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1 minute ago, top4718 said:

Talking of lifting embargoes, I'm back 😀

Blimey thats a name from the past, welcome back.

1 hour ago, cuttsie said:

can some one give me a reply please , just to make my reinstatement on the forum is fully working . 

How are you getting re-instated a friend of mine who I had many good debates with on here says he's still banned.

8 hours ago, Redcat said:

Four years ago we had a ground floor extension built. Last year the roof started leaking where it joins the house, down the side and wherever there is a join in the roof felt as rain is getting under the tiles when it's windy. 

I've had a couple of roofers look at it and they both say it needs the roof replacing with different tiles as the current tiles aren't suitable for the low roof pitch. 

The builder who did the extension is now retired, but could I get him to pay for the repairs or claim on the his insurance? I'm pretty sure there's a 10 year guarantee with his work. But not sure how to approach it. 

I'm surprised Building Control didn't ask for proof of what tiles were used if its a low pitched roof.

The fact that nearly half the club in the Championship have been embargoed shows that its a totally flawed system that isn't fit for purpose.

9 hours ago, mikeG said:

I lived in Preston when Bobby managed North End and Jack was in charge of Middlesborough.  I went to watch the teams meet at Deepdale. I think Middlesborough won 4-1 or 4-2. I think Jack did a pretty good job at Middlesborough but this didn't get a mention in the program.

It did mention this game and showed a clip of them both in the dugouts, it didn't mention the final score though.

It was a fantastic documentary of a great, down to earth and humble man. A true legend.

1 hour ago, Thirsty Relic said:

Are you suggesting that we played him in defence, as that was where we were short, or just keep playing him when he clearly wasn't producing on the pitch or in training?

Conceding goals hasn't been your problem, scoring them has, he's wasted what money he was given on making the side worse. The money wasted on Berge, Mousset, Brewster and McBurnie could have strengthened the backline if thats where you were short on players.

3 minutes ago, Thirsty Relic said:

The only team I can think of who have had as many injuries as us this season, particularly in defence, is Liverpool.  Even with their huge squad and buying power, and bringing in many new defenders (that we didn't), they have gone from run-away Champions to not even being in the top 6.  No surprise that we are where we are.

You've a £23m striker who couldn't get a game, you can't be that short on players.

14 hours ago, Thirsty Relic said:

Amazing. 

 

After years of great results and getting Untied to the top 10 in the Premier League, we have a bad season (caused by a very small squad playing twice a week due to Covid, no new additions to the squad and a whole host of injuries), and look like getting relegated.

 

The Manager goes after many weeks of uncertainly, and having clearly received no backing in how to take the team forward next season, after a season of no funds being made available to him and operating with a smaller budget than probably other manager in the league.

 

Now we get the Prince making claims against Chris Wilder, and suddenly a number of posters believe his side of the story.

 

The truth will come out eventually, and we'll never know if we'd have stayed up if the Prince had made the funds available to buy the players Wilder wanted to bring in that went to other clubs later (and for more money than we could have got them for).

The other teams in the Prem have played under the same conditions, he's had more to spend than  most but has wasted it on mediocrity, Sean Dyche has shown how to manage in the Prem with lesser rescources, its not an excuse for such a deadful season.

Seems he isn't "one of our own" as much as some fans thought.

Quite predictably it looks like Alan Knill is the next one to leave the sinking ship, didn't travel to Chelsea yesterday.

9 hours ago, cmonkes said:

What the Prince has done in terms of 'sustainability' (if that's what we want to call it) is staggering really.

 

We've seen multiple negative comments on here, relating to a loan note taken out against this seasons profits. This has since been offset over several years, to allow it to be repaid by parachute payments, thus leaving higher working capital.

 

It depends how you want to look at it really...in one hand you have a savvy owner, who has managed to build a Premier league team, whilst maintaining the wage bill of a championship outfit (maybe covid and deferred contract negotiations help with this)....But flip the coin a little bit and look at it all in relation to our current predicament and wilders departure??

 

Our commitment to building a squad on the cheap (a system that Wilder did by into himself), was extremely limiting in allowing us to bring in the players that we have desperately needed in order to remain competitive?

 

The average championship salary is now budging up to a staggering 25k-30k and beyond!!....

 

Shopping in the Premier League has simply been out of bounds for Wilder and he has been left to shop in alternative markets. Obviously his eyes have turned to the outstanding performers of the league below, but these players have numerous admirers and inflated price tags as a result.

 

Wilder has been shopping in a very, very limited market! He needed the goalposts moving a little and the pursestrings stretch, in order to remain competitive. It never happened! Instead he had to settle for Option E,F and even G.

 

Perhaps an alternative would have been the overseas market, however a lack of international scouting system, coupled with the pandemic...wouldn't make this easy to achieve. The lad that we signed and shipped off to Beerschot, permit problems and everything else.

 

The whole situation is beginning to stink a little bit now and it is becoming more and more transparent that wilder's ambition to succeed in the top flight, was greater than that of HRH. This of course being my own opinion...one that is backed up by factual information and statistics, that are readily available in the public domain.

 

Flip the coin however and our owners are readily pushing away at the whole 'United World' business model. This season alone we have added two more clubs to the owners portfolio. He states the Sheffield United Football Club are the sole aim of the structure and sit at the too of his operational pyramid.....But you can't help but think...would this mot have been a better business move after we have established ourselves within the top flight?

