Montytheblade
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In my opinion it goes one of two ways. We'll win everyone game 1-0 or 2-1 or we'll just lose all the big games and miss out.
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You're right, the fact it is so competitive means they're all beating each other. No one team on a charge, except maybe WBA but were slowed by Burnley. They've all still got to play eachother tooAny championship team from 3rd down to 12th, has a chance of making the play offs.
With the turbulence below us so close between those teams, we are destined for automatic promotion. They won’t even get close to us.
That is my view as a very long term supporter and a confirmed pessimist!
Well i do really hope you are right mate and I to feel as you do but we are talking Blades here and history tells me we will try our best to fuck it up .Either the board will drop a great big clanger or the league will dock us points or our main man will get locked up for something he has not done OR the new owners will welch on buying the club and the prince will have a fire sale of all players worth more than a tenner .Any championship team from 3rd down to 12th, has a chance of making the play offs.
With the turbulence below us so close between those teams, we are destined for automatic promotion. They won’t even get close to us.
That is my view as a very long term supporter and a confirmed pessimist!
Some decent discussion on here, I think it's held it's ownView attachment 151912
ANOTHER THREAD ABOUT PROMOTION!
Except in the reverse fixtures against those teams we got exactly 2 points per game W6 D2 L2 and on paper the forthcoming fixtures are a bit easier in that we have the best teams _ Boro, WBA and Watford at home when they were away first time round.February is a tough month. If we are still 9/10pts clear on 1st March, i'll start to believe.
Feb Fixtures:
Rotherham (A)
Swansea (H)
Boro (H)
Millwall (A)
Watford (H)
Wins against Boro and Watford would be amazing, but i'd list them both as "must not lose" games. Take draws now. Rotherham will be no pushovers and Millwall in the league will be much harder than they were in the cup. I'm expecting a defeat in there somewhere and probably 7 points returned.
Into March and the fixtures continue to be tricky.
March fixtures:
Blackburn (A)
Reading (A)
Luton (H)
Sunderland (A)
West Brom (H)
God knows what Rovers team will turn up. Reading too are hit and miss. Luton always a tough battle, then you have a very good Sunderland side and a rejuvenated WBA.
I'd be surprised if we are still averaging 2pts per game after that lot.
We've not won a major trophy in almost 100 years and not got two a cup final in nearly 90. When you think that the likes of Bradford, Swansea, Cardiff, Huddersfield. Palace, Brighton. Bolton. Blackpool, Boro, Millwall, Burnley, Ipswich, Norwich, Watford, Luton, Oldham. Charlton etc have done one or the other in that period, we really are appalling under achieversAgree we've seen plenty of excitement, we always seem to be involved in promotion battles and kind of take it for granted.
I once knew a Coventry fan in his early 30's and he told me in his lifetime he's never known Coventry even come close to challenging for promotion.
I checked the records and amazingly he was correct, told him at United when we've been in league 1 and even many season in the Championship
we're always one of the pre-season favourites and tend to be up there challenging for promotion.
I suppose it depends on one's definition of "achieving".
You seem to class it as winning matches, agree we regularly win more matches than we lose.
Normally "achieving" is winning trophies or at least challenging for them.
However I would say "achieving" is the reasonable expectation based on the size and history of a club.
Therefore my view of Sheff Utd achieving is having a long run finishing comfortable mid table in the PL seeing the world best players every season.
Also we'd then be able to improve the training ground, which is currently at best, average Championship level.
Also for a club our size, our stadium capacity needs to be at least 36K, so would like to see that improved too.
It's boring as hell maybe, but i'm trying not to think about it until perhaps the 10 games to go stage.
Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have opened up a gap like we have at this stage of the season. But never the less, I try not to give too much of a though or toss about the opposition.
If we continue to win games, then we are well and truly in position to go up. But for now the concentration has to solely be on this in my opinion.
As said, we've got some huge games coming up and failing to produce in these could quite easily reduce the gap a bit and make it more twitchy bum. Factor in that the second half of the season WILL improve the performances of certain teams as well, not just those fighting for a top 6 spot... but those fighting for their Championship lives.
So for now, we concentrate on upping our own game and performances and we continue to tick them off on an individual basis. If we do that, our fate noe looks after itself..... simples.
I thought we had only spent 5 seasons in prem since it's inception 2 under Bassett, 2 wilder ,1 warnock but might be wrongThat's factually incorrect.
Winning and being promoted from league 1 and the Championship isn't success for a club our size (historically the 18th biggest in England).
We've only spent a pathetic 6 seasons out of a possible 34 seasons in the Premier League.
We are well down the rankings based on playing in the Premier League, behind Stoke, Swansea, Bolton, Watford, Birmingham, Portsmouth etc etc.
We are the biggest club in England with such a poor record of hardly playing in the Premier League.
However before the PL were spent nearly 60 seasons in the top flight.
In the 70's I remember my grandad saying to me.
When he was growing up everyone just took it for granted...Sheffield United would always be in the top flight for ever.
We still hold the Sheffield record of having 37 (thirty seven) consecutive seasons in the top flight,
compared to Wednesdays 16 (sixteen) consecutive seasons in the top flight.
Another interesting stat is the longest spell we've had outside the top flight is 14 seasons.
Where as Wednesday longest spell outside the top flight is the current 23 seasons and counting.
Both Sheffield clubs have massively underperformed...based on their history and size.
It were me.I think it was mentioned elsewhere that only blades could look at Wednesday’s position and go they’re definitely promoted then look at ours and go well we’ll still mess it up.
(Apologies to the original poster I’d credit you but can’t remember who said it)
AmbitiousI don't think we've ever had such a lead with so few games left.
Even if we limped to the finish like we did in 97/98 should be enough.
We should however be looking to chase Burnley down and aiming for 100 points.
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