10 more wins

[munksyb]

Any points dropped by Burnley are fine by me

But…… would like to see WBA drop a few as well

It’s all about us , no one else

It’s not about sublime football

Win scruffy 10 more times that’s all we need to do

No one else matters

 

[Frank the tank]

It seems to me that considering the injury problem and potential outcome if things go wrong, the crowd and fan base generally are being very cautious, it was the same in the Wilder promotion season, albeit from further down the table, until that 'Bashams arriving' moment.

The closer we get to the end of the season, fans will become more optimistic, we will have a Bashams arriving moment, if we beat one of the three teams we're competing with, i.e. Burnley, West Brom, Middlesborough, I think we'll really start to believe.

Yeah I remember the same in the Bassett promotion season
I remember home games to the likes of port Vale and Oxford where we scraped narrow wins in dour games played out in front of 15000 crowds with the atmosphere of a morgue

I've often wondered if this ' blades way ' of fucking things up is just a psychological state that some seem to prefer after all we've had just as much success ( relatively) as you would expect a club of our size to have but most only seem to remember the bad

 

[JohnDenver]

Yeah I remember the same in the Bassett promotion season
I remember home games to the likes of port Vale and Oxford where we scraped narrow wins in dour games played out in front of 15000 crowds with the atmosphere of a morgue

I've often wondered if this ' blades way ' of fucking things up is just a psychological state that some seem to prefer after all we've had just as much success ( relatively) as you would expect a club of our size to have but most only seem to remember the bad

My early Blades memories. The Green’un full of talk about “Blades promotion jitters”. Narrow unconvincing home wins to keep us up with Leeds and Newcastle. The fella on radio sheffield playing random brass band music to provoke a late goal.

Got it done in the end.

 

[ormester]

Looking at. Goal difference which is a extra point 7 or 8. Wins we would go up imo

 

[Frank the tank]

My early Blades memories. The Green’un full of talk about “Blades promotion jitters”. Narrow unconvincing home wins to keep us up with Leeds and Newcastle. The fella on radio sheffield playing random brass band music to provoke a late goal.

Got it done in the end.

Bob Jackson
And then just near the end he would say two words
BRIAN DEANE and you knew we'd won

It's a shame we had the covid season because its dredged up a lot of the bad memories but the truth is we are no different to any other club in fact weve probably had more good times than most clubs our size but we don't seem to enjoy them as much as we like to.wallow in self pity about every single time something gs gone wrong

 

[CoatesyBlade]

I honestly thought we were great for 20-25 minutes yesterday. It was like men against boys. And those bits of skill that McAtee and Ndiaye did were different level. I turned to my boy and simply laughed. Admittedly after that it became a bit drab. But for me there’s and argument that it’s down to the opposition. The game just kinda passes by cos there’s no threat from the opposition. And I know Berge wasn’t at his best but the way folk have gone in on him is overboard, almost like they were waiting for him to have a game like that. Bottom line for me is that we weren’t at our best and yet still comfortably beat Stoke 3-1. I’m happy.

Anyway… 9 more wins

 

[wak1889]

I'm going to nail my colours to the mast and say here and now we are going up this season despite all the negativity on this forum at the moment. Performances are just that it is the points that matter. Yes West Brom and Boro are on great runs of form at the moment and have shot up the table into the top six but they have not closed the points gap to ourselves. We will soon be into the territory where if anyone wants to overtake us they will have to return a point per game more than we do and we are averaging 2pts per game. Anyone think Boro or West Brom are going to win all their remaining games? Even if they keep up their form to promotion winning 2pts per game standards we are going to have to go into relegation form of a point per game until the end of the season. I just can't see anyone catching us.

On the Burnley forum there is a post called the magic number and it's basically how many points they need to get to be mathematically uncatchable by anyone else and it's based on every team winning every game , obviously as they all play one another that's an impossibility but it's interesting to read, they need 14 wins to be promoted and only us could catch them if they got those

 

[Westran]

I honestly thought we were great for 20-25 minutes yesterday. It was like men against boys. And those bits of skill that McAtee and Ndiaye did were different level. I turned to my boy and simply laughed. Admittedly after that it became a bit drab. But for me there’s and argument that it’s down to the opposition. The game just kinda passes by cos there’s no threat from the opposition. And I know Berge wasn’t at his best but the way folk have gone in on him is overboard, almost like they were waiting for him to have a game like that. Bottom line for me is that we weren’t at our best and yet still comfortably beat Stoke 3-1. I’m happy.

Anyway… 9 more wins

This is exactly the way I saw it, I also think some fans expect the game to play out like highlights, where you only see the exciting stuff, when they watch a full game and you have to account for the different phases of a match, which I'm sorry to say the majority of most games are largely boring, some fans have no patience and moan because they aren't being entertained in the way they thi k they should be.

I also think lots of fans don't appreciate the defensive side of a game, in the same way as players like Monty got chastised for not being an exciting player, fans think we're playing badly if we're defending even though our style of play lends itself to soaking up pressure and being strong and dangerous in possession.

