Time for protest, meeting Saturday

[Alfreton14Blade]

That isn't what sitters was doing, he was asking a question. I think setting an objective for a protest is fair enough, essential actually and personally, I don't know what it is or even what it should be.

Four pages to this thread and our natural leader Barney Guevara hasn't told us what we have to do and how to do it. Without his vision and leadership, this protest is going nowhere.....

I think, to be fair, Sitwell was using a rhetorical strategy, rather than posing a question he wanted answered as a basis for him agreeing to any protest. The same applies to the many others who take that stance.

Some don't like protesting, come what may. Fair enough.

Leave it to those that are willing.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

The folk who almost seem happy about the current state of affairs and are apathetic to any protest / action being taken are probably the same people who are responsible for Sheffield being light years behind the likes of Leeds and Manchester. Bout time this take what were given, it is what it is, we've got not more right than anyone else, village mentality was finally fucked off from our collective mindset

You're perfectly entitled to that view, please bear in mind that not everyone may share it.

 

[Damski]

Fair play.

In answer to your question, no & yes. No, in that we're not facing an imminent prospect of relegation to Division Four. Yes, in that two seasons later, after two experienced managers doing their best to overcome the Weir reign (& what went before it), we're entrenched in Division Three & seemingly going backwards. A relegation battle seems every bit as likely a prospect as a promotion assault next season. Without properly funded recruitment over the summer, a relegation battle seems more likely.

I'm sure Adkins will recieve full financial backing over the summer. If not, and we are languishing in mid table midway through the season, then we know who's to blame, don't we.

 

[alcoblade]

So what exactly are we protesting about again? We've got a long term owner who wrote off millions in debt in order to give half the club away to an investor who then financed - in the third tier - the £2m signing of JB, £1m (I'm guessing) for Billy Sharp and the wages / signing fees of numerous other signings. We've also got a board member willing to communicate with fans better than any directoral club rep we've ever had, but we scared him off twitter by harassing him with pointless insults.

Look at the investment in our squad compared to every other team in the division - Investment is NOT the problem, its how its being spent, and responsibility for that lands squarely with Adkins, who walked in the door and signed a glut of strikers and snail-paced midfielders - when what we needed were defenders - while shipping out decent talent.

Who allowed Clough to blow that fortune? Who put them in place?

UTB

 

[Mendi]

Something needs to happen now.

 

[1danewhitehouse]

"Protest protest protest
Sheff United's the team to protest.
With Baxter the junkie
the squad's kinda funky
Our club is a right fucking mess"

To the tune of "follow follow follow"- perhaps on the 6th minute.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

I'm sure Adkins will recieve full financial backing over the summer. If not, and we are languishing in mid table midway through the season, then we know who's to blame, don't we.

I'm nothing like as sure as you about that financial backing this coming summer. Not too sure what your confidence is based on too?

One aim of any protest might be to "encourage" the financial backing that is clearly needed (& to hint that protests wouldn't end there if it wasn't forthcoming).

 

[Sean Thornton]

if we can virtually have an empty ground on 84 minutes then all the better

Really? If you think that's even a possibility you are kidding yourself.

The 84/6 theme doesn't really resonate either.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

The first rule of organising a protest or in this case, a meeting to organise a protest.
Don't advertise it on the most popular Sheffield United message board/forum or any forum SUFC related.

Don't forget you rascals, this is a L1 club, not PL Liverpool or Bundesliga Dortmund, the press interest will be James Shields/Alan Biggs and perhaps 45 secs on either Calendar/Look North.

Hasta La Victoria Siempre.

 

[Esablade]

Dont know but it means that it will be a lot of money for a prospective to buy a half share or a full share for a league one club

..and that's why McCabe has been unable to get rid of the club since first stating that as his intention...

I'm more interested in what happens next, if say for instance, the Prince has spent up what he agreed he'd put in for his initial pound and McCabe won't put any more money into the club?

