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“I expect Danny Wilson to be with us for a very long period of time”, said Kevin McCabe upon Wilson’s appointment in May 2011.
McCabe took a huge gamble in appointing Wilson, incurring the wrath of supporters in doing so. A combination of Wilson’s quietly assured and dignified demeanor, allied with positive performances and results meant most supporters were eventually won over.
Wilson inherited a relegated team but a squad, which nonetheless contained plenty of talent. He was given strong financial backing, initially by McCabe with a focus on gaining promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt. Jamie Ward was the only key player sacrificed from the Championship squad and his loss was compensated with some useful additions in the likes of Kevin McDonald, Jean-Francois Lescinel and Ryan Flynn.
The season started brightly and The Blades developed an aura of invincibility due in large part to Wilson’s ability to leverage the considerable attacking talent at his disposal in Messrs Lowton, Quinn, Williamson and Evans. 2012 had the smell and feel of a promotion season until Wilson and the Blades were dealt a mortal blow when Evans was sent down. In his absence, they failed to win any of their final three league games.
Following the customary play-off final defeat McCabe decided it was time to make serious cost savings and the squad that came within a whisker of winning promotion was butchered with Lowton, Quinn and Williamson amongst those moved on. Evans (29), Williamson (13) and Lowton (6) had accounted for 48 of The Blades’s 92 league goals in the previous season, while Quinn had the highest number of League One assists to his name.
With his attacking assets stripped, Wilson adopted a more cautious approach in his second season based on a strong defensive unit. The Blades proved difficult to beat, remaining unbeaten for the first 16 games of the 2012-13 campaign, until a 1-0 reverse at MK in mid-November, and topped the table at Christmas.
Whilst The Blades were a strong defensive unit - conceding only 36 goals in 41 league games prior to Wilson’s sacking - rebuilding his attacking capability was always likely to prove more challenging. The signing of Blackman looked inspired as he scored at just under a goal every two games and Shaun Miller had just found his stride prior to sustaining a cruciate injury. The Blades scored 39 goals in 28 games prior to Blackman’s sale at the end of the 2013 January transfer window and just 17 in 18 games following his departure. His replacement, Jamie Murphy, would ultimately prove an inspired signing by Wilson but he took time to adjust to the requirements of League One following his arrival from Scottish football.
Despite topping the table at Christmas, The Blades’s form in the second half of the season remained just short of that required to sustain a top two position and following Blackman’s exit goal scoring became even more of a problem.
In truth, some of the football played in Wilson’s second term was dull and uninspiring, particularly in the wake of the previous season’s exploits. That said, Wilson’s ability to reengineer his team and maintain a promotion challenge despite losing most of his key players, should be lauded.
McCabe, sacked Wilson 23 months into his reign, but was courteous enough to “thank Danny and Frank for all their endeavours and hard work over the past two seasons.” Except it wasn’t two full seasons because there were 4 games left and The Blades were sitting comfortably in the play off places, still within striking distance of the top two. This was a sacking caused not by fan revolt or a rational assessment of performance and prospects but by the owner’s desperation.
McCabe’s hoped for upturn in form never materialised and The Blades exited the Play-offs with a pitiful performance and defeat at Yeovil. The timing of Wilson’s sacking made little sense at the time and looks even more misguided with the benefit of hindsight.
The ignominy of another season in the third tier and its financial implications caused McCabe to blink and Wilson, with his 52% win record, was gone.
Two months later, after wowing the club’s hierarchy with his presentation skills and master plan for success, David Weir was appointed………. and promptly sacked after winning only one of his first 13 games in charge. Supporters and executives were united in the need to make this particular change.
Next up, after protracted negotiations, was Nigel Clough. In contrast with the furore surrounding Wilson’s appointment Clough was a popular choice amongst supporters and McCabe welcomed a manager with “an outstanding pedigree in the game……………who can provide stability, energy and confidence in the playing side.”
McCabe’s point about “stability” was pertinent given he’d appointed 8 managers (including 2 caretakers) in 5 post-Warnock years and sacked 7 of them (Gary Speed being released to take the Wales job).
