Time for a statement. Time for an apology.

[BaldeRunner]

Another Saturday, another loss and we continue our spectacular disintegration and freefall into obscurity. The unique experiment of selling our way to success, of letting ego overcome intelligence and of allowing 'business' decisions to overtake footballing decisions has ended up exactly where we would have predicted. Humiliation doesn't even come close.

We are screwed, we have nothing left but a bunch of players whose only consistency is knowing how to lose and whose ever-changing names I can't even be arsed to remember. I don't expect miracles and I've watched football long enough to know dead men walking when i see them. All I ask is for Kevin McCabe to stop skulking around and come forward with a statement. An apology. A recognition that his unbelievably imbecilic decision to appoint Robson and his subsequent managerial decisions and patronising of fans is something that he deeply regrets and that the club has suffered irrecoverably from his incompetence.

What's the point in him apologising? Because there is fuck all else left to do. My club has been systematically shredded and damaged beyond repair and apart from the occasional burst of anger such as the one I have now I actually don't give a toss anymore. I am owed an apology for that because i have supported this club for forty years and never felt anything like this. So, Mr McCabe, please grow some and get up and say you are bleeding well sorry. It's the right thing to do - not that doing the right thing is one of your strong points.

 

[SRBlade]

Hear hear .

 

[alcoblade]

I'm with you on that. I'd forgive him not doing until after wer'e actually relegated, after that we're owed one.

UTB

 

[Bladesway]

Its not relegation that hurts the most, its the limp dick manner in which we are going down that gets me. Yes relegation is a truly awful thing but its been coming since we plumped for Speed rather than someone who could have helped us. The manner which we are flapping around like a fish out of water, waiting for the inevitable is something I am not used to. Blades fight to the death. Its usually a spectacular death where we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory but at least we fight. This is sleepwalking to the end. Defeat follows defeat. No goals follows more no goals. We are so shit we are worse than Scunthorpe fucking United! Christ how big a reality check is that. An aplogy is just the start.

 

[BaldeRunner]

Yes, I was going to go on to say something about the need for a Statement that gives some clarity, some vision, some hope that just maybe someone has the faintest inkling of where we go from here. Unfortunately I got so depressed writing the post I switched my computer off and went and kicked next door's cat instead.

 

[oldblade]

Its not relegation that hurts the most, its the limp dick manner in which we are going down that gets me. Yes relegation is a truly awful thing but its been coming since we plumped for Speed rather than someone who could have helped us. The manner which we are flapping around like a fish out of water, waiting for the inevitable is something I am not used to. Blades fight to the death. Its usually a spectacular death where we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory but at least we fight. This is sleepwalking to the end. Defeat follows defeat. No goals follows more no goals. We are so shit we are worse than Scunthorpe fucking United! Christ how big a reality check is that. An aplogy is just the start.

I don't regard Speed as being responsible for where we are now. We weren't doing well under him, and I don't know how good or bad he would have turned ouit in the end. But we were just about keeping our heads above water. I don't think we went on a winless run of any more than 4 games. And we actually pulled of a few unlikely results like the draws at Forest and Leicester and the win at Millwall. We were registering more than one point per game - enough to stay up. The squad was weak, but Speed was doing a reasonable job of getting points out of it.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Barnstoneworth!!!

 

[GAZBLADE]

Another Saturday, another loss and we continue our spectacular disintegration and freefall into obscurity. The unique experiment of selling our way to success, of letting ego overcome intelligence and of allowing 'business' decisions to overtake footballing decisions has ended up exactly where we would have predicted. Humiliation doesn't even come close.

We are screwed, we have nothing left but a bunch of players whose only consistency is knowing how to lose and whose ever-changing names I can't even be arsed to remember. I don't expect miracles and I've watched football long enough to know dead men walking when i see them. All I ask is for Kevin McCabe to stop skulking around and come forward with a statement. An apology. A recognition that his unbelievably imbecilic decision to appoint Robson and his subsequent managerial decisions and patronising of fans is something that he deeply regrets and that the club has suffered irrecoverably from his incompetence.

