Unpopular opinion: the celebrations were a bit OTT


Roy Keane is qualified to talk about many things football related, but his opinion on specifically the Steel City derby is no more valid than anybody else’s, in fact I’d argue it’s less valid than those who have played for, do play for, or indeed support one of the two clubs. Because the Man U/Man City rivalry is not the same as the United/Wednesday one.

We’re having a crap season, we’ve put in our best performance so far and we need something to build on. Of course it’s right for the players to celebrate it and wilder knows that this is a great time to build some morale off this win.

Regardless of the situation Wednesday find themselves in, our players should and hopefully will always celebrate beating them on their own patch.
 
Gimli said:
Roy Keane is qualified to talk about many things football related, but his opinion on specifically the Steel City derby is no more valid than anybody else’s, in fact I’d argue it’s less valid than those who have played for, do play for, or indeed support one of the two clubs. Because the Man U/Man City rivalry is not the same as the United/Wednesday one.
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Has Roy Keane ever offered his opinion on the Steel City derby?

I like Keane and I'd love to hear it if he has.
 
FMBlade1 said:
Yes its not quite the same, but we are, or should be lightyears ahead of SWFC.

We were on the verge of making the PL in May, they are in administration and about to go down to league one.

We have been dreadful and shameful this season and should be a bit more humble in accepting that throughout the majority of the season they have shown more fight than we have in relation to ability and resources.

The fact so many of us did not expect to win yesterday is a reflection of how embarrassing we have been. I hope we have turned a corner but there is a heck of a long way to go.

To be clear- celebrating is fine but it was a bit OTT yesterday posing for photos staying on for so long at the end etc.
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I couldn't care less how much we want to celebrate, but I wonder if it was also because the fans get kept held back for a while and it is a good opportunity to say thank you and share the celebrations together. We did the same last year too I seem to remember as CW had the George Baldock shirt with him.
 
We've had bugger all to cheer about since the Bristol game, we've beaten our biggest rivals by a record margin in decades of course we are going to celebrate and dish out a bit of banter on the socials, they would have. As my old Nan would say "if you can't take it, don't dish it out".

I had a wonderful afternoon in the falling down shit hole and after in the pub

Fu*k 'em
 
GrunkyPeep said:
On a serious note there was an interesting thought in the rugby yesterday that actually makes sense in this context.

Over the last 5 or so years, some England players have become famous for celebrating minor things like knock-ons and scrum penalties etc. This has irked a lot of other fans in other countries.

Recently, it has been noticed that whilst we have been winning more games those players have celebrated far less and been very much "next job".

That was until late yesterday when the game was getting tough, it was as though they needed to celebrate get the energy levels back up.

Had we been at the top of the league I'd imagine it would be far more "next job", but right now we need that spark of energy.
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The rugby players have obviously been watching American Football. I’ve never seen such overreaction to someone just doing their job as in that sport.

Someone tackles someone and they give it the flex, a receiver runs and catches a ball and starts doing a dance. Pathetic.
 
FMBlade1 said:
(Putting this on a separate post so not to clog the main one up)

Yesterday sort of reminded me of this:



Yes we have had a miserable season, and if its good for morale then I'm all for it, but if we put in a dire performance against Portsmouth we will all feel a bit silly.

Delighted with the win, but with how weak they were, we should expect to win 'as standard'. They are a league one club, we are not (yet). Waddle, as much as we don't like him, was right- they had a threadbare squad. We should aspire to be more than simply being better than them.

Appreciate this will probably be very unpopular and I'm in a minority I know but it did seem a bit tinpot taking team photos (even if we did it last year) and took a tiny bit of the shine away.

We (players and management) should have just walked around applauding the fans as usual and make then head down the tunnel and focus on preparing for Portsmouth.
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Someone posting an 'unpopular' opinion on the internet that is actually unpopular! Fair play.

But fuck them, I am not buying their 'boo-hoo poor Wenzdiz' campaign and how some of the football world has swallowed their tears.

