Be nice if Blades went up wunt it?

[Jan Age]

I would love us to go up but would instantly remember what irritates me about United when we are given a £25 mil transfer budget believing that will have a positive enough impact on squad improvement.

 

[BigBed]

I just hope that if - when - we go up - we don't turn into a self entitled bunch of wankers, as has happened to so many other fans of teams that have made it into the premiership. Having our feet on the ground has always been one of the best characteristics of Blades fans for me.

But "We're all fucking wankers at the Lane" already??

 

[SUFC Guy]

Or would you prefer they didn’t?

“Not ready yet”

“Need another season to consolidate”

“We’d get beat every week”

“Wouldn’t be able to get tickets”

“Prices would go up”

“Premiership is not as exciting as Championship”

What’s your take on it?

Hey! You missed...

"Stick a tenner on us at 5000-1"

 

[McGrath]

I'd absolutely love another promotion season. It would be amazing and I don't doubt we'd give it our best shot under Wilder and surprise a few.

But I have to admit that I was a bit underwhelmed when we were in the Premier League last time around. It didn't feel like a level playing field and even if we on top against a big club some cheating toe rag would take a dive in the box and the ref would be pointing to the spot before he even hit the deck!

I can be doing without 'tourist fans' as well.

 

[Jehovah]

If we don't go up this season, thats me done.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

I'd love to see this team up against the so called big Prem teams just to guage how our possession and pressing goes against better quality but I reckon there would be no reason to fear a lot of the bottom half. OK, we'd probably have to take 95% of our chances and ride our luck a bit to survive but there's worse teams than us at the moment have done that in years gone by.

Let's see how this season goes, we ran out of steam last season from a similar position, albeit with contributing factors but if this team does go up, bring it on

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Do you think fans of smaller, lower league teams have the same aspirations?
The likes of Hallam, Blyth Spartans, Salford, Worcester City, some of whom have very loyal fans who travel home and away.
Our are they happy seeing (sometimes) decent honest football being played by players who genuinely try their best every game?
I'm currently enjoying our ride and the football CW and AK has us playing and if we do get promoted then great, let's see us compete with Bournemouth, Watford, Crystal Palace etc and let's see how we can cope with Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool!
Hopefully lessons from tge past have been learned and the same mistakes won't happen again.......but don't hold your breath. This is the Blades!

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I'm sure some of our apologists would find many belittling statements explaining why we don't belong there
We're not good enough
It's scary
How can we compete
We obviously don't belong in the same League as Bournemouth, Watford, Brighton, Crystal Palace, Southampton, Cardiff, Leicester, Fulham, Wolves, Huddersfield
A league that has recently seen Bolton, Stoke, Wigan, Blackburn, West Brom, Birmingham, QPR, Middlesboro, Sunderland, Derby, Forest, Ipswich, Norwich, Hull City, Portsmouth, Coventry, Reading and Swansea all be in there for more than 9 months

Although I agree with the general tone of your comment, the supporter base, stadium size & history of a football club means absolutely nothing in modern football. It's something the historically bigger clubs like to cling to as they drop through the leagues, but it's irrelevant. We don't deserve to be in a league in 2018 due to the fact we were a decent side at the arse end of the victorian / start of the edwardian era. We are where we are due to a heady cocktail of bad decisions, bad luck and the financial side of the game moving out of our orbit. The teams that you mention have spent periods of time in the top league, due to a heady cocktail of good decisions, good luck and being able (or choosing to) to operate within the modern financial requirements.

 

[SelbyBlade]

I just hope that if - when - we go up - we don't turn into a self entitled bunch of wankers, as has happened to so many other fans of teams that have made it into the premiership. Having our feet on the ground has always been one of the best characteristics of Blades fans for me.

It's inevitable unfortunately even Blackpool fans became unbearable whilst they had their flirt there. You would think that 6 seasons in the third tier would help to keep us to remain grounded but it won't. My worry is that we won't go up because Adkins predicted that we would and I haven't witnessed him say or get anything right.

