The Prince is Mugging Us Off and We’re Happy to Get Shafted

[JayGreen17]

What the fuck is happening, hundreds on season tickets… and tens on pay on the day.. but the fucking clown of an owner might as well be on fucking mars… are we going to continue to let this strategy less, rudderless, beloved club continue to drift???? Fuck no, we’re not the fowls…. Up in arms the ne t home game…. If the owners are fucked let’s put the pride back into our club, we need to make some fucking noise….

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

I don’t think he wants to sell. Similar sized clubs have been sold during the period where he was trying to sell us yet we have no interest.

Selling NDiaye was the critical moment. Season died at that point

 

[BouncinBlade]

Prince needs to make some changes fast!!

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

There need to be chants and banners on Wednesday. Moaning on social media and forums won't do anything. Having 27,000 fans chanting for him to get out of the club will, and it needs to be constant. Not chanting anything throughout the match will achieve nothing. He needs to hear and feel the vitriol. A mass walkout in the second half or at half time would also send a very loud and clear message. Enough is enough.

The greedy bastard is holding out for £170mil. Who is going to buy us for that when relegation will see our value plummet. The second you buy this club you've made a huge loss.

He bought us for £1, won the court case against McCabe and used our Premier League money to pay him the £50mil settlement. He's pumped no money of his own into the running of the club. Anything he takes from the sale is pure profit.

He needs to sell and sell fast and get out of this club and take his usless family members on the board with him.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

We seems to know our place in the football world…So keep quiet, bend over and take it up the arse.

 

[Smirth]

We should have been making our feelings known at games from the start of the season after that sorry excuse of a transfer window where he left us with next to no chance of competing.

 

[Sean Thornton]

There need to be chants and banners on Wednesday. Moaning on social media and forums won't do anything. Having 27,000 fans chanting for him to get out of the club will, and it needs to be constant. Not chanting anything throughout the match will achieve nothing. He needs to hear and feel the vitriol. A mass walkout in the second half or at half time would also send a very loud and clear message. Enough is enough.

The greedy bastard is holding out for £170mil. Who is going to buy us for that when relegation will see our value plummet. The second you buy this club you've made a huge loss.

He bought us for £1, won the court case against McCabe and used our Premier League money to pay him the £50mil settlement. He's pumped no money of his own into the running of the club. Anything he takes from the sale is pure profit.

He needs to sell and sell fast and get out of this club and take his usless family members on the board with him.

“He's pumped no money of his own into the running of the club. Anything he takes from the sale is pure profit”

Simply not true and you repeating it ad nauseam won’t make it so.

That said, if he doesn’t act quickly to stop this rot, or sell, he’ll be lucky to break even.

 

[Houso]

Almost like you could have added this to the other threads on the same subject...

 

[Sean Thornton]

We should have been making our feelings known at games from the start of the season after that sorry excuse of a transfer window where he left us with next to no chance of competing.

For me, worse than that was the”pep talk” about how we would be okay financially NEXT season. Who now will really believe that?

We are doing the hotel up. Is he hoping to sell that on? McCabe had that in a separate company and funded the losses personally. I believe it’s now in the FC company and will be a drain on club finances.

 

[Rodley]

There need to be chants and banners on Wednesday. Moaning on social media and forums won't do anything. Having 27,000 fans chanting for him to get out of the club will, and it needs to be constant. Not chanting anything throughout the match will achieve nothing. He needs to hear and feel the vitriol. A mass walkout in the second half or at half time would also send a very loud and clear message. Enough is enough.

The greedy bastard is holding out for £170mil. Who is going to buy us for that when relegation will see our value plummet. The second you buy this club you've made a huge loss.

He bought us for £1, won the court case against McCabe and used our Premier League money to pay him the £50mil settlement. He's pumped no money of his own into the running of the club. Anything he takes from the sale is pure profit.

He needs to sell and sell fast and get out of this club and take his usless family members on the board with him.

