Sackwell!

nice to see he got plenty of time.

Having wanted him out the whole time now I feel a little bit lost that he's actually gone. what's next? In fairness, Blackwell's not the best manager but still did a great job with the limited resources (and intelligence) he had. We do have to thank him for saving us from Robson and all that but it's also time to move on. The board obviously had this in mind for quite a while thus Blackie's not allowed to spend a penny and Speed wasn't allowed to speak to Swans. Also I wouldn't blame everything solely on Blackwell, I believe that McCabe needs to go too. Heard that a Maltese businessman will take over by next week and he wants Brown or Warnock as our manager. Warnock won't come and I really don't want Brown. Also, I can see Speed doing a McCall and leaves for some League One team after failing to get the job.

Heard it on Radio 5 around Birmingham, couldnt believe it. TWO games? Must be a great deal more to this than one bad result. Lots of things fall into place now, Speed not allowed to talk to Swansea, Blackwells outbursts, players missed out on - Conolloy, Bruce that we know of - the usual hatred from Blades fans, budget reduced by half. Speed will be the fans favourite, but I am with Bilbo, Shawn O'Driscol for me. Problem is his persona as the front man, and as soon as the knowledgeable Kopites start to get upset with him he will be off.

..........unless the rumoured Far East "Interest" has more to it than we know, and the new investor(s) have insisted on a high profile manager - eg Martin O'Neil - who has been tapped up, resigned from Villa awaiting Blackie to vacate before being announced as the new manager of SUFC!!! Couldn't happen....could it?????

i like speed and i think he could do a job...but...is he the right man for the job NOW? does he have what it takes technacially and emotionally? most important the owners need a manager that they trust...obviuslly they didn't trust blackwell would they trust speed (blackies apprentice)...i like speed but to be fair i think it's too much for him too early. If he doesn't get the job he will be off lets be fair he has only stopped around becuse he knew this was going to happen sooner than later. spedo is by far the favourite and the cheap option....BUT.....So was blackwell 2.5 years ago and look where that got us. The chairman needs to think where he wants the club to be then when he's made his mind up he needs to appoint a manger to meet those ambitions accordingly. Lets look at this logically o'neil is well well out of the running...but.....the club could make a massive step forward here and turn a very dark and gloomy corner. If and it's a massive if glouc before you start rambling.....If the club appoints o'neil as manager what sort of reaction would that send out to the footballing world, the press interest, player interest, player pulling power, assistant manager interest...but more importantly the fans interest. O'Neil as manager would put 10,000 extras on the gate and would generate a huge buzz around the club. This appointment gHAS to be right this time for the clubs future and to reamin an excellent fan base...otherise it's all going to go pare shaped very very soon. By going on todays performance nothing has changed and it was relegation dog fodder.

Have you been taking drugs again pigforlife!

i would have Warnock back tomorrow, he wouldnt come of course but he should never have gone in the first place.

And the dirty piggies return to see what the big brother is doing again....hows it going down there in the 3rd division you set of inbreads??.....furthermore to the manager name - we have to be realistic and like the mass majority of blades fans o'driscoll for me has to be the man to come in and save us.....fact is we will be one of the best footballing sides in the division within 6 months...lets be fair with all the problems a good maned manager is not of a radar.....look at peter reid managing in the lower leagues!!!! even wendy managed to get irvin who granted isn't a big name but still a dam good experienced manager at the level they are at. O'DRISCOLL FITS THE BILL FOR ME AND SOMEONE IV'E PINNED FOR TO COME TO THE LANE FOR THE LAST 18 MONTHS. Will we go in for him?? will little old donny try and price us out??....we can guarantee that donny won't want to let him go and will try every trick in the book to keep him but it's up to the big wiggs (apparentely life long blades fans)....and the clubs officials to get the right man now...warnock took us as far as he could and we thank him...nobson was a silly appointment and blackwell was a quick, cheap and very easy appointment...this one has to be right i carn't stress that enough.

Curbushley, the manager of WHU who had Tevez in his team, whose beloved club were taken to the cleaners by McCabe, the same Curbushley who slagged Sheffield United off on TV and in the press? Curbushley who thinks the M1 ends at Luton? Stop and think bfl.

I think we need to take a little time over the appointment rather than panic and make another poor snap decision (Robson) or go for the cheap option (Blackwell). I'd personally like to see Speed be given the job on a temporary basis. Give him until Xmas and see how he's doing. If it doesn't work than look to O'Drisscoll for me.The problem for the incoming manager is the fact that Blackwell has filled our squad with average League 1 players - Andy Taylor, Ryan France and even Monty and Quinn on today's performance.