Clough quickly affirmed the wisdom of his appointment, taking a revitalised Blades from the bottom 3 to the edge of the play offs and an FA Cup semi-final thrown in for good measure – all within a matter of 8 months. Prospects seemed set fair for a charge to promotion in 2015 until defensive lynchpin Maguire was sold to Hull just prior to the start of the new season. Clough’s failure to replace him played a huge role in wrecking any promotion hopes.
After a sticky start to the 2014-15 campaign, “stability”, was a point picked up again by the club’s hierarchy, in September 2014, when Jim Phipps described English football’s propensity for sacking managers as a “curse on the sport.” When asked what the consequences for Clough would be if the Blades failed to gain promotion, he said, “if we don’t go up (this season), I’ll probably be sat in California licking my wounds but, joking aside, Nigel’s place is secure. “ Indeed Phipps confirmed how he would be “tickled pink” if Clough stayed in situ at The Blades for 20 years and that The Blades had appointed a manager “with whom we can sleep at night!“
McCabe and Phipps were convinced that, in Clough, they had the right man to steer The Blades for the longer term and build a footballing dynasty from the Academy upwards. Phipps continued:
“We have transformed the culture of how we make decisions and how we run the football club; a lot more power to the manager and the front-office management, a more hands-off approach from the board.” Phipps’s new “hands off” approach clearly seemed to be working as planned when he confirmed: “There has been nothing to make me think we don’t have the right people aboard. We have a good long-term solution in hand.
Despite a sticky start to the 2014-15 season Phipps remained unperturbed, noting: “The record over the course of nearly a year since Nigel has been here is outstanding.
“All we need to do is give him the time and resources. My guess is we will be smiling and collecting a promotion cheque, then dealing with the next layer of investment.”
Fast-forward to May 2015 and the anticipated smiles had turned to grimaces after another Play-off defeat at the hands of Swindon Town. Clough was transformed from savior to scapegoat in a matter of 8 months as Phipps seemed intent on shifting the burden of blame away from his own doorstep: "… some of the current problems in the side (its size, for example) are byproducts of our trying as a board to be true to our approach, in circumstances where we allowed the Technical Board process to be thoroughly undermined by a gaffer who was not interested in the process; hence, some of the excesses (recruiting in quantity, signing injured players etc). We should have seen what was happening (the excesses anyway) and responded to them more quickly.”
This statement begs many questions of Phipps and the club’s board. In September 2014, almost a year into Clough’s reign, we were told: “There has been nothing to make me think we don’t have the right people aboard.” If we assume the “injured players” he refers to are James Wallace and Paul Coutts: Wallace was signed in June 2014, seemingly, as a cheaper alternative to Conor Coady. Coutts was signed in January 2015 and, despite his previous injury record, is still on course to make 30+ appearances within his first calendar year for The Blades.
Phipps also made reference to Clough signing too many players resulting in an excessive squad size. During his tenure, ins and outs, (excluding loan signings) were as follows:
Signed: Scougall, Harris, JCR, McNulty, Basham, Wallace J, Butler, Davies, Alcock, McGahey, Higdon, McEveley, Turner, Adams, Wallace K, Coutts, Brayford, Done (18)
Outs: King, Williams, McMahon, Barry, Brandy, Westlake, Hill, Miller, McGinty, Whitehouse, Johns, Hodder, Smith, Taylor, Maguire, Butler, Ironside, Porter, McGinn (19)
On the question of numbers it becomes clear that whilst Clough may not have resolved Phipps’s alleged problem of an inflated squad, it was not of his making and he was only at the club for 19 months.
It would also be hard to argue that Clough’s transfer dealings didn’t improve the quality of the squad he inherited. With the exception of Maguire, who Clough did not want to lose, there is a strong case that every like for like replacement was an improvement on the player shipped out (though Higdon v Porter is a close call!). That’s not to say all have been outstandingly successful, and a few have been very disappointing, but the idea, proffered by some, that Adkins inherited a load of deadwood from Clough does not bear close scrutiny.
Phipps and his board had been happy to provide Clough with the authority and headroom to run the football side with little interference. A year after his appointment, Phipps reiterated how he was delighted with the progress made and confident that, in Clough and his staff, The Blades had “a good long-term solution in hand.”
Clough was sacked a few months after this accolade and criticised by Phipps for his transfer dealings and lack of enthusiasm in the Technical Board “process.” Clough and the club’s supporters could be excused for being thoroughly confused by the conflicting messages emanating from Jim Phipps.
