So how did the protest go?

[Damski]

Did any of you actually go through with it? What did you do? Shoes off in the car park? Leave on 21 minutes? Shouting "BASTARDS" a few times at the director's box?

Well whatever you did, I watched the whole thing. We were better, only just, but we were better. Blades played a lot more directly and created chances. They scored with one. You'd have missed it if you were protesting. Billy Sharp bagged an absolute banging strike and we won 1-0. You'd have also missed the fine defensive display in the final 15 to keep a clean sheet when Vale were pressing for an equaliser that a few weeks ago (Swindon) we'd have conceded.

There was development. There was progress. In small ways. There's a lot of improvement to go before we're promotion material. But it was a good result. Now we're 7th, 4 points off the play-off pace. What are you lot protesting about, again?

 

[Tyler Durden]

It was never meant to be happening today. Oldham is the game it's been mooted for.

 

[Worksop II]

The protest was based on an Adkins formation

Didnt quite go to plan, but Geese and Rollercoasters tha knows

 

[Worksop II]

It was never meant to be happening today. Oldham is the game it's been mooted for.

I was thinking about 18,000 Conner Sammon masks for the Fans, to show McCabe how he wasted his money

But it would probably trip us fuckers out

 

[Tyler Durden]

I was thinking about 18,000 Conner Sammon masks for the Fans, to show McCabe how he wasted his money

But it would probably trip us fuckers out

We could get creative and have 18,000 Jose Baxter masks, complete with missing septum. It would make a great 'Just Say No' campaign.

 

[Damski]

All I get from all this protest stuff is "That Bury result was shit." Because, let's face it, none of you would even think of anything like that if we'd have got a result in that game.

 

[JohnDenver]

All I get from all this protest stuff is "That Bury result was shit." Because, let's face it, none of you would even think of anything like that if we'd have got a result in that game.

Bit harsh that. I'm not keen on mass protest yet, but the camel's back had been under some strain before the Bury game.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Barney]

The more wins the better but the problems don't just evaporate, and we can certainly do without all these smarmy remarks at anyone who's ever criticised after every rare occasion we grind out a boring win against incredibly poor opposition.

 

[Tyler Durden]

The more wins the better but the problems don't just evaporate, and we can certainly do without all these smarmy remarks at anyone who's ever criticised after every rare occasion we grind out a boring win against incredibly poor opposition.

Spot on.

You have to question the mindset of anyone who would snipe at others after a super-duper trailblazing victory like today.

Especially when the target are fellow supporters who are trying to use the little power they have at their disposal to effect a positive change, however fruitless it might turn out to be.

 

[Damski]

But what are you protesting

 

[Tyler Durden]

But what are you protesting

Well personally I'm protesting against the sudden amnesia that people who have been able to forensically analyse the actions of the clubs ownership over the past 9 years seem to now be suffering from when they ask what the hell could possibly be wrong.

 

[Damski]

That's really vague. This is my point. What are the aims here. What are you angry about.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Did someone order a condescending prick?

 

[SB_90]

I was their thought a few chants quite good
Umbrellas up if you hate mccabe
Ponchos on if you want adkins out

 

[Damski]

Condescending? I'm just asking. I honestly find it embarrasing that people want to protest the current state of affairs. There is no structured aim to all this. No one even knows what they're angry about. And look at what we have. We're so charmed it's crazy. What do you want. And why are you angry at what we have. These are reasonable questions. They are not condescending in the slighest.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

All the talk of possible protest seems to have drawn Big Kev McCabe out of his bunker (who's still talking bollocks, despite the extended finishing school in Belgium).

The bubbling magma under the surface hasn't gone away. As would have been in evidence if Port Vale had nicked an equaliser as we sat back, absorbed & failed to keep the ball.

But, as the O/P says, it was an improvement, especially defensively, aided by the system employed. There was more energy, gusto & guts about us. Which was great to see, long may it continue. Let's all hope Rochdale isn't another Bury, exposing the underlying disquiet.

