Hindsight - 2 Years Ago

[bikerblade]

I was thinking about this today - while washing the cars and I think it's a good question.

2 years ago - end of Oct '15 we had just lost to Crewe away and Milwall at home and Nigel Adkins was in charge.

If someone had said to you the following statements - which do you think would have been the most ridiculous?
In 2 years we will be in the Autos in the Championship
We will sign Leon Clarke
Leon Clarke will score 4 goals in a game - as well as 2 spanking the Owls
We will be playing the most attractive football we've ever seen
We are above the Owls without spending multi-millions of pounds
I have faith that if we go 1 down we will come back

I'm sure there are other pertinent questions - but I can't think of them at the mo.

 

[Fanny magnet]

What a turnaround

 

[Ricky]

The best part of that Crewe game was abusing the players at the end.

Our highs are possibly a little bit higher now.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Just under 2 years ago we forged ahead with a Conor Sammon strike against Atletico Shrewsbury. He shouldn't have bothered as it only served to rile up Shropshire's finest who quickly stuck 4 past us.

March 1st 2016 Young Nige and Andy fucking Garner ( never liked him btw) masterminded an easy one none victory for Ind Coope Albion at BDBTL.

On each occasion we were fucking rank.

The change in fortunes is beyond belief, and that's putting it mildly.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Well as its FA Cup 1st round weekend it was 2 years ago since the Blades v Worcester game (ok ok it was a weekend off technically but anyway!)


The contrast then to now in context for me is massive...

Blades languishing below mid table of L1...Worcester surviving in the National North..which meant the gap then was only 2 whole divisions!!!

Fast forward to 2017...Blades remarkable rise to Championship top 2...whilst Worcester plummeted down 3 leagues with voluntary relegation to Midland Football League level at Step 5 of the Non League Pyramid...thats a gap now of 6 whole divisions!! A starkly painful contrast in fortunes in the cold light of day.

 

[Hodgesleftpeg]

Just under 2 years ago we forged ahead with a Conor Sammon strike against Atletico Shrewsbury. He shouldn't have bothered as it only served to rile up Shropshire's finest who quickly stuck 4 past us.

March 1st 2016 Young Nige and Andy fucking Garner ( never liked him btw) masterminded an easy one none victory for Ind Coope Albion at BDBTL.

On each occasion we were fucking rank.

The change in fortunes is beyond belief, and that's putting it mildly.

I never liked Andy Garner either.. bit of a gobshite

My mates a QPR fan, when we beat them at their place he decided to stand right in front of my mate.. my mate politely asked him if he wouldn't mind moving the other way a bit and he just turned round and laughed and stood nearer him for the rest of the match and blocked his view even more..

My mate did say that towards the end of the match he was doing him a favour standing there

 

[Deadbat]

Remember Garner punching the air and generally acting like a knob after they won at the Lane 1-0 a few years ago. We have a different side now and when we go there a week on Friday I think they will be more worried about us than vice versa. We need to go there and really impose ourself on a very average Burton side.

 

[Ricky]

Garner's Clough's assistant. Of course he's a knob.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I was thinking about this today - while washing the cars and I think it's a good question.

2 years ago - end of Oct '15 we had just lost to Crewe away and Milwall at home and Nigel Adkins was in charge.

If someone had said to you the following statements - which do you think would have been the most ridiculous?
In 2 years we will be in the Autos in the Championship
We will sign Leon Clarke
Leon Clarke will score 4 goals in a game - as well as 2 spanking the Owls
We will be playing the most attractive football we've ever seen
We are above the Owls without spending multi-millions of pounds
I have faith that if we go 1 down we will come back

I'm sure there are other pertinent questions - but I can't think of them at the mo.

The most ridiculous is 'I have faith that if we go 1 down we will come back.' The traumas of over 60 years watching United mean that nothing can shift my pessimism - even CW. Keep telling myself 'it will be fine', but deep down, I don't believe it.

 

[Gavlar]

I was thinking about this today - while washing the cars and I think it's a good question.

2 years ago - end of Oct '15 we had just lost to Crewe away and Milwall at home and Nigel Adkins was in charge.

If someone had said to you the following statements - which do you think would have been the most ridiculous?
In 2 years we will be in the Autos in the Championship
We will sign Leon Clarke
Leon Clarke will score 4 goals in a game - as well as 2 spanking the Owls
We will be playing the most attractive football we've ever seen
We are above the Owls without spending multi-millions of pounds
I have faith that if we go 1 down we will come back

I'm sure there are other pertinent questions - but I can't think of them at the mo.

