The life of a sheffield united footballer

[crucialkneeligaman]

What makes you think that? His body language or are you ITK? Really hope not, he has been one of the better players at games I have been able to get to.

Sorry Beatle, just his body language, I would hate to see him go, one of my favourite players, just doesn't seem to have recaptured his form at the moment.

 

[FTPE]

Surely a career headed for non league then.

He's still only 24, but if you can't give a shit at 20 will he be able to at 25?

 

[BeatleBlade]

Sorry Beatle, just his body language, I would hate to see him go, one of my favourite players, just doesn't seem to have recaptured his form at the moment.

I see what you mean, from BP he seemed in a bit of a huff at times.

 

[Blade56]

Perform shit

Go home

Get paid

Go out on the lash after losing (again) to rub fans noses in their failure

Finished th list for ya Bm

 

[Blade56]

Career ended at 35 with only about a 10% chance of getting a job that pays anything like what you're used to,

If they spent more of their spare time studying outside work to get qualified to take up a career instead of going out on the piss it would be time well spent. It's what the rest of us have to do.
Over a lifetime the average Joe Bloggs on the street earns as much of some of them do in a 12-15 year career, anyone would take that early earning opportunity and plan/work hard for their future not live for the moment.
They also do some good charity work in their spare time some would say, well so do many others who earn a fraction of their income.
Do I feel sorry for footballers? No, their career choice.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Wonder how many of you feel the same as I do...
I was ok at football, good passer of the ball and being creative but not great defensively. At 15 I was told by someone I ought to try to make it, I didn't so I work in a nine to five job and that's fine. I would have given my right arm (though this wouldn't have worked practically) to have been paid to be a footballer, even a few hundred quid a week to play for someone in the lower leagues or even in Scotland or anywhere come to that. Just so I could play footie for a living - living the dream. What pisses me off are the ones who have the life and toss it off - it insults the rest of us that can only dream of that life.

In answer to the OP, apart from pre-season, it's my understanding that generally players train maybe 2 and half to 3 days a week depending how many games they are playing that week. The rest of the time they can't do anything that could get them injured so they either work on the handicap, gamble or play video games.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Wonder how many of you feel the same as I do...
I was ok at football, good passer of the ball and being creative but not great defensively. At 15 I was told by someone I ought to try to make it, I didn't so I work in a nine to five job and that's fine. I would have given my right arm (though this wouldn't have worked practically) to have been paid to be a footballer, even a few hundred quid a week to play for someone in the lower leagues or even in Scotland or anywhere come to that. Just so I could play footie for a living - living the dream. What pisses me off are the ones who have the life and toss it off - it insults the rest of us that can only dream of that life.

In answer to the OP, apart from pre-season, it's my understanding that generally players train maybe 2 and half to 3 days a week depending how many games they are playing that week. The rest of the time they can't do anything that could get them injured so they either work on the handicap, gamble or play video games.

There was a time when I would've been happy to be used as a corner flag just to be on the Bramall Lane turf.

And that's where the difference lies. For the supporter it's an unattainable dream; for the player it's an entitlement.
They don't understand the extraordinary position they are in until it all ends. Even at the highest possible level, most of them look like miserable bastards in spite of their prestige, wealth and silverware.

Some of the players in this squad have won the jackpot just for playing at third-division Sheffield United and should be thanking their lucky stars, because their "efforts" don't warrant a place in the Football League whatsoever.

In the course of a lifetime we willingly invest a staggering amount of money following this club for little return, we spend time worrying and debating about the fortunes of this club when we should probably be concentrating on other stuff in life, many of us traverse the country on shit Tuesday nights in January then get up for work the morning after.
We don't have to do any of this, we do so because we care, and it's an insult to us that the club is being representated by those who do not.

 

[JohnDenver]

There was a time when I would've been happy to be used as a corner flag just to be on the Bramall Lane turf.

And that's where the difference lies. For the supporter it's an unattainable dream; for the player it's an entitlement.
They don't understand the extraordinary position they are in until it all ends. Even at the highest possible level, most of them look like miserable bastards in spite of their prestige, wealth and silverware.

