We've Changed....

[Rodley]

I can only think of a couple of players over the last few years who i have been able to have a chat with as normal human being talking to each others.

One was Leigh Bromby who i bumped in to on my stag night at Owlerton who was with the Watford team who had played the Blades that day and was staying up north, spent a good 20 minutes talking to him, and he was a top bloke.

The other was Neil Shipperley who i used to see a lot at work, and if i wasn't busy i'd sit down and have a good natter with him, absolute top bloke.

Morgan, Monty, Jags and Tonge were all sound. Hulse as well did lots of work for local charities in his own time. NW seemed to assemble a group of decent lads. Allison was a top bloke apparently and so was Stead.

 

[SwissBlade]

Morgan, Monty, Jags and Tonge were all sound. Hulse as well did lots of work for local charities in his own time. NW seemed to assemble a group of decent lads. Allison was a top bloke apparently and so was Stead.

Yep i'd agree with that, NW does value the link between the players and the fans and works hard to keep this going. In some ways he sacrifices himself as the pant villain to ensure that his players are well thought of.

Geary and Quinny have always been good lads to chat too.

And Curtis Woodhouse is right up there for me. I spent more than an hour (pissed) in Kingdom, telling him that his career was going down the pan and he should sort himself out. How he didn't twat me i'll never know

 

[dkc Blade]

What really got me fucking angry last season was after we got beaten at home to Middlesborough, i received a call at about half 7 from someone who was on a train going back to London, telling me Marcus Bent was sat in first class with a attractive blonde female, laughing, joking and drinking champagne. This was after a match where the final nail was almost in the coffin, and a player we had on loan, was paying in excess of £10k a week, really couldn't give a toss about what had happened that day on the pitch. Call it pride, professional dignity or whatever you want, but when the club employed players who behave like that, it ruins the bond between supporter and club.

So after a loss all our players, including loanees, shouldn't 1) travel first class b) be seen in the company of women c) smile or d) have a drink. How long should the enforced puritanism last?

I know it's not quite the same but many's the time I have consoled myself with a drink, a laugh and female company after a Blades defeat.

 

[Darren]

So after a loss all our players, including loanees, shouldn't 1) travel first class b) be seen in the company of women c) smile or d) have a drink. How long should the enforced puritanism last?

I know it's not quite the same but many's the time I have consoled myself with a drink, a laugh and female company after a Blades defeat.

The big question, surely, is whether Bent's car had alloy wheels.

 

[Wapping Blade]

The big question, surely, is whether Bent's car had alloy wheels.

Probably, as he had a Range Rover Overfinch that I followed down Parkway when he was here.

 

[Notts Blade]

Morgan, Monty, Jags and Tonge were all sound. Hulse as well did lots of work for local charities in his own time. NW seemed to assemble a group of decent lads. Allison was a top bloke apparently and so was Stead.

Tonge used to come into the sandwich shop I worked at whilst at university, always had time for a quick chat and told a couple of funny stories about christmas parties and the like. Keiff Gillespie was a top guy too, bumped into him on a night out toward the end of the promotion season and spent 30 minutes or so drunkenly telling him that he and the rest of the squad were gods and we were going to take the Premier League by surprise. Not only did he listen to my drunken rubbish he bought my friend a rose - made her night

 

[raul]

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I was enjoying myself. Although in the crush at the bar with half an hour to go, my compadres managed to get 3 pints of Guinness and 3 bottles of Speckled Hen. I'm still gassy now

Imagine how good a day it would have been if Simmo hadn't tried to look like he was to scoring a slam dunk -

The smarter lads just nipped over the road for some competitvely priced cans of Polish Lager Real Ale.

 

[Eskimo]

Well I for one am enjoying the Blades this season. I have no expectations that we will win automatic promotion and would be satisfied with top 6. I'm enjoying the open style of football - reminds me of circa 1968. Then we had no money, an attacking philosiphy and local lads in the team from the youth squad. Don't get me wrong - no one is more pissed off that I am when we throw it away in the last minute and no one more ambitious for the club but I have got over the Tevez/Premiership/Robson/Blackwell wasted money. We are not in the big league anymore, but the signs aren't all bad - be patient.

 

[Nick Jansky]

IThe other was Neil Shipperley who i used to see a lot at work,

Did you work in a bookies, by any chance?

 

[Jehovah]

Best blade out there is Kevin Mcabe. You wont meet a blade whose met him who has'nt been blown away by his hospitality and how much time he gives us mere pennyless folk.
Worst blade ever is Keth Curle, what a bell.

 

[norfolkblade]

Norwich is well supported as it's the only club for a large catchment area so face little competition for local resources

You try telling Norwich fans that, they won't have it despite it being blatantly obvious!

If they were based somewhere like Yorkshire or Lancashire for example, I imagine the support would be far less than what it is now due to the competition from so many other clubs. The only club they have to compete with is Kings Lynn, who have recently reformed as the original club went bust a couple of years back.