I'll never forget what their fanbase is like and will celebrate every single thing we do against them. I want to grind them into the dirt, only disappointed we're not 'overly' celebrating a 5 or 6 niller

Even amidst their current media sob story, their true colours leak out, chanting about Wilder, chanting about Wilder's daughter, chucking stuff at our players, can't sell out despite discounted prices, their massiveness, and all their "We've got our wednesday back" bluster.

We should be light years ahead of them no doubt, and it's testament to the poor management of SUFC and inability to take a leap forward as a club that we haven't put much more of a gap between us and them.

But for the first time in 6 months yesterday I felt some joy in following United. Players, staff and fans should celebrate it fully, we don't know when we might do next, they might get lucky and turn things round and one day we'll be on the receiving end, you can absolutely guarantee they will do the same, and quite rightly so.

We beat the pigs 3-0 at their own sty, shout it long and loud!
 
Too much buying into the pig’s narrative sadly.

We’ve been the dominant force in Sheffield for 19/20 of the last 25 years.

Despite that wins in the derby haven’t been a sure thing. It’s often a low scoring affair and there have been plenty of occasions where they’ve nicked an undeserved result.

We may have been light years ahead of them for a long time but we currently sit just 2 places above them in what looks like a relegation fight. (Which is what matters, not how many bobble hats the club shop have sold in the past week) The players and management have spent a couple of weeks preparing for this and would have been aware of the backlash had they got beat. Let them enjoy it.

Sheffield isn’t Bristol or Nottingham so no point comparing apples and oranges.

In any case I don’t think there are many Derbies where the clearly inferior party is so deluded as to their status within their own local area, and football in general.
 
FMBlade1 said:
You clearly didn't read what I said.

I said that the fans can celebrate as much as they want obviously, but the players and management's celebrations were a bit OTT on the day taking team photos as if we'd won a trophy.

Roy Keane would agree with me.
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It's just like a band taking a picture with the fans in the background after a gig. Let's make it a thing and do it every time we win (a corner).
 
FMBlade1 said:
You clearly didn't read what I said.

I said that the fans can celebrate as much as they want obviously, but the players and management's celebrations were a bit OTT on the day taking team photos as if we'd won a trophy.

Roy Keane would agree with me.
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I did read your original post. And i consider it to be a pile of steaming horse shit.

I couldnt give a flying whether Roy Keane would agree with you or not. Both him and yourself mean diddly squat to me and seemingly both have form for talking SHS. Seems you might be in the monority with you and break a leg Roy.

ANYWAY...cant stop, must be off to continue with my celebrations. Toodle pip. 😀
 
Anything that annoys the great unwashed at S6, and gets them to take to their keyboards en masse in righteous indignation is fine by me.

It’s also a reaction to the level of abuse they got from the stands throughout the game, I should imagine. Maybe I am biased but I think they are proving themselves to be a vile fan base recently, both at the games and on social media. If I was Wilder and the players I would take every opportunity to ram these moment down their horrible throats.

And when they eventually actually beat us (rather than one of their “when you think about it, it’s actually a win” victories), then am certain they will get their own back, and we will just have to take it and move on.
 
we've just won the unofficial sheffield cup final. in our biggest rivals back yard & retained our crown as the best team in sheffield for 8th year in a row. & stopped decades of "losing to worst Wednesday team.in their history"

so theyve every right to celebrate like we won a cup final. because all but did & we snuffed out the only bright spot of their entire season
 

I was very upset and underwhelmed by the celebrations. Growing up at that end of town, 15 year old in a school there on Boxing Day.

I wanted a plane with banner overhead, firework display in Hillsborough Park, Herries Road renamed Tyrese Way and a permanent fixture on the top of Leppings Lane Stand no longer saying Presto Tools but the biggest away win the derby history - Pigs 0 Blades 3.
 
