Friday pivotal to our future.

[Blade for Sale]

My colours are nailed to the mast, I like Weir, I think he is turning us around, I think we will win on Friday and I think it will be the shot in the arm our season needs. I predict we will finish top 10 with an outside chance of the play offs. I am however aware of the howls of derision this will invite from an increasingly disillusioned fanbase, and I would never seek to deride their view, there is no disguising the poor start to the season and the fact that the stakes are very high.

Whe all is said and done, I think the board will act if we don't win on Friday, regadless of what I or anyone else thinks. All I ask is positive support all throughout the match, if there's any booing to be done save it 'til the final whistle, if you're booing it means we ain't won, and chances are you'll get your wish by Saturday morning.

COYRAWW, and come on Davey boy, prove me right.

 

[blade too long]

we move up to 16th with a win , , however if we lose he has to go

 

[Northyorksblade]

I think I am with you btl

 

[Torrix1889]

Deffo shit or bust time.

Will a win paper over the cracks though...?

 

[UnitedBlade]

I wouldn't underestimate Crawley, unbeaten in 5 and only lost once away from home to Wolves.

I agree the future of Weir and some of the players is on the line.

For once this season, they need to respond with the necessary skill and fight.

I'm afraid I am not optimistic they have the guts to do it. Would love to say I am but I've seen too many timid performances this season.

 

[davidpinder]

Bit early isn't it ???

 

[Darren]

Who ever thought we would go into a game with Crawley Town* not expecting to win.

That is how low we have sunk.

* With all due respect to Crawley who have done very well etc etc, we should be going into home games against then as Man Utd would go into home games against us...

 

[Hartley Hare]

Darren, that lady on your bed has still got her shoes on. You should always take your shoes off when you come in from outside and put a nice pair of slippers on.

Filth.

HH

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Darren, that lady on your bed has still got her shoes on. You should always take your shoes off when you come in from outside and put a nice pair of slippers on.

Filth.

HH

lady??? I thought it was Walthy in a blonde wig.

 

[Selly]

lady??? I thought it was Walthy in a blonde wig.

Darren might be kinky, but he isn`t that kinky....

 

[Worksop_Blade]

My colours are nailed to the mast, I like Weir, I think he is turning us around, I think we will win on Friday and I think it will be the shot in the arm our season needs. I predict we will finish top 10 with an outside chance of the play offs. I am however aware of the howls of derision this will invite from an increasingly disillusioned fanbase, and I would never seek to deride their view, there is no disguising the poor start to the season and the fact that the stakes are very high.

Whe all is said and done, I think the board will act if we don't win on Friday, regadless of what I or anyone else thinks. All I ask is positive support all throughout the match, if there's any booing to be done save it 'til the final whistle, if you're booing it means we ain't won, and chances are you'll get your wish by Saturday morning.

COYRAWW, and come on Davey boy, prove me right.

Is this acceptable to you?

Do you realise how much the club gets left behind by the rest of football every season it languishes in this division?

 

[Darren]

Darren, that lady on your bed has still got her shoes on. You should always take your shoes off when you come in from outside and put a nice pair of slippers on.

Filth.

HH

It's not my bed...

 

[Kev Gee]

I would imagine Friday is Weirs (and his squads) Rourkes Drift moment.

Either stand & fight against the hordes. Or slip meekly into history as the worst manager in our 125 years of history.

 

[Blade for Sale]

Is this acceptable to you?

Do you realise how much the club gets left behind by the rest of football every season it languishes in this division?

Under normal circumstances no, and had you asked me at the beginning of the season, I would have said play offs minimum. However, in my view (and I know it is a minority view now), David Weir is attempting to make the biggest change in our playing style since the mid 90's, and we have to assume that there are substantial funds in the pipeline, the management of which (re the fairplay rules) will be complex, but there is enough business acumen in place to make it happen. I am optimistic that we will win on Friday, I am optimistic that we will kick on from there, I am optimistic that we will be in the Championship for the 2015-16 seasn at the latest, and I am optimistic that when we get there, we will be in a position to challenge in that league. I am also optimistic that virtually nobody shares my optimism, but then again, there are probably Sryian refugees with more optimism than your average Sheffielder.

 

[super_pig]

It's not my bed...

and presumably the stilleto's are yours as well??

 

[Fiery Blade]

There's Optimistic and there's Barking !

Weirs arrogance and intransigence is unbelievable given the dire situation we are in !

Yet there are still people who believe we will magically turn it around and go on a thirty match winning run to take the division by storm !

If you want to believe a manager who justifies his position by exaggerating the number of chances we create and saying every week he is disappointed then words fail me .................

In truth we are not unlucky, we are poor - piss poor actually and no amount of dressing up with words like 'We're turning the corner' 'We deserved much more' or that 'The lads gave their all' will change things!

It appears that Weir is so out of his depth he doesn't have a clue to change things!

 

[raul]

Not sure about the future of the club, but surely Fiery's exclaimation mark key can't take much more...

 

[Lampiao]

I'm afraid even a single win against Crawley will not be enough to change my mind about Weir's ability as a manager. He needs to be able to switch on a sequence of several positive results on the bounce. I fear this is beyond him and the current team and tactics.

