Billy Casper

I've just said same on another thread, welcome to the forum, I pop in time to time, I'm Pete enjoy your time as if they go up boy can we Blades get ready :hihi:

What can you get ready for?

Us mocking our poor neighbours 2 leagues below

You don't really think our 'proper' chairman wouldn't invest accordingly do you?

You have to realise, some chairman actually do want the best for their clubs and not just the best for themselves.

Oh, on a lighter note, great to see you're still knocking around Pete

Bizarre...

Championship possibly have Weds, Newcastle, Villa, Norwich, Leeds, Wolves, Derby, Notts Forest etc...

Prem have Bournemouth, Burnley, Crystal Palace, West Brom, Swansea, Watford etc...and dare I say it (I would have last year, Leicester!)

It's a strange look really nowadays!

Here we go again, I can see this post being dredged up for hilarity again in the next 12 months, with regards to the squad you said on this very forum at the advent of last season that the squad was "more than good enough for automatic promotion" what happened there?

You just know it's coming

It's like forum tourettes

I wasn't around to see Wednesday before the 80's, but early 90's squad was definitely better than the one now imho and according to my Granddad at the the time the best one in his lifetime of watching.

You are definitely right.

The early 90's squad was much better, that's taking nothing away from the current crop as they are doing so well, but had that 90's side played Brighton tonight the tie would have been over by at least 4/5 goals

Well, we were all over them with a full side out and walked all over them with them down to 10 men. Would have took 2-0 before kick off all day long, but I just thought we should have killed off the tie. 2-0 doesn't reflect the dominance! Hope it doesn't come back to bite us on the arse.

Yes, mccabe said he was going for longevity, didn't want to be seen as a sacking club and said in a lengthy interview a few weeks ago that Adkins would be there next season.

I concur, I just think he would have come good.

Wednesday fans lecturing Blades about sacking managers.

How is that a lecture?

I said the same when Wednesday sacked Megson.

In the long run it ended up being positive for us, unfortunately for you, your positive point came and went with Clough!

Ridiculous decision. Sacking manager after manager doesn't work.

I was amazed you managed to get Adkins in the first place, yet you give him one season (all be it admittedly not a good one) and before he has the chance to really stamp his authority on things he's gone!

The trouble is with football these days, it's an instant success thing or out.

Well you're not spending your 6th consecutive season in League One by chance, you are a standard League One outfit!

Every fan expects their club to be higher than they are, and god knows being a Wednesday fan I've had that feeling most of my 40 years watching them, but in reality a team lies where it for a reason, because that's where they belong.

Stability or giving a manager time is sadly lacking in this industry, after all didn't Man Utd fans scream for Alex Fergusons head after a short while in charge??? I'll leave that with you...Next on the conveyer belt please!

Omg he was Shocking - maybe up there with big dave still remember a pen he took in front of kop . sure it hit roof

Last seen rounding Jupiter!

I can't see me swapping any of this current crop with any of the early 90's side...Oh hang on, yes I can...ALL OF THEM!

Joking aside I'd keep Westwood, Forestieri, Bannan.

i agree, i also think it would be really unfair to dump those that helped us get to the premier league if we did

Nature of the beast Mel. If we retained the current squad and played the usual 11 against most of the Prem we'd struggle big time. Yes, they've done exceptionally well this season but sadly, unlike the 90/91 side, many of them this time would be moved on

I'd like to see whoever finishes third going up, as the top three have been much better than the others.

 

The owls obviously have a chance just by being in there, but it's quite a jump from not having beaten the top 5 in the 9 games against them so far, to beating two of them (even if on penalties!).

 

Maybe if they win at Derby at the weekend, that will change things, and give the team confidence that they can beat one of the better teams in the playoffs...

I have to agree, I've never liked the play offs. A team battles all season and finishes 3rd, then gets dumped in the lottery... Not a fair system.

As for us, no, I don't think we are quite ready to go up, in fact if we do go up I fear for us unless we invest big time! Out of the current squad I'd say less than half were capable of making a reasonable fist of life in the top flight!

The man is an arse of gigantic proportions...But a bloody good man manager!

I couldn't believe it when United sacked him, that was the beginning of the continuing slide

A great day out! Went on a coach, half red, half blue. The banter was excellent! The funny thing was, we didn't really give the Blades any stick on way home on the coach, we knew how much they were hurting and the game itself said everything about the gulf in class. Alan Kelly, still to this day the greatest goalkeeping display I've ever seen! Oh, and Esha Ness won the Grand National that never was

Yeah I suppose your right, I was thinking more about the actual passing and movement which is great at times now but Atkinsons side were awesome in all respects.

To be fair to the current crop, this season as a whole has been at times excellent, but at times very inconsistent.

Saturday for example...

First half, like watching paint dry

Second half, like watching a masterpiece!

Here's to the run in, but should they go up, there's going to have to be a few quality players brought in

Owls mate told me that Westlife held a concert there a few years back....

I think you'll find that was pond life after the floods of '07

Ron Atkinson

That's all

I was wondering whether the Atkinson side or the current one played the better football, the new one might be just shading it, a pleasure to watch at times.

Not even close!

We're doing ok, but let's not get carried away.

The 91 side would have been top 2 without a sweat

The bed refs decision didn't affect the result, I really hope united are victims of a bad decision this season and it'll be great to revive the Hull match thread, you never know a ref might deny you 12th place in the final table. :hihi:

12th? That high up eh?

Slightly worried about you if you think you should sack everyone who's manipulated by someone's past behaviour. Quite a dictatorship mindset you have there. But so your ego doesn't suffer anymore and it doesn't spoil your weekend... I'll agree with you.

You'll have to, he's only agreeing with what you said in the first place, otherwise you'll be disagreeing with yourself

And the bickering and 'outing' has been removed from this thread too. If you believe someone has returned, rather than causing issues in a thread, report it. Because if further issues continue, people are going to be suspended.

Does that mean it's serious when it's highlighted in blue?

Ok, I'll behave

Brilliant!

I was 11 years old and was on Utd's Kop.

Still had mi Wednesday scarf on though

It will depend on how he develops and where we are league wise within the next couple of years if we are to attempt to keep hold of him.

Anyone with ambition wants to play at the highest level, and if moving away from Hillsborough achieves that ambition then there's not much we can do. But in the meantime he belongs to us!

Bristol City 1 v 1 Brighton

Ipswich Town 0 v 1 Hull City

Middlesbrough 1 v 2 Cardiff City

Sheff Wed 2 v 0 QPR

Reading 3 v 0 Rotherham Utd

Bury 1 v 1 Barnsley

Hmmmm. So the basis of this remark has been some foreigner who arguably and admittedly knows nothing about English football.

 

Glad to see you've put forward such a comprehensive argument then.

 

FAIL.

Hence I didn't reply