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pommpey
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Been away holidaying over the Bank Holiday so it was a bit of a shock when my mate texted me to say NC had been booted out.
With all the tickertape rejoicing and sirens going off and celebratory fucking of each other's back passages, are we misunderstanding something a bit here?
Clough got us physically as far as he can with some pretty sub-standard players. Sure he fell out with Collins, for example, but had he played him in place of any of the central back two, could we honestly be here right now saying we won it and we won it good? Collins wasn't Maguire and he wasn't Paul Beesley or Eddie Colquhoun. He was pretty shit without Maguire anyway, as much as they argued. We are all saying 'he' brought in the players ... but is that totally true? I mean, if the Prince is/isn't/we don't know in on the finance deal here, don't you think Clough would have aimed a leeetle beet higher than players like Coutts and Holt and (for fuck's sake) Higdon?
I can understand the 'Negative Nigel' comments. Sure, we didn't exactly go on the hunt last season and spent most of the time picking the ball out of the net from a goal from nowhere. But we have had eight managers now since Warnock. We are wallowing in a fucking mudpit like a massive dinosaur, trying desperately to find a foothold.
I am very interested in all these names being bandied about but ask yourselves the serious, disconnected-from-anything question now. McCabe offers you the job at Sheffield United that under him, eight other managers have tried and to a man, either vanished out of existence (or sadly died). One of the most notorious names in football has just tried it and even when 'backed up' by 'Saudi money' (my quotations) produced a team of sub-mediocrity which continued a run of failed attempts to get our of the third tier of English football. Its not just a poison chalice any more. It is career death.
Now ask yourself the real question - what is wrong with Sheffield United.
The common denominator.
pommpey
With all the tickertape rejoicing and sirens going off and celebratory fucking of each other's back passages, are we misunderstanding something a bit here?
Clough got us physically as far as he can with some pretty sub-standard players. Sure he fell out with Collins, for example, but had he played him in place of any of the central back two, could we honestly be here right now saying we won it and we won it good? Collins wasn't Maguire and he wasn't Paul Beesley or Eddie Colquhoun. He was pretty shit without Maguire anyway, as much as they argued. We are all saying 'he' brought in the players ... but is that totally true? I mean, if the Prince is/isn't/we don't know in on the finance deal here, don't you think Clough would have aimed a leeetle beet higher than players like Coutts and Holt and (for fuck's sake) Higdon?
I can understand the 'Negative Nigel' comments. Sure, we didn't exactly go on the hunt last season and spent most of the time picking the ball out of the net from a goal from nowhere. But we have had eight managers now since Warnock. We are wallowing in a fucking mudpit like a massive dinosaur, trying desperately to find a foothold.
I am very interested in all these names being bandied about but ask yourselves the serious, disconnected-from-anything question now. McCabe offers you the job at Sheffield United that under him, eight other managers have tried and to a man, either vanished out of existence (or sadly died). One of the most notorious names in football has just tried it and even when 'backed up' by 'Saudi money' (my quotations) produced a team of sub-mediocrity which continued a run of failed attempts to get our of the third tier of English football. Its not just a poison chalice any more. It is career death.
Now ask yourself the real question - what is wrong with Sheffield United.
The common denominator.
pommpey