We could follow the lead of the Liverpool fans and have a walkout. But when? I suspect if we picked the 89th minute, as we were founded in 1889, many of the crowd would be long gone by then.
I don't really think that any walkout would influence McCabe, the prince, Jim Phipps or anyone else on the board. McCabe doesn't give a shit as long as he's making money, the prince is too busy with whatever his "job" as Saudi General Minister for Youth Welfare entails, Jim Phipps is enthusiastic but about as effective as a fart in a wind tunnel, and the rest of the board seem to be mainly local businessmen who have no grounding in football whatsoever, with the exception of Dave McCarthy.
We have been fucked over since the relegation from the Premier League, almost nine years ago, and it could be easily argued that we've been getting a good tupping from our owners since long before that. The club has been run ineptly by most, Derek Dooley aside, and it doesn't look like much is going to change in the near future. Do I like this? No, I bloody well don't. I also don't have a cure-all answer to the problem, although I wish that I had.
The "game-changing" investment hasn't reaped much in the way of any reward. Sure, Jim Phipps can argue that we've signed players, but have any of the signings since the prince paid his pound made a significant difference? All that has happened is that we have progressively become weaker, and I can't really see this changing. We have signed players that on the whole are simply average Division Three standard, with one or two possible exceptions, but even with the obvious stand-out candidates like Sharp most of the others signed have not shown enough to merit retaining them in the summer.
As much as we don't like it we are going to have to face up to facts. We have a manager shackled by an inept board, whose members do not have the necessary experience to run a football club. While enthusiasm and Twitter pictures of fans in new shirts is not a crime, our co-chairman Mr. Phipps has demonstrated that he's woefully out of touch with how most Sheffield United fans feel about the way we are heading. Next season could well be a relegation fight, and if it is then the board will feel the wrath of the supporters in ways they can't possibly comprehend right now.
It won't take much more of the dross we've been served up over the last few years before many more United fans are in open revolt. A walk out in protest will just be the beginning, and I must say that I will be one of those walking.
Put simply, I've had about enough of the way we are being run. No ambition despite statements to the contrary, no adequate replacement of players we've seen go, and a nice pat on the head now and again from a jovial American isn't enough, by a long, long way.
i will most likely pick and choose few matches
