Confess your unpopular opinions regarding SUFC

[Valley Blade]

Jack Robinson is better than Chris Morgan ever was but he'll never be as fondly remembered.

That's because most of us know, that Morgan was a far better player, in every way you could judge it.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

The Adkins season was better than this season by a country mile.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Jack Robinson is better than Chris Morgan ever was but he'll never be as fondly remembered.

You are taking the piss, and it is funny. Bravo.

 

[GrunkyPeep]

I feel sorry for anyone true ITK's. Things change so quickly and something they put can be correct and then completely incorrect hours later.

Case in point: anyone saying Illi was going to sign a new contract and stay. That was true until it wasn't any more.

 

[biggiesablade]

I feel sorry for anyone true ITK's. Things change so quickly and something they put can be correct and then completely incorrect hours later.

Case in point: anyone saying Illi was going to sign a new contract and stay. That was true until it wasn't any more.

Imo if your actually itk you should keep your mouth shut about anything you know unless it's kit or pies or summit

 

[FMBlade1]

I don't 'hate' Leeds United

They have a large passionate fanbase with a more successful history than us, showing that it's possible to thrive 'even' when from Yorkshire.

(Certainly don't like them either to be clear)

 

[BerksBlade]

Ramsdale gets too much stick for the way he left - but not enough stick for how awful he was when playing for us.

A big part of why we went down, in those crucial early games where margins were tight. Not just his direct mistakes leading to goals but the way he transmitted shakiness and fear into our back line and the rest of the team. A big factor in why Egan’s performances collapsed too, imo.

On the move to Arsenal, it was a career changing deal he was incredibly lucky to get and we had no business standing in his way. Can understand why he’d stamp his feet and make 100% sure it went through - it probably wouldn’t have come round again.

Don't think we "stood in his way" at all. We waited for Arsenal to match our valuation instead of caving in at the first offer. It was a shit move to basically go on strike while still under contract.

 

[JohnDenver]

I don't 'hate' Leeds United

They have a large passionate fanbase with a more successful history than us, showing that it's possible to thrive 'even' when from Yorkshire.

(Certainly don't like them either to be clear)

Their history isn’t one I’d want.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Just because majority of a fanbase don't rate a player (because they're shite) doesn't mean they 'hate' the player.

Keep seeing posts on here that everyone hates Grbic, Larouci, Lowe etc etc.

Just more posts to dig at fellow blades IMO..

 

[Valley Blade]

I don't 'hate' Leeds United

They have a large passionate fanbase with a more successful history than us, showing that it's possible to thrive 'even' when from Yorkshire.

(Certainly don't like them either to be clear)

They've won exactly the same number of domestic trophies as us, with one of them being the league cup. Two inter city Fairs cups as well, granted. Didn't win a major trophy until 1969. Spent less seasons in top division than United. If they hadn't dropped on Revie, they would have remained the non descripts they were.

 

[Blade for Sale]

I don't 'hate' Leeds United

They have a large passionate fanbase with a more successful history than us, showing that it's possible to thrive 'even' when from Yorkshire.

(Certainly don't like them either to be clear)

For a 1 club city, with a vast and practically undisputed catchment area to their north, they are bigger underachievers than we are.

 

[Wincobank S9 Blade]

They've won exactly the same number of domestic trophies as us, with one of them being the league cup. Two inter city Fairs cups as well, granted. Didn't win a major trophy until 1969. Spent less seasons in top division than United. If they hadn't dropped on Revie, they would have remained the non descripts they were.

Correct, you could say similar for Forest with Brian Clough as well he carried them for years.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Their history isn’t one I’d want.

If I was older I'd probably swap our history for theirs.

If you think about it a 65 year old Leeds fan has seen them win 5 major honours in their lifetime.

3 league titles, an FA Cup and a League Cup.

As well as a European Cup final, a Champions League semi final and numerous other domestic cup finals.

A 65 year old Blades fan has seen us win nothing and witnessed zero cup final appearances.

 

[JohnDenver]

If I was older I'd probably swap our history for theirs.

If you think about it a 65 year old Leeds fan has seen them win 5 major honours in their lifetime.

3 league titles, an FA Cup and a League Cup.

As well as a European Cup final, a Champions League semi final and numerous other domestic cup finals.

A 65 year old Blades fan has seen us win nothing and witnessed zero cup final appearances.

