Selles Blades

[Sean Thornton]

Burnley have done ok, the last twice in the Championship. Massive overall of the squads each time and promoted each time.
It can be done providing the player's buy into the new system and are positive about it.
If player's can't play or buy into the system they need to be moved on.
Style of football last season was dire at times.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

If we get 20 less points than last season and finish 6th but I actually enjoy watching United next season, I'll be a happy Blade.

Too many times last season, I was bored shitless by Wilderball 2.0, the lack of atmosphere in the stands at the Lane had a lot to do with the turgid football being played on the pitch.

A high pressing, aggressive team that scores more than 1 goal per game, might get the place rocking again.

Basically the football we witnessed with Wilder first time around & the reason why the atmosphere was so good back then

 

[Carlton Blade]

I'm not worried about the lack of signings...











It's a Selles market

 

[Lupa The Noa]

The dressing room wasn’t fantastically unified throughout last season and not all of the players loved playing for Wilder. Professional players have to get used to being managed by very different personality types, otherwise their careers won’t last very long.

Agreed about last season, but as for players getting used to managers: I think a lack of cooperation by just a couple of the main heads in the dressing room can lead to a manager falling much earlier than he deserves. Might actually help that Souza has moved on [if he has]

 

[Silky Sabella]

I love the way he says the new owners modern approach has ripped the DNA out of this club. Is he acknowledging that we're an old school club, who were run the old school way, where we had an old school manager with an old school approach? Maybe this old school journalist needs to wake up and live in the present and realise that nostalgia wins you nothing and refusing to change will always leave you behind. Football has moved forward and Sheffield United hasn't.

Absolutely BRILLIANT T K Spot On

 

[Valleyblade]

Having a multilingual fashionable sounding foreign coach who doesn't get an arse on when you're eating a sandwich can only be a good thing.

VAR hates Wilder. It cost him an away win at spurs, a chance of European qualification at villa (look at them fuckers now) and a promotion at Wembley. And probably some others.

Now we have Ruben, VAR will prefer that, to Chris.

 

[I should coco]

Having a multilingual fashionable sounding foreign coach who doesn't get an arse on when you're eating a sandwich can only be a good thing.

VAR hates Wilder. It cost him an away win at spurs, a chance of European qualification at villa (look at them fuckers now) and a promotion at Wembley. And probably some others.

Now we have Ruben, VAR will prefer that, to Chris.

There's no VAR in the Championship.

 

[ATL Recs]

I love the way he says the new owners modern approach has ripped the DNA out of this club. Is he acknowledging that we're an old school club, who were run the old school way, where we had an old school manager with an old school approach? Maybe this old school journalist needs to wake up and live in the present and realise that nostalgia wins you nothing and refusing to change will always leave you behind. Football has moved forward and Sheffield United hasn't.

Spot on

 

[luffenhamblade]

There's no VAR in the Championship.

With one very important exception!

 

[Dkc]

Wonder if we'd have employed a bloke with a similar record at Reading and Hull if he was named Robert Sellers, overweight and from Grimsby

 

[Nick Jansky]

Wonder if we'd have employed a bloke with a similar record at Reading and Hull if he was named Robert Sellers, overweight and from Grimsby

It might depend if he also had the rest of Selles’ CV, not just the Reading & Hull parts.

 

[ITALIANO BLADE]

play 433 and win

 

[ITALIANO BLADE]

he is gonna WIN every game yes he is

 

[Youngand70]

There's no VAR in the Championship.

Vote by Premiership clubs last year went 19-1 for keeping VAR.

 

[bertieblade]

Vote by Premiership clubs last year went 19-1 for keeping VAR.

Just shows how bent the premier league is.

