Embarrassed.

[lenners]

But Foxy, all you're doing is trying to shift responsibility from where it lies.
There are a lot of experienced players out there, many of them have played a lot of games and quite a few at the highest level.
What we saw tonight isn't about booing or what's going on in the stands, it's about what's going on on the flipping pitch.
Making the debate about poor, hard done by millionaire footballers who are massively underperforming is about as far wide of the mark as can be.

 

[Foxy]

sarcastically cheering a short pass was to get a message to our one dimensional manager.

after that blunder Bunn was lucky he didn't get done under the trades description act

if players can't be bothered to pressure defenders when they get paid more in a week than most of the crowd do in 4 months then they should expect a rough ride,

Yep, we should hate them. They get paid.

We don't need to get a message to the manager, believe it or not.. he goes to the same matches we do.

Thank god the jeering carried on, because I don't think he noticed people were unhappy after all the boos and earlier jeering.

It's great that people booed all of the substitutions too, because we needed to get the message to him that they were wrong and we wouldn't get back into the game by making them. Yet the fool still made them and we ended up losing 3-1

If I was Richard Cresswell i'd find it difficult to run to the other side of the pitch, never mind close players down and put his body on the line like he did and will. No matter what my bank balance was when I went home, it wouldn't help me.

 

[lenners]

Yes we a part of the equation that pays for a player and yes you can express disgruntle views but save it for forums and phone ins.

To boo a NEW sigining is shocking if you don't like it stay quiet rather than boo him there is a time and place for airing frustration and at the game when the team needs support simply is not it.

I'm glad I was stuck at work tonight. Because simply put these blades who boo a player coming on to the pitch make me very embarrased.

I didn't boo but there's no way I'd criticise anyone who did. You didn't see what was served up tonight either.
And the notion that we all sit down and express our views on the internet is cobblers.
They hear it where they should hear it, on the pitch. Same as the cheers they get when they're performing as they should.

 

[Bladesman]

sarcastically cheering a short pass was to get a message to our one dimensional manager.

after that blunder Bunn was lucky he didn't get done under the trades description act

if players can't be bothered to pressure defenders when they get paid more in a week than most of the crowd do in 4 months then they should expect a rough ride,

I thought Bunn was going to be subbed at one point. lol

 

[beechblade]

But Foxy, all you're doing is trying to shift responsibility from where it lies.
There are a lot of experienced players out there, many of them have played a lot of games and quite a few at the highest level.
What we saw tonight isn't about booing or what's going on in the stands, it's about what's going on on the flipping pitch.
Making the debate about poor, hard done by millionaire footballers who are massively underperforming is about as far wide of the mark as can be.

Are you truly happy that we boo a new player???

Are you truly happy that this sends out a positive message to new players, new signings and youngsters wanting to pull on a red and white jersey??

 

[super_pig]

we're not blind patriots.. we're british..we boo who we bloody well like.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

They make absolutely no difference and are no excuse to boo a current blades player onto the pitch before he's even kicked a ball.

It truly is pathetic.

I agree but how many people would you say actually booed Cresswell? It sounded like approximately THREE people on the Kop to me and they were quickly drowned out by others exaggerating their applause to counteract the booing. That's the way I saw it anyway.

The problem is that people who weren't at the game will assume there was some massive outpouring of hatred towards Cresswell and it's all people will be talking about on here and Radio Sheffield etc..

The sarcastic cheering of passes was much more widespread and cringeworthy in my opinion, although again only a minority were doing it.

 

[Bladesman]

we're not blind patriots.. we're british..we boo who we bloody well like.

Boo the germans!

 

[lenners]

Are you truly happy that we boo a new player???

Are you truly happy that this sends out a positive message to new players, new signings and youngsters wanting to pull on a red and white jersey??

I really couldn't give a flying about the booing.
I don't think it matters and it certainly should not matter to experienced, professional footballers paid very good money to represent our club.
What really matters is how we're playing. Full stop.

 

[beechblade]

I didn't boo but there's no way I'd criticise anyone who did. You didn't see what was served up tonight either.
And the notion that we all sit down and express our views on the internet is cobblers.
They hear it where they should hear it, on the pitch. Same as the cheers they get when they're performing as they should.

Soory if I came acroos implying you did, but it makes me sick to think we can boo a new playyer. Not all blades may have done it but It really upsets me that some bother to do. And I think your view on it is clobbers to, I don't feel we send any sort of positive message to people wanting to join the club.

 

[Foxy]

But Foxy, all you're doing is trying to shift responsibility from where it lies.
There are a lot of experienced players out there, many of them have played a lot of games and quite a few at the highest level.
What we saw tonight isn't about booing or what's going on in the stands, it's about what's going on on the flipping pitch.
Making the debate about poor, hard done by millionaire footballers who are massively underperforming is about as far wide of the mark as can be.

