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Poll Next Manager. (Poll updated 19/08)

Poll Next Manager. (Poll updated 19/08)

Poll Poll Next manager - who would you choose?

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JK said:
Will certainly be working towards that but we need engagement for it to work šŸ‘

Also loads of people pushing it so it isn't an echo chamber from me šŸ˜Ž
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Once they've announced the new gaffer if you do a Tweet on the back of that and we can all get retweeting it.
If the PSC and Mooching repost on their socials as well it should give it a decent reach.
 
C'mon, we've almost (4 votes) got Hecky over the line in the Poll.

Get it done before he's officially announced. šŸ‘
 
King Sav said:
I understand your frustration. Much of it is shared. On coaches, fully agree, no one was told about that and we, amongst others, replied to that. It was an example of how poorly the club liaises with supporters.
Dialogue is always worthwhile, without it, itā€™s just individuals ranting like ā€œhim who canā€™t be namedā€. Itā€™s not effective. You canā€™t lobby on issues such as Cheaper Season tickets otherwise.
I agree with your assessment that Fans Forums are a good way of additional fan engagement. They should be part of a future fan engagement plan encompassing a variety of methods. They donā€™t though work alone.
Fans can only do so much, they donā€™t run the club and ultimately, it takes two to tango.
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Perhaps. But evidently, PSC doesn't work alone either. Fans forum at least gives more fans the chance to hold the club to account and ask questions themselves, rather than only a select few people who have put themselves forward (with good intentions, no doubt).

I personally used to attend all the fans forums and liked hearing what the panel had to say. PSC has taken this away and I have not seen any real benefit in return that couldn't have been sorted if fans forums still existed.

Definitely don't want to turn this into a PSC slagging. But my honest opinion is that there seems to be a few people who like feeling important with access to having meetings with a club official, but is there not an element of guilt there that they have stopped the fans forums, which more people could attend?
 
The 7 fence sitters have caused this mathematical conundrum


(yes, yes it was because they voted before it was head to head so their votes are still allowed to be duplicated)
 
What time is training scheduled?
Will we reveal PH before training? After meeting the players or after training?
Help, I'm in limbo.
 
Schemer said:
I don't think they ask that type of question though...
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You would be surprised. But unfortunately as Iā€™ve stated many many times on here and @JK has experience of this aswell, itā€™s very difficult if the opposite side has entrenched views. It would be easy to sit there and rant, throw a few insults in there. Itā€™s not effective. Plus as Iā€™ve said, to get fans feedback and views across, youā€™ve got to be constructive.
Season Ticket pricing was a prime example. 3 years ago, the club were adamant that they were set correctly, we disagreed and kept lobbying at every opportunity. They came down to a more affordable price and we add 25% to our Season Ticket base. So raising these issues that fans feedback can work.
 
Bobbage said:
Would be worth asking the club to provide SMART targets for it's stated Premier League ambitions. Make them accountable and see if there is what the plan is so we can all buy in to it.
  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Achievable
  • Relevant
  • Time-bound
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Thatā€™s been asked and done to death. Especially at the Fans open letter meeting at November 2022, when all the issues around that were raised with CH himself
 
stf4ever said:
Fair enough, hakuna matata.



I referred to us as a basket case, but wasn't me calling for protests.

I genuinely think we are a basket case of a club. We've got a 72 year old director who controls all the footballing aspects of the club. He remains stuck in the early 1990s with his transfer policy, we've lost around Ā£20m worth of assets on free transfers (and will increase this time next year). We've got an ownership model that allows all the owners to hide behind one name, and have zero communication with the fanbase. Seemingly, only one of them communicates with the manager. We can't pay the going rate for Championship players because our owners don't want to increase the money they put in (fair enough) and Ridsdale seemingly can't generate funds using the transfer market. In my opinion (and I've stated this continuously rather than some who have flip flopped between agreeing and disagreeing) our squad strength has decreased year on year since Grayson left.

Then, in recent weeks, our manager walked out after one game of the new season when around 80% of fans had realised he should have been potted at the end of last season. Then we have a caretaker manager who wants to put his name forward for the job who walks out after 2 games.

Something is seriously wrong with this football club. You may call it a lack of ambition, but I call it as people out of touch with the modern game who are too set in their ways. When that point gets mentioned, backs go up, and blame starts coming the fans way.

If you think that Lowe and Marsh blamed the fans off their own back, that's fair enough. But I think that the owners and Ridsdale feel exactly the same way too.
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Fair enough. You explained it well.

I just think a ā€˜basket caseā€™ of a club is a club like reading and Wigan who are constantly getting points deductions/relegation etc. I think we are just mediocre in how we deal with things but thatā€™s just my opinion.

I personally think our squad strength has got better in the past few years. (Since Neil was last here.) However the defence needs a big overhaul. Lowe seemed very much like a ā€˜yes manā€™ or a ā€˜job for the boysā€™ type of manager. Heckingbottom is probably going to be someone who knows what he wants and how to get there and probably wonā€™t allowe us to offer contracts to mediocre players.

Only time will tell how we do but the first thing is we need a manager who is better tactically. Hopefully Heckingbottom can give us that.
 
PrideNeverEnds said:
If anyone has watched Sheffield utd over the last few years would know they are a nasty side that will do anything to stop you playing.
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The last 100 years or so, more like. šŸ˜…

If any team is guaranteed to be big, strong lads it's The Blades.

And village idiot Lowe thought lobbing long throws into the Land of the Giants was a good tactic (!). šŸ˜µ
 
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