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I'm new here so please be nice;)
I don't know if anyone else here reads FourFourTwo magazine but their season preview landed on my doorstep today. Here's what it said about the Blades
"It's crunch time for Nigel Clough and Sheffield United, a manager who always operated admirably at Derby but was dismissed harshly and a club that has been stuck in the wrong division for three years - way beyond the call of duty after just missing out first time around. No more excuses. Reputations are on the line. Time for both to deliver.
Clough might have been awarded a longer bedding-in period had he not raised the bar so emphatically last term but demand is shaped by the supply of results. At the beginning of February, the Blades were second bottom in League One. By May they had climbed to seventh and reached an FA Cup semi-final. Maintain that standard over the next 46 games and United will be champions, no question.
Intensions have been made clearer by summer transfer business. Andy Butler, James Wallace, Chris Basham and Jamal Campbell-Ryce are ready made additions for a title charge. If this team clicks into gear, it will be tough for anyone to keep up.
FFT VERDICT: 1st."

What does everyone think about that? All seems very positive. Personally I'm not quite so optimistic but there you go. If we can keep the form from the end of last season (which will be very tough) then I can see us at least getting promotion, if not winning it.
 

PembrokeshireBlade said:
I'm new here so please be nice;)
I don't know if anyone else here reads FourFourTwo magazine but their season preview landed on my doorstep today. Here's what it said about the Blades
"It's crunch time for Nigel Clough and Sheffield United, a manager who always operated admirably at Derby but was dismissed harshly and a club that has been stuck in the wrong division for three years - way beyond the call of duty after just missing out first time around. No more excuses. Reputations are on the line. Time for both to deliver.
Clough might have been awarded a longer bedding-in period had he not raised the bar so emphatically last term but demand is shaped by the supply of results. At the beginning of February, the Blades were second bottom in League One. By May they had climbed to seventh and reached an FA Cup semi-final. Maintain that standard over the next 46 games and United will be champions, no question.
Intensions have been made clearer by summer transfer business. Andy Butler, James Wallace, Chris Basham and Jamal Campbell-Ryce are ready made additions for a title charge. If this team clicks into gear, it will be tough for anyone to keep up.
FFT VERDICT: 1st."

What does everyone think about that? All seems very positive. Personally I'm not quite so optimistic but there you go. If we can keep the form from the end of last season (which will be very tough) then I can see us at least getting promotion, if not winning it.
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Welcome to the forum PB - but there is no need to be so sheepish, just cos you hail from Pembrokeshire - no need at all - Darren will let you know the legalities of that little scenario ;) B'aaaaaaaaa!
 
As a blade its hard to disagree with that. I heavily agree that if the team 'clicks into gear' it'll be hard for anyone to keep up. It's so important to start strongly because if we have a few bad results at the start (which may happen with 10+ new signings) then nerves might come into it and affect our form for the start of the season.
 
Agree Kev , the time for fucking around is over ,
Mr Clough knows whats needed but will let the team do the talking on the pitch, all we can do is hope , we seem to have a squad for this league ,
Yes I am confident we will go up this year , not in a pig dont you know who we are sort of way, but in a confidence from seeing our manager in action , and knowing if you dont do the job , at last we've someone in charge who's not afriad to lash the fucking team out of it the way we would hope a manager of our team would do if they dont perform .
1st Blades
2nd who
3rd gives
4th a
5th fuck
U.T.B.
 
Still think that one of the main concerns for this season is the number of local derbies to come. Form goes out of the window if you are not careful - cannot just treat them as just another 3 points or you will get rolled over and you cannot afford to get into a battle as it could cost you players with suspensions and injuries. Need to keep well focused and strong in all of them but that is so much easier to say than do - you have been warned o_O
 
Kenilworth said:
Still think that one of the main concerns for this season is the number of local derbies to come. Form goes out of the window if you are not careful - cannot just treat them as just another 3 points or you will get rolled over and you cannot afford to get into a battle as it could cost you players with suspensions and injuries. Need to keep well focused and strong in all of them but that is so much easier to say than do - you have been warned o_O
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Really?

Do many United fans give much of a fuck about games v Barnsley, Doncaster and Chesterfield?
 
Just outside Narberth Jon Bon.
If anyone's interested they had Preston in second, followed by Bristol, Peterborough, Doncaster and Walsall to round off the play off spots.
And I'm originally English so we can leave the sheep shagging jokes to one side;)
 
Ive put £50 on us not to be chapions so its a cast iron 100% cert that we will be
 
Darren said:
Really?

