Year Zero

[Darren]

This is the second worse time in the club's history. The worst was in summer 1981, just relegated to the 4th Division. We responded to that with a new chairman, new manager and wads of cash. That put us on the upward trajectory and with one or two blips, nine years later we were back in the top division.

We need the same now - though the fair play rules may make the wads of cash problematic.

Oh and for God's sake Morgan should not be appointed as the new manager.

 

[Guesty]

With the exception of Blackwell's first full season in charged, we've finished lower than the previous season in every year since we were relegated from the Premiership.

I for one think we may be in another relegation scrap next year. I said this a while ago too, although I could be overplaying the situation.

 

[SwissBlade]

Money isn't the problem, it's the players that the manager buys for that money

 

[BladeFisher]

This is the second worse time in the club's history. The worst was in summer 1981, just relegated to the 4th Division. We responded to that with a new chairman, new manager and wads of cash. That put us on the upward trajectory and with one or two blips, nine years later we were back in the top division.

We need the same now - though the fair play rules may make the wads of cash problematic.

Oh and for God's sake Morgan should not be appointed as the new manager.

What did you think of that then Darren?

 

[Kev Gee]

McCabe wont throw another pound at United.
We will have to survive on season ticket income alone.

Troubling times ahead.

 

[Darren]

With the exception of Blackwell's first full season in charged, we've finished lower than the previous season in every year since we were relegated from the Premiership.

I for one think we may be in another relegation scrap next year. I said this a while ago too, although I could be overplaying the situation.

Whilst the situation is pretty shitty, even the most incompetent manager should be able to keep us away from a relegation fight. Mind you, who would have thought we would lose a play off to Yeovil!

 

[Guesty]

Blades teams have been expected to challenge for promotion before and instead faced relegation! Also, we have no idea what the squad will look like next season. A damned sight worse than it does currently, I should imagine.

 

[Darren]

Blades teams have been expected to challenge for promotion before and instead faced relegation! Also, we have no idea what the squad will look like next season. A damned sight worse than it does currently, I should imagine.

Could it get any worse? :-(

 

[Guesty]

Could it get any worse? :-(

When I first started watching United were in the Premiership. My first full season was 1993/94. In my experience, with one or two notable exceptions, it always gets worse.

 

[sitwell]

Blades teams have been expected to challenge for promotion before and instead faced relegation! Also, we have no idea what the squad will look like next season. A damned sight worse than it does currently, I should imagine.

I cant see how ,really .

 

[Guesty]

McDonald and Maguire out perhaps. I know McDonald hasn't done it this year, in fact he's been pretty poor, but you know his replacement won't be capable of the range of passing McDonald showed last season.

 

[Darren]

When I first started watching United were in the Premiership. My first full season was 1993/94. In my experience, with one or two notable exceptions, it always gets worse.

Oh dear:-(

I first went in 1973. I can categorise my supporting life as follows

1973-75: slow but steady progress to one of the best 6 teams in the country
1975-81: disastrous decline to the 4th division
1981-86: pretty quick recovery to a decent 2nd division team
1986-88: temporary decline to the 3rd division
1988-92: amazing rise to a decent top tier team
1992-02: slow but steay decline to a mediocre second tier team
2002-07 slow but steady improvement culminating in promotion to the PL
2007-09: treading water as a parachute payment benefiting big gun in the second tier
2009- : precipitate decline to where we are now

 

[Guesty]

One 5 year period of improvement in my 19 full seasons then. Three relegations and one promotion!

 

[shorehamview]

As Ronan Keating said, life is a rollercoaster. Ours has been one that spends a lot of time on the downward slide, and only a brief time on the up and at the top. Like a shit Alton Towers.

 

[sitwell]

As Ronan Keating said, life is a rollercoaster. Ours has been one that spends a lot of time on the downward slide, and only a brief time on the up and at the top. Like a shit Alton Towers.

Lets call ourselves Lightwater Valley FC

 

[Compound_Legend]

Lets call ourselves Lightwater Valley FC

We're not even Gullivers Kingdom...

 

[silverfox]

We're not even Gullivers Kingdom...

That little roundabout that is sometimes on Fargate?

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

Money isn't the problem, it's the players that the manager buys for that money

it was this year, cos we didnt buy anybody! apart murphy. and blackman!

 

[UnitedBlade]

When I started watching in the early 60s, we'd never finished below 11th in the second tier.

Dick Wragg started the sales and anyone decent I've liked we have sold (except Hodgy, Woody and Len). Our decline started with the sale of Mick Jones as the great John Harris warned.

 

[Darren]

When I started watching in the early 60s, we'd never finished below 11th in the second tier.

Dick Wragg started the sales and anyone decent I've liked we have sold (except Hodgy, Woody and Len). Our decline started with the sale of Mick Jones as the great John Harris warned.

I think there's an argument that it was ultimately the abolition of the maximum wage in the early 60's that did for United. Before that, there was no financial incentive for players like Jimmy Hagan to move elsewhere. After that, we could never compete with the wages that the big clubs paid and the gap between them and us has just continued to widen ever since.

 

[UnitedBlade]

I think there's an argument that it was ultimately the abolition of the maximum wage in the early 60's that did for United. Before that, there was no financial incentive for players like Jimmy Hagan to move elsewhere. After that, we could never compete with the wages that the big clubs paid and the gap between them and us has just continued to widen ever since.

Maybe but Wragg sold Mick behind John Harris's back. He wasn't looking to move I believe.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Money isn't the problem, it's the players that the manager buys for that money

It's the manger we pick.