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Such a good article, just one factual error..Colins two cup semis were in 03 not the 90s..no mention of playoff final that yr either. Otherwise, spot on, especially about the club and the shambles regarding Evans.
 
Good unbiased account of our club, especially likening our club's PR to that of Islamic State! Spot on.
 
Good article...and yes, a tad depressing... :(
 
This from a qpr fan who one of his own players Was convicted of assault. 6month prison term.
 
judge said:
  • Good well researched read
  • funny but I was thinking about that Swansea game and how ironic the turnaround in the two clubs fortunes has been since ,just this morning
  • why are these bullet points on my post
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Yep, so well researched that we seem to have reached two domestic cup semi finals under Warnock in the 1990s. Just a tad inaccurate!
 
Whatever oversights, or factually incorrect inclusions, I think the tone of this article is about right.

To use an often repeated term, we've spunked away whatever funds have been available to us, with the exception of the occasional decent buy who wasn't joined by other quality additions. This was written by someone who has no act to grind, so I hope any Blade who hasn't already accepted the shambles, or in trade parlance, the third rate decision making that has gone hand in hand with our club's decline and stagnancy, will read and awake from their slumber.

We have everything we need to move forward, infrastructure, a ground ready for far larger crowds, and then we have a board of directors who've been brought to join other mundane non-entities. Just thinking about the frittering of the West Ham money, the poor calibre of manager that this club has appointed, and the reliance on loans as a way of giving the fans a short term boost, what we have excelled in is a level of cluelessness without a business visionary amongst the bunch of them. McCabe being a Blade will never be enough to protect him from the justified claim of poor leadership.

Unless there's a radical re-think at the very top of this club, we'll end up as the equivalent of a footballing heritage site - all past glory (?) and continual patchwork maintenance.
 
itsinyerblood said:
Whatever oversights, or factually incorrect inclusions, I think the tone of this article is about right.

To use an often repeated term, we've spunked away whatever funds have been available to us, with the exception of the occasional decent buy who wasn't joined by other quality additions. This was written by someone who has no act to grind, so I hope any Blade who hasn't already accepted the shambles, or in trade parlance, the third rate decision making that has gone hand in hand with our club's decline and stagnancy, will read and awake from their slumber.

We have everything we need to move forward, infrastructure, a ground ready for far larger crowds, and then we have a board of directors who've been brought to join other mundane non-entities. Just thinking about the frittering of the West Ham money, the poor calibre of manager that this club has appointed, and the reliance on loans as a way of giving the fans a short term boost, what we have excelled in is a level of cluelessness without a business visionary amongst the bunch of them. McCabe being a Blade will never be enough to protect him from the justified claim of poor leadership.

Unless there's a radical re-think at the very top of this club, we'll end up as the equivalent of a footballing heritage site - all past glory (?) and continual patchwork maintenance.
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itsinyerblood. cannot disagree with a word you have said , but people are not cueing up to pump money into a second rate , back water city club . The same with SWFC.

Palace and Swansea have been in the same predicament , so there is always hope.

I don't have a answer , but another season in league 1 , will make the QPR fan article , and your post even more true of having poor leadership , and the continual demise of a once established football club.


UTB
 

Decent article and about right in its balance sad to say - depressing for sure but we will get nowhere feeling sorry for ourselves or denying the mire we have gotten ourselves into. Worst of all I pretty much agree with this section

"But it’s a promotion this club craves/needs. Beaten, and outplayed, at home by Bristol City on day one, they’ve since slipped 15 points behind Steve Cotterill’s side in League One. Sixth place offers hope of promotion through the play-offs, but you’d not find many willing to put much money on them succeeding at the eighth attempt at that if it comes down to it. There has been criticism of Clough’s cautious, defensive style which will ring bells at his previous clubs Derby and Burton. Clough in danger of being known as a ship steadier rather than a promotion achiever - see the acceleration in Derby’s progress since he was replaced by Steve McClaren at Pride Park. "
 
Cyprus Blade said:
Decent article and about right in its balance sad to say - depressing for sure but we will get nowhere feeling sorry for ourselves or denying the mire we have gotten ourselves into. Worst of all I pretty much agree with this section