 

[Bell4]

Wonder if we'd have employed a bloke with a similar record at Reading and Hull if he was named Robert Sellers, overweight and from Grimsby

Er….mmmm….er ….have you got this persons email , only he sounds right up my street, so to speak

 

[Silky Sabella]

So Ruben is doing exactly what all the pro - wilder supporters didn't want:
* Creating an inspiring pre season camp
* Getting player's excited and motivated
* Podcasts from players such as O 'Hare who has confirmed the positivity.of what Ruben is doing.
* Ruben saying Hamer looking and conveying being settled and happy

Happy days, Wembley long gone

 

[BigBed]

Gone 7-12th, fucking hope I'm wrong, but the window so far isn't changing my mind.

 

[TJ blade]

Wembleys not gone for me sadly! .... still can't get that fckg back pass from Moore out of my head ffs!

 

[FriethBlade]

Gone 7-12th, fucking hope I'm wrong, but the window so far isn't changing my mind.

Main thing about the window so far is we've only lost Souza. If it stays like that and all we do is fill our quota of loan players we will be in a good position.

However id bet anything u like we sign at least 2 players of 'our own' to add to that.

 

[BigBed]

Main thing about the window so far is we've only lost Souza. If it stays like that and all we do is fill our quota of loan players we will be in a good position.

However id bet anything u like we sign at least 2 players of 'our own' to add to that.

Hopefully, but the data thing seems to be the main focus at the moment, and thats a total unknown, as are the players we've brought in from it.
Hopefully we can replace Souza, and get atleast 1 CB in, but I think we all know we need more and better than we currently have in several positions.... not to mention needing wingers, which we don't have, and Selles is known to prefer using, so that's another 4 players there.....
Long way to go yet i suppose.

 

[luffenhamblade]

So Ruben is doing exactly what all the pro - wilder supporters didn't want:
* Creating an inspiring pre season camp
* Getting player's excited and motivated
* Podcasts from players such as O 'Hare who has confirmed the positivity.of what Ruben is doing.
* Ruben saying Hamer looking and conveying being settled and happy

Happy days, Wembley long gone

Why exactly would Wilder supporters not want that? Really says something about how much you hate the guy. The fans are Blades and support the manager and the club not the person. This is the issue we have with those who are so wedded to one extreme - please calm down.

 

[Silky Sabella]

Why exactly would Wilder supporters not want that? Really says something about how much you hate the guy. The fans are Blades and support the manager and the club not the person. This is the issue we have with one who are so wedded to one extreme - please calm brigade come back in down.

Yes, I do dislike wilder on a massive scale ( not based on football, just his endless pathetic, childish antics). There have been numerous members on this forum after wilder was sacked that made it clear that they hoped Ruben Selles failed, so that is my point, and like I said in one of my previous posts, I hope when Selles's is proving a success, all the pro wilder, anti Selles brigade come back on here and eat humble pie !

 

[Nick Jansky]

Yes, I do dislike wilder on a massive scale ( not based on football, just his endless pathetic, childish antics). There have been numerous members on this forum after wilder was sacked that made it clear that they hoped Ruben Selles failed, so that is my point, and like I said in one of my previous posts, I hope when Selles's is proving a success, all the pro wilder, anti Selles brigade come back on here and eat humble pie !

I don’t think I’ve seen any Wilder fan boys saying they hope Selles fails, certainly not on here (although I think Twitter, which I don’t use, might be a bit different, but people on that cesspit don’t count).

I’ve seen people on here questioning whether Selles is the right choice, and that’s entirely fair. But we won’t know on that one until Christmas. There are a few premature ejaculators who already expect him to fail, but that’s ok. Negative people (they would call themselves realists) have always been with us and, although I would hate to be them, it’s allowed.

In fact the worst thing I’ve seen on here is people calling for Wilder chants at matches, which is not supportive of the club in any way. Those are the true cretins, but we’ll see what happens.

But, on the whole, I think it’s settled down and people are beginning to move on. After all, virtually all of us want the same thing, which is success for the club.