The first statement is easily the most ridiculous for me. Wilder has done an unbelievable job. As bad as we were under Weir and Adkins, we have been incredible under Wilder. 2017, what a year for the blades!!

 

[Harry's Game]

What a side we had then, Hammond with his unseen work, Sammon failing to trap a bag of cement, Brayford rampaging down the Wing to plant another cross into Row G of the Kop.. class.

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Well as its FA Cup 1st round weekend it was 2 years ago since the Blades v Worcester game (ok ok it was a weekend off technically but anyway!)


The contrast then to now in context for me is massive...

Blades languishing below mid table of L1...Worcester surviving in the National North..which meant the gap then was only 2 whole divisions!!!

Fast forward to 2017...Blades remarkable rise to Championship top 2...whilst Worcester plummeted down 3 leagues with voluntary relegation to Midland Football League level at Step 5 of the Non League Pyramid...thats a gap now of 6 whole divisions!! A starkly painful contrast in fortunes in the cold light of day.

"You're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t"

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Well as its FA Cup 1st round weekend it was 2 years ago since the Blades v Worcester game (ok ok it was a weekend off technically but anyway!)


The contrast then to now in context for me is massive...

Blades languishing below mid table of L1...Worcester surviving in the National North..which meant the gap then was only 2 whole divisions!!!

Fast forward to 2017...Blades remarkable rise to Championship top 2...whilst Worcester plummeted down 3 leagues with voluntary relegation to Midland Football League level at Step 5 of the Non League Pyramid...thats a gap now of 6 whole divisions!! A starkly painful contrast in fortunes in the cold light of day.

I often think about you JR, as a b and b WCFC supporter adopted into our family and wondered how your feelings have altered towards United over those 2 years.
I've read with interest some of your accounts of getting involved with your northern brothers, but could you sum it up for those not that close to you and who've never been on that journey?

 

[wavy-blade]

I was thinking about this today - while washing the cars and I think it's a good question.

2 years ago - end of Oct '15 we had just lost to Crewe away and Milwall at home and Nigel Adkins was in charge.

If someone had said to you the following statements - which do you think would have been the most ridiculous?
In 2 years we will be in the Autos in the Championship
We will sign Leon Clarke
Leon Clarke will score 4 goals in a game - as well as 2 spanking the Owls
We will be playing the most attractive football we've ever seen
We are above the Owls without spending multi-millions of pounds
I have faith that if we go 1 down we will come back

I'm sure there are other pertinent questions - but I can't think of them at the mo.

It unbelievable isn't it .............................


That you wash you cars lol , joking mate . I think with that statement you have summed it up , all I do at the moment is think about the Blades , I cant wait to see them again , its like am addiction , and I am hooked , that's what Mr Wilder has done , he is the drug dealer and I need my fix , someone arrest him quick before I overdose !!!

 

[blade too long]

Football does go round in circles
There's lows and highs
We got a world cup winner in to take us into div 4 and a Sunderland hero to get us out then wallowed back in div 3 then 2 successive promotions . Down after 5 good seasons then another 12 in the championship to get back top .a brief reminder of class then a gradual slump but now a meteoric rise in quality and entertainment unseen since Currie and Woodward. You could argue easier on the eye passing football. But the past 18 months have given us our pride back and a morcel of belief that under Adkins seemed light years away .But the mediocrity was swept aside and a new broom cleaned up our act .Enjoy every minute of it as the good never seems to last quite as long as the so so stuff

 

[pommpey]

I was thinking about this today - while washing the cars and I think it's a good question.

2 years ago - end of Oct '15 we had just lost to Crewe away and Milwall at home and Nigel Adkins was in charge.

That team contained three of Saturday's squad.

Fucking incredible.

pommpey

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

I often think about you JR, as a b and b WCFC supporter adopted into our family and wondered how your feelings have altered towards United over those 2 years.
I've read with interest some of your accounts of getting involved with your northern brothers, but could you sum it up for those not that close to you and who've never been on that journey?

Wheww well...

Ive chatted to quite a few Blades fans ive had the pleasure of meeting this weekend in varying degrees about this..and as you put it, it always feels like being drawn into this one big heartwarming family that until our Cup game 2 years ago I had a completely different view of and a false belief that Sheffield United are literally the 'big bad wolf' of football..except Leeds and Millwall.

