It's not being negative.....

[finlaytheblade]

I'm shocked, a little unsurprised, but a bit pissed off that everyone is levelling this at Clough. We could have fucking Mourinho managing Sheffield United at the moment and we'd still scrape a draw with high flying, big hitting Notts Cunty at BDTBL. The fucking players are the problem, chaps. We have proved that. We sell Maguire, suddenly we are shitpipe at the back. I mean, look at last night's team:

Howard - not exactly the most supremely solid shot stopper or cross catcher we have ever seen. He ain't Trace, Kelly, Brown or Hodgy.

Basham - where the fuck DO we actually play this bloke? He is shit in midfield, decent in the centre of the back four and dodgy out wide in the back four. He isn't particularly pacey, disappears in games and doesn't exactly impose himself in games

Mceveley - still not really up to what I would say is a Maguire 'one of his better games' standards

McCarthy - you know when you are playing crib? You know when its your opponents box and you have JKQ574, the turnover card is a 5 and you are figuring out what to ditch on your opponent which on turnover might look good, but with their Q and 9 means fifteen-fuck-all? Well McCarthy is that 7 and 4. Cheers Neil.

Harris - inconsistency in a United shirt. In fact, there isn't enough room to print that on the back of his.

Doyle - for far too long this bloke is pulling on a United shirt and as it goes over his head and no one can see his face, he is pulling a 'lol @ Clough' expression, because I don't even think he knows why he is still at Sheffield United. He is just counting his blessings that no one had taken his place - because to be frank, Doyle might be shit, but his opposition is shitter. So why should he try?

Scougall - yup, he a little terrier. But possibly in the Sheffield and Hallam u-14s. For an example of a shorter footballer who holds his own in the professional game, see Aguiero. Again, too much 'who's the little guy?' faffage to hold his own in the midfield of a big-thinking club. Let's face it. He's not exactly John Gannon or even (perish the thought) Patterson, is he?

Baxter - when he signed, we were all practically jizzing in our jeans at the prospect of some sort of Fabregas-like being making play from in front of the centre circle and nabbing goals aplenty. But he's bobbar, isn't he chaps? Couple of goals here and there, a 'Baxter - best player on the pitch' because the rest are so fucking dismal and that's it. Championship level? Do you REALLY think he has it in him? They'd stamp him flat.

Murphy - he is about our best player, really. But the wind has to be in the right direction, if he's u[p against pace he shits himself transparent and there have been too many 'Murphy - 5/10s' as opposed to Murphy dry-bummed their back four inside out. He scored a fucking beaut two weeks ago against Doncaster, but I bet you my fucking 1989 lime green classic shirt (my most prized United possession) he doesn't score any more of them this season.

Flynn - dear sweet fucking god. Why is this lightweight still at the club? Scoring one goal against a lacklustre and frankly not much arsed Villa side last season doth not maketh his bloke Alan Woodward. He has had three or four unimpressive, uninspiring seasons with us and so far he has been someone to fill the fucking jersey, as far as I am concerned.

Campbell-Beansontoast - Way, way, way, waaaay past his best, which was about six consecutive games, five years ago. Like most players you consistently see on Gillette Soccer Saturday, Jermain Easter, that Stonebridge bloke for Plymmerf, Jamie Cureton, Jon Stead, Adie Akinbyi, Darius Henderson to name but a few, you think, "cor, he's smacking them in. Ten goals already and it is only September 23rd. Wish we had the cunt. Then ten years later we sign him after he has been cutting the grass for Nuneaton or selling pies and programmes for Gretna and expect him to be Johan Cruyff. Of course, once they get here and realise that it is cash in hand and no pressure, they idle through games barely understanding what is required of them. No one has the ballocks to get hold of this non achiever and say 'Jamal. See this fucking white line running the length of the fucking pitch, lad? Well I want you to run along that very fast, all game and when you get down there you boot it across at ninety degrees at about eight foot off the floor for that big, slow old fucker to head into that white outlined rectangle. Just stay out of the way of them cunts who don't have your kit on. Oh, and that means the coppers as well'

Higdon - fucking hell. I won't fuck about, okay. But I prefer Porter. There you go.

