Uncle Neil’s final visit to the Lane?

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Sothall_Blade said:
It was The Sun who dragged up the topic of Warnock's contract on the eve of the Wigan match.

Not much Warnock can do to prevent that.

It's funny how people are usually happy to treat the tabloid's shit-stirring nonsense with the contempt it deserves.

Unless it suits their agenda to treat it as the gospel truth for ever more.
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It was the News of the World. When I saw the headlines that morning in Tesco's I knew that it would cause a negative atmosphere at the Lane and that we would lose the match but never ever expected Man U not to win against West Ham. Awful day
 
I liked Warnock. On camera, and on the touchline, he was everything above and in many ways you want that at Sheffield United. We certainly did when he arrived, because we were in a similar position to at the end of last season and looking at the abyss. Away from the public he is a really, really good bloke ... generous and friendly to a tee but still hugely passionate about this club.

To be honest chaps, I think the rollercoaster ride we had with Warnock had far more periods where we were loving the journey. The PL year was under-resourced and his animosity with the board shone through and was his trapdoor. Circumstance as well as his stubbornness caused our drop (just think if we hadn't had Gerrard's penalty, Geary's goal at West Ham and Tevez/Man U) so I think booing a bloke who gave this club a pretty bloody goo period where we may have ended up marooned in the fourth division is divisive and spiteful.

He's as much a Blade as Wilder is.

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I love Warnock! I was a teenager watching United enjoy success, we enjoyed so much excitement and we grew so much as a club during his tenure. The semi-finals, the play-offs and our eventual promotion to the top table made us the biggest club in this fine city, and no doubt contributed to the number of supporters we get now. I refuse to buy into this whole 'his ego got us relegated' nonsense, I really don't get it. If you really believe that's true, just take 5 minutes to look at the squad we had in the premier league, Jagielka aside, average would be a huge complement. Despite this we came very close to surviving and had a fantastic home record ( is it the best home record of any club ever relegated from the premier league?) . Despite some people's views, Neil Warnock is a Blade! Our last two promotions have come with a born and bred blade in charge, personally I think that's something for us to celebrate. This isn't about comparing Warnock and Wilder, I just can't believe that some of our fans don't acknowledge the fantastic job Warnock did for us.

So when he returns I will give him a big round of applause before and after the game, however once the game kicks off all that matters is Chrissy Wilder's red a white army.
 
Most of us have worked with or have a relative who is a Warnock-type. Always has to have the last word, banter always has an edge to it, massive ego only just held under control. As a leadership style it can work for a short period of time but these kind of people always come up short in the final analysis because ultimately they really get on other peoples' tits after a while.

I think Wilder's leadership style is more durable. Plus I don't watch every TV interview he does between my fingers, hoping to fuck he's not about to say something really stupid.
 
Dkc said:
Mrs Doubtfire for me.
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It's Mrs Richards I tell thee..

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The Crab said:
No denying what he achieved with us. But in my view, had had a lot more time to do it than a manager in this era would get.

For me, he soured it a bit with the shenanigans towards the end, bit too much self interest considering how big a Blade he claimed to be. But fairs fair, he did achieve, so deserves some applause.
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I used to love the guy until the Portsmouth saga and realised he wasn't the big blade he made out.

Could never imagine Wilder acting in that way.
 
Deleted Member said:
Warnock is an arrogant big nosed cunt who couldn't motivate us to get a point to ensure top flight survival because was more concnerned about his own contract.

Never ever will forgive him for that act of trechory.
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Some spelling errors are more glaring than others. But trechory? FFS Brownie.
 
Warnock's downfall was his stubborn approach to team selection for away games in the Prem. If he'd had Wilder's mentality we would have stayed up that season..... regardless of the West Ham/Tevez debacle. Greatest post-war managers were undoubtably Harris, Bassett and Warnock, and Harris still tops them for me. However, Chris Wilder has shown his ability to "Blend-it-like-Harris" and has the potential to top the lot. Watch this space folks!!
 
Blend-it-like-Harris said:
Warnock's downfall was his stubborn approach to team selection for away games in the Prem. If he'd had Wilder's mentality we would have stayed up that season..... regardless of the West Ham/Tevez debacle. Greatest post-war managers were undoubtably Harris, Bassett and Warnock, and Harris still tops them for me. However, Chris Wilder has shown his ability to "Blend-it-like-Harris" and has the potential to top the lot. Watch this space folks!!
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It's another myth though isnt it ,he had targeted a point a game and was well on course to do so for most of the season
People talk about the villa match like all we had to was rock up with two up front and we would have pissed it they had carew agbonlahor and Ashley young up front and were on fire besides which I'm not sure we had two fit strikers
 



Sir Neil of Warnock was a legend and he should have stayed on until his son could take over. That said Wilder has the same passion and will take us places.
 
Never truly liked Warnock but he had a huge positive impact on the club. I'd take that deal if offered.

Wilder manages with style and class on the pitch and off it. If he ever takes us the Prem there'll be no comparison. But until then.... :)
 
Warnock played the Blade card for his convenience and it served him well. He had 7 years to get us up during which time he signed dozens of shite players and we endured some absolute crap yet in amongst it were some absolute diamond moments and achievement..

Never been a Blade on the scale that Wilder is but he seems to have fooled many over the years as to his Blade credentials.

I don't like the bloke though you can't knock his managerial record compared to many others who still land jobs in the top two leagues.