Some of the players in this squad have won the jackpot just for playing at third-division Sheffield United and should be thanking their lucky stars, because their "efforts" don't warrant a place in the Football League whatsoever.

In the course of a lifetime we willingly invest a staggering amount of money following this club for little return, we spend time worrying and debating about the fortunes of this club when we should probably be concentrating on other stuff in life, many of us traverse the country on shit Tuesday nights in January then get up for work the morning after.
We don't have to do any of this, we do so because we care, and it's an insult to us that the club is being representated by those who do not.

Sky are showing a documentary about Gary Neville at the moment. Not the greatest talent, and someone you'd happily punch as an opponent.

But watching him talk about his career, the ferocity of his will to win, to work hard, and to improve. It's clear how he achieved all he did.

I really wish our players had an ounce of what he had.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Sky are showing a documentary about Gary Neville at the moment. Not the greatest talent, and someone you'd happily punch as an opponent.

But watching him talk about his career, the ferocity of his will to win, to work hard, and to improve. It's clear how he achieved all he did.

I really wish our players had an ounce of what he had.

Too right. Neville might be a bit of a knob and not blessed with talent but he gave his all for Man Utd and achieved the things he did through sheer determination.
Even on a smaller scale, back in the early 90's we had a few homegrown players who were proud to wear the shirt. The likes of Whitehouse, Bradshaw and Ward. Not necessarily world beaters (although Dane could play a bit) but they put a shift in and as a result played at the highest level.

With this lot there isn't an ounce of character between them.

 

[Bergen Blade]

He's still only 24, but if you can't give a shit at 20 will he be able to at 25?

Simon Francis did manage to change his ways and ended up in the Premier League.

 

[Bladesway]

Seems to me there is a cancer in the club somewhere and the only thing we keep doing is changing managers. SInce we came down the malaise seems to get worse with players apparently taking the piss (the results suggest this is nothing else). Its all on social media how much they apparently care but when you look at the evidence on the pitch it suggests otherwise. Thing is, you sign a 3 year contract and you don't like the current manager at SUFC you only have to wait 12 months or so and another one will be along.

As fans we pressurise the manager the most, yet in the current climate it seems to me the manager is almost redundant. The players swan about doing what the fuck they want, performing badly yet starting the next game, and the one after etc etc. Players coming through development appear to go backwards at an alarming rate, anyone decent moved on at an equally alarming rate. Yet at the end of the season it is the manager who gets the chop and the players carry on.

Seems the attitude change needs to come from the players if we are going to move forward. You can play 4-4-2, 4-5-1, 4-6-0, 4-3-3, doesn't really matter if several of those players don't give a shit about the outcome.

 

[1995Blade]

How about we all march down to the training ground and demand to speak to the squad and tell them what its like to be us, having to watch that shower of shit week in week out and without supporters they wouldn't have a job. End of the day, if you went to a restaurant as a customer and was served shit on a plate, you'd complain. Just the same as we're customers of the club.



I don't know why i wrote that like it's a viable option, but that's my solution

 

[BushBlade]

How about we all march down to the training ground and demand to speak to the squad and tell them what its like to be us, having to watch that shower of shit week in week out and without supporters they wouldn't have a job. End of the day, if you went to a restaurant as a customer and was served shit on a plate, you'd complain. Just the same as we're customers of the club.



I don't know why i wrote that like it's a viable option, but that's my solution

A restaurant offers itself as being able to provide edible food, served at an appropriate temperature and within a reasonable timescale. That's a reasonable expectation from a restaurant.

Football offers you the opportunity to watch a football game. There has never been a guarantee of entertainment.

I know you were joking and I'm not having a dig, but I've read similar posts recently and it goes back to the posts yesterday about the cost of football and the hyperbole surrounding the game; Sky, BT etc pretending every game is an epic clash of the Titans. It isn't. It never will be.
I accept not all games will be entertaining, that we won't win every game, it's rolling over at Crewe that's hard to take, particularly when we're playing catch up.