So how did the protest go?

[Treeton Blade]

Did any of you actually go through with it? What did you do? Shoes off in the car park? Leave on 21 minutes? Shouting "BASTARDS" a few times at the director's box?

Well whatever you did, I watched the whole thing. We were better, only just, but we were better. Blades played a lot more directly and created chances. They scored with one. You'd have missed it if you were protesting. Billy Sharp bagged an absolute banging strike and we won 1-0. You'd have also missed the fine defensive display in the final 15 to keep a clean sheet when Vale were pressing for an equaliser that a few weeks ago (Swindon) we'd have conceded.

There was development. There was progress. In small ways. There's a lot of improvement to go before we're promotion material. But it was a good result. Now we're 7th, 4 points off the play-off pace. What are you lot protesting about, again?

Went round after the game, to see how the protest was going

 

[blade too long]

Wow!!!!!!!!
You'd actually do anything to belittle Uniteds fans as well as the club wouldn't you ?

How wonderful it must be to never have any dreams, hopes or ambitions

If you're going to use statistics like that well then Arsenal only getting 60,000 out of a population of 15 million is pretty shit

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-31082941

15 million, eh , do you calculate wednesdays away crowds

its adding some reality to it

we get bigger crowds than most league one clubs shock is down purely to the fact we have a much bigger audience
its a FACT ,
We got 30000 in 2006, because we can
if crewe got in the prem theyd struggle to get 10k

this is why gates are meaningless
Bournemouth got there and get 10k , why
population in Bournemouth only can raise that many

how does it belittle the club
we are in uks 4th or 5th depending on your view point biggest city
be dreadfull and belittling if we only got 11000

but we will get bigger gates than teams in towns a quarter or less of our size
so getting 18000 20000 doesnt give us any advantage at all

Arsenal share London , with spurs, chelsea, qpr orient brentford palace charlton barnet dagenham fulham west ham millwall
I did put we share sheffield with wednesday

gates are dependant on simple geography
I dont knock our gates but 18000 is commensurate with our population , nothing else

 

[PeteBlade]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-31082941

15 million, eh , do you calculate wednesdays away crowds

its adding some reality to it

we get bigger crowds than most league one clubs shock is down purely to the fact we have a much bigger audience
its a FACT ,
We got 30000 in 2006, because we can
if crewe got in the prem theyd struggle to get 10k

this is why gates are meaningless
Bournemouth got there and get 10k , why
population in Bournemouth only can raise that many

how does it belittle the club
we are in uks 4th or 5th depending on your view point biggest city
be dreadfull and belittling if we only got 11000

but we will get bigger gates than teams in towns a quarter or less of our size
so getting 18000 20000 doesnt give us any advantage at all

Arsenal share London , with spurs, chelsea, qpr orient brentford palace charlton barnet dagenham fulham west ham millwall
I did put we share sheffield with wednesday

gates are dependant on simple geography
I dont knock our gates but 18000 is commensurate with our population , nothing else

The absolute last thing you do is add reality.

Our crowds don't give us an advantage?? No sensible person could say this with a straight face.

Tell us again how our budget is the same as Crewe's because of extra stewarding

 

[More Bladier than thou]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-31082941

15 million, eh , do you calculate wednesdays away crowds

its adding some reality to it

we get bigger crowds than most league one clubs shock is down purely to the fact we have a much bigger audience
its a FACT ,
We got 30000 in 2006, because we can
if crewe got in the prem theyd struggle to get 10k

this is why gates are meaningless
Bournemouth got there and get 10k , why
population in Bournemouth only can raise that many

how does it belittle the club
we are in uks 4th or 5th depending on your view point biggest city
be dreadfull and belittling if we only got 11000

but we will get bigger gates than teams in towns a quarter or less of our size
so getting 18000 20000 doesnt give us any advantage at all

Arsenal share London , with spurs, chelsea, qpr orient brentford palace charlton barnet dagenham fulham west ham millwall
I did put we share sheffield with wednesday

gates are dependant on simple geography
I dont knock our gates but 18000 is commensurate with our population , nothing else

You forgot luton town and wimbledon

 

[blade too long]

