Sherwoodblade
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For those of you of a certain age. Do you remember when Nigel Spackman was the manager and we were flying with Fjortoft and Deane scoring goals for fun.
The board then sold both strikers against the manager's wishes. Spackman left the club, we scraped in 6th and got knocked out in the play off semi finals, when we should have really won the league.
Spackman appeared on sky sports and had to keep correcting himself saying 'we' when referring to Sheffield United. That for me was the biggest joke and lack of ambition.
This current situation has potential to surpass that, but only potential at this stage.
I watched the prince being interviewed and some of what he said was commercial reality. If Illy wants to go to play for his boyhood club and we refuse to sell especially that there appeared to be some sort of now or never ultimatum from the French club, then I am not sure we would have had the same player in terms of mentality. It would appear that Berge was happy to stay, but the board don't want him walking next summer on a free when we payed 22m million for his services. However, selling him to a potential relegation rival, really?
Two alarm bells rang for me in that interview. The first was when he let slip about the player values when the question did not warrant that response and the second was when he mentioned that his religion dictates that he must do the right thing by the club. There is no need to mention religion in running a football club. You are either in this for the right reasons or wrong.
I believe in a higher power but I dislike it when religion is mentioned to justify action or lack of action. Your faith should be like the ever trusting program in the background that runs protecting/advising everything you do. There is no need to mention it because it will be evidenced by your morality and integrity. Once it starts being mentioned then my automatic stance is what are you masking?
At the moment the sad reality is that the squad is weaker than the one that was promoted. Let's see who comes in. The next few weeks will really show for me whether the Prince really has this club's premier league survival as priority or whether the real priority was getting the club back to the premier league not for thriving but for the big profitable sale.
The board then sold both strikers against the manager's wishes. Spackman left the club, we scraped in 6th and got knocked out in the play off semi finals, when we should have really won the league.
Spackman appeared on sky sports and had to keep correcting himself saying 'we' when referring to Sheffield United. That for me was the biggest joke and lack of ambition.
This current situation has potential to surpass that, but only potential at this stage.
I watched the prince being interviewed and some of what he said was commercial reality. If Illy wants to go to play for his boyhood club and we refuse to sell especially that there appeared to be some sort of now or never ultimatum from the French club, then I am not sure we would have had the same player in terms of mentality. It would appear that Berge was happy to stay, but the board don't want him walking next summer on a free when we payed 22m million for his services. However, selling him to a potential relegation rival, really?
Two alarm bells rang for me in that interview. The first was when he let slip about the player values when the question did not warrant that response and the second was when he mentioned that his religion dictates that he must do the right thing by the club. There is no need to mention religion in running a football club. You are either in this for the right reasons or wrong.
I believe in a higher power but I dislike it when religion is mentioned to justify action or lack of action. Your faith should be like the ever trusting program in the background that runs protecting/advising everything you do. There is no need to mention it because it will be evidenced by your morality and integrity. Once it starts being mentioned then my automatic stance is what are you masking?
At the moment the sad reality is that the squad is weaker than the one that was promoted. Let's see who comes in. The next few weeks will really show for me whether the Prince really has this club's premier league survival as priority or whether the real priority was getting the club back to the premier league not for thriving but for the big profitable sale.