Thanks for everything JOC ⚔️

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JOC an absolute legend and Monty will always have my upmost respect for making a career for himself when players with more talent than him ( yes you Baxter yes you Mousset) and probably many more didn’t have a fraction of his dedication and commitment
 
The year is 2045 we have the world's best player Kevin Smith netting 47 goals a season in the Premier league but we are still banging on about Jack O bloody Connell.
 
Bladesman said:
It is comments like theirs that make it easy to spot the Oinkers on this forum. There is the odd comment trying to make him out to be some wage thief when he was injured by accident in training and then probably let down a bit somewhere along the line regarding his recovery and treatment of the injury. No footballer wants to be out injured and they certainly don't want to have their career ended prematurely.

Some bizarre dickhead comments from a few trying to paint him as some sort of Dean Hammond or Lys Mousset with his feet up having a kebab.
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That arsehole needs a ban what a dickhead .
 
I follow JOC on Instagram. He's keeping himself in absolutely ridiculous shape... really hope he's found happiness in life after football.

An absolute Colossus for this club that I believe could have gone very close to the top of the pyramid in domestic football.

How we could have done with him at Wembley last season.
 
I thought about JOC on Saturday when PNE scored two of the easiest goals from set pieces.

In 2019/20 as a newly promoted club we only conceded 39 goals in 38 Premier league matches. I think it will be a long time before that is bettered.

JOC was an integral part of the defence. Watching us on Saturday shows how far we have fallen.
 
DifferentClass said:
One of the greatest games I've ever seen at BDTBL.
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Perhaps not the greatest game I've ever seen at Bramall Lane but that was by far my favourite moment ever.

I have no shame in admitting that I cried like a baby.

It felt like the ghosts of the previous 12 years since the Wigan game and all the shit we had to endure in League One had been exorcised with a single header.

The long, long journey back was finally complete.
 
I think JOC's, and Egan's for that matter, greatest game was when we beat Brentford 2-0 at the Lane in 2019 after Madine got sent off in the first half. Both of them were absolutely brilliant that night against a very talented Brentford side with Ollie Watkins playing up front for them.
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
Perhaps not the greatest game I've ever seen at Bramall Lane but that was by far my favourite moment ever.

I have no shame in admitting that I cried like a baby.

It felt like the ghosts of the previous 12 years since the Wigan game and all the shit we had to endure in League One had been exorcised with a single header.

The long, long journey back was finally complete.
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We absolutely battered Ipswich on the day, but couldn't quite put them away.
An enormous sense of relief when the 2nd went in.

In hindsight, that team were always going to get the job done. A team full of leaders.
 
coaxingstar71 said:
I think JOC's, and Egan's for that matter, greatest game was when we beat Brentford 2-0 at the Lane in 2019 after Madine got sent off in the first half. Both of them were absolutely brilliant that night against a very talented Brentford side with Ollie Watkins playing up front for them.
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Not just that Coaxy, that night typified the commitment and determination that we've seldom seen this season.
To be fair, the 9 men at Charlton gave it their all and deserved something from the game, but over the season?
Let's hope CW can get the right mix for next season to do us proud.
 
CaptainMorgans said:
We absolutely battered Ipswich on the day, but couldn't quite put them away.
An enormous sense of relief when the 2nd went in.

In hindsight, that team were always going to get the job done. A team full of leaders.
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Chris Wilder built that squad and each of them would have run through a brick wall for him.

From what i see now week in and week out, none of this current squad would nip to the corner shop for him.
 



CaptainMorgans said:
I follow JOC on Instagram. He's keeping himself in absolutely ridiculous shape... really hope he's found happiness in life after football.

An absolute Colossus for this club that I believe could have gone very close to the top of the pyramid in domestic football.

How we could have done with him at Wembley last season.
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JoC was the prospective third in a trio of England CB / captains produced by our club.
No doubt about that.
And no doubt that it was his injury , subsequently playing through the pain with Europe in our sights ,
And ultimate forced retirement ,
whilst still on his steep upward trajectory ,
Which did for our PL survival in that second season up.
People say we would have sold him ...
But IF he'd left , the fee ,
coupled with not stupidly spunking £ms on Brewster ,
That's imo £80m ,
Which , well-invested ,
Would have seen us survive to that crucial third season in the PL.
A sliding-doors moment at the Lane ,
If ever there was one.

Conceding only 39 goals in 38 PL games ?
Its a feat that we won't top this century.
It was our golden chance.
Blown by a huge chunk of bad luck
Coupled with a hugely mistaken signing.

All downhill since.
 
Blackheath Blade said:
Chris Wilder built that squad and each of them would have run through a brick wall for him.

From what i see now week in and week out, none of this current squad would nip to the corner shop for him.
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Not true, I’m sure Arblaster would!
 
Would’ve played for England if it wasn’t for the injury and we didn’t have morons running the FA and England ‘yes men’ national side. Such a shame for the bloke!
 
wizadry said:
Would’ve played for England if it wasn’t for the injury and we didn’t have morons running the FA and England ‘yes men’ national side. Such a shame for the bloke!
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Tbh Southgate was gonna take him, he was always at our games!
 
Blackheath Blade said:
Chris Wilder built that squad and each of them would have run through a brick wall for him.

From what i see now week in and week out, none of this current squad would nip to the corner shop for him.
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When that squad was assembled we'd had years of L1 mediocrity and Wilder sold to the modest players who came a vision of rising up from the depths of despair & disconnect with the fanbase.

Those who bought into that were convinced by him that they could become a heroic team and that's exactly what they did.

Since the downfall of 2020/21 , we've become known as a hapless PL failure with 2 abject relegations.
We've had money so could pay high wages for supposedly better quality players
but
those who've come have not had any of the "fabulous 2016-20 journey" or anything similar for inspiration.
We've just been a parachute club who could afford their silly wages , where they'd no point to prove and just trousered their cash.

This is where the likes of Klopp & Pep are in a class above Wilder.
Getting a tune from players who know they can go anywhere for the same or better wages is a wholly different thing from leading some lower league players to "give their all and be their best" , in a quest which can take you to the highest point in your career.
Especially if you're not a masterful tactician and/or lack some depth of cover for injuries & loss of form.

This is not to defend Wilder or minimise his deficiencies , of which there are too many and which have all been well-ventilated.

Progress for our beloved club now depends not just on a choice between this manager or that.
But a root & branch restructure to clear out those in recruitment & coaching who are patently failing.
And the implementation of a command & control structure which can set a strategy and work cohesively towards it.

Without that , we're a failed project for CoH and they've no one to blame but their distant & incompetent selves.
 



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