 

[Coily]

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Yet there are still people who believe we will magically turn it around and go on a thirty match winning run to take the division by storm !

People keep using the phrase 'turn things around'. Most who are going to the games are saying we're playing OK ( albeit seemingly for 60 minutes until we concede) but that there's not a lot wrong that a couple of wins and a bit of confidence might sort out. I keep saying it but it's not as if we're getting battered and overrun each week.

 

[Selly]

People keep using the phrase 'turn things around'. Most who are going to the games are saying we're playing OK ( albeit seemingly for 60 minutes until we concede) but that there's not a lot wrong that a couple of wins and a bit of confidence might sort out. I keep saying it but it's not as if we're getting battered and overrun each week.

But is that because the opposition know that 1 goal is enough, so once they score they don`t need to get a second as our attack has as many teeth as a 4 week old...

 

[raul]

But is that because the opposition know that 1 goal is enough, so once they score they don`t need to get a second as our attack has as many teeth as a 4 week old...

I keep reading and re-reading posts saying things like "we've got a good squad/one better than last season/a play-off squad" etc etc and it seems like people genuinely believe this is a given.

We haven't. Some of them might be a bit fancier than their predcessors (Brandy/Cresswell) but I see no evidence that any of them have the character and resilliance required when confidence is low to turn things around. It's like 11 Ryan Flynns/Michael Doyles/Knock yourselves out with whoever running around.

We're bottom because whilst some of them have some of the attributes required to be professionals, none of them have them all, which is why they've all hit their glass ceiling in League 1

 

[broomhillblade]

David Weir is attempting to make the biggest change in our playing style since the mid 90's, .

Changing it to a formation that doesn't work, it seems. ( I see that Liverpool played with two strikers yesterday).

 

[Darren]

People keep using the phrase 'turn things around'. Most who are going to the games are saying we're playing OK ( albeit seemingly for 60 minutes until we concede) but that there's not a lot wrong that a couple of wins and a bit of confidence might sort out. I keep saying it but it's not as if we're getting battered and overrun each week.

So it's come to that has it? We should take comfort from the fact that we are not being battered and overrrun by 3rd division sides?

 

[Darren]

I keep reading and re-reading posts saying things like "we've got a good squad/one better than last season/a play-off squad" etc etc and it seems like people genuinely believe this is a given.

We haven't. Some of them might be a bit fancier than their predcessors (Brandy/Cresswell) but I see no evidence that any of them have the character and resilliance required when confidence is low to turn things around. It's like 11 Ryan Flynns/Michael Doyles/Knock yourselves out with whoever running around.

We're bottom because whilst some of them have some of the attributes required to be professionals, none of them have them all, which is why they've all hit their glass ceiling in League 1

This lot have shown, by and large, by their previous careers that their can play at at least the top end of the 3rd Division. So, yes, it is disgraceful and indictment of the manager that we are bottom.

 

[sheffielder]

Teams are literally able to roll us over without playing to their best. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't just the basics we were getting wrong. Weir is like a rabbit stuck in headlights and when we go a goal down he freezes.

 

[JohnDenver]

It's not my bed...

Is it the Linton Travel Tavern?

 

[Worksop_Blade]

Under normal circumstances no, and had you asked me at the beginning of the season, I would have said play offs minimum. However, in my view (and I know it is a minority view now), David Weir is attempting to make the biggest change in our playing style since the mid 90's, and we have to assume that there are substantial funds in the pipeline, the management of which (re the fairplay rules) will be complex, but there is enough business acumen in place to make it happen. I am optimistic that we will win on Friday, I am optimistic that we will kick on from there, I am optimistic that we will be in the Championship for the 2015-16 seasn at the latest, and I am optimistic that when we get there, we will be in a position to challenge in that league. I am also optimistic that virtually nobody shares my optimism, but then again, there are probably Sryian refugees with more optimism than your average Sheffielder.

I understand what you are saying and I would love to see a United team play in the same vein as Swansea/Arsenal etc but we need a manager who has done that kind of thing before.

Currently we have an ex part time reserve team coach from Everton who does not know what to do, we need someone who can think back and use his previous experience of rebuilding a squad.

Weir doesn't have any experience in anyway shape or form and why should our football club suffer while he gets some?

 

[Fiery Blade]

People keep using the phrase 'turn things around'. Most who are going to the games are saying we're playing OK ( albeit seemingly for 60 minutes until we concede) but that there's not a lot wrong that a couple of wins and a bit of confidence might sort out. I keep saying it but it's not as if we're getting battered and overrun each week.

But basically, we don't know how to win - playing OK for 60 minutes is not good enough - we are not scoring goals when we are in the ascendancy - Very similar to yesterdays match on telly Sunderland v Liverpool - up until Liverpool scored the stats said Sunderland had around 65% possession yet within minutes they were two down and the match was lost - Sunderland are in the same position as we are - bottom of the league !

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

Tis true. Good teams win, bad teams never. The year Charlton pissed the league, almost every game i read a report for, the opponent had been on top before Charltingham scored. If you can't score when you're on top, you can bet your coconuts the other team will.