McCabe 'wont rest' til we're out of league 1

[Slim Man]

Lucky for him this season he might get what he wants!

I think season after season of selling our best player, running the club in an amateurish manner and just being a general arrogant cheap individual might just catch up with him this year. We're always 3 or 4 players away from being a 'complete' team, and we've always got to wait for 'the loan window' or 'January' to rectify it. Or the 'pathway to youth' might solve it eh?

Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins and Wilder aren't all bad managers. The fans aren't bad fans either, 6 years of patience is wearing thin - and who can blame us? McCabe call should feel lucky he can even walk down the street in Sheffield after what we've turned into. A lot of clubs wouldn't have stood for this - but he is a master at shifting the blame you've got to give him that.

Fucking football eh.

 

[pommpey]

Lucky for him this season he might get what he wants!

I think season after season of selling our best player, running the club in an amateurish manner and just being a general arrogant cheap individual might just catch up with him this year. We're always 3 or 4 players away from being a 'complete' team, and we've always got to wait for 'the loan window' or 'January' to rectify it. Or the 'pathway to youth' might solve it eh?

Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins and Wilder aren't all bad managers. The fans aren't bad fans either, 6 years of patience is wearing thin - and who can blame us? McCabe call should feel lucky he can even walk down the street in Sheffield after what we've turned into. A lot of clubs wouldn't have stood for this - but he is a master at shifting the blame you've got to give him that.

Fucking football eh.

And people on here will laud him for some supposed 'saviour' policy he has supposedly presided over.

I appeal to the authors of 'Fit and Proper'. Please, start your next draft. As much as the original book was one of the best books I read last year, the annexes covering the recent years will be fucking astounding. Maybe armed with that level of revelation, some on here will be less apt to blame the critics and more likely to call for the fucker to step down and find a buyer.

pommpey

 

[zablade]

Fill a team with lower half league one / league two players, appoint a league two manager..... it's not rocket science to see where you are likely to end up.

 

[Slim Man]

He's not a Tan, he's not an Allam, he's not. Risdale. He's much more clever than those.

He has managed to kill the club by the form of apathy. Quite an achievement for a club like ours. The club is toxic now, what's he going to do about it? We could probably do with these imaginary investors and board members deciding to get involved now...

As much as anything though the worst thing is how amateur we go about things. We never get deals completed, we're always 'nearly' there in every way shape and form. We might nearly avoid relegation this season if we're lucky.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Danny,

Based on football results then McCabe is the worse we've had

But based on running the club the irony he's the most ambitious Chairman and the most well meaning Chairman we've ever had.

I remember our Chairmen from the 80's and 90ms and I'd much rather have McCabe.
In them days off the field we were a joke, we were run like a lower division team.
We could hardly attract anyone.

Now off field we are in a fantastic position.
We have the biggest budget in league every year
We always attract big name managers or someone with a fantastic cv because we pay big salaries
and are the favourites for promotion every year.

Off the field McCabe is doing well
It's on the field we are a joke BUT there's a long way to go yet.

 

[JJBlade]

Lucky for him this season he might get what he wants!

I think season after season of selling our best player, running the club in an amateurish manner and just being a general arrogant cheap individual might just catch up with him this year. We're always 3 or 4 players away from being a 'complete' team, and we've always got to wait for 'the loan window' or 'January' to rectify it. Or the 'pathway to youth' might solve it eh?

Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins and Wilder aren't all bad managers. The fans aren't bad fans either, 6 years of patience is wearing thin - and who can blame us? McCabe call should feel lucky he can even walk down the street in Sheffield after what we've turned into. A lot of clubs wouldn't have stood for this - but he is a master at shifting the blame you've got to give him that.

Fucking football eh.

Fantastic stuff
Don't agree with the walking around in Sheffield bit though

He got extremely lucky with Warnock sorting out the playing side of things for a couple of seasons but the club was always run amateurishly, even then.

 

[Harry's Game]

But based on running the club the irony he's the most ambitious Chairman and the most well meaning Chairman we've ever had.

Now off field we are in a fantastic position.