What's the point in him apologising? Because there is fuck all else left to do. My club has been systematically shredded and damaged beyond repair and apart from the occasional burst of anger such as the one I have now I actually don't give a toss anymore. I am owed an apology for that because i have supported this club for forty years and never felt anything like this. So, Mr McCabe, please grow some and get up and say you are bleeding well sorry. It's the right thing to do - not that doing the right thing is one of your strong points.

Fuckin spot on.
To say we've been taken the piss out of is the understatement of the year.

 

[Toronto Blade]

It doesn't take a genius to see that running with a skeleton squad ,selling off any talent and replacing with inferior players can only lead downwards.This season was never about strenghthening for a promotion push.

 

[JohnDenver]

It doesn't take a genius to see that running with a skeleton squad ,selling off any talent and replacing with inferior players can only lead downwards.This season was never about strenghthening for a promotion push.

Are you suggesting Trevor Birch isn't a genius?

 

[shorehamview]

The way this season has panned out a mere apology won't be enough. It will take at least a blow job.

 

[alcoblade]

The way this season has panned out a mere apology won't be enough. It will take at least a blow job.

From McCabe? Eeewwww!

UTB

 

[Rattly Noise]

Sod an apology. Only thing that will make me happy is some more points. Inconceivable to think we'll not get another point this season, but I would have said same about the last few games so I'm no Mystic Meg. If we must go down, let's go down with a bang not a whimper.

 

[alcoblade]

Given that we're down I'd take no more points for the mother of all apologies from McCabe and a clear statement of intent about how he plans to rectify the situation. Preferably by offlaoding at the earliest time for a cut price deal.

UTB

 

[chipsncake]

Another Saturday, another loss and we continue our spectacular disintegration and freefall into obscurity. The unique experiment of selling our way to success, of letting ego overcome intelligence and of allowing 'business' decisions to overtake footballing decisions has ended up exactly where we would have predicted. Humiliation doesn't even come close.

We are screwed, we have nothing left but a bunch of players whose only consistency is knowing how to lose and whose ever-changing names I can't even be arsed to remember. I don't expect miracles and I've watched football long enough to know dead men walking when i see them. All I ask is for Kevin McCabe to stop skulking around and come forward with a statement. An apology. A recognition that his unbelievably imbecilic decision to appoint Robson and his subsequent managerial decisions and patronising of fans is something that he deeply regrets and that the club has suffered irrecoverably from his incompetence.

What's the point in him apologising? Because there is fuck all else left to do. My club has been systematically shredded and damaged beyond repair and apart from the occasional burst of anger such as the one I have now I actually don't give a toss anymore. I am owed an apology for that because i have supported this club for forty years and never felt anything like this. So, Mr McCabe, please grow some and get up and say you are bleeding well sorry. It's the right thing to do - not that doing the right thing is one of your strong points.

Best post on here for a long, long time. I'm sure 99% of our supporters will empathise with these views and it just goes to show what a sorry state we are currently in. All we want is recognition of the mistakes that have been made made one after another after another. We all know replacing a manager every 2 minutes isn't good for the stability of any football club, but to use this as an excuse not to replace the worst manager in our history is undefendable. Adams has to go and he has to go now, and once again we have to start from scratch. Some may think we are rock bottom and the only way is up, but if McCabe continues to run the club in the same way it has been run for the last 3 years or so then this seasons relegation will only be the beginning of our demise.

 

[SwissBlade]

An apology? I'm sure you were one of the ones that praised the 4m, 35k a week striker at the time as well...

 

[raul]

Yep, it's all the fans fault.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Yes, I was going to go on to say something about the need for a Statement that gives some clarity, some vision, some hope that just maybe someone has the faintest inkling of where we go from here. Unfortunately I got so depressed writing the post I switched my computer off and went and kicked next door's cat instead.

At least we now know the BaldeRunner is not Ched Evans - He'd have missed the cat!