Shortly after Nigel Adkins’s appointment, Phipps said:
"In appointing a new football manager last summer, we specifically set out to find a gaffer who would help us re-establish a process that would prevent the repetition of the same mistakes. I am very happy with the progress we have made on this particular front and believe the fruits of the Technical Board process will show themselves over time, if we stick to the process.”
The “process” referred to – apparently aimed at preventing a repeat of Clough’s alleged but unsubstantiated failings in the transfer market – has thus far yielded: Martyn Woolford and Billy Sharp, plus the loan signings of Conor Sammon, David Edgar and Dean Hammond. Whilst I am not suggesting that all of these signings have been disastrous, they currently look very expensive for what they have delivered, and evidence to date suggests they have not been successful in improving the team.
Which brings the role of Phipps’s much vaunted Technical Board sharply into focus. What has it added to the process of player recruitment? Maybe Clough’s disdain was well founded. Without the “process”, Wilson signed Jamie Murphy and Clough signed Che Adams – players discovered from lower leagues at minimal cost and with resale potential running into millions. By contrast, Adkins’s signings are all players who can no longer cut it at a higher level but who doubtless arrive with Championship wage expectations.
On the issue of player fitness: Woolford arrived having missed a pre-season and Hammond badly lacking in match fitness. Edgar has managed to participate in just over 50% of league games since his arrival due to a recurring hamstring problem and the demands of international duties.
In November 2015 after a deeply disappointing start to the season, Phipps said: “You have to hold tight and have faith. Making constant changes is not how high performance organisations work.”
Phipps’s linkage between high performance organisations and avoiding constant change is generally true. Building success for the longer term requires the establishment of good organisational habits and the opportunity to learn from occasional failure – something which every regime, however successful, whether in sport or wider business, will experience if it stays around long enough.
The irony of Phipps’s words could not be greater given the Blades’s current plight and the club’s recent trigger-happy treatment of managers. Wilson’s sacking was neither demanded nor anticipated by most supporters – an apparently desperate roll of the dice from an increasingly hapless chairman. Similarly with Clough, who, despite some unfathomable blunders in his second season, retained the support of two thirds of the fan base to lead the team into 2015-16.
So onto Adkins, who would surely be under serious pressure, were it not for the Blades’s lamentable record in post-Warnock managerial selection and its failure to “hold tight and have faith” when things get tough.
Six months into Wilson’s and Clough’s role a pattern of play had been established which was yielding positive results. Promotion under both seemed likely. At a similar juncture under Adkins The Blades appear as a team devoid of pattern and confidence and results are poor. Supporter morale is at its lowest ebb since relegation in 2011.
Nigel Adkins arrived with impressive credentials for the task in hand and was a popular appointment amongst The Blades faithful. Despite his worrying start, he deserves the wholesome backing and support of the board to turn things around and achieve the objective of building a team capable of a serious promotion challenge. In the event that he moves his team onto an upwards trajectory he must then be allowed to make occasional mistakes and his team suffer lapses in form – a luxury afforded to neither Wilson nor Clough.
When asked if Adkins, who has a three-year contract, would still be manager next season, even if United remain in League One, Phipps answered: “That is the only logical conclusion. We’ve got to build stability.”
Maybe the club’s “logic” has changed and mistakes of the recent past have been evaluated. We should also consider the possibility that Phipps and co realise their credibility is on the line and they simply cannot afford another managerial failure having bungled the last three. The reckless appointment of Weir and sacking of Wilson and Clough may well prove to be Adkin’s salvation – at least in the short term.
Alex Ferguson always maintained that the most important person in a football club is the manager. I used to believe him but recent experience of our beloved Blades has changed my mind. The most important person in a football club is the person who appoints and removes the manager.
Kevin McCabe is a Blade to his core and has put more money into the club than every other owner combined in the club’s long history. He has also proved consistently inept in his decision making surrounding team management.
Jim Phipps appears to be a thoroughly decent, well-intentioned human being. He has dramatically improved channels of communication between the club and its support base and seems to genuinely care. I am pleased to have him as part of our club. However, he has no track record in making decisions regarding football management and his rhetoric and contradictions on the subject are verging on embarrassing.
The “stability” talked about, but not implemented, by McCabe and Phipps is desperately needed but it can only be achieved with the right people making good decision on and off the field.