McNulty - obviously summats up backstage.

Reed - see Scougall. This kid actually looks capable, mind.

pommpey

with a player breakdown like that we should be in bottom 4 not top six and all to play for.We are not playing great at present especially at home but we have a decent squad and if cloughy gets the players in to make the difference in the transfer window we will have a great chance.
Some money is to be made available and with a bit of wheeling and dealing !! Lets wait and see i think after last season cloughy deserves a bit of patience,
will be in with a good chance

 

[sitwell]

Of course you are ,I take it your quite intelligent ,though I really do not understand how that cannot be regarded as relevant. I wouldn't dream of commenting on a players performance on the hearsay of someone on a forum who also might not have seen. Doesn't stop you having an opinion or making comments but you only take on board comments by posters who wish to criticise, nothing ever positive comes from you ,and the pleasure you seem to furnish every negative you can get out of the club is completely beyond me. If you listen to some of the previous posters on this thread even then you will not see a balanced view ,in fact one of them is just a joke who wants to attract attention.You have become a parody of yourself and so boring ,just another jibe at the club in each post with some extra big words thrown in to make it interesting. Its a shame because I really do think you make some good points but they are buried beneath bile with which you enjoy spewing out about Utd

 

[Roygbiv]

If the owner at Bristol City is prepared to pump money into the club (thereby increasing turnover) they could afford a higher wage bill and still be within FFP.

I genuinely read that first as "I'm the owner of Bristol City"

 

[pommpey]

with a player breakdown like that we should be in bottom 4 not top six and all to play for.

Do you feel optimistic about United's chances of promotion? Second question: Do you feel confident should they secure a playoff spot?

We are not playing great at present especially at home but we have a decent squad

An understatement followed by an overstatement.

and if cloughy gets the players in to make the difference in the transfer window we will have a great chance.

So, who has the call on this? Cloughy? The Players? Me? You? Or the Board?

Some money is to be made available and with a bit of wheeling and dealing !!

Hang on. Do you know something we don't? Where has the statement been made that 'some money is to be made available'? Why wasn't this available during the transfer window? And, you know, our recent track record of 'wheeling and dealing' hasn't exactly filled the club with what we want, given the mystery three players we failed to sign on transfer deadline day

Lets wait and see i think after last season cloughy deserves a bit of patience, will be in with a good chance

WARK! WARK! Optimism/clapper statement! WARK! WARK!

pommpey

 

[pommpey]

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Of course you are ,I take it your quite intelligent ,though I really do not understand how that cannot be regarded as relevant.

I think I spelled that one out, didn't I? I have seen three games, and read and listened to the comments and opinions of people who have gone. Unless there was some almighty conspiracy taking place whereby newspaper sports correspondents, fellow internet board members and even my best mate in Sheffield have all got together to tell me we are doing shit when in reality we are playing outstanding football (and of course, not managing to impose dominance upon Football League Division One) then I concede ... I have got it wrong. But that isn't the case, is it sitwell? We had a decent half season last year and have serially misfired this season, recently dropping points that would see us challenging for an automatic position, not looking warily around the teams about us and wondering if we will be blessed with another shit playoff appearance. Or even no playoff appearance.

I wouldn't dream of commenting on a players performance on the hearsay of someone on a forum who also might not have seen.

Why not? C'mon. Tell me. Has Flynn suddenly turned into a fast, strong, agile goal maker from the flanks? Has Doyle put in at least four consecutive games where you'd give him 8/10? Is Higdon a figure of fear for Div 1 central defenders, or are they breaking out the Scrabble and cigarettes every time he pulls on a shirt? Is Scougall finally looking settled in his position or will he be dropped next week? Did Howard make one of those avoidable errors yesterday whereby the recipient must have thought 'thank fuck he's in the net! Cheers!'? Does our back four look anything like it will ship only five goals between now and the end of January? Does our attacking array look like they will score more than five between them before the end of May? I don't really need other people's opinions, sitwell - the figures kinda back up my opinions and reinforce their criticisms.