Not true, I imagine he’s in for £60-70m. Decent turn if he ever got £170m, but was never going to happen.

 

[Rodley]

For me, worse than that was the”pep talk” about how we would be okay financially NEXT season. Who now will really believe that?

Agreed, it was laughable. It’ll be fine when we reach the financial Valhalla of the Championship, etc. Nope.

 

[Nick Jansky]

What the fuck is happening, hundreds on season tickets… and tens on pay on the day.. but the fucking clown of an owner might as well be on fucking mars… are we going to continue to let this strategy less, rudderless, beloved club continue to drift???? Fuck no, we’re not the fowls…. Up in arms the ne t home game…. If the owners are fucked let’s put the pride back into our club, we need to make some fucking noise….

OK. So what are you planning to do to make that happen?

 

[blade too long]

There need to be chants and banners on Wednesday. Moaning on social media and forums won't do anything. Having 27,000 fans chanting for him to get out of the club will, and it needs to be constant. Not chanting anything throughout the match will achieve nothing. He needs to hear and feel the vitriol. A mass walkout in the second half or at half time would also send a very loud and clear message. Enough is enough.

The greedy bastard is holding out for £170mil. Who is going to buy us for that when relegation will see our value plummet. The second you buy this club you've made a huge loss.

He bought us for £1, won the court case against McCabe and used our Premier League money to pay him the £50mil settlement. He's pumped no money of his own into the running of the club. Anything he takes from the sale is pure profit.

He needs to sell and sell fast and get out of this club and take his usless family members on the board with him.

there are many reasons he has to go but your reinvention of the weres money gone mantra is way off the mark

when he first came in we needed the money he put in
if he took 50m from the club it would be fraudulent this back pocket view is just not a viable conspiracy theory

 

[Frank the tank]

OK. So what are you planning to do to make that happen?

a long thread title and a lot of question marks

 

[nopigfansintown]

I don’t think he wants to sell. Similar sized clubs have been sold during the period where he was trying to sell us yet we have no interest.

Selling NDiaye was the critical moment. Season died at that point

The writing has been on the wall for three seasons. One permanent signing in five windows led to this. No contract renewals for key assets (including Ndiaye) led to this. A failure to address the underlying causes of the ridiculous longstanding injury crises led to this. The failure to implement a successful recruitment policy led to this (also evidenced in "United World").

The Premier League money and League position has airbrushed all these serious structural issues and quelled the justified fan outrage at all the above. If you were paying attention you were concerned about all of the above despite the results. Heckingbottom will carry the can for everything.

 

[Chris the Blade]

Everyone should walk out at half time on Tuesday but they won't. Most fans are all talk and no action

 

[BalticBlade]

The trouble is, our fanbase is one of the most passive in English football.

This why, over the years, we roll from one bad owner to another and meekly accept lack of investment in the club and perpetual mediocrity.

People go on about Man Utd fans - glory supporters, prawn sandwich brigade and all that.

But look at how a hard-core of Man United fans have mobilised against the Glazers.

It's not not just them, other fanbases have done it, Birmingham City a recent example. Even the pig fans have stood up and had a go at Chansiri. (albeit a typically pathetic attempt).

But we're just mugs, we just lie down and let the likes of PA walk all over us and take the piss out of our club.

 

[nopigfansintown]

Everyone should walk out at half time on Tuesday but they won't. Most fans are all talk and no action

I guarantee that fans will have a mass boycott on tuesday

 

[Nick Jansky]

In all seriousness, nothing is going to happen unless there is serious coordination and there is no sign of that.

1. A group of people need to come together to brainstorm and agree upon the sort of action that might have an effect.

2. But the starting point is to decide what they want to happen. “Prince Out”, of itself, doesn’t even begin to cut it. It needs to be smart in terms of the specifics of how that happens & what comes after it.