 

[BaldeRunner]

An apology? I'm sure you were one of the ones that praised the 4m, 35k a week striker at the time as well...

Indeed I was. That was because naive, gullible type that i am I actually believed it was the sign of some ambition from the club and that just maybe McCabe was serious about Europe in 5 years. Had I realised they would be then selling him half way through the season, lying directly to me about the reasons why and then patronising me about 'knowing whats best' I would of course have taken a different view. I'm not really sure what point you are making other than I was stupid for thinking that McCabe actually knew what he was doing? Guilty as charged.

 

[Bladesway]

I don't regard Speed as being responsible for where we are now. We weren't doing well under him, and I don't know how good or bad he would have turned ouit in the end. But we were just about keeping our heads above water. I don't think we went on a winless run of any more than 4 games. And we actually pulled of a few unlikely results like the draws at Forest and Leicester and the win at Millwall. We were registering more than one point per game - enough to stay up. The squad was weak, but Speed was doing a reasonable job of getting points out of it.

No OB I don't blame speed and I dont blame Blackwell as I don't blame Adams. Its the arseholes that keep putting these people in charge that I blame.

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Indeed I was. That was because naive, gullible type that i am I actually believed it was the sign of some ambition from the club and that just maybe McCabe was serious about Europe in 5 years. Had I realised they would be then selling him half way through the season, lying directly to me about the reasons why and then patronising me about 'knowing whats best' I would of course have taken a different view. I'm not really sure what point you are making other than I was stupid for thinking that McCabe actually knew what he was doing? Guilty as charged.

So its an apology from BR thats required?

 

[BaldeRunner]

No OB I don't blame speed and I dont blame Blackwell as I don't blame Adams. Its the arseholes that keep putting these people in charge that I blame.

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So its an apology from BR thats required?

Nope, as you said, it's an apology from the people who put him there in the first place. All the things I refer to in that post relate to what McCabe said and did, not Robson.

 

[SwissBlade]

Indeed I was. That was because naive, gullible type that i am I actually believed it was the sign of some ambition from the club and that just maybe McCabe was serious about Europe in 5 years. Had I realised they would be then selling him half way through the season, lying directly to me about the reasons why and then patronising me about 'knowing whats best' I would of course have taken a different view. I'm not really sure what point you are making other than I was stupid for thinking that McCabe actually knew what he was doing? Guilty as charged.

I guess the point is that we take the rough with the smooth. How can you demand apologies when you were applauding the "ambition" and probably still demand big money signings?

The truth is that if we'd signed say a 300k striker from Chesterfield you'd demand an apology for the club lacking ambition, you'd demand an apology for a 3Mil striker (with a previously good record at this level) not scoring and say we paid to much for him. You'd demand an apology for not giving Killa 20k then demand an apology when he didn't put in 20k a week performances.

Looking at what you said you probably wouldn't have done much different yourself, so you should also be apologising.

What does McCabe need to apologise for? Nothing, unless he's not acted in the best interests of the club. Sure he'll probably have had some personal/ Scarborough group benefits as well. But as long as he, as the majority shareholder didn't intentionally fuck things up then he's not got a lot to apologise for. Mistakes have been made, some big some small, but I doubt they were seen by many at the time.

It probably sounds like I am defending McCabe and the club, but I'm not, I just think the demand for apologies is daft, what I demand is for things to be put right as soon as possible.

 

[grafikhaus]

We all know replacing a manager every 2 minutes isn't good for the stability of any football club, but to use this as an excuse not to replace the worst manager in our history is undefendable. Adams has to go and he has to go now, and once again we have to start from scratch. Some may think we are rock bottom and the only way is up, but if McCabe continues to run the club in the same way it has been run for the last 3 years or so then this seasons relegation will only be the beginning of our demise.

Many a true word and all that. Keeping Adams will turn out to be a mistake that makes the appointment of Robson seem sane. He's out of his depth. He's got his favourites. Keeping Boggy on the bench 'because he's an impact player'. WTF? Once we go a goal down, we're not capable of making an impact!

