Austerity

[Sean Thornton]

I can't get my head round why they're having to put £8m a season in.

Plus the money from selling Murphy, Maguire MacGuire and McGuire.

 

[BusheyBlade]

The past 9 years of Sheffield United condensed:

"We've been relegated from the Premiership and now have to cut our cloth accordingly"

"We've failed to gain promotion from the Championship and therefore with the sale of key assets, we have to cut our cloth accordingly"

"We now have to face the realities of being relegated from the Championship and must cut our cloth accordingly"

"Having failed to gain promotion from League 1, we now must cut our cloth accordingly"


......Do you see where this is going?

You have a piece of cloth with lots of holes in?

 

[The Crab]

You have a piece of cloth with lots of holes in?

Well the back 4 does

 

[Tyler Durden]

Plus the money from selling Murphy, Maguire MacGuire and McGuire.

We'll be fucking loaded once we sell all the McEverley's!

 

[Bladesway]

Without a super-rich owner, then things do look grim. We can all speculate on why things keep going wrong for SUFC, or what was the turning point, but thinking about recent history (for me, anyway), the biggest disaster was not going all-in and getting another in-form, productive striker, to back up Ched Evans. If we had someone else, at the time, who could score on a regular basis, then Ched's impending prison term would not have been the disaster that it was for us.

Other factors came into play of course; McDonald's injury, Maguire's red card, etc., but that season was ours for the taking, and it had to be the Pigs waiting in the wings for us to trip up......

I thought Wilson got Hoskins for that reason? Then he got injured and boom.

 

[Bladesway]

Perhaps I'm being naive, but I don't think that just because we won't have much of a budget should hinder us in challenging for promotion. Indeed we've already accepted that apart from Wigan, all the other teams currently above us, don't have money to throw around either. I would expect the first team squad to be trimmed quite drastically but I would hope the management team are already looking at possible out of contract players from elsewhere and quality long term loans. I think the key is going to be just how good our manager is at doing his job.

Considering how badly we have done with a budget, you could be right.

 

[Grappler]

I thought Wilson got Hoskins for that reason? Then he got injured and boom.

He did, but Hoskins had only scored one goal the previous year, I mean someone who is a 20 goals a season type player, you would have thought with us being in touching distance of automatic promotion that the board would have pushed the boat out and really gone for it.

 

[Rodders]

He did, but Hoskins had only scored one goal the previous year, I mean someone who is a 20 goals a season type player, you would have thought with us being in touching distance of automatic promotion that the board would have pushed the boat out and really gone for it.

We signed Beattie also; granted he turned out to be a sack of shite but no-one on here thought it was a bad signing at the time.

 

[Grappler]

We signed Beattie also; granted he turned out to be a sack of shite but no-one on here thought it was a bad signing at the time.

True. Although feelings were mixed in the crowd of lads I go to the match with, a few thought Beattie could come back and do it (although he had not scored in well over a year), whereas most wanted a young and hungry up-and-coming striker. I thought Beattie might pop one or two in but not the case.

 

[BushBlade]

I thought Wilson got Hoskins for that reason? Then he got injured and boom.

No, he was injured when we signed him but aggravated it.

 

[BushBlade]

We signed Beattie also; granted he turned out to be a sack of shite but no-one on here thought it was a bad signing at the time.

I didn't post on here much at the time. I never thought it would be a good signing, although I hoped it would work out.
I wonder how much we paid him for doing fuck all?

 

[The Crab]

No, he was injured when we signed him but aggravated it.

How many injured footballers must we have bought over the years? We must be the footballing equivalent of someone who buys a 1000 piece Jigsaw at a car boot and actually expects all the pieces to be there.

 

[BushBlade]

True. Although feelings were mixed in the crowd of lads I go to the match with, a few thought Beattie could come back and do it (although he had not scored in well over a year), whereas most wanted a young and hungry up-and-coming striker. I thought Beattie might pop one or two in but not the case.

It was all set for him to be the hero when Ched went down but he fucked it right up. Lazy feckless twat.

 

[The Crab]

I didn't post on here much at the time. I never thought it would be a good signing, although I hoped it would work out.
I wonder how much we paid him for doing fuck all?

I could be wrong, but wasn't he paid on appearances? To be fair, I'd hoped it would work out, ditto Hammond.

 

[The Crab]

It was all set for him to be the hero when Ched went down but he fucked it right up. Lazy feckless twat.

Possibly lazy, but I wonder if it was just that he had headed downhill so rapidly that by the time he came back it was the equivalent of signing me. Fat & fucked in other words.

 

[BushBlade]

Possibly lazy, but I wonder if it was just that he had headed downhill so rapidly that by the time he came back it was the equivalent of signing me. Fat & fucked in other words.

Probably, he didn't like running about much.

 

[The Crab]

Probably, he didn't like running about much.

More like "at all", but then I've some need to talk

 

[Bladesway]

No, he was injured when we signed him but aggravated it.

Not my memory but I could be wrong.

 

[Bladesway]

True. Although feelings were mixed in the crowd of lads I go to the match with, a few thought Beattie could come back and do it (although he had not scored in well over a year), whereas most wanted a young and hungry up-and-coming striker. I thought Beattie might pop one or two in but not the case.

No one could have foreseen how god awful he was.

 

[BushBlade]

I think it was a groin strain that needed operating on at the end of the season but might have held out. As it happened DW played him (out of position I think), presumably to keep him close to match fitness (and I think he was getting pissed off with not playing) while Evans was still a free man and it flared up.

 

[Bartleby]

What lack of team spirit? Who was divisive? The same divided team with no spirit that finished 5th and got to a cup semi final, giving the team that is currently 2nd in the Premiership a real run for its money. Giving their manager by his own admission a real scare and one of the best atmospheres he has ever witnessed? The same manager whose shit brother (according to some) found our best prospect arguably since the Kyles?

I grant you there are seeds of positivity but let's not start making shit up about the previous manager. Most of us didn't want him sacked in the first place.

I'm not making up shit, I'm giving my view based on what I have seen happen to my team.

I'd say Clough was divisive - quite literally as in we appeared to have a squad divided after the 2014/15 preseason with some players ostracised (one of whom, Butler, had barely even played for us).

Couldn't give a shit about his cup runs while we languish in L1.

I wasn't one of those calling for him to go but I wasn't happy when he was appointed- good player in his time but his record as a manager is poor IMO.

 

[Balham]

I think it was a groin strain that needed operating on at the end of the season but might have held out. As it happened DW played him (out of position I think), presumably to keep him close to match fitness (and I think he was getting pissed off with not playing) while Evans was still a free man and it flared up.

Wasn't it a hernia? Either way, it wasn't the best of luck and combined with Beattie's utter lack of professionalism at Exeter on the last day it meant we went into another play-off final with no forwards to speak of.

 

[BushBlade]

Wasn't it a hernia? Either way, it wasn't the best of luck and combined with Beattie's utter lack of professionalism at Exeter on the last day it meant we went into another play-off final with no forwards to speak of.

Yeah probably.