Tell us again how our budget is the same as Crewe's because of extra stewarding

yes very selecrtive , pick out one thing from the list just forget the staff the insurances the rates the police and everything else that is on a larger scale

trouble is you only ever argue using a ridiculous selected premise

its impossible to have a sensible discussion as you pick bits out , and try and look clever
failing miserably

 

[blade too long]

You forgot luton town and wimbledon

ill add wimbledon , but luton naah

 

[PeteBlade]

yes very selecrtive , pick out one thing from the list just forget the staff the insurances the rates the police and everything else that is on a larger scale

trouble is you only ever argue using a ridiculous selected premise

its impossible to have a sensible discussion as you pick bits out , and try and look clever
failing miserably

I picked them out at the time as nonsense. I still say they are nonsense because they are.

You make a variety of daft statements and then when picked up on them you change your mind and pretend you didn't say them.

This week it's demeaning the amount of fans we get due to some random statistics you found on the Internet and telling someone who attended our match how they were wrong in their opinion of how we played using some March reports that didn't say what you claimed they said.

No doubt you'll have denied saying it next week.

 

[blade too long]

whats daft about comparing us and crewe to having different running costs
we are a the eqivalent of a sainsburys superstore and all its costs compared to Crewe who by comparison have the running costs of a corner shop

its simple enough to see

I didnt say his opinion was wrong , just differed from 4 paper reports I read
you know like if I put black you put white
Its what you do
and here you are telling me off for it

 

[PeteBlade]

whats daft about comparing us and crewe to having different running costs
we are a the eqivalent of a sainsburys superstore and all its costs compared to Crewe who by comparison have the running costs of a corner shop

its simple enough to see

I didnt say his opinion was wrong , just differed from 4 paper reports I read
you know like if I put black you put white
Its what you do
and here you are telling me off for it

You said ours and Crewe's budgets were the same after policing, stewarding etc are taken into account. I said that was incorrect and I still say this was incorrect.

You told someone that the BBC article you read said we'd beaten Port Vale comfortably and that person added a link to the same article which proved it didn't.

I also countered the latest claim that you've made that our attendances are purely down to the size of our city.

There's a big difference between arguing black is white and challenging complete nonsense.

I'm challenging complete nonsense.

 

[blade too long]

You said ours and Crewe's budgets were the same after policing, stewarding etc are taken into account. I said that was incorrect and I still say this was incorrect.

You told someone that the BBC article you read said we'd beaten Port Vale comfortably and that person added a link to the same article which proved it didn't.

I also countered the latest claim that you've made that our attendances are purely down to the size of our city.

There's a big difference between arguing black is white and challenging complete nonsense.

I'm challenging complete nonsense.

your the master of mis quotes
I said we made a bigger loss as our costs are greater
so you are utterly mis quoting

I said pro rata they end up l evelling out , per centage wise
but never once said they were the same

you are master of misquotes
or just utterly incompetant reader

 

[PeteBlade]

your the master of mis quotes
I said we made a bigger loss as our costs are greater
so you are utterly mis quoting

I said pro rata they end up l evelling out , per centage wise
but never once said they were the same

you are master of misquotes
or just utterly incompetant reader

Lots of people seem to "misquote" you.

That's odd.

 

[bricktop]

The thing, there was talks of protest and deep unhappiness running through the club.

Kevin McCabe flys back, does some local media, and no doubt will have had a good look at what has been happening around the club, and probably spoken in person to some key personnel, and then we saw a 1-0 win on Saturday.

I think from the clubs perspective, is that reaching the play offs this season will be a bonus rather than a minimum requirement now, and the sole objective of the rest of the season will be trimming the squad down in preparation for next season as this seasons squad has been awful, top heavy and without anywhere near the desired quality to make a sustained promotion push, although the club won't be admitting that this season is almost already a write off.

 

[frechyblade]

There may not have been any protest on Saturday but I think there was certainly an undercurrent of unrest. With some fans waiting for a mistake or an excuse to moan. One prat on gangway B was screaming abuse as the team tried to keep possession knocking the ball sideways, about the need for them to 'lump it forward' as soon as someone did that and it went out of play he was screaming for them to keep the ball!

