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Basing Blade said:
Blades and Wendy only strive to be above each other.
So they tend to gravitate to the same division.
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There’s something very parochial for sure.

A lot of ex-United players and staff say how fondly they remember their time here. What laughs they had, and japery they got up up etc etc. Which really is great but it’s seldom in the context of professional achievement.

Selles is a highly educated bloke. The folk on the board are achievers way above the old local businessmen we used to be run by. If this regime can’t inject some cold eyed intelligence and professionalism above and beyond the band of brothers stuff, then I’m not sure who can.
 
A big city club should feel it to be a disaster if they are not in the premier league.
Many get panicked when they are not in the top six.
We only seem to activate when we fall into the third tier....sometimes.

As it stands, we are going down.
 
If these owners are terrible, our fans won't be any more active in trying to oust them than Wednesday have been with Chansiri
 
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FMBlade1 said:
A significant portion of our fans overrate (or overlook the shortcomings) of our academy players (or those who have played for us at youth level) when they play in the first team.
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I’ve always felt exactly the opposite.

The majority of our fans assume any youth team player must be absolute crap, and could only even begin to thrive the way all great talent thrives… by getting the shit kicked out of them for a full season on loan at Pisswiddle Athletic, AFC Prolapse, or Scunthorpe United.
 
This is for all fans not just ours - we forget about the fact that football is an entertainment for now not the future. It doesn’t matter if someone is on loan or what league we might end up in at the end of the season - the only thing that matters is winning games and being entertaining. Case in point - 100 point season in League One was fucking awesome, no matter it being lower. We probably won’t ever win a cup or be in the running for Europe so just enjoy it it!
 
Davalon said:
At times like this I feel like too many of our fans are utter prats. We've all got concerns but it's clear too many can't wait to get on people's backs at the first opportunity.

All so depressingly predictable and will probably end up with another self-fulfilling prophecy. People can't even fucking wait for the end of the transfer window.
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I want players and I want them yesterday.

Although I do worry that the manager is having a moan 2 matches into the season.
 
That United will serially underachieve due, in part, to the toxicity of the fan base and need to scapegoat players in order to make themselves feel better about their lives and, somehow, show their love for the club. Drink and drugs plays a part in it too.
 
Sheffield, as a city, lost the race to be Yorkshires most prosperous, largest city in Yorkshire to (dirty) Leeds. Leeds is a European city, Sheffield is just a city in Yorkshire. Even though we have trams, they have an airport, are a huge banking and financial centre and the local media are based there. It actually pains me to admit all of this. The football stadium and fan base are much bigger than ours and they are one of the bigger clubs in England.
 

I think we'll get the players we need in by the end of the transfer window and be a pretty decent team this season (unless there is a a major injury crisis). Should make the playoffs.
 
54yrblade said:
That United will serially underachieve due, in part, to the toxicity of the fan base and need to scapegoat players in order to make themselves feel better about their lives and, somehow, show their love for the club. Drink and drugs plays a part in it too.
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If fans drinking, having a line of coke and scapegoating players determines whether a club underachieves or not every club in the country is screwed.
 
Which club would you say is the most comparable outside of Sheffield? Birmingham City maybe? Another club that should have won more over the course of their history.
 
Houston_Blade said:
If fans drinking, having a line of coke and scapegoating players determines whether a club underachieves or not every club in the country is screwed.
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If you can't go to a game without getting p*ssed and/ or high, a driver for crap behaviour, that's a personal behaviour issue that affects others. Players included

You're correct but that doesn't alter my point
 
Sheffield unique in English football in that it’s a two club city with neither remaining dominant permanently (albeit our obvious superiority morally and culturally over the porcine swine next door). Liverpool are clearly number one, as are Villa, Forest, Bristol City etc. you could argue Manchester has been artificially made similar due to oil cash. Seeing other teams from either one team town or one of these permanently dominant places makes me happy that in the lottery of the football gods I got United. No matter how low we go or how shite the latest drama, we’ll always have our dirty neighbours to wind up, beat or mock.
 
54yrblade said:
If you can't go to a game without getting p*ssed and/ or high, a driver for crap behaviour, that's a personal behaviour issue that affects others. Players included

You're correct but that doesn't alter my point
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I agree, there was a time when an away day was a piss up for me, kids changed that. But I don’t think it affects us as a club more than any other.
 
Houston_Blade said:
I agree, there was a time when an away day was a piss up for me, kids changed that. But I don’t think it affects us as a club more than any other.
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Get that, but it makes a match day a crap experience if you're sat next to those who are drunk, high or needing those ever so special visits to the toilet. In two's. As they do .....
 
AnstonBlade1 said:
Pecks overrated…
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I agree he's overrated by those that think he's a star already. We had fans saying he carried us last season ffs....

But also, he's had 1 season, he's inexperienced and nowhere near his ceiling. I think there's much more to come from him... when he finally takes responsibility which I think will come with experience.
 
dingledog said:
Sheffield, as a city, lost the race to be Yorkshires most prosperous, largest city in Yorkshire to (dirty) Leeds. Leeds is a European city, Sheffield is just a city in Yorkshire. Even though we have trams, they have an airport, are a huge banking and financial centre and the local media are based there. It actually pains me to admit all of this. The football stadium and fan base are much bigger than ours and they are one of the bigger clubs in England.
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In a history of Sheffield book I read about 30 years ago it stated that Sheffield's 'problem' was that it wasn't (and still isn't) situated on the main North - South trade route. This explains both Sheffield's reputation for quality and our current relative lack of wealth. Towns on the trade route, including Leeds with consequent lower overheads in travel costs etc, could sell inferior goods at a lower price/higher volume. Sheffield traders couldn't transport as much stock to market (Bawtry was our nearest major trade centre) but could still make a good living selling less goods but of a higher quality and price. So it also made sense that ancillary trades (banking, travel, tourism etc) coalesced around the trade centres.

Sheffield was (and still is) a dead end. Our canal which is a spur line that leads to a cul-de-sac at the Wharf is a real metaphor for Sheffield's place in history. You've always had to make a real extra effort to travel to Sheffield. Those that have bothered often have good things to say and appreciate that the effort was worthwhile - but many simply never/don't bother. Even today Doncaster is better connected to London than Sheffield.

If you follow that historical perspective, it still plays out in modern times, with Sheffield still being largely by-passed. The M1 and Midland railway are relatively recent inventions that have greatly changed peoples mind, but sadly in terms of business the damage was done centuries ago.
 
FMBlade1 said:
Hamer is our best player, at the same time there's a reasonable chance we'll be an overall better team without him. (I know weird right- and probably unpopular!)
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It’s similar to when we sold Beattie to Stoke. He was by far our best and most influential player, but IIRC we were about 5th or 6th when we sold him and ended up finishing 3rd and taking it to the last game due to others chipping in and being more balanced.

Logic tells you that you sell your best player then it weakens your team, but where is Gus’ best position to benefit us? Last season the vast majority, including myself, thought he was wasted on the left, but now he’s dropped deeper like he did for Coventry, he’s not got the legs to keep up with runners and gives away cheap free kicks and possession in more dangerous areas.

Time will tell, but we could be more balanced in the long run.
 

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