Confess your unpopular opinions regarding SUFC

[100% part time blade]

If Adam Davies had been in net for the entirety of this season instead of Cooper, our results would have been exactly the same, as would our league position.

 

[Dellas Cowboys]

Lundstram isn't the antichrist

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Am not keen on McBurnie. Some cheered his goal on Saturday. To do so , no matter the opponent, is just ridiculous. This is a player booed off more than once while playing for United, so poor were his performances.

 

[de g.]

Championship referees really aren't that bad. There are a couple of dodgy ones (Adam Herczeg, Matthew Donohue, looking at you!) but like most of us at work they have good and bad days and they should be given a bit of leeway accordingly.

By extension, we're not net losers when it comes to bad refereeing performances. It all evens out over time and we'd be better focusing on our own deficiencies than blaming the refereeing team.

 

[KMC-1889]

Championship referees really aren't that bad. There are a couple of dodgy ones (Adam Herczeg, Matthew Donohue, looking at you!) but like most of us at work they have good and bad days and they should be given a bit of leeway accordingly.

By extension, we're not net losers when it comes to bad refereeing performances. It all evens out over time and we'd be better focusing on our own deficiencies than blaming the refereeing team.

I'd go a step further and say bad/inconsistent referees are part of the soap opera we all love. every pantomime needs its villian.

My current controversial opinion is that our current squad isn't that bad and that the summer's focus should be moving out high earners, raising £20m-ish in sales but importantly only adding a few players that can strengthen the starting 16. I don't want another massively chaotic summer.

 

[More Bladier than thou]

I don’t actually hate Wednesday. We are years ahead of them on and off the
Pitch. I just find them irrelevant

 

[de g.]

My current controversial opinion is that our current squad isn't that bad and that the summer's focus should be moving out high earners, raising £20m-ish in sales but importantly only adding a few players that can strengthen the starting 16. I don't want another massively chaotic summer.

That's surely beyond the pale!

I've said elsewhere, we're now entering a three-year project phase and the priority needs to be developing a team for a proper challenge in 27/28 or 28/29. The board needs to make this a priority - I can see pros and cons to keeping Wilder Vs getting someone else in, but whatever they do about the management there needs to be a focus on developing what we've already got, transitioning the likes of Baptiste, Oné, Blacker and Marsh into the first team squad.

 

[Harry's Game]

I think the South Stand exterior looked better like this…

 

[KMC-1889]

I think the South Stand exterior looked better like this…

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Certainly suits Sheffield's brutalist architectural history. Looks a lot more intimidating.

Don't know if the cameraman had one leg longer than the other but why does the car park look flatter?

 

[Revolution]

I think the South Stand exterior looked better like this…

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I agree 100 per cent with this.

Simon Inglis' football grounds books called it the finest frontage of any post-war stand at an English ground, helped by the car park allowing you to stand back from it. He was very critical when they started to jazz it up.

 

[luffenhamblade]

I was positive about the appointment of Danny Wilson.

 

[calcalcal]

Unpopular opinion of the day: im quite happy in the championship. Much better for match going supporters
Its not a lAcK oF aMbIsHuN we just dont have the clout to compete. With rich owners id probably think differently

 

[Dkc]

Lundstram isn't the antichrist

He was a decent player for us. If he "stopped trying" I didn't notice, but that has become the accepted narrative.

 

[Guesty]

He was a decent player for us. If he "stopped trying" I didn't notice, but that has become the accepted narrative.

If was also the thoughts of many at the time and not some revisionist thing as many are now trying to claim.

 

[Gin&Juice]

He was a decent player for us. If he "stopped trying" I didn't notice, but that has become the accepted narrative.

Everyone remembers that Palace game where Eze strolled through us and scored a “worldie”. He did seem to give up any attempt to stop him.

 

[Dkc]

Also 'Davies is a terrible keeper and costs us 1-2 goals every game'. I definitely bought into that one, but he's proven us wrong.

In reality he's a decent keeper who does the basics right. Not good enough to be first choice for us, but competent enough to sit on the bench. I'd still be looking to bring someone else in this summer but he's done well after Cooper was ruled out for the season.

 

[Selly]

We haven`t won a single "big one off game" for the size of club we are since 1936. Given where we are we should have won at least 1 cup semi or 2nd Tier playoff final and have failed every single time.

