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Really struggling to get enthused right now.

And it's not the results, it's the style, the model, the vision, the direction, the future plans etc.

I'm just not sure what as a club we're trying to be or what our identity is, both off and on the field.

Not sure if it's just me, my mental mind set or just the lack of communication, but I'm even noticing I'm even posting less frequently on here.

Anyone else feeling like this? 🤷‍♂️
 

I was the same last year. Results went our way but it was obvious to most that our fortune would eventually run out, which is why I was initially excited that the owners had decided to do something proactive. Makes it even worse that they cocked it up so spectacularly.

It’s just really demotivating how stale and predictable we’ve become, only thing that gets fans off their seats these days is some minor injustice from another poor referee.

the frustration comes from the fact there was no need for it to be like this, we did the hard work and got to the premier league and have absolutely nothing to show for it.
 
Yeh if I’m honest .. before the Derby match a met a few lads who I used to work with & we were having a good laugh & a few sherbets … came out the game & said I’d wish I’d stayed out with those lads .. had it all on generating some enthusiasm to go yesterday & I’m a season ticket holder of many years .. today had a good day out for Remembrance Sunday .again bumped into a lot of football lads ...TBH I’m just not enjoying the match day experience as much nowadays ( and that’s results aside ) ??
I don’t know maybe it’s becoming an age thing ? .. I can remember me asking my old man years ago when he stopped going why .. and he said he just fell out with it .. I’m starting to think the same ⚔️
 
jono_t2000 said:
Not sure if it's just me, my mental mind set or just the lack of communication, but I'm even noticing I'm even posting less frequently on here.

Anyone else feeling like this? 🤷‍♂️
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Yep, I was thinking just the other day 'Jono hasn't been posting as much recently'
 
Rodley said:
It’s a relegation battle. It’s not going to be pretty stuff.

But if your enthusiasm is waning, just have a break from it all. No shame in that. I think it’s weirder to keep going if I’m honest.
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Why do you continuously have to be so controversial, degrading the poster? Do you get a kick out of it?
 
Also at least our reboot will be in the Champ and not in L1 like some not far from here who struggle to get 28k for home games.
 
I get the sentiment of the OP. I feel something has changed in the identity of the club since I first started going. Something fundamental. I can't really put my finger on it, it's more a sense, a feeling.I think that allied with my increasingly distanced relationship with the game in general (largely due to hostility in the way its administered) has left me less enthused about United, match days etc.

That said, I'm massively up for the pigs game. Perversely I always get more interested when we're struggling. I worry about us then. United is like another kid to me: constant worry. The worse shape they're in the more I worry and the higher my focus on events becomes. The good times are a break from the worrying 😂. Back in the day we'd relish this situation as a fan base. It'd be a time for unity and making the Lane a bear pit. I used to love that gritty, horrible in your face, gallows humour version of United...
 
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I'm in my mid 40s, I have 2 kids (5 & 6),I don't live in Sheffield anymore. Itsnatural that it won't mean as much as your life changes I think.

Add the fact that we had such an amazing peak, pretty recently to the play offliss and a very cautious style of football and it's just all a bit meh. Still enjoy being at the Lane though
 
Day to day I’m not that bothered, haven’t even seen the goals from Cov match and on Friday night wasn’t even certain who we were playing, but did find enough to actually get excited about during that QPR game to say I actually enjoyed the second half. Pushing for a winner is exciting and I’m not sure how many times I’ve actually got to see us do that this season.
 
Yes. Americans have fucked us. With McCabe/Prince it was no money. Fair enough acceptable. Live with it. With these muppets, it’s simply they haven’t got a fucking clue and are unlikely to appreciate and understand what they got wrong and why. Never mind put it right. Object lesson in how to fuck up a successful business within 12 months.
 
