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Sick of people mentioning this.

Why does singing impact our players ability to score a goal? Why does it impact our managers ability to pick the right team and make the right substitutions?

Luton fans didn’t make 10 seconds of noise the entire game and they won the game. Clearly Blades fans not singing is the issue

The players need to give us a reason to sing, get a bit of fire in their belly, a bit of passion and determination to get us off of our seat.

Stop suggesting the fans need to be better, we have 28k fans each week, that’s good enough for the players to realise who they are playing for.
 

Obviously the fans do make a difference, it goes without saying. We've all seen the atmosphere turn games many a time. It is a two way street though and the players aren't doing their bit.

There doesn't seem to be much of a connection between this team and the fans, which is worrying given our position. Any other promotion chasing team in our history would have had that as a given.
 
Rodley said:
Support makes a huge difference. All the “difficult places to go” have hostile atmospheres. Seen innumerable cup runs when we’ve turned the volume up. Seen loads of league matches at the Lane doing the same.

Don’t know why our fanbase is so sensitive about this.
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Of course. Agree entirely.
 
The fans do need to do better but Hecky and the team do everything possible to suck the life out of them and what your left with is an incredible flatness and lack of belief that must be unique considering the league position
 
The fans don't need to do anything, they pay, turn up and can do what they want.

However, it's just a fact that when fans are very negative (those toxic league 1 days) it makes it much harder for the players to play.

The fans definitely effected Clough's substitutions. He took us on for a year because he didn't want to play 2 up top and most of us did. He became stubborn and it effected his judgement.

The Luton fans love their team and manager, and are incredibly positive, similar to us under Wilder. It makes a difference.
 
Lmaobob said:
Sick of people mentioning this.

Why does singing impact our players ability to score a goal? Why does it impact our managers ability to pick the right team and make the right substitutions?

Luton fans didn’t make 10 seconds of noise the entire game and they won the game. Clearly Blades fans not singing is the issue

The players need to give us a reason to sing, get a bit of fire in their belly, a bit of passion and determination to get us off of our seat.

Stop suggesting the fans need to be better, we have 28k fans each week, that’s good enough for the players to realise who they are playing for.
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The answer is in the title that you've written.
Do their part.
It is an important part. The big elements of panic and nerves go through to the pitch.
Sometimes the team need a lift and willing on by the crowd, that's how it works.
 
Aye, God forbid these fucking wank fans ever take any responsibility.

If you need to be entertained first in order to make a noise then at least stop classing yourself as a 'supporter' and refer to yourself as 'a reactor to stuff' or at best, a 'spectator', since support is clearly not the reason you showed up.
 
Remember that fellow Blades, when the inevitable happens and our well paid players fuck this season up, and the last ball is kicked, and they pick up their Louis Vuitton washbags, slip into their Dior trainers, get into their £100k 4x4's, drive back to their £1m+ houses and start to work out which club they'll milk next season, it was all our fault. We didn't give them enough support. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
 
Watched them put potentially the largest percentage of wank minutes of football together yesterday.

I can't say my lasting thought was "if the fans don't improve the atmosphere, there's no way the performances will improve".

We were gash for 90 whole minutes yesterday. Even our goal efforts were laughable. Wrong squad, wrong tactics all on the management team and poor application and execution from those in the shirts, ably supported by appalling in game management.

The fact we contrived to lose to their only shot on target with at least three players fucking up their basic 101 jobs sums it up. Why did Fleck have his legs open like Katy Price and why didn't he just foul him to stop him waltzing in the area? Why did Anel not get properly goal side of Morris so he didn't even have thet angle? Why was Wes (again!) not correctly protecting his near post and just assuming nobody would touch it?

They give nothing to cheer at all. We opened the game by inviting them onto us and that set the tone of the game and to the crowd. 28k there. Unreal.
 
Nicolaus_Copernicus said:
Remember that fellow Blades, when the inevitable happens and our well paid players fuck this season up, and the last ball is kicked, and they pick up their Louis Vuitton washbags, slip into their Dior trainers, get into their £100k 4x4's, drive back to their £1m+ houses and start to work out which club they'll milk next season, it was all our fault. We didn't give them enough support. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Who has said it will be 'all our fault'?
Does the fans backing the team make a difference or not? Do they have the potential to contribute?
 
Nicolaus_Copernicus said:
Remember that fellow Blades, when the inevitable happens and our well paid players fuck this season up, and the last ball is kicked, and they pick up their Louis Vuitton washbags, slip into their Dior trainers, get into their £100k 4x4's, drive back to their £1m+ houses and start to work out which club they'll milk next season, it was all our fault. We didn't give them enough support. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Too fucking right. We pay to be there. They are paid to be there. The responsibility for performing rests in its entirety with the staff of the club.
 
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Look at the empty seats as the mardy arses had fucked off. Who knows what else they missed that day??
 
Lmaobob said:
Sick of people mentioning this.

Why does singing impact our players ability to score a goal? Why does it impact our managers ability to pick the right team and make the right substitutions?

Luton fans didn’t make 10 seconds of noise the entire game and they won the game. Clearly Blades fans not singing is the issue

The players need to give us a reason to sing, get a bit of fire in their belly, a bit of passion and determination to get us off of our seat.

Stop suggesting the fans need to be better, we have 28k fans each week, that’s good enough for the players to realise who they are playing for.
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Bang on. All this blaming fans for not delivering a Celtic like raucous atmosphere is pathetic
 

If our fans need some inspiration from the pitch then is it any wonder the place has been like a morgue at times this season. The way we set up to play is quite frankly, fucking boring a lot of the time. Its not front foot attacking football that gets fans out of their seats.

