beightonblade
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Happy or not happy wi things at BDTBL.
No long winded bollox to substantiate....just vote.
No long winded bollox to substantiate....just vote.
Simples.
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SwissBlade
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What about one for neither happy nor unhappy
DuncDisorderly
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Put me down for a 'mostly, but not fully'...
Pinchy
Blade, not Bladey.
...In English or your silly language?
Muttley
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Happy with the league position , not happy with style of play or entertainment value.
Certainly not happy with all this reprofiling bollox
Certainly not happy with all this reprofiling bollox
marko1889
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well went for happy, we really need get behind our team we`re doing ok under the circumstances. were working off loanee`s all season with no real money to make a good push for promotion.. but we can make the play-offs. 4th time lucky UTB
Elsecar_Blade
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Happy with results and position. Just not very enthralled when I'm there. Does that make me unhappy?
It's a long time since I saw lethargy like I saw last night in the crowd. Back to pre-Warnock days under Bruce/Heath. The number of people - and I was the same - where it looked an effort to get up and celebrate the goals. I don't know why but the goals aren't exciting me at all. I'm happy that we won but there's summat not quite right for me. Maybe people are sensing that we aren't good enough to win promotion even if we are good enough to make the Play Offs?
I hope they prove me wrong. But there isn't any player in the squad that I feel I will be talking about with misty eyes in years to come. I'm 28 and I can talk all day about Colin Morris in the first Blades side I was watching as a kid, the Deane and Agana partnership, the hard working wingers of Ian Bryson and Dane Whitehouse, Ooh Aah Bob Bookah, Vass Borbokis and Jan Aage Fjortoft, Michael Brown and Phil Jagielka, Shipperley and Warnock and even the likes of Colin Kazim-Richards and Rob Hulse. There isn't anyone to excite me no more - there's only Wardy who looks remotely close. They're just a bunch of hard-working players who are actually quite effective at playing Championship football ... There doesn't seem to be a magic or a spark.
My sister summed it up on the way out. 'We've won 3-0 but it was dire wasn't it?'
I think that sums United and their time under Blackwell to a tee. 'Getting results but dire to watch.'
I can argue for him to stay as manager because - results-wise - he's doing a very good job under the circumstances. But I can feel my interest wavering. I'll never stop watching them but I'm not excited about doing so.
I think that there is also a nagging feeling that we (the fans) are being lied to again from the top. McCabe is the best chairman we've had in my time watching United ... But this nagging feeling within me is growing day by day that I'm being lied to. Where has the money from near-20000 season tickets and 25000 average gates gone? Where has the Kyle monies gone? Why is the Kilgallon money unavailable to support the manager's squad strengthening?
/RANT
It's a long time since I saw lethargy like I saw last night in the crowd. Back to pre-Warnock days under Bruce/Heath. The number of people - and I was the same - where it looked an effort to get up and celebrate the goals. I don't know why but the goals aren't exciting me at all. I'm happy that we won but there's summat not quite right for me. Maybe people are sensing that we aren't good enough to win promotion even if we are good enough to make the Play Offs?
I hope they prove me wrong. But there isn't any player in the squad that I feel I will be talking about with misty eyes in years to come. I'm 28 and I can talk all day about Colin Morris in the first Blades side I was watching as a kid, the Deane and Agana partnership, the hard working wingers of Ian Bryson and Dane Whitehouse, Ooh Aah Bob Bookah, Vass Borbokis and Jan Aage Fjortoft, Michael Brown and Phil Jagielka, Shipperley and Warnock and even the likes of Colin Kazim-Richards and Rob Hulse. There isn't anyone to excite me no more - there's only Wardy who looks remotely close. They're just a bunch of hard-working players who are actually quite effective at playing Championship football ... There doesn't seem to be a magic or a spark.
My sister summed it up on the way out. 'We've won 3-0 but it was dire wasn't it?'
I think that sums United and their time under Blackwell to a tee. 'Getting results but dire to watch.'
I can argue for him to stay as manager because - results-wise - he's doing a very good job under the circumstances. But I can feel my interest wavering. I'll never stop watching them but I'm not excited about doing so.
I think that there is also a nagging feeling that we (the fans) are being lied to again from the top. McCabe is the best chairman we've had in my time watching United ... But this nagging feeling within me is growing day by day that I'm being lied to. Where has the money from near-20000 season tickets and 25000 average gates gone? Where has the Kyle monies gone? Why is the Kilgallon money unavailable to support the manager's squad strengthening?
/RANT
alcoblade
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More spin than lies, I'd say. The gate receipts (about £6.5M) have been more than swallowed up by, at one stage, a £20M wage-bill. Even now it's £9M (I'm told) so you can see that gate receipts don't tell the story.
When you consider the player sales, the trimming of wagebill and our current position, I suppose there has to be a price to pay. And that cost is eye pleasing football. Though I share the lack of excitement about our play, we should give Blackwell some credit for swimming against the tide.
UTB
Elsecar_Blade
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Maybe lying was the wrong choice of word. There's a nagging doubt in the back of my mind though. I can see why we would have to tighten the belts but not to the extent we have.
I think most Blades would like Mr McCabe to come out and just give us the easy to understand answer. Just so we know!
