Blackpool - shoes off

[blades1889]

shoes off if we lose against blackpool?
i'ld like to see a protest in the car park if we lose or play shit once again. Its like robson all over again. Bring a manager who'd like the players play football.If we keep blackwell again for next season we be nor more then a mid table team

blackwell out!

 

[RIP Niftos]

Our manager is shit, therefore I'm going to take my shoes off. Cracking plan lads

 

[marshy]

Worked last time - the shoes were just a comedy twist thanks to Brownie - Leg end

 

[Compound_Legend]

To be honest with you,quite a number of people coming out of John Street were saying that Tuesday night will be that "Port Vale" moment for Blackwell.

Prediction - crowd less than 22k

 

[cooperblade]

We've been hearing for weeks about protests etc. The reality? 23k Blades fans at the match and the odd half hearted boo. I'm glad the players have a bit more heart than those who claim to want Blackwell out

 

[sitwell]

Apathy is even worse than anger ,I couldn't bring myself to cheer ,boo ,even get angry until I heard Ellis on the radio.
White hanky protest is the only way to go as Ellis and Blackwell are obviously deaf.

 

[alcoblade]

So what do we do?

I know some are embarrassed by the car park demo's. I can't wait for them to start. This is like sleeping / creeping death.

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[marshy]

We've been hearing for weeks about protests etc. The reality? 23k Blades fans at the match and the odd half hearted boo. I'm glad the players have a bit more heart than those who claim to want Blackwell out

The anger has to build to a suitable level - and I believe that level has almost been reached. Another turgid performance on Tuesday and I think the whispers of a demo will start to creep round the ground and it'll kick off at FT.

 

[raul]

Can't see it myself. We played juuuuust well enough yesterday to keep a lid on it and we'll probably do the same on Tuesday. Bore draws will keep him safe from demos and KM will keep him safe in his job whilever he's doing his human shield act.

I also dont detect anywhere near the levels of anger we had under Robson and we'd need to get hammered a couple of times before i would build up. There's more a grumbling resentment towards the club as a whole and KB is the obvious focal point of that.



It's all more "meh" than "BOOOOOO". Which I think has graver implications for the club in the longer term.

 

[bartman]

shoes off if we lose against blackpool?
i'ld like to see a protest in the car park if we lose or play shit once again. Its like robson all over again. Bring a manager who'd like the players play football.If we keep blackwell again for next season we be nor more then a mid table team

blackwell out!

And who will come in? Speed? He is part of the same management coaching team.

There are 10 games to go,we'll probably finish mid table.Why pay up a contract now.? Wait until the end of the season then any new manager will be able to start from fresh with a small bunch of contracted players he can build on with a more flexible wage budget as the lastof the big wage earners (except Sharp)should have gone.

Yes ,in my opinion I think Blackwell needs to go at the end of the season but surely now is the time to back the players during the game instead of planning protests(shoes off...ffs),singing corners,and booing players when the come on the pitch,cheering when they get hit in the face with the ball and having a go at players when they have made a mistake.

 

[boo radley]

Wear some good one's lads because i'll be collecting a few new pairs off ya.
Week after if you do a trouser protest I maybe able to afford my new season ticket.

 

[lenners]

You signal intent now because to do nothing is going to cost you twice as much over the coming year.
The first sign of the future will come on Tuesday - at least among the home ends.
United need leadership and the guy who can give it seems to have disappeared since he secured the Tevez money to repay himself.
The first move should be and hopefully will be putting the deadline for season ticket renewals back til after the end of the season.
The club also has to come out and say the ferk it is doing or even trying to do. Going on like this is killing people's love of the club.

 

[Elsecar_Blade]

I'll bet any of you that a car park demo WILL NOT work this time.

McCabe will not sack Blackwell if there is a car park demo. He doesn't want to give in to it as it would mean that it would happen quicker for the next manager.

The only way it would get a change is a resignation from Blackwell.

 

[blader]

Can't see it myself. We played juuuuust well enough yesterday to keep a lid on it and we'll probably do the same on Tuesday. Bore draws will keep him safe from demos and KM will keep him safe in his job whilever he's doing his human shield act.

I also dont detect anywhere near the levels of anger we had under Robson and we'd need to get hammered a couple of times before i would build up. There's more a grumbling resentment towards the club as a whole and KB is the obvious focal point of that.

im not so sure. if i reember rightly i think we drew the last 3 games of robson's spell at the club. I'm not sure we need to get hammered, i think if we win and play poorly there will still be a large demonstration. It's not the results people are unhappy with....

 

[Kev Gee]

Twatwell has already come out & said that he wont be forced out of the club by the 'boo boys' so it looks like he will have to be sacked.
And with KMC using him as the fall guy, it just wont happen.

 

[lenners]

Not having the same level of anger as we did under Robson is worrying in itself.
People are going to vote with their feet - and not in the sense of taking their shoes off.
We badly need new management, a new ethos, a new direction.
We also need the return of a commitment to trying to play football.

 

[boo radley]

Not having the same level of anger as we did under Robson is worrying in itself.
People are going to vote with their feet - and not in the sense of taking their shoes off.
We badly need new management, a new ethos, a new direction.
We also need the return of a commitment to trying to play football.