"But it’s a promotion this club craves/needs. Beaten, and outplayed, at home by Bristol City on day one, they’ve since slipped 15 points behind Steve Cotterill’s side in League One. Sixth place offers hope of promotion through the play-offs, but you’d not find many willing to put much money on them succeeding at the eighth attempt at that if it comes down to it. There has been criticism of Clough’s cautious, defensive style which will ring bells at his previous clubs Derby and Burton. Clough in danger of being known as a ship steadier rather than a promotion achiever - see the acceleration in Derby’s progress since he was replaced by Steve McClaren at Pride Park. "
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All very depressing and brings home truths and realisation. The only club who perhaps have been mismanaged more than SUFC is Glasgow Rangers . ( no mention of Charles Green)

UTB
 
Thats about spot on, the robson stuff was funny to read..

Doesn't change the fact that clough/the club.. has made us worse than we were when last season ended...

We should have paid for brayford, paid for coady and kept harry by paying him what he wanted, all those players with flynn scougall and murphy would have took us up,.and kept us there, those players would have consolidated us in the champ, no problem...

Short sighted behavior by either clough or the board...
 
Lord Bos of Eckington. said:
itsinyerblood. cannot disagree with a word you have said , but people are not cueing up to pump money into a second rate , back water city club . The same with SWFC.

Palace and Swansea have been in the same predicament , so there is always hope.

I don't have a answer , but another season in league 1 , will make the QPR fan article , and your post even more true of having poor leadership , and the continual demise of a once established football club.


UTB
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Glad you agree mate, to be honest it's difficult to say otherwise unless you're happy to tolerate the intolerable.

Let's take a quantum leap and compare a couple of Premiership teams with what this club could possibly achieve - Stoke and Swansea. There's no particular reason why I selected those two, other than they are Premiership constants. Swansea are a good example of what can happen when supporters get hold of their club. I'm not that well versed with the Swans and their board when the fans got involved, but somewhere in that mix must have been a level of nous and dynamism that had been missing previously. Swansea now have two players we could have kept, Leon Britton and Nathan Dyer, but somehow we screwed it up. We didn't seem to know how to integrate either of these guys, just another emphatic bit of poor business that this club has excelled in. As for Stoke, well season in, season out, they battle their way through, perhaps not that attractively, but they are Prem class simply because they have cut their cloth accordingly and not shied away from doing what's necessary to stay in the Prem.

What I question is the lack of resolve at the highest levels of this club. If I were a director I'd speak several home truths to my fellow directors, and if they didn't like what they heard I'd point to the exit and suggest they don't return unless they want what I want.
 
I'm gonna have to post again, it can't be clough can it,.why would he not want those players, I know what we saw last season from them when they were on the pitch together was brilliant,.we were feared and unplayable on our day, its got to be the vanishing bog roll prince and mcabe with their lack of ambition and investment, clough must be trying to make a silk purse..... can't finish that sentence for obvious reasons.

Youvr got the club,.staduim, grounds, and profile, spend some money, invest properly, and create a brand worth something if that's what you want...

You don't build something valuable on the cheap, time you put your money where your mouth is, and as for phipps with his facebook/twitter complaining about what was spent, wake up mate, you sold more than you spent, were not thick, you must surely think we are...
 
I don't believe it's a good as some think it is, wrong facts include 2 semis in the 90's when they were the 02/03 season and James Beattie got 34 goals in 62 games no one can say he was rarely found in the box. It looks to me like he decided to write this and ran out of things to say so filled the article with 6 and a bit paragraphs on Ched Evans which we are all very bored of now. Yes a lot is the truth but nothing us blades don't know already. If Clough is left to re-build I am not looking forward to the finished product. I predict that his win percentage will be way lower than Danny wilsons IF he makes 100 games something I doubt he will.
 