Doesn't stop you having an opinion or making comments but you only take on board comments by posters who wish to criticise, nothing ever positive comes from you ,and the pleasure you seem to furnish every negative you can get out of the club is completely beyond me.

What evidence do you have that I take pleasure from this? I'll tell you when I had pleasure from United. When Harris curled in that goal against Bradford. When we pulled it out of the bag (despite playing fucking woeful) against Colchester. So why should I sit and cheer when we don't do well? Its not as though we drop the odd point these days is it? Oldham ... NCFC ... that is four just at home for you, and with performances that you may possibly admit ... were fucking shit. What exactly were the positives you can tell me about (being as I wasn't there, sadly) from (again as with Oldham) conceding an avoidable goal, and then struggling to even equalise. I seem to recall us conceding against Bristol City earlier on this season (a game I actually watched ... yay for me!) and struggling to equalise ... and then struggling to maintain parity and eventually being beaten by a side sitwell ... who I said at the time were not all that good and gave the ball away too much and looked shaky.

If you listen to some of the previous posters on this thread even then you will not see a balanced view ,in fact one of them is just a joke who wants to attract attention.

Who is that then? C'mon ... name the names then.

You have become a parody of yourself and so boring ,just another jibe at the club in each post with some extra big words thrown in to make it interesting. Its a shame because I really do think you make some good points but they are buried beneath bile with which you enjoy spewing out about Utd

Well, I thank you for the barbed comment at the end, itself buried beneath bile against people I feel you have a beef with because we speak some painful truths about Sheffield United. Your task is to disprove that and try not to revert to the personal if you can. I am not your problem here ... Sheffield United is your problem and their inability to win enough games to secure an automatic promotion spot, their board who lie like hairy fucking eggs to supporters about their plans and ability to get us out of this division. If you can't see that sitwell and feel that everything is fucking perfect at Bramall Lane (and can provide proof of that), then please, don't get on my case, eh?

pommpey

 

[sitwell]

I haven't named names because I believe the poster has nothing to say and don't want to end up in an irrelevant row ,whereas without wanting to patronise you I think you have a lot to offer if you didn't just constantly belittle the club and everyone connected with it.
People have this misconception that I am a clapper who only sees good ,yet I have knocked Long ,Hill and Baxter as I don't think they were good enough completely against the popular view. I have knocked Cloughs tactics and the boards lack of imagination ,and I do have close friends in the club and have criticised plenty of things I don't think have been done well. At the end of the day its opinions but there s a purpose behind any criticisms I don't do it for the sake of it ,and I don't think you need to.
The ridicule of Doyle ,Howard , Flynn and Scougall is not fair as I think anyone who has seen will verify.
I do think we will go up in the automatics and back to an earlier point ,it has been in the press up here this week that money will made available in January.
You are much better than constantly hammering the club and the good points you make are getting lost both here and on shoutbox ,which coincidentally is by definition full of shouters who aren't actually at the game ,a really depressing place on matchdays.
Anyway UTB

 

[alcoblade]

I'm shocked, a little unsurprised, but a bit pissed off that everyone is levelling this at Clough. We could have fucking Mourinho managing Sheffield United at the moment and we'd still scrape a draw with high flying, big hitting Notts Cunty at BDTBL. The fucking players are the problem, chaps. We have proved that. We sell Maguire, suddenly we are shitpipe at the back. I mean, look at last night's team:

Howard - not exactly the most supremely solid shot stopper or cross catcher we have ever seen. He ain't Trace, Kelly, Brown or Hodgy.

Basham - where the fuck DO we actually play this bloke? He is shit in midfield, decent in the centre of the back four and dodgy out wide in the back four. He isn't particularly pacey, disappears in games and doesn't exactly impose himself in games

Mceveley - still not really up to what I would say is a Maguire 'one of his better games' standards

McCarthy - you know when you are playing crib? You know when its your opponents box and you have JKQ574, the turnover card is a 5 and you are figuring out what to ditch on your opponent which on turnover might look good, but with their Q and 9 means fifteen-fuck-all? Well McCarthy is that 7 and 4. Cheers Neil.

