Non-Attending Play-Off Blades

[JJBlade]

Go on then, what did they do that was different?

Sold tickets for the Peterborough game before the first leg which they lost 4-0
That worked out well for them,
Our return leg attendance for that game would have been about 5000 because they wouldn't have even started thinking about selling to the majority until after the first game.

Joe Bloggs is able to buy a ticket for himself and his wife and kid who hasn't seen Wendy play since he dragged them along to the last Wembley game
Worked out well for them because it gives the impression of selling out and keeps their massive delusions true in their own heads, when in truth the tickets were sold to day trippers who will never go to another game unless it's at Wembley, and even then only because they are dragged there on the basis of having a night out in London which is actually an afternoon in the Green Man.

My brother in law actually had the audacity to ask me if I fancied going to their game against Barnsley, just for a day arrt, he could get me a ticket without any problems at all.

 

[OldBillBlade]

The pricing and Monday night game is not ideal but our fans "were all ready beaten" glass half empty attitude is a big part of why we're shit in the playoffs.

As much as they are MASSIVE bell ends, the pig fans are generally a lot more optimistic

That defines our selves and Midweek. They are eternal optimists, we however are, eternal pessimists!

 

[LS16Blade]

That defines our selves and Midweek. They are eternal optimists, we however are, eternal pessimists!

I recall Les Payne - the Rotherham United correspondent for The Star & Green ‘Un back in the days when it was a worthwhile publication - writing a piece, making exactly this point over 20 years ago.

As Les Payne said, it is entirely understandable that United fans have always been ‘glass half-empty’ in their outlook, given that post-war Sheffield United is a football club that has barely ever been run by people who spoke with or showed ambition.

The only exceptions, at the time he was writing, were the triple signing of Hope, Hockey and Ford in 70/71 to ignite promotion, and Reg Brearley spending big in Division 4 in 81/82. On both of those occasions, the supporters responded with enthusiasm and in hitherto unseen numbers.

As Payne noted though, on both occasions the ambition was reined in almost as quickly as it was shown and we were quickly back to the normality of pleading poverty and hardship.

SWFC, by contrast, is a club that has invariably been run by people who have spoken and acted as if their natural station is at the top of the game. It has an impact on the collective psyche.

 

[JJBlade]

…yet, as sales for every single league game prove, fans’ preference is to be in BU2. I really can’t get my breath with whoever is in charge of operations at the Lane.

It's obviously some pig deliberately slowing sales down

 

[Liaminho9]

Its distance for me.

Getting to the airport is too longer a journey, as such I'll be watching it on tv with viaplay.fi

More than fair.
Travelling back from a trip to Oravais currently, left at 8:30am, won’t arrive into Heathrow until 11pm tonight!

 

[Suomi_Blade]

More than fair.
Travelling back from a trip to Oravais currently, left at 8:30am, won’t arrive into Heathrow until 11pm tonight!

That's a fair trek for you.

My defence is it would take me a 1hr 30 drive just to get to the nearest town, before then getting the VR train to Helsinki, then the 25min tram to the airport at Vantaa, 3hr flight to Heathrow, then whatever nonsense I encounter getting to Wembley.

As much as i I'd like to go id rather watch it on Viaplay, eating some freshly fried Muikku, then jump straight into the sauna once done.

I'm not committed clearly.

 

[Guesty]

Winning there would make it an excellent day...

Best way to get promoted...

It is crap at Wembley, but us winning there and not being there, you'd kick yourself.

Give over you wet lettuce , if we won at wembley it would be one of the biggest days in the clubs history

Lost 10 play off campaigns and to finally win one under wilder would be the biggets day in my living football esperience as a blayard

Whats wrong with wembley ? Get the train/coach down have a few drinks then come back win or lose

Yeah, cheers for that, you pack of gits.

Oh, and Wembley is still a dystopian concrete hellscape. Absolutely wretched place

 

[Grey Blade]

They're here, they're there, they're every bloody where , empty seats, empty seats - what happened to that sell out - and people who couldn't get tickets late on

 

[MiserableBlader]

There's a job for you in psycho Stalin Starmers government mate.
You've left out the old and infirm and the elderly none computer users.
That being said not many of those on here but some of us try to give them a voice

 

[brownblade]

There's a job for you in psycho Stalin Starmers government mate.
You've left out the old and infirm and the elderly none computer users.
That being said not many of those on here but some of us try to give them a voice

That famous evil communist, Starmer. This crazed ultra left wing government...

Comments like this always remind me of someone in an old circle of friends (I've never liked) that genuinely thought Labour were (and always have been) a communist party, until she happened to be in a conversation with us about the next election.

 

[Tezza1889]

They're here, they're there, they're every bloody where , empty seats, empty seats - what happened to that sell out - and people who couldn't get tickets late on

We were never going..

Then we went away to Bristol

When we came out of Wembley after an impossible failure, all of us to a man said fuck that.. never again..

The cock hardening attendance thing has to be earned, feel free to "erect" me..lol but we're having a barbecue either at mine or over at our kids place next time..