Added to that, negative or unpopular views stand out, I saw one poster say negative comments outweigh positive ones by 10-1, which is true in terms of opening topics, but false in terms of the number of positive replies countering negative comments, but of course becauae everyone is so bemused, the negative topic title stays at the top of the board and everyone thinks we're being more negative than we are.

 

[CoatesyBlade]

Exactly that West hopefully when the dust settles there will be a realisation that it was another good 3pts.
It’s not like we play shitty hoofball tactics and scraping wins. It’s a really good brand of attacking football at the lane. Good times

 

[Selly]

I think some are forgetting that we gained promotion last time around, not by playing teams off the park, but by being exceptionally solid. The good football of the prior two seasons, and the first half of the promotion season was replaced by a now practical style - think wins away at WBA and Leeds - the draw at Norwich - even home games against Rotherham and THAT game against Millwall we were not playing that well.

Also, can we stop this "GD is an extra point" malarkey. We are 11 points clear. If a team makes that up on us then they will make a good chunk (admittedly probably not all) of that advantage up as well. GD is only important when point totals are close. If we hold a 10 GD advantage whilst 3 points ahead it's far more relevant than where it is currently.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

I honestly thought we were great for 20-25 minutes yesterday. It was like men against boys. And those bits of skill that McAtee and Ndiaye did were different level. I turned to my boy and simply laughed. Admittedly after that it became a bit drab. But for me there’s and argument that it’s down to the opposition. The game just kinda passes by cos there’s no threat from the opposition. And I know Berge wasn’t at his best but the way folk have gone in on him is overboard, almost like they were waiting for him to have a game like that. Bottom line for me is that we weren’t at our best and yet still comfortably beat Stoke 3-1. I’m happy.

Anyway… 9 more wins

For 20 mins we were untouchable for any side in this league. You add McBurnie into the mix and I think we put the game to bed during that period.
If we got close to that level for 70 mins then we’ve no concerns at all, we’d win the league. We just seem to struggle to maintain it but it feels like a conscious choice to back off and let them back into it. Just holding that level for 45 mins would blow most opposition away and that should be our aim.
Maybe injury concerns at the back of our mind but if we kept the screws on it’ll we could make more changes earlier and rest those we need to.

 

[JohnDenver]

I honestly thought we were great for 20-25 minutes yesterday. It was like men against boys. And those bits of skill that McAtee and Ndiaye did were different level. I turned to my boy and simply laughed. Admittedly after that it became a bit drab. But for me there’s and argument that it’s down to the opposition. The game just kinda passes by cos there’s no threat from the opposition. And I know Berge wasn’t at his best but the way folk have gone in on him is overboard, almost like they were waiting for him to have a game like that. Bottom line for me is that we weren’t at our best and yet still comfortably beat Stoke 3-1. I’m happy.

Anyway… 9 more wins

On Berge, he wasn’t good, but noticeable that the moment we took Sharp off and changed shape a little, he suddenly looked better.

I’d be very tempted to play 1 up with McAtee and Berge pushed on.

 

[Tony Currie]

Looking at. Goal difference which is a extra point 7 or 8. Wins we would go up imo

88 points is enough for autos this season. Watford would have to average 2.2 points per game to match that.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Reading some comments on here is like listening to Uncle Mort.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Some of you lot need to make sure the sharp knives are comfortably out of reach

Sharpe.

 

[wavy-blade]

As things stand, the opponents are:

5th
6th
4th
3rd
7th
8th
9th
11th
24th
1st

It might look scary but everyone below Watford is only 90 mins away from dropping into the bottom half. There's no chance the current playoff teams with be the playoff teams by the time we play Boro. My guess is one, max two.

Also, have you seen our next 5 games? All against teams in the bottom half, 3 of which are at home.

Jeez looking at that the next 10 matches are a massive test , play offs anyone ?

 

[Norwood's 6 iron]

I'll predict that if we have got through this transfer window without selling anyone then our fans will start to believe that promotion is a real possibility.
We've all seen it happen before, we sell our best players at the wrong time.
But to be fair, we haven't done that for the last few years. Unless you want to count Ramsdale and that wasn't the clubs fault.
So maybe, just maybe we will keep everyone this time around and then the atmosphere will change because suddenly we will know that promotion is within our grasp.

 

[JohnDenver]

Jeez looking at that the next 10 matches are a massive test , play offs anyone ?

Have a look at the table and console yourself how little separates the high places from the low.

 

[Selly]

88 points is enough for autos this season. Watford would have to average 2.2 points per game to match that.

Yes, but we are twitchy because twice on living memory a team has done that (WHU 7 wins from 9, Pigs 11 from 14) and we've been the team overhauled in the final reckoning.

Also WBA/Wolves had a similar situation I the latest 25 years.

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

 

[Frank the tank]

Yes, but we are twitchy because twice on living memory a team has done that (WHU 7 wins from 9, Pigs 11 from 14) and we've been the team overhauled in the final reckoning.

Also WBA/Wolves had a similar situation I the latest 25 years.

