is St. Wane's Day. It sounds OK but lacks a bit of punch, somehow. Any other thoughts?

Since this a rare posting, I thought I'd just add that as someone whose first match at the Lane was in 1956 - 3-3 draw with Wolves when we were already relegated - I could only feel in complete awe of the bloke who was mentioned over the tannoy at half-time yesterday, whose first was in 1937 and who still has a season ticket. I'll end by saying that this current Blades team is the most attractive I've ever seen, apart from the one from the early '70s with TC and Co.

UTB

I think it's an interesting idea, although I think you're possibly trying too hard to find a name for it and all the efforts so far are pretty contrived and don't relate to what it is supposed to be about. This is about Blades being above Owls for the remainder of the current season isn't it? That's the important bit. The point at which the Owls can no longer catch the Blades. It's almost like a kind of solstice. A turning point beyond which there is no return. I wouldn't worry about what to call it right now, I'd focus more on getting support for the idea. The name can come later.

When you attended your first match at the Lane I was a mere zygote. I followed you 14 years later and saw the halcyon days of Woody and Currie. In my opinion, that Sheffield United side of the early 1970's had more talented individuals than any other side since. There's never been another player as talented as Currie, or anyone anywhere near him, in a red and white shirt. Although, he wasn't my favourite player from that era. I think Woodward made a better all round contribution to the team and was the best striker of a ball I've ever seen. Folks used to talk about Brazilian players and what they could do with a ball, bending it, dipping it, etc., but Woodward could do that every week and break the net with shots from 40 yards. There were other very good players too, like Reece, a small man who could outjump giant centre halves and turn people inside out with his dribbling. And Salmons, who would tear away down that left flank and take some knocking off the ball. Then there was Scullion, who was an audacious winger with a bag of tricks; the Lionheart of a striker called Bill Dearden, who was like an early version of Ian Rush. The cultured full back that was Len Badger. The very composed Keith Eddy and the maverick piratical character that was Trevor Hockey. Some great players there - and a few "ordinary ones" too that I haven't mentioned. However, it is easy to look back through tinted spectacles and fabulous though that team were, they were also inconsistent. Consequently, they never won a bean. And whilst they were a better team than the current one in terms of providing us with moments of sheer individual brilliance - they were not better than the current team in terms of keeping possession and giving it absolutely 100% every game.

That's my view on it anyhow. I wonder what the chap who has had a season ticket since 1937 thinks about it?

 

[Caveblade]

I don't post very often on here - mainly laziness, I admit - though I do enjoy reading the (mostly) interesting and entertaining threads.

However, on a dismal Sunday afternoon I've been catching up with yesterday's paper and came across an article by Robert Peston (whose spoken delivery annoys me no end and who comes across better in print). He's a Gooner - maybe that's also why he annoys me no end - and he was saying he'd been at the recent match v Spurs, going on to refer to St. Totteringham's Day, when Arsenal fans celebrate the point in the season when their rivals can no longer finish above them.

I then started wondering whether we Blades could come up with something similar, given that - with due acknowledgement of the risk of upsetting the Footballing Gods - we stand a fair chance of finishing above the Fowls this season. The description has to sound something like their name and to indicate a collapse on their part.

We've got a head start in that there is already a "day" in their title, and there is one obvious word beginning with a "w" that would fit quite nicely, but in the interest of keeping this clean and printable elsewhere, the best I can come up with is St. Wane's Day. It sounds OK but lacks a bit of punch, somehow. Any other thoughts?

Good post darleyblade but it is a massive no from me. I have heard Arsenal fans tittering about this in the past and being frank they just came across as arrogant twats who were laughing at their poorer neighbors. Invariably they have won nothing each season. It has come off the back of 20 years of aiming for 4th spot and they look slightly stupid now that Tottenham are a better team.

This feels like the sort of thing our truffle hunting neighbours would come up with. Their fans are pretty similar to Arsenal, arrogant deluded and not quite as Massive as they think they are! Blades and Spurs fans slightly more grounded methinks.

Just enjoy the ride, see where it takes us and if we achieve something do, it with dignity.

 

[Tony]

New one will be St Chansiri Day, seems he's emblazoned the Sty and shirts with his shrines. Couldn't believe the Piggery on Derby day with his name everywhere.

 

[darleyblade]

I think it's an interesting idea, although I think you're possibly trying too hard to find a name for it and all the efforts so far are pretty contrived and don't relate to what it is supposed to be about. This is about Blades being above Owls for the remainder of the current season isn't it? That's the important bit. The point at which the Owls can no longer catch the Blades. It's almost like a kind of solstice. A turning point beyond which there is no return. I wouldn't worry about what to call it right now, I'd focus more on getting support for the idea. The name can come later.

