Jim addressing the fans on twitter 18/10/15.

[MobileBlade]

What experience did Phipps have of running a team? Of transfers? Of the loan market? Of budgets?

None.

He's not a football man. He's an interpreter turned lawyer turned adviser for a rich guy.

Which is probably why he isn't involved in the negotiations only ensuring the financials are in order with club budgets.

 

[PeteBlade]

We hadn't sold Murphy a year ago...

Same for any number of other issues addressed in the tweets.

Last year we'd sold Maguire. Our best player at the time.

 

[BushBlade]

And somehow he struck lucky with Adkins. He must be really jammy.

He struck lucky in that Adkins was out of work and available because I doubt we'd have paid compensation for him.

And whilst I am most definitely behind Adkins and will remain so whether or not we go up this season, our results so far have not been an improvement on last season.

As someone else said, we do enough to stop going backwards but not enough to move forward.

It's funny but someone suggested on here that a supporter could help run the club. The idea was ridiculed, quite rightly IMO, but really how different is that from Jim running the club? He's obviously a talented bloke but I don't see how his skill set aligns with the running of a football club.
Running any club must be very difficult but running ours must be a job and a half. KM runs his other businesses very well, I understand, but he's struggled sorting us out. What does Jim bring to the party, other than the Prince's cash?

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

Didn't say that it would lead to promotion or anything like that, it's undeniable holding on to them could have changed our fortunes though.

My issue is Jim talks about the transfer requests as though that's the end of it all and the fight to keep a player is lost. It isn't, and it goes against what they said when they invested in the club. Other clubs say no to their players to the benefit of their team. We say yes to the benefit of the players career whilst we continue to consolidate our position as a league 1 club.

I deny it.

Look, it's deniable.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

No it isn't. We're still being told that all these lumps of dogshit we keep getting served are, in fact, fine Belgian chocolates. We're still being fed endless excuses as to why we are stuck with a shit team in a poxy division.

And you're constructive response to the chairman's communication with the fans is?

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

What experience did Phipps have of running a team? Of transfers? Of the loan market? Of budgets?

None.

He's not a football man. He's an interpreter turned lawyer turned adviser for a rich guy.

Yet somehow we get Adkins.

*And* the Prince - who's decided to invest £20m of his own money - thinks he's the best man for the job.

 

[JJ Sefton]

And you're constructive response to the chairman's communication with the fans is?

He's not communicating, he's bullshitting.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

This ^^ we bought a car and forgot the petrol.

But its electric, it got thousands of positive charges running it.

 

[bricktop]

He's not communicating, he's bullshitting.

Can't you behave, and don't you realise you have got to be nice and thankful to Jim Phipps for delivering untold success to the Blades

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

You think Jim picked Adkins?

I imagine as co-chairman he was involved the process and accountable to the Prince for the decision.

We've ended up with the best manager available and somehow the co-chairman is in no way responsible.

Well I suppose it's possible given the madness at the club over the decades.

Realistically though...

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

He's not communicating, he's bullshitting.

So you're refusing to engage and preferring to name-call and mudsling instead.

This adds nothing constructive to the debate.

The rest is silence.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Can't you behave, and don't you realise you have got to be nice and thankful to Jim Phipps for delivering untold success to the Blades

Aye, we should probably change our name from Sheffield United to Jim Phipps.

 

[JJ Sefton]

So you're refusing to engage and preferring to name-call and mudsling instead.

This adds nothing constructive to the debate.

The rest is silence.

You can call it what you like, the issuance of verbiage which contains no actual information is bullshitting. Apologies if you don't like that, but for all the Tweeting Phipps does we A) are none the wiser about owt and B) still stuck in this sodding division.

My company has a person whose job it is to maintain our Twitter feed. He's an intern, not the chairman.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

He struck lucky in that Adkins was out of work and available because I doubt we'd have paid compensation for him.

And whilst I am most definitely behind Adkins and will remain so whether or not we go up this season, our results so far have not been an improvement on last season.

As someone else said, we do enough to stop going backwards but not enough to move forward.

It's funny but someone suggested on here that a supporter could help run the club. The idea was ridiculed, quite rightly IMO, but really how different is that from Jim running the club? He's obviously a talented bloke but I don't see how his skill set aligns with the running of a football club.
Running any club must be very difficult but running ours must be a job and a half. KM runs his other businesses very well, I understand, but he's struggled sorting us out. What does Jim bring to the party, other than the Prince's cash?

It's a fair point about KM.

All I can say is that everything I've read about and *much* more importantly *from* Jim is extremely impressive.

Running through the tweets above there is on the business side: clarity, focus, strength, and purpose; and on a person-to-person level there is generosity of spirit and seemingly infinite patience.

The Prince has entrusted him with oversight of a £20m project. I imagine this is bc he is judged to have the capacity to make and delegate decisions. Those are powerful credentials.

The way I see it that judgement is sound, to say the very least.

In terms of concrete decisions the sacking of Clough and the appointment of Adkins are the best evidence that the Prince's trust is well founded.

 

[BushBlade]

It's a fair point about KM.

