It's not about going down...we all knew relegation was a distinctly probability.
It's the way you go down that counts. We might be creating history this season for all the wrong reasons.
Imagine if we end up with 12 points, say 2 wins and 6 draws for the whole season, to be honest think this is very possible.
We'd be a laughing stock, opposition teams don't even need to try against us.
The manager stops trying and just accepts relegation, this lack of leadership transfers to the players, who also stop trying.
Even the fans will give up. I've never known Blades predict and accept we'll lose....before a ball has been kicked, that can't be right.
Once the rot has started it's tricky to stop it.
Also did anyone analyse our matches last season.
Remember old Pompey, in his post match review he almost always said we were unconvincing and quite poor in stages. To be honest he was correct.
The worrying thing for me, when we were promoted under Wilder, we were so well drilled and had a definite style.
Where as under Hecky, our style was so mixed, most games we had 15 minutes spells where we played some nice passing football and looked a good team, but in the same match we always had a 15 minute spell where we had zero composure and couldn't string 3 passes together.
Under Wilder we had no star players, we were a team, where as under Hecky we were totally reliant on the brilliance of N'Diaye and to a lesser degree McAtee. Now we've lost N'Diaye, we look lost regards tactics to create chances.
Also was concerned that when Wilder was manager we went 1-0 up, we then continued to attack trying to go 2-0 up, then 3-0 up
where as under Hecky when leading we parked the bus for the last 20 minutes of every match, defending in numbers trying to hold on.
Fair play, this pragmatic/ negative approach worked, our defence was often under loads of pressure in the Championship but our goalie has little to do.
So even though we rarely looked special we tended to win most matches 1-0 or 2-1 and Hecky deserves credit for that.
Yes some of my post is defeatist of course, but in reality without a billionaire you're fucked in this division..
We've all seen how much the quality has risen, and I go on about the bench a lot, but you combine this factor with the extra time rule, ordinary clubs are fucked from the start..
Remember Forest going crackers with money, and how we'd hoped they'd go down and get what they deserved, but they did what was needed to scrape through, that's how much money you need..which we of course have no where near.
The Premier league and the new rules are designed to exclude ordinary teams, they sort of want you as a temporary member, like getting a timeshare, a taste of it for a small amount of time.
This is a different way of thinking I know, not everybody's noticed this..
But they want a division owned by billionaires, who'll provide the best players the world has to offer, and a club like united trying to crash the party, nah, they don't let that happen, hence the Spurs debacle, I do believe we'd have played till they won, because that's what they wanted..
As for newly promoted sides, thier role is to do exactly what we did when Newcastle smashed us, turn up, get fucked by 4 or 5+ goals and fuck off back down with your bang average players, we don't want you here rubbing shoulders with the top boys for too long or you'll weaken the product, they've spunked millions and turned up with Elvis and Frank Sinatra, we've turned up with the Steps..
Unless you have a billionaire, and are signing Brazilians and world Cup winners they only want you as cannon fodder, Newcastle with thier untold riches will only help build thier brand and will obviously keep paying up till they win the title..
I actually think our season with Wilder put this in motion, cannon fodder pushing for European football.. Time for a rethink?