Anybody else feeling up-beat?

[Karaoke Blade]

Not sure why, but this morning I am feeling remarkably up-beat, as if a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Ever since the afternoon that Ched was sent down I've had this awful sense of apprehension and edginess in all thoughts Blades related. Spending the best part of 6 hours on a sweaty coach and 120 mins + anxiety in sweltering conditions, only served to increase a sense of inevitability of failure. As the penalty shoot-out went on I think everybody really knew what the eventual outcome would be.

However, a coach ride home in the company of fellow Blades lightheartedly singing the virtues of 'Bobby Ford' and 'We're the famous Sheff United and we're shit at Wemberley...' brought things into perspective a little.

Its not about winning trophies (after all in my lifetime of watching the Blades since 1967, we've never won anything of worthy). Its about comararderie, the sense of belonging, the joy that can be captured from small moments like when Monty scored a goal in front of the Kop and you can say 'I was there'.

I will walk into work tomorrow and smile and I will say , 'I was there, I will be there next season, and the season after that' and they might say 'but you were shit' and I'll say 'well, we might have been shit, but hey, I'm a Blade and you're not, so maybe you don't quite understand . '

Looking forward to a few quiet months, got the Euros and Olympics to see us through, then hopefully re-invigorated for another season of the ups and downs of being a Blade.

When's the new season fixture list out?

UTB

 

[judge]

Dejected but not despondent , brush ourselves off dust our selves down and put on a happy face

 

[JJ Sefton]

To be honest the result yesterday was so utterly predictable that I was more upset about the Eurovision.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

To be honest the result yesterday was so utterly predictable that I was more upset about the Eurovision.

Gutted for The Hump

 

[TarquinDelouche]

It's not so much the losing that I'm disappointed at but the whole shitty stick that is the playoffs. I despise them with a passion only previously reserved for stubbing a toe. There is no justification for what happened (I don't think we were that shit, under the circumstances), and I challenge anybody to explain why an entire season of hard work resulting in us being the third best team in the league rests upon a penalty being taken by a goalkeeper.

So yes, we're Sheffield United, yes we're shit at Wembley, but if there was justice in the world we shouldn't have even been there. We'd be promoted as having the the third best record in the league.

 

[bladesfan]

I was more upset last year. this year was better football and with a bit of luck ours Drawing with the pigs after winning 2-0 and winning against Oldham. Instead we threw away 5 points, Jos

 

[silverfox]

It's not so much the losing that I'm disappointed at but the whole shitty stick that is the playoffs. I despise them with a passion only previously reserved for stubbing a toe. There is no justification for what happened (I don't think we were that shit, under the circumstances), and I challenge anybody to explain why an entire season of hard work resulting in us being the third best team in the league rests upon a penalty being taken by a goalkeeper.

So yes, we're Sheffield United, yes we're shit at Wembley, but if there was justice in the world we shouldn't have even been there. We'd be promoted as having the the third best record in the league.

I've been saying the same for years!

 

[BaldeRunner]

I wouldn't exactly say 'upbeat' but I've enjoyed this season a damned sight more than the previous few. I thought we at least looked organised and motivated (but completely toothless up front). However, we drifted badly towards the end of the second half and for all of extra time. Even when they missed their third pen I had no doubt we were still going to lose. So, that was a crap end to the season but I think we've got a manager that I have confidence in and a team spirit that has been awol for years. Looking forward to next season, we really should do well and by then have got rid of some of the deadwood that has haunted the club. Sorry, Monty that means you (and if you have spaces in the car for Simonsen and Beattie by all means pack their cases as well.) An opportunity to consolidate, build and move forward with some strength. Upbeat, no, but relieved that for the first time in years we are no longer in freefall.

 

[dingledog]

I've been saying the same for years!

That's because you have alczimers and a boring so and so

 

[dingledog]

I've been saying the same for years!

That's because you have alczimers and a boring so and so

 

[Jehovah]

It's been a fucking disastrous season. We have won nothing. We lost our best player in
One of the most bizarre decisions since oj , lost 2nd to the pigs and then blew ANOTHER final.

Pure and utter pissed offness. Upbeat? About as upbeat as a man covered in his own shit

 

[EasyBlade]

Glad, because I don't have to watch us again until August. Not upbeat in the slightest, looking at the '#sufc' hashtag on twitter blows away any Blades-related positive thoughts, trust me. We're gonna have to put up with that shit big time next season.

 

[Hollinsend]

It's not so much the losing that I'm disappointed at but the whole shitty stick that is the playoffs. I despise them with a passion only previously reserved for stubbing a toe. There is no justification for what happened (I don't think we were that shit, under the circumstances), and I challenge anybody to explain why an entire season of hard work resulting in us being the third best team in the league rests upon a penalty being taken by a goalkeeper.

So yes, we're Sheffield United, yes we're shit at Wembley, but if there was justice in the world we shouldn't have even been there. We'd be promoted as having the the third best record in the league.

