Can anybody defend McCabe ?

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beightonblade said:
Well if yer can lets hear yer ! :eek:
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You make it all the more tempting to do so with your daily slagging off of the man.

Nevertheless, I'd sum up his reign to date as "Good intentions marred by awful decisions".
 
Houso said:
You make it all the more tempting to do so with your daily slagging off of the man.

Nevertheless, I'd sum up his reign to date as "Good intentions marred by awful decisions".
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Spot on. In his defence, I really believe he thought he was doing the right thing for us. Sadly, very few of his decisions have been good ones.

Bryan Robson - his appointment was a Kennedy moment for me. I can remember exactly where I was when I found out. Gobsmacked doesn't nearly cover it.

UTB
 
He appointed Trevor Birch....

Can anyone tell me what this guy has done except become famous for being involved in the sale of Chelski to Abramovichski?
He has touted his wares to various other clubs hoping for a similar saviour with a distinct and overwhelming lack of success.

From Wikipedia....
Specialising in insolvency, Birch became chief executive of Chelsea, a club with a debt burden of around £80m, in February 2002, and attempted to restructure their finances. He also helped put together the £140m Roman Abramovich takeover during June and July 2003.[6] The takeover wiped out most of the club's debts, making Birch's role no longer necessary, and he was replaced by Peter Kenyon. Birch was offered another role, but instead resigned.[7]
In October 2003, Birch was appointed chief executive of Leeds United, another club with high debts, and was briefly chairman following Professor John McKenzie's resignation. He helped the club avoid administration, and oversaw the takeover of Leeds by Gerald Krasner's consortium, before moving on to Everton in June 2004 to become their chief executive. Birch was given the task of overhauling the Merseyside club's finances, but resigned just six weeks later.[8]
In June 2007 he became Chief Executive Officer of Derby County, replacing Mike Horton's previous role as managing director. Horton remained on the board as vice chairman.[9]
In October 2007 Birch left Derby County. He was lined up to be the new Southampton Chairman heading the new regime if the proposed takeover from Daniel Williams had materialised.
On the 20th November 2009, Sheffield United announced Birch as their new Chief Executive, replacing Terry Robinson
 
£250K per year will look very expensive in Division three. I bet he's glad we've got Ched to make him look cheap..:D

UTB
 
Pittsburg Blade said:
He appointed Trevor Birch....

Can anyone tell me what this guy has done except become famous for being involved in the sale of Chelski to Abramovichski?
He has touted his wares to various other clubs hoping for a similar saviour with a distinct and overwhelming lack of success.

From Wikipedia....
Specialising in insolvency, Birch became chief executive of Chelsea, a club with a debt burden of around £80m, in February 2002, and attempted to restructure their finances. He also helped put together the £140m Roman Abramovich takeover during June and July 2003.[6] The takeover wiped out most of the club's debts, making Birch's role no longer necessary, and he was replaced by Peter Kenyon. Birch was offered another role, but instead resigned.[7]
In October 2003, Birch was appointed chief executive of Leeds United, another club with high debts, and was briefly chairman following Professor John McKenzie's resignation. He helped the club avoid administration, and oversaw the takeover of Leeds by Gerald Krasner's consortium, before moving on to Everton in June 2004 to become their chief executive. Birch was given the task of overhauling the Merseyside club's finances, but resigned just six weeks later.[8]
In June 2007 he became Chief Executive Officer of Derby County, replacing Mike Horton's previous role as managing director. Horton remained on the board as vice chairman.[9]
In October 2007 Birch left Derby County. He was lined up to be the new Southampton Chairman heading the new regime if the proposed takeover from Daniel Williams had materialised.
On the 20th November 2009, Sheffield United announced Birch as their new Chief Executive, replacing Terry Robinson
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A bit like Tommy Docherty our Mr Birch. He's had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus
 
SUFC was his trojan horse into markets hitherto untapped. There is a huge difference in "Theres a Property Developer from Belgium wants to meet you" to "Theres the Chairman of an EPL club wants to meet you" in China etc etc.

Once it stopped opening doors for Scarborough, the purse snapped shut.
 
I don't for one minute think that when he took over, he had a view of what SUFC could have done for his personal gain.

