Named Managerial Candidates.

[shorehamview]

How many of the names touted on this and other forums, in the press and by those "in the know" have actually been named by Sheffield United's board? Not alluded to, actually named? And when and where?

There have been that many I can't keep track. I have no actual idea of the names the club have put forward as candidates. Does anybody else? Please link to the article/site where the club named names.

 

[Torrix1889]

None.............

 

[lenners]

They'd have to have a ferking clue what they were doing to dare say a word in public.
Complete set of amateurs.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Or they could be waiting til Christmas was out of the way, then concentrating on the managerial appointment.

 

[lenners]

Or they could be waiting til Christmas was out of the way, then concentrating on the managerial appointment.

No doubt. Waiting until we've played four more games, probably losing them all, and until the transfer window is already open allowing other clubs to make their moves before us would indeed be the kind of logic employed by the clueless set of amateurs in our boardroom.

 

[Torrix1889]

Or they could be waiting til Christmas was out of the way, then concentrating on the managerial appointment.

Which would achieve exactly what?

 

[shorehamview]

They'd have to have a ferking clue what they were doing to dare say a word in public.
Complete set of amateurs.

Unless they believe that it's better to keep quiet until they know one way or the other? I don't know, I seem to be one of the few posters here that's not got a mate on the board/at the academy/in the know/in the loony bin.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Perhaps O'Driscoll's chairman said,
"you can talk to united as long as it doesn't affect your preparations for your own clubs games?"

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Which would achieve exactly what?

It allows all parties to have time to do the necessary talks, especially those managers that are in work and also have four games to prepare for.

Unless of course your preferred option is an out of work manager.

 

[Foxy]

They'd have to have a ferking clue what they were doing to dare say a word in public.
Complete set of amateurs.

It would be far more professional of course to run to the press with the names on the shortlist.

Perhaps we should have forced Carver to add a non-committal statement on our website regarding the rumours of him being wanted elsewhere too?

You know, like all the proper clubs are doing?

 

[lenners]

Unless they believe that it's better to keep quiet until they know one way or the other? I don't know, I seem to be one of the few posters here that's not got a mate on the board/at the academy/in the know/in the loony bin.

Nah, you're one of the diminishing number still unable to apply their common sense to what's going on.
The really sad thing is that the reality will be that the clueless pillocks will have sat down and thought fuck, what on earth are we going to do, followed by let's put out a statement that says we're not appointing until January because we're going to be so meticulous - exactly because they know there are some fans that will actually believe that bollocks.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Or alternatively, they've set a longer time frame because they know the top candidate will be tricky to get, they could have set a short time frame and ended up with someone on the scrap heap. We may of course, still get someone on the scrapheap. How about you reserve judgment until we actually appoint someone?

 

[lenners]

It would be far more professional of course to run to the press with the names on the shortlist.

Perhaps we should have forced Carver to add a non-committal statement on our website regarding the rumours of him being wanted elsewhere too?

You know, like all the proper clubs are doing?

It would be far more professional to have a new manager in place for the busiest time of the year, for the opening of the transfer window and to have the first ferking idea of how to run a football club.
The astonishing thing is that the previous form we've got, now being on our third and soon to be fourth manager of the season - and some fans still believe the bullshit they're fed about this new found 'professional' approach.
Comical, absolutely comical.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

It would be far more professional to have a new manager in place for the busiest time of the year.

So which currently out of work manager would you have liked to have had in place by now then?

 

[JohnDenver]

Nah, you're one of the diminishing number still unable to apply their common sense to what's going on.
The really sad thing is that the reality will be that the clueless pillocks will have sat down and thought fuck, what on earth are we going to do, followed by let's put out a statement that says we're not appointing until January because we're going to be so meticulous - exactly because they know there are some fans that will actually believe that bollocks.

So what are they up to? Too busy with the XBoxes they got from Santa?

 

[shorehamview]

Nah, you're one of the diminishing number still unable to apply their common sense to what's going on.

I'm one of the few that's not hell bent on patronising every one at every opportunity.

I know things could be run a whole lot better than they have been. I just think at the moment that this is one of the few times when silence is the best option. Unless of course you'd rather the club had released a shortlist of names? A kind of "fuck the regulations or the protocol, these are the chaps we'd like, and in this order too. And if that upsets their clubs and respective chairmen then fuck them too."

I also appear to be one of the many that doesn't have some kind of messianic zeal that means they have to spread their word to all and sundry with the accompanied insistence that their way is the One True Way. Just because I don't spout shite every five minutes doesn't mean that I think the club has been run well. I am fully aware that it hasn't and that McCabe has some answers to give to some very pertinent questions.