No no i need the shoes take them off.

 

[cooperblade]

Not having the same level of anger as we did under Robson is worrying in itself.
People are going to vote with their feet - and not in the sense of taking their shoes off.
We badly need new management, a new ethos, a new direction.
We also need the return of a commitment to trying to play football.

Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with your overall point, at least we don't have the insult of spunking millions and millions of pounds away in a doomed attempt to recreate Porterfield's Dad's Army to add to the injury of another opportunity sliding away.

Blackwell's a dick and the football is bang average but there's no comparison between what he's done to us and what Robson did.

 

[lenners]

Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with your overall point, at least we don't have the insult of spunking millions and millions of pounds away in a doomed attempt to recreate Porterfield's Dad's Army to add to the injury of another opportunity sliding away.

Blackwell's a dick and the football is bang average but there's no comparison between what he's done to us and what Robson did.

I don't think Blackwell's as bad as Robson by any means but he's not the man to start again with.
It would be brilliant to get someone like O'Driscoll and make a statement about what the club wants in future but I don't see that level of leadership at United. He might also cost money in compensation.
Either way the half-truths, denials, cloudy comments all need to stop. Just cutting without any real notion of what you want on the pitch, other than cheap, gets us absolutely nowhere.
I don't mind us not competing at the top next season or even the season after if we can see a genuine pattern of play that's worth watching on the pitch.

 

[sitwell]

Why would Sean O'Driscoll want to come to the Lane ?

 

[Wards]

bigger club, bigger fanbase, better academy, more chance of attracting better players?

Probably get a better wage too.

 

[lenners]

Why would Sean O'Driscoll want to come to the Lane ?

He quite possibly wouldn't and if he costs money, that would probably rule him out anyway.
I do think though that a club like United that's underachieving in the Championship is the next logical step for him and his best way to the top flight.
Bit like Coyle at Burnley.

 

[raul]

Excellent question. There seems to be an assumption that all we need to do is click our fingers and he'll come running. He's currently at a club that has given him time to build his team, a supportive Chairman and a fan base who think he's the Second Coming and expect nothing back other than entertainment.

None of these will be available to him 18 miles down the road.

 

[alcoblade]

Why would Sean O'Driscoll want to come to the Lane ?

Higher wages, more money to spend, bigger club, bigger profile, better prospects, better facilities.

Other than that, I'm not sure.



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[sitwell]

Apparently his philosophy is performances count much more than results. He would last 5 minutes here ,when he would probably need 3 years. He is another manager who bows down to the chairman hence Wellens ,Mills etc etc and I don't think he has the charisma to battle through the bad times with our board or supporters.

 

[DuncDisorderly]

Apparently his philosophy is performances count much more than results. He would last 5 minutes here ,when he would probably need 3 years. He is another manager who bows down to the chairman hence Wellens ,Mills etc etc and I don't think he has the charisma to battle through the bad times with our board or supporters.

I'm with you Sitters about O'Driscoll. We talk about good football as if we've enjoyed any in the last 15 years. Fancy football and mid-table? We are a play off club, minimum. Shoes off for that!!

All managers bow to chairmen and the will of the board eventually. If you don't, then you resign, like Curbishley and Keegan and look forward to a long spell out of work...


PS> Just for clarity, I will be taking my shoes off after the Blackpool game, but it won't be a protest...

 

[lenners]

Apparently his philosophy is performances count much more than results. He would last 5 minutes here ,when he would probably need 3 years. He is another manager who bows down to the chairman hence Wellens ,Mills etc etc and I don't think he has the charisma to battle through the bad times with our board or supporters.

Don't agree with that. We've had 16 of the last 17 years generally scuffling around in the same division.
I think a heck of a lot of people are really fed up with the complete lack of entertainment on the pitch - and also, more recently, the real inability to relate to the bunch of loanees, has-beens and never-will-bes thrown together from week to week.
There would be an understanding if United as a club set out their stall clearly about what they're trying to achieve, particularly if it involved young players and a clear determination to create a footballing culture from top to bottom.
And in a sense, what's the alternative? Another version of Blackwell? More aimless scuffling?
Fans will see a lot less point in that than having a proper go at really trying to change the club.

 

[alcoblade]

Apparently his philosophy is performances count much more than results. He would last 5 minutes here ,when he would probably need 3 years. He is another manager who bows down to the chairman hence Wellens ,Mills etc etc and I don't think he has the charisma to battle through the bad times with our board or supporters.

But the question wasn't "how long would Sean O' Driscoll last at BDTBL"...

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[Deleted member 875]

I'll be keeping my shoes firmly on this time. The time i did it, it was a bit of light-hearted humour to relieve the pressure when some of the numbskulls started shouting "if your not coming out, were going in". Its just a shame the idiots have completely and utterly hijacked what was my idea to use as half-cocked idle threats.

 

[sitwell]

How ironic then that Donnys 3 most influential players ,Sharp ,Shackell and Emmanuel-thomas are loan players. Adding to that Sullivan retiring and Stock leaving at the end of the season ,I wonder if O'driscoll will fancy a change.