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South Bucks said:
That we'll never win promotion or a cup with Wilder as managers who were defenders have a defensive bias. Just look at the players we spunk real money on, mostly defensive, and how we set up for games. Only truly offensive managers win stuff.
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Seeing as this thread has been bumped... Not just an unpopular opinion :p
 
Chali 2na said:
I thought Coutts was shite.

I thought Hammond was going to be a good signing.

I thought Michael Higdon was going to be prolific.

I thought Weir was a good appointment.

I thought Adkins should have been given more time.
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I agree with all of that (assuming you meant Coutts being shite in his early days) but giving Nigel Adkins more time? Someone call a doctor!!!!!!!!
 
Honestly:

I think we will be relegated by March (realistically). I hope and pray I'm wrong, as wrong as I have been in the past. We are signing good championship players for a team with good championship players in one of the most challenging leagues in the world, no-one can realistically bridge that gap. Team spirit and tactics can only get you so far, we need proven quality. As another thread of mine stated, in the current market that is almost impossible.

Not that it's a moan, it makes perfect sense that we reward/trust the players we have and it puts us in a fine position to 'do a Burnley' and come up again in 2020/21 and we as a club move forward.

It's going to be a long difficult season in terms of results, though we'll have some fantastic experiences along the way!
 
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Why all the vitriol and hatred for that team across the city? Especially now we are in a different league. It makes no sense to waste time picking the bones of a neighbour. Even when we do share the same league, thats two derby games guaranteed.
Let's face it fellas, hatred for them is a wasteful emotion, when we as a club have so much to be proud of. Take the piss by all means, but don't waste your time and emotional energy on suh futile childishness.
 
FMBlade1 said:
Honestly:

I think we will be relegated by March (realistically). I hope and pray I'm wrong, as wrong as I have been in the past. We are signing good championship players for a team with good championship players in one of the most challenging leagues in the world, no-one can realistically bridge that gap. Team spirit and tactics can only get you so far, we need proven quality. As another thread of mine stated, in the current market that is almost impossible.

Not that it's a moan, it makes perfect sense that we reward/trust the players we have and it puts us in a fine position to 'do a Burnley' and come up again in 2020/21 and we as a club move forward.

It's going to be a long difficult season in terms of results, though we'll have some fantastic experiences along the way!
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I think our transfer policy is eminently sensible. We're breaking our transfer record on a near-weekly basis (with more to come) on bright, young, promising players and to sign 'proven quality' would easily eat up the reputed fortunes you get for being in the PL and with no guarantee of success. We've taken giant strides in the last three seasons and to do a 'Viv Nicholson' now we're in the top division could easily leave us with a massive hangover for years to come.

Huddersfield went too giddy in their brief stay - going from a £23m profit in their first season back (2017-18) under then-owner Dean Hoyle - to current owner ('legal services entrepreneur' Phil Hodgkinson) claiming this week that 'the club's first £50m parachute payment has already been swallowed up by extras including player bonuses and stadium improvements' which took spending above the £200m income from their two PL years.

The PL has been deliberately engineered to be a private club only for the very wealthy and only those clubs who can sustain massive losses will stay there, but I don't believe it's 'all that'. Take away the two clubs who can win the PL, the half-dozen pretenders who need to qualify for Europe to pay for next season's losses and the rest are just making up the numbers and whose sole ambition is living to survive another season. For every Liverpool, there's Watford, Bournemouth, Southampton etc. and three clubs will go down despite what they've spent.

I'm going into this season with a similar apprehension to 2017-18. From beating the likes of Gillingham, Port Vale, Shrewsbury etc. in the third tier, how would we possibly cope against clubs like Villa, Leeds, Forest? After a few blips, we survived and prospered and I think we will in the PL. If we do go down, we'll be strong enough to be serious promotion contenders for years to come. What's the alternative? Scrape by like Ipswich did for 17 years in the Championship before returning to Division One or waste fortunes like Stoke did on players who were only there for the money (Arnautovic, Adam, Berahino) hoping - and failing -to stay in the PL?

It'll be reight! ;)
 
I have no doubt that the coming season will be hard for our side, but I do believe mid table security is possible. We will do it with style whatever the outcome.
The following season will be harder. Teams will no longer be surprised by our system, and the owners will not want to spend much on consolidating the first seasons success.
 
FMBlade1 said:
I think we will be relegated by March (realistically)
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Didn't you go into bedwetting mode after the Millwall home draw?

Confessing honest opinions is one thing, but chucking the towel in before a ball has been kicked, takes the biscuit.

We are supposed to be 'supporters'.

We are supposed to get behind the team.

One of my unpopular opinions is we have too many 'want it now' fans who have no sense of our recent history .

I can see that FOTH may well get some usage next season.

Circle the wagons, dig in and support Chris and the lads.
 
Bournemouth aren’t a a million miles away from our relegation rivals; if Mousset can’t get near their first XI he’s probably going to be a bit shit.
 
Premiership/Premier League quality tends to mean players who’ve only played at the bottom of the league and either been relegated or they’ve failed to show enough quality to get a better move to a better club.
They seem to be more expensive due to the Premier League quality tax which adds 5 million or so to their price and their wages are inflated.
There is much more value in shopping in the Championship market, and CWAK are doing exactly the right thing by the club.
 

