Anyone else at Stage 5 yet?

[Pittsburg Blade]

Five Stages Of Relegation Grief
Denial and Isolation.
At first, we tend to deny that relegation is taking place, and may withdraw from our usual social contacts. This stage may last a few moments, or longer, perhaps months.
Anger.
The grieving person may then be furious at the person who inflicted the hurt (McCabe, Simmo, Collins, Nos), or at the world, for letting it happen. He may be angry with himself for letting the relegation take place, even if, realistically, nothing could have stopped it.
Bargaining.
Now the grieving person may make bargains with God, asking, "If I do this, will you take away the awful reality of joining the pigs in Division 3?"
Depression.
The person feels numb, although anger and sadness may remain underneath.
Acceptance.
This is when the anger, sadness and mourning have tapered off. The person simply accepts the reality of the loss and gets drunk.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I got to acceptance a long time ago.

 

[MunXy]

since ive been a blade (40 years+ ) i have come to accept the bad with the good, as ive said in another thread, after relegation to league 4 in early 80's no low can compete with that, so its no big deal in all honesty if we go down.
now if we do manage to beat all the odds i will be extatic

MunXy

 

[jacknat]

It makes me laugh when the stewards go to stage 5, although half of them don't know what it means.....I'd love to go to stage 5 with a few of the doom and gloom posters on here I'll not mention names though I might get another ban



True blade...

 

[WorkingtonBlade]

I also reached stage 5 depressingly early (but does being depressed about that put me back to Stage 4? Not sure...). It was a new experience for me. United have been relegated three times while I have supported them, and always with a good chance of staying up until the last day (or indeed, beyond the last day of the normal season, being through the play-offs the first time). I can't quite decide which is more painful. This way's more drawn out, but it does at least avoid that horrible, sickening suddenness on the last day, which then took (for me) most of the summer to recover from. Trying to recover from United-related disappointment is much harder during the summer, because you don't have another United game to distract you. All you can think of is the last one, and how horrific it was.

This time I'm not anticipating being particular bothered over the summer by the fact we were relegated. Indeed, having already gone through the 5 stages, I'm quite looking forward to a different set of places to travel to on away days (quite frankly I'm bored of that walk across Watford's miserable town centre from the station to the ground - I need some different miserable places to go), a few more wins, standing on terraces....and that's about all the advantages I can think of being in the third tier. Never mind, chin up, off to the cricket on Sunday. For me the football season was over weeks ago, and the mind is on summer pursuits until August. What's Stage 6, Pittsburg?

 

[Kenilworth]

I got to acceptance a long time ago.

Hey Highbury. How did the wristathon go today?

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Hey Highbury. How did the wristathon go today?

As soon as i saw Pippa Middleton in that slinky little number i was off like a rocket

 

[Vancouver]

I've not seen Pippa but my wife says William chose the better sister

 

[Oreyt]

If you were at the Billy Mill Roundabout when Posh Spice's necrotic boat loomed into view well done if pushed on through.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

I've not seen Pippa but my wife says William chose the better sister

:nod:

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I've not seen Pippa but my wife says William chose the better sister

Normally she doesn't look all that but today she was living proof that a good frock can do wonders

Hot

 

[gavtheblade]

Normally she doesn't look all that but today she was living proof that a good frock can do wonders

Hot

smash her back doors in

 

[Bladeboy96]

I reached stage five when we lost 4-0 to scunthorpe near the start of the season.

 

[axel smeets]

I don't know about stage 5, but as someone who is very rarely ill at all, I am laid here in bed with some sort of mystery illness. It has laid me low, I can't bloody move, I'm shaking, sweating, dizzy. It's had me wondering if its related to what could probably happen tomorrow.

 

[Bladesman]

I reached stage five when we lost 4-0 to scunthorpe near the start of the season.

Yeah same here.

 

[FlyingFjortoft]

I got all the way down to stage 5 earlier in the season but now I'm back at stage 1.

COYRAWW!!!!!!

 

[Compound_Legend]

Stage 5? Not Phase 5?

Or is the attendance of Mr Meadows required at Bramall Control? (and how many of you remember that?)

 

[broomhillblade]

Is there a Stage 6?

 

[Tizertrance]

Think I got to stage 5 when Robson was still in charge

 

[dingledog]

Stage 5 months ago, shit... It happens