This is where I have to explain the awkward bit in that my family are all Derby (my mums side of the family) and Nottingham (dads side) folk except for little old Jonny me who was born down here in Worcester. Ive been watching Worcester games since around '86'87 but with my dad being a Forest fan and Cloughie weaving his magic (he wasnt going to Forest games as he was obviously taking me to Worcester games and his boyhood non league club Gresley Rovers) it was kinda cool following them from afar and being different to all the other kids in my year at school who pretty much supported the usual suspects.


Rather than rambling on from there...i'll pause as im sure theres already a few doing some head scratching and questions going through your heads reading that lol.

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

"You're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t"

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[GreasyChipBeattie]

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Lol!!

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

Wheww well...

Ive chatted to quite a few Blades fans ive had the pleasure of meeting this weekend in varying degrees about this..and as you put it, it always feels like being drawn into this one big heartwarming family that until our Cup game 2 years ago I had a completely different view of and a false belief that Sheffield United are literally the 'big bad wolf' of football..except Leeds and Millwall.

This is where I have to explain the awkward bit in that my family are all Derby (my mums side of the family) and Nottingham (dads side) folk except for little old Jonny me who was born down here in Worcester. Ive been watching Worcester games since around '86'87 but with my dad being a Forest fan and Cloughie weaving his magic (he wasnt going to Forest games as he was obviously taking me to Worcester games and his boyhood non league club Gresley Rovers) it was kinda cool following them from afar and being different to all the other kids in my year at school who pretty much supported the usual suspects.


Rather than rambling on from there...i'll pause as im sure theres already a few doing some head scratching and questions going through your heads reading that lol.

Thanks for that JR. I didn't realised your family was from the East Mids.
I can understand all the negative hype that formed your opinion of SUFC, some deserved and a certain NW didn't exactly endear us to the rest of the footballing world.
Still, we're mainly a friendly bunch, much like I suspect the majority of footballing town/cities are.....except the other two you mentioned perhaps!
Anyhow, glad you're able to join in with that is a particularly enjoyable period for us all.
Bless you mate,
GCB.

 

[Lil red rooster]

I remember 2 seasons ago going away to relegation contenders blackpool in a midweek game,the game was dire blackpool delighted with a point and adkins likewise delighted to run the clock down to a depressing nil nil draw,chris wilder I love you.

 

[s4-blade]

"You're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t"

We’re fucking good, We’re fucking good, We’re fucking good

 

[Bayingblade]

Going 1 down is a doddle.......


It’s being 2 UP that’s been the problem for the last 30 years!!

 

[Blade56]

Dint McCabe ant BRP state quite clearly we would be up there or even higher by now?

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Thanks for that JR. I didn't realised your family was from the East Mids.
I can understand all the negative hype that formed your opinion of SUFC, some deserved and a certain NW didn't exactly endear us to the rest of the footballing world.
Still, we're mainly a friendly bunch, much like I suspect the majority of footballing town/cities are.....except the other two you mentioned perhaps!
Anyhow, glad you're able to join in with that is a particularly enjoyable period for us all.
Bless you mate,
GCB.

I went to a couple of Derby/Forest games around the early 90s which were friendly 'family affairs'...and then I did go to a fair few matches in the 97'98 season when Harry Bassett was manager, I actually enjoyed his down to earth no nonsense style and the football was good to watch, a Blades legend who understood how to make them tick which noone since has managed...and when you piece that together with coming on here and seeing the clips of Bassetts days you enjoy reminiscing over ,it just adds to the special weave thats being created.

The big eye opener for me that changed the view really was the Cup game..how you all stayed and applauded us off the pitch at the end including the team doing the guard of honour type thing, was just a classy touch and never experienced that before against anybody. I had been to BDTBL before though when me and my dad were given tickets to the England Legends vs Germany Legends around 2008, and I remember feeling quite drawn into the ground back then and the fans being warm, friendly and chatty around us..the place just resonates with a special atmosphere.

 

[DifferentClass]

"You're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t, you're f******g sh*t"

Now we sing "We're fucking good, we're fucking good..."

Long may it continue. I've been alive for nearly 27 years and apart from times under Warnock I've experienced nowt but disappointment following the Blades. We were the proverbial "nearly" club for so long and Wilder's finally starting to change the formula.