When you attended your first match at the Lane I was a mere zygote. I followed you 14 years later and saw the halcyon days of Woody and Currie. In my opinion, that Sheffield United side of the early 1970's had more talented individuals than any other side since. There's never been another player as talented as Currie, or anyone anywhere near him, in a red and white shirt. Although, he wasn't my favourite player from that era. I think Woodward made a better all round contribution to the team and was the best striker of a ball I've ever seen. Folks used to talk about Brazilian players and what they could do with a ball, bending it, dipping it, etc., but Woodward could do that every week and break the net with shots from 40 yards. There were other very good players too, like Reece, a small man who could outjump giant centre halves and turn people inside out with his dribbling. And Salmons, who would tear away down that left flank and take some knocking off the ball. Then there was Scullion, who was an audacious winger with a bag of tricks; the Lionheart of a striker called Bill Dearden, who was like an early version of Ian Rush. The cultured full back that was Len Badger. The very composed Keith Eddy and the maverick piratical character that was Trevor Hockey. Some great players there - and a few "ordinary ones" too that I haven't mentioned. However, it is easy to look back through tinted spectacles and fabulous though that team were, they were also inconsistent. Consequently, they never won a bean. And whilst they were a better team than the current one in terms of providing us with moments of sheer individual brilliance - they were not better than the current team in terms of keeping possession and giving it absolutely 100% every game.

That's my view on it anyhow. I wonder what the chap who has had a season ticket since 1937 thinks about it?

Thanks for that, Cerberus. It's not actually about us being above the Owls for the rest of the season - though of course I hope that will happen. It's about marking the day - which could come after Wendy have been above us for a while and then fallen away again - when they can no longer finish the season above us.

I agree with everything you say about the team from the early 70s. I'm glad you mentioned Stewart Scullion, one of my favourite players. I've been thinking about him only recently because he had a rather strange, scuttling run, like a clockwork mouse, which reminds me very much of the way Fleck moves around the pitch. Fleck also shares some aspects of his play with the great Trevor Hockey.

 

[darleyblade]

Good post darleyblade but it is a massive no from me. I have heard Arsenal fans tittering about this in the past and being frank they just came across as arrogant twats who were laughing at their poorer neighbors. Invariably they have won nothing each season. It has come off the back of 20 years of aiming for 4th spot and they look slightly stupid now that Tottenham are a better team.

This feels like the sort of thing our truffle hunting neighbours would come up with. Their fans are pretty similar to Arsenal, arrogant deluded and not quite as Massive as they think they are! Blades and Spurs fans slightly more grounded methinks.

Just enjoy the ride, see where it takes us and if we achieve something do, it with dignity.

That's a very fair point, Caveblade. I just threw out the idea as a bit of fun and (hopefully) fairly harmless Owls baiting, but it's the kind of thing that could perhaps come across as arrogant - and could soon backfire. I hope we will enjoy the ride for a while longer...

 

[SalopianBlade]

I know I've already contributed with an idea but I've got me criticisms.

Another club came up with it so it's not original.

Arsenal and Spurs have been in the same league for close to 40 years, meaning there is always a season they could celebrate the day. You can't do it when you're in different leagues.

Arsenal finished above Spurs for enough consecutive seasons for a celebratory day to make sense. Last season, Blades finished below Owls.

It's a bit arrogant at this point in time. We endured 6 seasons down there and, on the whole, seemed grateful to be back in Championship until a few weeks back. It would be a shame if that humility disappeared and we became like that lot.

Imagine how ridiculous this thread will look (and others like it) if Wednesday finished above us.

 

[darleyblade]

I know I've already contributed with an idea but I've got me criticisms.

Another club came up with it so it's not original.

Arsenal and Spurs have been in the same league for close to 40 years, meaning there is always a season they could celebrate the day. You can't do it when you're in different leagues.

Arsenal finished above Spurs for enough consecutive seasons for a celebratory day to make sense. Last season, Blades finished below Owls.

It's a bit arrogant at this point in time. We endured 6 seasons down there and, on the whole, seemed grateful to be back in Championship until a few weeks back. It would be a shame if that humility disappeared and we became like that lot.

Imagine how ridiculous this thread will look (and others like it) if Wednesday finished above us.

Yes, you're right, we're not like them. It was just a thought - I hope to celebrate St Woedin's Day quietly, in my head,,,and perhaps with a pint or two ;-)