Who was to Blame for relegation?

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Who was to blame for relegation

  • Blackwell

    Votes: 8 11.3%
  • Speed

    Votes: 7 9.9%
  • Adams

    Votes: 17 23.9%
  • Nyron Fucking Nosworthy

    Votes: 13 18.3%
  • some other twat. (Please specify in post)

    Votes: 26 36.6%

  • Total voters
    71
  • Poll closed .

Highbury_Blade

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So who that was connected with the 1st team squad last season do you think was mostly culpable for our relegation?

Was it the former blah blah blah Goalie?, the hapless Speed, Alehouse Mickey, or Bombscare.

Or was it somebody else?

Cast your votes folks!
 



McCabe - by hiring a complete failure for a manager to stroke his wordwide domination ego and allowing him to squander a premiership budget on washed up ex premiership players with fuck all resale value. It sent us into a complete tailspin that we coudn't pull out of and will be paying off for the next decade.

UTB
 
McCabe - by hiring a complete failure for a manager to stroke his wordwide domination ego and allowing him to squander a premiership budget on washed up ex premiership players with fuck all resale value. It sent us into a complete tailspin that we coudn't pull out of and will be paying off for the next decade.

UTB

Agreed....
 
But with that argument alco, you're basically saying that we were relegated last season before a ball was kicked. The squad we had was good enough to stay up i feel.
 
But with that argument alco, you're basically saying that we were relegated last season before a ball was kicked. The squad we had was good enough to stay up i feel.

Good point - but there's no other silver bullet.

Blackwell - still had a big budget but was managing a budget downwards with all the negatives. Previous ludicrous contracts made the slly ones he offered seem reasonable. Results reasonable, football turgid.

Speed - Nice try but we got out luckily. You could see what he was trying but the football had shades of Robson.

Carver - N/A

Adams - for me a good shout. I was impressed by the football I'd seen Port Vale play and he had gotten a few teams promoted, and turned around a few others. Didn't get the results initially improved performances deserved and the plane was then heading full speed to earth. Made poor signings, got nothing out of existing players and perhaps his absolute delight to be managing us wasn't matched in the way he expected by egos such as Ward. He needed his ego stroking (sadly) rather than the hard line Adams took.

Difficult to pin the blame here. I remember driving home from Hartlepool at the start of last season thinking that I'd just watched a side more than capable of relegation.

UTB
 
Dick Wragg. If we hadnt sold Mick Jones wed have won the League and been as big as Barcelona by 1977 and it would have been plain sailing thereafter.
 
Pinchy and Micadilly
All those negative waves and one trick pony posts have had the footballing gods knickers in such a twist that they poured scorn over everything Blades related.
 
Everyone referred to in the poll bears some responsibility, but McCabe takes the lion's share of the blame in my eyes.
 
and who cares?

Get over it.

It's all over, done and dusted.

You can't change the past, only the future.

I don't need a scapegoat as I find the whole "blame culture" a completely negative waste of energy.
 
Rev's covered it for me.
 
Where's the Montgomery option? He gets blamed for most things so I'll go with him.
 



McCabe but all the above played a part as Rev says.
 
Didn't vote, as I cannot find a category. As alco points out, the ultimate blame for our downfall lies with McCabe. Last season it was a case of many twats being responsible. Firstly Blackwell had slowly taken a decent team and sold them off (though his hand was forced) to replace them with slow, old triers. We had a very disappointing summer with few signings. Thew fault of Blackwell and the board. Then the board, after letting Blackwell sign people and renew contracts, made a callamitous decision. That meant that the season was a write off. But even then after a shocking, ill timed decision I never thought we would go down. I don't really blame Speed. He tried to change the style, realised he could not and then showed he was a rookie. Adams has to take his share of the blame. A competent manager would have kept us up. Adams record as worst manager in the history of SUFC speaks for itself. I do not buy this 4th manager in the season argument. He had a transfer window, made signings and had time. 3 (or was it 4) wins in 20odd games speaks for itself. He was a bit unlucky at times and things did not come off, but he just looked lost. It was embaressing how pathetic he looked. The players must take their share of the balme too. They did not perform and let themselves down with some terrible individual errors and a string of very poor performances.
 
McCabe - the whole season was a farce. Clearly unhappy with Blackwell, he did nothing until it was too late. Some sort of succession plan was clearly thought out with Speed - who was then dropped in it with no means of shaping his destiny (there's an argument that he was the wrong bloke to do the job in the first place). What happened then was like a slow motion car-crash - you know what's happening but are powerless to stop it. Adams looked to change some stuff but rather than turning things round he just accelerated the demise.

So for a season where a stated objective (of McCabe's) was to change the style of play he started with the wrong bloke to do it, changed it too late and then looked to reverse the objective when we were clearly in the shit - which just led to us sinking further. A complete and utter balls-up, and whilst others were involved they were merely passengers on the bus.
 
you forgot to add on your poll teh mountains of loans we got as i would hold that mostly responsible as for a couple of match our whole back 4 was on loan with bartley parrino collins nosworthy
 
McCabe and the bloke he trusted to re-profile the club, Birch. The other incompetents were simply their employees.
 
i hope everyone will be as quick to praise him if we return to the championship next season ,somehow doubt it
 
i hope everyone will be as quick to praise him if we return to the championship next season ,somehow doubt it

I'd be quick to praise him if he took responsibility for what he had done and said lets start over with a clean slate. Takes a massive pair to do that. Somehow doubt it.
 
All of the oldies, lest we forget. Fortunately they all seem to have "found" their form again.
 



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