What a load of utter shit.
The fans are hurting and without a clear and coherent message from the club, people will make up their own mind - often based on half-truth, rumour and myth.
So why not come out from under the stone and issue a statement, backed up by facts, to dispel the myth? Your assumptions are on face value, as vague as you assume ours are. Let's hear the fat lady sing, eh?
When things are bad - and let's all be honest, they are dire right now - it's natural to look for someone to blame. Most supporters, for now, seem reluctant to blame Adkins, so the players and the owners get it instead.
Why should we blame Adkins? He's had half a season, his predecessor little more. During that time we have seen several players fuck off for undisclosed sums (unless you know how much?) and nothing to replace them but dross. We are still underpowered in central defence. Is that Adkins fault? Clough's? Who has been at the club throughout this? Oh yeah, shit players and McCabe. Go figure.
McCabe seems to be getting a lot of stick - much of which seems unjustified and based on the aforementioned myths and rumours.
Really?
Really? Can I point out our league position seven years ago and our league position, right now. Who do you think we should blame for that decline over a number of years, managers and players? The only consistent feature has been us ... and by us I say that vicariously because the poor bastards who buy season tickets must want some answers ... and McCabe. Where is the myth and rumour surrounding us currently being in such shit state, Boho?
Before any bandwagon aimed at his removal gathers pace, there are a few things we should remember:
Oh, boy ...
- his family have put around £90m to the club in chasing the dream.
What fucking dream? stand on your tiptoes and have a look back at 'the dream' ... our 'dream' and what it looks like. You tell me if that was ninety million well spent. You tell me if despite the unsubstantiated figure you come out with (and I think it's a bit iffy) the abject selling of our best players, year on year has offset somewhat the figure you allude as an investment of game changing proportions. I'll match you, pound for pound. In fact, let's start off with the parachute payments and the Tevez money as a head start on my side, shall we?
- despite rumours to the contrary he continues to invest alongside the Prince (I understand another £8m this season alone)
Show me your references, and your working out. Offset that how much we are set to lose by selling Murphy and shitting up the promotion drive and staying in this division next season. Or are you working off the same set of 'myths'?
- he is first and foremost a supporter, who actually cares about the club (pretty rare nowadays)
Again, I refute that. Yes, we'd like to believe he is a Blade. Sure, he has allegiances. But are we to believe that is simply 'business'? If he were that much of a supporter, why did he fuck up our central defence and sell Maguire? Why take away our best goal threat and attacking menace by flogging Murphy? Why give us 'undisclosed' and fail to replace? Supporter? No. I say, 'stakeholder' and a massive one at that. The material stuff he has cornered is safe as. We are now powerless to remove him and influence him. Phipps draws the fire by his Twitter naiveity, Adkins gets the touchline heartache, the players get booed and feel like cunts. McCabe is sat in Belgium, silent and inert. Don't tell me he supports Sheffield United.
The last two managers (both popular appointments amongst supporters) have been backed financially and given plenty of scope to make their own decisions. The current team cost around £4m in transfer fees and we must have the biggest wage bill after 'parachuting Wigan.'
Again, the figures don't match your rhetoric. This current team 'cost' fuck all and is 'valued' at less than that. If you are saying they cost £4m, where is your working out? Show me their today value on the transfer market and show me who would buy a gak-cranking failure, a shower of centre backs who really should just retire and buy a van, a front line based on a bloke who is Mr Third Division and the rest of the sad, sorry shower of inepts and failueres who make up our playing staff. Don't give me 'cost around'. Show me what they are worth now. That is your measure.
I'm not saying mistakes haven't been made, including by McCabe, but he is not the reason we're under-performing at present. We probably need him more than ever right now.
For what? To deny a proven manger the playing staff resources to get us out of this dismal state? To sit in impotent silence in another country failing to answer his critics directly save by a naïve, crestfallen Yank who has no idea how this big-city club feels looking across at their enemies up in the north of the city brushing their luck against the big time? I say he should fuck off ... but we know he won't being as, blindsided to us, he has stoofed so much Wonga into the investable, non-playing, lucrative, non-footballing side of SUFC, we'd need a tactical nuclear device to dislodge the twat. He has done us all ... the club, the footballers and the supporters and now we are slowly stagnating as a footballing entity, whilst his real estate portfolio gathers momentum. All he has to do is flog the odd bit of talent to maintain the football club and pretend he's behind the club until the season ticket deadline is over, and its ker-fucking-ching, another year sweeps by where he wont have to augment the playing staff in another higher division and his value of the assets increases.
If you are speaking up for the bellend, good luck. I don't share your blindness, forgiveness and optimism. McCabe has presided over a long period of more downs than ups and we are now heading one way with now method to arrest it. You stand accountable for that by your acceptance of his horseshit policy.
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