Do many United fans give much of a fuck about games v Barnsley, Doncaster and Chesterfield?
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No they don't but possibly the point missed there, Dazzler - I have more of a concern that the games will be more feisty than a fixture at, say, Colchester or Gillingham. I feel that it's highly likely to see tens tons of shit kicked out of our players by local rivals and that is what I was alluding to. It sometimes happens when the atmosphere is more charged - as it might be at away games in those circumstances. We haven't done very well against local rivals in recent away fixtures over the last 3-4 years - have we?
 
PembrokeshireBlade said:
Just outside Narberth Jon Bon.
If anyone's interested they had Preston in second, followed by Bristol, Peterborough, Doncaster and Walsall to round off the play off spots.
And I'm originally English so we can leave the sheep shagging jokes to one side;)
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Welcome to the forum PB
Surely the mighty Leyton Orient should be up there somewhere!?!? (Not aimed at you PB by the way)

If Clough can get the big game tactics right like he did a few times last season then we should be pushing for promotion minimum.
 
Rusty view said:
I'd say that's worth £50! Here's hoping you lose £50 (in the nicest way possible...obviously)
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Exactly the reason Ive done it, last year I bet about the same on us to be champions and it all went to shit and I lost my bet, this year if it goes to shit I win some cash and if not then we're champions and I win again :)

Im planning on cashing it out pretty quickly though, I cant see us staying at 4.5/1 to be champions all season
 
No way we will finish top. Thats just to easy. It will be nail crunching, ball sweating, dodgy decision bullshit town as usual with us fightiong for a play off spot on the last day. We got 90 points and didnt even go up recently ffs.
 

My only expectation for this season is that we beat last seasons divisional points record set by wolves.

No pressure Nige.
 
That's what I thought too sensi. FourFourTwo puts them all the way down in 14th citing "Little transfer activity" as the main reason for their demise. I don't see that happening personally.
 
In today's Metro, the betting columnist didn't rate our chances - or didn't like the short odds we were at - and instead went for PNE to win the league.

It will be a lot closer at the top this year in my view, but if we don't finish top two then I'd class that as failure. Were we to go up in the play offs, I'd get over it.
 
Darren said:
Really?

Do many United fans give much of a fuck about games v Barnsley, Doncaster and Chesterfield?
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I'm not sure that really matters. My concern is that regardless of how well they're doing in the league, Barnsley and Donny will fill the away end and make a lot of noise. Either we match them and we've got a derby atmosphere whether we wanted one or not, or we're not bothered and their fans give them a huge boost. And of course the potential for kicking lumps out of us mentioned by Kenilworth.

I'm not so worried about Chesterfield.
 
PembrokeshireBlade said:
I'm new here so please be nice;)
I don't know if anyone else here reads FourFourTwo magazine but their season preview landed on my doorstep today. Here's what it said about the Blades
"It's crunch time for Nigel Clough and Sheffield United, a manager who always operated admirably at Derby but was dismissed harshly and a club that has been stuck in the wrong division for three years - way beyond the call of duty after just missing out first time around. No more excuses. Reputations are on the line. Time for both to deliver.
Clough might have been awarded a longer bedding-in period had he not raised the bar so emphatically last term but demand is shaped by the supply of results. At the beginning of February, the Blades were second bottom in League One. By May they had climbed to seventh and reached an FA Cup semi-final. Maintain that standard over the next 46 games and United will be champions, no question.
Intensions have been made clearer by summer transfer business. Andy Butler, James Wallace, Chris Basham and Jamal Campbell-Ryce are ready made additions for a title charge. If this team clicks into gear, it will be tough for anyone to keep up.
FFT VERDICT: 1st."

What does everyone think about that? All seems very positive. Personally I'm not quite so optimistic but there you go. If we can keep the form from the end of last season (which will be very tough) then I can see us at least getting promotion, if not winning it.
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Blimey!!

As long as Bristol, Preston and Orient lay down and die in front of us we will fulfil this prediction...

More likely we won't score enough goals and have all the fun of the play offs to look forward too.:(
 
Some on here say they can't see us winning the title, personally I can't see us not.
Is there a team in this division withe a better fan base, off field stability, dressing room stability, manager or financial stability?
We had a team last season started crap, looked odds on for relegation turned it round a finished 7th with an outside chance of playoffs right up to last couple of games, the same players, on the whole will be starting this season with if not quality additions, solid, dependable and in most cases adaptable players, most under 30 with a good few years left with what seems a hunger to succeed, even the 30+ boys all seem to have something to prove, which gives me great confidence
I know we will likely not star the season smashing teams for 4/5 goals but if we can win a few games ugly 1-0 until the team starts to gel ill be more than happy.
Promoted before mid April is my prediction :)
 
Rollerball said:
Is there a team in this division withe a better fan base, off field stability, dressing room stability, manager or financial stability?
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But none of those things get you three points, do they? ;-)
 
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