From my point of view, it was an improvement on recent weeks, though that is not difficult. I thought Hammond had his best game, involved in most of the best chances we created. I think Basham is a benefit to the team at CB as he can bring the ball out of defence with a lot more pace than either Collins or Edgar. Brayford isn't the same player we had, if McEverley had made the mistakes and misplaced passes Brayford did early on there would have been more complaints. Sharp took his goal well and Adams had one of his better recent games, he was unlucky with his turn in the second half to be adjudged to have fouled their fullback.
As I said a small improvement, that game is now gone the next one is now the important one and we need to hope that we continue to see the same improvement.

I hope any protest that the fans are planning happens outside of the 90 minutes. Look what happened at Anfield when a protest takes place during a game it can become a distraction and I don't want the club to be able to apportion any blame on our fans.

Ramble over!

UTB

 

[Sean Thornton]

Lots of people seem to "misquote" you.

That's odd.

Have a look at his current avatar. He's either downsized since he showed us a photo of his big TV or the dogs got his own room!

 

[flash-blade]

Did any of you actually go through with it? What did you do? Shoes off in the car park? Leave on 21 minutes? Shouting "BASTARDS" a few times at the director's box?

Well whatever you did, I watched the whole thing. We were better, only just, but we were better. Blades played a lot more directly and created chances. They scored with one. You'd have missed it if you were protesting. Billy Sharp bagged an absolute banging strike and we won 1-0. You'd have also missed the fine defensive display in the final 15 to keep a clean sheet when Vale were pressing for an equaliser that a few weeks ago (Swindon) we'd have conceded.

There was development. There was progress. In small ways. There's a lot of improvement to go before we're promotion material. But it was a good result. Now we're 7th, 4 points off the play-off pace. What are you lot protesting about, again?

There was no protest planned on Saturday, keep up, just a meeting to discuss what we can do as concerned fans, we have decided to put off any future protest until we mathematically cannot go up so's not to add to problems in the board and changing rooms. We are seeking to sit down with the board and air our concerns and also seek some dialogue on how the club plans to take us forward with a clear, structured and organised way forward and not willy-nilly knee jerk reactions as in the past. If you are that happy with a 1-0 win over Port Vale you feel the need to post something so condescending then maybe you are happy with how the club has been run over the past 7 years and our also happy with our alarming decline. You will also be happy with a 6th and maybe 7th year in league one, don't slag off fans who are trying to do something positive. You can reply to this but I won't, I've read through your posts and to be honest your not worth the time.

 

[Sean Thornton]

There was no protest planned on Saturday, keep up, just a meeting to discuss what we can do as concerned fans, we have decided to put off any future protest until we mathematically cannot go up so's not to add to problems in the board and changing rooms. We are seeking to sit down with the board and air our concerns and also seek some dialogue on how the club plans to take us forward with a clear, structured and organised way forward and not willy-nilly knee jerk reactions as in the past. If you are that happy with a 1-0 win over Port Vale you feel the need to post something so condescending then maybe you are happy with how the club has been run over the past 7 years and our also happy with our alarming decline. You will also be happy with a 6th and maybe 7th year in league one, don't slag off fans who are trying to do something positive. You can reply to this but I won't, I've read through your posts and to be honest your not worth the time.

I thought it was clear it was a meeting in Fannys for interested parties and not a planned protest. It was in fairly plain language and mooted an idea and asked for comments.

Postponing further action as you said above is, IMO , a good idea.

Did you get much feedback Saturday?

 

[Tyler Durden]

I was at the meeting, left early due to prior engagements.

It's a sign of the potential power of the supporters that the first tentative rumblings of discontent have prompted McCabes re-emergence into the spotlight, even if some of us do feel the statement was a bit lacking.

Whether people agree with any protest action or not is their perogative, but let's have a bit less of the smarmy jibes and the mocking of those who are trying to effect a positive change with the little power they have at their disposal.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I was at the meeting, left early due to prior engagements.

It's a sign of the potential power of the supporters that the first tentative rumblings of discontent have prompted McCabes re-emergence into the spotlight, even if some of us do feel the statement was a bit lacking.

Whether people agree with any protest action or not is their perogative, but let's have a bit less of the smarmy jibes and the mocking of those who are trying to effect a positive change with the little power they have at their disposal.