 

[dazzlingblade]

its not about what most of us old folk want, it's about the current younger generation that deserve to see the best footballers gracing our turf, ill never forget seeing my blades run out for the first time in the top flight, the young uns will never forget seeing De Bruyne, Kane, Salah playing at the lane, so it's a yes from me

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

I'd take a season in the Prem but instead of wasting money on a load of JF mercenaries spend the cash on building a proper Kop (not an extension on the current shed) and extend the South Stand. Make Bramall Lane into a really iconic stadium, a ground that stands out and grabs the attention of anyone driving down into Sheffield or arriving there on the train. If we go down, we go down, so what, we do it with a load more cash to spend.

That said I'd rather us get to the FA Cup final and win it than go up!

 

[Melbourne Blade]

Bring it on I say. I think it'll be a different story to the warnock years. Wilder is shrewder and will out tactic warnock especially away from home.

Why do we cheer goals and wins if we don't want progress? I can see attitude and commitment outshining big money teams. Well maybe in my dreams

 

[Bladezz]

Yeah go up and have some good away days.

Personally I wouldn’t mind us just spending £10million and keeping squad. Knowing it probably won’t be enough to keep us up. But we come down with huge payments and Chris will have taken us from league one to a year in the prem back to championship and earnt the club 10s of millions and stabilised our club for next 20+ years.

 

[lazyfecklessblade]

Of course you would. Feasibly it's the only way we're going to hold onto a lot of our first team.

Also who's to say that Wilder and Knill's football jihad won't have the same impact in the top flight as it did the divisions below.

 

[cooperblade]

Nice? It'd be absolutely fucking brilliant.

Would finally give me closure for 06/07 and seeing Fleck, O'Connell and Basham in the Premier League would rival seeing Jagielka, Montgomery and Tonge there from an emotional point of view.

 

[PokerBlade]

Looking forward to half and half scarves, corporate boxes full of people who have just come to see the big teams, curious non football fans complaining about swearing, £50+ away tickets, being the last team on match of the Day, if we win pundits only talking about the opposition in crisis, condescending reporters seemingly surprised at the ground / atmosphere, getting into the back pages of the national papers, newspaper sports writers proudly coming up with new headlines like ‘Blades blunted’ ‘Blades on the cutting edge’ ‘Sharp Blades blunt United’ and yes calling us Sheffield United and Man U simply United.
But on the bright side, proudly watching a team not scared to take on all comers and surprise a few . Bring it on. UTB COYRAWW

So pretty much the same except Hillsborough prices are the norm and we're on MOTD instead of that shitty channel that only shows Wheeler Dealers.

 

[Davalon]

How can you not want promotion?

5 top flight seasons in the last 40 odd years. Pitiful for a club of our size and stature.

Bring it on.

 

[Topplayersleave]

Although I agree with the general tone of your comment, the supporter base, stadium size & history of a football club means absolutely nothing in modern football. It's something the historically bigger clubs like to cling to as they drop through the leagues, but it's irrelevant. We don't deserve to be in a league in 2018 due to the fact we were a decent side at the arse end of the victorian / start of the edwardian era. We are where we are due to a heady cocktail of bad decisions, bad luck and the financial side of the game moving out of our orbit. The teams that you mention have spent periods of time in the top league, due to a heady cocktail of good decisions, good luck and being able (or choosing to) to operate within the modern financial requirements.

Absolutely correct. Nobody deserves anything
I'm not one of these that says we "Deserve" like the pigs seem to believe, there are 15 clubs in the Championship that could say "We deserve" if potential was the only issue. But I don't believe it's bad luck either.
The financial side of the game has moved out of our orbit because our past and present boardrooms have allowed it to, they sat around and watched it happen in front of their eyes and played the downtrodden poor old us card instead

It's not as though they had to do a great deal 40 years ago to ensure that we became a part of it because money wasn't the same issue that it is now.
Liverpool were traditionally a second division team playing second fiddle to Everton most of the time, but their boardroom gave Shankly licence to shape the club into what it is today, it could easily have been us or somebody else if the boardroom would have allowed a Shankly type of character to do it, but they'd have thwarted his every move

Nowadays it's all about money, without it you can't succeed, but it wasn't always that way and a bit more vision back in the day when we could have competed could have seen a very different club to what we have settled for.

 

[JackSUFC]

Even if we were only there for one season, the amount of TV money and parachute payments we’d received would set us up for ages!