Harris - inconsistency in a United shirt. In fact, there isn't enough room to print that on the back of his.

Doyle - for far too long this bloke is pulling on a United shirt and as it goes over his head and no one can see his face, he is pulling a 'lol @ Clough' expression, because I don't even think he knows why he is still at Sheffield United. He is just counting his blessings that no one had taken his place - because to be frank, Doyle might be shit, but his opposition is shitter. So why should he try?

Scougall - yup, he a little terrier. But possibly in the Sheffield and Hallam u-14s. For an example of a shorter footballer who holds his own in the professional game, see Aguiero. Again, too much 'who's the little guy?' faffage to hold his own in the midfield of a big-thinking club. Let's face it. He's not exactly John Gannon or even (perish the thought) Patterson, is he?

Baxter - when he signed, we were all practically jizzing in our jeans at the prospect of some sort of Fabregas-like being making play from in front of the centre circle and nabbing goals aplenty. But he's bobbar, isn't he chaps? Couple of goals here and there, a 'Baxter - best player on the pitch' because the rest are so fucking dismal and that's it. Championship level? Do you REALLY think he has it in him? They'd stamp him flat.

Murphy - he is about our best player, really. But the wind has to be in the right direction, if he's u[p against pace he shits himself transparent and there have been too many 'Murphy - 5/10s' as opposed to Murphy dry-bummed their back four inside out. He scored a fucking beaut two weeks ago against Doncaster, but I bet you my fucking 1989 lime green classic shirt (my most prized United possession) he doesn't score any more of them this season.

Flynn - dear sweet fucking god. Why is this lightweight still at the club? Scoring one goal against a lacklustre and frankly not much arsed Villa side last season doth not maketh his bloke Alan Woodward. He has had three or four unimpressive, uninspiring seasons with us and so far he has been someone to fill the fucking jersey, as far as I am concerned.

Campbell-Beansontoast - Way, way, way, waaaay past his best, which was about six consecutive games, five years ago. Like most players you consistently see on Gillette Soccer Saturday, Jermain Easter, that Stonebridge bloke for Plymmerf, Jamie Cureton, Jon Stead, Adie Akinbyi, Darius Henderson to name but a few, you think, "cor, he's smacking them in. Ten goals already and it is only September 23rd. Wish we had the cunt. Then ten years later we sign him after he has been cutting the grass for Nuneaton or selling pies and programmes for Gretna and expect him to be Johan Cruyff. Of course, once they get here and realise that it is cash in hand and no pressure, they idle through games barely understanding what is required of them. No one has the ballocks to get hold of this non achiever and say 'Jamal. See this fucking white line running the length of the fucking pitch, lad? Well I want you to run along that very fast, all game and when you get down there you boot it across at ninety degrees at about eight foot off the floor for that big, slow old fucker to head into that white outlined rectangle. Just stay out of the way of them cunts who don't have your kit on. Oh, and that means the coppers as well'

Higdon - fucking hell. I won't fuck about, okay. But I prefer Porter. There you go.

McNulty - obviously summats up backstage.

Reed - see Scougall. This kid actually looks capable, mind.

pommpey

I don't agree. The same players are good enough in the second half of just about every match. The manager cannot be above criticism for that.

UTB

 

[pommpey]

I haven't named names because I believe the poster has nothing to say and don't want to end up in an irrelevant row

Well, why mention it, apart from scratching the itch that says, 'I'll have a dig at that poster, they'll know who I am on about'?

whereas without wanting to patronise you I think you have a lot to offer if you didn't just constantly belittle the club and everyone connected with it.