Started with Palace, ended with Sunland, I dont write this lightly but they've killed my hope this time...its gone, now its a pint with the lads pre match, everything else can fuck off.

Note: some are scraping the barrel blaming AI for the subs..

But can you explain Brewster starting above Rak Saki on that big pitch, and also Holding getting benched for C3PO? (He's got a long throw you know, yeah and no fucking talent)

Cap that with playing the sicknote that was Kieefer moore, who's contributed the square route of fuck all most of the season..

Then playing to win 1-0. in the second half like weve done since QPR erased a 2-0 lead in a game they shouldn't have had a kick in on the first home game.

We saw this most of the season, there could have been 100.000 in the stands at wembley for us, but there's a reason why there isn't...can you guess????

Nobody should get on thier high horse with those that didn't go for thier own vanity, and the point scoring against attendance obsessed pigs, who for them Wembley is still a "treat"

Most of those that didn't go have very solid reasons, i'm personally fine for money and I know some struggled and travelled but hoped to see a win and be there when it happened, carrier bags with food in for the day and a few cans......proper Blades.

It's the hope that kills you they say, dont look down your nose about how many seats we sold, some have seen it all before and will never put themselves through it again...i'm one.

 

[Grey Blade]

We were never going..

Then we went away to Bristol

When we came out of Wembley after an impossible failure, all of us to a man said fuck that.. never again..

The cock hardening attendance thing has to be earned, feel free to "erect" me..lol but we're having a barbecue either at mine or over at our kids place next time..

Started with Palace, ended with Sunland, I dont write this lightly but they've killed my hope this time...its gone, now its a pint with the lads pre match, everything else can fuck off.

Note: some are scraping the barrel blaming AI for the subs..

But can you explain Brewster starting above Rak Saki on that big pitch, and also Holding getting benched for C3PO? (He's got a long throw you know, yeah and no fucking talent)

Cap that with playing the sicknote that was Kieefer moore, who's contributed the square route of fuck all most of the season..

Then playing to win 1-0. in the second half like weve done since QPR erased a 2-0 lead in a game they shouldn't have had a kick in on the first home game.

We saw this most of the season, there could have been 100.000 in the stands at wembley for us, but there's a reason why there isn't...can you guess????

Nobody should get on thier high horse with those that didn't go for thier own vanity, and the point scoring against attendance obsessed pigs, who for them Wembley is still a "treat"

Most of those that didn't go have very solid reasons, i'm personally fine for money and I know some struggled and travelled but hoped to see a win and be there when it happened, carrier bags with food in for the day and a few cans......proper Blades.

It's the hope that kills you they say, dont look down your nose about how many seats we sold, some have seen it all before and will never put themselves through it again...i'm one.

It seems a long time since I wrote that ( think I was on a late running train back to York and thought I was going to miss the last train home) and a lot of water has gone under the bridge - not just football related.

I was surprised how many empty seats there were at Wembley and it was a flippant attempt at questioning why as fans we had been told (or had been implied) that tickets for the final had sold out.

With our record, I don't blame people for avoiding these games but heart rules head and most of us go anyway - as you did. Will probably go again if the opportunity arises

 

[CaptainMorgans]

We were never going..

Then we went away to Bristol

When we came out of Wembley after an impossible failure, all of us to a man said fuck that.. never again..

The cock hardening attendance thing has to be earned, feel free to "erect" me..lol but we're having a barbecue either at mine or over at our kids place next time..

Started with Palace, ended with Sunland, I dont write this lightly but they've killed my hope this time...its gone, now its a pint with the lads pre match, everything else can fuck off.

Note: some are scraping the barrel blaming AI for the subs..

But can you explain Brewster starting above Rak Saki on that big pitch, and also Holding getting benched for C3PO? (He's got a long throw you know, yeah and no fucking talent)

Cap that with playing the sicknote that was Kieefer moore, who's contributed the square route of fuck all most of the season..

Then playing to win 1-0. in the second half like weve done since QPR erased a 2-0 lead in a game they shouldn't have had a kick in on the first home game.

We saw this most of the season, there could have been 100.000 in the stands at wembley for us, but there's a reason why there isn't...can you guess????

Nobody should get on thier high horse with those that didn't go for thier own vanity, and the point scoring against attendance obsessed pigs, who for them Wembley is still a "treat"

Most of those that didn't go have very solid reasons, i'm personally fine for money and I know some struggled and travelled but hoped to see a win and be there when it happened, carrier bags with food in for the day and a few cans......proper Blades.

It's the hope that kills you they say, dont look down your nose about how many seats we sold, some have seen it all before and will never put themselves through it again...i'm one.

I totally get the sentiment. It really hurt coming out of Wembley this time, particularly as I honestly thought we were pissing it at 70 minutes in. I was in shock.

I'll probably go if we make it again. Because from 0600 on Retford platform to 1630 or whenever it was that it started to go wrong, I had a great day with fellow Blades.

But there'll be at least 5000 like you that won't bother, and there'll be no judgement from me given how long this torrid run of failure has gone on.