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Bladesway

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You know it, all the pieces of the puzzle are in place. Sabre rattling early on and a couple of possibly promising signs. Selling your best striker and leading scorer right at the end leaving you thinking they must have a plan B and be bringing someone better in. The money will be invested back into the team won't it?

Then you get to the last day and your heart is on edge. You know that SUFC will be exhausting every last possible way of getting those new players in who will push us forward. After all, who would sell their striker having only been there 5 months without having a nailed on replacement? Only an idiot would do that wouldn't they? You have Sky/BBC running on your laptop/PC/TV/Phone waiting for that all important signing. Its 8pm/9pm/10pm. You think sod it, I'll stop up till the close and we will see McCabe/Wilson turning every stone, doing every deal. We are the biggest club in the division, who wouldn't want to come to us?

Then you get to midnight and you realise you missed the statement leaked by the club around 7pm that all the deals have failed due to (insert shit reason here) and that we may have to look at the loan system.

You can cut an paste this into every transfer window this past few years. Lets face it we are a shadow of what we were even 5 years ago. Players don't view us any better than Notts County these days. Agents won't be saying "go to Sheffield United and it will be a great stepping stone in your career".

I'd just like to thank out Chairman for getting us here. If for some reason we do hit the jackpot by 11pm then someone wake me up because I may be dreaming.
 



Well at least I got the club statement right, although my timing was out.
 
I don't personally think we need a jackpot or one/two 'names' in before tonight just some consistency and some stability.If thats comes in a couple of weeks then whatever but it needs to happen if we are to progress.

If Danny thinks youth is the right way then lets keep the Maguire's, Long's and Ironside's coming through, use them and nurture them rather than offloading promising young players at the sniff of money. I think we got a good deal with Blackman however if we are going down the Youth route we need to stick to it and believe in it and put our foot down.

If that's not the route and we want experience to help us out this league then do that, same with loans etc.

All im saying is we seem to flit between a loan, the next big thing, they get sold, loan goes back, in comes experience, we just don't seem to have a definitive plan. Norwich as an example scouted well, some good young players with a mix of experience and stuck with them and as a unit worked their way up and held their own against much better sides? Just a thought but it seems we keep changing our mind.
 
Absolutely bang on Bladesway - why do I let my life get blighted by this every single transfer deadline - especially at the end of January. Its like an annual state of purgatory I put myself through.

Whilst I'm old enough to know better I blame technology - its worse these days with unfetted mobile access to disappointment for each and every minute of deadline day, whereas we just used to have to wait to be pissed off the day after reading The Star.
 
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Book your places now for Friday. Hurry, we've had quite a lot of interest this year...
 
Might not be a good idea to park your car there tomorrow night.
 
I want to be a scout for SUFC, its the easiest job in football. We never sign anyone so you have a January sauntering about watching random games of football safe in the knowledge no one will ever ask what you have been doing.
 
This is the first time I have turned on Kevin and it feels like I have turned on an uncle. If he is there tomorrow I will be having words in a shouting drunken way as my seat is not too far away. I feel hoodwinked

Just away games for me next season and I will pretend to the wife I still have a season ticket
 
You know it, all the pieces of the puzzle are in place. Sabre rattling early on and a couple of possibly promising signs. Selling your best striker and leading scorer right at the end leaving you thinking they must have a plan B and be bringing someone better in. The money will be invested back into the team won't it?

Then you get to the last day and your heart is on edge. You know that SUFC will be exhausting every last possible way of getting those new players in who will push us forward. After all, who would sell their striker having only been there 5 months without having a nailed on replacement? Only an idiot would do that wouldn't they? You have Sky/BBC running on your laptop/PC/TV/Phone waiting for that all important signing. Its 8pm/9pm/10pm. You think sod it, I'll stop up till the close and we will see McCabe/Wilson turning every stone, doing every deal. We are the biggest club in the division, who wouldn't want to come to us?

Then you get to midnight and you realise you missed the statement leaked by the club around 7pm that all the deals have failed due to (insert shit reason here) and that we may have to look at the loan system.

You can cut an paste this into every transfer window this past few years. Lets face it we are a shadow of what we were even 5 years ago. Players don't view us any better than Notts County these days. Agents won't be saying "go to Sheffield United and it will be a great stepping stone in your career".

I'd just like to thank out Chairman for getting us here. If for some reason we do hit the jackpot by 11pm then someone wake me up because I may be dreaming.


Remember, there's always the loan window.

UTB
 



"We aren't in a position to let anyone leave until we have added to the squad."

Quote from Danny Wilson, can I point out, you just did and you haven't!!
 
"We aren't in a position to let anyone leave until we have added to the squad."

Quote from Danny Wilson, can I point out, you just did and you haven't!!

McCabe let Blackman leave and McCabe hasn't allowed to be added to
 

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