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Blackwell knew this when he said weve got too many loans in January we will buy players - we finished up with Cresswell and Yeates
Blackwell has overseen the sale of Naughton, Walker, Bromby, Howard, Cotterill,Kilgallon yet still comes out with promotion bullsh!t
He knew the score !
 



Blackwell knew this when he said weve got too many loans in January we will buy players - we finished up with Cresswell and Yeates
Blackwell has overseen the sale of Naughton, Walker, Bromby, Howard, Cotterill,Kilgallon yet still comes out with promotion bullsh!t
He knew the score !

I'm not sure he actually had a choice
 
Lets face it
McCabe screwed us up!
He's the one that spouted on about European football in five years
He's the one that spouted that we would 'bounce straight back' and appointed Robson - I seem to remember the words emblazoned on the stadium walls
He's the one that signed up all the big contracts
He's the one that got Blades thinking that this club can go places
He's the one that promised Beattie would only leave if we stengthened the team
McCabe is a liar
Unfortunately Blackwell is his puppet and Mccabe pulls the strings
Blackwell is holding on to a lucrutive job that pays well compared to Mr Ordinary Folk
Ultimately I would like McCabe to go and get the club in the hands of someone that can back the team but more realistically tell the TRUTH
I am fed up with the lies gives us the facts
No I don't like Blackwell and I believe he has limitations He has already reached those
Time for a change
 
Lets face it
McCabe screwed us up!
He's the one that spouted on about European football in five years
He's the one that spouted that we would 'bounce straight back' and appointed Robson - I seem to remember the words emblazoned on the stadium walls
He's the one that signed up all the big contracts
He's the one that got Blades thinking that this club can go places
He's the one that promised Beattie would only leave if we stengthened the team
McCabe is a liar
Unfortunately Blackwell is his puppet and Mccabe pulls the strings
Blackwell is holding on to a lucrutive job that pays well compared to Mr Ordinary Folk
Ultimately I would like McCabe to go and get the club in the hands of someone that can back the team but more realistically tell the TRUTH
I am fed up with the lies gives us the facts
No I don't like Blackwell and I believe he has limitations He has already reached those
Time for a change

You know what, you'll be a lot happier if you stay away so I should do just that if I were you
 
What I don't understand is that people think Blackwell is quite happy to be a puppet and knew exactly what he'd have all season.

He knew he had to cut costs yes, but he wasn't given a road map of the exact situation throughout the year.

From what I hear, he's less than happy at the cards dealt to him, feeling that he hasn't had what he was led to believe he'd have.

As for McCabe lying to us, other than one poor interview (Beattie) I don't feel lied to in the slightest. The times when people do tend to come from the distortion of what he said or not hearing/choosing to ignore other comments he's made.

I think part of his silence is caused from being fed up of repeatedly defending himself against some and having to listen to claims that he's screwing us over.

The man had a plan, the plan is currently off target, that doesn't mean he's done it on purpose to ruin us.

In a few years time (if the chance is given) we may look back and say "he was right, he's strengthed us no end, again.", even if it isn't currently blowing that way.

Do people really, genuinely believe that both Kevin's are spitefully screwing us over? if so, wouldn't they acheive more, earning us and them more money by being successful?

After all, it's really simple.
 
And you my friend will be alot happier watching the same sh!te week after week and what is more you deserve it!

Well at least I'll have one less moaning minnie to listen to ;) and there's plenty of them at the Lane just now. :(

I am a S U P P O R T E R it's what S U P P O R T E R S do - we turn up!
 
You know what, the grass on the other side isn't greener, it's just a different shade of brown

I'd like to see change
I'd like to see our club have a manager that plays flowing entertaining football
I'd like to see us in with a chance of winning something

A new manager isn't going to happen even if our crowds go down

If we did get a new manager, how long would it be before "the fans" became dissatisfied and started demanding, ooh guess what, a new manager.

We're just an average club - we can't afford a Mourinho, a Ferguson (sir), an O'Neill and we can't afford a Rooney, a Fabregas or even a Michael Brown.

This is reality and we are stuck with it.

If you want to boycott matches then you do just that, it is your privilege as it is anybody else who wants to do the same.

I go to the Lane for more than just the match and sometimes it isn't easy to down that last pre-match pint and trek down for the 90 minutes that usually spoils the day out.

Following SUFC is not a fair weather thing for me and for many like me.

My wife (Leeds fan and we live in Leeds) tells my friends that I have followed the Blades for 50 years through thin and thinner. She's right!

