Championship is our level!

[Bell4]

I was a bit younger I remember my dad telling me that fact,he was gutted we were so low in the league.

If I’d have told my grandad that in the near future we would be playing 4th div football he would have turned in his grave

 

[Flumps]

I used to think we were a championship side and I still did when we last went up. After that first season though I was convinced we deserved to be there, we didn't quite have a premiership team but we put in the effort and got the rewards.

That season for me was a beautiful platform to start building and establish ourselves in the Premier league, for some reason we just, stopped. Blame it on the covid break, Wilder, recruitment or the squad being knackered.

 

[Bladezz]

Championship was our level and Chris Wilder changed that. We cannot go backwards now in our thinking. Hecky is the right man for the job but he needs to just revert back to fully copying Wilder system. No changes too it just stick at it with the players we have.

Tweaking the formation can be done when he can bring his own players in.

We all said at the start of the season this is one of the strongest Chanpionship sides around. A blip against Reading but we will be roaring back tomorrow.

 

[Harry's Game]

I hope so…

Cos I fear it might not be in a season or two,

 

[1961blade]

50 plus years watching The Mighty Blades and on reflection I feel that The Championship is our level and looking forward I can see us being in it for many years.
In the 70s watching Currie, Woodward etc was the Crème de La Crème era
Warnocks tenure was great with a plethora of quality players coming through, great to watch and getting promoted was well deserved, but after 1 season we are heading back to The Championship, from then 2005 it was down hill.
The Wilder Times were bloody wonderful 4 fantastic seasons in which we got to The Promised Land.Superb season then fuckin COViD derailed that and we end up back in The Championship.
Will we go up or will we go down next?
Be an interesting poll( don’t know how to create one )
Love this team, always will but by Christ they put us through the ringer and I believe
THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS OUR LEVEL

You are from my era sir and I agree with you totally, I'm sure you will agree with me but I thought gone was the time I would see my beloved blades in the top six in the Premier league but I did and to that I am etirnely grateful to Mr wilder because it won't happen again in my lifetime.

 

[Captain2]

You are from my era sir and I agree with you totally, I'm sure you will agree with me but I thought gone was the time I would see my beloved blades in the top six in the Premier league but I did and to that I am etirnely grateful to Mr wilder because it won't happen again in my lifetime.

1962 sir so your a bit older and probably wiser.
Couldn’t agree more 1961 the reign under Mr Warnock and Mr Bassett were truly memorable but the seasons we had with Mr Wilder rebuilding a Blades team to be proud of will I’m sure be the pinnacle of my time as a Blade.
The future ! Who knows what that will bring, I hope we can nurture some home grown talent and not depend on Journeyman just looking for a nice little earner

 

[BobblesBlade]

It’s a funny old game.
The Blades are in my blood and I will support them until i die.
I do wish sometimes I could of supported a team that was a mainstay in the top league with maybe a cup win or European matches to watch but hey ho I will still dream that one day Utd will get there.

Frustrating as they are and a wonder why we never attract the big investors I just accept it’s the way it is.

I thought with Wilder we might have got something really good until I noticed the stance of trying to keep it British and apart from Berge it showed in quality when measuring against other prem teams that went out and scoured the world for talent.

Maybe one day we will be able encourage better owners with a vision like the top teams but until then I will just accept Utd are the old style English club that will have a season or two in the top flight but many years in the 2nd tier.

 

[Lane Ender]

It's just Sheffield
A Premier UK City which was turned into a second rate city 30 years ago, which has now become a third rate city due to others moving on and Sheffield standing still and settling for third best in every single thing it does

If ever a football team mirrored the city it is located in, it's United

Is it fuck a third rate there’s been quite a lot of investment in our city probably the premier student location in England the east end had redeveloped nicely over the years.
Wouldnt live anywhere else in the world

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

Lets wake up and smell the coffee, When I first stated to watch the Blade for a team to get to the top and stay there or there abouts took money, and there was about half a dozen cubs who had that sort of backing and owners who were willing to use it.
Now with the financial rewards for getting into Europe being so great the number of clubs with multi million pound backing must have increased ten fold..
We've always had great support from both the fans and the board, but we do seem to have been run as more of a gentlemen's sports club than a business.
even now we have an owner who is running a couple of continental clubs as well as us. why ?
Mr McCabe went this way with several overseas clubs while he had United and I fail to see what we or the club have ever gained from this approach ....
Having said all that, at least the present owner hasn't started to sell off any of our most promising players yet. unlike some of our previous owners, in fact he must have lost a bomb on some