2. The spokespersons for the group need to have some sort of credibility or profile to ensure that they are not just dismissed as irrelevant by the fans as a whole.

3. Any hotheads within the group need to be identified and marginalised as early as possible.

4. The messaging needs to be short, slick and to the point.

5. Money. This sort of thing costs.

6. Willing helpers with time on their hands.

7. Get friendly people from the media on board.

8. Be prepared for loads of abuse and possibly physical violence from people who disagree with you.

9. Get a good lawyer in case you haven’t quite managed to get rid of all of the hotheads and someone says the sort of stupid thing that we frequently see from several posters on here.

 

[shorehamview]

In all seriousness, nothing is going to happen unless there is serious coordination and there is no sign of that.

1. A group of people need to come together to brainstorm and agree upon the sort of action that might have an effect.

2. But the starting point is to decide what they want to happen. “Prince Out”, of itself, doesn’t even begin to cut it. It needs to be smart in terms of the specifics of how that happens & what comes after it.

2. The spokespersons for the group need to have some sort of credibility or profile to ensure that they are not just dismissed as irrelevant by the fans as a whole.

3. Any hotheads within the group need to be identified and marginalised as early as possible.

4. The messaging needs to be short, slick and to the point.

5. Money. This sort of thing costs.

6. Willing helpers with time on their hands.

7. Get friendly people from the media on board.

8. Be prepared for loads of abuse and possibly physical violence from people who disagree with you.

9. Get a good lawyer in case you haven’t quite managed to get rid of all of the hotheads and someone says the sort of stupid thing that we frequently see from several posters on here.

You know what our fans are like, nobody could coordinate that kind of protest. It’s like herding kittens at the best of times.

 

[S64 Blade]

Until he’s gone I think it’s realistically, a waste of time getting a ‘project’/long-term type manager in.

The Prince clearly isn’t interested and does not have the resources to properly fund any transformation of the club. He’s not going to suddenly change this, given the club is for sale.

Any long-term vision needs everyone to be singing from the same hymn sheet. Otherwise, it won’t work.

 

[wak1889]

I guarantee that fans will have a mass boycott on tuesday

Absolutely, I definitely won't be watching on Tuesday, might give it half hour on Wednesday though

 

[nopigfansintown]

The trouble is, our fanbase is one of the most passive in English football.

This why, over the years, we roll from one bad owner to another and meekly accept lack of investment in the club and perpetual mediocrity.

People go on about Man Utd fans - glory supporters, prawn sandwich brigade and all that.

But look at how a hard-core of Man United fans have mobilised against the Glazers.

It's not not just them, other fanbases have done it, Birmingham City a recent example. Even the pig fans have stood up and had a go at Chansiri. (albeit a typically pathetic attempt).

But we're just mugs, we just lie down and let the likes of PA walk all over us and take the piss out of our club.

The Wilder era covered up a multitude of sins and shielded the ownership. Wilder seemed to take the majority of the blame for the Slav era rather tjan the ownership. Hecky took us to the play offs, a cup semi and promotion shielding the ownership from real scrutiny. Football fans are largely happy when results are good and unhappy when results are bad. That's as deep as the analysis goes. The majority of Blades are no different.

The Glazer out movement was a tiny minority of the Man Utd fanbase when Ferguson was winning titles. The FSG out brigade at Liverpool is the same. Chansiri was a God at the sty until recent years. Many people are only turning on the Prince now.

 

[Nick Jansky]

You know what our fans are like, nobody could coordinate that kind of protest. It’s like herding kittens at the best of times.

There are actually plenty who could. Whether they have the will to do it is another matter entirely. If a serious group came forward I would be more than happy to advise them but wouldn’t be prepared to have any involvement beyond that. It can affect your life in ways that are not necessarily good.

 

[Rodley]

In all seriousness, nothing is going to happen unless there is serious coordination and there is no sign of that.

