Best victory of the season so far

[1973Blade]

Obviously the Bouncing Day Massacre gets all the plaudits, but so many highlights so far. The late win at Leeds, our first away win against Sunderland and the opening day win against Brentford which showed that we can compete at this level.
But for me, the best result was the home win against Wolves. Coming only three days after the Hillsborough game, we could have easily been distracted but instead it was an excellent performance against who will probably turn out to be the best team at this level by some distance. The fact they had a player sent off doesn't alter the fact that it was a fantastic result.

 

[DiggerBlade]

Bouncing day massacre.

 

[Ricky]

Title should be 'Best OTHER victory of the season so far'

Even if we do slide down the table, never forget how bloody magnificent that was. It's already been a great season.

 

[1973Blade]

The best victory taking into consideration the quality of the opposition, which degrades the significance of the Wednesday win!

 

[SB_90]

for me that would be Brentford. so much pre match doubt that we would be awful & be like bolton so to win espically being under seige that last 1/2 hour was amazing feeling. laid foundations for last 20 games

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

for me that would be Brentford. so much pre match doubt that we would be awful & be like bolton so to win espically being under seige that last 1/2 hour was amazing feeling. laid foundations for last 20 games

Brentford gets my vote for so many reasons.

We could easily of lost that game but didn't and it set the tone. Lose that game and it's not a stretch to say, it could have been a tricky introduction to La Liga. It showed us it was going to be tough but we had nothing to fear.

 

[Stretch]

Beating Wolves (10 men or not) immediately after despathing of the swine was also something of a statement, Leeds not long after. All cracking wins.

 

[BigBed]

Just nice that we've swept the other yorkshire clubs aside with relative ease.

 

[Minty]

Brentford was hugely important for giving us the belief and the pigs result goes without saying, but for me beating Leeds away was the biggest statement. The Wolves result was superb but we were ahead after 10 mins and they were a man down for the rest of the match.

 

[zablade]

Wednesday

Leeds

Wolves

Derby

 

[Tommoblade66]

Bouncing day massacre.

That wasn't much of a victory though because they're crap. Mildly satisfying though Would say beating Wolves 2-0

 

[Roygbiv]

Derby deserves a shout as it showed we could match the better teams in the league fr the first time.

 

[Punk Blade]

Ipswich.

Winning without Coutts and with Bash out on the right is no mean feat!

 

[lazyfecklessblade]

Leeds for me, getting the winner after nearly chucking points away against them felt really important.

Then again, they're all important - fuck it I change my mind it's pigs 2-4!

 

[dublin 10 blade]

For someone who experienced the horrific Boxing Day event
We heard since gaining promotion as champions how we would be found out in La Liga
We may have beaten the pigs many many times since then ,
Even that season we did the double with Dane scoring home and away
Showing up the pigs on national and international television to an audience of millions
How can that not be the win of the season
Yes we have beaten Leeds and Wolves and several other teams playing outstanding football
But the complete and utter humiliation of the pigs will always live long in my memory

 

[Damski]

Bouncing Day will be a legendary, blessed game in Blades folklore for years to come. It's not only our best game of the season, it's one of our best ever.

Apart from that, we were magnificent at home to a hapless Derby side. That final goal in the depths of injury time was incredible.

 

[nowtfancy]

The next one

 

[Piffle and Tosh]

For someone who experienced the horrific Boxing Day event
We heard since gaining promotion as champions how we would be found out in La Liga
We may have beaten the pigs many many times since then ,
Even that season we did the double with Dane scoring home and away
Showing up the pigs on national and international television to an audience of millions
How can that not be the win of the season
Yes we have beaten Leeds and Wolves and several other teams playing outstanding football
But the complete and utter humiliation of the pigs will always live long in my memory

fair comment

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Pigs (1) and Leedscum (2) definitely.

Among the others already mentioned though, worth also pointing to the importance of the Barnsley win. Coming off the back of those Cardiff and Boro losses, when we'd become unaccustomed to losing, it was a reassuringly professional/straightforward/comfortable win.

 

[snootyfenooty]

How can it be anything other than the pigs. I haven't stopped grinning since.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Apart from beating the pigs, my vote goes to the game at home to Derby.

When the teams were being announced prior to kick off, I noted how nearly all their players were either ex-premier league or internationals and I thought we'd got our work cut out. But we completely outplayed them in every department. Some said our goals were lucky that day, but to me they were the result of our relentless pressurising and harrying. Our work-rate was phenomenal that day.

That was the day I knew we'd do well in this league.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

it has to be THAT victory. From the word go, the Fleck free kick and everything that followed.

"If you don't f***ing bounce..." ruined, forever.

 

[metalblade]

Got to be the pigs, gave them 40 seconds of hope and then comprehensively crushed them. After all the shit our team and fans had to endure pre match it made it all the more sweet to see the fire drill 15mins before the end.

 

[blade too long]

duffys goal , wiped 6 years of hurt out in one fell swoop , and an even longer wait for a win over the oinkers in sept 2009

gave us what we as fans long for , , a period of gloating wed been missing
no matter what anyone says beating them and scoring 4 at chez chansiri has given us back some much needed pride

it emboldens the soul to quote the Simpsons to baste the pigs

 

[blade.i.am]

ask us again in a couple of months and we'll all be raving about the 5-0 thrashing of the Pigs in full of a full house at the Lane.

 

[Pinchy]

Brentford was hugely important for giving us the belief and the pigs result goes without saying, but for me beating Leeds away was the biggest statement. The Wolves result was superb but we were ahead after 10 mins and they were a man down for the rest of the match.

They (quite rightly) went a man down because we were already dominating them and they couldn’t cope. It wasn’t some undeserved gift from God.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Keeping Chris Wilder. Nothing competes with that for a strategic victory..

For sheer orgasmic joy snuffing the pigs...

 

[Minty]

They (quite rightly) went a man down because we were already dominating them and they couldn’t cope. It wasn’t some undeserved gift from God.

Did I say that?? Yes, we were on top in the first 10 mins and deserved the lead, but it was very early in the match and you would expect a full strength team like Wolves to come back hard and get into the game - they didn't mainly due to being a man down.

 

[Pinchy]

Did I say that?? Yes, we were on top in the first 10 mins and deserved the lead, but it was very early in the match and you would expect a full strength team like Wolves to come back hard and get into the game - they didn't mainly due to being a man down.

That’s the point though. They deservedly went a man down because their eleven men were being overrun by our eleven. You have no grounds for assuming that would not have continued. It’s cap-doffing others and doing less than justice to our own team in the usual S2 manner, I’m afraid.

 

[Minty]

That’s the point though. They deservedly went a man down because their eleven men were being overrun by our eleven. You have no grounds for assuming that would not have continued. It’s cap-doffing others and doing less than justice to our own team in the usual S2 manner, I’m afraid.

Sorry Pinchy but you do talk bollocks sometimes. Interpret it how you want but that is not what meant.

The first 10 minutes of a match is far too early to predict that the pattern of play will continue throughout - we were dominant against the pigs for 45 mins and were pegged back to 2-2 after 60 mins when they had their spell at the start of the 2nd half - probably safe to say that if Duff hadn't scored when he did we could have lost that match. Just because you start well doesn't mean you will continue and all I'm saying is that a team like Wolves, who are pissing the league right now, had the quality in the squad to come back into it with 11 men. Whether they would have or not who knows, but you also have no grounds for assuming we would have continued to dominate after just 10 mins play.