Confess your unpopular opinions regarding SUFC

[Silent Blade]

Oh, let's not bother then.

Nowadays it is much harder for a club like ours to buy success.

 

[Revolution]

Nowadays it is much harder for a club like ours to buy success.

So should we just not bother entering the cups then?

 

[Silent Blade]

So should we just not bother entering the cups then?

We cannot pull out from any of the cup competitions. The PL and the EFL won't allow this.

 

[Revolution]

We cannot pull out from any of the cup competitions. The PL and the EFL won't allow this.

Well luckily for you Wilder doesn’t give a shit about the cups.

Anyway. This is by some distance the daftest position you’ve ever taken.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

We go up next season

 

[JimW1889]

We've had more exciting games this season (that period when we were scoring 3/4 every game) than last season.

 

[Selly]

Every season my ambition for us is to do better than I have seen us do before. So I want:

League: promotion, or higher than 9th in the top tier.
Playoffs: win them if we qualify
FA Cup: reach a final
League Cup: reach a final

We have had 17 chances to go one better and reach a Cup final or win the playoffs, and have failed every time. That's pathetic.

By that criteria I reckon the following seasons (for me) meet that ambition

88-89
89-90
91-92 (9th)
92-93 (first FA Cup Semi in my lifetime)
02-03 (first LC Semi in my lifetime)
05-06
16-17
18-19
22-23

And I reckon these are the season where we had a one-off game chance to meet the "ambition" and failed

96-97 (po)
97-98 (fac semi)
08-09 (po)
11-12 (po)
13-14 (fac semi)
14-15 (lc semi)
24-25 (po)


And the following the seasons where we did meet the ambition, but also failed

02-03 (fac semi & po)
22-23 (fac semi)

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

We cannot pull out from any of the cup competitions. The PL and the EFL won't allow this.

Unless you are Man U.

 

[100% part time blade]

He gave up and it was obvious to anyone other than Wilder who kept picking him when he and his agent clearly had their sights set elsewhere.

I remember shouting at my TV watching that tosser stroll about letting players walk past him. Saying it was just the Palace match is revisionist thinking.

I just thought he was a poor player from start to finish. I never subscribed to him having a great half-a-season; there were a few moments where a few things came off, and at the time I thought the one thing they all had in common was he did the only possible thing he could do as there was absolutely no other option, and it came off. Literally whenever he had an option or spent even a second thinking what to do he messed up. He couldn’t get a game when Duffy and the rest were in the side in the championship, and was never particularly good in my view.

 

[Dellas Cowboys]

Portsmouth spent a lot under Harry Redknapp, won the FA Cup in 2008 and this had caused them to go into financial freefall.

I'd like to see Chris Wilder, Neil Warnock or Dave Bassett on I'm a Celebrity rather than Redknapp

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

I've got nothing against Wilder, but this photo always makes me chuckle.