I've seen many good times in those years though as well as bad times and at the moment we are experiencing a trip into one of the mediocre spells we have to put up with. How long it will last I don't know - what I do know is that it won't last for ever and one day we will watch a team that is something like what we all want.

Many more downs than ups but you make a choice, take it or leave it.

I've made my choice, made it decades ago, and I'll be there tomorrow, and the next match and the next match no matter who is charge.




McCabe is the custonion(sp)/landlord of our club ... if you were renting a flat off him ... would you just accept the boiler not working , the dripping tap , the damp patch in the corner and the broken window and just carry on paying the rent/renewing ?

If we can't do better than Blackwell ... even on a limited budget they may aswell pack it in , he's shocking at every aspect of being a manager and how you can just accept that were stuck with him for next year without the toys coming out of the pram is more damaging to the club than any shoes off protest.
 
What I don't understand is that people think Blackwell is quite happy to be a puppet and knew exactly what he'd have all season.

He knew he had to cut costs yes, but he wasn't given a road map of the exact situation throughout the year.

From what I hear, he's less than happy at the cards dealt to him, feeling that he hasn't had what he was led to believe he'd have.

As for McCabe lying to us, other than one poor interview (Beattie) I don't feel lied to in the slightest. The times when people do tend to come from the distortion of what he said or not hearing/choosing to ignore other comments he's made.

I think part of his silence is caused from being fed up of repeatedly defending himself against some and having to listen to claims that he's screwing us over.

The man had a plan, the plan is currently off target, that doesn't mean he's done it on purpose to ruin us.

In a few years time (if the chance is given) we may look back and say "he was right, he's strengthed us no end, again.", even if it isn't currently blowing that way.

Do people really, genuinely believe that both Kevin's are spitefully screwing us over? if so, wouldn't they acheive more, earning us and them more money by being successful?

After all, it's really simple.

KB walked after the play off final because he knew EXACTLY how things would be this season. As for McCabe, he wouldnt run a building project with a load of temporary workers, how why hell does he think its acceptable to run a higher-end football league club the way we have this season? Because football isn't about brand-superiority its about emotional commitment and he knows there will always be a core of 14,000 or so turn up through thick and thin. We also not under any threat of financial meltdown like a Cardiff or the Pigs and whilever he's earning his £2.5m a year interest on the money he's "invested" in SUFC, there's going to be no rush to take it all back in one go either.
 
McCabe is the custonion(sp)/landlord of our club ... if you were renting a flat off him ... would you just accept the boiler not working , the dripping tap , the damp patch in the corner and the broken window and just carry on paying the rent/renewing ?

If we can't do better than Blackwell ... even on a limited budget they may aswell pack it in , he's shocking at every aspect of being a manager and how you can just accept that were stuck with him for next year without the toys coming out of the pram is more damaging to the club than any shoes off protest.

If you don't like the product don't buy it.

If we all stopped using such and such a restaurant for example the restaurant would go bust

If we stop buying the SUFC product, it will go bust.

Supporting a football club is not like real life hence it is why we are stuck with the product how ever it is served up unfortunately
 
What I don't understand is that people think Blackwell is quite happy to be a puppet and knew exactly what he'd have all season.

He knew he had to cut costs yes, but he wasn't given a road map of the exact situation throughout the year.

I disagree, any manager, be that in industry or in football is given a budget, not only that but in the real world he even has a say in setting said budget. If brown nose didn't get the full picture then what a poor manager he is, not necessarily a poor football manager, which coincidentally he is too, then he's just a poor manager in general. Lack of vision, lack of ambition, a weak and willing whipping boy for the chairman.

As for McCabe lying to us, other than one poor interview (Beattie) I don't feel lied to in the slightest. The times when people do tend to come from the distortion of what he said or not hearing/choosing to ignore other comments he's made.

I think part of his silence is caused from being fed up of repeatedly defending himself against some and having to listen to claims that he's screwing us over.

The man had a plan, the plan is currently off target, that doesn't mean he's done it on purpose to ruin us.

Who said he deliberately set out to ruin us? I think in all the criticisms, you're the first one to imply that just because we think the man's full of shit that he set out to deliberately drag us down. Maybe he lied to himself, maybe he lied to us, either way some of the crap that he tried to sell us proved to be just that, pie in the sky crap.

I know you'll deny it but, your defence of McCabe is ongoing and please answer me this, do you find it strange that we have a marvelous stadium, a string of clubs dotted about here and there with good off the pitch potential, yet where it does matter as a football club we're in shit street. We have no young players coming through, we have no decent players in the squad and we have a manager who doesn't have a clue. Does that sound like a committed Blades fan to you or an astute business man?