 

[JJBlade]

Is it fuck a third rate there’s been quite a lot of investment in our city probably the premier student location in England the east end had redeveloped nicely over the years.
Wouldnt live anywhere else in the world

I was being generous, it's actually fourth rate

 

[Lane Ender]

I was being generous, it's actually fourth rate

Obviously not a Sheffielder

 

[1961blade]

It’s a funny old game.
The Blades are in my blood and I will support them until i die.
I do wish sometimes I could of supported a team that was a mainstay in the top league with maybe a cup win or European matches to watch but hey ho I will still dream that one day Utd will get there.

Frustrating as they are and a wonder why we never attract the big investors I just accept it’s the way it is.

I thought with Wilder we might have got something really good until I noticed the stance of trying to keep it British and apart from Berge it showed in quality when measuring against other prem teams that went out and scoured the world for talent.

Maybe one day we will be able encourage better owners with a vision like the top teams but until then I will just accept Utd are the old style English club that will have a season or two in the top flight but many years in the 2nd tier.

Wonderfull post brought a tear to my eye, statue to wilder outside the ground, thank you.

 

[LudlamBlade]

Is it fuck a third rate there’s been quite a lot of investment in our city probably the premier student location in England the east end had redeveloped nicely over the years.
Wouldnt live anywhere else in the world

Born and raised on Arbourthorne, didn't leave Sheffield til I was 21, been back (to live) a few times since.

As my home, I absolutely love the place.

As a city, it's massively on it's arse.

 

[Danblade]

2007

And it wasn't Covid, it was shit recruitment and Wilder that got us relegated.

Whilst COVID can’t be directly blamed for our relegation, it seems harsh to dismiss its impact entirely - the momentum in our first season was completely broken by the pandemic. Without it, we may well have qualified for Europe & our second season could have been a lot different as a result.

For what it’s worth, I think the Championship is our level as things currently stand - we don't have the investment or infrastructure that you typically need to survive in the Premier League. Perhaps another season up there might have enabled us to establish ourselves a little more, like Burnley, but it didn't happen. I think for many of our fans we are in a strange situation at the minute, having just got relegated from the Prem you'd expect us to be up there, but it wasn't that long ago that we were in League One & I think a few more seasons in the Championship might help the club as a whole get up to speed and put us in a better place to go again (having said that, I still hope we can get promoted this season!).

 

[mancunianblade]

Born and raised on Arbourthorne, didn't leave Sheffield til I was 21, been back (to live) a few times since.

As my home, I absolutely love the place.

As a city, it's massively on it's arse.

There has been signs of improvement over the past 5 or so years but in reality it’s in a bubble. It’s generally a forgotten place in the grander scheme of things I find.. it’s a case of someone looking at a table of population seeing Sheffield so high on it and saying wow didn’t realise Sheffield was that big type of place..

 

[LudlamBlade]

There has been signs of improvement over the past 5 or so years but in reality it’s in a bubble. It’s generally a forgotten place in the grander scheme of things I find.. it’s a case of someone looking at a table of population seeing Sheffield so high on it and saying wow didn’t realise Sheffield was that big type of place..

Yeah I agree, there has been a lot of development but most of it is stuff that other cities have had for ages and are now developing again.

The old saying of Sheffield being dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century still
rings true!

 

[blade too long]

Brecon
We'll do well to keep it our level in the next 2/3 years.

We are much better than more than half the teams this championship
we are back to the early part of this century when we were a *constant top 10 team.
We got relegated out only when we had that many injuries all the loans we had got injured and we used 42 players under 4 managers
We were let down badly by Speed walking out on us I still feel betrayed by his actions then
We are suffering a lot of players being out now but are still in the play off mix

There will always. be clubs worse off than us as although we don't have billions behind us we are well run and well supported

 

[Blade56]

THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS OUR LEVEL

Don’t blame the club, it’s the City. Bet that graph mirrors the decline of Sheffield

'Everything’s leaving': Sheffield's high streets gutted by vacancies

The city centre has lost 18% of its shops in five years. What’s really to blame?

www.theguardian.com

Also,interesting is the ‘two club city’ effect.