All I can say is that everything I've read about and *much* more importantly *from* Jim is extremely impressive.

Running through the tweets above there is on the business side: clarity, focus, strength, and purpose; and on a person-to-person level there is generosity of spirit and seemingly infinite patience.

The Prince has entrusted him with oversight of a £20m project. I imagine this is bc he is judged to have the capacity to make and delegate decisions. Those are powerful credentials.

The way I see it that judgement is sound, to say the very least.

In terms of concrete decisions the sacking of Clough and the appointment of Adkins are the best evidence that the Prince's trust is well founded.

I used to work for one of the big consultancy firms. Every day I worked with people who had those attributes (some even had generosity of spirit and time, perhaps less so patience-wise). I wouldn't be happy if they were running SUFC though.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

I used to work for one of the big consultancy firms. Every day I worked with people who had those attributes (some even had generosity of spirit and time, perhaps less so patience-wise). I wouldn't be happy if they were running SUFC though.

Fairy Nuff but I did put it second, on the business side there's the Prince, Clough Out, Adkins In, and just the content of the communications.

The personable was stuff is more about my view that he has more than earned the right to be respected, rather than berated by the eternally deranged and splattered in projectile vomit like a deleted scene from the Exorcist.

UTMB

 

[BushBlade]

Fairy Nuff but I did put it second, on the business side there's the Prince, Clough Out, Adkins In, and just the content of the communications.

The personable was stuff is more about my view that he has more than earned the right to be respected, rather than berated by the eternally deranged and splattered in projectile vomit like a deleted scene from the Exorcist.

UTMB

Nothing against him personally, I'm sure he's a really good bloke.

 

[PeteBlade]

Yet somehow we get Adkins.

*And* the Prince - who's decided to invest £20m of his own money - thinks he's the best man for the job.

Doesn't "The Prince" have zero impact on the football decisions within the club?

I doubt he had or has any idea who Nigel Adkins is.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

Nothing against him personally, I'm sure he's a really good bloke.

You've got me thinking now: how did we end up with Adkins? Consultants/Headhunters? Given our record when the decision has been in house was it delegated?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

What experience did Phipps have of running a team? Of transfers? Of the loan market? Of budgets?

None.

He's not a football man. He's an interpreter turned lawyer turned adviser for a rich guy.

How many chairmen nowadays are "football men" though? Many will tend to rely on others to advise them. In terms of transfers and the loan market, think Phipps has been fairly clear from day 1 that he & Prince Abdullah have a hands-off role, and this is for "the management team" to decide – Adkins and Brannigan, the latter effectively responsible for transfer negotiations and football admin.

McCabe would probably be described as "a football man", and his decision-making skills have been mostly awful the last ten years. He's very familiar with transfers too, given the sales in that period.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Doesn't "The Prince" have zero impact on the football decisions within the club?

I doubt he had or has any idea who Nigel Adkins is.

I'd be surprised if he hadn't heard of him – he'd presumably be aware on some level of him from Southampton if he followed any of the Premier League from afar prior to investing.

Wasn't the appointment actually a rare instance where McCabe was influential, in a positive way? He was pretty visible when the announcement was made.

 

[MobileBlade]

You've got me thinking now: how did we end up with Adkins? Consultants/Headhunters? Given our record when the decision has been in house was it delegated?

Mike Stephenson suggested him on Twitter......

 

[BushBlade]

You've got me thinking now: how did we end up with Adkins? Consultants/Headhunters? Given our record when the decision has been in house was it delegated?

It was the obvious choice. There wasn't another out of work manager with a record like his. It's not like when Norwich appointed Alex Neil and everyone thought 'how did they find him?' It would have verging on negligence to not have approached him. Well done for landing him though. Best appointment since Warnock.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

It was the obvious choice. There wasn't another out of work manager with a record like his. It's not like when Norwich appointed Alex Neil and everyone thought 'how did they find him?' It would have verging on negligence to not have approached him. Well done for landing him though. Best appointment since Warnock.

Nearly had a like apart from " best appointment since Clough"

 

[AlienBlade]

Don't mean to be rude mate but i just choked on me cup of coffee and it came down me nose when i read your post !

See told you

 

[marsh blade]

See told you

I was excited !

 

[marsh blade]

See told you

Great stuff is anymore on there way ?

 

[AlienBlade]

Great stuff is anymore on there way ?

Not heard anything, I only knew as my step dad works at academy and Hammond turned up on Sunday asking where the first team were...

maybe we need to hire a white van, ski masks and go to fulham's training ground and kidnap the tallest person there....

 

[Trigger Blade]

Not heard anything, I only knew as my step dad works at academy and Hammond turned up on Sunday asking where the first team were...

You're underselling yourself.

You've come up with the best ITK for a very long time and are saying it was really nothing much. JL94x4 would kill for a gem like that....

 

[Sean Thornton]

Not heard anything, I only knew as my step dad works at academy and Hammond turned up on Sunday asking where the first team were...

maybe we need to hire a white van, ski masks and go to fulham's training ground and kidnap the tallest person there....

Was he the academy employee who had a bust up with Clough about his treatment of Maguire?