"Do people really, genuinely believe that both Kevin's are spitefully screwing us over? if so, wouldn't they acheive more, earning us and them more money by being successful?"

No, not spiteful, just full of starry eyed dreams and also full of crap.

Scary stuff.....................but like I say, at least the ground looks lovely :rolleyes:
 
FFS Mart ... I am getting worried , I used to be a clapper ... and now I think I'M turning into you :(
 
You can only take so much shit Chingo mate, wears a bit thin once you get the wrong side of 50 ;)
 
You can only take so much shit Chingo mate, wears a bit thin once you get the wrong side of 50 ;)



Not got to 50 yet , but it gets thinner than this !


Can't do cos this is carp.
 



I disagree, any manager, be that in industry or in football is given a budget, not only that but in the real world he even has a say in setting said budget. If brown nose didn't get the full picture then what a poor manager he is, not necessarily a poor football manager, which coincidentally he is too, then he's just a poor manager in general. Lack of vision, lack of ambition, a weak and willing whipping boy for the chairman.

and if privately he was told he would get more or a different type of support and complained that it never materialised?

What does that make him? Can he win either way?

Who said he deliberately set out to ruin us? I think in all the criticisms, you're the first one to imply that just because we think the man's full of shit that he set out to deliberately drag us down. Maybe he lied to himself, maybe he lied to us, either way some of the crap that he tried to sell us proved to be just that, pie in the sky crap.

By saying that he is full of shit, are you not inferring that he's deliberately taking us for a ride?

I know you'll deny it but, your defence of McCabe is ongoing and please answer me this, do you find it strange that we have a marvelous stadium, a string of clubs dotted about here and there with good off the pitch potential, yet where it does matter as a football club we're in shit street. We have no young players coming through, we have no decent players in the squad and we have a manager who doesn't have a clue. Does that sound like a committed Blades fan to you or an astute business man?

I don't find it strange at all. He's taken the gamble of linking our club and its fortunes with the property industry, he's made this clear all along. This industry, along with many others, is suffering majorly at the present. Meaning it is in a weaker position to achieve the desired aim of supporting us financially at the present time, when we need it more than ever.

He said himself what was going to happen, across football, we are now feeling it because our plans didn't come off at the right time (1 more premiership goal would have made a major difference).

This doesn't mean he's taken £Xmillion from the potential first team budget and spent it on buildings.

It also doesn't mean that it'll not make us a much stronger prospect in years to come, when we've weathered or put right our current issues.

I don't see how any of this raises questions about his allegience to the Blades? He's put in his own money (he now wants some of this back), he's put in his time and he's put in his reputation. He and his family watch the Blades, as did his old man, who's ashes are at the Lane.

How is he any less of a Blade than you or me? the only difference is he has the responsibility of the purse strings and all the abuse when it doesn't work out.

You can clearly question his decision making (he's made mistakes), which is obviously much easier to do from our side, but I see no reason to question his allegience or intentions.

No, not spiteful, just full of starry eyed dreams and also full of crap.

Scary stuff.....................but like I say, at least the ground looks lovely :rolleyes:

Do we have a "lack of ambition" or "starry eyed dreams"?

Is it possible to have both?
 
Unfortunately for Football Chairmen and Managers they are judged on results.
Judge ours this season
 
KB walked after the play off final because he knew EXACTLY how things would be this season. As for McCabe, he wouldnt run a building project with a load of temporary workers, how why hell does he think its acceptable to run a higher-end football league club the way we have this season? Because football isn't about brand-superiority its about emotional commitment and he knows there will always be a core of 14,000 or so turn up through thick and thin. We also not under any threat of financial meltdown like a Cardiff or the Pigs and whilever he's earning his £2.5m a year interest on the money he's "invested" in SUFC, there's going to be no rush to take it all back in one go either.


No he didn't. He knew he'd been a failure, so he made a flimsy gesture towards doing the right thing. I'd wager KM didn't have to exactly beat him into the submission of staying.
 
Do people really, genuinely believe that both Kevin's are spitefully screwing us over? if so, wouldn't they acheive more, earning us and them more money by being successful?

I don't think he did anything deliberatley, but he's taken big risks with our future, and those risks look a long way from paying off. He's walking away with his stake, plus up to 10% for every year he doesn't get it back. We're now selling anything with talent to pay him back.

I now have a similar view of him that I do of RBS or lloyds.