This town ain’t big enough for the both of us: The decline of Nottingham, Sheffield and Bristol’s football league clubs.

It was a debate on twitter which got me thinking, beginning with a tweet in which someone was asking why both of the professional clubs in Sheffield were continually failing to perform . My respons…

rowzfootball.wordpress.com

 

[Old Programme seller]

Money introduced to clubs has made the difference since the 1970’s putting football on tv created an income stream that we couldn’t equal with what was paid out for advertising and corporate. Southern clubs could have a match ball sponsored where we had to buy it, the corporate box where the prawn sandwich brigade sat was full of folk where we had pie and a crust! In short we can’t generate the same revenues as many clubs because of our heritage of a working class city and our location BUT we do have to be careful what we wish for I went to Spurs new ground this season to watch them play Man Utd it is a magnificent stadium but there they get hold of you tip you upside down until all of your money falls out of your pockets and for a Yorkshireman that’s tantamount to rape (no offence meant)

 

[adiosmiamigo]

Whilst COVID can’t be directly blamed for our relegation, it seems harsh to dismiss its impact entirely - the momentum in our first season was completely broken by the pandemic. Without it, we may well have qualified for Europe & our second season could have been a lot different as a result.

For what it’s worth, I think the Championship is our level as things currently stand - we don't have the investment or infrastructure that you typically need to survive in the Premier League. Perhaps another season up there might have enabled us to establish ourselves a little more, like Burnley, but it didn't happen. I think for many of our fans we are in a strange situation at the minute, having just got relegated from the Prem you'd expect us to be up there, but it wasn't that long ago that we were in League One & I think a few more seasons in the Championship might help the club as a whole get up to speed and put us in a better place to go again (having said that, I still hope we can get promoted this season!).

We don't look anything like a team that has the guts and determination to go for play-offs and ultimately promotion.

 

[Inter_blade83]

Whilst COVID can’t be directly blamed for our relegation, it seems harsh to dismiss its impact entirely - the momentum in our first season was completely broken by the pandemic. Without it, we may well have qualified for Europe & our second season could have been a lot different as a result.

For what it’s worth, I think the Championship is our level as things currently stand - we don't have the investment or infrastructure that you typically need to survive in the Premier League. Perhaps another season up there might have enabled us to establish ourselves a little more, like Burnley, but it didn't happen. I think for many of our fans we are in a strange situation at the minute, having just got relegated from the Prem you'd expect us to be up there, but it wasn't that long ago that we were in League One & I think a few more seasons in the Championship might help the club as a whole get up to speed and put us in a better place to go again (having said that, I still hope we can get promoted this season!).

Everyone was impacted by covid, so everyone was in the same boat. It impacted on everyone.

Biggest issue was the leaky defence. We didn't replace JOC with a suitable replacement. That is down to Wilder and the board for not doing so.

On the pitch he kept the same style, with different personel, who were not up to the job (Robinson) there was no plan B, there was no AM anymore (no Duffy replacement), and he picked Lundstram almost every game.

We were toothless up front and open at the back. That's down to the management team picking and preparing for every game.

It's amazing how people forget these things and stick on the rose tinted glasses.

 

[Lane Ender]

Born and raised on Arbourthorne, didn't leave Sheffield til I was 21, been back (to live) a few times since.

As my home, I absolutely love the place.

As a city, it's massively on it's arse.

Yes and look how they,ve improved the Arbour and Norfolk Park after going downhill for thrée decades they’ve been rebuilt with affordable housing same for other urban areas progress indeed but a can’t vouch for the clientele

 

[Danblade]

Everyone was impacted by covid, so everyone was in the same boat. It impacted on everyone.

Biggest issue was the leaky defence. We didn't replace JOC with a suitable replacement. That is down to Wilder and the board for not doing so.

On the pitch he kept the same style, with different personel, who were not up to the job (Robinson) there was no plan B, there was no AM anymore (no Duffy replacement), and he picked Lundstram almost every game.

