Are the nerves starting

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Pedro_Mendez said:
No nerves here. Just looking forward to taking my kids to their first Wembley experience with Sunderland.
We missed the Wycombe playoff win due to a wedding. My eldest has never stopped talking about missing it.

I think we are slight underdogs but anything can happen. Whatever the result our young lads have had an excellent season. If we do manage to go up we will get royally bummed all season.

Enjoy your weekend. I guarantee the vast majority of SAFC fans you meet will be good crack, decent people, passionate about their team to a fault, and pissed.
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I have this vision of tomorrow, where we'll be having a laugh in the pubs and trying to "out-shite" each other about our playoff successes - "Nah mate, we're the more shite" etc 😂
 

Yes, I’m in a hospital bed waiting for knee op. I’m fearing that I dream a negative outcome of the game tomorrow.
 
Most nervous I've been for play off finals in order

1. Wolves: Was confident we'd win but was very nervous because I really wanted that brilliant season to end on a high

2. Palace: Only really young here but might have been the first game where I remember being ridiculously nervous during the game. I recall doing all sorts of mad impromptu superstitions during the game like touching my shoes whenever Palace went in our half.

3. Burnley: Not overly nervous as I wasn't overly confident but I did think we had a good chance. Probably similar to how I'm feeling with this one. After about 25 minutes the nerves had totally gone because we were that shit

4. Huddersfield: Didn't really care too much in the build up or during the game. Felt inevitable we would lose. Obviously got nervous during the pens but even then it wasn't like I couldn't watch.
 
Playing golf at Southport and Ainsdale today. Just enjoyed a coffee and a bacon butty, listened to Bladespod on the way over. No nerves at all, so used to losing so I am just going to enjoy the day out with my nephews and mates.

If we win, it's slightly bitter sweet with the prospect of being in the shit league again, lose and we at least have an exciting Championship to look forward to.


Anyway off to the practice green and not thinking about football until 4pm 😄
 
I’m not nervous at all this time.

Either that’s because I’ve become so battle hardened form prior campaigns that a disappointment won’t be that hard to cope with, given that mechanism has now been tried and tested for so long, or it’s for my more favoured reason.

I just think this team, whilst not perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing on the eye, unlike the overlapping centre back team, just know how to find a way to get the job done. Aside from that unexpected dreadful week, this team tends to get a result when expected.

Including the semi finals we’ve won 30 matches this season. That’s 8 more than our opponents. Remember they didn’t win the second leg, they lost the game in 90 minutes. 30/48 is a highly impressive win ratio.

Plus when Sunderland did manage to beat us, we were minus Souza, Arblaster Souttar and Burrows from the starting line up and at least 6/8 on the bench will be so far down the pecking order they won’t even come into consideration.

Instead they’ll be replaced by a highly capable outfield bench, perm 8 from 10, of Seriki, Gilchrist, Holding, McCallum, T Davies, Brooks, Rak-Sakyi, O’Hare, Cannon, Brereton-Diaz.

Being non-partisan, they finished 16 points ahead of Sunderland. It is a better first XI and a bench with more depth notwithstanding Arblaster is missing.

They struggled against Coventry and we completely outclassed them recently.

There is always the one off element but I just think we will dominate the ball and eventually grind them down.
 
My only minor concern is the two week gap we've had to wait. We don't do well after international breaks and usually start sluggish. We had momentum and confidence coming into this and if we'd have played the immediate Saturday after the semis then I'd be 100% confident. I'm about 70-75% at the moment.
 
Caveblade said:
Playing golf at Southport and Ainsdale today. Just enjoyed a coffee and a bacon butty, listened to Bladespod on the way over. No nerves at all, so used to losing so I am just going to enjoy the day out with my nephews and mates.

If we win, it's slightly bitter sweet with the prospect of being in the shit league again, lose and we at least have an exciting Championship to look forward to.


Anyway off to the practice green and not thinking about football until 4pm 😄
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What a build up that is. S&A is an absolutely incredible course. Enjoy ⛳ 👍
 
Apprehensive more than nervous.
Desperately want us win. To break this hoodoo will be immense. I 'll be euphoric if we do.
But then reality will hit. The enormity of what next season will bring. Yes I want us to perform at the highest level. But there's performing and then there's competing!
Will our new owners back us financially enough to survive. That will be the acid test.
I 'll be devastated if we lose!!!
 
