Many in the same boat macho ken that.

Ehm just back last night after being away for 3 weeks working.. see usually when ehm away in checking up on utd before work dinner time and at night see that trip awwy i couldnt be fucked ken that. Totally sick of the shit thats going on at our club. These bastard in our club dont give a fuck its all about the cash. Theres many a thing wrong from the chairman down.

Chairman doesnt give a fuck
Management team doesnt give a fuck
Stevie campbell situation how many weeks has that been now?
Ticketing for watford
Ticketing for tuesday
Bullshit statements from comedy dave (southern)
Bullshit from wanknamara

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Macho Man wrote:

Is it just me that feels that the board and management treat us fans as an inconvenience to their 'game plan'?

I feel like they think I've done my bit and bought my season ticket and now that they have my money they don't give a shite about serving up a decent product on the park.

At the moment I feel like what is fans are being treated to is the football equivalent of a Lindley peh.

Since Deek Robertson left the communication between the club and the fans was left to ST and now our very own rent a quote chairman is nowhere to be seen. If things don't pick up sharpish, and I'm not just talking about from a football point of view, the club can do one if they think I'm going to part with my hard earned cash to contribute to paying the wages of our impotent board, our clueless management team and a six figure wage for a chairman who appears to want to be paid by United whilst working for another club on the other side of the world.

Finger out United. Sort this shambles out and let's make our team a team to be proud of and a team for other clubs to fear again.

Sorry if this is going over old ground, but the Macho Man ain't happy and might just have to invite ST into the squared circle for a winner takes all bout. My Intercontinental championship belt for his families stake in MY club.  I feel a big elbow coming on.  Ooooooohhhhhhh yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhh!!

Great post Randy.
 

I don't have any pals MM you're so lucky!  Good to see you back.....presume your were away on a lucrative tour?  Could you not afford to buy United with the loose cheenge doon the side oh yer settee?

With you 100% in wanting our Football Club back!  We have become the Blackpool FC of the East.

I dont feel exactly the same ad you Macho, but 'ken where you're coming fae'. What haunted me on Tuesday night, was watching the highlights on the BBC, and seeing the number of empty seats in the GF.

Ex Houston Arab wrote:

While the board aren't doing much in the way of communication, why would you care?
Being a fan is about supporting the team on the park, not about getting financial updates and consulted on the 5 year plan

Because the fan's have been telt for years fae ST, and the rest of Scottish fitbas hierarchy, that we now all need to be aware of the financial aspect of our clubs and how ultimately off field success ie. Balance sheets. Now control our game in Scotland.

It's this sort of talk that has stopped fans calling for signings and lowered the ambitions of fans as we are all reminded daily through the press that spending must be kept low in these "tough times".

If ST or the board wants us to support this "5 year plan" I expect they'll have to explain things a bit more, I want success on the park, and I'm not going to accept absolute mediocrity by the management and players in the name of finance, simply because I'm being told to go with it. If the board want my support they can lay out evidence of our finances, projections and how Jackie is going to play his part in this.

The silence is deafening and I personally am not going to sit and be told that it's all part of some master plan that no cunt had even heard about prior till about a fortnight ago. There'll always be peaks and troughs in football but If the club is going to ride through the good times with the fan's I expect them to put in the same effort when things are going shite.

Given this is true of Scottish fitba, never mind DUFC, it'd be absolutely madness not to consult the fan's on finances and the future. It's us who hold this league/club together, not some pissy TV deal which rewards us with a bar of Highland toffee and a glass Irn-Bru bottle we can return to the shops for 20p when we're finished with it.

We are the cash cow, and the cash cow should set the rules.

Against my better judgement I renewed my season ticket in the summer even though I was extremely pissed off with JM and ST for pulling the rug out from under us and ruining what was looking like a great season upto that point.

Even when things were going well I got very frustrated at the basic tactical errors being made by the manager and the constant flow of poor goals conceded by our defence, poor tactics ie 4231 and some baffling substitutions.
Since we have lost the match winning 3 JM has looked like a fish out of water, the defending has not improved and we are 2nd bottom and have not played well over 90 minutes this season.

Jackie's time is up

On to Thompson

He is a liar and is clearly lining his pocket before he exit to oz, the silence from him is hurting the club and even if he leaves in the summer some fans may not return.

Things will have to change dramatically over he season for me to get a season ticket for next season and I doubt things will change as his Jets dream is not happening anytime soon it would appear.

The arrogance of our chairman is staggering

Ex Houston Arab wrote:

Morphman wrote:

Ex Houston Arab wrote:

While the board aren't doing much in the way of communication, why would you care?
Being a fan is about supporting the team on the park, not about getting financial updates and consulted on the 5 year plan

Because the fan's have been telt for years fae ST, and the rest of Scottish fitbas hierarchy, that we now all need to be aware of the financial aspect of our clubs and how ultimately off field success ie. Balance sheets. Now control our game in Scotland.

It's this sort of talk that has stopped fans calling for signings and lowered the ambitions of fans as we are all reminded daily through the press that spending must be kept low in these "tough times".

If ST or the board wants us to support this "5 year plan" I expect they'll have to explain things a bit more, I want success on the park, and I'm not going to accept absolute mediocrity by the management and players in the name of finance, simply because I'm being told to go with it. If the board want my support they can lay out evidence of our finances, projections and how Jackie is going to play his part in this.