 

[dublin 10 blade]

I would take promotion in a heartbeat ,
If we get promoted ( If ) it would set up our club for years to come to be the real dominating force of football in this city and area ,
We feared if the pigs went up v Ull what could happen to us and them
If we don’t go up , and it’ll be tough and I don’t know if , with some of the teams up top we’d be able to do it
Yet there’s thread after thread about lack of ambition
Cue much handwringing and told you so’s when a player has to be sold and no ambition is aimed at our club Yet some still want to stay put in this league
Nah mate I’d take the exposer and prestige that would come to our club in a second even if it was for just 1 season
There are only 2 spots left though as pigs are already up

 

[shorehamview]

Promotion this season.
Top four finish the season after.
2021 Champion's League final somewhere warm with nice cold beer, Peroni ideally. Billy Sharp overhead kick to win it.

We can dream. And what's the point of supporting a team if you don't want them to beat every bugger they play? It may seem an impossible dream, but a few years ago we were adrift on a sea of despair. Now we sail on HMS Optimism, helmed by Chris Wilder. Dreams sometimes come true. Ask this bloke in the picture, he dreamed as a kid of playing for his team. Wonder how that panned out for him?

 

[Hartley Hare]

There is lots you could do with the money from one season alone;

Reduce ticket prices (Home and away)
Free travel to all away games
Reduce prices for drinks and eats
Improve facilities and the ground
Invest further in youth development and the academy.
Repay loans and liabilities, improve finances
Charitable good work round the city in name of club

and.... buy a lorry load of blue paint and have it delivered to S6.

HH

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Make Bramall Lane into a really iconic stadium, a ground that stands out and grabs the attention of anyone driving down into Sheffield or arriving there on the train.

Or by Tardis

 

[BLADES1988]

Would love to go up, its just when you come back down the shit hits the fan. Could see us going back to the dreaded League 1 if Wilder gets the sack for being relegated from the EPL (god I hate that its called the EPL)

 

[Longtimesupporter]

I want us to win every game. If this happens, or close to, the result would be promotion. I cannot ever want us not to win, so promotion it is.

 

[Kev Gee]

As section 60 once said...


Is this our day in the sunshine?

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Or would you prefer they didn’t?

“Not ready yet”

“Need another season to consolidate”

“We’d get beat every week”

“Wouldn’t be able to get tickets”

“Prices would go up”

“Premiership is not as exciting as Championship”

What’s your take on it?

The money’s pretty good though and I would love us to become one of those Yo Yo clubs. A promotion season every 2 years would be grand.

 

[itsinyerblood]

The money’s pretty good though and I would love us to become one of those Yo Yo clubs. A promotion season every 2 years would be grand.

You've described what Burnley did for a few seasons. Eventually they stabilised after attracting the type of players who could sustain their Premiership position.

You can't plan for what happens but at least be savvy enough to understand the possibilities and work accordingly. So much depends on how we're managed from the very top, and no matter how good CW is, he needs a board who want exactly the same as he does.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Or would you prefer they didn’t?

“Not ready yet”

“Need another season to consolidate”

“We’d get beat every week”

“Wouldn’t be able to get tickets”

“Prices would go up”

“Premiership is not as exciting as Championship”

What’s your take on it?

It's FREE MONEY

hello everyone - SKY dish out bucket loads of free cash to use how you want, when you want - not a single person should object to going into the premier league - we have to trust CW to use it properly.

and the other thing - if CW, for whatever reason is STOPPED in his personal ambition quest, then we will lose him to a club with fans that WON'T be scared/put off/worried about the items above.

It's a no brainer.

UTB

 

[Topplayersleave]

You've described what Burnley did for a few seasons. Eventually they stabilised after attracting the type of players who could sustain their Premiership position.

You can't plan for what happens but at least be savvy enough to understand the possibilities and work accordingly. So much depends on how we're managed from the very top, and no matter how good CW is, he needs a board who want exactly the same as he does.

Absolutely
Whether we agree or not, football is an expensive business, it's a thriving business, and assets in a thriving business will come with a premium in the form of fees and wages.
Our club and it's fans better stop moaning about how unfair it is and either get on with it or accept 2nd or 3rd best like it has done in the past.

The biggest problem is that tomorrows football only has room for 40 clubs maximum IMO
A Premier League and a Championship, the rest will die or become amateur clubs playing non league football at various levels