I won't be booing his return but I'll not be singing his name as I would for Harry.
 
why is there so much bitterness towards Warnock?
since then we've had

Robson - spunked money up the wall and won fuck all
Blackwell - didn't get promoted, worse football ever seen at the Lane
Speed - not long but looked out of his depth
Adams - blade, piss head, relegated
Wilson - pig, didn't take us
Morgan - poor mans Stuart Pearce
Weir - fuckin hell.....
Clough - cup runs amazing, didn't get us up.

so the way I see it, prior to this month, in the last 18 years, Warnock is the only manager to bring promotion ?

The bloke gave us 8 years, transformed the club, took us up and still speaks fondly of us
I divorced my 1st wife years ago, don't particularly like her, but I'm still man enough to say she did a great job of raising our daughter......
bit of respect lads.
 
When he went to Palace, people there, said he turned the club around from top to bottom. He changed their whole outlook, brought real positivity from top to bottom. They loved him. As has been alluded to above, he is a big reason we have the size of support we have now and maintained through the shit of the last 5 years. Blade or not, he did a lot for us. That's my take on it anyway.
 
Blend-it-like-Harris said:
Warnock's downfall was his stubborn approach to team selection for away games in the Prem. If he'd had Wilder's mentality we would have stayed up that season..... regardless of the West Ham/Tevez debacle. Greatest post-war managers were undoubtably Harris, Bassett and Warnock, and Harris still tops them for me. However, Chris Wilder has shown his ability to "Blend-it-like-Harris" and has the potential to top the lot. Watch this space folks!!
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Totally agree. I posted something similar before. Memories are short and selective sometimes. Warnock took 8 years to get us to the Prem. I don't know any manager in the club's history who has been given that kind of time to put the club back where it should be. The reason we got relegated from the Prem was not just because of Tevez - it was also because Warnock was so bloody negative with his tactics away from home. Time and time again, he changed the team and went all defensive because he was scared of what the opposition might do to us. Not only that, but he signed some right garbage that never even made it onto the pitch. It was odd to the point of being "suspicious" why he was so fond of signing strikers that never got to play for the team - don't you think? (Or maybe you don't think anything unusual about that? - I think we will learn more about this one day).

On top of that - he was a total embarrassment at times. With his excuses about match officials etc. And not only when we lost. I remember one game when we played away at Derby and the lads did fantastic to win 3-2 I think it was. And his press conference was all about the match officials and how they nearly ruined it. You'd have thought we'd lost.

I think we had some good times under him - and I rate his ability to motivate players - particularly his half-time team talks which tended to have an effect in the second half of games - but he knows how to fool people does that bloke and he's succeeded at it for years.
 
steve26272 said:
why is there so much bitterness towards Warnock?
since then we've had

Robson - spunked money up the wall and won fuck all
Blackwell - didn't get promoted, worse football ever seen at the Lane
Speed - not long but looked out of his depth
Adams - blade, piss head, relegated
Wilson - pig, didn't take us
Morgan - poor mans Stuart Pearce
Weir - fuckin hell.....
Clough - cup runs amazing, didn't get us up.

so the way I see it, prior to this month, in the last 18 years, Warnock is the only manager to bring promotion ?

The bloke gave us 8 years, transformed the club, took us up and still speaks fondly of us
I divorced my 1st wife years ago, don't particularly like her, but I'm still man enough to say she did a great job of raising our daughter......
bit of respect lads.
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Was Adams a piss head?

Wilder likes his ale but no ones called him an Alci
 
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United have been by far and away the best team in League One this season, evidenced by their nine-point advantage over second-placed Bolton Wanderers.
QUOTE] 9 point advantage, 9 point advantage!!. Bloody 14 point advantage. Media bias in evidence again
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Warnock's last visit to the lane will not be a winning one.
 
Tyler Durden said:
Well, no. The bit that gets under my skin is the reverence for a man who nearly fucked up a promotion bid and royally fucked up a survival bid on the back of his own ego. If he finds that amusing then it does indeed confirm him as a cunt.

Brayford can do one as well.
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Our failed premier league survival bid boiled down to a penalty given away by a Jagielka handball at the end of the first half, followed by a shot early in the second half (by Webber, who was pretty much clean through) that hit the inside of the post and bounced back across the goal. Hardly events that Warnock had any control over and nothing at all to do with Warnock's ego or any lack of motivation on the part of the players.

I would add that Jagielka appeared to be pushed in the back prior to handling the ball. The penalty should not have been given. And don't get me started on the Tevez affair..............

Love him or loathe him, it is a fact that Warnock was one of our better post-Harris managers.
 



Silent Blade said:
It was the News of the World. When I saw the headlines that morning in Tesco's I knew that it would cause a negative atmosphere at the Lane and that we would lose the match but never ever expected Man U not to win against West Ham. Awful day
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It's amazing how many otherwise intelligent posters believe that:-

a) A newspaper article can cause a team of professional footballers to play badly and lose a match

b) That Warnock was in a position where he could influence what sort of article that newspaper chose to print about us

c) That if he did have that influence he would use it ensure they printed an article about his contract situation on the eve of a vital relegation decider

d) That if even all the above is true he wouldn't realise this would make him look a greedy, selfish villain for years to come

Do you people really believe all that? Stop and think about it. Does it seem very likely? Really?
 
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