Blades Set to Reward Adams' Valiant Effort?

This is just the sort of crap I didn't want to hear, no offence to Adams, after all he is a united fan, but look at his record, he has turned around the fortunes of on club in the bottom league, we need someone better than Adams. Please Birch go over to the Keepmoat.

I can't disagree about O'Driscoll but I don't hold out any hope whatsoever. Why would he want to join a club in the state we're in? Can anyone tell me when McCabe last showed any imagination, commitment or even got a key decision right? We're in this mess because of one man and one man only. Him and his stand-in Birch will stick to their old ways - cheap and convenient. On that count I'm the perfect replacement because I'll do the job for nowt - we'll probably get relegated but what the hell I won't cost anything. Three or four points from the next 3 games (2 at home) and Carver/Ellis will be deemed a success.

I've got a fairly handy record on Football Manager, and I'll do it cheap too Bucks. Together, we could be the dream team. Although, if Vital is anything to go by, I'll only be doing the home games because of work commitments. We can have Glouc as our chief scout because he lives in the south, bladeforlife as our PR man because he's full of positive vibes and TheBladesWay can track down Danny Webber for a return. Sorted!

no they wont lose the fans...and if people stop going then the club is better off without fair weather fans...the club didnt lose fans when they took lower level warnock did they??? Adams is almost the same as warnock in terms of achievements so its jsut wrong to say we will lose fans...

Which is why when myself and Bucks are offered the position I will kindly turn it down.

Well, this is the first positive news… I have not seen him linked with us until now, if he joins us I will happily eat a sock, an old one off a tramp… well perhaps not. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_6579404,00.html

gleadless - they didnt lose the fans??? do you call average gates under warnock WHEN HE FIRST JOINED of 9,000 not losing the fans? christ WTF!!!

i hope the sky story is right i would love odriscoll but be aware lads sky do have a tendancy to make stories up so poeple go straight on sky bet and place money...very crafty .. for me first choice o driscoll or then brown adams wilder/howe/hill/poyet

15 years ago I might have agreed gleadless, but now I think we are square with them, if not a few over. 20 at the bottom isn't a bad attendance, if we were going for promotion it would be close to 25. We are a top 20 club if run right, so why are we were we are? Over to you BFL.

Sheps, time is such a wonderful healer. Come back Danny all is forgiven. I would gladly swap our strike force now for Asaba and Webber!

Stonky we are not a top 20 club - dose of reality time lads its 35-40 years since we were a proper top 20 side...we cant compete with what we see as smaller clubs at all - when we were in prem we wanted steven warnock - we offered him £15k-£20k a week after agreeing transfer with lpool - he went blackburn on £35k! and then villa on £50k! and hes a left back!! we are a million miles away from being a club like that...I would like to know where the debt ahs come from but as i said before weve had players on massive wages - flitcroft, lucketti, horsfield, short, unsworth, akinbiyi, sommeil, sun ji, beattie, naysmith, stead, hendrie, speed, ehigou, hulse, shletonplus robson and blackwell - really big wages adn when the ones we sold left, we often had to pay people off as they went elsewhere on less wages...now obviously theres more to it but mccabe did back managers we jsut conviently forget it when he's stopped adn wants out - when you look at the article last week comparing squads the wages per week of the swuad two years ago compared to now was colossul..fans need to realise we had a good, got up gambled on getting back up and failed - now we have to pay the price...people forget how much was spent on trying to get and stay there and then up again...Mccabes mistakes simply were 1. in hindsight not sacking warnock when he took them up to have a proper manager in (although no one wanted that but time showed NW wasnt good enough) 2. Appointing Robson then blackwell as poor managers adn 3. the big one ofr me was selling james beattie...Im not defending mccabe and am far from a mccabe lover but people jump off the deep end slagging everyone off now we have no money - weve had it, we ahd the players it just didnt work - so time to get really, rebuild over the next few years and try again....weve had five years of top flight football in twenty - weve no given right to be up there and i just wish people would realise this, stop moaning consistently and get on with our job and support the team and club and hope that we stay up..whoever they bring in get behind them cos we are some of the msot fickle fans ever adn the lane can be an awful place to be playing when we are on everyones backs...now cheer up ewveryone! and tbw, no to webber!

it doesnt matter what their impact is but wages of 10K-15k are massive for a club like ours ...a fair few of them were on 20k plus - thats a mill a season for several years...when you have 20-25 players earning those wages you suffer when you dont stay up or go up......leeds anyone?bradford...

well we arent big are we! we're not derby, leeds, forest are we

Gleadless - do the maths. Beattie was probably on £20k but was probably the only one. Even if we had say 10 players on 15k a week (which I doubt) and say another 15 on £8k a week, the wage bill would be a little over £14m pa. Furthermore, even this generous estimate (I know Walker and Naughton were paid nothing like that) would have only applied for 2 may be 3 seasons. This just doesn't explain how we have run up so much debt when you consider the revenue. I suspect that the truth is McCabe has used the football income to fund some very bad property investments. McCabe could end the speculation by publishing a simplified set of accounts for the fans. As for is mistakes - his first one was under investing in the team whilst we were in the premiership. We can agree to disagree about Warnock. In my view getting rid of him was the mistake. He would have used the WHUFC affair to motivate and drive the squad. I agree about the appointment of Robson but the next mistake was not sacking him sooner. Selling Beattie at the time he sold him was a huge mistake. If he was going to sack Blackwell he should have done it at the end of the previous season. I also have to say that appointing Speed was in retrospect another mistake. Now his biggest two mistakes 1. persistently misleading the fans about the clubs finances, if expectations are too high he's the one to blame 2. what appears to be financial mismanagement.

great spot stonky......please please please make this happen....santa if your a blade this would make every blades fans xmas. im with you on this one stonky. the decision to get o'driscoll in could change the outlook of the club overnight for the better. come on men in suits prove your worth.

sod wants to come, its all about the compo ryan will want to release him. the 250k from wfa will help but ryan will want a lot more than that.