Off the field McCabe is doing well

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[Sheffsteel]

I was listening to Talksport Radio the other day.

They were talking about Hull City and the dangers of bringing in foreign millionaire owners.
The Hull owner refuses to communicate with the supporter group because he's not bothered their fans.
So Hull don't know what their plans are regards a new manager and new players.

They talked about Steve Gibson at Middlesboro being an example of a great Chairman.
A chairman who supports the club and always has genuine intentions.

It made me think of McCabe being an example of a good chairman.

Whereas the Wednesday Chairman is only interested in profit and doesn't listen to their fans. So according to Talksport Chansiri is an example of a bad chairman.

 

[alcoblade]

I was listening to Talksport Radio the other day.

They were talking about Hull City and the dangers of bringing in foreign millionaire owners.
The Hull owner refuses to communicate with the supporter group because he's not bothered their fans.
So Hull don't know what their plans are regards a new manager and new players.

They talked about Steve Gibson at Middlesboro being an example of a great Chairman.
A chairman who supports the club and always has genuine intentions.

It made me think of McCabe being an example of a good chairman.

Whereas the Wednesday Chairman is only interested in profit and doesn't listen to their fans. So according to Talksport Chansiri is an example of a bad chairman.

It would be terrible I our fortunes mirrored Hull's.




UTB

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Fill a team with lower half league one / league two players, appoint a league two manager..... it's not rocket science to see where you are likely to end up.

Or invest like British cycling and see what you win?

 

[Sheffsteel]

Harry I keep saying the logic behind deciding who is a good or bad chairman is back to front.

Your equation is if the team has success = good chairman
If the team struggles = bad chairman

But surely it's not that simple

What is chairman A had no money, refused to communicate with fans. Put up prices with the club having low attendances. Bring in a foreign unknown manager (who is a friend of the Chairman) and it's really the Chairman picking the team then only free transfers are brought in with a small squad.

Compare this to Chairman B who communicates and announces the target is instant promotion.
He brings in the manager with the best cv and then buys several players outside the affordability of other league 1 clubs. Prices are kept low and stadium is close to capacity each week etc etc

Now imagine Chairman A's team finished 2nd gaining promotion whereas Chairman B's team finished 3rd losing in the playoffs.

In the scenario above are you really saying you'd prefer Chairman A because he's obviously must be better than Chairman B as promotion was achieved.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Kevin McCabe is a fine politician. He's faced irate supporters on more than one occasion and had them eating out of his hand by the end of it.
So we come back for more every season, putting our shit position down to bad luck and circumstance. "Hey I'm a Blade just like you" fixes all ills.

Under Mike McDonald and Reg Brearley (to an extent), United had an organised opposition to the shit situation we found ourselves in.
In this day and age, we don't channel our anger and frustration by being a visible united front (excuse the pun). We vent it on football forums, and as such nothing changes. And for that we are all guilty, even myself as I write this.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Absolutely nothing new in this thread that you can't read everyday on here - with the exception of St Neil's tenure reduced to only two years before success - but I have to say I cant remember seeing the name McCabe on the back of the shirt of one of the spineless bastards out there tonight, and I know he wasn't in the dug out.

 

[JJBlade]

What, two stints in the Premier League
FA Cup Final
Play off final winners
Real quality in the team

Yeah, shocking for them isn't it

One Chairman and they've overturned a hundred and odd years of being nobodies

Allam might be a dick with his Hull City Tigers bullshit, but he's created a decent club from what wasn't a particularly decent club to start with

Now, allow yourselves to imagine what a decent Chairman could create here with a club that has had a past history.
I know that this might seem impossible for the average Sheffielder to imagine with his staple diet of average nothingness, but I think that the right Chairman in charge could see us become a great club.

 

[Revolution]

I wish McCabe would get out of my club.

 

[GrayBlade]

My old Dad used to say that some football club's owners didn't really want their club to go up. He even said it about United once and we fell out at the time. I regret it now, I was very defensive of United as a kid and wouldn't hear anything wrong said about them.