 

[Tyler Durden]

The unfit-for-purpose managerial appointments of Micky Adams and David Weir.

The sacking of Wilson with the team in 5th position with 9 games to go.

Allowing the previous manager to undermine it's own transfer policy with an unbridled number of unsatisfactory signings, culminating with the money from the Jamie Murphy sale being swallowed up by wages.

Resulting in the lack of vital funds to make the required signings in January and the revelation that it will take two more transfer windows to put it right.

If it seems vague, it's because of a long chain of incompetent decision making rather than a singular event.

 

[Rodley]

The unfit-for-purpose managerial appointments of Micky Adams and David Weir.

The sacking of Wilson with the team in 5th position with 9 games to go.

Allowing the previous manager to undermine it's own transfer policy with an unbridled number of unsatisfactory signings, culminating with the money from the Jamie Murphy sale being swallowed up by wages.

Resulting in the lack of vital funds to make the required signings in January and the revelation that it will take two more transfer windows to put it right.

If it seems vague, it's because of a long chain of incompetent decision making rather than a singular event.

That's what you're protesting about, but what are you protesting for? What's the aim?

 

[HillmortonBlade]

That's what you're protesting about, but what are you protesting for? What's the aim?

I looked all around but saw no protests.

 

[Tyler Durden]

That's what you're protesting about, but what are you protesting for? What's the aim?

Accountability and a direct declaration of what the situation is at the highest level, what the plan for getting us out of the shit is and how they plan to go about it. Rather than Official Sheffield United FC doublespeak.

 

[Damski]

No other club provides that.

 

[Tyler Durden]

No other club provides that.

If any other club was sitting in the third division with a 32,000 capacity stadium, the same weight of expectation and the financial burden of lingering here after a string of calamitous decisions then it would be incumbant on them to provide such information.

 

[Rodders]

If any other club was sitting in the third division with a 32,000 capacity stadium, the same weight of expectation and the financial burden of lingering here after a string of calamitous decisions then it would be incumbant on them to provide such information.

What would McCabe come out with that isn't his usual Bladey-Bladey horseshit though? Today's statement was more of the same of that; as much as I believe the board should be held to account for the last 9 years, anything they come out with would surely just be empty platitudes? What would change for you to think "yeah, Kev's got this all under control"?

 

[Worksop II]

I looked all around but saw no protests.

There wern't any, but Kev came out and pontificated ...................

 

[Tyler Durden]

What would McCabe come out with that isn't his usual Bladey-Bladey horseshit though? Today's statement was more of the same of that; as much as I believe the board should be held to account for the last 9 years, anything they come out with would surely just be empty platitudes? What would change for you to think "yeah, Kev's got this all under control"?

It's a good question, and one which I don't fully have an answer to unfortunately.

It would take some pretty solid evidence that the board are pulling together in the same direction and that the financial situation is such that we have the resources to progress.
But like you said, the likelihood is that we would continue to receive politicians answers rather than actual ones.

On a positive note, the level of discontent among the supporters is already enough that he has at least felt obliged to address it, despite the lack of content in his statement.

 

[loyalblade95]

It was never meant to be happening today. Oldham is the game it's been mooted for.

Yh it wont happen there either next thing u know people will be sayin it will happen at Gillingham I like every Saturday will be the when we play Oldham and am betting there will be no protest

 

[JJBlade]

Does anyone actually think that any protest if it had happened would have been solely based on the fact that we'd just lost a game to Port Vale.
Today's win, however unconvincing has only delayed the inevitable.
And no I won't be taking part in it when it does happen.

 

[blackydog]

I looked all around but saw no protests.

So did I and saw none, but my ears pricked up at the attendance, although it didn't look 2000 light.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Yh it wont happen there either next thing u know people will be sayin it will happen at Gillingham I like every Saturday will be the when we play Oldham and am betting there will be no protest

What?