What? Little old me, 225 miles away from Bramall Lane having such a seismic effect on Sheffield United with my comments. That's probably why they are doing so badly, isn't it sitwell? I know that if I say 'Doyle is an underperforming waste of time' or if I call our lummox, can't jump or score striker 'Higgypotamus'((c) me, by the way) he'll just shrink into a shell, give up football and commit suicide. Do you think I have any right to criticise a club who is now possibly facing season five in the shithouse just above the basement in the football league, given we are in fact a big club, with a big support, good stadium, excellent fans and what we are led to believe ... a wealthy board member who was termed 'Game Changing Investment'? Can you understand my cynicism, sitwell? Can you read behind my oddball, sarky comments on shoutbox on a Saturday? Because the next step is not supporting Sheffield United, and that isn't possible, I am afraid.

People have this misconception that I am a clapper who only sees good ,yet I have knocked Long ,Hill and Baxter as I don't think they were good enough completely against the popular view. I have knocked Cloughs tactics and the boards lack of imagination ,and I do have close friends in the club and have criticised plenty of things I don't think have been done well. At the end of the day its opinions but there s a purpose behind any criticisms I don't do it for the sake of it ,and I don't think you need to.

So, without you being patronising (heh) what makes you think that you have a say in what I need to say? Do you have anything positive to say about Sheffield United, sitwell? Did we play well on Friday, of di we play shit, go a goal down, struggle to equalise and fail to win? Did any play put in a performance that merits a creditable outcome? 1-1 against Notts C. 1-1- against Oldham. We are in the playoffs, again. Any change in fortune over that past five seasons? Positive? Yeah?

The ridicule of Doyle ,Howard , Flynn and Scougall is not fair as I think anyone who has seen will verify.

Why? Has Doyle suddenly become the Nicky Butt of Sheffield United, working tirelessly in front of the back four to intercept and break up opposition advances, being that 'spare man' when United are in possession, finding red-and-white with every carefully crafted pass and owning a pleasing assist/goals tally? What about Howard and his odd propensity for inconsistency? Flynn for his neshness and lightweight approach and Scougall for being bullied out of games? When I call up my mate, he tells me summat different to what you're obviously watching and then of course, there's the result. If we played shit and won every game then I have no grounds to criticise but we play shit and draw, lose and drop valuable points. Tell you what,sitwell, when we fail to go up automatically in May, lets me and you have a 'points we could have done with game' shall we?

I do think we will go up in the automatics

Based on what? Do you have information that we are signing good players, or is this based upon this rabbit's paw approach that if you say it often enough it will become the truth and reality? If you believe we are on the up, where are the goals coming from? How are we going to craft a goalscoring opportunity? What is going to happen to our midfield that shuts out opposition midfields dominating and how the fuck can we get consistency in a back four which ships goals with alarming ability?

and back to an earlier point ,it has been in the press up here this week that money will made available in January.

Didn't someone on here criticise me this week for believing stuff in the press? And while we are on it, what money? How much? And when? I don't actually believe that statement sitters and until we have five new permanent signings which are neither frees, undisclosed, loaness or 'I'll have to Google him', then neither should you. And I demand to know (if you can tell me) how much Clough spent in the close season.

You are much better than constantly hammering the club and the good points you make are getting lost both here and on shoutbox ,which coincidentally is by definition full of shouters who aren't actually at the game ,a really depressing place on matchdays.
Anyway UTB

UTB

pommpey

 

[pommpey]

I don't agree. The same players are good enough in the second half of just about every match. The manager cannot be above criticism for that.

UTB

Why not the first half then?

Serious question.

pommpey

 

[alcoblade]

Why not the first half then?

Serious question.

pommpey

Because we are too catious, and wait for play to be dicated to us (running out of time, losing, crowd getting anxious).

The point is, there's a visible upturn in tempo for the last 30 minutes or so. And it almost inevitably ends up with us overwhelming the opposition, and almost always ends up with us winning that mini battle.

The stats are really clear cut. Is that ability or management? Only the latter stacks up for me.

UTB

 

[pommpey]

Just watched the BBC highlights.

Fucking hell Howard.

Great stop by Mceverly.

Great idea!

Play Murphy up front with COD

pommpey

 

[mark hones]

Because we are too catious, and wait for play to be dicated to us (running out of time, losing, crowd getting anxious).

