Bladesway
Not a member of the reaction faction
Whether you like the regime or not we are a club in crisis. I do not advocate booing or jeering the team/players during the 90 minutes of play (although they should get the works at half time if they perform like they apparently did last night in the first half). I believe in general the players and manager are giving their all but they are limited players. Giving them stick really doesn't help in my opinion.
I as a fan from distance feel utterly helpless and can do nothing. I cannot withdraw my support, I cannot do anything other than see the team/club I love fall to pieces. Not since the late 70's/early 80's have I seen such a shambles. I know some may think this is a phase and it will pass. There was similar lethargy in 80/81 and that led us to Division 4 as it was. Glory may have followed but how hollow is a Division 4 championship in all honesty?
Out of interest does anyone actually now feel optimistic? We have sold any decent players and are now cutting away, not at the fat but by selling Blackman and replacing him with a loan player who is older and not even ours but at the very core of the team. Poor old DW must wonder why he bothers any longer. I know he is limited but imagine coming into work to find your core tools of the job have been removed and replaced. Your internet connection replaced by a fax machine, your experienced workforce replaced by older yet inferior employees. How the hell can you work with these tools?
McCabe was once 75-80% to blame for where we are. Bad decisions and apparently he had learned. We were building through youth (Blackman being a good example of this). Now I blame McCabe 100% for where we are. He made the managerial signings/fuck ups. He sanctioned ridiculous wages. He chose to sack Blackwell 3 games into a season having blown the budget. He chose to sanction the sale of our top scorer (again) this season when it was probably our only realistic chance to get promoted. Ched showed last season what happens when (through other means) you lose your top scorer. The wheels come off.
Kevin McCabe is an utter disgrace to the name of Sheffield United Football club. Whether we are better off without him and in administration is now actually arguable in my opinion. What is his money worth when actually we never see any. If the club is now self sustaining why are we selling our top scorer and replacing him with a lesser player on loan?
In short, I don't believe McCabe has learned from the past and is just squirreling the money from transfers away like a mad old uncle hiding money under his matress for a rainy day when its already pissing it down. He has utterly lost the plot. He is at odds with his manager and changes his story to suit his mood. We have money for transfers, we don't. We don't need to seel Blackman but we do.
I don't say this lightly but right now we are undergoing a slide that while it may not take us down this season it will certainly leave us mid table at best. Our form is atrocious and we are hanging on by our finger tips. we have no resources and our last transfer window for improvement has seen us go backwards again. Next season if we don't go up this one could really see us plumb new depths. We may be in the hands of a hooky Nigerian who Kev found off the internet (possibly), and can barely spell let alone hold the purse strings of a football club (probably).
To say I am fearful right now is an understatement. And worse still we are all helpless. This isn't clapper v knocker this is the very fabric of SUFC and the future. I make no apology for sounding like the grim reaper but I fear the light of a return the Championship has been not only switched off for now but the trapdoor below us opened as a higher possibility. Anyone feel different or have any probable solution? I don't.
I as a fan from distance feel utterly helpless and can do nothing. I cannot withdraw my support, I cannot do anything other than see the team/club I love fall to pieces. Not since the late 70's/early 80's have I seen such a shambles. I know some may think this is a phase and it will pass. There was similar lethargy in 80/81 and that led us to Division 4 as it was. Glory may have followed but how hollow is a Division 4 championship in all honesty?
Out of interest does anyone actually now feel optimistic? We have sold any decent players and are now cutting away, not at the fat but by selling Blackman and replacing him with a loan player who is older and not even ours but at the very core of the team. Poor old DW must wonder why he bothers any longer. I know he is limited but imagine coming into work to find your core tools of the job have been removed and replaced. Your internet connection replaced by a fax machine, your experienced workforce replaced by older yet inferior employees. How the hell can you work with these tools?
McCabe was once 75-80% to blame for where we are. Bad decisions and apparently he had learned. We were building through youth (Blackman being a good example of this). Now I blame McCabe 100% for where we are. He made the managerial signings/fuck ups. He sanctioned ridiculous wages. He chose to sack Blackwell 3 games into a season having blown the budget. He chose to sanction the sale of our top scorer (again) this season when it was probably our only realistic chance to get promoted. Ched showed last season what happens when (through other means) you lose your top scorer. The wheels come off.
Kevin McCabe is an utter disgrace to the name of Sheffield United Football club. Whether we are better off without him and in administration is now actually arguable in my opinion. What is his money worth when actually we never see any. If the club is now self sustaining why are we selling our top scorer and replacing him with a lesser player on loan?
In short, I don't believe McCabe has learned from the past and is just squirreling the money from transfers away like a mad old uncle hiding money under his matress for a rainy day when its already pissing it down. He has utterly lost the plot. He is at odds with his manager and changes his story to suit his mood. We have money for transfers, we don't. We don't need to seel Blackman but we do.
I don't say this lightly but right now we are undergoing a slide that while it may not take us down this season it will certainly leave us mid table at best. Our form is atrocious and we are hanging on by our finger tips. we have no resources and our last transfer window for improvement has seen us go backwards again. Next season if we don't go up this one could really see us plumb new depths. We may be in the hands of a hooky Nigerian who Kev found off the internet (possibly), and can barely spell let alone hold the purse strings of a football club (probably).
To say I am fearful right now is an understatement. And worse still we are all helpless. This isn't clapper v knocker this is the very fabric of SUFC and the future. I make no apology for sounding like the grim reaper but I fear the light of a return the Championship has been not only switched off for now but the trapdoor below us opened as a higher possibility. Anyone feel different or have any probable solution? I don't.