FMBlade1 said:
(Putting this on a separate post so not to clog the main one up)

Yesterday sort of reminded me of this:



Yes we have had a miserable season, and if its good for morale then I'm all for it, but if we put in a dire performance against Portsmouth we will all feel a bit silly.

Delighted with the win, but with how weak they were, we should expect to win 'as standard'. They are a league one club, we are not (yet). Waddle, as much as we don't like him, was right- they had a threadbare squad. We should aspire to be more than simply being better than them.

Appreciate this will probably be very unpopular and I'm in a minority I know but it did seem a bit tinpot taking team photos (even if we did it last year) and took a tiny bit of the shine away.

We (players and management) should have just walked around applauding the fans as usual and make then head down the tunnel and focus on preparing for Portsmouth.
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Let's take all the passion out of the game and be like plastic armchair top 6 fans watching the game through. Our camera phones and wearing half. And half scarves
 
FMBlade1 said:
(Putting this on a separate post so not to clog the main one up)

Yesterday sort of reminded me of this:



Yes we have had a miserable season, and if its good for morale then I'm all for it, but if we put in a dire performance against Portsmouth we will all feel a bit silly.

Delighted with the win, but with how weak they were, we should expect to win 'as standard'. They are a league one club, we are not (yet). Waddle, as much as we don't like him, was right- they had a threadbare squad. We should aspire to be more than simply being better than them.

Appreciate this will probably be very unpopular and I'm in a minority I know but it did seem a bit tinpot taking team photos (even if we did it last year) and took a tiny bit of the shine away.

We (players and management) should have just walked around applauding the fans as usual and make then head down the tunnel and focus on preparing for Portsmouth.
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Fair play for making a counter point but I couldn't disagree more. What's football about (to most clubs) if doing your fiercest rivals over isn't a big thing?
 
I guess the pigs should take it as a bit of a compliment really. But those celebrations will look a bit silly if the same players don’t turn up against Pompey.
 
FMBlade1 said:
(Putting this on a separate post so not to clog the main one up)

Yesterday sort of reminded me of this:



Yes we have had a miserable season, and if its good for morale then I'm all for it, but if we put in a dire performance against Portsmouth we will all feel a bit silly.

Delighted with the win, but with how weak they were, we should expect to win 'as standard'. They are a league one club, we are not (yet). Waddle, as much as we don't like him, was right- they had a threadbare squad. We should aspire to be more than simply being better than them.

Appreciate this will probably be very unpopular and I'm in a minority I know but it did seem a bit tinpot taking team photos (even if we did it last year) and took a tiny bit of the shine away.

We (players and management) should have just walked around applauding the fans as usual and make then head down the tunnel and focus on preparing for Portsmouth.
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Just hope we don’t turn out to be flat-track bullies.
 
FMBlade1 said:
(Putting this on a separate post so not to clog the main one up)

Yesterday sort of reminded me of this:



Yes we have had a miserable season, and if its good for morale then I'm all for it, but if we put in a dire performance against Portsmouth we will all feel a bit silly.

Delighted with the win, but with how weak they were, we should expect to win 'as standard'. They are a league one club, we are not (yet). Waddle, as much as we don't like him, was right- they had a threadbare squad. We should aspire to be more than simply being better than them.

Appreciate this will probably be very unpopular and I'm in a minority I know but it did seem a bit tinpot taking team photos (even if we did it last year) and took a tiny bit of the shine away.

We (players and management) should have just walked around applauding the fans as usual and make then head down the tunnel and focus on preparing for Portsmouth.
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Yeah.

No.
 
Oh have a day off.

If that deluded cult of nutcases showed even an ounce of humility over the past 30 years I might be tempted to afford them a bit of the same but considering their actions... fuck them.

Can you imagine the reaction we'd have seen if they had won by 1 goal even if they had drew. I don't have children yet but I can guarantee when I do and they grow up and have kids even those poor bastards would still be hearing about the day Wednesday were in Admin, shit squad and already relegated pretty much but they still beat us.