Stalemate?

 

[Bladesman]

A walk out just before half time or the tennis ball idea is a good one.

Something needs to happen and the club needs to take notice.

That said I assume the lack of season ticket renewals will shock them enough anyway.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Arse Protest !

At the first whistle of the Port Vale game, supporters in all three home stands should be encouraged to stand up, turn around, and bare their arses at the directors' box and/or the pitch.

[Edited out: slanderous and highly actionable suggestions about appropriate tattoos of our absentee benefactors in Belgium and the Gulf--cast as new Marvel villains-- to display on supporters' facing cheeks].

Cessation of Arse Protest to come either when we are no longer arse, or whenever we can no longer be arsed (whichever serving of arse we prefer, as individual members of the Arse Protest).

You won't be allowed to take your camera in you know!

 

[Dkc]

I honestly think the owners want what's best for the club ie promotion. They aren't deliberately running it into the ground. They are charging reasonable prices at the turnstile. They are working with the local community. They have invested in the squad. Unfortunately we just missed out on promotion under Wilson, Clough and Morgan in his caretaker stint. It's not as though we haven't been challenging at the top, just that we've come up short.

I don't think having an owner based in Brussels is necessarily bad either. McCabe spends plenty of time in Sheffield, and sees more games than other clubs' owners do.

Awful decisions, poor signings and bad luck have characterised out time in L1. But I wouldn't put all the entire blame on the owners. I'd also blame the players, the managers, and the Footballing Gods.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Basically a referendum on everything \not a bad idea really but where do draw the line as a fan ,season ticket holder ,blade tattoo ,went to the Port Vale game ?

Blades protests always just make me think of that cunt Brian the Blade in the car park ,or those paedos at Danny wilsons. that's why Im not a protest guy ,don't want to be associated with scum like that.

Sooo.....speaking out about the running of the club likely makes you a paedophile?
That blows Pinchys "If you like long ball then you're a racist" statement out of the water as possibly the most bizarrely fucking ridiculous thing I've seen on here.

 

[nowtfancy]

"Protest protest protest
Sheff United's the team to protest.
With Baxter the junkie
the squad's kinda funky
Our club is a right fucking mess"

To the tune of "follow follow follow"- perhaps on the 6th minute.

plenty more verses available in this format..

with Collins the donkey
the squads gone all wonky

with woolford the snail
our team's bound to fail

with Hammond the statue
we wont have a shot at you



Soz

 

[pommpey]

Anyone involving the press, 442, footballing magazines etc on this?

pommpey

 

[sitwell]

Sooo.....speaking out about the running of the club likely makes you a paedophile?
That blows Pinchys "If you like long ball then you're a racist" statement out of the water as possibly the most bizarrely fucking ridiculous thing I've seen on here.

Unfortunately Tyler the bastard at the front on the pictures was a convicted paedo who made friends with many unsuspecting people on here on social media including myself.

 

[TJB.]

I'm nothing like as sure as you about that financial backing this coming summer. Not too sure what your confidence is based on too?

My confidence is based on the fact that it's pure common sense. If the board want promotion and to make money, as they say they want to do, then it's now or never. Anyone can see the opportunity this summer presents to wipe the slate clean and build a squad worthy of this club. If they don't adequately back Nigel Adkins, they'll fail us, fail their gaffer and fail themselves.

If that happens and they don't cough up, that's the time to take action against the board.

 

[Deleted member 875]

What happens if nobody makes a stand.

The same old excuses?
The best players sold and not replaced year in, year out?
The same level of mismanagement from boardroom level?
The same promises around season ticket renewal time, which are broken as quickly as they are made?
The same 2 absentee owners?

I don't see a widescale protest as the answer yet, what i suggest that will be a better alternative minute, is a concise but salient letter covering a few key bullet points, countersigned by a few infuential supporters with the gravitas to be taken seriously, and for the letter to be published in the local media giving Abdullah and Kevin McCabe the opportunity to answer the questions thrown up by the letter openly and publically.