I’m guessing the next big debate will be whether or not what we are watching next season represents “success” and how we define that. If we aren’t in the top two by Christmas I expect a tsunami of toys to come hurtling out of prams, but sadly that’s the nature of our fanbase these days, which is diminished in terms of spine & character, and we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

 

[FriethBlade]

I don’t think I’ve seen any Wilder fan boys saying they hope Selles fails, certainly not on here (although I think Twitter, which I don’t use, might be a bit different, but people on that cesspit don’t count).

I’ve seen people on here questioning whether Selles is the right choice, and that’s entirely fair. But we won’t know on that one until Christmas. There are a few premature ejaculators who already expect him to fail, but that’s ok. Negative people (they would call themselves realists) have always been with us and, although I would hate to be them, it’s allowed.

In fact the worst thing I’ve seen on here is people calling for Wilder chants at matches, which is not supportive of the club in any way. Those are the true cretins, but we’ll see what happens.

But, on the whole, I think it’s settled down and people are beginning to move on. After all, virtually all of us want the same thing, which is success for the club.

I’m guessing the next big debate will be whether or not what we are watching next season represents “success” and how we define that. If we aren’t in the top two by Christmas I expect a tsunami of toys to come hurtling out of prams, but sadly that’s the nature of our fanbase these days, which is diminished in terms of spine & character, and we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

I think the mood will partly be determined by the actions of the board. If they have been seen to be supportive to the manager on the transfer market I think there will be some leeway. If however we raise a fair bit of money, dont spend much of it and make a bad start thst will be fuel to the naysayers.

I think the board could help themselves here by being slightly more communicative. It's been a massive 12 months with new owners who are totally unproven and the severing of ties with a through and through Blade. So its not really surprising that there is some worry about the future.

 

[Bladesman]

Cheers Alan!

 

[Silky Sabella]

Cheers Alan!

Stop being clouded by an "Has been journalist" who also can't move on. The Failure, The Has Been has gone!. Please send a post saying you support Ruben, because he is now SHEFFIELD UNITED.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Hopefully, but the data thing seems to be the main focus at the moment, and thats a total unknown, as are the players we've brought in from it.
Hopefully we can replace Souza, and get atleast 1 CB in, but I think we all know we need more and better than we currently have in several positions.... not to mention needing wingers, which we don't have, and Selles is known to prefer using, so that's another 4 players there.....
Long way to go yet i suppose.

I don't necessarily think the data driven recruitment is the focus at the moment as there seems to be two entities.

Data driven recruitment to find and unearth potential gems who can be coached and developed into first team players over a couple of seasons.

Then there's recruitment for the first team now.

I think the main reason we haven't seen many arrive yet for the first team is because Selles wants to assess the whole squad over a couple of matches to work out what he has and hasn't got to work with and who is capable of playing his way. Then he'll start recruiting players.

After today's match he'll have had two games to assess his squad and I'm sure we'll start seeing new players through the door, hopefully more permanent than loans.

 

[Keen Blade]

On her face?!?

Ooh , you ARE awful ... but I like you

 

[BigBed]

I don't necessarily think the data driven recruitment is the focus at the moment as there seems to be two entities.

Data driven recruitment to find and unearth potential gems who can be coached and developed into first team players over a couple of seasons.

Then there's recruitment for the first team now.

I think the main reason we haven't seen many arrive yet for the first team is because Selles wants to assess the whole squad over a couple of matches to work out what he has and hasn't got to work with and who is capable of playing his way. Then he'll start recruiting players.

After today's match he'll have had two games to assess his squad and I'm sure we'll start seeing new players through the door, hopefully more permanent than loans.

Fingers crossed, but he must know we're short in the middle and defence already??
I expect he will go for Alzate at Ull, to come in for Souza, but it would be nice for COH to show some ambition, and get the positions filled perm with 2 players that are on the periphery of prem sides, that can step up, should we go up!
The deal for Phillips from Spurs has gone very quiet aswell.......
That said, hopefully we get some banging loans in the 3 spaces we have left, and get some of our own players loaned out, to build their ability and experience in the game.