Do you want Wednesday to go into liquidation and (presumably) start again as a Phoenix club?

[mattbianco1]

i love beating more than anything & if they go we can't beat them

They also can't beat us.

Losing to those smug twats is the worst feeling in football as a Sheffield United fan.

 

[Stanthemanfan]

I will get pelters for this, and it probably stems from the fact that I moved away from Sheffield when I was a small boy, but I'd love to see us, Wednesday, and Leeds (yes I know) back in the Premier League.

What makes football exciting for me is competition, and competition always feels more exciting and sweeter when it's against your bitter rivals.

It's not about wanting them to do well, but imagine an opening Premier League game at BDTBL against Wednesday or Leeds, just adds spice and intrigue for me.

Fair do, s on your opinion mate but I don't get this rivals, neighbours thing in the slightest
To say I hate them is being nice!

 

[mattbianco1]

OK then, if they can't go pop, can they at least do a Chesterfield, Doncaster, Luton, or even better a Wrexham (without the takeover).

I'd love them to drop like a stone into non-league. I think that would be more satisfying than a Phoenix Club.

 

[mattbianco1]

I wrote this back in August and put it in the pig thread. I think it's worth revisiting it...


Dear Sheffield Wednesday Supporters,

We’ve been watching. Quietly, from the shadows.

Not with mockery. Not with glee. But with something closer to recognition.

Because what you’re going through… we know it. The creeping dread. The unpaid wages. The points deductions. The statements that say everything and nothing. The owners who speak in riddles and act in ruin. The feeling that your club — your Saturdays, your stories, your soul — is being dismantled by people who don’t understand what it means.

We’ve seen your protests. Your petitions. Your desperate hope that someone, anyone, will step in and save what’s left. We’ve heard the chants grow quieter. We’ve felt the fear in your forums. And we get it. We truly do.

We’ve stood outside locked gates. We’ve watched clubs slip off fixture lists like they never mattered. We’ve clung to scarves through seasons that felt like funerals. We’ve felt heartbreak deeper than relegation — the kind that leaves nothing to come back to.

You’re not alone.

We do however remember how you acted when things were good. When the money flowed. When £10 million went on Jordan Rhodes. When you sold your own stadium to yourself and called it genius. When you mocked the rules, bent the system, and called it ambition.

You strutted. You boasted. You told the world you were “massive.”

And when smaller clubs collapsed, you laughed. You called us irrelevant. You said it would never happen to you.

Well now look.

You reap what you sow.

So now, as Hillsborough trembles, as your club stares into the abyss, as you cry out for help and solidarity…

FUCK YOU!

We’ll light a candle for you — even though you didn’t for us.

Sincerely,
Aldershot, Bury, Chester City, Darlington, Halifax Town, Hereford United, Rushden & Diamonds, Scarborough… and the rest of the forgotten faithful.

 

[Dkc]

Ooo, this will be fun - other examples of "rival hunters"

or to put it another way - are you one of those teams whose number 1 rival (from your perspective) isn`t reciprocated - or you simply have no direct rival

• Coventry
• Leeds
• Middlesboro
• Brighton
• Leicester
• Hull
• Reading/Oxford/Swindon
• Barnsley
• Tranmere
• Wrexham
• Notts County (unless Forest do reciprocate, in which case Derby)
• Bury (Oldham?)
• Carlisle
• Preston??
• Wigan?
• Plymouth

Preston are big rivals with Blackpool

 

[S64 Blade]

I won’t be satisfied until I see footage of their fans crying, because they’ve gone under, on national tv.

 

[utd4ever]

Blimey, wouldn’t it be strange just having one club in Sheffield. It wouldn’t be a one club following either so we’d still be shit.

Merger or hopefully Wendy’s get a backer but only enough to still be shitter than us.

 

[Selly]

can they at least do a Chesterfield, Doncaster, Luton

Luton who have recently been in the PL Luton?

No thanks...

 

[mattbianco1]

Luton who have recently been in the PL Luton?

No thanks...

Yeah but they spent 2007 to 2019 Outside of the 2nd tier - 5 years in League 2 and 5 years in Non-League.

I'd accept them in the PL for 1 season in 12 years time if it meant they'd spend 10 consecutive years floating in the 4th and 5th tier.

