The return of mardy Chris

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

The return of mardy Chris last night

ITS NEVER HIS FAULT

Coaching your centre backs to hoof the ball down the channel for two strikers who played like they were wearing lead boots - Not Chris’s fault

Bad line up - Not Chris’s fault

Best player on the bench -Not Chris’s fault

Dropping our best CB the past 2 games (bindon) for one who has been injured all week - Not Chris’s fault

Taking the best CM on the pitch off Soumare for your son in law who should be playing in the U21’s to build up fitness Not Chris’s fault

Then he has the cheek to chuck mcguiness under the bus when he was legged over for the goal

You played him Chris when he was half fit


I like wilder but not ham sandwhich wilder if he carries on like this we may aswell put Paul Mcsheffrey in charge



No Excuses though bar the stomach bug that he’s been blaming all week

The only Sheffield United fan i know that sticks up for McGuinness and Cannon every week (awful players)

 

[Nick Jansky]

The only Sheffield United fan i know that sticks up for McGuinness and Cannon every week (awful players)

Well, apart from Wilder who has given them both a lot of praise recently.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

The return of mardy Chris last night

ITS NEVER HIS FAULT

Coaching your centre backs to hoof the ball down the channel for two strikers who played like they were wearing lead boots - Not Chris’s fault

Bad line up - Not Chris’s fault

Best player on the bench -Not Chris’s fault

Dropping our best CB the past 2 games (bindon) for one who has been injured all week - Not Chris’s fault

Taking the best CM on the pitch off Soumare for your son in law who should be playing in the U21’s to build up fitness Not Chris’s fault

Then he has the cheek to chuck mcguiness under the bus when he was legged over for the goal

You played him Chris when he was half fit


I like wilder but not ham sandwhich wilder if he carries on like this we may aswell put Paul Mcsheffrey in charge



No Excuses though bar the stomach bug that he’s been blaming all week

I guess as a fanbase we’ve always had a love/hate relationship with all of our managers.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

The only Sheffield United fan i know that sticks up for McGuinness and Cannon every week (awful players)

But as fans we all want them to do well…That’s inherent problem.
I must admit against Stoke, McGuinness seemed to be that aerial threat we’ve all been craving at corners and set pieces…But sadly his mobility when defending is similar to a full laden oil tanker.

 

[54yrblade]

I guess as a fanbase we’ve always had a love/hate relationship with all of our managers.

I may be going back a bit but not with John Harris or Dave Bassett?
I feel old now.

 

[Silent Blade]

I may be going back a bit but not with John Harris or Dave Bassett?
I feel old now.

Both did receive a lot of criticism especially in the Green Un Postbag or "Tell it to Tony"

 

[ancientblade]

we cant keep playing mcguinness if were to have any hope of a top 6 spot hes league 1 at best bindon by far the better centre back but we somehow have to get tanganga back at rcb

 

[Tom Bott]

Ever thought he might be right

Like all your fellow Wendy fans who believe that everything grandad told them is true.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

I may be going back a bit but not with John Harris or Dave Bassett?
I feel old now.

I do remember some dissent against Bassetts tactics, but that was mainly towards the end of his tenure. But most of the fans ire was aimed mainly at the board at that time.

 

[Roygbiv]

If you watch the United documentary from 1990, there is a fan episode where Bassett gets plenty of abuse.

"He says crowds are down but who's gonna turn up watching this rubbish"

This is when we were on for a double promotion!

 

[Large Mendonca]

If you watch the United documentary from 1990, there is a fan episode where Bassett gets plenty of abuse.

"He says crowds are down but who's gonna turn up watching this rubbish"

This is when we were on for a double promotion!

Think the thread title should be “The Return of the Mardy Fanbase”

 

[SB_90]

i saw the highlights yesterday as i was at the arena. the OP says mardy chris, but i don't know what they want. do they want the manager to lie to us. like nigel adkins did, & complaint being that he didnt watch the same game as us

im not surprised that he's annoyed because we thought we had got past this. as for 2 months we can only play for 45 minutes. Southampton Watford Preston Blackburn Coventry Leicester now West Brom. espically when we set our standards & theyve dropped

 

[William Large]

He was right. He's praised the players during the good run and he's criticised them after an unacceptable performance. I don't really see the issue.

That’s because there isn’t an issue. Not for normal balanced people. Those with an agenda will always find an issue in everything.

 

[Silent Blade]

If you watch the United documentary from 1990, there is a fan episode where Bassett gets plenty of abuse.

"He says crowds are down but who's gonna turn up watching this rubbish"

This is when we were on for a double promotion!

There were plenty of Blades fans criticising John Harris because he preferred to play players that came through the ranks rather than go on the transfer market. In the 1965-66 season we finished in 9th place of the 1st division but our average attendance was 19.405

 

[Nick Jansky]

If you watch the United documentary from 1990, there is a fan episode where Bassett gets plenty of abuse.

"He says crowds are down but who's gonna turn up watching this rubbish"

This is when we were on for a double promotion!

Fans who had been brought up watching the football played by John Harris’s teams were not at all enamoured with Bassett’s style, it was like having an important part of our identity stripped away. But it was successful and to many, but certainly not all, that’s what mattered most.

