When you think of Mark Duffy, your first though is more likely than not going to be the goal against Sheffield Wednesday.
And that’s quite understandable given the circumstances, but he did do a lot more for us than just silence the Owls on their big day out.
There was for instance this very special goal that he scored during our demolition of Aston Villa back in the early stages of the 2018/19 season. Leaving John McGinn for dead in midfield, he tore towards the visitor’s penalty area and unleashed a low strike past Ørjan Nyland to score our second of the game.
Will Mark Duffy play for the Blades again?
Yes
No
The club chose that strike as their ‘goal of the day’ yesterday, and it gave Blades fans to talk about a number of things. Whether it be the goal itself, the game as a whole or Duffy’s career choices in the past few years, there was certainly plenty of reaction.
God I miss @markduffy7
— NPFIT2020 (@S4Blade) May 18, 2020
@markduffy7 pic.twitter.com/UzspKKHtdw
— Adam (@adambell94) May 18, 2020
Mark Duffy leaving John McGinn for dead 😂
— W8W-SUFC (@SufcW8w) May 18, 2020
He wouldn’t have got into the team anyway. That’s another reason why wilder happily let him go
— Dylan (@MiddleDill) May 18, 2020
Could watch that tackle all day !!!
— andyb86 (@andyb861) May 18, 2020
One of the highlights of the day pic.twitter.com/AwtaM6x11n
— Ryan (@ryanmathews1893) May 18, 2020
What about you? What’s your first thought when you see a goal like this?
Classic case of footballer knows best, agent knows best, footballers wife knows best.
For one more season I think he would have got quite a few Premier League appearances if the people around him had kept their gobs shut.
Wilder put an extra midfielder in the team at the beginning of the season so maybe he was planning on having to do without a Duffy type of player in our first season back, maybe he was concentrating on tightening the midfield up a bit .
But I still think in a number of home games he could have started, and in a number of away games he could have come on from the bench.
As well as we’ve done, we do need that bit of flair and unpredictability.
I can understand why Wilder brought Lundstram back into the team considering the players we were up against, there was an initial concern about stopping them.
But the way things have panned out we’ve become the team that others are having trouble with coming to grips with.
How good would it have been, to dominate a team for 70 minutes, then bring Duffy on to do all sorts of bonkers stuff.