Half way point

[1973Blade]

45 days since the Scunthorpe game , 45 days till the Bolton opening game. Is anyone feeling more or less optimistic than they were after the last game?

 

[Danny_Blade]

Bit of both really, optimistic that CW is our manager and I'm content with Duffy and Hussey. However I'm not sure how the rest of our summer window will go just like most of us are feeling I suppose.

 

[Superblades]

Just had a scout through the games and I can't see us getting the play offs. My prediction is 55-65 points, could be a lot worse if we don't get the players in.

 

[Barney]

Unsurprisingly ecstatic when Adkins got sacked, more or less down hill since.

 

[Harry's Game]

When we made the two early signings I thought we had learnt our lessons at last about how to run a transfer window, but since then same owd same owd.

Although we can't say we were not warned what was going to happen in this window.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

45 days since the Scunthorpe game , 45 days till the Bolton opening game. Is anyone feeling more or less optimistic than they were after the last game?

I feel exactly the same.

No chance of promotion, another season of shite, Wilder sacked and then rinse and repeat for the 2017-18 season.

 

[robbiez666]

The fixtures look tougher on paper now than I thought they would.

Not confident or optimistic of promotion at this stage. This can obviously change given a good couple of weeks of business. Worried that we have no transfer budget unless we sell.

Worried we're starting pre-season without any CBs or a main CM.

 

[Esablade]

Worried we're starting pre-season without any CBs or a main CM.

Has Hammond gone?

 

[robbiez666]

Has Hammond gone?

Hammond's whereabouts have no influence on our midfield

 

[Esablade]

Hammond's whereabouts have no influence on our midfield

...well, obviously they do, about £10k a week's worth

 

[Deleted member 875]

Less optimistic.

There might be a new name plaque on the managers door, and a shiny new MD and man from Saudi Arabia in situ, but what else has changed?

 

[Blade82]

Bricking it to be honest but the lack of expectation may help in a weird sort of way.

 

[Grizzly blade]

Same disgust as I have for years....until we see a genuinely big investment of cash...along with a manager who can pick up players on the continent as well as Britain, and can get the team playing attacking football with flair we are going to be the same old lumbering Sheff Utd...dragging its heels behind the times and looking across at clubs like Swansea and Bournemouth wondering how they do it.

We should have started again with young talent and written off two seasons after our first season down here to build slowly into the side we need.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Definitely more optimistic, personally.

After Scunny, Adkins was still seemingly entrenched here, he still had a groundswell of support, and it looked likely that Kev would be constrained by all the claims of "SUFC are a sacking club" into giving him another season. But, thankfully, he got shot, and decisively so. And decisively appointed very much the right type of character for the circumstances we're in. Wilder's been like a breath of fresh air.

I'm trusting CW in what he says (despite a lot of qualms about the finances and our ability to attract). If there's no significant action by 1st July then that'll be the time to seriously panic IMO: that's the date that saw most of his pre-season action at Northampton last season.

 

[Bladesman]

Same disgust as I have for years....until we see a genuinely big investment of cash...along with a manager who can pick up players on the continent as well as Britain, and can get the team playing attacking football with flair we are going to be the same old lumbering Sheff Utd...dragging its heels behind the times and looking across at clubs like Swansea and Bournemouth wondering how they do it.

We should have started again with young talent and written off two seasons after our first season down here to build slowly into the side we need.

Agreed but we don't plan beyond one season thats why we end up back at square one so often.