Club Statement No.2

[JohnDenver]

This is what pissed me off about Blackwell. In my opinion this squad is more suited to football than hoofball or shall i call it aimlessball after yesterday. To me yesterday was far worse than anything Robson gave us.

Yesterday was very bad indeed, but we shouldn't forget just how chaotic Robbo's lot were. They didn't know what to do and they didn't give much of a toss about it either. Moreover they were better players, paid a lot more money.

Whatever Blackwell's failings, his teams played like they cared. Even against QPR I thought they showed awful fear and a total lack of understanding, but I felt they were hurting to be part of it.

 

[shorehamview]

Good old lenners, always able to make a negative out of a positive.

We can be fairly sure that whoever the board appoint, it will be the wrong one for you len. Can you just give me some guidance, who should it be and why?

You've more chance of finding a unicorn in Rotherham. All you'll get is rhetoric. Naming names will be even harder than answering "yes" or "no".

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

This is what pissed me off about Blackwell. In my opinion this squad is more suited to football than hoofball or shall i call it aimlessball after yesterday. To me yesterday was far worse than anything Robson gave us.

Throughout Blackwell's reign we've played some good stuff on occasions and we know we have the players to do it but Saturday they looked and played like complete strangers, no game plan, no cohesion and more importantly, no passion or togetherness. That more than anything is probably what swayed the board because if a Blackwell team doesn't have solidity and spirit it's doomed.

Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If Birch is incharge of all of the above why not just get rid of KB and let him do it on his own till the right man came in. What's the point in letting the squad get conditioned by a lame duck's tactics and management only to pull the carpet away from under everyone two games in?

It may make no sense but that's what appears to have happened !

 

[shorehamview]

Throughout Blackwell's reign we've played some good stuff on occasions and we know we have the players to do it.............

We have, but the occasions have been few and far between.. Even when we've been playing well we've rarely dominated teams from start to finish. A prime example of this is when we were three up against the pigs. We had the perfect opportunity to put them to the sword, and to finally shut them up about Boxing Day. So what happened? We let them nearly equalise when they should have been put down and out.

We have played some attractive stuff, but it's not been much. It has been frustrating when a player like Henderson, who while he may not have the silky skills of Ronaldo is quite capable of playing with his feet, is used more as a battering ram.

I've said it before that at the right time there's nothing wrong with a bit of hoof. When players like Lampard do it it's a "searching pass" but when we do it it's "long ball", and why? Because when there's very little variation that's the tag you get stuck with. Sure, we've played some good stuff "on occasion", but we all have birthdays "on occasion". I'd rather the occasions we played good football on were Saturdays and the occasional other day too, rather than for two minutes every Bank Holiday. I'd got nothing against Kevin Blackwell as a person, I've met him a couple of times and he came across as a very nice bloke, but as a manager he was too one-dimensional. He wasn't crap, he just wasn't good enough.

 

[broomhillblade]

They have used the word "further" an awful lot.

My thoughts too. How much better it would have been if they'd started with:

"Sheffield United today are actively considering a replacement for Kevin Blackwell."

Perhaps Birch knocked it up on the back of a fag packet and told someone to print it verbatim.

 

[grafikhaus]

Whether it was a rushed decision, part of a 'bigger plan' or whatever, Blackwell had to go.

Let's be honest, every manager has his good days, but can anyone look back on KBs reign and say 'Thanks for the memories'? I know I can't. All the folk sat around me were just going through the motions in turning up, last season was unbroken crap and even Wembley in 2009 was a couple of hundred quid wasted as Blackwell reverted to type and blew it on the big occasion. (How expensive that defeat now appears with the doubling of parachute payments.)

It'll be Speed plus a big surprise, I reckon. Shearer as 'Director of Football', maybe?

 

[JohnDenver]

My thoughts too. How much better it would have been if they'd started with:

"Sheffield United today are actively considering a replacement for Kevin Blackwell."

Nooo!!! It's corporate speak and therefore the devil's work. Putting 'actively' before a verb is just meaningless filler designed to have a sound to it, rather than a meaning.

The only saving grace would be that it's not 'proactively'.

**Shudder**

 

[broomhillblade]

Nooo!!! It's corporate speak and therefore the devil's work. Putting 'actively' before a verb is just meaningless filler designed to have a sound to it, rather than a meaning.

The only saving grace would be that it's not 'proactively'.

**Shudder**

Corporate speak or not, "actively'" suggests that the club is doing something positive. "Further" sounds like the club is dragging its feet. Also, to use the word "Further" four times in one short press release is hardly good English. It all makes me wonder who drafted the release. Maybe it's nothing more sinister than most of the usual press relations team being unavailable since it was a Sunday.