All we ask.....

[Patrick Suffaux]

Is that the players give us a team to identify with, a team that does the simple things well and works hard to win its collective and individual battles all over the pitch. If the result comes with it, great....if it doesn't we move to the next game.

I'm starting to see a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe we have a proper Sheffield United team that reflects the reasonable expectations of its supporters.

There's a long way to go but at least we have hope. Keep up the good work Chris and UTB.

 

[Rodley]

Fight, passion and heart. That's what we ask for. The players are putting everything out there. Well done Chris.

 

[Bladeinleeds]

If you look at the run the likes of Barnsley and Leicester went on last year despite having "inferior" players it just shows the importance of having everyone pulling in the same direction and buying into what the manger is doing.

Hopefully, hopefully we are starting to see that here and there is an identity and a togetherness that has clearly been lacking (probably since we were in the prem)

No unitedites are expecting us to win every game, but to show some effort and be on the front foot and i'm sure everyone wll get right behind the lads - win, lose or draw.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Is that the players give us a team to identify with

This sums it up. I've never had such utter contempt for a United team as I did last season.

Wilder knew exactly what was missing from the soul of this club and he has brought it back. It might not be perfect but this is the making of a side that I can get behind wholeheartedly.

 

[grafikhaus]

While the style may not be to the liking of some (like Pinchy), Wilder is showing signs of turning this bunch of unheard-ofs into something special. Rather like Bassett, D.

 

[Bladesway]

While the style may not be to the liking of some (like Pinchy), Wilder is showing signs of turning this bunch of unheard-ofs into something special. Rather like Bassett, D.

Interested to know what the style is. I see high tempo, pressing high up the pitch and I see some good interchanges of football and mostly played on the deck. No issue surely there from anyone?

You can be "upandatem" and play good football at the same time.

 

[Pinchy]

Interested to know what the style is. I see high tempo, pressing high up the pitch and I see some good interchanges of football and mostly played on the deck. No issue surely there from anyone?

You can be "upandatem" and play good football at the same time.

Precisely, but some will never be satisfied until their parochial S2 outlook is satisfied by a return to full-on pub-league hoof and hope. Tufty isn't playing that at all, and didn't at Northampton. He regularly stresses his desire to "play football" but DD afficianados close their ears at that point...

 

[Tyler Durden]

Most of the backwards tappy crap has been eliminated, which leaves more time for the team to head for the general direction of the goal, which is sort of important.

Some flowery fuckers won't like to see that over a full season, but bollocks to them.

 

[shorehamview]

This sums it up. I've never had such utter contempt for a United team as I did last season.

Wilder knew exactly what was missing from the soul of this club and he has brought it back. It might not be perfect but this is the making of a side that I can get behind wholeheartedly.

This. Have many likes.

 

[Rodley]

This sums it up. I've never had such utter contempt for a United team as I did last season.

Wilder knew exactly what was missing from the soul of this club and he has brought it back. It might not be perfect but this is the making of a side that I can get behind wholeheartedly.

 

[Esablade]

Wilder's teams have never been 'hoof'...even in the 'pub league's'

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Let's talk this shit in May.

It was only four matches ago that we'd been taught a lesson by the another SUFC.

Thirty nine to go...

 

[Boxer Blade]

If ever I needed any proof ( and I dont) how boring it was last season it is how much I (and I suspect a lot more) am already looking forward to this coming Saturday, I mean, all we are playing is Peterborough in League three yet I cannot wait.i suspect the atmosphere will be like it used to be a couple of years ago.

 

[Rodley]

Let's talk this shit in May.

It was only four matches ago that we'd been taught a lesson by the another SUFC.

Thirty nine to go...

No ones predicting glory, but finally we've got a team we can get behind Lydz.

 

[Rodley]

If ever I needed any proof ( and I dont) how boring it was last season it is how much I (and I suspect a lot more) am already looking forward to this coming Saturday, I mean, all we are playing is Peterborough in League three yet I cannot wait.i suspect the atmosphere will be like it used to be a couple of years ago.

I'm getting wound up for it already!

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

No ones predicting glory, but finally we've got a team we can get behind Lydz.

Three matches.
Admittedly, nine points, fabulous.
But we've got thirty-nine more games...
Wilder's worth will be shown when we have suspensions and injuries to contend with.
I think the Manager will admit to that too, if asked.
It's not being negative for the sake, it's being a realist.
More than any other supporters, we should know that what might seem like a new Spring, can easily become the new Ice Age.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Let's talk this shit in May.

It was only four matches ago that we'd been taught a lesson by the another SUFC.

Thirty nine to go...

Agreed, and thanks for taking that fucking dachshund off your head....

 

[Pinchy]

Three matches.
Admittedly, nine points, fabulous.
But we've got thirty-nine more games...
Wilder's worth will be shown when we have suspensions and injuries to contend with.
I think the Manager will admit to that too, if asked.
It's not being negative for the sake, it's being a realist.
More than any other supporters, we should know that what might seem like a new Spring, can easily become the new Ice Age.

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Three matches.
Admittedly, nine points, fabulous.
But we've got thirty-nine more games...
Wilder's worth will be shown when we have suspensions and injuries to contend with.
I think the Manager will admit to that too, if asked.
It's not being negative for the sake, it's being a realist.
More than any other supporters, we should know that what might seem like a new Spring, can easily become the new Ice Age.