McCabe took a huge gamble in appointing Wilson, incurring the wrath of supporters in doing so. A combination of Wilson’s quietly assured and dignified demeanor, allied with positive performances and results meant most supporters were eventually won over.
Wilson inherited a relegated team but a squad, which nonetheless contained plenty of talent. He was given strong financial backing, initially by McCabe with a focus on gaining promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt. Jamie Ward was the only key player sacrificed from the Championship squad and his loss was compensated with some useful additions in the likes of Kevin McDonald, Jean-Francois Lescinel and Ryan Flynn.
The season started brightly and The Blades developed an aura of invincibility due in large part to Wilson’s ability to leverage the considerable attacking talent at his disposal in Messrs Lowton, Quinn, Williamson and Evans. 2012 had the smell and feel of a promotion season until Wilson and the Blades were dealt a mortal blow when Evans was sent down. In his absence, they failed to win any of their final three league games.
Following the customary play-off final defeat McCabe decided it was time to make serious cost savings and the squad that came within a whisker of winning promotion was butchered with Lowton, Quinn and Williamson amongst those moved on. Evans (29), Williamson (13) and Lowton (6) had accounted for 48 of The Blades’s 92 league goals in the previous season, while Quinn had the highest number of League One assists to his name.
With his attacking assets stripped, Wilson adopted a more cautious approach in his second season based on a strong defensive unit. The Blades proved difficult to beat, remaining unbeaten for the first 16 games of the 2012-13 campaign, until a 1-0 reverse at MK in mid-November, and topped the table at Christmas.
Whilst The Blades were a strong defensive unit - conceding only 36 goals in 41 league games prior to Wilson’s sacking - rebuilding his attacking capability was always likely to prove more challenging. The signing of Blackman looked inspired as he scored at just under a goal every two games and Shaun Miller had just found his stride prior to sustaining a cruciate injury. The Blades scored 39 goals in 28 games prior to Blackman’s sale at the end of the 2013 January transfer window and just 17 in 18 games following his departure. His replacement, Jamie Murphy, would ultimately prove an inspired signing by Wilson but he took time to adjust to the requirements of League One following his arrival from Scottish football.
Despite topping the table at Christmas, The Blades’s form in the second half of the season remained just short of that required to sustain a top two position and following Blackman’s exit goal scoring became even more of a problem.
In truth, some of the football played in Wilson’s second term was dull and uninspiring, particularly in the wake of the previous season’s exploits. That said, Wilson’s ability to reengineer his team and maintain a promotion challenge despite losing most of his key players, should be lauded.
McCabe, sacked Wilson 23 months into his reign, but was courteous enough to “thank Danny and Frank for all their endeavours and hard work over the past two seasons.” Except it wasn’t two full seasons because there were 4 games left and The Blades were sitting comfortably in the play off places, still within striking distance of the top two. This was a sacking caused not by fan revolt or a rational assessment of performance and prospects but by the owner’s desperation.
McCabe’s hoped for upturn in form never materialised and The Blades exited the Play-offs with a pitiful performance and defeat at Yeovil. The timing of Wilson’s sacking made little sense at the time and looks even more misguided with the benefit of hindsight.
The ignominy of another season in the third tier and its financial implications caused McCabe to blink and Wilson, with his 52% win record, was gone.
Two months later, after wowing the club’s hierarchy with his presentation skills and master plan for success, David Weir was appointed………. and promptly sacked after winning only one of his first 13 games in charge. Supporters and executives were united in the need to make this particular change.
Next up, after protracted negotiations, was Nigel Clough. In contrast with the furore surrounding Wilson’s appointment Clough was a popular choice amongst supporters and McCabe welcomed a manager with “an outstanding pedigree in the game……………who can provide stability, energy and confidence in the playing side.”
McCabe’s point about “stability” was pertinent given he’d appointed 8 managers (including 2 caretakers) in 5 post-Warnock years and sacked 7 of them (Gary Speed being released to take the Wales job).
Clough quickly affirmed the wisdom of his appointment, taking a revitalised Blades from the bottom 3 to the edge of the play offs and an FA Cup semi-final thrown in for good measure – all within a matter of 8 months. Prospects seemed set fair for a charge to promotion in 2015 until defensive lynchpin Maguire was sold to Hull just prior to the start of the new season. Clough’s failure to replace him played a huge role in wrecking any promotion hopes.