We also have a manager at the helm who understands the significance of this match and let's not forget they've spent considerable time and effort personally attacking him rather than him as our manager and his leanings to us

THEN factor in that side of the city would wank themselves dry if they had a manager who was a boyhood fan and understood what that match means and the result considering the wank season they're having.

Couldn't give a fuck how it looks, what people's opinions outside of the two clubs are or if the fans (who were throwing stuff at our player, have been known for racist chanting, made fun of Baldocks death, yknow. Those guys) got their little feelies hurt.

Enjoy the derby win, they deserved it.
 
FMBlade1 said:
Yes its not quite the same, but we are, or should be lightyears ahead of SWFC.

We were on the verge of making the PL in May, they are in administration and about to go down to league one.

We have been dreadful and shameful this season and should be a bit more humble in accepting that throughout the majority of the season they have shown more fight than we have in relation to ability and resources.

The fact so many of us did not expect to win yesterday is a reflection of how embarrassing we have been. I hope we have turned a corner but there is a heck of a long way to go.

To be clear- celebrating is fine but it was a bit OTT yesterday posing for photos staying on for so long at the end etc.
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Did city fans constantly tell utd that they were bigger , better , classier , better supported , on their way back etc etc...
You have to do it , it's all they understand - having their noses rubbed in it ! Subtle, classy gestures wouldn't even register in their tiny minds , they'd take it as some kind of recognition of their greatness!
This is the club that has a celebration dinner for a third division game 46 years ago . One day , they'll win one of these matches again and then you'll truly see ott celebration
Never ever go easy on them , they would be pitiless to us !
 
FMBlade1 said:
(Putting this on a separate post so not to clog the main one up)

Yesterday sort of reminded me of this:



Yes we have had a miserable season, and if its good for morale then I'm all for it, but if we put in a dire performance against Portsmouth we will all feel a bit silly.

Delighted with the win, but with how weak they were, we should expect to win 'as standard'. They are a league one club, we are not (yet). Waddle, as much as we don't like him, was right- they had a threadbare squad. We should aspire to be more than simply being better than them.

Appreciate this will probably be very unpopular and I'm in a minority I know but it did seem a bit tinpot taking team photos (even if we did it last year) and took a tiny bit of the shine away.

We (players and management) should have just walked around applauding the fans as usual and make then head down the tunnel and focus on preparing for Portsmouth.
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Total click bait shite
They deserve EVERYTHING that’s thrown at them from TRUE blades
 
FMBlade1 said:
Each to their own and not seeking to take any joy away.

With that said would:

Bristol City do the same after beating Bristol Rovers 3-0 at their ground?
Nottingham Forest do the same after beating Notts County or Derby County 3-0 at their ground?
Newcastle do the same after beating Sunderland 3-0 at their ground? (maybe this season, but not last season for example)
etc. etc.

When Manchester United used to regularly beat Manchester City before 2008 they would just shrug and make their way down the tunnel afterwards. That's what I would like us to aspire to be.
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The City/Rovers and Forest/County examples aren't really a proportional comparison. Notts county are in the fourth tier and at a guess average under 10k, while Forest are in Europe. Obviously the disparity isn't quite as vast between the Bristol clubs, but one is still undeniably more dominant and the bigger club.

Us and the pigs are/were on a level footing, and prior to that we were regarded as the underdogs. It's only the Millennials and above that regard us as the better and more successful side.

With that said, a small part of me was cringing towards the end. By all means celebrate but given our general level of performance and results this season I am inclined to agree it was a bit OTT.

Still loved it!
 

Imagine not taking a photo of the team that just achieved the greatest away win, in a derby rivalry of at least a 130 years.

I'd add that Roy Keane is a cunt who deliberately tries to end careers over petty rivalries, and leaves his national team in the world cup shit because mick Mccarthy can't arrange the team camp to his expected standards. Twat.
 
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