Change of Image Required?

[Hodgyman]

Mr McCabe mentioned fairly recently that United needed an image change. I am sure that he is correct. We need to shed the image of being aggressive, physical and confrontational if ever we are to get a fair crack of the whip with decisions from the Premiership, FA, referees etc.

If the above is a given, do we need to ensure that our next choice of manager is suited to the improved image that we require to get a fair crack of the whip.

If we do succeed, we may even see a reduction in unfair penalties given against us.

 

[muttsnuts]

Mr McCabe mentioned fairly recently that United needed an image change. I am sure that he is correct. We need to shed the image of being aggressive, physical and confrontational if ever we are to get a fair crack of the whip with decisions from the Premiership, FA, referees etc.

If the above is a given, do we need to ensure that our next choice of manager is suited to the improved image that we require to get a fair crack of the whip.

If we do succeed, we may even see a reduction in unfair penalties given against us.

Is it me or do we just seem to be blessed with bad luck? or the fact that we watch/follow united more than any other team. Can anybody else think of a team where so much seems to go against them?

 

[Bergen Blade]

Is it me or do we just seem to be blessed with bad luck? or the fact that we watch/follow united more than any other team. Can anybody else think of a team where so much seems to go against them?

When I assessed the squad we were left with when the August transfer window shut I feared we'd struggle like we have done. It's hard to fix a lack of pace, movement, height, strength, creativity and width through a loan or two.

 

[Worksop II]

Mr McCabe mentioned fairly recently that United needed an image change

We are Millions in Debt, have a Statue of a Wednesday Player, we carry Directors Names on Replica Shirts, and cant run a Kids Christmas Party

I can think of one image that needs changing .......

 

[DuncDisorderly]

We need to shed the image of being aggressive, physical and confrontational if ever we are to get a fair crack of the whip with decisions from the Premiership, FA, referees etc.

How many penalties have Stoke conceeded this season? Genuine question...

 

[grafikhaus]

Good point DD. I make it just two (away at Chelsea and Newcastle). So, if I read you correctly, it's not a change of image that is required. Having listened to Carver's absolute outrage on P & G, several other comments on that prog. and the evidence of my own eyes, it's pretty obvious that there may, just may, be some kind of prejudice against us which stems directly from our absolute nerve in challenging - and winning - the Tevez case.

West Ham were caught bang to rights, yet there is still a groundswell of 'moaning Sheffield United', 'should have won the last game' etc. This has been led by the likes of people like Martin Samuel. But it wasn't just Tevez that saw us relegated, it was a steady drip of outrageous decisions such as the goal at West Ham that wasn't given, the Stevie G 'penalty' on the first day, five penalties given v. Liverpool and Everton alone and the penalty v. Wigan on the last day.

The Establishment is alive and thriving in English football (or football anywhere, for that matter). Don't rock the boat, old boy.

 

[beightonblade]

Talk abart paranoia......................

We are where we are because of the management at BDTBL nothing else. For whatever reason decent players have been sold and replaced with lesser quality ...............simples !

 

[DuncDisorderly]

Having listened to Carver's absolute outrage on P & G, several other comments on that prog. and the evidence of my own eyes, it's pretty obvious that there may, just may, be some kind of prejudice against us which stems directly from our absolute nerve in challenging - and winning - the Tevez case.

We're not getting the luck, but to a large extent you make your own luck. We have had a lot of poor decisions, I can't deny that, but when you are defending in a style that invites teams to make runs into your penalty area, or breakways with defenders facing their own goal, then you will give more opportunities for something to go wrong. Similarly we bemoan not getting penalties ourselves but when do we get midfielders running into the box and getting 'tripped'.

At least half the penalties given seem to be 'push the ball where no-one is going to get it anyway and then fall over someones leg'. Its the concept of the 'foul' being replaced with 'contact'. It is a sport where contact between players is the norm after all. but it is amazing how the refs fall for it time and time again. But that is how the definition of a foul, and my favourite, handball (getting a ball blasted at you from a yard away and it hitting the hand is not handball, yet they are routinely given) has somehow changed over the years.

Nope. No organised conspiracy for me. We aren't good enough individually or collectively at the back and it shows in the times we give stupid penalties away and we are nowhere near cute enough at winning them at the other end. If we were half as good at 'winning' penalties as Cardiff, for example, we'd be comfortably in mid-table...

 

[grafikhaus]

Good points, well made.

 

[Worksop II]

All good stuff Dunc

1/ Play the ball to feet in the box and wait for the challenge, yell loudly as the "tackle" comes in

2/ If the pass is not on, then shoot, and yell "handball" as it clips anyone anywhere

 

[CyrixTheBlade]

Image change?

Nahh let's just amalgamate the two Sheffield clubs!!

Or not.