Sheffield United boss David Weir is asking the fans to stand by him as he saw his side lose for the fifth game in a row.
The local radio station was inundated with calls for the manager, who is in his first managerial post, to go after the blades slipped to a sixth defeat in seven games and a fifth in a row.
Speaking on Radio Sheffield, Weir said, “We have changed things in the way and the style we want to play and do things.
“It is new to the players and it takes time to bed-in. I am aware we need to get results in the meantime, but we are at the early stages of doing something.
“To lose five games on the bounce is disappointing and it makes a lot of people question what we are doing.
“All I ask is that people stand by us and believe in us.”
A return of one win and a draw from their opening eight games is the blades worst start to a season outside the top-flight in their history and it is the first time they have lost five games in a row since the start of the 1995/96 season.
It doesn`t get any easier for the blades who face a trip to high-flying Wolverhampton Wanderers next Saturday. A defeat at Wolves would be the first time the club have suffered six defeats in a row since the 1975/76 season.
Whilst Weir is asking for fans to be patient, the new investment from the Middle East and the expectancy that United should be pushing for promotion and not fighting against relegation could have Weir on the brink just 51-days into the season.
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