I wasn't even nervous for the derby games this season which is weird.

I am slightly more 'nervy' than nervous simply because the game means so much and a win would absolutely do so much for this side with new owners who have seemingly got a bit to spend. Could easily set us up for the next 5 years of being a top championship side with premier league attempts just like the 2019 promotion did.
 

In Piccadilly Station Manchester heading to Euston and yes doing today- tomorrow back Sunday . Am I shitting myself? Absolutely not it’s not life or death . It’s the journey some of us have been on for many years . It’s this turbulence that makes following this club worth it . Win / lose up down drama around every corner . If we win then it’s Historic if we lose it’s also Historic . There are far worse things to shit yourself over not this . Enjoy the experience some never get the chance to!
UTB do it for George ♥️⚔️
 
Flicked on Sky Sports News this morning as I supped a coffee and the first thing I saw was the presenter talking about the "richest game in football" and that is the first time I felt a few butterflies.

I'm not that nervous though. Common sense tells me we win, we finished loads of points above them, have a better squad, no injuries and we battered Bristol City over 2 legs whilst Sunderland were arguably the poorer team against Cov. However, I can't help feeling the trip will yet again end in disappointment, it's "the Blades way" after all....
 
Torrix1889 said:
Flicked on Sky Sports News this morning as I supped a coffee and the first thing I saw was the presenter talking about the "richest game in football" and that is the first time I felt a few butterflies.

I'm not that nervous though. Common sense tells me we win, we finished loads of points above them, have a better squad, no injuries and we battered Bristol City over 2 legs whilst Sunderland were arguably the poorer team against Cov. However, I can't help feeling the trip will yet again end in disappointment, it's "the Blades way" after all....
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I ignore all of this "richest game / £200mil game" nonsense. £200mil barely makes a ripple in the pond these days due to the huge financial indifferences and inequality in that over-hyped, over-rated league.

It's an odd one as I want us to win tomorrow but I'm not bothered about promotion anymore. Tomorrow is more about exorcising the past.
 
Blade56 said:
I’m pretty confident we have what it takes this time.

However, nerves are there, had a bad waking up dream that Anel gives a penalty away cropping Mayenda. Can’t happen, can it? :oops:
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Oh dear! That happens and you're being pushed off another ladder.
 
Not reyt appeh wi some of confidence on this forum.

Long since resigned myself to us never winning a playoff final in my lifetime.

Sod the "it's our time", "it's written in the stars" stuff, if there's one team that can fuck it up it's Sheffield United Football Club.
 
I am nervous now I am in London trying to avoid being stabbed, mugged or shot by the Metropolitan police until returning sunday afternoon.
 
I'm on my way down now, staying with family. Party tonight. Back home Sunday. What with new owners who seem have latched onto the Blades culture and with a bit of money by the sounds of it, winning tomorrow could be hype turn round draw in our fortunes and I think we'd stay up next season if we got through. I'm 75 next month and I have yet to see us win at Wembley and it may be my last chance. (Same for all us old 'uns, I know). Hence, I don't mind admitting, I've got butterflies with a wingspan bigger than a pair of African elephants ears!
 
Going down today, can't wait. Hardly any nerves so far to be honest. I'm 46 now and I've been to every play off final and when you've seen so many defeats it does become easier to take but I'll still be gutted if we lose.

I'm just focusing on the burger king I'll be having at Watford Gap services at about 7pm rather than Wembley tomorrow!
 
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Nervous for the occasion. Luckily we don't desperately need promotion £££. If we lose, we go again and see what these new owners are about...
 
I live 18 miles as the crow flies from Wembley. If I go up the one hill we have got for miles and miles I can see Wembley. It was looking fantastic today. You might have to zoom in at the end of the branch to see it but it stood out like a beacon to the naked eye!
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"Could be hype turn round draw" should have read "could be a huge turn round"

Couldn't be the 3 glasses of wine I've had on the train could it?

😂😂😂

Any road up, nerves have gone nar!

😂😂😂
 
No nerves until/if we actually score a goal at Wembley to get the lead in a game such as this for me.
 

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