After a sticky start to the 2014-15 campaign, “stability”, was a point picked up again by the club’s hierarchy, in September 2014, when Jim Phipps described English football’s propensity for sacking managers as a “curse on the sport.” When asked what the consequences for Clough would be if the Blades failed to gain promotion, he said, “if we don’t go up (this season), I’ll probably be sat in California licking my wounds but, joking aside, Nigel’s place is secure. “ Indeed Phipps confirmed how he would be “tickled pink” if Clough stayed in situ at The Blades for 20 years and that The Blades had appointed a manager “with whom we can sleep at night!“
McCabe and Phipps were convinced that, in Clough, they had the right man to steer The Blades for the longer term and build a footballing dynasty from the Academy upwards. Phipps continued:
“We have transformed the culture of how we make decisions and how we run the football club; a lot more power to the manager and the front-office management, a more hands-off approach from the board.” Phipps’s new “hands off” approach clearly seemed to be working as planned when he confirmed: “There has been nothing to make me think we don’t have the right people aboard. We have a good long-term solution in hand.
Despite a sticky start to the 2014-15 season Phipps remained unperturbed, noting: “The record over the course of nearly a year since Nigel has been here is outstanding.
“All we need to do is give him the time and resources. My guess is we will be smiling and collecting a promotion cheque, then dealing with the next layer of investment.”
Fast-forward to May 2015 and the anticipated smiles had turned to grimaces after another Play-off defeat at the hands of Swindon Town. Clough was transformed from savior to scapegoat in a matter of 8 months as Phipps seemed intent on shifting the burden of blame away from his own doorstep: "… some of the current problems in the side (its size, for example) are byproducts of our trying as a board to be true to our approach, in circumstances where we allowed the Technical Board process to be thoroughly undermined by a gaffer who was not interested in the process; hence, some of the excesses (recruiting in quantity, signing injured players etc). We should have seen what was happening (the excesses anyway) and responded to them more quickly.”
This statement begs many questions of Phipps and the club’s board. In September 2014, almost a year into Clough’s reign, we were told: “There has been nothing to make me think we don’t have the right people aboard.” If we assume the “injured players” he refers to are James Wallace and Paul Coutts: Wallace was signed in June 2014, seemingly, as a cheaper alternative to Conor Coady. Coutts was signed in January 2015 and, despite his previous injury record, is still on course to make 30+ appearances within his first calendar year for The Blades.
Phipps also made reference to Clough signing too many players resulting in an excessive squad size. During his tenure, ins and outs, (excluding loan signings) were as follows:
Signed: Scougall, Harris, JCR, McNulty, Basham, Wallace J, Butler, Davies, Alcock, McGahey, Higdon, McEveley, Turner, Adams, Wallace K, Coutts, Brayford, Done (18)
Outs: King, Williams, McMahon, Barry, Brandy, Westlake, Hill, Miller, McGinty, Whitehouse, Johns, Hodder, Smith, Taylor, Maguire, Butler, Ironside, Porter, McGinn (19)
On the question of numbers it becomes clear that whilst Clough may not have resolved Phipps’s alleged problem of an inflated squad, it was not of his making and he was only at the club for 19 months.
It would also be hard to argue that Clough’s transfer dealings didn’t improve the quality of the squad he inherited. With the exception of Maguire, who Clough did not want to lose, there is a strong case that every like for like replacement was an improvement on the player shipped out (though Higdon v Porter is a close call!). That’s not to say all have been outstandingly successful, and a few have been very disappointing, but the idea, proffered by some, that Adkins inherited a load of deadwood from Clough does not bear close scrutiny.
Phipps and his board had been happy to provide Clough with the authority and headroom to run the football side with little interference. A year after his appointment, Phipps reiterated how he was delighted with the progress made and confident that, in Clough and his staff, The Blades had “a good long-term solution in hand.”
Clough was sacked a few months after this accolade and criticised by Phipps for his transfer dealings and lack of enthusiasm in the Technical Board “process.” Clough and the club’s supporters could be excused for being thoroughly confused by the conflicting messages emanating from Jim Phipps.