No I'm not.

Once again we weren't good enough, I could sit describing our failings all night.

My point in this thread is, that our fans are an embarressment and do not help in the slightest. We are becoming what we used to dispise and take the piss out of.

We are Sheffield United, our players have always underperformed, it's just we didn't all used to be petulant toy chuckers at the first whiff of an opportunity. We used to look after our own, support our team and yet still air our grievances.

Tonight is as much about the crowd as what happened on the pitch for me, it demonstrates two major things wrong with our club at the moment.

If i'm wide of the mark fair enough, I just thought we were different.

We already "sing" Wednesday songs these days, we might as well continue to downwardly spiral and continue to become everything we hated.

 

[WhiteHawk]

The sarcastic cheering of passes was much more widespread and cringeworthy in my opinion, although again only a minority were doing it.

I think that was the most noise we made all game tbh. There was a very large section of the Kop doing it, it certainly sounded loud from my seat towards the back of the Kop anyway!

 

[beechblade]

I agree with the preformance stuff. The rest I feel it does matter to the club as a whole.

 

[Stafford Blade]

Yep, we should hate them. They get paid.

We don't need to get a message to the manager, believe it or not.. he goes to the same matches we do.

Thank god the jeering carried on, because I don't think he noticed people were unhappy after all the boos and earlier jeering.

It's great that people booed all of the substitutions too, because we needed to get the message to him that they were wrong and we wouldn't get back into the game by making them. Yet the fool still made them and we ended up losing 3-1

If I was Richard Cresswell i'd find it difficult to run to the other side of the pitch, never mind close players down and put his body on the line like he did and will. No matter what my bank balance was when I went home, it wouldn't help me.

they get paid to do a job. 7 or 8 of the 11 that started didn't do their job tonight. I bet if everyone on here put in the same effort and performance as some of our players at work tomorrow some of them would be asked to clear their desk at 5pm

 

[lenners]

Our fans are an embarrassment?
I think it's a flaming miracle that 28,000 people were prepared to come and watch that shite. If we'd been playing anything like decent football this season, it could well have been sold out tonight.
We have great support but not thick support. We're not dummies. We can see when a team is playing absolutely terribly, without pattern and generally hoofing aimlessly.
We call it like it is. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
The players have got a responsibility to do better. It's not and never will be the fans fault.

 

[Foxy]

they get paid to do a job. 7 or 8 of the 11 that started didn't do their job tonight. I bet if everyone on here put in the same effort and performance as some of our players at work tomorrow some of them would be asked to clear their desk at 5pm

Can I ask how you'd do your job if you were booed and abused on the way in?

If your manager spewed ridiculous comments about you and your family?

If every time you did something successfully you were sarcastically cheered?

It isn't an excuse for them performing poorly, I'm merely trying to point out that it doesn't help and we as a fan-base have changed.

 

[BarcaBlade]

the constant spiral of whining and complaints after any game that we've not won but it seems this isn't a site-specific issue; it's one contagious to a large minority of the Blades fanbase and one that is truly sickening./rant

A minority on chat boards. The chattering classes. UTB.

MOst of us hve difficulty Reading.

 

[lenners]

Can I ask how you'd do your job if you were booed and abused on the way in?

If your manager spewed ridiculous comments about you and your family?

If every time you did something successfully you were sarcastically cheered?

It isn't an excuse for them performing poorly, I'm merely trying to point out that it doesn't help and we as a fan-base have changed.

Really? I remember Porterfield being hounded out when we were quite high in the old second division.
We're no different to any other fans just incredibly frustrated at being embarrassed time and time and again by what we witness on the pitch.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

I think that was the most noise we made all game tbh. There was a very large section of the Kop doing it, it certainly sounded loud from my seat towards the back of the Kop anyway!

Certainly louder than the booing of Creswell but nowhere near as loud as the response to our late equaliser I would suggest.

 

[jacknat]

No I'm not.

Once again we weren't good enough, I could sit describing our failings all night.

My point in this thread is, that our fans are an embarressment and do not help in the slightest. We are becoming what we used to dispise and take the piss out of.

We are Sheffield United, our players have always underperformed, it's just we didn't all used to be petulant toy chuckers at the first whiff of an opportunity. We used to look after our own, support our team and yet still air our grievances.

Tonight is as much about the crowd as what happened on the pitch for me, it demonstrates two major things wrong with our club at the moment.

If i'm wide of the mark fair enough, I just thought we were different.