It's no coincidence that he gave interviews after seeing a hell of a lot of clapper types - myself included - start to kick up a fuss, and in increasing numbers. He'll have both eyes on next seasons gate money. Him and the Prince are likely to need more than £8 million to keep the cart on the rails.

But let's not worry, there's money there for when we get promoted.

 

[Worksop II]

with the little power they have at their disposal.

Very shortly the SUFC will be sending out Season Ticket renewals, McCabe wants yer money

Every ticket sold means its £350 - 400 he dont have to find, I would imagine Kev is paying attention ............. at the moment

 

[Jon Bon]

I was at the meeting, left early due to prior engagements.

Meadowhall with your lass..?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Meadowhall with your lass..?

Nah, got rid of that problem months ago.

 

[Treeton Blade]

Nah, got rid of that problem months ago.

Meadowhall, or your lass?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Meadowhall, or your lass?

Our Gert. So no more looking round Marks and Sparks on a weekend pretending to give a shit about new bedding and cushion covers for me.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Our Gert. So no more looking round Marks and Sparks on a weekend pretending to give a shit about new bedding and cushion covers for me.

I've been married for nearly 30 years and still don't understand why people with front bottoms care so much about soft furnishings or are so readily prepared to spend so much money on them.

Last time I was dragged around John Lewis and had to feign interest in bedding, towels and cushions, I literally laughed out loud at prices several times.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

I've been married for nearly 30 years and still don't understand why people with front bottoms care so much about soft furnishings or are so readily prepared to spend so much money on them.

Last time I was dragged around John Lewis and had to feign interest in bedding, towels and cushions, I literally laughed out loud at prices several times.

....never knowingly undersold

 

[west_yorks_blade]

....never knowingly undersold

Which is surprising when you can pay £100 for a scatter cushion there (what ever that means).

 

[flash-blade]

I thought it was clear it was a meeting in Fannys for interested parties and not a planned protest. It was in fairly plain language and mooted an idea and asked for comments.

Postponing further action as you said above is, IMO , a good idea.

Did you get much feedback Saturday?

It was just that but some people think we were going to storm the lane, tie McCabe up and fire pint pots at his noodle, see OP.

I tried to talk to everyone who was there, those that wanted to have a say anyhow. We've got to be careful we don't make a bad situation worse or give the board, players, manager an excuse for failure by being able to apportion blame on the fans, Adkins has already had a couple of digs. So with that in mind fellow Blade we have decided to back the club until the inevitable happens. In the meantime we have requested to sit down with the board to discuss, if we get a date we will invite the people who attended on Saturday to a meeting to discuss what questions we need to be asking, to me there's plenty but as a group we need to maybe get 10 main points of concern across and find out what the clubs board plan to do going forward. We will then look at things from there, one thing that was clear at the meeting, people are hurting and angry at the last 7 years of decline, that's because they love the club and want progress just as much as OP guy, probably more.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

front bottoms

not heard that phrase in donkeys years - made me smile

UTB

 

[flash-blade]

I was at the meeting, left early due to prior engagements.

It's a sign of the potential power of the supporters that the first tentative rumblings of discontent have prompted McCabes re-emergence into the spotlight, even if some of us do feel the statement was a bit lacking.

Whether people agree with any protest action or not is their perogative, but let's have a bit less of the smarmy jibes and the mocking of those who are trying to effect a positive change with the little power they have at their disposal.

Hi mate, thanks for coming, keep your eye out in case we get the go ahead to meet the board as everyone who made the effort to turn up will be invited to discuss what we want to ask the board and everyone can contribute. McCabe spoke on Saturday as a result of building unrest, whether the fans believe his words or not, at least he spoke as the silence has been deafening. One thing, the board is 100% split and he said it wasn't, I know he can't really say any different but once I heard that the rest of his words meant nothing.

 

[flash-blade]

Very shortly the SUFC will be sending out Season Ticket renewals, McCabe wants yer money

Every ticket sold means its £350 - 400 he dont have to find, I would imagine Kev is paying attention ............. at the moment

He will also have to stump up 7m per season if the Prince pull out so he'll sit up now for sure.