QF, Play off Semis, Derbies are not "Big one off Games"

 

[Selly]

As much as I hate WHU and the PL for 2007 - it was our own fault that it was us that got hit with the shitty end of that particular stick - we should have been standing in solidarity with Wigan, rather than the other way round.

Last seasons "92 point" season was extremely efficient - some would say "lucky" - we were exceptionally good at grinding out results, but on the balance of play across the season rather than results we were far far closer to the likes of Coventry and Sunderland in terms of quality than Leeds and Burnley.

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

If was also the thoughts of many at the time and not some revisionist thing as many are now trying to claim.

Such a weird player, Lundstram. World class for half a season, never looked like a player before or since.

I remember being completely baffled when he started our first game back in the Prem as he'd barely been on the pitch in the promotion season and had up to that point looked like one of Wilder's failed punts from an old club, on a par with Ricky Holmes.

He'd played so little football the previous season that FPL had him down as a defender based purely on guesswork.

 

[Silent Blade]

We haven`t won a single "big one off game" for the size of club we are since 1936. Given where we are we should have won at least 1 cup semi or 2nd Tier playoff final and have failed every single time.

QF, Play off Semis, Derbies are not "Big one off Games"

You mean since 1925!

 

[Revolution]

You mean since 1925!

No, we won a cup semi in 1936. Lost every one since.

 

[Silent Blade]

No, we won a cup semi in 1936. Lost every one since.

Just re-read his post, I realise he meant play off semis that are not big "one off games"

 

[Revolution]

We haven`t won a single "big one off game" for the size of club we are since 1936. Given where we are we should have won at least 1 cup semi or 2nd Tier playoff final and have failed every single time.

QF, Play off Semis, Derbies are not "Big one off Games"

Every season my ambition for us is to do better than I have seen us do before. So I want:

League: promotion, or higher than 9th in the top tier.
Playoffs: win them if we qualify
FA Cup: reach a final
League Cup: reach a final

We have had 17 chances to go one better and reach a Cup final or win the playoffs, and have failed every time. That's pathetic.

 

[Revolution]

As much as I hate WHU and the PL for 2007 - it was our own fault that it was us that got hit with the shitty end of that particular stick - we should have been standing in solidarity with Wigan, rather than the other way round.

Last seasons "92 point" season was extremely efficient - some would say "lucky" - we were exceptionally good at grinding out results, but on the balance of play across the season rather than results we were far far closer to the likes of Coventry and Sunderland in terms of quality than Leeds and Burnley.

Another stunningly efficient season was 2019-20. To do that well scoring only a goal a game was remarkable.

 

[Silent Blade]

Every season my ambition for us is to do better than I have seen us do before. So I want:

League: promotion, or higher than 9th in the top tier.
Playoffs: win them if we qualify
FA Cup: reach a final
League Cup: reach a final

We have had 17 chances to go one better and reach a Cup final or win the playoffs, and have failed every time. That's pathetic.

Portsmouth spent a lot under Harry Redknapp, won the FA Cup in 2008 and this had caused them to go into financial freefall.

 

[Revolution]

Portsmouth spent a lot under Harry Redknapp, won the FA Cup in 2008 and this had caused them to go into financial freefall.

So?

 

[Bladesman]

He was a decent player for us. If he "stopped trying" I didn't notice, but that has become the accepted narrative.

He gave up and it was obvious to anyone other than Wilder who kept picking him when he and his agent clearly had their sights set elsewhere.

I remember shouting at my TV watching that tosser stroll about letting players walk past him. Saying it was just the Palace match is revisionist thinking.

 

[Revolution]

He gave up and it was obvious to anyone other than Wilder who kept picking him when he and his agent clearly had their sights set elsewhere.

I remember shouting at my TV watching that tosser stroll about letting players walk past him. Saying it was just the Palace match is revisionist thinking.

It was well documented at the time on Deadbat's reports and people's comments on the reports.

 

[Silent Blade]

So?

I am stating that it might be lovely for us to win a trophy after spending a lot like Portsmouth did but there probably would be a downside afterwards and then we quickly find ourselves in the 4th level. English football is not like it was in the 1970s and 1980s when we had glamourless clubs winning trophies.

 

[Revolution]

I am stating that it might be lovely for us to win a trophy after spending a lot like Portsmouth did but there probably would be a downside afterwards and then we quickly find ourselves in the 4th level. English football is not like it was in the 1970s and 1980s when we had glamourless clubs winning trophies.

Oh, let's not bother then.