'Memries' Worst Blades case of 'Player out of Position'

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Reading another thread got me thinking. What is the worst case of a player being played out of position in SUFC memory?

Some of mine would include;

Jagielka as CM. He looked average at best before he was shifted to RB. He made Bobby Ford seem like Beckenbeaur.

Kozluk as a striker. Pretty sure we stuck him upfront in an away game vs. Blackburn around 2001/2002.

Alan Wright left wing. Again memory is hazy but I recall we had a televised FA cup game vs. Sunderland where Warnock played 3 left backs. We lost. In another cup game vs. Villa he played CB and had a stormer! We won.

Any more stinkers I have probably tried to forget?

 

[raul]

Ertl v Taarabt. First home game of the relegation season.

Ertl v any living organism a close second.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Reading another thread got me thinking. What is the worst case of a player being played out of position in SUFC memory?

Some of mine would include;

Jagielka as CM. He looked average at best before he was shifted to RB. He made Bobby Ford seem like Beckenbeaur.

Kozluk as a striker. Pretty sure we stuck him upfront in an away game vs. Blackburn around 2001/2002.

Alan Wright left wing. Again memory is hazy but I recall we had a televised FA cup game vs. Sunderland where Warnock played 3 left backs. We lost. In another cup game vs. Villa he played CB and had a stormer! We won.

Any more stinkers I have probably tried to forget?

Montgommery in the team is a start!!!

Any defensive line up Clough choose towards back end of his career.

Westlake in midfield by weir !!!!!

 

[Ricky]

Conor Sammon when he was played on the football pitch.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Ertl v Taarabt. First home game of the relegation season.

Ertl v any living organism a close second.

I remember that. Week before vs. Cardiff he looked solid. That was his first, and only, good game in a United shirt.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Tony Moore playing on the pitch.

 

[bettsyblade86]

Jordan Stewart - Right Wing under Blackwell

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Pretty sure

Montgommery in the team is a start!!!

Any defensive line up Clough choose towards back end of his career.

Westlake in midfield by weir !!!!!

Brayford and Basham centre halves.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Jordan Stewart - Right Wing under Blackwell

Ladies and Gentlemen we have our winner. Wrong on so many levels.

 

[Newbury Blade]

Reading another thread got me thinking. What is the worst case of a player being played out of position in SUFC memory?

Some of mine would include;

Jagielka as CM. He looked average at best before he was shifted to RB. He made Bobby Ford seem like Beckenbeaur.

Kozluk as a striker. Pretty sure we stuck him upfront in an away game vs. Blackburn around 2001/2002.

Alan Wright left wing. Again memory is hazy but I recall we had a televised FA cup game vs. Sunderland where Warnock played 3 left backs. We lost. In another cup game vs. Villa he played CB and had a stormer! We won.

Any more stinkers I have probably tried to forget?

Jags was still being played out of position at RB. If he'd been played all season at CB, we would have stayed up.

 

[Silent Blade]

Joe Mercer tried to confuse Liverpool at Anfield in December 1956 by playing three players in completely different positions.

Left back Graham Shaw played at outside right, reserve full back Jeff Smith at outside left, centre half Howard Johnson in centre forward. It was no surprise we were hammered by 5-1

 

[CaptainHotdog]

I remember a classic Warnock decision when he signed 34 year old Tommy Johnson (striker) and played him at left wing.

Only game he ever played for us

 

[Sean Thornton]

Lee Baxter for some reason was played in goal.

Monty at right back.

 

[train crew blade]

Killgallon left back at Aston villa 4 nil hammering

 

[Bladepicker]

Jagielka as CM.

Jags best position was Centre Half but, after initially struggling in midfield, he played there a lot (and did very well) in our promotion season. He couldn't cut it there at the top level though.

 

[Bladepicker]

Carl Asaba.

Defensive left wing back at Forest.

 

[ken shabby]

I think the Blackwell use of the right wing spot was without doubt clinically insane, not content with putting Sharpy wide right, he was then convinced that that jordan stewart positional change Bettsy mentions was a masterstroke. Blackwell`s main ingredient for a winger was that he could tackle, so Billy got shifted on and Stewart eventually got the position, however the drawback was that Stewart not only had his feet on back to front and his brain in another postal code but he also suffered from a bout of absolute shitness.

 

[Pinchy]

Monty & Koz. The music hall comedy duo. Positions pale into complete insignificance...

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I think the Blackwell use of the right wing spot was without doubt clinically insane, not content with putting Sharpy wide right, he was then convinced that that jordan stewart positional change Bettsy mentions was a masterstroke.

When you throw in his very reluctant use of Nathan Dyer and David Cotterill there, you do have to wonder what on earth was going through his mind with that particular position.

 

[Revolution]

Brian Smith in midfield at Boro in 1988

Lost 6-0.

 

[Lard_Lad]

Done at LWB under Adkins

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

That team Dean Windass was stood in his kitchen instead of being on the pitch in Cardiff.

 

[JJBlade]

Leon Britton in a Sheffield United midfield

 

[Revolution]

That team Dean Windass was stood in his kitchen instead of being on the pitch in Cardiff.

People often say this. For some reason they ignore Windass's shocking performance in the second leg of the Forest playoff, his lazy performances generally late in the season, and his behaviour when the team was preparing for the final. He did not deserve to start.

He would have made no difference anyway that day. They battered us.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Jags was still being played out of position at RB. If he'd been played all season at CB, we would have stayed up.

Jags as GK was pretty out of position, very Roy of the Rovers, didn't have much choice though.

We've had the odd centre half turn striker when we've been desperate, not to any great effect from memory. Shaun Murphy was one that sticks out in my mind.

Also Lee Baxter as GK was some kind of trade descriptions act violation.

 

[moDtheGod]

Jordan Stewart - Right Wing under Blackwell

Opened the thread to post this. Absolutely ridiculous, one of the worst players I've ever seen at the Lane.

He's still playing his trade in the MLS.

 

[moDtheGod]

When you throw in his very reluctant use of Nathan Dyer and David Cotterill there, you do have to wonder what on earth was going through his mind with that particular position.

Halford played there for a bit as well if I remember. Wasn't he being used for knockdowns from out wide?

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Pretty sure


Brayford and Basham centre halves.

Isn't Brayford playing CH for Burton?

 

[mattbianco1]

Jagielka at LB vs Coventry in the premiership promotion season. We lost

 

[HermitageBlade]

Jags got our player of the season playing centre mid and I believe got into the championship team of the year in that position the year we went up. To say he wasn't competent their isn't correct.