The silence is deafening and I personally am not going to sit and be told that it's all part of some master plan that no cunt had even heard about prior till about a fortnight ago. There'll always be peaks and troughs in football but If the club is going to ride through the good times with the fan's I expect them to put in the same effort when things are going shite.

Given this is true of Scottish fitba, never mind DUFC, it'd be absolutely madness not to consult the fan's on finances and the future. It's us who hold this league/club together, not some pissy TV deal which rewards us with a bar of Highland toffee and a glass Irn-Bru bottle we can return to the shops for 20p when we're finished with it.

We are the cash cow, and the cash cow should set the rules.

 
Does the cash cow set the rules for any other teams?
Do the man utd, Chelsea, Celtic, Aberdeen fans tell their board how to run the club?
Our fans are being unrealistic in their expectations.
The only fair grumble we have just now, and I agree with you on, is that the product on the park is poor. We'll see how that pans out. Saying the board aren't acting because they won't sack him isn't necessarily correct. They are just not acting the way fans want them to.
ST watched his old man spunk millions away by sacking managers, maybe after getting us on a stronger financial footing he doesn't want to go down that path.

Well considering Man Utd fans actually went and built another club a few years ago, FC United of Manchester, when they weren't listened to by the board that's all you need to know.

Celtic fans are currently up in arms at their boards lack of investment, one look at their Facebook page or online forums will tell you that.

Aberdeen fans were not happy until the recent turnaround under Mcinnes and their very fortunate debt clearance, only made possible by a benefactor who had nothing to do with the board.

Chelsea are a team with an oligarch in charge who spend millions every year so quite the opposite of what's happening in Scottish football.

My grumble with the board is the severe lack of communication regarding the future, we used to get almost monthly "club statements" or ST in the press telling our fans how well we're doing and calling for this and that after we sold players in multi million pound deals.

Now we have total silence, limited reinvestment in the first team squad, a "general manager" who can't organise ticketing to a fucking cup game vs Dunfermline, a chairman who is MIA, more than likely in Australia, a manager blaming keyboard warriors for his own shiteness, a fan favourite youth coach suspended under questionable circumstances, and a team playing terrible football.

In 9 months we've gone from apparently challenging Celtic to getting challenged by a Dunfermline team 2 divisions below us. In that time we've heard nothing about plans for the future and how we build on top of our, apparent, strong position of soft loans.

Our local dissatisfaction with our board is now well documented, on fans’ forums, and I’d have to disagree with Ex-Houston Arab to some extent regarding the club’s lack of communication with fans, although see his point regarding the board not sacking the manager. That is not necessarily a sign of the fans being an inconvenience.
 
However, in this age, no business should be seen to be treating their customers with contempt, and that is how it appears with our board to an increasing number of supporters. So here I disagree with E-H A, as we aren’t ‘telling the board’ how to run the business, we are asking for clarity pertaining to the immediate future of the club, and what direction we will be taking.
 
My concern for United, and Scottish football as a whole, comes from the way our board and the masters of the game at the SFA continue to ignore the shitfest down Ibrox way. Without going into detail presently, on an ongoing basis we have been conned by alleged criminal behaviour over a number of years in order to keep one side in the focus of Scottish football.
 
This has cost the club money, yet our board has been party to this and continues to support corruption.
 
How has it cost the club money? As an example, the SFA awarded a licence to ex-Rangers to play in Europe in 2011, against their own and UEFA’s rule book (as ex-Rangers had an outstanding tax bill unpaid, this being undisputed). The knock on for United: we had to enter the Europa League at an earlier stage, in the second rather than the third qualifying round, when we would have commenced the spl and potentially been better prepared against easier opposition. That is only an example from one season.
 
However, all Scottish football, at the top at least, appears to be in awe of any entity from Govan, and I feel that Stephen Thompson has had his fill of Scottish football, and wants as far away as possible. Nevertheless, he has misjudged the mood of his present customers, and this may have a dire effect on the next regime which takes control at Tannadice.

And I'm not speaking about Pats post

We're poor ATM but rhetoric like, "we should be back where we belong", what does that actually mean. I'm not happy with the management or the way the club is being run but where do we "belong"? We, as a club spent the majority of out first 50 years in the lower leagues. Do we belong there? We have had an extremely poor 6 months performance wise after a good few years where we have done ok. We should be better. There should be better communication from the club. However, the rhetoric from day 1 from some has been all wrong.

P's reckon jackie has 2 matches before being punted - 4 points or out, I'd reckon

huntedbyafreak wrote:

We're poor ATM but rhetoric like, "we should be back where we belong", what does that actually mean. I'm not happy with the management or the way the club is being run but where do we "belong"? We, as a club spent the majority of out first 50 years in the lower leagues. Do we belong there? We have had an extremely poor 6 months performance wise after a good few years where we have done ok. We should be better. There should be better communication from the club. However, the rhetoric from day 1 from some has been all wrong.

 
Where we belong, to me isn't a league placing or a cup win. I'm not expecting us to win anything, if we do it is a massive bonus. I just want to be proud to say I'm an Arab, but the club are making that very difficult to say and mean just now.

Where we should be is a certain level of effort, a determination, an attitude of "if we're going to lose, those bastards are going to have to earn it".

At the moment we are none of that. Not even close. We're the fat kid that gets picked last in the playground kick about. We're effectively only there to make up the numbers.

Fight, passion and the right attitude is where we belong, IMO.