UTB
 
and if privately he was told he would get more or a different type of support and complained that it never materialised?

What does that make him? Can he win either way?

It makes him gullible and cowardly. Gullible for believing in the first place, when the track record of us as a spending club with foresight and ambition is there for all to see. It makes him cowardly for not having the balls to tell the chairman to shove his job or to grow some bollocks and stop being the whipping boy. Dress it up as you like, brown nose is a whipping boy, and only a coward would stand for that without doing something about it.

By saying that he is full of shit, are you not inferring that he's deliberately taking us for a ride?

Aah, selective quoting, I like it :rolleyes: I inferred, in fact I stated, that he may just be a dreamer, and to that end he's full of shit. I dream that the Blades will win something, I dream that we'll sign a few good players, the difference being that I can't possibly bankroll those dreams, Superblade, the best chairman EVER, can.

I don't find it strange at all. He's taken the gamble of linking our club and its fortunes with the property industry, he's made this clear all along. This industry, along with many others, is suffering majorly at the present. Meaning it is in a weaker position to achieve the desired aim of supporting us financially at the present time, when we need it more than ever.

He said himself what was going to happen, across football, we are now feeling it because our plans didn't come off at the right time (1 more premiership goal would have made a major difference).

This doesn't mean he's taken £Xmillion from the potential first team budget and spent it on buildings.

Never said it did mean that, I did say and still do say that last time I looked we were called Sheffield United FOOTBALL Club, to me it doesn't stack up that we should be involved in so many off field projects while the product that we sell on the pitch is so poor.

I don't see how any of this raises questions about his allegience to the Blades? He's put in his own money (he now wants some of this back), he's put in his time and he's put in his reputation. He and his family watch the Blades, as did his old man, who's ashes are at the Lane.

I never had as much money as this bloke and yet I've also put loads of my money into the club, never asked for any of it back either, but then again I wouldn't, I'm a fan, I'm not in it to make a profit.

How is he any less of a Blade than you or me? the only difference is he has the responsibility of the purse strings and all the abuse when it doesn't work out.

See above.

You can clearly question his decision making (he's made mistakes), which is obviously much easier to do from our side, but I see no reason to question his allegience or intentions.

I see plenty of reasons to question his allegiance, as do others but like I say, you seem to have an affinity to the man, I don't so we'll have to agree to disagree on old Superblade, the best chairman EVER.

Do we have a "lack of ambition" or "starry eyed dreams"?

Is it possible to have both?

Maybe, maybe not. I don't think it is with the current manager, and I think in his appointments and the way he handled our time in the Prem then neither is it with Superblade, the best chairman EVER at the helm.

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It makes him gullible and cowardly. Gullible for believing in the first place, when the track record of us as a spending club with foresight and ambition is there for all to see. It makes him cowardly for not having the balls to tell the chairman to shove his job or to grow some bollocks and stop being the whipping boy. Dress it up as you like, brown nose is a whipping boy, and only a coward would stand for that without doing something about it.

Is he cowardly if he does anything but quit or air his dirty laundry in the press? What about if he just puts his point across in private and alludes to merely the problems he faces in the press?

I inferred, in fact I stated, that he may just be a dreamer, and to that end he's full of shit. I dream that the Blades will win something, I dream that we'll sign a few good players, the difference being that I can't possibly bankroll those dreams, Superblade, the best chairman EVER, can.

So by dreaming of improving the Blades by the methods he thinks are best makes him full of shit? Sadly, as you say, we can't bankroll your dreams so we have to live with his. Was he full of shit when we were promoted with him in charge? or just full of shit in the times we aren't doing so well?

I never had as much money as this bloke and yet I've also put loads of my money into the club, never asked for any of it back either, but then again I wouldn't, I'm a fan, I'm not in it to make a profit.

The money you put in is returned with a product. You pay for admission to see a football match, you get a football match (regardless of quality). The money he puts in, either ends up giving him further control, more of a share of the club or puts him out of pocket for a set time depending on the length of a loan, upon which it is returned with possible interest.

If you loaned the club money, you'd be equally as entitled to take it back.

If he wanted to make a profit, I don't think he'd be running a football club, sure they are useful for contacts and prestige, but as we all know, they just eat money.

I see plenty of reasons to question his allegiance, as do others but like I say, you seem to have an affinity to the man, I don't so we'll have to agree to disagree on old Superblade, the best chairman EVER.

The fact I don't think he's screwing us over and that I believe he's a blade doesn't mean I think he's faultless.