As time went on, he may have thought otherwise leading him to plough some of his personal wealth into the club, but I don't think it was his ultimate intention.
 
:D good intentions bad decisions .....fo 0kin hell I always thought McCabe was smart :eek: ........... has he ever made a good decision in football ? and spin, he make the loonie labour lot look like truth tellers.
 
alcoblade said:
Bryan Robson - his appointment was a Kennedy moment for me. I can remember exactly where I was when I found out.
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Same here. I was in a book depository with a rifle.

On a serious point, if we get relegated and he leaves he will have left the club in a worse position that he found it. Even Reg Brealey didnt manage that.
 
McCabe seemed to be doing the right thing until we got relegated.

Then its just been bad decision after bad decision and then with recession he could not seem to find a buyer for the club but only investors at best. Birch was meant to be the man to find a buyer and seems to have done nothing but collect his wage. In 2 years we have gone from one extreme to the other spending too much perhaps to not spending anything really and we would appear to have reduced the wage bill way too much to the point we can barely land players perminantly.

2 years ago most of us could defend McCabe but I dont think anyone really can now nor would they attempt to since its clear he no longer wants to know. The majority of the blame for our situation lands firmly with him.
 
He always has fought our corner with issues like the World Cup bid and especially the Tevez affair. Attendances have increased dramatically compared to what they were like before he took over. The stadium looks far better than it did when he took over.

If only Danny Webber's effort had gone in against Wigan, or West Ham had received the points deduction they should have under the PL rules, or we had turned up in the Play Off final, we could well be in Bolton or Blackburn's position now.

His decisions since relegation - starting with allowing Warnock to go - have, with hindsight been very poor. But they were made with good intentions. He is a Blades fan like the rest of us and has the best interests of the club at heart.
 



Good intentions at heart? Do me a favour. When we went down, the best intention would have been to appoint a manager that stood the best chance of us going up. Instead he appointed a name to boost the clubs (And his own) profile, and chucked enough cash at him, presumably in the misguided notion that any old dickhead could get us up, given enough cash.

The problem with that, is that he didn't just hire any old dickhead, he went for the one with the worst cost/performance ratio of the lot.
 
He always has fought our corner with issues like the World Cup bid and especially the Tevez affair. Attendances have increased dramatically compared to what they were like before he took over. The stadium looks far better than it did when he took over.
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Why was the world cup bid in our interests? Were we going to lock some of the superstars in the changing rooms and force them to play for us afterwards? The Tevez affair didn't do a deal for us, made us look a bunch of whiners and the cash was hardly used to strengthen the squad now was it?

If only Danny Webber's effort had gone in against Wigan, or West Ham had received the points deduction they should have under the PL rules, or we had turned up in the Play Off final, we could well be in Bolton or Blackburn's position now.
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And if only we didn't stop playing at Christmas and gone to win matches instead of trying for a 0 - 0 draw. We had enough games to get the required number of points, we didn't, no one elses fault but ours, we blew it.

His decisions since relegation - starting with allowing Warnock to go - have, with hindsight been very poor. But they were made with good intentions. He is a Blades fan like the rest of us and has the best interests of the club at heart.
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Warnock had had his day, should have gone when things started going tits up in the Prem, McCabe should have had the vision to see that and the bollocks to do something about it. As to being a fan like the rest of us well he isn't, he's a multi millionaire who was running the club. He could change things, he could invest, we couldn't, simple as.
 
dkc Blade said:
He always has fought our corner with issues like the World Cup bid and especially the Tevez affair. Attendances have increased dramatically compared to what they were like before he took over. The stadium looks far better than it did when he took over.

If only Danny Webber's effort had gone in against Wigan, or West Ham had received the points deduction they should have under the PL rules, or we had turned up in the Play Off final, we could well be in Bolton or Blackburn's position now.

His decisions since relegation - starting with allowing Warnock to go - have, with hindsight been very poor. But they were made with good intentions. He is a Blades fan like the rest of us and has the best interests of the club at heart.
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A balanced post fella, but;

"He always has fought our corner with issues like the World Cup bid"

Can you, or anyone explain the tangible benefits of us getting the WC to BDTBL? I can see 15% of 3 *30,000 gates (so less than £1M) followed by a bill for about £40M and a half empty shiny new ground for eternity.