We were toothless up front and open at the back. That's down to the management team picking and preparing for every game.

It's amazing how people forget these things and stick on the rose tinted glasses.

Not denying any of what you say but your response doesn’t address the impact COVID had on our momentum & the chance it gave other teams to reset in that first Prem season.

 

[Danblade]

We don't look anything like a team that has the guts and determination to go for play-offs and ultimately promotion.

I agree with your conclusion, though in my opinion it’s down to a lack of consistency (which hasn’t been helped by all the injuries) & a number of players underperforming. They have been so much better since in this second half of the season though.

 

[Captain2]

Not denying any of what you say but your response doesn’t address the impact COVID had on our momentum & the chance it gave other teams to reset in that first Prem season.

COViD had an enormous effect on us as a club, and at the same time benefiting other teams particularly those with squads big in numbers but also big in quality.
The 5 sub rule didn’t really help us as our squad was limited and fringe players who made the bench didn’t have the quality.
Bramall Lane when from a hostile stadium to one where teams just turned up and rolled us over.
Our downturn coincided with COViD-Fact
Other factors of course came into play particularly the poor signings made by Mr Wilder but his poorest signing by a country mile came after we got promoted and to this day I cannot fathom how a player like McBurnie can command such a ridiculously high fee.
Championship is our level

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

As Socratees once said 'the table doesn't lie. You were you are for a reason' Profound!

Was that before or after he took the hemlock?

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

When I was a kid in the 70's everyone used to say to me it's hard to imagine United outside the top tier.

I understand that was our claim to fame....we'd spent so long in the top tier.

We are still the current YORKSHIRE record holders of consecutive seasons in the top flight.........37 seasons.
Check the stats....neither Leeds, Wednesday or Huddersfield have had such a long unbroken spell in the top flight.

Yes, but that particular run ended 88 years ago!

 

[Gareth Kay]

I used to think we were a championship side and I still did when we last went up. After that first season though I was convinced we deserved to be there, we didn't quite have a premiership team but we put in the effort and got the rewards.

That season for me was a beautiful platform to start building and establish ourselves in the Premier league, for some reason we just, stopped. Blame it on the covid break, Wilder, recruitment or the squad being knackered.

Jack o'connell missing was our biggest miss

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

50 plus years watching The Mighty Blades and on reflection I feel that The Championship is our level and looking forward I can see us being in it for many years.
In the 70s watching Currie, Woodward etc was the Crème de La Crème era
Warnocks tenure was great with a plethora of quality players coming through, great to watch and getting promoted was well deserved, but after 1 season we are heading back to The Championship, from then 2005 it was down hill.
The Wilder Times were bloody wonderful 4 fantastic seasons in which we got to The Promised Land.Superb season then fuckin COViD derailed that and we end up back in The Championship.
Will we go up or will we go down next?
Be an interesting poll( don’t know how to create one )
Love this team, always will but by Christ they put us through the ringer and I believe
THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS OUR LEVEL

The third-rate, ambition-less and pennyless pricks that have owned and ran our club for decades must love fans like you.

 

[Booker4]

It's just Sheffield
A Premier UK City which was turned into a second rate city 30 years ago, which has now become a third rate city due to others moving on and Sheffield standing still and settling for third best in every single thing it does

If ever a football team mirrored the city it is located in, it's United

Sorry, but don't agree there. Sheffield is a vibtant city has really come on in the last twenty years, two excellent universities, the city centre is transformed from the dark days of the eighties when investment full stop was low in the north in particular. I know many students that have settled here and they all speak with glowing terms on how much they love Sheffield, I think Sheffield has one if not the highest retention of students, there's a reason for thst.

Sheffield is underachieving football wise because we neither team has big money or in Wednesdays case they've possibly got big money but spent it badly. If truth be told one team would be better given the size of the city in terms of attracting investors to a one club city. That does not mean I want us to merge with Wednesday but Sheffield can't struggles to support two big Premier League teams unless big money comes in and I think neither team attracts big money because investors see a limit of competing with the other team. Similar at Bristol and Nottingham I might add. Sheffield population is 585,000 and divided between us and Wednesday makes it 292,500. To put that into perspective, Coventry with its one team has a population of 444,000 and they're hardly pulling up any trees either.