Billy Sharp...(The Guardian)

[curly]

Reading between the lines, it seems Mr Adkins had a lazy squad of players.


https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...p-sheffield-united-wilder-old-school-approach

 

[tyke1889]

Reading between the lines, it seems Mr Adkins had a lazy squad of players.


https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...p-sheffield-united-wilder-old-school-approach

If the players are allowed to be lazy they may well be. I don't think we'll have that problem under this manager somehow.

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

In these past five years, they have spent as much time in the third tier as they had in the previous 119, since they first played league football.

Stay strong blades, it'll be over soon.

 

[SB_90]

Reading between the lines, it seems Mr Adkins had a lazy squad of players.

I thought it was like hammond. Doing loads of work that no one saw

 

[DifferentClass]

Who's Willy Ship?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Last seasons squad were the biggest set of cunts ever to grace this club. I hope every single one of those who were booted out of the squad or sold to Birmingham fail miserably in their careers, I despise them.

The right players have stayed and have flourished thanks to the removal of that poisonous culture that dragged us down last season. They deserve all the credit in the world.

 

[NottinghamBlade]

This is possibly my favourite Blades quote ever:

'That’s what we didn’t have last season – we didn’t have too many players who the fans liked'

Too fucking right you didn't Billy.

 

[JohnDenver]

That’s what we didn’t have last season – we didn’t have too many players who the fans liked, so that always helps.

Subtly done Billy. "A reyt set of arse biscuits" would have had the same effect.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Reading between the lines, it seems Mr Adkins had a lazy squad of players.


https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...p-sheffield-united-wilder-old-school-approach

So what’s different this season under Wilder, to last under Adkins?

“Day to day, he’s very competitive,” says Sharp of the new manager. “He wants winners on the training ground so it breeds good habits for a matchday.

“Looking back on last season we didn’t have that – we sort of strolled through the week and hoped that we’d win on Saturday, and you can’t do that in football. You’ve got to work hard to be winners on a matchday. I’ve said before that a lot of the players last season let the manager down, but it is also up to the manager to get the best out of the players. I know the manager now is very good at that – if someone is low on confidence, he somehow gets them up again.”

That all sounds like quite an honest appraisal by Sharp. Lazy, demotivated players (probably in part a result of the enormous squad size full of people not playing regularly) that the manager was incapable of motivating despite recognising. Wilder's been able to cull plenty of those beyond repair (adding to the culling of players by Adkins – and of course of Adkins himself), and driven those he's kept into performing as required. I'd never have thought previously that the transformation re: Coutts's level of effort was at all possible. So far the methods seem to be working extremely well.

 

[Weasel]

This is possibly my favourite Blades quote ever:

'That’s what we didn’t have last season – we didn’t have too many players who the fans liked'.

Apart from Billy, i think i despised every single one of them from last season...even though some have finally started to give some belated payback i.e. Coutts and Scougs. With the exception of Billy i would have happily put the rest on a leaking trawler and towed em out to the north sea in high winds, and let em work to get themselves home.

 

[FriethBlade]

Interesting comments seeing as Adkins has signed him at virtually every club he's managed !!!

 

[Roygbiv]

It seems everything we thought about the players not giving it their all and just being here for the money was true. Makes you wonder what players were the ones who took the piss. We would all presume Hammond and Woolford but Adkins brought them in and had worked with them before. You'd have thought he knew their character well

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

I think it was just arrogance from Adkins.

A few motivational videos and some ex-championship players and we'll piss it

 

[Foxy]

Interesting comments seeing as Adkins has signed him at virtually every club he's managed !!!

Managers change.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

We would all presume Hammond and Woolford but Adkins brought them in and had worked with them before. You'd have thought he knew their character well

Their problem in my view was a lack of ability (and as a result considerable lack of value-for-money) rather than lack of effort. Both were likely brought in as "honest pros" to try and up the effort of those around them. That plan massively backfired.

 

[PokerBlade]

I put a lot down to lack of quality (which was certainly still an issue) over lack of work in our last two seasons but then Wilder's come in and reminded me what hard work looks like on the pitch. From the first minute of every game and even into added time of already won games we put pressure on the opposition's possession as though everything depends on it. The Orient game showed a lot about the killer instinct he's trying to put into the squad that's been so lacking for years.

The comments we keep hearing about training are great. In an interview with former MMA fighter Bas Rutten he talked about how much of an edge he used to get from training harder than anyone else. And to use his irritating American expression, he would "never go into a fight without a full tank of gas". There's no excuse for it, but it's something I think you see in some of our former players, and it's something successful teams don't put up with. How many times did we put up with Baxter knowing he'd be flagging by the hour mark?

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Last seasons squad were the biggest set of cunts ever to grace this club. I hope every single one of those who were booted out of the squad or sold to Birmingham fail miserably in their careers, I despise them.

The right players have stayed and have flourished thanks to the removal of that poisonous culture that dragged us down last season. They deserve all the credit in the world.

What about the shithouse manager of last season?

 

[itsinyerblood]

What about the shithouse manager of last season?

Mustn't forget how our current manager has managed to turn a pale imitation of a good player into an essential part in our jigsaw, enter Paul "what a pass" Coutts

 

[BushBlade]

What about the shithouse manager of last season?

He's probably worried that now Caldwell and JFH are on the market he's got no chance of getting a decent job in the near future.

 

[Tyler Durden]

What about the shithouse manager of last season?

Adkins was utterly inept, I made the mistake of backing him for far too long, but those players were a disgrace to the professional game and no manager would've bettered them. The culture was poisonous.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

It seems everything we thought about the players not giving it their all and just being here for the money was true. Makes you wonder what players were the ones who took the piss. We would all presume Hammond and Woolford but Adkins brought them in and had worked with them before. You'd have thought he knew their character well

Adkins couldn't give a toss about United. He surrounded himself with a shower of clapped out journeyman and the ethos was "you're on a massive wage compared to all others in the division. Enjoy the free ride."
What a wanker Adkins was.