It's a shame that you'll not be the one asking them, because as we all know given any opportunity to actually put your opinions and questions directly to the one man who can properly answer - Kevin McCabe - then you have absolutely no qualms in running in the opposite direction.

 

[Yossarian]

Which would achieve exactly what?

Of course, if not for a couple of dodgy decisions, we'd have taken 6 points from a possible 9. You could attribute that to the lads having someone in charge that they know and trust during a busy period.

 

[SotonBlade]

It would be far more professional to have a new manager in place for the busiest time of the year, for the opening of the transfer window and to have the first ferking idea of how to run a football club.
The astonishing thing is that the previous form we've got, now being on our third and soon to be fourth manager of the season - and some fans still believe the bullshit they're fed about this new found 'professional' approach.
Comical, absolutely comical.

And then you'd have moaned that the appointment was made far too hastily and will cost the club in the long run, so in way United can't win...in your eyes anyway

 

[lenners]

And then you'd have moaned that the appointment was made far too hastily and will cost the club in the long run, so in way United can't win...in your eyes anyway

Would I 'eckers like.
I've said consistently the appointment needed to be made quickly for the reasons stated.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Would I 'eckers like.
I've said consistently the appointment needed to be made quickly for the reasons stated.

So which manager would it have been then?

 

[lenners]

So which manager would it have been then?

FFS are you seriously suggesting that if they end up appointing Adams, for example, he couldn't have been appointed the day after Speed left?
We obviously went for SOD instead, which was sensible, but being unable to attract the manager of Doncaster Rovers also shows what a bloody awful prospectus McCabe is punting out/and his terror at an idiosyncratic approach to management.

 

[shorehamview]

And then you'd have moaned that the appointment was made far too hastily and will cost the club in the long run, so in way United can't win...in your eyes anyway

I's the "damned if they do, damned if they don't" philosophy.

"lemmers sat in Castle Greyskull comtemplating what United may or may not do in the next few days.

As the cauldron was stirred and his malevolent raven Offy cackled insanely to itself a plan hatched in his mind, a bit like when Foghorn Leghorn gets an idea, but without the ensuing hilarity. "I know," he whispered to himself, I'll wait to see if United name their managerial candidates today. And if they do I'll play fucking hell with them!"

"Squaaawwwk! What if they don't?" cackled Offy.

"Then I'll play fucking hell with them for that too. Mwuuahahahahaha!"

Lightning flashed, thunder rolled, clouds scudded across the moon.

Meanwhile, in the Golden House Of Woodseats, VS was sat merrily watching telly and not giving two fucks about who had been linked with the United job in the last ten minutes, for it had been decreed that he had to have a life away from the internet now and again by She Who Must Be Obeyed, AKA Mrs VS. So he went to make a lasagne instead. And they all lived happily ever after, except fot the miserable ones who were only happy when they had something to moan about. SV had some Jack Daniel's, some posh Brandy and enough premium German swally to float an aircraft carrier anyway, so that was him sorted."

 

[Highbury_Blade]

FFS are you seriously suggesting that if they end up appointing Adams, for example, he couldn't have been appointed the day after Speed left?
We obviously went for SOD instead, which was sensible, but being unable to attract the manager of Doncaster Rovers also shows what a bloody awful prospectus McCabe is punting out/and his terror at an idiosyncratic approach to management.

Adams could quite possibly have been a quick appointment, as the ball would very much have been in our court. Instead we've gone for the trickier option, which will take longer.

If O'driscoll wants to bring in his own staff, that's a lot of contracts to be paying off and negotiating over in the busy Christmas period. If it were another time of the year it'd probably have been wrapped up by now.

 

[Micalijo]

I'm one of the few that's not hell bent on patronising every one at every opportunity.

I know things could be run a whole lot better than they have been. I just think at the moment that this is one of the few times when silence is the best option. Unless of course you'd rather the club had released a shortlist of names? A kind of "fuck the regulations or the protocol, these are the chaps we'd like, and in this order too. And if that upsets their clubs and respective chairmen then fuck them too."

I also appear to be one of the many that doesn't have some kind of messianic zeal that means they have to spread their word to all and sundry with the accompanied insistence that their way is the One True Way. Just because I don't spout shite every five minutes doesn't mean that I think the club has been run well. I am fully aware that it hasn't and that McCabe has some answers to give to some very pertinent questions.

It's a shame that you'll not be the one asking them, because as we all know given any opportunity to actually put your opinions and questions directly to the one man who can properly answer - Kevin McCabe - then you have absolutely no qualms in running in the opposite direction.

What are your questions then SV? Get yer cards on the table.

United haven't been silent on it though. Birchy made plenty of comments in his statement saying his top target would be tricky to get. This statement has caused alot of problems because quite clearly he was referring to SOD and quite clearly, imo, he would be the most popular choice amongst the rapidly diminishning number of paying customers. As Lenners says, it is pretty obvious that MCabe has shat him sen when talking to SOD and he's now stalling on going back for another go at him.

