Blackwell in "Sack" hint.
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Compound_Legend
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Interesting to see that on Look North - he'd got the look of a man on death row going to the chair in the morning.
If he is going to bite the bullet,who do we go for? If we want a footballing manager,break the bank for Martinez at Swansea. If we want a motivator,Strachan's leaving Celtic,so would be available.
Or will we do it on the cheap,like we always do?
Watch this space...things are going to be interesting between and August within the 4 walls of Bramall Lane...
If he is going to bite the bullet,who do we go for? If we want a footballing manager,break the bank for Martinez at Swansea. If we want a motivator,Strachan's leaving Celtic,so would be available.
Or will we do it on the cheap,like we always do?
Watch this space...things are going to be interesting between and August within the 4 walls of Bramall Lane...
Also, he's told the entire footballing world that they can basically have our best players on the cheap. How clueless can you get? Not as disappointed by the result as I thought I'd be, but I am deeply disappointed by what it's apparently going to do to our supposedly well run club.
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He looked visibly upset, but I think if he does resign/gets pushed it's the right decision. He has been a poor man's Warnock and doesn't have the ability to win big games or influence a losing result.
He's a nice guy and no doubt a great coach/assistant, but I don't think he's no1 material. Personally I'd like to see Speed given a couple of seasons as manager.
He's a nice guy and no doubt a great coach/assistant, but I don't think he's no1 material. Personally I'd like to see Speed given a couple of seasons as manager.
Bladesman
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Im now thinking another 13 more years in this league.
Blades promotion 2019. :thumbup:
boo radley
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why come out with that comment
he's just looking for a vote of confidence. he should be giving confidence to the players but if he dont beleive in himself wo else is?
but what i want to know who from the start of this season would have got us automatic -tell me which manager?
he's just looking for a vote of confidence. he should be giving confidence to the players but if he dont beleive in himself wo else is?
but what i want to know who from the start of this season would have got us automatic -tell me which manager?
Sheffield-Bl4de
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Yeabh we pkayed shit, but why anyone would want him out or why he would resign is beyond me. We've had a pretty comfertable season, and although in all fairness we did lose 3 big games, we've done pretty well.
finished 3rd and made playoff finals, please tell me that was quite a reasonable season..
even though today was very frustrating , I'm gonna enjoy watching burnley struggle next year. and the only reason we wont play them in 2 years time is that we will be going up...
even though today was very frustrating , I'm gonna enjoy watching burnley struggle next year. and the only reason we wont play them in 2 years time is that we will be going up...
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3rd and a trip to wembley might sound like a good season
BUT
As a whole has anyone enjoyed this season? I haven't, long ball game, late substitutions, worthless loan signings bar halford, lack of spirit. The reason our season has turned out well it because of 5/6 players.
Kenny, Naysmith, Naughton, Kilgallon, Morgan. Maybe walker but he's come into the mix quite late on.
The above reasons all point to one man and one man alone. Blackwell.
BUT
As a whole has anyone enjoyed this season? I haven't, long ball game, late substitutions, worthless loan signings bar halford, lack of spirit. The reason our season has turned out well it because of 5/6 players.
Kenny, Naysmith, Naughton, Kilgallon, Morgan. Maybe walker but he's come into the mix quite late on.
The above reasons all point to one man and one man alone. Blackwell.
Kev Gee
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EXACTLY
Think about it. We could have finished second if Blackwell got it right when it mattered most. Birmingham were there for the taking and we didnt capitalise when it mattered. Now we will be battling it out in the biggest & most competitive CCC in a LONG time with a weakened squad because of the loss of the paracute payments.
KL Blade
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Yeah but weve got some funds from West Ham and it would be interesting to see how the board is going to make use of it. I think Speed could be a good assistant but Im not convinced that he can fill in the managers shoes though, too inexperienced for me.
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...or if Killa hadn't got sent off at The Sty or Paddy hadn't fucked up at said shithole, Hendrie hadn't lost 'that' ball away at Norwich, Beattie's finishing hadn't been so woeful since arriving, Wardy hadn't cheated yesterday etc.
Not just Mr Blackwell Kev, there's a certain 11 players on the pitch that need to look at themselves and ask if they deserve to go up because granted there are a few which have been nigh on immaculate and may justifiably move on but this tea hasn't been good enough throughout the whole season to compete for automatic, and would without doubt struggle in the prem due to a probable lack of investment.
