'owners Support Me' - Selles Bullish Despite Blades' Start

Sheffield United caput coach Ruben Selles says he has nan support of nan club's committee contempt overseeing their worst commencement to a play for 30 years.

The Blades person mislaid each six games nether nan erstwhile Hull City leader and beryllium bottom of nan Championship.

Their miserable commencement to nan play reached a caller debased connected Friday arsenic they were thrashed 5-0 by Ipswich Town astatine Portman Road, pinch Jaden Philogene scoring a hat-trick arsenic nan Tractor Boys recorded their first triumph of nan season.

Selles, 42, was bullish aft nan lucifer and insisted location were positives to return from nan performance.

"If you don't triumph shot matches your position is going to beryllium discussed, not only for maine but for each coach successful nan world. We person to support moving difficult until nan end," he told Sky Sports.

"The owners person been supporting maine until today. I haven't spoken to them aft nan game. I'm not worried astir that, I'm conscionable worried astir really we tin do things better. I'm nan first 1 to springiness unit to myself.

"I judge successful myself. I will ever beryllium successful beforehand of thing that has my name.

"We are not going to lick thing coming but we person to analyse. The bully point astir shot is you person different crippled successful 7 days and it's different opportunity."

The stats do not make bully reference for Selles.

The Blades person conceded 12 goals successful their 5 Championship games, nan astir successful nan division.

It took until Boxing Day for his predecessor Chris Wilder's broadside to concede that number past season.

Tyreese Campbell's onslaught successful a 4-1 location conclusion by Bristol City connected nan opening time of nan play is nan only clip Selles' broadside person recovered nan nett successful nan convention this season.

But really does their commencement comparison to others successful nan past?

Since nan Championship was rebranded for 2004-05, only 4 teams person antecedently mislaid 5 matches successful a statement to commencement a season: metropolis rivals Sheffield Wednesday (2007-08), Peterborough United (2012-13), Blackpool (2014-15) and Wycombe Wanderers (2020-21).

Only 1 squad ended up surviving - Wednesday, who vanished 16th, 3 points supra nan relegation zone.

It is nan Blades' worst commencement to a play since 1995-96. That play head Dave Bassett was replaced by Howard Kendall successful December and nan nine recovered to decorativeness ninth successful nan 2nd tier.