We've been had

[Need4speed]

I can't help thinking that the situation tonight was wholly contrived to exploit United. There was clear information that given the game was on TV coventry fans would be seeking maximum publicity, yet what was done about this? Absolutely nothing - zero police, zero stewards, zero warnings from the league about ensuring the game was not interrupted. Even Sky were at fault for their commentary team condoning the disruptive action of their fans which was not just pitch invasions. Why does Sheffield United have to endure this? Should be the question our club takes to the League?

 

[metalblade]

Simple we are the best supported and biggest club in league one, any fans making a protest will do so when they play us to get max publicity.

 

[Ginger Gnome]

It was nothing to do with the Blades, we just happened to be the opponents, and although the game was on Sky, a Thursday night just before Christmas in a virtually empty ground is hardly maximum exposure. To anyone but Blades and Coventry fans I doubt people even knew the game existed.

Trying to make this out to be some kind of plot against Sheffield United is just pathetic self-important nonsense.

 

[Ricky]

Coventry deserve a massive fine. Somebody deserves to lose their job. It was predictable, it was planned, and they were woefully unprepared. Absolute shower of shite that they are.

 

[mancunianblade]

Coventry deserve a massive fine. Somebody deserves to lose their job. It was predictable, it was planned, and they were woefully unprepared. Absolute shower of shite that they are.

Don't think they were unprepared at all.the word you are looking for is complicit

 

[Linz]

Coventry deserve a massive fine. Somebody deserves to lose their job. It was predictable, it was planned, and they were woefully unprepared. Absolute shower of shite that they are.

But fining the owners is probably considered a victory for the fans.

Banning them from the return fixture would be my punishment of choice.

 

[Ricky]

Don't think they were unprepared at all.the word you are looking for is complicit

You might be right. They seemed perfectly content to let them spend as much time on the pitch as possible.

Who pays the stewards' wages?

They should never be allowed to work at the club again.

Worse things could have happened tonight and it would've all been their fault.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I think the stewards should be docked wages - simple as that. They didn't do their job.

 

[mancunianblade]

You might be right. They seemed perfectly content to let them spend as much time on the pitch as possible.

Who pays the stewards' wages?

They should never be allowed to work at the club again.

Worse things could have happened tonight and it would've all been their fault.

Well this is where it gets murky I guess because the staff at Cov have gone unpaid in the past on a number of occasions so the people who organise game security and such are probably quite keen for the owners to be forced out. And if this can be done in a way with no personal reprocusions i.e. Someone dying where they would be held responsible then they're going to take that opportunity and thus tonight happened. I maybe wrong but I imagine the owners have very little to do with the day to day running. Hardly going to be a peaceful working relationship. Either way got what we needed from it

 

[Bladesman]

One steward was seen shaking hands with one of the lads holding the banner.

The stewards had little desire to chase them off the pitch it seemed to me.

Complicit is the correct word and I would hope some banning orders are dished out.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Sorry to go against the grain, but I had no problem with the protest – and frankly was surprised but happy to see Sky not cut away and instead show it. I might have had a different view had we suffered from it, but if anything they did.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Yet again we are fall guys.
I hope Coventry go bust and cease to exist.
Full weight cunts from start to finish.
Cunt fans,cunt city , cunt club.
Fuck off and die.

 

[BigBed]

Be fair everyone!!
Anymore stewards or police in the ground and they would've outnumbered the Coventry Shitty fans 2 to 1, that wouldn't look very good on sky eather would it!

 

[Pinchy]

The protest, together with their shite pitch [thank Pele our club had the common sense to invest in a superb surface for our footballers to perform upon], disrupted our concentration, tempo and style. I'm not happy about it, or Sky's obsequious reaction to it, at all.

Well done to the lads for finding a way to win.

 

[sitwell]

But fining the owners is probably considered a victory for the fans.

Banning them from the return fixture would be my punishment of choice.

Wouldn't that be punishing us ,financially ? Deducting points or playing a couple behind closed doors would be my choice.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

No fucker would be agreeing with any protest on the pitch if a player or our travelling supporters had been hurt.

Ricky was spot on... ''Worse things could have happened tonight and it would've all been their fault.''

By applauding their 'protest' is the same as agreeing with The Pigs v Palace 2-2.

 

[northsomersetblade]

It's almost like everybody knew it was going to happen

 

[Linz]

Sorry to go against the grain, but I had no problem with the protest – and frankly was surprised but happy to see Sky not cut away and instead show it. I might have had a different view had we suffered from it, but if anything they did.

I have no issue with fans protesting against owners, but when it is a boardroom rather than a football issue, it should not be to the detriment of the football.

Coventry would have attracted adequate sympathy for prematch, post match or half time protests but when they attempted to disrupt a game of football against a club battling for promotion that 1200 away fans paid to see before a long pre-Christmas break... I'm surprised they don't understand why sympathies waned.

 

[Hartley Hare]

Nothing is ever easy for us, and tonight just confirms matters.

We have to accomplish everything the hard way.

HH

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I have no issue with fans protesting against owners, but when it is a boardroom rather than a football issue, it should not be to the detriment of the football.

Coventry would have attracted adequate sympathy for prematch, post match or half time protests but when they attempted to disrupt a game of football against a club battling for promotion that 1200 away fans paid to see before a long pre-Christmas break... I'm surprised they don't understand why sympathies waned.

I take your point, but for me the fact it was on Sky for me provided from their point of view a pretty clear opportunity to protest and maximise visibility of their situation. There seemed to be support for Blackpool when they did similar – perhaps we'd have booed the guy on the mobility scooter...

 

[HillmortonBlade]

Nothing is ever easy for us, and tonight just confirms matters.

We have to accomplish everything the hard way.

HH

And tonight we did.

Up The Blades

 

[HillmortonBlade]

I take your point, but for me the fact it was on Sky for me provided from their point of view a pretty clear opportunity to protest and maximise visibility of their situation. There seemed to be support for Blackpool when they did similar – perhaps we'd have booed the guy on the mobility scooter...

Would you have been sympathetic had we left with a point or less?

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Banning them from the return fixture would be my punishment of choice.

This.

Although, it seems we've made new 'friends", and let's be honest, football is always is a bit more tasty when playing (and winning) against someone you don't like. So maybe that would be unfair to us too? Points deduction on the other hand....

 

[Hartley Hare]

True

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Would you have been sympathetic had we left with a point or less?

Probably not to be totally honest.

 

[DifferentClass]

Ban them from BDTBL on April Fools Day. Quite fitting

 

[Foxy]

I thought the stadium announcer was interesting, as part way through his bizarre thanking of the protesters for their co-operation, he decided the then repeatedly call out "Sheffield fans"... None of us were on the pitch, with a few remonstrating with coppers at the bottom of the stand.

 

[Hodgesleftpeg]

I thought it was fantastic timing when the fans came on the pitch.

Their players were starting to up their game a bit. They had to go off and it disrupted them. Less than two minutes into the re-start we score.

It was as if the fans thought "oh fuck, we could actually get something out of this match.. quick get on the pitch"

 

[Blade58]

Nothing is ever easy for us, and tonight just confirms matters.

We have to accomplish everything the hard way.

HH

and we will

 

[davidblade]

Yet again we are fall guys.
I hope Coventry go bust and cease to exist.
Full weight cunts from start to finish.
Cunt fans,cunt city , cunt club.
Fuck off and die.

Thank you for your well condsidered ,moderate and proportionate response.