United Battlers.

[Woodwardfan]

Give yourself one minute to think of your top 5 'battlers', you know, 5 players who would run through a brick wall for us:

Mine are:

Brian Richardson.
Mick Speight.
Trevor Hockey.
Chris Short.
Chris Morgan.

Summer thread.

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

Nick Montgomery
Nick Montgomery
Nick Montgomery
Nick Montgomery
Chris Basham

 

[Rodley]

Sir Nick Montgomery
Mark Patterson
Bob Booker
Carl Bradshaw
Chris Morgan

 

[Rodley]

What a hit. What a player. Underrated technician.

 

[Tony]

Willie Carlin
Ken Mallender
Rock Richardson, remember him grabbing Piss In Boots Bremner by his shirt collar.

 

[ljk]

Richard Cresswell

 

[BanbridgeBlade]

Vinnie Jones
Billy Whitehurst

 

[McGrath]

Nick Montgomery... I'm not mentioning anyone else because Monty was a phenomenon .

 

[McGrath]

Vinnie Jones

No, no and no again.

He just like doing so called hard man tackles to look good. I can't remember him ever running through any brick walls for us and rightly had a short career at Bramall Lane

 

[LoughboroBlade]

What a hit. What a player. Underrated technician.

“A quality goal from a quality player, and the toughest I’ve ever faced.” - Frank Lampard [Citation Needed]

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

What a hit. What a player. Underrated technician.

I was at the bar when he scored so I missed it. Typical.

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

Derek Geary, give everything for the cause every single time.

 

[tincan]

Hockey, Kenworthy, Stancliffe, Quinn and broken wrist Morgan

 

[Iron blade]

I’ll add Derek Geary!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

To badly mis-quote the greatest,

“If Vinnie Jones ever dreamed he was a footballer, he’d wake up and apologise “.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Only 5?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Only a short time with us, but Jeff King.

 

[1973Blade]

Give yourself one minute to think of your top 5 'battlers', you know, 5 players who would run through a brick wall for us:

Mine are:

Brian Richardson.
Mick Speight.
Trevor Hockey.
Chris Short.
Chris Morgan.

Summer thread.

Chris Short was an excellent right back for us, an underrated one. I'm surprised you've listed him as one of our top five battlers though? I would add Chris Armstrong simply for coming back when medical advice was he should retire. I hope he is OK in his battle against MS.

 

[TJB.]

What a hit. What a player. Underrated technician.

Jesus, 1-1 against fucking Tranmere. Thank God it got better in the years after that, right?

...right?

Sigh.

 

[Rodley]

Jesus, 1-1 against fucking Tranmere. Thank God it got better in the years after that, right?

...right?

Sigh.

#OurDunga

#PrayforMonty

 

[bricktop]

One from more recent times.

Michael Doyle.

Even though he suffered the igmony of being a part of the worst United side in my lifetime, I never saw him shirk a tackle, or not give it all. Limited footballer but one that got credit for battling away and never giving him.

I knew exactly what Doyle was and what he brought to the team after he was released and the following season I was subjected to a season of Dean Hammond

 

[Rodley]

One from more recent times.

Michael Doyle.

Even though he suffered the igmony of being a part of the worst United side in my lifetime, I never saw him shirk a tackle, or not give it all. Limited footballer but one that got credit for battling away and never giving him.

I knew exactly what Doyle was and what he brought to the team after he was released and the following season I was subjected to a season of Dean Hammond

Never liked him or Collins. Despite being “decent pros” they spent half the time ripping into younger and less experienced colleagues when the chips were down. Should’ve been grabbing the games by the scruff of the next themselves and leading by example.

 

[Lower Drop Blade]

Any player under Bassett or they wouldn't get a shirt probably same under Warnock and Sir Christopher....also Joe Bolton

 

[Woodwardfan]

Chris Short was an excellent right back for us, an underrated one. I'm surprised you've listed him as one of our top five battlers though? I would add Chris Armstrong simply for coming back when medical advice was he should retire. I hope he is OK in his battle against MS.

I know but he springs to my mind as a cultured and talented full back who also. chased every lost cause and I used to wince when he threw himself I to 40/60 tackles. Inevitably he got injured a lot. You could see it coming.

 

[bricktop]

I know but he springs to my mind as a cultured and talented full back who also. chased every lost cause and I used to wince when he threw himself I to 40/60 tackles. Inevitably he got injured a lot. You could see it coming.

I might get chastised for being a bit of a Bladey Blade, forelock tugging, cap doffer by Pinchy but I actually preferred Mitch Ward down the right.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Only a short time with us, but Jeff King.

Never forgave him for kicking Sabella to pieces at the sty.

 

[bornablade]

Dane.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Never forgave him for kicking Sabella to pieces at the sty.

Wasn't that Jeff Johnson?

 

[Rodley]

How have we all forgotten Bad Boy Billy?

 

[DifferentClass]

Simonsen.

Wait, you said bAttlers...