I think we a better equipped to cope with injuries and suspensions than every club in this league with the possible exception in Bolton.
We have cover in all areas of the pitch.
We should be able to cope better than teams like Scunthorpe, Fleetwood Gillingham and even Millwall and Bradford.
The loan market no being avaliable could work to our advantage with having a fairly big squad.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Three matches.
Admittedly, nine points, fabulous.
But we've got thirty-nine more games...
Wilder's worth will be shown when we have suspensions and injuries to contend with.
I think the Manager will admit to that too, if asked.
It's not being negative for the sake, it's being a realist.
More than any other supporters, we should know that what might seem like a new Spring, can easily become the new Ice Age.

I think the squad is decent. Two players for each position and options available. OK, some of those will be promising young players (Whiteman, Brooks, Semple) but compared to others in the division it looks stronger and certainly better than last season. It also looks more flexible in terms of formation than it has for a few seasons. Even under Wilson we played one way and it was very reliant on two or three players, as we saw when Evans was unavailable. Don't think that is the case now.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Let's not compare what we have now to last season, or previous seasons.
Let's compare what we have now compared to other clubs, this season in L1.

Alas, that's time I haven't got to waste.
I'm having my hair and nails done again.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Let's not compare what we have now to last season, or previous seasons.
Let's compare what we have now compared to other clubs, this season in L1.

Alas, that's time I haven't got to waste.
I'm having my hair and nails done again.

Oh bloody hell, not more blue cheese moments?

 

[Sheffsteel]

Fight, passion and heart. That's what we ask for. The players are putting everything out there. Well done Chris.

This is inaccurate though.

We can give 100% passion and commitment but a few defeats most of our fans do NOT want to identify with that team.

These days the BOTTOM LINE is the RESULT.

Take Chris Bashan as a example. He's a poor mans Chris Montgomery, someone with great commitment and attitude but he's very limited. When we lose he gets plenty of stick even though he's given 100% effort.

 

[Chali 2na]

Precisely, but some will never be satisfied until their parochial S2 outlook is satisfied by a return to full-on pub-league hoof and hope. Tufty isn't playing that at all, and didn't at Northampton. He regularly stresses his desire to "play football" but DD afficianados close their ears at that point...

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I have a hypothetical for you Pinchy: (and I ask this without having a dog in the 'bladey-blade' fight)

In your eyes is winning the league with a Blade in charge and a Blade captaining us any more preferable than winning the league without?

 

[bladesmanluke]

I don't want to get excited too early, because at a similar stage last season we'd won 4 in a row and Connor Sammon was the White Drogba, but we are hopefully, finally making progress as a team.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

He's a poor mans Chris Montgomery

I know who you mean.



Grooooooooovy.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I know who you mean.



Grooooooooovy.

 

[grafikhaus]

Precisely, but some will never be satisfied until their parochial S2 outlook is satisfied by a return to full-on pub-league hoof and hope. Tufty isn't playing that at all, and didn't at Northampton. He regularly stresses his desire to "play football" but DD afficianados close their ears at that point...

Maybe you're being a bit harsh on the 'parochial S2 outlook'. I go back to the days of 'Gentleman John Harris'. He was blessed with an extremely talented bunch of players, players that we still talk about today. Would JH's system work nowadays? Almost certainly not. I think the nearest we have in the modern game is Claudio Ranieri at Leicester. Some still insult him with the 'Tinkerman' description. I prefer to think of it as 'Fine-tuning man'. It worked last season, but they - like Stoke (whose own unique brand of controlled thuggishness worked for a while but has now been found out) - prove that it's 'horses for courses'. West Brom are similar. They've had a few seasons in the PL and can now afford players that we can only dream about, but seem destined to just make the numbers up in the PL.

Football management involves a unique chemistry allied with 'the stars aligning' as Barnsley showed last year. It could just be that CW has tapped into the chemistry that makes our great club tick. Whatever it is, we look as if the garbage that we've had to endure in our six years in Div. 3 could be coming to an end. Like Bassett, it probably wouldn't make it into the pages of a coaching manual, but it just feels 'right' for the Blades. At long last.

 

[wizadry]

Precisely, but some will never be satisfied until their parochial S2 outlook is satisfied by a return to full-on pub-league hoof and hope. Tufty isn't playing that at all, and didn't at Northampton. He regularly stresses his desire to "play football" but DD afficianados close their ears at that point...

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Thankfully, CW has realised this and isn't stubborn, he changed from the absolutely disgusting and horrible football we were playing at the start of the season, apart from the first half an hour at Bolton and we are now playing nice and neat interchanges at a brisk pace just as we were doing in that first half an hour at Bolton when we outplayed them.

He needed to change it and did, CW deserves huge credit for some of the decisions he's making, long may it continue.

 

[ReeceofBDTBL]

Is that the players give us a team to identify with, a team that does the simple things well and works hard to win its collective and individual battles all over the pitch. If the result comes with it, great....if it doesn't we move to the next game.

I'm starting to see a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe we have a proper Sheffield United team that reflects the reasonable expectations of its supporters.

There's a long way to go but at least we have hope. Keep up the good work Chris and UTB.

Nope. I ask for success and for this club to match the achievements of pretty much every other decent sized club in this country. 1 relegation season in the top flight in the space of 20 years is nothing short of disgraceful.

I always get behind the players on the pitch when I'm at the ground and give constructive criticism on the Internet, but I'll never say I'm proud of a shit team and identifying with the players means fuck all.

Balls to the personality of the team being akin to the fans, the only things that should match should be the quality and calibre of the team with the size and loyalty of the fanbase.