But let's just take the time to reflect on the past decade. There's a song that goes 'If there's a wrong want to do it' and you'd think that it was written for McCabe.

So I'll ask the same question to all my fellow Blades several decades after my Dad put it to me. Is it really in McCabe's interest for United to get promotion? He's been getting top end Championship support year after year whilst providing us with with lower league dross. He's systematically sold off our best players and every year since the Prem, we've become weaker than the season before, and yet still our support has remained strong and even increased. If we go up, he'll have to pay out far more in wages, but because it's unlikely that we'll see ourselves as promotion contenders, our gates might not even hold their current levels.

So does 'Sir Kev' really want us to go up, or has he lost interest in seeing the club progress, and just happy to tread water and see the annual pattern of 'hope-let down-despair, repeated ad infinitum as long as we all continue to buy into it and the shiite continues to fall away from him and onto his latest fall-guy? Or could it all be pure bad luck?

 

[pommpey]

My old Dad used to say that some football club's owners didn't really want their club to go up. He even said it about United once and we fell out at the time. I regret it now, I was very defensive of United as a kid and wouldn't hear anything wrong said about them.

But let's just take the time to reflect on the past decade. There's a song that goes 'If there's a wrong want to do it' and you'd think that it was written for McCabe.

So I'll ask the same question to all my fellow Blades several decades after my Dad put it to me. Is it really in McCabe's interest for United to get promotion? He's been getting top end Championship support year after year whilst providing us with with lower league dross. He's systematically sold off our best players and every year since the Prem, we've become weaker than the season before, and yet still our support has remained strong and even increased. If we go up, he'll have to pay out far more in wages, but because it's unlikely that we'll see ourselves as promotion contenders, our gates might not even hold their current levels.

So does 'Sir Kev' really want us to go up, or has he lost interest in seeing the club progress, and just happy to tread water and see the annual pattern of 'hope-let down-despair, repeated ad infinitum as long as we all continue to buy into it and the shiite continues to fall away from him and onto his latest fall-guy? Or could it all be pure bad luck?

Fucking hell. The penny is finally dropping with some. Next, we'll be actually scrutinising exactly how much money McCabe has allowed successive managers (left hand) to buy undisclosed (keep watching the left hand) players (keep watching) whilst selling anyone and everyone who showed ability (right hand) to the first fucking caller (keep watching the left hand) then sacking the manger (right hand) whilst coming over as a massive Blade (keep watching the left hand, now) and 'one of us'. (aaaand it's GONE)

pommpey

 

[JJBlade]

My old Dad used to say that some football club's owners didn't really want their club to go up. He even said it about United once and we fell out at the time. I regret it now, I was very defensive of United as a kid and wouldn't hear anything wrong said about them.

But let's just take the time to reflect on the past decade. There's a song that goes 'If there's a wrong want to do it' and you'd think that it was written for McCabe.

So I'll ask the same question to all my fellow Blades several decades after my Dad put it to me. Is it really in McCabe's interest for United to get promotion? He's been getting top end Championship support year after year whilst providing us with with lower league dross. He's systematically sold off our best players and every year since the Prem, we've become weaker than the season before, and yet still our support has remained strong and even increased. If we go up, he'll have to pay out far more in wages, but because it's unlikely that we'll see ourselves as promotion contenders, our gates might not even hold their current levels.

So does 'Sir Kev' really want us to go up, or has he lost interest in seeing the club progress, and just happy to tread water and see the annual pattern of 'hope-let down-despair, repeated ad infinitum as long as we all continue to buy into it and the shiite continues to fall away from him and onto his latest fall-guy? Or could it all be pure bad luck?

My Grandad was one of the old bunch that used to go and watch both teams, there were thousands of them that did this at the time.
But eventually he became a Wendy fan only.
I once asked him why he stopped going to watch United when I was about 10 or 11 years old

He said United are a waste of space and they will never achieve anything.........ever.
He said It is just pointless going along to support them.
He also said Wendy aren't much better, but at least they will win something one day, and at least they will occasionally make an attempt to compete.
Of course I didn't believe him.