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Must be a reason it happens to us then
Thankfully I think this group of players are mentally tough enough to not rely on the backing of a vociferous raucous crowd which is just as well really

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

End of the day, if you can’t enjoy it when your team is 11 points clear for promotion to the premier league then you never will.

 

[Stretch]

We have some tough fixtures coming up, especially in February, but I am very relaxed about them. We just need to keep doing what we are doing. A solid defence, and enough elsewhere to win most games by a goal or two.

It's worth remembering that most of the teams in and around the playoffs will need to play each other again, so will rob eachother of points. We probably won't even need to beat the likes of Boro, Watford and West Brom, as long as we don't lose against them and allow them to close the gap to us.

Ask yourself this..would you rather be 11 points clear of the playoffs, or in the pack chasing down that 11 points?

 

[Ldn_Rd_Blades]

Yes, but we are twitchy because twice on living memory a team has done that (WHU 7 wins from 9, Pigs 11 from 14) and we've been the team overhauled in the final reckoning.

Also WBA/Wolves had a similar situation I the latest 25 years.

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

The thing with this is, we are a very good side. The amazing run needed to catch us has to coincide with a terrible run for us as well.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

There shouldn’t be anything to worry about. If any of the chasing teams were with us in The Prem, these are the ones we’d be looking at as easy wins, or easier wins. We really must believe we can beat all this lot when the fixture comes round.

 

[Down the Channels]

In their last 20 games last season, Forest averaged 2.3 points per game.
BUT, this was an exceptional run, doesn't happen that often.
I haven't taken the time to check how easy those fixtures were compared to our main rivals now.
From our remaining games if we can win 8 and draw 6 we can then lose 5. Even with a major down-turn in form and results that should still be achievable.
As others have said, the main concerns are injuries (or sales) to key players, I think we could cover that with 'fillers' like Osborne, Basham now, Jebbo maybe Fleck coming back in a few weeks....but too many of these squad players at any one time isn't going to win games.
The next 3 league games are huge, 7 or 9 points from then (and hoping the chasing pack all get 5-6 points at the same time) and things could get a lot easier.

 

[themaninblack]

Normally a team in our position would get swept along by a tide of emotion from the supporters
Looks like ours will have to do it on their own
Our supporters have turned into spectators and we've lost the very thing that gave us an edge in games our crowd

The negative comments on here have outnumbered the positive ten to one
With many pointing out the obvious that another season in this division will have big financial repercussions but instead of that spurring them on to get behind a team that in spite of this pressure and a horrendous injury hit season have done phenomenally to get top two
All they can do is moan about the performances and make pissy juvenile comments about players who are in poor form
Doesn't matter to them that we are putting out a patched up team every week

Failure seems to be a comfort blanket for our fanbase and its like all the heartbreaks we've endured mean you can't be excited when things are going well because well ...you know ...its the blades way but what about Leicester away in 90 ?

Wilders team at Leeds bashams arriving ?
Warnocks team taking us back to the big time after almost disappearing up our own arses

And last but not least the bouncing day massacre when we changed the culture and mentality of both clubs by crushing there's and recalibrating ours?

I get it no ones seen more shit than me but why does being a blade have to be so fucking miserable ? Even when we are doing well so many seem to be out of their comfort zones of morose bitterness at the world around them?

It's not all bad we've had a lot more good times than most so why do so many desperately cling on to those bad times like that's just inevitably the way things are ?

Could it be that this forum, much as I enjoy it, doesn’t accurately represent the views of the wider community of actual supporters? I don’t get to many games despite my season ticket (so I’m not trying to set myself up as a bigger blade than anyone else) but I reckon a lot of the negative bilge posted on here comes from people who never actually go to BDTBL. I find that the views expressed on this forum are much more negative than those expressed by my United-supporting mates. Maybe there is something about footy-fan forums that attracts the pessimists?

 

[bertieblade]

Although we did not play convincingly yesterday we still won by more than one goal. None of our main rivals put in a convincing performance, it’s all about points.
we play better against better teams as we have to turn up, the likes of Stoke and Rotherham do not stretch us and we seem to play as though we expect it to be easy and do not put in the hard yards. Which means winning second balls and creating more

 

[Stevo71]

The best thing to do is soley concentrate on overtaking Burnley taking their minds off the chasing pack taking the pressure off

 

[Old Programme seller]

I’d be happy with a win against Hull with no new injuries I can’t or won’t look any further I’m dreaming that the take over goes through quickly and the new owners buy a player before the deadline is over, I did say I was dreaming though.

 

[RammyBlade]

I'm going to nail my colours to the mast and say here and now we are going up this season despite all the negativity on this forum at the moment. Performances are just that it is the points that matter. Yes West Brom and Boro are on great runs of form at the moment and have shot up the table into the top six but they have not closed the points gap to ourselves. We will soon be into the territory where if anyone wants to overtake us they will have to return a point per game more than we do and we are averaging 2pts per game. Anyone think Boro or West Brom are going to win all their remaining games? Even if they keep up their form to promotion winning 2pts per game standards we are going to have to go into relegation form of a point per game until the end of the season. I just can't see anyone catching us.

I hate people using stats and common sense to dampen my fear!!