In terms of the bare headlines, I totally agree. But whilst Leeds’ success in the 1970s was before my time, I’ve learned enough about it to know it’s heavily tainted. That’s what I’d want no part of.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

In terms of the bare headlines, I totally agree. But whilst Leeds’ success in the 1970s was before my time, I’ve learned enough about it to know it’s heavily tainted. That’s what I’d want no part of.

Even if you remove the success from the 70s they've still had it bloody good compared to most clubs.

 

[FMBlade1]

We deserved to start the season with more than a 2 point deduction for our previous transgressions

 

[Tarqs]

We deserved to start the season with more than a 2 point deduction for our previous transgressions

Really? I thought it was random and the punishment was the transfer ban.

Seemed out of nowhere they threw 2 points at us.

 

[GrunkyPeep]

We should stop using the 0-8 game against Newcastle as the barometer for how shite we were last season.

We should have pushed for that game to be postponed after the news about Maddie Cusack was announced.

There are much better examples of us being exceptionally poor that we didn't have a credible excuse for.

 

[The Fox]

Unpopular view.

Given all the challenges in football I think were a pretty well run club .

 

[Sheffsteel]

Another unpopular view is

On an individual level don’t think any of Wilders 2020 champions league chasing team were Premier league level apart from Dean Henderson and possibly Jack O’Connell.

Our players only looked good because Wilder has developed a system playing to their strengths and ensuring they were formulaic and so well drilled relying on team play over individual ability.

For example Norwood, Basham, McGoldrock were brilliant for us but send them to another PL team and all 3 would struggle and not get a game.

My theory has kind of been proven because no other PL clubs showed any real interest in buying any of our players.

 

[Revolution]

We should stop using the 0-8 game against Newcastle as the barometer for how shite we were last season.

We should have pushed for that game to be postponed after the news about Maddie Cusack was announced.

There are much better examples of us being exceptionally poor that we didn't have a credible excuse for.

I don’t think this is that unpopular an opinion. A number of people used that poor woman’s death as an excuse for that pathetic performance.

From what I can recall, my position at the time, which was that it was the joint worst display I’d ever witnessed from us, that some of the players quit on us, and that what happened to that poor woman was no excuse for those things, seemed quite unpopular.

 

[Lama]

Chip butties are shite. Why would you want a sandwich full of potatoes?

 

[Lama]

The quality of football pre millenium was largely awful and most of the heroes (cloggers) beloved by some of you old fogies wouln't last 10 minutes in the modern game.

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

The amount of Na's at the end of the Greasy Chip Butty has got shorter over the past 20 years and it really irritates me.

Now I feel its almost a "Na na Ooooh"

For me, the correct musical construction would follow the rhythm of the first line aka "Na na na na naaaaaa na OOH"

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

The step between Rows AA and BB on G block on the Kop has larger than all the other steps in that row and causes people many people to stumble, and for this reason alone, should be the catalyst to rebuild the whole kop.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

The Fat Family should all have statues built at the entrance where the players arrive on matchdays.

 

[Charlieblade]

Ye

If I was older I'd probably swap our history for theirs.

If you think about it a 65 year old Leeds fan has seen them win 5 major honours in their lifetime.

3 league titles, an FA Cup and a League Cup.

As well as a European Cup final, a Champions League semi final and numerous other domestic cup finals.

A 65 year old Blades fan has seen us win nothing and witnessed zero cup final appearances.

Yes but I’m still a Blade! (and I’m 70 not 65. )

 

[GrunkyPeep]

I don’t think this is that unpopular an opinion. A number of people used that poor woman’s death as an excuse for that pathetic performance.

From what I can recall, my position at the time, which was that it was the joint worst display I’d ever witnessed from us, that some of the players quit on us, and that what happened to that poor woman was no excuse for those things, seemed quite unpopular.

Is that not a really harsh viewpoint?

 

[Le Cynique]

Is that not a really harsh viewpoint?

I’m somewhere in between. I think the circumstances go a long way to explaining our performance that day, but I don’t think it’s realistic to say we should have pushed for the game to be postponed, because it just wouldn’t have happened.

As shit as we were that day, I don’t think it defined our season as much as some of the other capitulations where we didn’t have that horrible situation to contend with.

 

[Menage a petit pois]

Our recent history suggests we are no more than a top half championship side... With a top half fan base...(Dons tin hat?)... I would add the caveat... I wish for no more as I've met some of the finest people on the planet and had some of the greatest times supporting SUFC.