Of course I have an affinity to the man, if you define affinity as "An inherent similarity between persons or things.".

We are similar in that we are Blades fans, that we spend money on Sheffield United and that we both have a vested interest in Sheffield United doing well.
 
Do people really, genuinely believe that both Kevin's are spitefully screwing us over? if so, wouldn't they acheive more, earning us and them more money by being successful?

Not both, although I agree with Puppet that Blackwell knew exactly what things would be like this season but with Mr McCabe, yes, I do. As long as you remove the word 'spitefully' and replace it with 'intentionally'. Whichever way you slice it, there is only one person (or group of companies) getting anything from SUFC at the moment and it is our chairman. It certainly isn't us and, more's the pity, nor is it SUFC. He is actually being successful when he views his companies as a whole. Individually, SUFC is supporting all the others at the moment.

Funny thing is, I don't begrudge him being able to use SUFC to help his cashflow or for whatever purpose he chooses. It's his company. What really pisses me off to an incredible degree is all the fucking bullshit and smoke and mirrors he presents to the fans.

Even worse than that; I believed him.

You talk about misunderstandings and half remembered interviews, selective quotations. I still maintain that what he succeeded in doing was creating an impression, a series of impressions, actually that cannot wholly be explained by claiming the fans deliberately failed to grasp the technicalities.

How many people thought Fradi was SUFC?
How many people guessed at our debt being 50 mill?
How many people believed we were a well run and prudent football club?
How many people believed we had substantial funds available in January?

And this is not mentioning the Beattie interview which was a travesty from start to finish.

Or are we all just thick twats?*






*this is intended to be rhetorical
 
OK, this must be getting boring for the masses now and as we're obviously never going to agree I'll make my final post on the subject.....

Is he cowardly if he does anything but quit or air his dirty laundry in the press? What about if he just puts his point across in private and alludes to merely the problems he faces in the press?

In my opinion yes, yes he is cowardly. It's a results based profession and if you're bosses aren't giving you the tools to do the job then do something about it. To my mind Brown Nose doesn't, he whines on the radio, moans to the press but does nothing to force anyones hand. He should demand more finances and if they aren't forthcoming then he should tell old Superbalde, the best chairman EVER, that maybe he should go public and explain why we can only afford to sign shit, and why we have to sell anything even approaching anything like a decent footballer. We're in recession and I know that cash is hard to find but we're no different to other clubs in that, yet we always seem to be last in the raffle, the slowest to make a move for anybody and invariably end up with the booby prize. Superblade, the best chairman EVER must love having Brown Nose there, like I said before, he's a whipping boy and therefore a coward.

So by dreaming of improving the Blades by the methods he thinks are best makes him full of shit? Sadly, as you say, we can't bankroll your dreams so we have to live with his. Was he full of shit when we were promoted with him in charge? or just full of shit in the times we aren't doing so well?

He was probably more full of shit when we got promoted than at any other time. Wasn't that when he came out with his 5 year plan and his vision of the future? Pie in the sky, a sad dreamer and again, whilst we can all dream he could actually bankroll those dreams, he didn't, he bottled it when it mattered.

The money you put in is returned with a product. You pay for admission to see a football match, you get a football match (regardless of quality). The money he puts in, either ends up giving him further control, more of a share of the club or puts him out of pocket for a set time depending on the length of a loan, upon which it is returned with possible interest.

Pretty meaningless statement that so I'll skip commenting.

If you loaned the club money, you'd be equally as entitled to take it back.

Unless of course you were a massive fan, in which case you'd maybe be doing it for the good of the club and to make it successful, not for any sort of a return. Bit like me lending a mate £50 for a night out, would I be asking for it back? Probably not if it was a good night and I could afford to let it go.

If he wanted to make a profit, I don't think he'd be running a football club, sure they are useful for contacts and prestige, but as we all know, they just eat money.

So if he isn't running it for a profit, what is he running it for? Surely the answer as a fan would be success and prestige, and as we're looking less likely to achieve either of those then just what is the point in him being there.

The fact I don't think he's screwing us over and that I believe he's a blade doesn't mean I think he's faultless.

Of course I have an affinity to the man, if you define affinity as "An inherent similarity between persons or things.".

We are similar in that we are Blades fans, that we spend money on Sheffield United and that we both have a vested interest in Sheffield United doing well.

I'd hope that we're all Blades on here, just that we have vastly different ways of showing it and it would appear, hugely differing views on what the football club should be about.

BM - Still ROCKS and GORGEOUS ;)

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