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So after the euphoria if the last month or so things are beginning to settle down now. What I'd like to know I this. Where do fellow blades think we'll be in the next 3-5 years. After the season we've had I think everyone feels on an upward trajectory with the club. However No wild, pie in the sky predictions but genuine where could we be. Not just in terms of what league level but with stadium developments, academy, player prospects etc. Like I said keep it real.
 



bigbirdblade said:
So after the euphoria if the last month or so things are beginning to settle down now. What I'd like to know I this. Where do fellow blades think we'll be in the next 3-5 years. After the season we've had I think everyone feels on an upward trajectory with the club. However No wild, pie in the sky predictions but genuine where could we be. Not just in terms of what league level but with stadium developments, academy, player prospects etc. Like I said keep it real.
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bigbirdblade said:
So after the euphoria if the last month or so things are beginning to settle down now. What I'd like to know I this. Where do fellow blades think we'll be in the next 3-5 years. After the season we've had I think everyone feels on an upward trajectory with the club. However No wild, pie in the sky predictions but genuine where could we be. Not just in terms of what league level but with stadium developments, academy, player prospects etc. Like I said keep it real.
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The next 3 to 5 years will IMO be set out and determined by what happens next season . It will set the benchmark for our progression moving forward . The simple name of the game is to not get relegated .

You can look too far in front of yourself in football . To me it's a season at a time . Also it depends on who is the chairman and manager .
 
Could go one of two ways. Back in in L1 and we're all arguing about how much sell-on we should be entitled to when Regan Slater moves from Everton to Real Madrid, or we are in Europe after hanging on to all our best players and signing a couple more from the top flight. Trouble is, i've seen so many fucking false dawns over the past 55 years I suspect the first option although obviously hoping for the latter.
 
What you're asking are mystical predictions, based on enthusiastic hope, plus the fact that Chris Wilder and Alan Knill continue to deliver as they did last season. Whether we'll ever see a season like this in our lifetimes is debatable, but if we come close and manage to achieve and improve in ways that most supporters understand and are appreciative of, then that's about as good as it gets. As has been talked about many times before, there's fantasy and then there's reality, and the reality of football is something we're more likely to witness over time.

I'd love to see a redeveloped Kop, something that is architecturally stunning, that lifts the stadium from it's already decent structure and gives all of us a ground that can accommodate football at it's highest level. I'd love to see us be able to keep our best players rather than resign ourselves to the fact that they'll inevitably be sold.

I'd love to see Chris and Alan push this club onto bigger and better things. To become a recognised Premiership team, with players possessed of sublime skills, defenders who are imperious, and the knowledge that we're a formidable team that other clubs respect.......wouldn't that be worth hanging around for?
 
Unless we get promoted again, probably in and around the play-offs in the Championship, with not much difference to the stadium, still selling our best young players to balance the books.

If we go up the the Premier League that changes everything as it brings loads more money, but also much higher wage demands from not much better players. Stay up and the money can cover that and we can maybe consolidate as a mediocre, boring to watch top-flight team nobody gives a shit about like Stoke or West Brom, come straight back down after committing to spending lots on stadium and long contracts for crap players and we end up in a bit of a struggle.
 
bigbirdblade said:
So after the euphoria if the last month or so things are beginning to settle down now. What I'd like to know I this. Where do fellow blades think we'll be in the next 3-5 years. After the season we've had I think everyone feels on an upward trajectory with the club. However No wild, pie in the sky predictions but genuine where could we be. Not just in terms of what league level but with stadium developments, academy, player prospects etc. Like I said keep it real.
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Too many factors that impact to make any real predictions.

Injuries, players and staff moving on, takeovers, youngsters turning into stars from nowhere, etc etc

Cliche I know but while it's important to have a plan the most important game is always the next.

Get too much ahead of ourselves and we start to sound like the arrogants!
 



Yellarbellyblade said:
Cliche I know but while it's important to have a plan the most important game is always the next.

Get too much ahead of ourselves and we start to sound like the arrogants!
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Have to disagree Yellarbellyblade . Even the next game is a short term plan. Medium term the rest of the season. Long term the next 3 to 5 seasons. No business is going to last very long without planning. I'm sick to death, as probably you are too, of us stumbling along from one game to the other as we have done for the past 5 seasons prior to last.
 
2017-18: Championship, between tenth and fourteenth
2018-19: Championship eighth
2019-20: Playoffs, out first round, McCabe sacks Wilder for some unknown reason
2020-21: Championship, seventh, another manager goes and Wilder is reinstated in Feb 2021
2021-22: Championship, Automatic, having signed a load of decent players

pommpey
 
Confident prediction - in 5 years time we'll be comfortably higher than the pork are.

Their bubble will have burst, their all-out bid for glory will have failed, & they'll be wallowing in serious financial problems (again). We'll have been run sensibly, sustainably and with great principles in place (like, say, Burnley have been).

Where we'll be fuck knows, but the journey'll be seriously enjoyable whilever Messrs Wilder & Knill are running the show.
 
snootyfenooty said:
Have to disagree Yellarbellyblade . Even the next game is a short term plan. Medium term the rest of the season. Long term the next 3 to 5 seasons. No business is going to last very long without planning. I'm sick to death, as probably you are too, of us stumbling along from one game to the other as we have done for the past 5 seasons prior to last.
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As I say need to have a plan and I m sure CW does have a number depending on changing circumstances but my point is you have to be careful setting yourself up to fail or making yourself sound arrogant or full of yourself

"Europe in five years" ring any bells?
 
After a good season next year where we just miss out on a play off spot - Kevin McCabe is bought out by the King of Saudi Arabia and the whole Saudi Royal Family decide to spend £100 billion on gettting us to win the Premier league and then the Champions League within 5 years. Our captain Christiano Ronaldo says we can win this for many years in the future and that we shouldnt let Lionel Messi go cheaply to a European rival
 
It's almost as difficult to predict as it is to predict what the weather will be like on 29 May 2022 as anything can happen in football. We could be taken over by the next Sheik Mansour or the next SISU, CW could be the next Clough or the next Cotterill. But I think the most likely position is the championship.
 
Ginger Gnome said:
Unless we get promoted again, probably in and around the play-offs in the Championship, with not much difference to the stadium, still selling our best young players to balance the books.

If we go up the the Premier League that changes everything as it brings loads more money, but also much higher wage demands from not much better players. Stay up and the money can cover that and we can maybe consolidate as a mediocre, boring to watch top-flight team nobody gives a shit about like Stoke or West Brom, come straight back down after committing to spending lots on stadium and long contracts for crap players and we end up in a bit of a struggle.
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I like this post.
It has a Blades reality feel to it, born of long experience.
Rather like me.
I have absolutely no idea what is about to happen next season.
I can imagine literally anything from relegation to champions next season.
After 5 games including a defeat to Crewe last season I thought relegation was on the cards.
Enter Wilder.
Who knows?
 
I didn't enjoy it that much in the Premiership when we got there last.

I think I'd enjoy it less now. It seems to detached from the game I grew watching.

There's been a few articles lately about how teams in the Premiership are building bigger stadiums because they accommodate more 'tourist fans', who are basically people who buy packages from abroad and turn up with selfie sticks wanting to enjoy the whole experience. Do I want that a t Bramall Lane no no no
 
No great expectations, chronic under achievement, that way anything else is a bonus.

''Twas ever thus
 



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