The point is, there's a visible upturn in tempo for the last 30 minutes or so. And it almost inevitably ends up with us overwhelming the opposition, and almost always ends up with us winning that mini battle.

The stats are really clear cut. Is that ability or management? Only the latter stacks up for me.

UTB

They aren't exclusive though Alco, all it needs is a leader or two on the pitch to say "fuck this, it's not working" and grab the game by the scruff of the neck. We don't have any leaders, I think maybe Cloughs negativity is a symptom of that, or maybe he's just as poor in his judgement as the players.

Either way, what we have at the moment isn't working, and that's despite being 5th in the table. This league's terrible, and with our supposed resources should be a cakewalk but we're making it a struggle. It all stems from the board for me, we'll not do owt the easy way while there's a McCabe involved.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Because we are too catious, and wait for play to be dicated to us (running out of time, losing, crowd getting anxious).

The point is, there's a visible upturn in tempo for the last 30 minutes or so. And it almost inevitably ends up with us overwhelming the opposition, and almost always ends up with us winning that mini battle.

The stats are really clear cut. Is that ability or management? Only the latter stacks up for me.

UTB

And there lies (one of) the problem(s)!

Waiting until the opposition take the lead then spend the rest of the game chasing the game and trying to score (often without success) rather than (especially at home) attacking from the start (which we have done albeit with little success on a couple of occasions)!

How many times have we not scored until ~80th minute this season having been behind in the game?

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Hang on. Do you know something we don't? Where has the statement been made that 'some money is to be made available'?

It was in the Stir -http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/sheff-utd/sheffield-united-blades-boss-nigel-clough-to-get-january-transfer-funds-1-6971875

I wouldn't know the answers to your questions other than to speculate - it could be "new" money ( doubt it), it could be the next installment from the HM sale, it could be money held back to pay for Evans as they expected to sign him. Whether we would have got O'Grady if Evans had signed I don't know but its possible we wouldn't looking at the costs of the strikers NC was looking at before.

 

[grafikhaus]

And there lies (one of) the problem(s)!

Waiting until the opposition take the lead then spend the rest of the game chasing the game and trying to score (often without success) rather than (especially at home) attacking from the start (which we have done albeit with little success on a couple of occasions)!

How many times have we not scored until ~80th minute this season having been behind in the game?

I'd agree with this and Mark Hones. To suggest that we eventually 'overwhelm' the opposition just doesn't make any sense. It's like saying that our number of late goals is down to our superior determination and fitness a la Warnock years. It's not. It's simply that we hardly expend any effort in the first half.

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Four first-half League goals in nine games, five in the first hour is bizarre and shows, if anything, the poorness of this division. In a higher division, or in a better League One, and we'd be getting punished for this failure to seize the game in this first hour. That we're in fifth position just masks the many problems we have. Lack of on-field leadership, the inability to pass to a player's feet at the right pace (Friday highlighted this - a lot of our passes are so poor the recipient is instantly off-balance and the opponent steps in), having to always be reactive, shocking dead-ball skills etc.

And I don't think COG will be the 'magic bullet'. As poor as Higdon was on Friday, he was given very poor service. Our 'system' made him look like Henderson - always facing away from goal with his marker all over him, balls at throat-height. He shouldn't be there as our sole outlet, but leading the line and waiting for quality crosses to come in from Murphy, Flynn, J C-R etc.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

I'd agree with this and Mark Hones. To suggest that we eventually 'overwhelm' the opposition just doesn't make any sense. It's like saying that our number of late goals is down to our superior determination and fitness a la Warnock years. It's not. It's simply that we hardly expend any effort in the first half.

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Four first-half League goals in nine games, five in the first hour is bizarre and shows, if anything, the poorness of this division. In a higher division, or in a better League One, and we'd be getting punished for this failure to seize the game in this first hour. That we're in fifth position just masks the many problems we have. Lack of on-field leadership, the inability to pass to a player's feet at the right pace (Friday highlighted this - a lot of our passes are so poor the recipient is instantly off-balance and the opponent steps in), having to always be reactive, shocking dead-ball skills etc.

