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TarquinDelouche said:
Ok, after a poor start, can we now do a head count please? The number and tone of posts over the last 36 hours has made me worry for the health of some of our members. Please let me know you're alright after this life threatening defeat.
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Its not the health issue , its the finance outlay , with no apparant return , thats the issue.

Quality of life - does not equal quality of SUFC at the moment .

UTB
 
Lord Bos of Eckington. said:
Its not the health issue , its the finance outlay , with no apparant return , thats the issue.

Quality of life - does not equal quality of SUFC at the moment .

UTB
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And so we must all go online and wail and gnash teeth like a bunch of muslims at a funeral?
 
TarquinDelouche said:
Please let me know you're alright after this life threatening defeat.
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Barely survived, but like SF sez, dont eat those yellow Crayons, they blow your mind

Anyhow, looking forward to Saturday, though if "someone" comments, be the twelfth man

He may get a comment back about the 11 on the Pitch :mad:


Note: took me 4 goes to spell 12th :oops:
 
TarquinDelouche said:
And so we must all go online and wail and gnash teeth like a bunch of muslims at a funeral?
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Actually Tarqs, it does give a form of amusement. Losing in such fashion is annoying to say the least, on the opening day in the face of such (misplaced) optimism, it is compounded considerably.
So to see some of the outpourings on here does soften the blow somewhat, I'm so glad I don't take SUFC and football generally so seriously these days..
I mean, Judge, Rev, and iiyb, what's that shit all about? Sigh..... :-)
 
TarquinDelouche said:
And so we must all go online and wail and gnash teeth like a bunch of muslims at a funeral?
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Then Praise to Allah- with expression of satisfaction.

Then Praise to Adkins - The bloke will sort it.

Better to wail and gnash teeth on here , than at the Mecca of the North , BDTBL.:)


UTB
 
LSF said:
Actually Tarqs, it does give a form of amusement. Losing in such fashion is annoying to say the least, on the opening day in the face of such (misplaced) optimism, it is compounded considerably.
So to see some of the outpourings on here does soften the blow somewhat, I'm so glad I don't take SUFC and football generally so seriously these days..
I mean, Judge, Rev, and iiyb, what's that shit all about? Sigh..... :)
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Ha, good question mate. I won't add anything to support you view mate, but like yourself, I do try and put football in perspective to the rest of life. Far more important things to be concerned about.
 
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Good O.P.

Even respected posters are emotional and striking out. It was a shock indeed and then looking at the goals it gets even worse. Nobody will be more shocked than Adkins and he nailed it in his interview which he took as far as he could.

There has been no hint of this in the pre-season friendlies but then again Premier League players don't just toss it in there and win it.

Adkins learned so much about his Back 5 in just the one game.

At the same time we forum members learn so much about each other.
 
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TarquinDelouche said:
Ok, after a poor start, can we now do a head count please? The number and tone of posts over the last 36 hours has made me worry for the health of some of our members. Please let me know you're alright after this life threatening defeat.
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Morning, Tarquin. (The first time, I can say with some confidence, that I have ever uttered that phrase)

I'm still here. And I'm fit and well. Deliberately steering clear of posting and pontificating on here has stood me in good stead over the weekend.

Looking forward to Saturday.

Up, as I have always said and will always say, the Blades.
 
Great OP, there was a time when managers got a couple of seasons to sort things out. Then it became a season, and for the last couple of years a few months. Now it seems to be 10 minutes.

We don't need a manager, just some money spent on excellent players, stick them out 442, watch the points roll in. Blimey.
 
I was away last week, which was probably a good thing, given Saturday's result.

David Niven once famously said of his friend Errol Flynn, "you always knew where you were with Errol, because he always let you down".

So there am I, at the back end of last week, enjoying the Ashes, seeing Yorkshire get into a winning position at Scarborough, and looking forward to the start of a new season at SUFC. At half time, I knew we were in for a clobbering, and the second half proved me right - so Errol Flynn's spirit lives on.

It's a strange thing - "football people" think that fans are thick, with no inside knowledge of the game. However, fans on this forum and all over the city have been telling United that two centre backs are needed or there will be Armageddon - so what do they do? Buy another Bladey Blade and another forward.

Nigel Adkins is quoted in the Daily Telegraph this morning as "That was not good enough, we must do better". No, Mr.Adkins, the "football people" at the Lane must wake up to the simple fact that, despite all the excitement of the new season, the fans could have predicted that result in February.

Don't just do better, get United's collective arse into gear and the cheque book out - as a "football person", you know it makes sense.
 
TarquinDelouche said:
Ok, after a poor start, can we now do a head count please? The number and tone of posts over the last 36 hours has made me worry for the health of some of our members. Please let me know you're alright after this life threatening defeat.
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I have resisted the urge to post replies to most threads as I don't want any infractions for calling many fans on here a word beginning with C.
 



After being nowhere to be seen over the weekend, it looks to me like all the clappers are and will be increasing in numbers throughout the week, assuring us that back 4 was and still will be just fine. :)
 
TarquinDelouche said:
Ok, after a poor start, can we now do a head count please? The number and tone of posts over the last 36 hours has made me worry for the health of some of our members. Please let me know you're alright after this life threatening defeat.
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I get your drift TDL but it's not the 'losing' that I think us critics are raging about so much. I think, as Sheffield United supporters, we have hardened off against such crushing disappointment and even being beaten by those cunts up at S6 doesn't seem like the end of the world (if we'd ever get the chance, of course)

I think what it is, is that since we fell into the toilet that is League Division Three, we have been like one of those buoyant bobbars that once you've had that life-defining, satisfying shite, you flush and you flush and the pesky little chod just keeps orbiting the lavatory water in defiance. We are simlarly rotating in those turbulent waters, neither escaping down into the sewer (which I think may be a blessing TBH) or being fished out. Okay, the analogy (see what I did there, readers?) breaks down there, but we do seem to be mysteriously trapped in a never ending circuit of grief and doom, and as every joyous return to normal life comes round after watching boring F1, Cricket and fucking cross-country hockey, the anticipation of seing Diego Costa, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo holding up a Blades shirt in front of those tacky 'SUFC' seats on the kop is followed by that flushing feeling within tweny minutes of the ref's whistle blowing on day one. It's made worse by the monosaturated fats consumed by the joyous proclamations of (I'm sorry, but I'll say it) over-optimistic idiots whoopin' and-a hollerin' at what amounts to fuck all which keeps us as turds so floaty , when sage old cynics know that if you don't clear out last seasons bunch of non-achievers, this season will be just the fucking same as the last five or six. Face it. Are we any better than we were under Micky Adams? Four managers on?

So it comes to pass that we are rock bottom of L Div 1 with a minus four goal difference and everyone is looking at each other and saying 'How did that happen? God himself has arrived at BDTBL and on Saturday we had Gillingham's muscly arm inserted into our back passages and we were held aloft like Sooty off of Sooty and Sweep.' It has got so bad already that Sheffield fucking Wednesday have stopped taking the piss any more and they have forgotten about us completely, like we are Brunsmeer Juniors or Wincobank Athletic or Ecclesfield Albion. Who are they?

Exactly.

pommpey
 
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