 

[judge]

Mass protests puts off prospective buyers from taking an interest in this club (I assume it would cost about £30M to buy out McCabe?). How many protests in the club's past has achieved things for the better? Absolutely none!

YOU REALLY ARE SILENT BLADE

 

[Sean Thornton]

What happens if nobody makes a stand.

The same old excuses?
The best players sold and not replaced year in, year out?
The same level of mismanagement from boardroom level?
The same promises around season ticket renewal time, which are broken as quickly as they are made?
The same 2 absentee owners?

I don't see a widescale protest as the answer yet, what i suggest that will be a better alternative minute, is a concise but salient letter covering a few key bullet points, countersigned by a few infuential supporters with the gravitas to be taken seriously, and for the letter to be published in the local media giving Abdullah and Kevin McCabe the opportunity to answer the questions thrown up by the letter openly and publically.

So in effect "New BIFA" run by the latest Bigger Blades?

 

[Deleted member 875]

So in effect "New BIFA" run by the latest Bigger Blades?

In effect yes.

 

[AnotherBlade]

My confidence is based on the fact that it's pure common sense. If the board want promotion and to make money, as they say they want to do, then it's now or never. Anyone can see the opportunity this summer presents to wipe the slate clean and build a squad worthy of this club. If they don't adequately back Nigel Adkins, they'll fail us, fail their gaffer and fail themselves.

If that happens and they don't cough up, that's the time to take action against the board.

Jimbos said it will take 4 transfer windows to rebuild, sorry "right size" therefore we won't be building a completely new shiny squad in one sitting this summer to thunderfuck us into the championship.

To reiterate my point. The board has already promised us we won't fix this in the summer of 2016!!

 

[Tyler Durden]

Unfortunately Tyler the bastard at the front on the pictures was a convicted paedo who made friends with many unsuspecting people on here on social media including myself.

Apologies if that's the case but I'm sure the other hundred or two behind him would be as disgusted to know there was a nonce in their ranks as anyone else. It's a bit of a heavy thing to tar everyone else with by association.
(For the record I thought the Wilson thing was stupid as well, but not the general principal of protest surely?)

 

[Ricky]

Tennis balls on the pitch is the best idea.

But as I've said before, it's very hard to decide and clarify specifically what we're protesting against and what message to use as the official line for the protest.

Despite that though, the tennis ball thing would still be well worth doing. It would attract some attention for sure.

 

[Deleted member 875]

Tennis balls on the pitch is the best idea.

But as I've said before, it's very hard to decide and clarify specifically what we're protesting against and what message to use as the official line for the protest.

Despite that though, the tennis ball thing would still be well worth doing. It would attract some attention for sure.

The Tennis Ball thing wouldn't work as the club would get wind of it, and stop and search everyone going in to the ground and ban anyone found with tennis balls.

 

[Sean Thornton]

In effect yes.

Brilliant. Hands up if you want your picture in the Star.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Hit the board in their pockets.

- Picket line outside the shop encouraging people not to buy merchandise.

- Same for the in stadium catering & International bar

- boycott programmes

Failing that - kick crap out of captain blade and Gary Sinclair

 

[Ricky]

The Tennis Ball thing wouldn't work as the club would get wind of it, and stop and search everyone going in to the ground and ban anyone found with tennis balls.

They couldn't search everyone and they surely couldn't ban anyone for throwing something as harmless as a tennis ball onto the pitch.

 

[Deleted member 875]

They couldn't search everyone and they surely couldn't ban anyone for throwing something as harmless as a tennis ball onto the pitch.

Maybe not everyone, but they could still stop and search a lot of people.

I think even though throwing something as harmless as a tennis ball on the pitch would be illegal and against the law. I'm not 100% of the full legal angle on this but I'm sure it would be breaking some form of law.