Oh look, it's happened again. We've had our annual managerial crucifixtion! Now we get another summer of a new man finding his feet, giving average players a clean slate, and undoing all the work done by the previous establishment. Do you wanna know why we never improve the squad in the summer transfer window? It's because we almost always have a new manager. He will assess the players, but he won't know for sure what we need until he sees us play for 5 or 6 games. By which time the window is shut. So he will make educated guesses on what we need. Some will work (Sharp) some will not (Hammond). This would be alright if he was given backing in January. But he won't be. We will once again fail to gain promotion from League 1, we will once again be dangerously below top 2 standard (18 points this year) and once again we will build a big wicker man at the bottom of The Moor and chuck the sorry bastard in it.
Notice how eerily similar that official statement from the club is to the one we got a year ago about Clough? The message is abundantly clear to any new manager: You get one shot at promotion and that's your lot. Oh, but we won't back you in the transfer market, and the fans will think you're a cunt because you've failed to turn around a club instantly that has a culture of failure from top to bottom. Welcome to Bramall Lane, where good managers go to get ritually executed.
I'm really disappointed in the chirpy faced, blind and moronic optimism the board have in this situation. McCabe is fiddling while Sheffield burns. The failings of the club are the fault of the board. If you're blaming the manager, you're not seeing the full picture. Wilson, Weir, Clough and now Adkins. All have failed. Who employed them? And who gave all of them (Weir excepted, of course) far too little time to turn it around? We will not be a Championship club before the board are replaced.
