bricktop
Well-Known Member
Words that need to be said by someone who words that nobody has dared breath.
In less than 4 long years we have gone from being a healthly vibrant club with realistic aspirations for a long term stay in the top flight, to a club who are sleepwalking in to League 1.
Kevin McCabe did put his money where his mouth was, enabled us to have a tilt at the top flight, built something good at the Lane, brought the feelgood factor to the Lane.
I just think when the going was good, he surrounded himself by the wrong people. Terry Robinson who was instrumental in the managerial appointment of Bryan Robson, Bryan Robson who more or skinted the club with some overly ambitious singings on money that was not necessarily consumerate for the output these players put in.
We had another fighting chance when Kevin Blackwell came in, as from the moment he came in the writing was on the wall. The Premiership money became less and less, the biggest earners had to be shifted, and we still needed to be pushing for the Premiership on a reduced budget with high expectations, and he did all that he could and now we are in our current situation i think Kevin Blackwell's contribution gets less credit that it was due. The football was awful, and some of the selections puzzling, but at the time he was like Chemotheraphy for the cancer that had to begin to develop within the club since the appointment of Robson.
Three most important decisions that McCabe had to make, he got wrong on a massive scale.
The first was Neil Warnock, with hindsight i was a chief Warnocker, and hated his arrogance and persona, but scratch beneath the surface, its taken me a long time to realise that if we had kept him in charge we would have had a lot better chance of going back up at the first attempt.
The Second came with the appointment of Bryan Robson, i knew straight away it would be the managerial appointment that would be a complete and utter mitigated disaster. I thought at the time it would have the potential to screw us for the next 10 years, and so it comes to pass that the implications have come true.
Lastly whoever thought the appointment of Terry Robinson needs fucking shooting. Pieman came in to a progressive club awash with cash on tick, a fanbase that was amongst the best in the country and ready to support a successful team, and a side that with the right guidance from someone in charge from above that would have gone from strength to strength. Instead we got a lower league chairman who was despised and ridiculed at his former club Bury for his incomptetance, and ultimately his incomptetance washed over the Blades and was instrumental in commencing the downwards spiral.
The most hurtful thing about all this, is the man at the top, is not giving any leadership, is now showing any direction, and has gone from a high profile media friendly chairman in to a shadowy figure who specture is hanging over the club like a bad smell, and is refusing to come out and put his head over the parapet, and be honest with the supporters and take any kind of blame for some of the decisions that have caused us to falter, and more importantly be honest and tell the dwindling masses 'the buck stops here'.
Welcome to Sheffield United 2011. A place riven with anger, hatred and division. Welcome to a place where all hope has been destroyed to kingdom bastard come. Welcome to Hell.
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In less than 4 long years we have gone from being a healthly vibrant club with realistic aspirations for a long term stay in the top flight, to a club who are sleepwalking in to League 1.
Kevin McCabe did put his money where his mouth was, enabled us to have a tilt at the top flight, built something good at the Lane, brought the feelgood factor to the Lane.
I just think when the going was good, he surrounded himself by the wrong people. Terry Robinson who was instrumental in the managerial appointment of Bryan Robson, Bryan Robson who more or skinted the club with some overly ambitious singings on money that was not necessarily consumerate for the output these players put in.
We had another fighting chance when Kevin Blackwell came in, as from the moment he came in the writing was on the wall. The Premiership money became less and less, the biggest earners had to be shifted, and we still needed to be pushing for the Premiership on a reduced budget with high expectations, and he did all that he could and now we are in our current situation i think Kevin Blackwell's contribution gets less credit that it was due. The football was awful, and some of the selections puzzling, but at the time he was like Chemotheraphy for the cancer that had to begin to develop within the club since the appointment of Robson.
Three most important decisions that McCabe had to make, he got wrong on a massive scale.
The first was Neil Warnock, with hindsight i was a chief Warnocker, and hated his arrogance and persona, but scratch beneath the surface, its taken me a long time to realise that if we had kept him in charge we would have had a lot better chance of going back up at the first attempt.
The Second came with the appointment of Bryan Robson, i knew straight away it would be the managerial appointment that would be a complete and utter mitigated disaster. I thought at the time it would have the potential to screw us for the next 10 years, and so it comes to pass that the implications have come true.
Lastly whoever thought the appointment of Terry Robinson needs fucking shooting. Pieman came in to a progressive club awash with cash on tick, a fanbase that was amongst the best in the country and ready to support a successful team, and a side that with the right guidance from someone in charge from above that would have gone from strength to strength. Instead we got a lower league chairman who was despised and ridiculed at his former club Bury for his incomptetance, and ultimately his incomptetance washed over the Blades and was instrumental in commencing the downwards spiral.
The most hurtful thing about all this, is the man at the top, is not giving any leadership, is now showing any direction, and has gone from a high profile media friendly chairman in to a shadowy figure who specture is hanging over the club like a bad smell, and is refusing to come out and put his head over the parapet, and be honest with the supporters and take any kind of blame for some of the decisions that have caused us to falter, and more importantly be honest and tell the dwindling masses 'the buck stops here'.
Welcome to Sheffield United 2011. A place riven with anger, hatred and division. Welcome to a place where all hope has been destroyed to kingdom bastard come. Welcome to Hell.
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