Where do you stand on Birch's statement - should he have kept quiet?

 

[bartman]

What are your questions then SV? Get yer cards on the table.

United haven't been silent on it though. Birchy made plenty of comments in his statement saying his top target would be tricky to get. This statement has caused alot of problems because quite clearly he was referring to SOD and quite clearly, imo, he would be the most popular choice amongst the rapidly diminishning number of paying customers. As Lenners says, it is pretty obvious that MCabe has shat him sen when talking to SOD and he's now stalling on going back for another go at him.Where do you stand on Birch's statement - should he have kept quiet?

Pretty obvious to who ? Or are you reading Blades Mad too much ?

 

[Yossarian]

You know what? There's actually a tiny piece of me that actually wants them to hire Brian Laws. Just because it would probably push lenners over the edge.

 

[shorehamview]

What are your questions then SV? Get yer cards on the table.

United haven't been silent on it though. Birchy made plenty of comments in his statement saying his top target would be tricky to get. This statement has caused alot of problems because quite clearly he was referring to SOD and quite clearly, imo, he would be the most popular choice amongst the rapidly diminishning number of paying customers. As Lenners says, it is pretty obvious that MCabe has shat him sen when talking to SOD and he's now stalling on going back for another go at him.

Where do you stand on Birch's statement - should he have kept quiet?

Well, Birch didn't actually name names. He did state the characteristics they were looking for, and this could easily point to SOD, but he wasn't named. I'd ask if they actually have a short list of names, how many were in work and how many weren't, and what kind of experience the names on the list had. Would they want a manager who could drastically change the playing style, and would they accept relegation as a short term means to a long term goal?

Birch could have kept quiet, but he also could have made a statement that was less deliberate. Something along the lines of wanting to find the right man but not rushing for the sake of it. This may well not have placated some, but there's no way he would have been able to keep everybody happy. he's been damned for what he has said, and also for what he hasn't. This would have happened no matter what he had said. Someone would have been unhappy.

I'd ask McCabe what happened to The Blades Way.

Why didn't any of our links with foreign clubs amount to anything positive for United? Chengdu got us Hao Haidong and some dragon dancers and a chance to buy Chengdu shirts.

Ferencvaros got us next to nothing - why?

What about the links with Santos/Inter/Wollabrawonga Wanderers/Fulchester United? What has come from them, apart from trips to somewhere sunny when it's cold in Sheffield or Brussels?

Will season ticket prices be reduced next season considering the economic downturn?

Will whoever is responsible for mailshots/postcards/emails advertising discount pricing actually get there fingers out so that people are aware of the offers at least two weeks before the game, rather than two days?

Will someone armed with a sweeping brush do more than a cursory wave around of it to clean the Kop and surrounding areas? (I'm unaware of the cleanliness of the rest of the ground - I sit on the Kop.) And what price a man to remove the now redundant sauce station crap? Half an hour with a screwdriver should do it.

Why do we insist on swapping all shirts every season? Forego the small revenue from regular kit changes, just swap them every two years, alternating like they used to.

Why have the words for the Greasy Chip Butty song got to be on the bloody screen? Embarrassing.

Why, considering the fortunes available to Kevin McCabe, does he seem determined to run United on the cheap? I know he is in no way expected to piss all his money away, but there have been many false economies, starting with flogging Beattie when we had a half-decent chance of promotion. I don't want to skint him, but he's spent United's money on some weird shit when all he had to spend it on was footballers and the ground.

What would he like his legacy to be? Because at the moment it looks like being one season in the big time and a lot of fannying.

I could ask McCabe loads of questions, some serious and some not so serious.

If I was a shareholder I would have asked them at the AGM. I'm not, but if I was I would have made him feel very uncomfortable rather that bottling it for the flimsiest of reasons.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

It would be far more professional to have a new manager in place for the busiest time of the year, for the opening of the transfer window and to have the first ferking idea of how to run a football club.
The astonishing thing is that the previous form we've got, now being on our third and soon to be fourth manager of the season - and some fans still believe the bullshit they're fed about this new found 'professional' approach.
Comical, absolutely comical.

Taking time to appoint the right man shouldn't be sniffed at. They are talking to everyone and seeing what they have to say before just appointing a quick fix.
I just hope they don't buckle and stick to the long term aims outlined before Speed jumped.

 

[sothall blade]

todays sackings of laws and fergie jnr,will have clouded the fookin waters for mccabe,he maybe hangin on for houllier and ancolotti to get the boot,we all know he wanted the BIG name after warnock !!! and who did we get ??? alco robson