Shortly after Nigel Adkins’s appointment, Phipps said:
"In appointing a new football manager last summer, we specifically set out to find a gaffer who would help us re-establish a process that would prevent the repetition of the same mistakes. I am very happy with the progress we have made on this particular front and believe the fruits of the Technical Board process will show themselves over time, if we stick to the process.”
The “process” referred to – apparently aimed at preventing a repeat of Clough’s alleged but unsubstantiated failings in the transfer market – has thus far yielded: Martyn Woolford and Billy Sharp, plus the loan signings of Conor Sammon, David Edgar and Dean Hammond. Whilst I am not suggesting that all of these signings have been disastrous, they currently look very expensive for what they have delivered, and evidence to date suggests they have not been successful in improving the team.
Which brings the role of Phipps’s much vaunted Technical Board sharply into focus. What has it added to the process of player recruitment? Maybe Clough’s disdain was well founded. Without the “process”, Wilson signed Jamie Murphy and Clough signed Che Adams – players discovered from lower leagues at minimal cost and with resale potential running into millions. By contrast, Adkins’s signings are all players who can no longer cut it at a higher level but who doubtless arrive with Championship wage expectations.
On the issue of player fitness: Woolford arrived having missed a pre-season and Hammond badly lacking in match fitness. Edgar has managed to participate in just over 50% of league games since his arrival due to a recurring hamstring problem and the demands of international duties.
In November 2015 after a deeply disappointing start to the season, Phipps said: “You have to hold tight and have faith. Making constant changes is not how high performance organisations work.”
Phipps’s linkage between high performance organisations and avoiding constant change is generally true. Building success for the longer term requires the establishment of good organisational habits and the opportunity to learn from occasional failure – something which every regime, however successful, whether in sport or wider business, will experience if it stays around long enough.
The irony of Phipps’s words could not be greater given the Blades’s current plight and the club’s recent trigger-happy treatment of managers. Wilson’s sacking was neither demanded nor anticipated by most supporters – an apparently desperate roll of the dice from an increasingly hapless chairman. Similarly with Clough, who, despite some unfathomable blunders in his second season, retained the support of two thirds of the fan base to lead the team into 2015-16.
So onto Adkins, who would surely be under serious pressure, were it not for the Blades’s lamentable record in post-Warnock managerial selection and its failure to “hold tight and have faith” when things get tough.
Six months into Wilson’s and Clough’s role a pattern of play had been established which was yielding positive results. Promotion under both seemed likely. At a similar juncture under Adkins The Blades appear as a team devoid of pattern and confidence and results are poor. Supporter morale is at its lowest ebb since relegation in 2011.
Nigel Adkins arrived with impressive credentials for the task in hand and was a popular appointment amongst The Blades faithful. Despite his worrying start, he deserves the wholesome backing and support of the board to turn things around and achieve the objective of building a team capable of a serious promotion challenge. In the event that he moves his team onto an upwards trajectory he must then be allowed to make occasional mistakes and his team suffer lapses in form – a luxury afforded to neither Wilson nor Clough.
When asked if Adkins, who has a three-year contract, would still be manager next season, even if United remain in League One, Phipps answered: “That is the only logical conclusion. We’ve got to build stability.”
Maybe the club’s “logic” has changed and mistakes of the recent past have been evaluated. We should also consider the possibility that Phipps and co realise their credibility is on the line and they simply cannot afford another managerial failure having bungled the last three. The reckless appointment of Weir and sacking of Wilson and Clough may well prove to be Adkin’s salvation – at least in the short term.
Alex Ferguson always maintained that the most important person in a football club is the manager. I used to believe him but recent experience of our beloved Blades has changed my mind. The most important person in a football club is the person who appoints and removes the manager.
Kevin McCabe is a Blade to his core and has put more money into the club than every other owner combined in the club’s long history. He has also proved consistently inept in his decision making surrounding team management.
Jim Phipps appears to be a thoroughly decent, well-intentioned human being. He has dramatically improved channels of communication between the club and its support base and seems to genuinely care. I am pleased to have him as part of our club. However, he has no track record in making decisions regarding football management and his rhetoric and contradictions on the subject are verging on embarrassing.
The “stability” talked about, but not implemented, by McCabe and Phipps is desperately needed but it can only be achieved with the right people making good decision on and off the field.
) the rank stupidity, by McCabe, of the mid season Blackman sale.
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