Not sure, but we definitely could do with a few more threads about selling players in 2017. Sent from my SM-J510FN using Tapatalk
What would you like to discuss? John Beresford's hair? What was that about? Why we sold Mick Butler? Who had thicker thighs Pat Howard or Mick McCarthy. If a butterfly claps its wings in Salford and a tree falls in Beijing how did Willy Ferry become a professional footballer. Is the meaning of life really Dean Girre and did the mice invent football to test the theory. Or maybe a more philosophical and political approach is right for you. Should Mel Machin release an updated version of Chairman Mao's little red book? Or if we take Durkheim's theory of anomie and disassociation from society as a starting point is this why Allan Clarke picked Mick Clarke at fullback. Pick a subject.
Outside chance ? we were in the top four for nearly all the season. Bit more than an outside chance IMO.
I agree. Skippy had lovely hair. Lots of streaks and back combing. Sent from my SM-G850F using Tapatalk
The daughter is studying sociology at Sheffield Uni so it's Durkheim for me . She thinks I'm clever cos she always says "I'll ask mi dad" . I'm just winging it !
We had a great chance of going straight back up after relegation but we let our manager who then was in his prime leave to go to wednesday replaced him with a novice and let our best midfielder leave for 1million.....
It was a thing of wonder I could never quite work out if he was a fan of Spandau Ballet or had just had a premonition that later in life he could earn a living as a Mister Mister impersonator. It was only later that I realised it was neither and he was the clearly the love child of David Van Day from Dollar and Duncan Norvelle.
Thatcher famously said there is no such thing as society whilst at the same time destroying the very industrial base that Durkheim believed fostered anomie but then she always was a contradiction in terms. Clarkey clearly attempted to redress the balance by converting a useless striker/cum winger into an equally useless full back providing a microcosm of the post Strike Thatcher years on the pitch at Oakwell as the rest of the team became gradually distanced both from the Clarke on the pitch and the Clarke on the bench. I think it was Hegel who put it best when he said 'Clarke tha *****' though it remains shrouded in mystery as to which Clarke he was referring to. Marx and Shirley Bassey over a pint in the Corner Pin hypothesised that Clarke was already dead by this point and that Mel Machin was already picking the team citing a similar transformation of Julian Broddle a few years later. This is as of yet unproven. Though Nigel Farage commented recently that it was clearly foreigners to blame ( though not his wife and kids obviously. Personally I blame both Brexit and the discontinuation of coloured polos as the main reason for Clarke's attempt at social engineering.
The bookies at the beginning of the season had massive odds on us going up. Even in January they believed we were the outsiders in the race.
Things were a bit different back then; very few loan players, most of the squad were on long contracts and there was no transfer window; it was open season for transfers till about late March. I recall us picking up Paul Futcher and Calvin Plummer from Derby on deadline day 1983. The window system has been engineered to the benefit of "big clubs" to the massive detriment of the rest of football. If there were no window system, it's odds on that Hourihane and Bree at least would have stayed to the end of the season or at least till deadline day.
He was good at supping. Some mates brought him out around Hemsworth a few times when he was with us. He was a good laugh if nowt else. Sent from my SM-G850F using Tapatalk
We were in the top four for ALL OF THE SEASON. That cracking winning start set us up and we never took our foot off the gas.
We signed super John midway through the promotion season as well, and that helped strengthen our push. Can you imagine how much it would cost these days to buy a player of his experience and ability these days? Sent from my SM-G850F using Tapatalk
We released or sold some of the established players during or at the end of the 1995/96 season (Archdeacon, O'Connell, Payton, Butler, Rammell) and brought in five during the summer (Wilkinson, Bosancic, Marcelle, Thompson, Appleby), plus Hendrie in October. Similar scale of transfer business that we may see this coming close season. I think more of challenge now to get value for money in terms of transfer fees and wages. The players that came in back then, by and large, were better than those who left, not that it's a criticism of those that gave use some good service.