I was hoping they would do ok this season being my local club as it would have far reaching benefits for Norfolk as a whole, but the huge arrogance of many of the fans and the bandwagon hoppers has changed my view completely, they all of a sudden think they are fucking Brazil and have a divine right to be in the PL (sound familiar?!), the only actual similarity being they play in the same colour shirts.

As for being managed better, their record is similar to ours in recent years, and it wasn't long ago that Delia was being heavily criticised and wanted out of the club by rather large sections of the supporters, which they conveniently manage to forget now that things are rosy.

 

[Tuns]

Best blade out there is Kevin Mcabe. You wont meet a blade whose met him who has'nt been blown away by his hospitality and how much time he gives us mere pennyless folk.
Worst blade ever is Keth Curle, what a bell.

I'm a Blade and I've met McCabe several times in a professional capacity. He seemed ok but I wasn't blown away.

I've been lucky enough to meet lots of Blades players over the years as a fan and through other dealings. Alan Kelly seemed an effortlessly great bloke. TC didn't overly impress me. Brown was more down to earth than I expected.

 

[blade too long]

There's an anomoly in saying we dislike todays crop of players as they lack an affinity with the club yet Monty who has given all he has,no matter how good some think that is, is still pilloried

 

[bricktop]

So after a loss all our players, including loanees, shouldn't 1) travel first class b) be seen in the company of women c) smile or d) have a drink. How long should the enforced puritanism last?

I know it's not quite the same but many's the time I have consoled myself with a drink, a laugh and female company after a Blades defeat.

It's all about showing a bit of dignity, decorum and respect. Something Bent didn't do.

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Probably, as he had a Range Rover Overfinch that I followed down Parkway when he was here.

With the registration B3NTY.

Nosworthy also had one, he cut me up on Derek Dooley Way outside the Riverside in his. His Reg was N11GSY

 

[j j]

I sat on the south stand on saturday and there was a bloke on there who slagged Monty from start to finish even when he did find a man he slagged him off.

In the mid 70s I sat behind a fella who slagged off TC from start to finish every match. Eventually he got so pissed off with our useless tippy-tappy style of play that he left at half time and never came back.

The atmosphere at BL has been more poisonous during the last two or so seasons than at any time I can remember.

 

[Sirius]

Everything seems better when you remember it.

In 20 years time people will be looking back and longing for the great days of football circa 2011.

I'm not sure about that Peter. I think we look back and can admire the team of 71 for example; there are far too many seasons when I look back and think we were dreadful. How many of todays team will warrant the idolisation of Currie, Woody and the guy in my Avator in 20 years time.?

 

[Pedro Verde]

How many of todays team will warrant the idolisation of Currie, Woody and the guy in my Avator in 20 years time.?

Unfortunately all the heroes have left the club, theres probably only Morgan that can come close and I wonder where the next Currie, Woodward, Edwards, Deane will come from

 

[tonytonycurrie]

Bolton and Blackburn both have/had rich benefactors.

Norwich is well supported as it's the only club for a large catchment area so face little competition for local resources - suggest they have just been better managed than us over the years as well.

Nobody's got two beans to rub together in Sheffield. McCabe is about as wealthy as it gets - and he had to go somewhere else to earn it.
Just that his wad is not as big as Jack Walkers or Phil Gartside.

Used to be "weer thers muck, thers brass" now it's more of a case of "weer thers muck, thers more muck"

That's a good point Kenilworth - BUT, why don't the Yorkshire Clubs attract rich benefactors? The crowds at BDTBL are not too much different from quite a few of the Premier league sides. It's like it just isn't meant to be. I remember in 2000 when Leeds were top of Premiership (and had a great side) thinking this isn't going to last - Then WHAM - self destruct!!! My point in a nutshell is that Sheffield is about 4th or 5th biggest city in the U.K, has a real healthy Supporter pool. Yorkshire has some of the biggest cities / towns in UK, so how come we have zero clubs in top flight, whilst our neighbours, Lancashire has about 7 of them. I just don't get why it's better to invest in Bolton rather than Sheff U, or the Wendies, or Leeds come to that.

 

[Revolution]

Nobody's got two beans to rub together in Sheffield. McCabe is about as wealthy as it gets - and he had to go somewhere else to earn it.
Just that his wad is not as big as Jack Walkers or Phil Gartside.

McCabe not as wealthy as Gartside? Really?

 

[Pedro Verde]

McCabe not as wealthy as Gartside? Really?

McCabe has had his fingers burned in his own business and also at BDTBL, where he chose to back the wrong mananger with money. It will take an outside investor IMO for any meaningful amount of money to be put back into United and they are not exactly queuing up

 

[stannyblade]

McCabe has had his fingers burned in his own business and also at BDTBL, where he chose to back the wrong mananger with money. It will take an outside investor IMO for any meaningful amount of money to be put back into United and they are not exactly queuing up

Very true that