The derby

[Paulus]

Well if they do win I’m glad I live in Manchester as nobody under 35 here knows who they are, and there’s non of them to gloat either.

surely there's one Man City fan....?

 

[Iron blade]

Wednesday win 0:0 again?

 

[Keen Blade]

Crowd singing "Souza, knock him out" won't help. If we shout "shoot" he does...

Don't let him carry a gun ...

 

[Keen Blade]

If we win I'll join you in a tin.

I think it might have been Gen Studies A level (1975) where i got a question about ambrosia and answered (genuinely) something about canned rice pudding
Not having enjoyed the benefits of a classical education , you see.

 

[Keen Blade]

It'll need to be a bath for you both to fit.

Dem wur t'days , round me granddad's of a Satdi , in t'tin bath in front o t'fire.
An' a nice bit o 'addock fo' me tea

 

[Keen Blade]

From lots of the posts about hating the stress of derbies , it's surprising that the match sold out almost immediately - I can understand regular Blades feeling it's their solemn duty to put themselves through the fear & misery , but why should the occasionals ?

 

[Charlieblade]

I'm going to wait to give my predictions until Roy's column as we know they will give a fair assessment of their team. The level headed comments should give us a window in how a sane minded football fan thinks......
Bollocks
7 - 0 Blades. Someone is getting a stuffing this season, might as well be our "sus scrofa domestics" pals

Agree with the home win, but I say 6-0. Hat tricks for Moore and O’Hare. Owls will throw the kitchen sink at it, and Cooper will get to show how great a shot stopper he is.

 

[CornwallBlade]

Sending off is my prediction - probably Souza.

That will be their plan A. Bannan will be his usual angry nasty little bastard self so cool heads will be needed.

 

[CornwallBlade]

Thing is talking to other teams who have local derbies, the majority think this is a non event. So why is segregation on an astronomical level.

You have been to a Sheffield derby haven’t you?

 

[CornwallBlade]

I really don't see where this tag about being great one minute and woeful the next.....they are barely average.

West Brom apart their other victories, (Plymouth, Portsmouth & Coventry) have come against teams in and around them.

They have played 5 of the current top 6, losing 4 of them scoring 5 whilst conceding 16. They also lost 3-0 away to Millwall who had not won a game at that point and drew with Bristol City, QPR and Swansea.

If any other team was coming to BDTBL with that record we would be expecting a comfortable victory. As others have said, play the game, not the occasion and we win comfortably, let them worry about us, we play our normal game.

Excellent post. I just hope CW prepares them this way. I fear he’ll be asking for a rabid first 20 to “get the crowd going” and that could backfire badly.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

That will be their plan A. Bannan will be his usual angry nasty little bastard self so cool heads will be needed.

Spookily, he appeared in my Facebook feed, yesterday,as a recommended friend! Weird!

 

[Charlieblade]

Spookily, he appeared in my Facebook feed, yesterday,as a recommended friend! Weird!

If your surname is Smith or Jones, Facebook thinks everyone in the world is your potential friend! lol

 

[Nick Jansky]

From lots of the posts about hating the stress of derbies , it's surprising that the match sold out almost immediately - I can understand regular Blades feeling it's their solemn duty to put themselves through the fear & misery , but why should the occasionals ?

Maybe the occasionals don’t feel it quite as intensely?

 

[PrestwichBlade]

I do think we're due to give someone a pasting...

 

[FlamingLip]

From lots of the posts about hating the stress of derbies , it's surprising that the match sold out almost immediately - I can understand regular Blades feeling it's their solemn duty to put themselves through the fear & misery , but why should the occasionals ?

As a kid it was proper stomach churning, into 20s it'd be mandatory John Smiths breakfast to prep. Can't say I enjoyed the 90s mins. Now, I'm genuinely just looking at forward to the match and occasion (and I'm surrounded more by owls mates/fam now than ever before). Bring it on.

...Few late morning beers might still be sneaked.

 

[Crafty Blade]

Excellent post. I just hope CW prepares them this way. I fear he’ll be asking for a rabid first 20 to “get the crowd going” and that could backfire badly.

Agree, especially as there will be absolutely no need to get the crowd going either. Foot on the ball, calm heads, put them under some pressure first 20.

 

[blade too long]

Twice actually 67 and more recently when Blackwell fucked up oh and my first derby game early 60's 2-3

67 and 63 is a long time ago let them go its the time of no sustitutes or just one , things have changed,mans walked on the moon since then

 

[blade too long]

I think it might have been Gen Studies A level (1975) where i got a question about ambrosia and answered (genuinely) something about canned rice pudding
Not having enjoyed the benefits of a classical education , you see.

audias schola

 

[blade too long]

I dont fear Wednesday at all , but extraineous moments of fate , an horendous own goal , an undeserved red card, a freak collision taking out 2 players

In other words if fate goes against us

Their team doesnt bother me one iota

 

[espoo blade]

Anyone dropping by the butchers on the way to The Lane on Sunday?

 

[mattbianco1]

They have played 5 of the current top 6, losing 4 of them scoring 5 whilst conceding 16. They also lost 3-0 away to Millwall who had not won a game at that point and drew with Bristol City, QPR and Swansea.

I've copied ucandomagic and drawn up how they've faired so far against the current league table. West Brom result aside, they're nothing to write home about.

 

[alcoblade]

From lots of the posts about hating the stress of derbies , it's surprising that the match sold out almost immediately - I can understand regular Blades feeling it's their solemn duty to put themselves through the fear & misery , but why should the occasionals ?

I suspect it's the regulars that feel the stress much more.

 

[loyalblade95]

Always apprehensive about these games as form tends to go out of the window, but I still look forward to them as it's our biggest game of the season.

 

[MobileBlade]

I've copied ucandomagic and drawn up how they've faired so far against the current league table. West Brom result aside, they're nothing to write home about.

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I think youve got that Watford at home score slightly wrong ..... not much in it (cough cough)......

 

[mattbianco1]

I think youve got that Watford at home score slightly wrong ..... not much in it (cough cough)......

I think youve got that Watford at home score slightly wrong ..... not much in it (cough cough)......

So i have. Apologies.

Got the result right, but not the score

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

There hasn't been a 2-1 in this fixture at Bramall Lane since February 1938.

Astonishing.

 

[MobileBlade]

So i have. Apologies.

Got the result right, but not the score

You were close. Well at least you got one of the teams goals right!

 

[blade too long]

There hasn't been a 2-1 in this fixture at Bramall Lane since February 1938.

Astonishing.

2008 09 , wednesdays only win at BDTBL since man walked on the moon , was 2-1

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

2008 09 , wednesdays only win at BDTBL since man walked on the moon , was 2-1

Man did the what now?!

 

[blade too long]

Man did the what now?!

a little trip , late sixties