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Foxy said:
Tell me I'm not the only one that feels embarrassed by the recent culture of creating a "petition" to get something done or considered, for me, they seem like an insensitive and ridiculous attempt at feet stamping and attempted guilt tripping to get something that people want, regardless of how well meaning they may be.

Don't get me started on the Facebook/Twitter ramblings and Microsoft Paint jobs.
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This. Think its attention seeking by the individual myself hoping local media might come knocking saying "what a great person you are to do this". Why doesn't everyone let things settle down. The bloke has family who are sure to be grieving right now. Let them come to terms with things first and let them and the club decide if any tribute is fitting or indeed wanted. If a member of my family had passed the last thing I would want is a petition or any mention of stands names or statues erected in their honour. I'd be devastated and want to grieve in private.
 
Pedro Verde said:
Why should he surely if they were thinking about doing it they would have to consult his family and its probably too soon for them to think about such a thing, there will be oher things on their mind right now
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If there isn't a statement by midnight tonight Bert will organise a petition with view to a mass protest in the car park.
 
GRUMPY BLADE said:
Doesn't make sense in my opinion, unless it was just for the coming season.

Currie, Edwards, Badger, Hockey, Deane, and many other Blades legends will all pass away at some point, and there won't be stands for them all to be named after. Dedicating a small part of the ground to his memory or a statue would be more appropriate.

Cheers Dkc
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I thought something that Gary Sinclair suggested was sensible the row of seats facing the corner flag in the corner to have number 7's on them the honor his goals from corners.
 
It is quite pathetic this petition thing.
besides which many of us Blades also love many other sports too. Seems a bit insular to not recognise that there are other things in life.
Perhaps a campaign for the removal of all advertising on stands and around the ground should take place? Oh sorry that creates revenue for the club. Nowt to do with football though. How would people feel If it had been named after Shred? They would not be asking for it to be renamed again. So the Kop is named The Alan Woodward stand. Then there is the next Blades legend to go on the next stand and so on.
Personally I'd just like some action shots of our player legend's somehow engraved over several seats, concrete steps or walkways or other.
 
crucialkneeligaman said:
Along with TC & Jimmy Hagen, the greatest players to have pulled on the red/white shirt. Occasionally and only very rarely players, get called legends that actually are, this is one of those occasions.
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But what about legends from the early days, Needham,Foulke and Gillespie? Hell's teeth Billy Gillespie got a club to play in red & white strips because of his association with the Blades.

Perhaps the Alan Woodward corner (as he was so good at taking them!)?
 
BladeFisher said:
But what about legends from the early days, Needham,Foulke and Gillespie? Hell's teeth Billy Gillespie got a club to play in red & white strips because of his association with the Blades.

Perhaps the Alan Woodward corner (as he was so good at taking them!)?
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This is probably one for silent. We're all discussing lane legends and we all know who the real greats have been through our history. But, just out of interest who of those greats spent their whole careers with us, or at least until they were "passed their best" as that's what would make them true legends for me? Also, I'm not sure when transfers really kicked in so that might have a bearing.
 
William Henry Foulkes said:
It's inevitably a matter of opinion but some of it reads, to my eyes at least, very much like the most important outcome of this is not that the personal and private impact on the family, or the public desire to mourn and celebrate a great player, but an excuse to remove the name of a hate figure (too strong?) from one of the stands.

I'm not saying some of the people who have posted were actually sitting by their computers waiting for this to happen so they could press their case, but if they had been they wouldn't've been much quicker off the mark.

To me there's simply no consideration of what's actually important when something like this happens, just an ugly desire to exploit it.

The naming of the Jessica Ennis Stand might have been ill-considered, and it might be good idea if it was re-considered, but that should be done at a respectful distance in time from the passing of a great player.
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I can know where you are coming from William HF. The idea to name the stand after Jess was a daft idea in my opinion but one I could understand. It was off the back of a great achievement by her, and she did have a connection with the Blades. Sadly she got caught up in the Ched affair, however I feel that fate has decreed that Woodys death has come at the same time consideration is being given to renaming the stand, and what better than to name the stand after a fabulous footballer and great/loyal servant to the club. Anybody who saw Woody in action will know why we want it named after him. Some of the other great footballer mentioned in this thread I'm sure would be the first to say that they would back this move.
 
BladeFisher said:
But what about legends from the early days, Needham,Foulke and Gillespie? Hell's teeth Billy Gillespie got a club to play in red & white strips because of his association with the Blades.

Perhaps the Alan Woodward corner (as he was so good at taking them!)?
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I also really like the Idea of the Woodward corner :)
 

Wednesday4dawin said:
How about piggy road end?
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Yep, nothing like an oinker to arrive and make a classless entrance.

I remember observing a minutes silence at The Swill for 2 Owls fans who'd died. 30 seconds after it ended, the Burberry clad wannabe hoolie brain donor's in the North stand started singing "die die piggy piggy die".

Thick? Classless? No, both.

UTB
 
alcoblade said:
Yep, nothing like an oinker to arrive and make a classless entrance.

I remember observing a minutes silence at The Swill for 2 Owls fans who'd died. 30 seconds after it ended, the Burberry clad wannabe hoolie brain donor's in the North stand started singing "die die piggy piggy die".

Thick? Classless? No, both.

UTB
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Yep....not the brightest are they? And soft as shite.
 
The Blades Legends Stand?

Could have United fans vote for their top ten Blades legends and have their faces, as Ennis' is now, around the title.

You could then have Woodward, Currie, Hagan, Foulkes, Deane, Whitehouse or whoever floats the supporters' boat on there. Maybe have a vote every ten years to add a couple more.
 
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