Boring Blades seasons

[Pollingtonblade]

let’s be fair in the last few years we’ve been going for play offs/ promotion / trying to avoid the drop and having cup runs. But what about the dullest seasons following the Blades.

My 2 are 01/02 - crap season, weren’t going up or down, no cup run, no derby win and just all round tedious- the season is remembered for the ‘Battle of Bramall Lane’ which says it all.

86/87 - my first full season I think our top scorer got under 10 goals, such a powder puff side nothing ofvnote happened.

 

[bladesmanluke]

The season before we got relegated to league one. I keep seeing people saying we got relegated the season after and off the back of the play off final defeat to Burnley. We didn’t. We had another season of awful football and finishing 8th under Blackwell. I suppose it’s easy enough to forget. The only thing we had to celebrate that year was the pigs’ relegation. Little did we know we’d be following them 12 months later. Extreme cost cutting obviously contributed to that seasons failure to trouble the playoff pack, but the football was the most turgid crap we had to witness for years.

 

[Nade]

I feel as though from our playoff semi final loss of 97/98 to the triple assault season of 02/03, nothing really happened.

 

[Cheets]

1994/95? First season following relegation from the Premier League. We tried to go straight back up but it petered out. Played in awful Andy Pandy kit.

 

[Cheets]

What about the Adkins season, 2015/16? Or was that too bad to be considered boring?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I feel as though from our playoff semi final loss of 97/98 to the triple assault season of 02/03, nothing really happened.

Yeah I suppose 99/00 but we were arguably relegation fodder also 98/99 we had brief hope of top 6 and also 00/01 has a shout of play offs

1994/95? First season following relegation from the Premier League. We tried to go straight back up but it petered out. Played in awful Andy Pandy kit.

We were in with a shout if play offs till Easter

What about the Adkins season, 2015/16? Or was that too bad to be considered boring?

Again hard to believe but we had a shout of play offs till penultimate weekend.

 

[Cheets]

1982/83 we signed Terry Curran after winning the Div 4 title but that season turned out to be pretty boring.

 

[Nade]

It must be pretty boring to be a mid-level Premiership club, to be honest. I think once we get promoted we should try to narrowly avoid relegation each year to keep things interesting.

 

[Cassius Kray]

It must be pretty boring to be a mid-level Premiership club, to be honest. I think once we get promoted we should try to narrowly avoid relegation each year to keep things interesting.

I see what you're saying, but I'd suggest we win the Champions League each year instead to avoid boredom. I'm sure I could endure a good 20, maybe 30 years of trophies before it started to wear thin.

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

What about the Adkins season, 2015/16? Or was that too bad to be considered boring?

Probably feel this because it’s the most recent but can’t remember being more indifferent about what was happening than that season

 

[coaxingstar71]

As LS26BLADE said, 1986/87 was a dull season. The most memorable thing was when we played Portsmouth at the Lane and 4 players got sent off, 3 of theirs and Beagrie for the Blades. As most will remember we scraped a 1-0 with a fluke own goal by Paul Mariner that looped off his foot as he tried to block and over the keeper.

 

[Cheets]

Probably feel this because it’s the most recent but can’t remember being more indifferent about what was happening than that season

There's also the point about expectation levels of the club. If we are in mid-table in second flight then that's disappointing, but to be failing to even reach the play-offs in third flight, and showing a complete lack of passion, despite a huge wage bill, is something else.

 

[DifferentClass]

The early Warnock years were pretty uninspiring.

 

[1973Blade]

20004-2005 sandwiched between the 'triple assault and promotion. I remember the last home game we lost 1-0 at home to Millwall and fans were calling for his head. I was surprised that he was still manager the following season.

 

[Deleted member 875]

In recent years 09/10 season was pretty dull.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

1977/78 although the shirts (home/away) were great, the programme was now a black cover instead of a pale red from the previous season.

 

[Cheets]

As LS26BLADE said, 1986/87 was a dull season. The most memorable thing was when we played Portsmouth at the Lane and 4 players got sent off, 3 of theirs and Beagrie for the Blades. As most will remember we scraped a 1-0 with a fluke own goal by Paul Mariner that looped off his foot as he tried to block and over the keeper.

We had a bit of a purple patch in Autumn including a 3-2 win at Maine Road and a last gasp David Frain winner against Sunderland. Peter Beagrie had some fantastic games including the 4-2 Boxing Day victory over Hull.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

We had a bit of a purple patch in Autumn including a 3-2 win at Maine Road and a last gasp David Frain winner against Sunderland. Peter Beagrie had some fantastic games including the 4-2 Boxing Day victory over Hull.

The 3-2 win at Maine Road was 87/88.

 

[Cheets]

The 3-2 win at Maine Road was 87/88.

So it was; I stand corrected. We must have had a right team that season!

 

[JohnStreet]

The 3-2 win at Maine Road was 87/88.

I remember going to that. The ref made a mistake not giving us a penalty in the first half. He must have realised as early in the second half it seemed like as soon as we got into the penalty area he pointed to the spot!

 

[Guesty]

As stupid as it sounds, the season that ended in the Play-off defeat to Burnley was pretty dull. No epic comebacks, very few great goals. We came within 90 minutes of promotion twice and I can barely remember anything about that season.

 

[BushBlade]

It must be pretty boring to be a mid-level Premiership club, to be honest. I think once we get promoted we should try to narrowly avoid relegation each year to keep things interesting.

I've said this before but if we do go up and stay up, once we've consolidated I don't want us to 'concentrate on staying in the league' like so many mid table clubs do. I want us to take the cups seriously.

Otherwise, like every other club our size that goes up it will just be a sequence of promotion, consolidation, mid table finishes until we get a bit of bad luck and end up going down again. I'd rather do 'a Wigan' than a 'Stoke'.

 

[Nade]

There's also the point about expectation levels of the club. If we are in mid-table in second flight then that's disappointing, but to be failing to even reach the play-offs in third flight, and showing a complete lack of passion, despite a huge wage bill, is something else.

We have been a second tier club for most of my life, other than a few seasons in the third and one season in the premiership (too young to remember the early 90's).

Do people really think generally expect us to be higher than where we are currently? (I don't mean this season but in generaL) Like, for the last 25 years where we are right now sounds about right. I think it'd pain a few people on here to admit it but in the Premiership I'd simply be happy to be there, and the second tier is about our level if you look at the last 40 years or so as a guide.

 

[Harry's Game]

Unless we can quickly get back on a good run I can see the end of this Sassoon fading away to not much except seeing if we can stay above Wednesday.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

We have been a second tier club for most of my life, other than a few seasons in the third and one season in the premiership (too young to remember the early 90's).

Do people really think generally expect us to be higher than where we are currently? (I don't mean this season but in generaL) Like, for the last 25 years where we are right now sounds about right. I think it'd pain a few people on here to admit it but in the Premiership I'd simply be happy to be there, and the second tier is about our level if you look at the last 40 years or so as a guide.

Total years 114
Level 1: 60
Level 2: 42
Level 3: 11
Level 4: 1

Expect? Possibly not, but there is no reason why the club shouldn't be striving for premiership football and we shouldn't be humble if we achieved it.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

20004-2005 sandwiched between the 'triple assault and promotion. I remember the last home game we lost 1-0 at home to Millwall and fans were calling for his head. I was surprised that he was still manager the following season.

There was also 2003 04.

 

[1973Blade]

There was also 2003 04.

True, that wasn't great either!