My God........How right he was.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

The problem is the board escape Scott free every season cos they arrange fans forums and sack a gaffer every year when it looks like they might get some heat.

Some of us see right through this charade, others blindly clap like seals at them.

Until the amount of folk in the first camp overtake the seals they will remain and we will carry on been a shit football club.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Fill a team with lower half league one / league two players, appoint a league two manager..... it's not rocket science to see where you are likely to end up.

You're having a dig at the manager now and that's unfair because managers from higher leagues had similar issues.

 

[Slim Man]

Hull are going to be taken over by a Chinese consortium after years of success under the, albeit wacky' regime.

Give me their position over a 6th year in league one under this crook anyday.

 

[Slim Man]

Fill a team with lower half league one / league two players, appoint a league two manager..... it's not rocket science to see where you are likely to end up.

As the above I don't agree with the manager bit, to be fair McCabe has tried that higher up the league stuff and that didn't work either.

Like I said. All these managers we've had aren't bad managers, something is fundamentally wrong at the club and unfortunately it's a lack of figureheads who know what they're doing. And who just sell our best players at the first opportunity.

 

[Blade56]

Lucky for him this season he might get what he wants!

I think season after season of selling our best player, running the club in an amateurish manner and just being a general arrogant cheap individual might just catch up with him this year. We're always 3 or 4 players away from being a 'complete' team, and we've always got to wait for 'the loan window' or 'January' to rectify it. Or the 'pathway to youth' might solve it eh?

Wilson, Weir, Clough, Adkins and Wilder aren't all bad managers. The fans aren't bad fans either, 6 years of patience is wearing thin - and who can blame us? McCabe call should feel lucky he can even walk down the street in Sheffield after what we've turned into. A lot of clubs wouldn't have stood for this - but he is a master at shifting the blame you've got to give him that.

Fucking football eh.

Are we all forgetting we now have 2 owners? Admitted HRH might be as much a victim of McCabe as the fans are but he's made the situation worse only being a 50%ter and in absentia.

Or invest like British cycling and see what you win?

You win swarms of Lycra clad (stfu GreasyChipBeattie) middle aged men with attitude clogging up the roads (sorry SwissBlade, open net an all that).

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Are we all forgetting we now have 2 owners? Admitted HRH might be as much a victim of McCabe as the fans are but he's made the situation worse only being a 50%ter and in absentia.

You win swarms of Lycra clad (stfu GreasyChipBeattie) middle aged men with attitude clogging up the roads (sorry SwissBlade, open net an all that).

Nurse! NURSE, NURSE!! Quiiiiick, we've got a live one here!!

 

[Sean Thornton]

As the above I don't agree with the manager bit, to be fair McCabe has tried that higher up the league stuff and that didn't work either.

Like I said. All these managers we've had aren't bad managers, something is fundamentally wrong at the club and unfortunately it's a lack of figureheads who know what they're doing. And who just sell our best players at the first opportunity.

Adkins clearly was a bad manager last year. Hadnt got a clue all season. Eventually even too much for WHF, that's how bad he was.?

 

[SwissBlade]

Hull are going to be taken over by a Chinese consortium after years of success under the, albeit wacky' regime.

Give me their position over a 6th year in league one under this crook anyday.

I Love statetments like this above. Its stating the obvious...

Give me Leicesters position over Shrewsburys anyday...

 

[TJB.]

I remember our Chairmen from the 80's and 90ms and I'd much rather have McCabe.

I get what you're saying, but just because you used to have to walk everywhere and you can now afford the bus, doesn't mean you should stick with the bus and not bother trying to get a car.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I get what you're saying, but just because you used to have to walk everywhere and you can now afford the bus, doesn't mean you should stick with the bus and not bother trying to get a car.

I love Confucius

 

[TJB.]

I love Confucius

I'm in a permanent state of confucius with our current state.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

I get what you're saying, but just because you used to have to walk everywhere and you can now afford the bus, doesn't mean you should stick with the bus and not bother trying to get a car.

Dems words be a thinker, dems be.