Shawy24 said:
Yes. Americans have fucked us. With McCabe/Prince it was no money. Fair enough acceptable. Live with it. With these muppets, it’s simply they haven’t got a fucking clue and are unlikely to appreciate and understand what they got wrong and why. Never mind put it right. Object lesson in how to fuck up a successful business within 12 months.
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Especially considering the context that we were clearly knocking on the Premier League's door and already had one skinto owner hence the failure to establish ourselves in the Prem. I couldn't can't conceive people so clueless would come in at this point in time given our fairly attractive situation. I honestly thought after a few recent spells in the prem and looking so strong in the Championship that we'd attract buyers with a bit more about them.
 
Fjortoft's Aeroplane said:
Especially considering the context that we were clearly knocking on the Premier League's door and already had one skinto owner hence the failure to establish ourselves in the Prem. I couldn't can't conceive people so clueless would come in at this point in time given our fairly attractive situation. I honestly thought after a few recent spells in the prem and looking so strong in the Championship that we'd attract buyers with a bit more about them.
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Think most of us got sucked in with them mate, and why a lot of us has had the stuffing knocked out of us! It's the Sheffield United way! Build you up & then get your legs kicked from under you😊
 
Said on another thread that I think we've been on a slow comedown since Covid. We hit such heights in such an incredible way. A bunch of lower league players went into the top flight and were in genuine contention for The Champions League before the league shut down. It was an absolutely crazy ride and even if we have a team that good again, it's unlikely to feel the same. That we had a blade manager and blade captain was huge and the fact it was the bulk of the L1 team that were sitting 5th in The Premier League was true fairytale stuff.

Reality has called now though and that's where the apathy comes in. The club feels as though it's peaked. "Win, lose or draw" and all that but fans aren't robots and you can't fake enthusiasm. We've been as high as we could feasibly go and since then it's all just felt really mundane. Miracles do happen in football, just not often. I think some people are so attached to Wilder because they're still chasing the dream that he gave us. I think other dislike him because he made them dare to dream at all. If United are to be successful again, it will have to be built on something more than a having a manager who has a few years of turning everything he touches into gold and right now the club doesn't seem to have any direction at all .


We're a club who have had a really good holiday but the hangover has well and truly kicked in. The passion and excitement will come back. It might even have to get worse before we are able to dream again but we will move on from that amazing period. It's just going to take time.
 
Roygbiv said:
Said on another thread that I think we've been on a slow comedown since Covid.
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We have, but it's frustrating that we were a gnat's cock away from potentially becoming a proper yoyo club in May. That would have been 3 promotions to the top flight in 6 years instead of the 12 year gaps we we've been used to. Might have kicked on a bit under these new owners with the PL money and with Wilder had we gone up, or at least postponed the hangover a bit longer.

Just looks all downhill now.
 
We are playing crap, let's be honest, add to the crap refereeing, too much time-wasting player going down when no one's touched him. Someone said to me, The game has changed. I agreed for the worst, I am getting fed up with the game. I have been to every home game for the last four seasons. No longer a season ticket holder, I can't afford the £400 plus in one go. These categories A and B don't help either. Going to the next home game against Portsmouth. With a few home games coming up close together, I can't afford to go to all of them, so I will just go to Saturday's 3 pm kick-offs, and watch on Sky Sports the rest. The game against wendy i will take a 0-0 now. Not looking forward to that. I am sorry to be so negative, but it's the way I feel.
 
Roygbiv said:
Said on another thread that I think we've been on a slow comedown since Covid. We hit such heights in such an incredible way. A bunch of lower league players went into the top flight and were in genuine contention for The Champions League before the league shut down. It was an absolutely crazy ride and even if we have a team that good again, it's unlikely to feel the same. That we had a blade manager and blade captain was huge and the fact it was the bulk of the L1 team that were sitting 5th in The Premier League was true fairytale stuff.