We'll need Bayern Munich to lose three consecutive playoffs before they get shut of em.

 

[Guesty]

We had fun on the coach home, ironically mocking the tired looking Huddersfield fans by jumping up, dancing and singing every time our coach passed one of theirs. We even took to hiding and jumping up as they overtook!

This backfired twice, once when we inadvertently doing it to another set of Blades, and once hilariously when we started singing towards what appeared to be a coach trip coming back from an Indian Wedding! God knows what they thought. As one lad behind me commented "I don't think any of us expected that!".

 

[Wards]

It's the bloody hope that kills you

No doubt we'll all be back next year contemplating the same fuckups that we manage year on year. I honestly do not know another club that puts its fans through the mill like ours does. I always poke fun at the Scousers for being a self pitying bunch but they don't know they're born!

 

[Latters]

Well after seeing what has mostly been one of our best seasons performance-wise result in failure I'm feling anything but upbeat.

If the scum hadn't gone up ahead of us I'd be relatively accepting that we'd just bollocksed it up again because it's what we do. But as it is, our season of hard work has reaped sweet fuck all reward and the bastards from across the city can now laud it over us because we're stuck in this shit division full of pub teams for another fucking year whilst they play against some proper teams and look to move onwards and upwards with a chairman that will invest.

For what it's worth, I think Wilson got the tactics spot on yesterday and we managed to keep the league's most potent striker very quiet, but we just didn't have the killer finish on the break.

I've renewed my season ticket but I'm not particularly looking forward to next season which I think we'll enter with a much weaker squad (any squad without Ched in it will be weaker) and we're unlikely to challenge for automatic promotion.

So, in summary, you could say no, I'm not feeling upbeat. Pissed off, dissapointed, bitter towards the scummy twats from S6 for being above us and sceptical about what's to come pretty much sums it up.

I don't want to be stuck down here for years. Some might be content with that. Me? I want more.

 

[Wards]

My thoughts entirely. We could feasibly end up doing a Huddersfield and being stuck down here for 10+ years. At the moment that is too much for me to even contemplate fully.

Looking forward to a summer break and to recharge the football batteries.

 

[Northyorksblade]

We had fun on the coach home, ironically mocking the tired looking Huddersfield fans by jumping up, dancing and singing every time our coach passed one of theirs. We even took to hiding and jumping up as they overtook!

This backfired twice, once when we inadvertently doing it to another set of Blades, and once hilariously when we started singing towards what appeared to be a coach trip coming back from an Indian Wedding! God knows what they thought. As one lad behind me commented "I don't think any of us expected that!".

Triple like! One of the reasons I fell in love with the Blades was the fans gallows sense of humour.

 

[Guesty]

Well we've all had the practice!

 

[bladesadviser]

Not amazingly upbeat but very calm about it all. I think that mine (and possibly others) expectations are so low that I never visualised us winning. Leaving the ground and listening to people was no different to walking out at Colchester after the 1-1 draw.

 

[Princess Annes Dog]

Very downbeat. We had a fluke season because of Cheds goals, next season we'll have no strikers and no midfield. There'll be no investment, just a mini cull and we'll be stuck down here for years.

Please don't start giving me grief for being a miserable sod, the way things stand that's the only realistic scenario I can see. Dark days ahead, certainly little to be upbeat about.

 

[Latters]

Very downbeat. We had a fluke season because of Cheds goals, next season we'll have no strikers and no midfield. There'll be no investment, just a mini cull and we'll be stuck down here for years.

Please don't start giving me grief for being a miserable sod, the way things stand that's the only realistic scenario I can see. Dark days ahead, certainly little to be upbeat about.

I agree. The sad thing is, in Wilson I think we've got the right man to take us forward. You only have to look at the contrast in the team's attitude and performances this season to see that. Sadly, I can't see him getting the financial backing required.

 

[sheffielder]

I don't get the title; it makes it sound like you are upbeat.

Strangely I am upbeat and my mood won't be swayed until we know who's coming in or out. I did see Dave Kitson and his wife at Wembley yesterday as per recent rumours. Could already be a done deal, who knows.

If keep Lowton, Maguire, Collins, Doyle and Macca then anyone else can be sacrificed for wages and more importantly PACE, imo

 

[Princess Annes Dog]

The football Wilson had us playing last season was for the most part a breath of fresh air. The only concern is that he blew most of the big games. We're where we've been for a long time, a couple of players away from being a decent side. Think most teams can say that to be honest but at this level, it wouldn't cost the earth to get that "couple of players" in. Now's the time to invest, not to cut.

Stran

gely I am upbeat and my mood won't be swayed until we know who's coming in or out. I did see Dave Kitson and his wife at Wembley yesterday as per recent rumours. Could already be a done deal, who knows.

If it's anything like thte last 318 transfer windows then get ready to be well and truly pissed off.