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sheffielder said:
I can see your point, however these performances were happening all year and nothing ever changed. Danny would come out and back his players and Morgan followed suit. From what I hear Danny lost the dressing room because he was unable to give them a bollocking, then after what Morgan says, I had no confidence he went into the dressing room and ripped them a new arsehole after the Yeovil game. Instead, he had a group huddle. The fans are not idiots and I personally think Morgan missed an opportunity to say to the fans, "look this year has not been good enough and if I am in charge I want to change things. We are lacking x y and x I will move heaven and earth to improve us next year. Right, I am not going into the dressing room and we won't be out for a while"

I would then know he understood what 18000 fans went through last year. He bottled the opportunity and that is why I don't think he is the right man for the job.
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Agree with a lot of that. I just think that Morgan may have been worried that if he'd said "if I am in charge I want to change things. We are lacking x y and x I will move heaven and earth to improve us next year." the board might have thought "ooh, that sounds expensive. Sorry Chris, we're going to look for someone else".

Maybe he didn't think about it that much and maybe he did the think the current squad were almost good enough? It's not all that difficult to see why someone might think that (despite all the poor performances), if we'd kept Blackman and Miller had stayed fit then, at the very worst, we'd have gone very close indeed, wouldn't we?
 
Some interesting points and theories raised in the above posts. As for Morgan's press statements, I'm guessing he's guided to some degree by the PR people we employ to put the 'right' message across.
Having had some inside insight as to what is said to the press and what is actually going off, I rarely pay too much attention to post/after match interviews and their content.
 
i cant think of many jobs where the interview is more irrelevant than football manager.
can you imagine how well interviews must have gone for people like brian clough??
"well mr mccabe, we can do it your way...and get relegated...or we can do it my way...the right way!"

whereas walking spreadsheets with the personality of a cheese sandwich would probably go down a real treat at interviews.
 
Until we know who is left in the pot that actually wants the job, I'd hold back on the vitriol, Rob Page maybe the best we can get, he may even be the only one that's not running for the hills after the interview process.
We may be a big attractive club in our own minds but I doubt that SUFC is thought of in that way by anyone else.
Unfortunately we have to get real & expect the new manager to be of the Page/Morgan caliber & if its anyone with better qualifications than that, its a bonus not a god given right.
 
broomhillblade said:
If Page does get the job, the journalists/headline writers will be licking their lips:


'Page begins new chapter for the Blades'

'Page turns over a new leaf'

etc.

Any more?
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"page suffering from writers block" after he doesn't win for 6 games
 
Negativity is something I can take, its the hatred that I just don't understand! Lets see who we get & why we got them before we condemn them. I amongst most would like a young but experienced manager but in that very definition it going to be difficult to find one, let alone find one willing to manage us in our present state. Maybe the only candidates wiling to bend over for the shafting he is lightly to get from us the fans as well the McCabe will be someone with a Blades connection, anyone else with any thought of self preservation will not turn up for the second interview! But we all hope that we get what we want, but will we get what we need or deserve?
 
cooperblade said:
I think, in the eyes of a lot of fans, it was the interviews that Morgan gave that did for him as much as the performances.

When he talked of just needing a couple of tweaks to the squad and us not being far away, it was the opposite of what people wanted to hear. If he'd said he thought he'd done his best with what he had but that he would look to tear it up and start again with several new players in 2013/14, many more Blades would have got behind him in my opinion.
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Was it more what McCabe wanted to hear than what Morgan thought?
 



Only 20 days ago he was saying that management was something for his future, when the time is right, as he's still learning and gaining experience. How can United possibly be considering giving him our job when even he knows he's not ready?
 
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