For me it was another case of ego over substance. We would have been firmly is the shit had we won that battle.

UTB
 
beightonblade said:
Well if yer can lets hear yer ! :eek:
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Depends what you're asking us to defend. Am I happy with the team's current position or the quality of the football they play - definitely not - but I don't buy into the idea that everything has to be the Chairman's fault. He's put a lot of money into this club, without saddling it with massive debts, and has appointed football people to manage the football side of things - it's them that haven't performed and most were well received when they were appointed (ironically Blackwell was probably the worst received and yet achieved the most in footballing terms). Sure he's cut the budget over the last year, who wouldn't when we're losing money, but I'd rather be scrapping at the bottom of the division than wondering whether we might get wound up before the season ends. And money doesn't guarantee success, our neighbours are learning that game.
 
Trafford said:
Depends what you're asking us to defend. Am I happy with the team's current position or the quality of the football they play - definitely not - but I don't buy into the idea that everything has to be the Chairman's fault. He's put a lot of money into this club, without saddling it with massive debts, and has appointed football people to manage the football side of things - it's them that haven't performed and most were well received when they were appointed (ironically Blackwell was probably the worst received and yet achieved the most in footballing terms). Sure he's cut the budget over the last year, who wouldn't when we're losing money, but I'd rather be scrapping at the bottom of the division than wondering whether we might get wound up before the season ends. And money doesn't guarantee success, our neighbours are learning that game.
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But he did saddle us with enormous debts. Only the Tevez / Kyle money dug us half out of that hole. And we're still in big debt - to McCabe. He's making noises about converting that to equity, but right now we're still massively in debt.

The debt is the reason we're hoping the likes of Doyle and Collins will be the spark that helps this shower of shite avoid relegation. You could cry if it hadn't been telegraphed for long enough for us all to get used to the thought of life in division three.

UTB
 
I don't think anyone's got any problem with the budget being cut, it's the way it's been done with no proper planning or preparation at all.
McCabe's approach has only involved an immediate bottom line and not any forethought to what this would mean even medium term, never mind long term.
It's been appalling business from a bloke who understands bricks and mortar but unfortunately has shown himself to be clueless when it comes to football.
Even worse, he's effectively run off when the going got tough and virtually disappeared after the Tevez money was bagged.
That's no kind of leadership at all. And that's set the tone for what's inevitably followed.
 
he does understand bricks and mortar - obviously no mug or more to the point found some Aussie mugs - but he cannot beat the recession and his Realty and hotel dealings have been calamatous for the football side of things.

Alco - was it you who said that when we get rid of our debts or show good financial results we should parade the books and records and accounst around town and gather underneath Town Hall balcony to salute the balance sheet? Always enjoyed that and when he does the loan/equite swap we can do it and look forward to 3rd tier football at the same time.
 
Trafford said:
Depends what you're asking us to defend. Am I happy with the team's current position or the quality of the football they play - definitely not - but I don't buy into the idea that everything has to be the Chairman's fault. He's put a lot of money into this club, without saddling it with massive debts, and has appointed football people to manage the football side of things - it's them that haven't performed and most were well received when they were appointed (ironically Blackwell was probably the worst received and yet achieved the most in footballing terms). Sure he's cut the budget over the last year, who wouldn't when we're losing money, but I'd rather be scrapping at the bottom of the division than wondering whether we might get wound up before the season ends. And money doesn't guarantee success, our neighbours are learning that game.
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Does anyone know the truth in the rumours that McCabe vetoed Birch's choice (O'Driscoll?) as manager and went for Adams instead? If it is true it doesn't say much about McCabe's confidence in the "football people" he appointed to look after the day to day running of the club.
 



Recession, property collapse, banks collapse... it doesn't matter.
What has happened is a perfect example of how not to manage cutting your budget.
Even to the point that bizarrely we've ended up shelling out millions in loans while being unable to assemble a proper team at the start of two consecutive seasons.
Last season had a degree of excuse with injuries but this season, scarcely believable for mismanagement.
 
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