What's that? Pigs getting a LOWER crowd at Bramall Lane for a Championship game against QPR than Wednesday, little old Wednesday, against little old Dagenham and Redbridge in League One. Oh dear oh dear. I knew the Premier League hangers on would trot off sooner rather than later. Watch those crowds dwindle! Only one club in Sheffield. UP THE OWLS

TheBladesWay has it exactly right. Blackwell has his faults and the style of football he has the team play leaves alot to be desired However, on balance given what he's had to play with he's done a half decent job. The real issue is the top management of the club - McCabe at al - frankly for the last four years it has been nothing short of incompetent. Sacking the manager after 2 league games - one and away draw with 10 men for 45 minutes against a side highly fancied for promotion and the other admittedly a dysmal home defeat - is just another example. Either he wasn't good enough before the season started or he should have been given longer. My guess is that like me and many other fans Blackwell is sick to the back teeth of McCabe and is glad to be on his way. Things are not going to get any better until the club has new ownership. As far as fans not buying season tickets - again only one person is to blame - McCabe.

Just a final few words - please do not bel;ieve any of the drivel that will come out of BDTBL this week. We all know that teh top management of the club cannot be trusted e.g. what happened to the "we've learned the lessons from last season" yet still we have a threadbare squad, more to the point what has happend to all the cash that's come into teh club for the past 4 years?????

Maradona said that he wants to work in England, maybe we can try for him again and end up getting Alex Sabella...

bilboblade - if you think chris wilder is our answer than you want your bleeding head seeing to....lower league managers never make the step up and if you think warnock, nobson and blackwell were bad, just wait and see what we would be like under wilder. christ that really is scraping the barrell. what sort of players would wilder attract? come on if we want to improve and change our style of football and progress in the right direction than we need a decent manager...o'driscoll has proved himself massively with limited funds and tight budgets so he should be the boards no1 choice. The only concern for me is that he has a job for life at donny...at the lane he would be under pressure to succeed. If we finished midtable this season he may be moved on regardless...however i feel the board has to back the next manager. no point giving speed a 6 month contract to prove himself because thats no good....we either have to back speed with a 2-3 year deal or move him on.

been away for the weekend so missed all the fun at the circus! I cant deny im glad KB has gone - i will say hes done well at reducing the wage bill and keeping the team fairly competitive (although we all knew early last season play offs wouldnt happen and wont this season) but the negatives are his football was completely disgusting (managers with less at disposal make better teams and attractive teams), hes wasted a lot of money that he has had (hendo, howard, yeates) and has fallen out with countless players (cotts, gillespie, su ji, killa, monts, morgs, ward, kenny need i go on)...he has had his hands tied by the board nad this decision should have been taken after burnley, two games in is embarrasing but i dont think anyone can get away with "losing at hartlepool is a blessing in disguise" then be three down in 20 mins - KB knew the job when he took it on, he knew he was there to cut costs and keep the going etc so he cant complain...time to move on...now the exciting bit or not...i fully expect speed will be next manager - why else keep him in the summer (i said that if they sacked KB after derby at home last year speed wouldve had 15 games so we couldve seen if he cut it)...if i had my realistic choice i would push hard for davies at forest with o driscol as second choice (my outside third choice would be john hughes at hibs- did a cracking job at falkirk (got a mate up there) adn has done well at hibs)- however i think all will be out of reach as a) the baord wont be putting money in for compensation and b) why come to lane when you wont have a budget to compete with...this could ptentially be a sign that investment may be comng in but i doubt it - from what i gather blackwell out chants got stronger and boards usually sack before the chant gets to them...I think we need to face facts - unless investment is imminent, we are in this league for a while - the squad is probably good enough playing a decent way to be mid table this year and build from thne on in - for me i think speed could be worth a gamble - theres not much decent managers out there who would look at the job and think yep, id love to rebuild a club over the next three four years..whereas speed could have a go, if it doesnt come off hes not really lost anything as he can say there was naff all budget and interference - plus from uniteds point of view its the cheap easy option - i dont want to be too synical but united are built on the cheap easy option...what we do need is, and i was never his fan, but we need another warnock - someone who can build a team slowly but gradually and in a way so that supporters can see progression each year - he did a cracking job...and the big error was robson!

all of a sudden the pigs can't stay away off our site you lot cry when we come on here. now ***** off back to league 1 sike a good little boy!!

I think they should make pigforlife the next manager....he is so knowledgeable about football lol.