 

We now here that a move in Beerschot, in which the team have designed and manufactured their own kit...is now being considered at Sheffield United, subject to successful research. The aim is to cut out the percentages to the manufacturers and bring all profits into the football club. 

 

My head is literally spinning with it all...and one thing remains true. I feel big time, for who I consider to be our finest manager in history. This could we be opportunity lost for us! At the end of last season, we found ourselves sat in our best position in decades. Not only in the league, but financially and the whole picture. Sound investment and clever market moves could well have guaranteed our position in this league for years to come. The right moves this year would have ensured survival, ensured revenue and after year two and three....it would have been a completely different ball park.

 

 

 

 

I have to be careful what I say replying to your posts but the Prince wasn't savvy in building a Premier League club, he got lucky when McCabe appointed Wilder, he was hardly even seen at the Lane for years. You've also said in your post that the parachute payments are swallowed up by the loan (that you previously said didn't exist) so with no (or limited numbers) of fans in the ground where is the money coming from?

Two very poor sides, what a pathetic relegation this is, going down without even a fight.

13 hours ago, atticus said:

As you know,Phipps has been subtly bad mouthing Wilder for the last couple of months on Twitter, no doubt at the Prince’s behest and has been shot down by most. 
Which players  did he say was on £50k a week? , I genuinely missed that .

His quote was - "first team starters are on £40-£50/55k".

I've heard from an ex-player that it was Stephen Bettis who was the main instigator in Wilders removal.

Whoever takes on the hotseat next season will certainly have a tough job on to win over the fans  and he won't have a huge budget at his disposal.

7 hours ago, echo beach said:

I'm ambivalent about Prince Abdullah. I don't know the man.

I do know that he said all the right things when he took over our Club and yet he and his 'advisors' have now presided over what could be the most catastrophic decision to affect the Blades for a very long time.

To let CW go, albeit 'by mutual consent', shows a total lack of understanding of what he's done for SUFC, both on and off the field, in the past five years.

It also demonstrates a disregard for the opinions of the vast majority of supporters. Fellow managers, commentators, pundits, players and supporters of other teams have voiced their incredulity at what has happened. They can't all be wrong. It's called 'shooting yourself in the foot.'

Only time will tell where we go next, except that the Championship is almost a certainty,, but the omens do not look encouraging.

If it does all 'go pear shaped' then hopefully he will offload United to someone with a more personal interest and whose heart and soul are at Bramall Lane, just like CW's was.

 

Echo.

Kevin McCabe would be perfect.

2 hours ago, atticus said:

How many 1st team starters would that be, 1 or 11?

Jim Phipps is also a COVID denier , thinks vaccines are a tool of the state and the sun shines out of Donald Trumps ......Make of him what you will.

You were all lauding Phipps for muttering platitudes when he was still directly involved with the club, whatever his beliefs he's much closer to the Prince than me or thee.

1 minute ago, Box11 said:

Someone told me that I'll be checking to see if that's true if so it's terrible....

Jim Phipps who's a friend of the Prince said that first team starters were on £40-50k a week.

He's got a mortgage on the ground and huge loan to pay, I doubt he's going anywhere anytime soon.

One of the best first halves of the season, kept the Leagues form team at bay and Rhodes with a typical poachers goal.

Long way to go yet but encouraging.

Well thats it then, Wilder came from success with lower league clubs to manage his former team, a shaky first few games paved the way for what was a fantastic run, promotion from L1 in his first season, consolidation in the Championship in his second which included the Blades biggest game in 40 years where they beat Yorkshires most successful club 2-4, another promotion followed and a very unexpected and noteworthy 9th place finish in the Prem, unfortunately this is where it all fell apart, big money signings like Ramsdale, Berge, McBurnie, Moussett, Brewster etc have all been major flops and this coupled with poor form and injuries has led to this season being record breaking for the wrong reasons.

He's given the Blades some great memories but perhaps his time to depart was the right one, he can go onto to rebuild his reputation in the SPL and perhaps have another crack at the Prem in a few years with one of the big boys.

Wouldn't surprise me at all if he ended up at Celtic, would be another forward step in his career.

2 hours ago, Vasquez Rich said:

Not if 25+ million gets him the players he actually wanted...

A lot of United fans have said that your wage policy (if its as low as rumoured) was a good thing, its just cost you your best manager for decades.

I think he's lost the dressing room and the owners don't trust him with spending big, something has to be deeply wrong to have such an unprecedented bad season as this one.

26 minutes ago, Mr Fisk said:

Yes I watched this sometime ago and it's very good.

 

Song Kang-ho is a brilliant actor and you should catch his other movies like Parasite, Memories of Murder and The Host- to name a few.

Memories of Murder is great.

8 hours ago, Alextopman said:

A lot of fans live in the past and talk about how big they are, it's easier than facing up to the truth of what's happening now,  I'm sure Bolton wanderers, Sunderland fans will understand but some fans think they have some kind of God given right to be at the top, it's a shame he doesn't play for them or manage them.

When they're second best and they know they are the Uncle Albert routine always comes to the front.

During the war.

Neither Sheffield club has much to shout about success wise but the Owls have the upperhand, whats happening now is that both teams are very, very poor.