EVERYONE has mad mistakes, EVERYONE is to blame.
BexleyBlade
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If a certain Nick Montgomery is reading this, you deserve a mention pal. Excellent season epitomised in yesterday's shambles-best man on the pitch.
Autumn
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People forget we still finished 3rd, Blackwell has his faults, made poor choices, so did some of the players, that goal went in and they put their heads down. He won't stay because of the witchhunt that is already starting against him, who's to say anyone who is actually any better at managing will even want to come to us.
Bottom line is, Mccabe has supposedly got money, so maybe he should've kept Beats and stopped thinking about how he can claw his chuffin money back....or maybe spend more than 5 mill on some more decent players.....but nah he won't because he wants a shoestring manager with a shoestring budget to perform miracles.
That's all im saying, sorry if it sounds crap
and I also think defence wise naughton and walker were the ones who played the best, Killgallon all season isn't as great as people rave on...He plays out of position often, and sometimes allows them room in the middle.
Bottom line is, Mccabe has supposedly got money, so maybe he should've kept Beats and stopped thinking about how he can claw his chuffin money back....or maybe spend more than 5 mill on some more decent players.....but nah he won't because he wants a shoestring manager with a shoestring budget to perform miracles.
That's all im saying, sorry if it sounds crap
and I also think defence wise naughton and walker were the ones who played the best, Killgallon all season isn't as great as people rave on...He plays out of position often, and sometimes allows them room in the middle.
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Had we kept Beattie and did what we did yesterday we'd have been absolutely crippled, rich chairman or not.
bennicholson
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Our problems rely on the fact we havn't had a midfield for a couple of years now. our strikers are shite too.
the worst thing about it is one of our worst players who is a midfielder and 5ft 6 is our top scorer
the worst thing about it is one of our worst players who is a midfielder and 5ft 6 is our top scorer
Enjoyed the season? In parts yes, but these are very few and very far between. So I agree Harty
Ah well.... another season, hopefully Blackwell will do the right thing and leave us to it.
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£450k a year at BDTBL or £60 a week as a lollipop man............he'll have to be sacked or he's staying.
mattbianco1
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We couldn't afford Strachan! Just like we can't afford Halford now!
Surely his wages would have been about £600,000? Would that have crippled us? We perhaps wouldn't have bought Jamie Ward, so that would only have been about £200,000. We could then have got shut if we'd crashed and burned.
Not that I'm saying we should necessarily have kept him, but either way we've had our pants pulled down. In my opinion, selling him in January was sending a signal not just to the world but to our own fans that we had no confidence about going up.
mattbianco1
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As much as i miss Beattie i do think it was the making of our season. The players changed, we started playing with confidence winning (dare i say it, BIG games!) Watford away was a big turning point in the season. First away game without Beattie & also Southampton & Coventry they were all BIG games that were won by United, they showed a lot of character in those games and these were the type of games that got us our final position.
I think Blackwell has his faults, like any manager - Substitutions OR LACK OF THEM! really but he has done a good job. Nobody can take that away from him. Think back to Robson, he was awful, we were awful, i didn't want to come to Bramall lane to watch the football we had to see. Blackwell came in, JUST missed out on the play offs last year and then finish 3rd, nearly 2nd. I honestly think that nobody thought we would finish that high.
We were expected to finish top 6 and we did. To finish 3rd was an over achievement.
When i was walking out of Wembley yesterday all the "fickle" blades were slagging Blackwell off something rotten, i heard some really bad comments about him. I really can't understand it! 3rd in the league, play off final but yet "he's the worst manager ever to manage the blades." "Clueless t**t" "F**K off back to leeds you idiot" What did he have to do to win these people over? Win the FA Cup? What comments would the exact same people have been saying if we'd WON 1-nil? "Brilliant" "Legend" "Best manager we've had"
Either these people should SHUT UP or Pleeeease, stop coming to the games"
At the end of the day, He wasn't on the pitch for these BIG games that they lost, Pigs, Doncaster, Burnley (3 times) it was the 11 players. If the manager tells you to do something and it doesn't work surely the players are clever enough to realise that Mr Carlisle won every thing at Turf Moor and won every thing yesterday, so why keep booting it to him? OBVIOUSLY NOT!