1. A group of people need to come together to brainstorm and agree upon the sort of action that might have an effect.

2. But the starting point is to decide what they want to happen. “Prince Out”, of itself, doesn’t even begin to cut it. It needs to be smart in terms of the specifics of how that happens & what comes after it.

2. The spokespersons for the group need to have some sort of credibility or profile to ensure that they are not just dismissed as irrelevant by the fans as a whole.

3. Any hotheads within the group need to be identified and marginalised as early as possible.

4. The messaging needs to be short, slick and to the point.

5. Money. This sort of thing costs.

6. Willing helpers with time on their hands.

7. Get friendly people from the media on board.

8. Be prepared for loads of abuse and possibly physical violence from people who disagree with you.

9. Get a good lawyer in case you haven’t quite managed to get rid of all of the hotheads and someone says the sort of stupid thing that we frequently see from several posters on here.

I know one or two daft enough to help with .5

 

[Wards]

There are still fans that hang off El Accounto's every word. Nothing is gonna happen while ever fans are so gullible to believe all that nonsense and bluster. You could tell them black was white and they'd believe it.

 

[Nick Jansky]

I know one or two daft enough to help with .5

It shouldn’t be funded by individuals because they will start to think that they can take ownership of the messaging. Crowd funding would work.

 

[UddersBlade]

The only good thing to come out of this shambles of a season in the Premier League is this charlatan is starting to get global high level visibility. The comments from the likes of Shearer, Sutton, Talksport will continue with every hammering. The scrutiny of The Prince & his lack of real investment will be laid bare for all to see. This may not actually help us at all & the Monday mornings at work will be ever more painful.

However, we will still all be here long after The Prince has walked away. Some of us were at Rochdale, Bury, Tranmere, Hereford in the 4th Division and on that desperate journey down there. And you know what - a message to the young un’s on here that have only known recent years - in many ways it was more fun than the ‘plastic / expensive’ Premier League.

So for me, the sooner the Prince leaves our club - the better, so anything we can do to hasten that - the better!

 

[The Fox]

Oh dear , its turned into Pork Talk #2 .

Over use of the word " fanbase" talk of passive fans etc ..

Unfortunately what we and our porcine neighbours have to understand is that it's not "our" club , we don't own it . We have an emotional interest in it for sure but not a financial one .
SUFC is not in a bad place as an entity , however the team and management of the team are struggling to put it mildly .
Whatever decisions were made at the top table I'm very sure it wasn't with the aim of being as poor as we are .Whatever work takes place on the training ground it's not with the aim of being gubbed every week , and I'm pretty sure the players don't cross the line trying to massively underperform.

Circumstances have conspired and we are where we are , the supporters , players, management and owners will all be gutted , decisions will have to be made (albeit too late for this season ).

I'm not an apologist for anyone , we all fuck up at times , when we do getting a kicking is probably not much help

Let's remain UNITED. UTB

 

[Frank the tank]

The trouble is, our fanbase is one of the most passive in English football.

This why, over the years, we roll from one bad owner to another and meekly accept lack of investment in the club and perpetual mediocrity.

People go on about Man Utd fans - glory supporters, prawn sandwich brigade and all that.

But look at how a hard-core of Man United fans have mobilised against the Glazers.

It's not not just them, other fanbases have done it, Birmingham City a recent example. Even the pig fans have stood up and had a go at Chansiri. (albeit a typically pathetic attempt).

But we're just mugs, we just lie down and let the likes of PA walk all over us and take the piss out of our club.

yet again someone telling a famously vociferous fan base that they are all mugs without offering any solution or even what we should be protesting about or to who ?
all these things have been a problem for a long time but when we were winning every week no one cared

ive been a blade since division 4 and i can tell you now this fan base has no problem voicing its concerns especially compared to the ones you mention who by the way still have the same problems they had before they started moaning

protesting against a guy already desperate to get out seems a bit pointless to me but if you feel so strongly about it tell us how to do it and start the ball rolling