And I don't think COG will be the 'magic bullet'. As poor as Higdon was on Friday, he was given very poor service. Our 'system' made him look like Henderson - always facing away from goal with his marker all over him, balls at throat-height. He shouldn't be there as our sole outlet, but leading the line and waiting for quality crosses to come in from Murphy, Flynn, J C-R etc.

Some good points there graf e.g. how poor our deadball delivery and outcome has been; how many corners do we get every game (I'll tell you it's loads!) yet how many goals have we scored as a result of one?
And as for free kicks........!!!!????

It begs the question 'what do they actually do at training?'

 

[sitwell]

I would have Harris taking deadballs or preferably Davies when he is playing. Baxters corners and free kicks at the .moment pose no threat ar all. Take him off them in training a d get him on fitness, that might be an idea .

 

[Silent Blade]

I would have Harris taking deadballs or preferably Davies when he is playing. Baxters corners and free kicks at the .moment pose no threat ar all. Take him off them in training a d get him on fitness, that might be an idea .

Two of Harris free kicks in the 2nd half (from the right side of the pitch) were terrible. The first one was overhit and the 2nd one was underhit allowing County to break. Clough and his staff (especially Darren Ward) were furious

 

[alcoblade]

They aren't exclusive though Alco, all it needs is a leader or two on the pitch to say "fuck this, it's not working" and grab the game by the scruff of the neck. We don't have any leaders, I think maybe Cloughs negativity is a symptom of that, or maybe he's just as poor in his judgement as the players.

Either way, what we have at the moment isn't working, and that's despite being 5th in the table. This league's terrible, and with our supposed resources should be a cakewalk but we're making it a struggle. It all stems from the board for me, we'll not do owt the easy way while there's a McCabe involved.

Agreed, there's a number of ways we can improve quality wise. Buying better players is always going to help.

But how come they can consistantly grab the game by the scruff of the neck and change it in the last 30 minutes?

It cannot be lack of ability. It has to be application.

UTB

 

[MiserableBlader]

silk purse out of a sows ear? Are you serious? What Derry and Johnson at Notts County and Oldham are doing would suit the silk purse analogy.

Our budget is one of the biggest in the league. What clough is currently achieving in the league is bare minimum.

I don't think it is the bare minimum!
It should be an automatic challenge
not if's but's maybe and bollocks about
'we are playing badly so it will get better'!

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

They aren't exclusive though Alco, all it needs is a leader or two on the pitch to say "fuck this, it's not working" and grab the game by the scruff of the neck. We don't have any leaders, I think maybe Cloughs negativity is a symptom of that, or maybe he's just as poor in his judgement as the players.

Either way, what we have at the moment isn't working, and that's despite being 5th in the table. This league's terrible, and with our supposed resources should be a cakewalk but we're making it a struggle. It all stems from the board for me, we'll not do owt the easy way while there's a McCabe involved.

Mark Hones sums it up for me . For some reason we seem to have no leaders on the pitch to make decisions . It could be Mr Clough instructions to the players , is that they play to a rigid system tactically , and in no way can they change this on the field of play , without instruction from the bench .

The board do not make the decisions on the field of play , but from a football management and funding sense , they have certainly put us back at least 10 years . I am a supporter of Mr McCabe , and without him we would have gone bust . He has put us in a catch 22 situation , but the board does baffle me , and like MPs may have lost touch with reality.

All the posts are right in one way or another , only because the frustration in the way we are setting up , is not winning us enough games at home , (which could be our ultimate down fall .) . Perhaps Mr Clough is a little too much autocratic in his thinking .

The league is poor , and we should be in the top 6 by the end of the season , at least. Top 6 leaves us in the lottery and we never have a winning ticket.

The MK and Southampton games , will be a defining moment for the Blades , from a confidence aspect . Like us all , i don't think i could stand another season in this shit league , when player recruitment will get worst not better. Mind you every game is now a defining moment to keep in touch with the top 2.

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