Flatulent_Bob said:
Premiership/Premier League quality tends to mean players who’ve only played at the bottom of the league and either been relegated or they’ve failed to show enough quality to get a better move to a better club.
They seem to be more expensive due to the Premier League quality tax which adds 5 million or so to their price and their wages are inflated.
There is much more value in shopping in the Championship market, and CWAK are doing exactly the right thing by the club.
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That's not an 'unpopular opinion' among the Blades I know, just common sense, but well done anyway for saying it.
 
Rodders said:
Bournemouth aren’t a a million miles away from our relegation rivals; if Mousset can’t get near their first XI he’s probably going to be a bit shit.
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I can't say the signing enthuses me a great deal but while Bournemouth aren't a particularly special team, they do have very good strikers. Quite Mousset couldn't find more playing time as the third forward I have no idea.
 
I should coco said:
That's not an 'unpopular opinion' among the Blades I know, just common sense, but well done anyway for saying it.
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Sorry, it was supposed to be in-reply to a comment above highlighting CWAKs approach. I must have deleted the quote.

Edit; Found it.
FMBlade1 said:
Honestly:

I think we will be relegated by March (realistically). I hope and pray I'm wrong, as wrong as I have been in the past. We are signing good championship players for a team with good championship players in one of the most challenging leagues in the world, no-one can realistically bridge that gap. Team spirit and tactics can only get you so far, we need proven quality. As another thread of mine stated, in the current market that is almost impossible.

Not that it's a moan, it makes perfect sense that we reward/trust the players we have and it puts us in a fine position to 'do a Burnley' and come up again in 2020/21 and we as a club move forward.
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I should coco said:
Didn't you go into bedwetting mode after the Millwall home draw?

Confessing honest opinions is one thing, but chucking the towel in before a ball has been kicked, takes the biscuit.

We are supposed to be 'supporters'.

We are supposed to get behind the team.

One of my unpopular opinions is we have too many 'want it now' fans who have no sense of our recent history .

I can see that FOTH may well get some usage next season.

Circle the wagons, dig in and support Chris and the lads.
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No I didn't, I still believed after the Millwall game and kept my counsel. It was the Villa game where I posted that it could 'potentially destroy our season' where I was a bit OTT, understandable in the circumstances and a view shared by plenty of others. I was proved wrong, and I even bumped up the thread to make light of how wrong I was.

Your next comments completely sum up the ridiculous attitude on here, that anyone who is pessimistic about next season is not a proper supporter who doesn't get behind the team. It reeks of McCarthyism. I assure you that I'll be cheering them on as much as anyone, always.

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IN THE SAME POST I said that I don't mind a long-term plan buying players for the future to 'do a Burnley', I'm not expecting us to stay up. I'm merely countering the prevailing view (Isn't that what a forum is for) that we aren't going to be in for a hard time next season. It's not a popular view and not one that wants to be heard, I could probably get 100+ likes for a post saying 'We're going to surprise so many people next season UTB' though that doesn't reflect the truth (as I see it) of where we are. It's not a criticism of anyone, or a moan, its just a reality check as I see it. I might be wrong, I hope I am.

I support Chris, I support the lads. Its just as things stand I can't see surviving with this squad. That's not throwing in the towel at all, its an opinion. An unpopular one.

If only there was a thread to put something like that on.....
 
Hate the Henderson love-in, he’s not one of us and he doesn’t love the club, he enjoyed his time here and likes the fans but ultimately he’ll go anywhere as long as he get’s paid what he’s after.

Fleck and Duffy are overrated and anyone who thought Coutts would come back just as good as before his leg break were fucking deluded.

I think we’ll get relegated this season and go back to no PL football for another considerable time.

UTB.
 
Millhousesblade1889 said:
Marvin Johnson is to thank for us going up as his mistake refocused the team......Promotion hero.
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Stevens and Norwood were more to blame for that goal than Johnson, is my unpopular opinion.

Also, while Norwood is clearly great and contributed hugely to our promotion, he had plenty of mistakes and bad games, and is a bit 'teflon' in that respect regarding his reputation. We wouldn't have gone up without him though.
 
S12 Blade said:
Hate the Henderson love-in, he’s not one of us and he doesn’t love the club, he enjoyed his time here and likes the fans but ultimately he’ll go anywhere as long as he get’s paid what he’s after.

Fleck and Duffy are overrated and anyone who thought Coutts would come back just as good as before his leg break were fucking deluded.

I think we’ll get relegated this season and go back to no PL football for another considerable time.

UTB.
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Agree with a lot of this, but I can't call Duffy overrated cos a colleague at work fucking hates him and will slag him even after a game when he's scored one and made one. So to my ears, he's always underrated.

The Coutts believers really were fooling themselves. For some reason, they thought the fact that it was his second major injury made it more likely he'd come back strong, rather than less likely.
 
Guesty said:
Stevens and Norwood were more to blame for that goal than Johnson, is my unpopular opinion.

Also, while Norwood is clearly great and contributed hugely to our promotion, he had plenty of mistakes and bad games, and is a bit 'teflon' in that respect regarding his reputation. We wouldn't have gone up without him though.
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My unpopular opinion could be a popular one
 
I quite liked Tom Heffernan.

Cue shouts of « F*** O** HEFFERNAN ....
 
Tunstall Fred said:
I don’t think Callum Robinson is very good
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I was in this boat but seeing how he has played in the first 2 friendlies, I'm deferring any more comments for now. Whether he can step up to the Prem? Well we're all still guessing about everybody so again no problems there either.
 

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