Sideways, pedestrian, defensive football is hardly likely to get the place rocking.
 
jt64 said:
The players were shit today. The fans were equally shit, and we do make a difference
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Come on, the way we were playing yesterday the fans couldnt have done anything.

The fans make a difference if the team is really attacking the kop and it can force the opposition into a mistake etc. We never looked like scoring yesterday.
 
Lmaobob said:
Sick of people mentioning this.

Why does singing impact our players ability to score a goal? Why does it impact our managers ability to pick the right team and make the right substitutions?

Luton fans didn’t make 10 seconds of noise the entire game and they won the game. Clearly Blades fans not singing is the issue

The players need to give us a reason to sing, get a bit of fire in their belly, a bit of passion and determination to get us off of our seat.

Stop suggesting the fans need to be better, we have 28k fans each week, that’s good enough for the players to realise who they are playing for.
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When we back our team vocally gives the players extra impetus.
It's why it's well known that Bramall lanee is a difficult place to come (When the atmosphere is like that).

But like anywhere if it's not gives the opposition impetus because they think they are stifling us and silencing the crowd.

It's always been a bit known amongst our lot that we usually want "a reason to sing". But this goes out the window when we are in a derby or a big match.

For some clubs their supporters back them without " a reason to sing". If we could do this combined with how vocal and loud it would make us consistently amongst the best atmospheres around. We usually get noted when we go up to the PL that we have a cracking atmosphere and i think this is why.
 
cahill said:
Bang on. All this blaming fans for not delivering a Celtic like raucous atmosphere is pathetic
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Can’t really see people blaming them. People are saying the atmosphere can help or hinder performances. It’s hardly a revolutionary concept - our ride to finished top half of the PL and subsequent collapse is one example where loss of atmosphere played its part.
 
Greasy Chap Butty said:
Who has said it will be 'all our fault'?
Does the fans backing the team make a difference or not? Do they have the potential to contribute?
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There's plenty people on here that will claim that at the end of the season and trust me, that's next on Hecky's list of excuses. "The nervousness of the crowd seeped into the players", "The crowd was subdued and it transmitted to the players", etc.

Our atmosphere would need to have the restorative power of Lourdes to revive Fleck, Sharp and Berge.
 
Nicolaus_Copernicus said:
There's plenty people eon here that will claim that at the end of the season and trust me, that's next on Hecky's list of excuses. "The nervousness of the crowd seeped into the players", "The crowd was subdued and it transmitted to the players", etc.
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Those comments would be right.
But you saying anybody lays the blame entirely at the fans feet is just made up.
The ' we don't make any difference' is what I asked you about. Do you think the crowd does make a difference positively and negatively?
 
Nicolaus_Copernicus said:
There's plenty people on here that will claim that at the end of the season and trust me, that's next on Hecky's list of excuses. "The nervousness of the crowd seeped into the players", "The crowd was subdued and it transmitted to the players", etc.

Our atmosphere would need to have the restorative power of Lourdes to revive Fleck, Sharp and Berge.
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Ooh yes, we could restore Berge to what he was when he first got here, an expensive paperweight flop.

But yes largely I agree.
 
Greasy Chap Butty said:
Those comments would be right.
But you saying anybody lays the blame entirely at the fans feet is just made up.
The ' we don't make any difference' is what I asked you about. Do you think the crowd does make a difference positively and negatively?
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In certain situations, in certain games, with certain players yes. The Warnock years showed that. Fine margin games, great subs and players that could respond both physically and mentally to the atmosphere.

Now? Under Hecky? With this set of players? If we turned BDTBL into La Bombonera for the remaining games and set off fireworks in the south stand car park, do I think it would make a difference? No. No. No. No.

Fleck is finished at this level and shouldn't be on the pitch, he is not able to move about the pitch. Sharp is finished at this level and shouldn't be on the pitch, he's lost two yards of pace. Basham is probably jumped the shark. Berge for whatever reason flatters to deceive. Would a more vocal support improve them? No.
 
Champagneblade said:
Watched them put potentially the largest percentage of wank minutes of football together yesterday.

I can't say my lasting thought was "if the fans don't improve the atmosphere, there's no way the performances will improve".

We were gash for 90 whole minutes yesterday. Even our goal efforts were laughable. Wrong squad, wrong tactics all on the management team and poor application and execution from those in the shirts, ably supported by appalling in game management.

The fact we contrived to lose to their only shot on target with at least three players fucking up their basic 101 jobs sums it up. Why did Fleck have his legs open like Katy Price and why didn't he just foul him to stop him waltzing in the area? Why did Anel not get properly goal side of Morris so he didn't even have thet angle? Why was Wes (again!) not correctly protecting his near post and just assuming nobody would touch it?

They give nothing to cheer at all. We opened the game by inviting them onto us and that set the tone of the game and to the crowd. 28k there. Unreal.
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And also why was it left up to Fleck to be in the left back position instead of the actual defender???????
 

Nicolaus_Copernicus said:
In certain situations, in certain games, with certain players yes. The Warnock years showed that. Fine margin games, great subs and players that could respond both physically and mentally to the atmosphere.

Now? Under Hecky? With this set of players? If we turned BDTBL into La Bombonera for the remaining games and set off fireworks in the south stand car park, do I think it would make a difference? No. No. No. No.

Fleck is finished at this level and shouldn't be on the pitch, he is not able to move about the pitch. Sharp is finished at this level and shouldn't be on the pitch, he's lost two yards of pace. Basham is probably jumped the shark. Berge for whatever reason flatters to deceive. Would a more vocal support improve them? No.
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Would it improve the rest of the team? If not there's no point being there, can watch the highlights on telly. Yesterday that won't take long.
The crowd make a huge difference, players mention it here and other clubs.
 
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