Reality has called now though and that's where the apathy comes in. The club feels as though it's peaked. "Win, lose or draw" and all that but fans aren't robots and you can't fake enthusiasm. We've been as high as we could feasibly go and since then it's all just felt really mundane. Miracles do happen in football, just not often. I think some people are so attached to Wilder because they're still chasing the dream that he gave us. I think other dislike him because he made them dare to dream at all. If United are to be successful again, it will have to be built on something more than a having a manager who has a few years of turning everything he touches into gold and right now the club doesn't seem to have any direction at all .


We're a club who have had a really good holiday but the hangover has well and truly kicked in. The passion and excitement will come back. It might even have to get worse before we are able to dream again but we will move on from that amazing period. It's just going to take time.
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This is something I've repeatedly said to my Dad about people whose hatred for Wilder borders on the unhinged - Wilder's crime wasn't in failing to get us back up to the PL again, it was in succeeding in taking us from League One to so high up in the PL in the first place.

"Dare to dream" is exactly the right phrase for it - you need courage to believe, if your hitherto wildly unrealistic fantasies look like they might come true, because what if you start to believe, and then it's snatched away from you?

That's exactly what happened to us - it looked like our wildly unrealistic fantasies were coming true, so we got drawn in, and started to believe, which of course made the eventual kicking in the guts that much worse.

And some people just can't forgive Wilder for that - he gave them hope, he gave them a glimpse of what could be, and they can't forgive him for the pain that was caused when it was snatched away from us, even though it wasn't his fault - I'm sure it caused him every bit as much pain as it caused us.

But they can't forgive him for something that he should be praised for - giving us hope, and enabling us to dream.

They see life like this ...

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Instead of like this ...


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I hear you Jono. Been a bit meh since losing play-off final. It's that time of the year/season for me when 3pm kick offs are too tiring to watch at 2am thankfully so I can gracefully bow out for a while. Evening or lunchtime kick offs will still be watched unfortunately! 😂
 
jono_t2000 said:
Really struggling to get enthused right now.

And it's not the results, it's the style, the model, the vision, the direction, the future plans etc.

I'm just not sure what as a club we're trying to be or what our identity is, both off and on the field.

Not sure if it's just me, my mental mind set or just the lack of communication, but I'm even noticing I'm even posting less frequently on here.

Anyone else feeling like this? 🤷‍♂️
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We are a club going through an identity crisis.

Sadly, the crisis won’t end whilst Wilder is there. I was for Wilder leaving and I was for Selles leaving and anti-Wilder returning.

The recruitment of Selles was one of the biggest mistakes in living memory. It set us back so far. We had such a good chance of recruiting someone with an identity and style of play yet we panicked.

This and the start to the season has contributed to the enthusiasm lacking. We’re in a trough.
 
Tbh I think the issue stems from the shortness of the season so far. Selles was the wrong appointment and CW coming back was the wrong decision, so we’ve been hit twice within however many games with poor decision making.

Now he’s back I’d argue that we remain divided as a fan base, AND on pitch performances have slightly improved but only slightly.

He’s the Rohl to Selles Munez, except our expectations were higher therefore the “improvement” is barely noticeable.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but in reality we gave Selles one game with his signings (Ipswich) to prove his worth, which before a ball is kicked is one of the toughest fixtures of the season. We should’ve been lining up a replacement in his mould with more experience, to take his ideas with a more experienced manager. Take our time a bit and make a better decision.

Instead we’ve got the worst of both worlds, a manager running low on ideas and enthusiasm even last season now trying to get a tune out of players he probably wouldn’t have signed and playing a different system.

We need to stick now to avoid further disruption, and be aware as fans that we will come good. However “coming good” will be avoiding relegation.
 

jono_t2000 said:
Really struggling to get enthused right now.

And it's not the results, it's the style, the model, the vision, the direction, the future plans etc.

I'm just not sure what as a club we're trying to be or what our identity is, both off and on the field.

Not sure if it's just me, my mental mind set or just the lack of communication, but I'm even noticing I'm even posting less frequently on here.

Anyone else feeling like this? 🤷‍♂️
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Could have this myself word for word . You’re not on your own thinking it .
 
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