 

[Silent Blade]

Fans who had been brought up watching the football played by John Harris’s teams were not at all enamoured with Bassett’s style, it was like having an important part of our identity stripped away. But it was successful and to many, but certainly not all, that’s what mattered most.

I remember Joe Shaw telling the Star that Bassett's style of football was horrible to watch.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Them fans in the 90s were morons

Id have hoofball back to back promotions cup runs and 4 seasons in top flight only ended by the board any day over our recent "football efforts" in PL and thats before we start on Wilder throwing cup games

 

[CarlMcBlade]

The only Sheffield United fan i know that sticks up for McGuinness and Cannon every week (awful players)

We all wanted Bindon gone ASAP not so long ago, but now some people are painting him as the new Socrates….You can’t make it up.

 

[ancientblade]

I remember Joe Shaw telling the Star that Bassett's style of football was horrible to watch.

i hated it lots of our fans say we just played the long ball like others do but often we would just boot the ball as high in the air and as far as we could to cause confusion for defences im afraid i was brought up in the john harris era when we played some fantastic football

 

[Nick Jansky]

i was brought up in the john harris era when we played some fantastic football

Me too. We were noted for the quality of our football, along with Everton and Spurs at the time.

 

[luffenhamblade]

Me too. We were noted for the quality of our football, along with Everton and Spurs at the time.

Unfortunately, the days when we could compete at that level are long gone! Hence need to enjoy the odd win if and when it comes.

 

[Hamer's Right Peg]

Campells been shit for the last few matches, can't run can't turn, looks overweight and worst of all looks so disinterested!!

Maybe he was a bit peeved the Everton move didn't happen I dunno.

 

[Zero dark thirty]

Like all your fellow Wendy fans who believe that everything grandad told them is true.

Ditto

 

[Tarqs]

My beef with Wilder last night was Why the fxxk did he allow Selles to do the HT teamtalk!?, cos that 2nd half WAS that bad a performance.

You must have forgotten most second half performances last season...

 

[Keen Blade]

He threw Mcguiness under the bus as he did Cannon the other week



Bamford was woeful last night , not a peep

What drivel - he literally included every outfield department of the team in his comments

 

[Keen Blade]

He threw Mcguiness under the bus as he did Cannon the other week



Bamford was woeful last night , not a peep

What drivel - he literally included every outfield department of the team in his comments apart

A lot of what he said was right. But he was also wrong for starting Hamer and Mcguiness over O'Hare and Bindon. I also agree that taking Soumare off, as early as he did too, for Arblaster, was a bit scapegoatish.

Play players that are performing end of. Hamer's been getting away with murder for too long now imo. Still baffles me that he got POTY.

Reading between the lines , I think that the club realise that Hamer has come to the end of his useful time here and - combined with the need to finance some trading in January - have decided he's very much for sale.
But he has to be played to prove to potential buyers that he's fit again after his longish absence through injury.

The difficulty in raising a good fee is that he looks even slower than he used to be

 

[Keen Blade]

Last night showed up a lot of what is wrong. We first and foremost have a Manager that will take us nowhere. Secondly we have a squad of reasonably good Championship players who together can not make a team and thirdly, we need a huge overhaul.

Apart from that , we are flying.

 

[Keen Blade]

I guess as a fanbase we’ve always had a love/hate relationship with all of our managers.

Bit of a sweeping statement !

I love Harry Bassett and have done since the day he walked in.

The man saved this club from the very ugly future which it faced in January 1988.

Impossible to dislike if you're a Blade , let alone hate.

 

[Keen Blade]

Fans who had been brought up watching the football played by John Harris’s teams were not at all enamoured with Bassett’s style, it was like having an important part of our identity stripped away. But it was successful and to many, but certainly not all, that’s what mattered most.

Both men were great managers and loved by most fans.
Yes , there were reservations about Harry's style ,
(Harry Styles ?)
but I can't imagine anyone - even the purest Harris "pure football" fan - actually hating him.

When posters claim that "Blades fans have always had a love/hate relationship with their manager" - an implied criticism of our attitude - I respond with two points :

1. An element of love/hate by fans to manager is common to ALL clubs and we are no worse.

2. Two examples of managers who were consistently loved by the vast majority and continued to be respected & fondly remembered forever after their departures were Harris & Bassett.

 

[Keen Blade]

i hated it lots of our fans say we just played the long ball like others do but often we would just boot the ball as high in the air and as far as we could to cause confusion for defences im afraid i was brought up in the john harris era when we played some fantastic football

The poster who introduced this "love/hate the manager" phenomenon was talking about the man , not his style of football.

When you look back - after decades - style is just one small element in the reputation of the man.

I too was brought up on the lovely aspirational pure football of Harris with his small squad of highly talented players ,
but also enjoyed the "get it in the box" of Harry when the club was on its knees with weak-minded players , whom Harry replaced with some who had a "backbone".

Both men enjoy peerless reputations as 'Blades' because they gave so much to the club , in different circumstances , in different decades.

IMO the vast majority of proper Blades would recognise their different approaches were born of necessity and each brought rewards which have yet to be surpassed in my 67 years.

Wilder comes close , but football today is so financially different to the 70s & 90s , that comparisons are almost impossible.
However , I will never forget the run from 2016-20.
Nothing can take that away.