We already "sing" Wednesday songs these days, we might as well continue to downwardly spiral and continue to become everything we hated.

i agree with all of the above...but

tonight we were shit and in my opinion there is problems..major ones

 

[Elsecar_Blade]

I don't think the Blades fans were booing Bunn were they? More than anyone else after the clown we've had in goal for the last five years, we know that goalies make mistakes sometimes and that these are often punished. Bunny was a fault for one goal but made two good stops second half that kept us in the game. I think the jeers were when he 'hoofed' it - thats not aimed at Bunn, its aimed at Blackwell's instructions to him to do it.

I don't buy this 'Thou shalt not boo' stuff. I make my choice not to because I don't think it is beneficial - the manager won't change his mind because me and some others boo a little. However, we do pay very very good money to be entertained - at the end of the day, football is entertainment - and we have a right to express our opinion. If you went to the cinema and the picture was jerky and the sound was out of sync, you'd complain. I don't boo because it won't do any good but I can understand why people will.

The ironic cheering of the passes was a bit of fun and livened the crowd up a little - the Kop got behind them for a minute afterwards. It did actually inspire the players a little at the time as we produced a good move.

Cresswell was booed on by a minority and it was drowned out by a warm applause of welcome. Booing the fella before he plays is wrong - he deserves a chance. Will the same folk refuse to cheer if he scores a hat-trick on Saturday? Yes, his background ain't great, I wouldn't have chose him but he is here now and deserves our support. At the end of the day, he is a proven Championship goalscorer.

There's nothing wrong with clapping Quinny and Stead. I appreciate their efforts for SUFC and I liked them both as players. Why is it wrong to show that appreciation? Both have played important roles for United - particularly Stead who had it not been for one penalty would be a Blades legend for his brave, brave goal against Wigan.

I was embarrassed to cheer the goal - not that I'm unhappy we got it - as we deserved absolutely nothing three times over tonight!

 

[super_pig]

>and we as a fan-base have changed.
yeah perhaps we are starting to realise that we don't have to put up with the level of entertainment(?) on offer

>Can I ask how you'd do your job if you were booed and abused on the way in?
perhaps if i had previously worked for the arch rival of that company and been known to spout off about my new company in the past then probably yes..

 

[Stafford Blade]

Can I ask how you'd do your job if you were booed and abused on the way in?

If your manager spewed ridiculous comments about you and your family?

If every time you did something successfully you were sarcastically cheered?

It isn't an excuse for them performing poorly, I'm merely trying to point out that it doesn't help and we as a fan-base have changed.

if i had regularly failed to perform very straight forward tasks i would expect a bollocking. why should we accept players tossing it off?

 

[Foxy]

I don't think I'll bother continuing to get my point across tonight, I don't think many particularly understand or want to understand what I am getting at.

There's nothing wrong with clapping Quinny and Stead. I appreciate their efforts for SUFC and I liked them both as players. Why is it wrong to show that appreciation? Both have played important roles for United - particularly Stead who had it not been for one penalty would be a Blades legend for his brave, brave goal against Wigan.

Absolutely nothing wrong with it in my opinion, until you contrast that to the treatment of the players who are actually playing for our club.

In that context it becomes even more destructive.

if i had regularly failed to perform very straight forward tasks i would expect a bollocking. why should we accept players tossing it off?

I didn't say we should.

I'm trying to make the point that we used to try and help the team, rather than hinder them.

Unless I spent the majority of my childhood completely miss-reading the nature of our support

 

[Bladesman]

if i had regularly failed to perform very straight forward tasks i would expect a bollocking. why should we accept players tossing it off?

True.

Although it depends what sort person each player is.

The Morgan type who is probably as pissed off as the fans and dusts himself down and trys to sort it.

Then there are the weaker types like Quinn and Cotterill who let it get to them and fall to bits.

 

[Stafford Blade]

Wombwell blade is spot on with what he says. People paying at the gate are customers and have a right to complain.

 

[Bladesman]

Wombwell blade is spot on with what he says. People paying at the gate are customers and have a right to complain.

True thats if we are treating the place as a business and not a football club.

Most here would complain to the club shop if their united shirt had fallen to bits.

 

[Muttley]

[

I'm glad I was stuck at work tonight. Because simply put these blades who boo a player coming on to the pitch make me very embarrased to be wearing the same colours as them.[/QUOTE]

Me too. Is this SHEFFIELD UNITED we are talking about?

 

[super_pig]

>we used to try and help the team, rather than hinder them.
i think we have fallen out with the team?

 

[jacknat]

I don't think I'll bother continuing to get my point across tonight, I don't think many particularly understand or want to understand what I am getting at.



i fully understand your views and mostly agree with them...but

tonight mate was appalling and i think an outpouring is inevitable.