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LouTheBlade
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I dont think anyone could claim 'realistically' to be truly unhappy and call it a well informed opinion. I personally, lean more toward being happy than unhappy so have voted as such;
Happy with the current squad of players
Happy with the Kilgallon deal
Unhapppy at constant loan signings rather than permanent ones
Unhappy at our failing overseas ventures (e.g. Ferencvaros, Chengdu)
Happy with our wonderful stadium
Unhappy with the catering in the south stand
Neither happy or unhappy with the manager - having some doubts
Happy with results on the pitch
Happy to support a club with an identity
Happy with the current squad of players
Happy with the Kilgallon deal
Unhapppy at constant loan signings rather than permanent ones
Unhappy at our failing overseas ventures (e.g. Ferencvaros, Chengdu)
Happy with our wonderful stadium
Unhappy with the catering in the south stand
Neither happy or unhappy with the manager - having some doubts
Happy with results on the pitch
Happy to support a club with an identity
Darthblade
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If I could thank you twice I would.
Hit the nail on the head with this post mate ....... THANKYOU !!!
UTB
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That's what I said, I took someone for their first game and they were quite chuffed that there was 3 goals, my reply was I've never seen a 3-0 game, with a penalty save, that was so dire to watch. :thumbdown:
Reading were bloody awful to be fair, I'd be very surprised if they stay up.
edit (to answer the original question): somewhere in between, pretty much what Muttley said.
JJ Sefton
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Maidenhead
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Poll looking like a kick in the teeth for the vocal minority, particularly as in most polls only the disenchanted bother to vote ;-)
Ive always been behind the Blades heirarchy, and loyal to the set-up,
I always defend my team & look for the positives.
However Wombwell Blades statement
most of it struck a chord
I go a bit further back , with
Alan Woodward / Gill Reece / Geoff Salmons / Len Badger / Mick Jones / T.C.
& I agree other than Ward , & perhaps now Cresswell & hopefully Fortune ( as long as that wasn't just a one-off ), I too do not get excited when they get the ball.
I dont agree with the bit on the finances in there, I believe Mr. McCabe is doing the correct & sensible thing, and I believe Blackie is doing his best within those constraints.
I just think all the exciting talent is being snapped-up by the moneybags premiership clubs, so we will rarely now see a Jagielka etc come through & then then when they do , they will be dazzled by by top prem clubs dangling stupid contracts , and we will lose them , like Kyle & Kyle.
So whilst I am not upset with the way things are run, and quite happy with the league position,
I am only reasonably happy with the way we play , but maybe assept that we have to play that way due to the type of player we can get.
But now realise it is far from the halcyon days of Woody & TC where I ALWAYS got excited when they were on the ball.
UTB
I always defend my team & look for the positives.
However Wombwell Blades statement
most of it struck a chord
I go a bit further back , with
Alan Woodward / Gill Reece / Geoff Salmons / Len Badger / Mick Jones / T.C.
& I agree other than Ward , & perhaps now Cresswell & hopefully Fortune ( as long as that wasn't just a one-off ), I too do not get excited when they get the ball.
I dont agree with the bit on the finances in there, I believe Mr. McCabe is doing the correct & sensible thing, and I believe Blackie is doing his best within those constraints.
I just think all the exciting talent is being snapped-up by the moneybags premiership clubs, so we will rarely now see a Jagielka etc come through & then then when they do , they will be dazzled by by top prem clubs dangling stupid contracts , and we will lose them , like Kyle & Kyle.
So whilst I am not upset with the way things are run, and quite happy with the league position,
I am only reasonably happy with the way we play , but maybe assept that we have to play that way due to the type of player we can get.
But now realise it is far from the halcyon days of Woody & TC where I ALWAYS got excited when they were on the ball.
UTB
Maidenhead
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Ive always been behind the Blades heirarchy, and loyal to the set-up,
I always defend my team & look for the positives.
However Wombwell Blades statement
most of it struck a chord
I go a bit further back , with
Alan Woodward / Gill Reece / Geoff Salmons / Len Badger / Mick Jones / T.C.
& I agree other than Ward , & perhaps now Cresswell & hopefully Fortune ( as long as that wasn't just a one-off ), I too do not get excited when they get the ball.
I dont agree with the bit on the finances in there, I believe Mr. McCabe is doing the correct & sensible thing, and I believe Blackie is doing his best within those constraints.
I just think all the exciting talent is being snapped-up by the moneybags premiership clubs, so we will rarely now see a Jagielka etc come through & then then when they do , they will be dazzled by by top prem clubs dangling stupid contracts , and we will lose them , like Kyle & Kyle.
So whilst I am not upset with the way things are run, and quite happy with the league position,
I am only reasonably happy with the way we play , but maybe assept that we have to play that way due to the type of player we can get.
But now realise it is far from the halcyon days of Woody & TC where I ALWAYS got excited when they were on the ball.
UTB
First game in 1971, later than you but fully agree with everything you say UTB
Pinchy
Blade, not Bladey.
Not necessarily so. Some of us will not vote in any poll wherein the pollsters show such disrespect for our common language and, therefore, for us.
Sensiblade
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Maidenhead
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Tha sez wha?
Thank you, was wondering that myself
shorehamview
Pink Sambuca drinking World Champion.
I'm past giving a shit one way or the other really. If I only went for the football then I'd certainly not be watching United, I'd be a floating voter and going to whoever was a more appealing prospect. But I don't just go for the football. I go for the pre-match wittering, the standing outside a pub in the freezing rain camaraderie, the shit pie, the banter, and the fun of it. What happens on the pitch isn't the be-all and end-all by a long, long way.
Sure, it'd be lovely to see some nice flowing football, played by the world's top players, and to see a trophy at the end of it. But if that's all you want from it then perhaps you'd best be off to Cold Trafford.
Happy? With how the club is run? What the hell's that got to do with it?
Sure, it'd be lovely to see some nice flowing football, played by the world's top players, and to see a trophy at the end of it. But if that's all you want from it then perhaps you'd best be off to Cold Trafford.
Happy? With how the club is run? What the hell's that got to do with it?
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