I may live to regret saying this, but I don't think Blackwell should resign.
All we need is someone who can get them to keep clear heads when the big games come! Pigs (both games), Burnley away (what a difference that would have made if we'd have got 3pts there), and yesterday. Was it nerves? Did they know what they were doing? Did they have clear instructions?
Fair enough whoever said Beattie up front alone needs to have a long hard think (to be fair, we don't know if Blackwell made that decision - could have been Sam Ellis or Gary Speed for all we know). He's awful - he should spend more time on his feet than falling on the floor trying to get a decision (lets face it, with Mike Dean as ref, you're not even going to get the real ones, never made fake ones).
It's all over and done with now - and we just have to look forward to Aug 8/9th weekend. So many people yesterday said "I don't ever want to go again" - but you know what? You will. You all will. You'll go home, away and to Wembley again. Why? Because we're Blades and that's what we do.
All we need is someone who can get them to keep clear heads when the big games come! Pigs (both games), Burnley away (what a difference that would have made if we'd have got 3pts there), and yesterday. Was it nerves? Did they know what they were doing? Did they have clear instructions?
Fair enough whoever said Beattie up front alone needs to have a long hard think (to be fair, we don't know if Blackwell made that decision - could have been Sam Ellis or Gary Speed for all we know). He's awful - he should spend more time on his feet than falling on the floor trying to get a decision (lets face it, with Mike Dean as ref, you're not even going to get the real ones, never made fake ones).
It's all over and done with now - and we just have to look forward to Aug 8/9th weekend. So many people yesterday said "I don't ever want to go again" - but you know what? You will. You all will. You'll go home, away and to Wembley again. Why? Because we're Blades and that's what we do.
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Beattie's wages? £600k?
And as for sending out a signal, we WEREN'T going up with Beattie's name in permanent marker on the teamsheet.
If he was on the reported 30k per week, then yes. 30k x 20 weeks.
I'm not saying we were definitely going up with him there, but you can't say we definitely wouldn't either. Sorry, but selling your top-scoring striker at a loss is nothing if not defeatist.
I'm not saying we were definitely going up with him there, but you can't say we definitely wouldn't either. Sorry, but selling your top-scoring striker at a loss is nothing if not defeatist.
Vistoma
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Go please, thanks for all you have done getting an average side to the fringe of the promised land but, lets face it, it wasn't by playing devastating football.
McCall and Speed for me and a ban on any ball longer then 40 yards:thumbup::thumbup:
McCall and Speed for me and a ban on any ball longer then 40 yards:thumbup::thumbup:
The thing is, there's nothing wrong with long ball per se, as long it's as not your one and only tactic. Time and time again we've seen that we can beat teams if we play to feet and take a bit of time rather than lumping the ball about like a hot potato.
The players do have to take some responsibility, but Blackwell is the manager and the buck stops with him. He was the one who chose to play the patently useless Beattie up front on his own; he was the one who dictated the tactics. I'm sorry, but if the players weren't listening to him telling them to pass the ball about a bit more and not hoof it upfield he should have changed the team a long time ago, as this isn't the first time it's happened this season.
He said he was 'vindicated' before the match. No, Kevin, you weren't. You got the team playing how everyone else could see we should play. No one came round to your way of thinking, you came round to ours. And then, in your stubbornness, you reverted to type and threw away the best chance we'll have for the top flight for a long time.
If the pressure's too much for you and you can't stand the criticism, get out now and don't let the door catch you as you go. As much as we need players who can stand up and be counted, we need a manager who can do the same. You're not that man.
The players do have to take some responsibility, but Blackwell is the manager and the buck stops with him. He was the one who chose to play the patently useless Beattie up front on his own; he was the one who dictated the tactics. I'm sorry, but if the players weren't listening to him telling them to pass the ball about a bit more and not hoof it upfield he should have changed the team a long time ago, as this isn't the first time it's happened this season.
He said he was 'vindicated' before the match. No, Kevin, you weren't. You got the team playing how everyone else could see we should play. No one came round to your way of thinking, you came round to ours. And then, in your stubbornness, you reverted to type and threw away the best chance we'll have for the top flight for a long time.
If the pressure's too much for you and you can't stand the criticism, get out now and don't let the door catch you as you go. As much as we need players who can stand up and be counted, we need a manager who can do the same. You're not that man.
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