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That team when Blackwell took over was superb for a spell, real front foot stuff and played some good footy. Then we reverted to some terrible percentage based, grind it out stuff.

Interesting that no-one actually bothered to speak to the player and say anything like ‘can we hang on, win the league and then talk about it when we’re in the Prem’. I think McCabe had seriously overspent and shit himself as the next couple of years was a huge downsizing exercise while trying to remain competitive. Crazy not to try and finish one of the best chances we had of actually going up though.
 
diplomat said:
That team when Blackwell took over was superb for a spell, real front foot stuff and played some good footy. Then we reverted to some terrible percentage based, grind it out stuff.

Interesting that no-one actually bothered to speak to the player and say anything like ‘can we hang on, win the league and then talk about it when we’re in the Prem’. I think McCabe had seriously overspent and shit himself as the next couple of years was a huge downsizing exercise while trying to remain competitive. Crazy not to try and finish one of the best chances we had of actually going up though.
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Same scenario for the Prince under Hecky but he flipped the coin and gambled. The stakes were higher for the prince at that point too.
 
diplomat said:
That team when Blackwell took over was superb for a spell, real front foot stuff and played some good footy. Then we reverted to some terrible percentage based, grind it out stuff.

Interesting that no-one actually bothered to speak to the player and say anything like ‘can we hang on, win the league and then talk about it when we’re in the Prem’. I think McCabe had seriously overspent and shit himself as the next couple of years was a huge downsizing exercise while trying to remain competitive. Crazy not to try and finish one of the best chances we had of actually going up though.
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We done the same in 97 odds on to get promoted , we sell Seane to benfica and han Aage.. at least the Prince didn't bottle it with hecky
 
Fine margins...

96/97 lost in the PO Final
97/98 lost in the PO's
02/03 lost in the PO Final
03/04 2 points & GD off PO's
04/05 6 points & GD off PO's (after picking up 2 points from last 5 games)
05/06 Promoted
06/07 Relegated on GD
07/08 3 points & GD off PO's
08/09 3 points off automatic. Lost v. Pigs at home. Lost in the PO Final (Lost to Burnley twice in league & once in PO final).
09/10 5 points & GD off PO's
10/11 Relegated
11/12 3 points off automatic. Lost in PO Final
12/13 lost in the PO's
14/15 lost in the PO's
 
Millhousesblade1889 said:
Same scenario for the Prince under Hecky but he flipped the coin and gambled. The stakes were higher for the prince at that point too.
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The thing with McCabe's downsizing is that it failed anyway. We went down with a top end Champ budget and failed to come back up with one.

In Beeby's book McCabe explains how the wider economic downturn impacted Sheffield United and the whole post Prem promotion strategy. In the end we were like a dog chasing its tail. Everything was ad hoc, short term, reactive. Even the cost cutting strategy was undermined by league position: expensive failed loan after failed loan to try to stave it off. Managerial changes. When McCabe had run out of personal capital he was happy (key word "happy") to gamble he should've got out imo.This was the point where he gave the interview in which he said the club had to be sustainable. A pipe dream even then. Blackwell knew the writing was on the wall at Wembley when he basically handed in a public resignation in his interview. In the end the PA situation was born out out of this. A quick, short term cash injection for shares temporarily removing the burden from KM...
 
It was rumoured that Everton let Beattie go as he was a disruptive influence and they picked up a great proportion of his wages. When the time came for us to pay all of it McCabe let him go.
Flu my ass
 
Remember the excitement and optimism when BT signed.

For the first time for years we had a proven quality striker for a substantial (record) fee and he would probably have fired us back to the PL imo.

McCabe lost his nerve and cashed in and we went back to loan players and freebies.
 
There was a time Beattie lived round the corner from me. I would hear him arriving on the road in his purple Lamborghini with "B3AT5" or something similar reg plate 🤣 .

Loved Beattie, what a goal machine. He hardly ever moved on the pitch but managed so many goals. Glad to have a bit of closure on the way he left (1st time).
 
Houston_Blade said:
Beattie’s penalty routine was wonderful, none of this hop, skip, jumping and sidestepping. Stand at the ball facing away a few steps, turn around and bang.
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It was great, wasn't it, he stood on the spot, with the ball in his hands, staring the keeper out, like a wild west gunslinger stood outside a saloon, before a gunfight, then put the ball down, turn away, walk four or five paces, turn round to face the keeper, and sprint at the ball, hit it like a missile and listen to the cheers from the Blades fans.
 

Houston_Blade said:
Beattie’s penalty routine was wonderful, none of this hop, skip, jumping and sidestepping. Stand at the ball facing away a few steps, turn around and bang.
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Unbelievable when you think about it the way he just turned around and took the shot with barely looking. Not seen a top player take a penalty the same since Beattie.
 
Beattie is the only name and number I ever got on the back of a shirt. That ended well.

He was the most complete striker I ever saw in a Blades shirt. Tap ins, left foot, right foot, shots from distance, headers, volleys, free kicks, penalties. He could do anything. He was the only striker I ever saw where I would go to a match convinced that he would score.
 
s20Blade said:
Unbelievable when you think about it the way he just turned around and took the shot with barely looking. Not seen a top player take a penalty the same since Beattie.
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He leathered it with such power too, it almost seemed like if the keeper had the cheek to catch it then the ball would have taken him through the back of the net. Spoke to him at the 125th anniversary thing at Ponds Forge, he seemed such a nice bloke too.
 
Some one at the Sty had a Rolls ,................................................................................................................................................................................................ oh sorry that was a Sausage 1000446.webp
 
crazyblade1889 said:
Similar story to Kenny and Tonge that they were forced out. No bigger Blade than McCabe, apparently.
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In fairness the Michael Tonge deal was good at the time. He was already in decline and was no longer effective. He didn't have the pace to play on the wing anymore and had Scooby Doo legs whenever he started running. He never tracked back and tackled, leaving Monty or Speed to do everything. I laughed when we sold him as I honest thought we'd ripped Stoke off at £1.85mil or whatever we got for him. He was far from the £8mil player that Liverpool once wanted to sign.

As for other bad deals, Stephen Quinn to Hull was more unforgiveable and another panic sell by McCabe. What did we get for him? £30k or something pathetic like that?
 
I'm no McCabe fan whatsoever, but it's difficult to blame him entirely in Beattie's case. Greedy agent tries it on for more money ..... if McCabe agrees, every player and their agent finds out and tries the same trick. So, McCabe was stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one. I'm sure there's lots of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that we fans haven't got a scooby about.
 

You also couldn't blame McCabe if he wanted an increase on his reported 40k a week wages..

It's also in stark contrast to the former owner who never let anybody pull his pants down..

Edit: I know it's the agent, but from KMC's point of view that's how it would look..
 
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