If they made it there in 12 years it would be 40 years since their last top flight appearance

 

[Houston_Blade]

The ones voting ‘no’ will be the ones who are on shoutbox every time they play commentating on their games and then telling everyone they only watch because they’ll see them lose. Having to watch them play twice a year when we’re in the same league is bad enough, watching them more than that is pure masochism.

 

[FredZeppelin]

If this were to happen, what are the chances of getting the remnants of the sty recycled into those little blue toilet cubes and put in our urinals so we can finish the job totally?

THEN.....I might be happy!

Although, maybe the cubes would put up more resistance than their team did the other week?

utb

 

[Updemblades]

It's a toughy but overall I prefer them to be the absolute whipping boys of whatever league we're in, giving us 6 points time after time. Sure occasionally let them go down to League One or even League Two briefly as it'd be piss funny, but more than anything I want to see around 10 "massacres" over them in the future, which can't happen if they go to total ruin. There's no finer feeling than lording it over them in their own backyard and Id hate to lose that.

That would be my alternative option

 

[Updemblades]

i love beating more than anything & if they go we can't beat them

Oh well

 

[Bladepicker]

Closet pig?…..Moi?

I bet you have blue and white waders

 

[JustLookin]

I'm kind of 50/50 on it myself. Like... I want the first 50% of it....

 

[georgebernardshaw]

I bet you have blue and white waders

….aaaaaaaaannnnnnndddddd you’re wrong

 

[Snowflake]

"No pig fans in town, no Hillsborough to sadden my eyes". This has been my hope for a long time.

No jobs for many ordinary folk. Not a good situation.

 

[North Riding Blade]

No jobs for many ordinary folk. Not a good situation.

I understand they will employ some local folk. But 'many'? I wouldn't put them in the 'major employer' category.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

 

[Rodley]

Thought you were generous with the Phoenix club. Want them gone.

 

[tyneblade]

Thought you were generous with the Phoenix club. Want them gone.

You are forgetting that the tragedy of the Phoenix is that although it is immortal, it cannot avoid the inevitable process of immolation and rebirth. The cycle never ends and, given the level of delusional risk appetite in S6, we'll soon be back here again..

 

[Aganarama]

Carthago delenda est

 

[Farnboroughblade]

In all seriousness I reckon the way many United fans relate to this question is based around age. Some older forum members maybe used to watch both teams on alternate weeks and feel slightly ambivalent about their total demise. For many younger United fans we've been top dogs during their lifetime and although they may hate Wednesday they may not want them to go bust because it's been a piss take and an easy 6 points during their lifetime. However I also believe there's a large group of Blades (of which i fall into) that despise the cunts and all that comes with them. Anyone whose formative years took in Boxing day onwards and through the early nineties when (91 double apart) they were better than us and their fanbase was unbearable will absolutely relish their fall from grace and eventual demise. That's a lot of people. Maybe anyone in the 50 - 65 age bracket. These are the people that will have had to put up with all their shit for years without for many years a chance to put it right. Drink it in while you can and if you know a pig rub it in while you can, hopefully they'll not be around much longer.

Tend to slightly disagree there Cheeseboard with your opening couple of sentences. My grandad who passed away in the 1970s aged 90 hated them lot with a passion. My dad passed away in 2009 aged 89 and he used to have sleepless nights if Wendy were doing better in the league than us. I’m now getting on in age myself and would never attend that sh@those of a ground unless it was the derby. Boxing Day was one of ‘em. All three of us, had they been alive today, would think Christmas has come early if they went out of business, never to be seen again.

 

[KMC-1889]

I’m desperate for them to be liquidated. I’m ambivalent about a phoenix club.

We’re all having a party the day that Wednesday die is a mission statement, not a chant.

 

[Superblades]

Get them gone and my opening bid to be the one who hits the button to flatten the sty is £100.

 

[247Blade]

Why should anything to do with that pile of shite interest us?!

 

[Zero dark thirty]

Losing to those smug twats is the worst feeling in football as a Sheffield United fan.

Seriously..

 

[JayGreen17]

I mean Sheffield has been red for the best part of a quarter of a century, BUT, I’d love nothing more for them smug cunts to go out of business, the faux ‘the massive” is only an in joke when in actual fact they all GENUINELY believe they’re massive. I can’t stand any of them.

 

[mattbianco1]

Seriously..

Please, do go on?