I was enjoying it till the blogger started going on about Ched Evans. It is simply not true that Blades supporters only spoke up for him because he could have scored us some goals, and I should know because I am one. There have been vile Twitter trolls making the lass's life a misery and they are disgusting people but they are a tiny minority and besides not all of them are United fans. When Evans went to prison, for example, Tendayi Darikwa of Chesterfield FC immediately wrote an abusive tweet about the woman in the case, as did lots of silly young men of his age, but that's not our fault, is it?

And as for Jess Ennis, why does everyone not from Sheffield think that the sun shines out of her arse? She's a fine athlete with a nice face but she has also sold her soul to Santander, a company which invests in the arms trade and is consequently responsible for profiting from people's deaths, which Ched Evans is not. She occupies no higher moral ground than he does and is in no position to blackmail SUFC. While, again, misogynistic abuse on Twitter is horrible, she at least bears some responsibility for her own actions.

With due respect to their fans QPR are hardly the most likeable club in the world. They employed Harry Redknapp for a start and we all know what he is. And if we are talking about respect for women maybe the writer of the article would like to comment on Bobby Zamora's taste in ceiling decoration. Eh?
 
Brilliantly written account of our club. I don't give a fat rats arse about 'inaccuracies' in the text. He could call us Sheffield Wednesday throughout the whole piece and we'd know who he was on about and what went wrong. Beattie, for all his 30-odd goals certainly proved his concrete loyalty to us in more ways than none. His appearance at the club was merely a stop-gap toward getting back to the Premier League, despite being 2007-08 Player of the Year. Then he comes back for another pay-day and clocks up an unsavoury disciplinary reputation. Nice one. Top Blade.

As for Jessica Ennis, how anyone can apportion 'blame' her way for electing to have her name removed and then aligning her association with Santander with justification is pretty pea-brained. She has no responsibility for United 'fans' tweeting they wish her to be raped. That is ridiculous. And the arms trade - 'profiting from people's deaths' - I believe some perspective needs to be looked at regarding this. Can you (felix) cite where Santander actively fund this? Which companies do they invest in, and which of these companies are involved in heinous, unjust campaigns against civilians? If you can, then I could possibly name you fifty companies you use (which you are not aware of yet are involved in similar actions) which do exactly the same, if not worse. Blaming Jessica Ennis for garnering sponsorship for her ongoing Olympic success whilst wearing the national colours is the stuff of UKIP and pretty low-end.

I agree with itsinyer and many others. Looking at all of what we have experienced since 2007, it is hard to imagine why anyone turns up at Bramall Lane considering the contempt this board shows for Sheffield United and its long-suffering fans.

pommpey
 
I'd hardly say it if it were not true, would I? You could have found these articles via Google in less time than it took to call me a pea-brain.

http://www.banktrack.org/show/news/there_s_no_such_thing_as_a_sustainable_global_bank_just_yet

http://www.bancosantandersinarmas.o..._content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=57&lang=en

http://www.wri-irg.org/node/15092

I said Jess Ennis was responsible for her actions and specifically did not say she deserved the Twitter abuse, Pommpey. And suggesting that my argument is the kind that Ukip would use is ridiculous. I bloody detest Ukip.

Your argument that other companies are just as involved in supplying arms is irrelevant. Jess is aware, because she will have been told, that the company for whom she drums up new custom uses the extra cash those new customers bring in (among other things) to invest in companies which make weapons, which are then used to kill people overseas. Santander also is involved in destroying rain forest which ought to be producing a living for people in Brazil and is also vital in the fight against global warming. She doesn't need the money from the adverts but she has made a conscious decision to accept it. That (and not the Twitter abuse) is her own decision, and in my opinion it is an unethical one.

Is that OK?
 
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Our recent history is horrific on and off the field. Being reminded of it is as fun as having root canal work done by a backstreet dentist.

Fairplay to the lad from QPR tho, he put some effort in despite making some mistakes.

Reliving the last few seasons made me think how much like a soap opera our club has become, but one things for sure, its not dull being a blade is it?!!
 

felix said:
With due respect to their fans QPR are hardly the most likeable club in the world. They employed Harry Redknapp for a start and we all know what he is. And if we are talking about respect for women maybe the writer of the article would like to comment on Bobby Zamora's taste in ceiling decoration. Eh?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Barton
 
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