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bladeforlife... You are not on the pigs page now, slagging them off with your obcene language. As usual you have got your facts totally wrong, I NEVER SAID I WANTED WILDER AS MANAGER, read (if you can) my posts, then I will accept your apology.

bladesforlife1889 it was me who said wilder, im not saying that he is the perfect choice, what im saying is that in reality we all know what our board is like and if were going for a cheap option(which is more than likely) then someone who a) the fans know and b) knows the club has got to be better than some no-mark who thinks he's hit the big time. i would love O'Neill but im not that deluded to think we have that much ambition.

rag week is it bilboblade?

Phil Brown is being banded around a lot. I hope to god that's not true. Whoever it is I'd just like to see united playing some entertaining football. What's the point in buying a player like Britton unless we're going to use him? KB had like Howard, Harper, Sharp, but his style of play completely nullified them. Even if it takes 3 seasons to start realistically challenging for promotion I wouldn't mind as long as the focus was on entertaining football and developing excellent youth players through the academy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_utd/8918047.stm

bfl, you dont even have the good grace to apologise, do you. The pigs are right about you.

bilbo go and boil your head and side with the pigs again!!

where there is no sense there's no feeling, idiot.

OK so it is going to be Speed according to Sky and BBC sources. KB's sacking came as a total shock to me. I was actually quitely confident of a top 8 finish with Blackwell, however, the size of the squad would have made a top 6 finish very difficult. So who is to blame? Well last year both KB and KM bemoaned finishing in the play offs as it cut down the time to sign players. Can't make that excuse this year, they have had the whole summer. But in their defence with a miniscule budget they have managed to get some useful names onboard e.g. Britton. Boggy, Bartley, Nossy, Simo. No, I think this is something to do with KBs attitude/personality. I have not liked the guy personally since a post game interview where he berated Seth Bennet. I think we all heard the real Blackwell then and it raised its ugly head on a number of other occasions. My bet is that with all the budget constraints placed on him he has been a little too vocal and the ugly side has reared to the Board. My concern with SUFC at the moment is the fans. Speed will be liked to start with just like Shearer was at Newcastle, then when we go through a few bad patches a few people will start a wave of disapproval, just because we are impatient d*cks who love to moan. Maybe if we stick by him he will eventually get us promoted like Warnock did. But now, a year in the prem and a vocally ambitious board has raised expectations to an all time high; how likely is it we will stand by Speed for 6 years?? I think KM would have stood by KB like he did with Warnock but he has the wrong personality. Looking forward to Boro on Sunday!!

"I have not liked the guy personally since a post game interview where he berated Seth Bennet." Surely that's a reason to like him even more sonofglouc? ;) I CANNOT stand Seth Bennet!! He just infuriates me. He doesn't let anyone speak if they don't hold the same opinion as him and he constantly backed Blackwell no matter what. On Sat, when talking about the unfairness of Blackwell's sacking, he said "The only difference between the Cardiff and QPR games were the scorelines." The man actually said that!!! What a ridiculous statement! Sorry to go off topic but I just HATE Seth bloody Bennet. Rant over.

PRESS CONFERENCE put back until tuesday afternoon now.....mmmmm interesting something's gone a miss there!!

Bloody hell, you have one day away...and chaos! Couple of things; 1) Even though Speed is 99% confirmed, O'Driscoll would love it and that's a fact, not supporters opinion. 2) Speed's cheap, and well respected, so on the forefront it's a very good appointment, hoping that he's taken more from his time under the likes of Bobby Robson, than Kevin Blackwell. 3) I think I'm more pleased to see the back of Ellis than Blackwell, I couldn't stand that man & with Speed, there's the chance of a fairly high profile number 2. 4) The Wednesday lot are only arguing because they're disappointed. They loved Blackwell in charge, they're getting stroppy...in a similar manner to that day they got relegated....but who cares they've got the biggest ground in League 1!

And as for the Wendy lot and their opinions, well frankly who cares about a third division bankrupt bunch of tax dodgers.

Alan Shearer as number two!? he wouldnt be able to fit us in between TV appearances! and the new manager certainly wouldnt want to be upstaged by the arrogant, self promoting geordie. Another nonsense rumour.

that's why being a number 2 may more suit him and his other jobs he has. it would be a great coupe for us and we would become an interested club if we had a speed and shearer partnership!! it's going to be very interesting who speed will want to bring in as his no2!!!therewere rumours about southgate as manager....another name that would have done a good job.....i do rate him and he was unfortunate at boro to get the boot (they were 3rd in the table at that point).