Indeed I was. That was because naive, gullible type that i am I actually believed it was the sign of some ambition from the club and that just maybe McCabe was serious about Europe in 5 years. Had I realised they would be then selling him half way through the season, lying directly to me about the reasons why and then patronising me about 'knowing whats best' I would of course have taken a different view. I'm not really sure what point you are making other than I was stupid for thinking that McCabe actually knew what he was doing? Guilty as charged.

Again, spot on. Some people seem to think that signing Beattie was the root of all our current woes. It wasn't. It was the first, tentative step to add genuine class to our squad - just as teams similar to us (Wigan, Stoke, Birmingham etc.) have slowly evolved and strengthened. Trouble was, McCabe being McCabe, he shat it, bottled it and compounded this by lying to us.

Look at the teams fighting for promotion - Leeds, Norwich, Cardiff, Forest, Swansea etc. Some of these will narrowly miss out. But will they do what we did post-Wembley and destroy what was the core of a good team? No they won't. They'll be back up there again next season, trying for the big prize. Us? We'll be mid-table, playing shite like Dagenham and Redbridge in front of 13-14k.

'Successful businessman' my arse.

 

[Big Mart]

It probably sounds like I am defending McCabe and the club,

Yes it does sound like that, and yes you are, it's all you ever do.

 

[lenners]

Come on chaps, McCabe said he was the one with the foresight to see this recession coming and he was acting first so we would be in a strong position when other clubs were in denial.
Why all those other clubs haven't seen the light is beyond me. Fools.

 

[SwissBlade]

Yes it does sound like that, and yes you are, it's all you ever do.

Ah well if you say so, you must be right.

 

[Big Mart]

That's more like it :clap:

 

[BaldeRunner]

I guess the point is that we take the rough with the smooth. How can you demand apologies when you were applauding the "ambition" and probably still demand big money signings?

The truth is that if we'd signed say a 300k striker from Chesterfield you'd demand an apology for the club lacking ambition, you'd demand an apology for a 3Mil striker (with a previously good record at this level) not scoring and say we paid to much for him. You'd demand an apology for not giving Killa 20k then demand an apology when he didn't put in 20k a week performances.

Looking at what you said you probably wouldn't have done much different yourself, so you should also be apologising.

What does McCabe need to apologise for? Nothing, unless he's not acted in the best interests of the club. Sure he'll probably have had some personal/ Scarborough group benefits as well. But as long as he, as the majority shareholder didn't intentionally fuck things up then he's not got a lot to apologise for. Mistakes have been made, some big some small, but I doubt they were seen by many at the time.

It probably sounds like I am defending McCabe and the club, but I'm not, I just think the demand for apologies is daft, what I demand is for things to be put right as soon as possible.

I should be apologising?? Where on earth are you going with this?? This isn't a couple of 'clangers' dropped innocently along the way by McCabe and the club. Just look at where we are, I mean truly look at the position the club has found itself in. It is an unmitigated disaster. This isn't about demanding an apology every time a signing goes wrong or a player doesn't live up to his reputation or, indeed, his earnings. It is about systematic and repeated errors of judgement that have led us to the brink of footballing oblivion in the third division with little immediate prospect of bouncing back. I'm not sure whether you are deliberately missing the point. Let me run it by you one more time. An apology in itself is, of course, of no use to a club now in financial and status freefall. The point is an apology is an acknowledgement that huge mistakes have been repeatedly made by those whose job it is to ensure the success of our club. These centre on incredibly bad business as well as footballing decisions. We were told that as fans that we didn't understand the 'business' decisions. That has turned out to be the patronising claptrap that we all suspected and our club is neither a good business or a good team. We need to know that those responsible do actually acknowledge this and that they have learned from it. If they don't then I honestly see very little hope for the club. There's very little else can be done at the moment and i am suggesting that as we reach ground zero perhaps an apology and some much needed honesty may be a starting point for rebuilding.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Did you know that old ironing board covers make the best doorstops???

 

[sheffielder]

Ah well if you say so, you must be right.

To be fair Swiss he is right