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Broomhall Blade said:
Every side we have played including the poor ones like Burnley, Fulham, Forest have all had players who move the ball around quicker and are more athletic and have more pace than us..
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This is the thing that disappoints me. We can't even compete for 90 minutes with teams at the lower end of the league. We can for 45 or 60 minutes but when it comes to substitutions, we have nothing in reserve - unlike the top teams who have the equivalent of seven 1st eleven players on the bench.
Players seem to be remote from the fans and there's no connection with their locality anymore. We can't go back to a time when a team could win the European Cup with players born within 30 miles of the ground (Celtic 1967) but it's all become so mercenary and materialistic.
Teams used to be built - now they're bought. Top teams have stacks of young players on their books and lend them out to lower level teams which slews results at a lower level.
Like metalblade, I have a 60+ minute journey to Bramall Lane and I'm beginning to wonder whether I would be better off doing the 15 minute walk to Wetherby Road and watch Harrogate Town instead
 

I feel like we haven't really had a season because the games are over so fast. I've hardly watched any football this year in comparison to the usual.
Looking at this season I'd say, and being very, very generous, there are 20 games that we've been in enough for it to keep my attention.
There are seven games I think I've got to the end of and thought yeah that was alright.
Really is an empty cupboard of a season.
 
When the lineup v palace at home was released it was blatantly obvious that we were fucked. Been a depressing watch most weeks and I’ve only left early once (Villa home)
Completely fed up with us getting hammered every week and seeing performances from a certain set of players who couldn’t give a fuck once we’ve conceded the first. Wilder also needs to leave to give us a chance next season.
Anyway, it’s been a good social with my pals again and it’s 38/39 for me this season still. Glutton for punishment.
 
60 odd years and this is really is bad as I can ever recall. For me, I knew at the Stuttgart pre season friendly what the season held. It has been worse than I could ever have imagined. I now always leave when we concede 3 goals. I haven't been to an away game this season. In the pub before kick off it is now empty, half full at best, yesterday there were tables available all day, previously it would be packed, standing room only. I can agree with a lot of the posts in this thread, in part or in full. Unfortunately, with the current owner, its very difficult to see any positive future for the blades at the moment. I've renewed my season ticket more out of habit than hope.
 
Bladezz said:
Inept refs is starting to get to me. The whole VAR farce just isn’t for me. It’s a clear foul on BBD (2 weeks running now) nothing given. Stone wall penalty against Newcastle not given.

I don’t even care as they don’t make a difference to the result it’s just the fact of being systematically cheated is beyond me.
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I think it's got worse in the last month or two. They know we are going down so are just thinking it "Fuck it, give them next to nothing with the decisions."
 
Yesterday was the straw that broke the camels back for me. Another ground hog day performance from the manager, coaching staff and team. Start well then completely fade. Tactically inept when we concede lets think about a change for 20 minutes before they go 1-3 up. Lets not use our full complement of subs again yet complain after the match the players haven't got any energy left in the last 15 minutes whilst 3 unused subs are getting splinters in their arses.

Its may be not the managers players but his game management is a serious cause of concern for me irrespective of who he brings in during the summer.

The Board have seemingly given up and gone back to 2019 handing the job of Chef, cook and chief bottle washer all to one man. It failed last time with him close to a nervous break down and the early signs are history will repeat itself. My early enthusiasm that CW would turn it around has evaporated as performances have fallen off a cliff edge with little sign of what he is trying to implement on the pitch. We seem to have regressed back into the middle of the park going nowhere possession game that allows the opposition to sit back and wait for us to lose the ball that was our downfall in 2020. Yesterdays third goal was an example of this.

I don't buy into the view that its all the players fault and getting rid of the majority of them will solve all our problems. Teams need to be led off the pitch just as much as on it. The players look crestfallen even those that will remain next season and it will take considerable psychological effort to get them motivated for the next campaign. Being ridiculed throughout the summer that they were part of the second worst team in EPL history will not help. Tub thumping, pashun and kissing the shirt just isn't going to cut it in the modern game.

We will face height, physique, strength and work rate in the championship with a few smatterings of industrial hoof. Fortunately pace will be at a premium but set pieces will be crucial. The majority of those skills we don't currently possess.

Finally to our absent Board. No indication of what the plan is. No communication acknowledging they have made a complete mess of the season and nothing on the horizon regarding a sale. If anyone is disconnected they are and they should front up and show their faces. They won't preferring to hide behind a plate spinning CEO and a football team manager distracted from coaching the team as he sits in as HOR.

I've got next years season ticket. I'll be there but I'm not looking forward to it unless there is considerable change. A bad start caused by a combination of poor buys, delayed sales and still awaiting our targets until August 31st and it will turn toxic quickly.
 
This season is no worse feeling wise than the Adkins season. I remember thinking then what am I doing here but we were competitive. Then it was we’re in league one and have no chance of promotion. We still won a few games. This season we’re so far off the standard required that the outcomes are mostly formulaic. We’re competitive for 45-60 minutes then crumble and give up. 3 out of the last 4 we’ve been winning at some point but then shipped at least 3 to lose. (Indeed in the other game we should have been winning. ) The exciting thing about football is that you cannot be sure of the outcome. With this shower it’s nailed on before hand. Didn’t go yesterday and I am still undecided about spurs. I’ve renewed my season ticket but under this regime I fear for the future.
 
It’s football in general that is completely fucked! Loads of money coming in through TV, sponsors etc. but every club is still running at a loss. Only chance we have to close the gap is by getting a billionaire owner and that’s just similar to hoping for a lottery win. Even if we got a new owner the gap is that big that we’d only be able to become a mid table Prem team anyway.

The whole competition is pointless, they might as well just hand Man City the title on day one and be done with it.
 
We were a Championship team in the Premier League. The management diddled us from before the start of the season mis-managing what happened pre-season. You dont sell arguably your best player going into the PL. Leicester or Ipswich wont be selling their best players before next season.

The fans this season have been pretty fantastic to cheer the team on despite whats been happening on the pitch. I still go into each match with hope but you know in the back of your mind we are going to leak goals.

I am optimistic for next season I dont really care if we do not go back to the PL we need to rebuild the team for at least one season. We wont go down either the teams in the Championship are million miles away from PL standard so I am more hopeful for next season rather than disconnected for this one. Its over anyway.
 
I don't even feel anything when we score first now, because I know what inevitably comes next. Our classy neighbours' turnaround is just the sour cherry on top of a dogshit cake of a season.

Hopefully recruitment in the summer is good and we have a proper preseason and get organised!
 
This season has been numbingly depressing. For me it’s been the Poundland approach to the whole thing. Sell your best players just before kick off & replace them with cheap unknowns. It was only going to end one way. The constant hammerings, the inability to even remotely compete & worst of all, the lack of fighting spirit. Utterly pathetic from start to finish and no early indication that next season will be any better. The final turd on the cake was the pigs surviving yesterday. Their relegation would have been the meagrest crumb of comfort. If we sell Arblaster in the summer next season is going to be almost impossible to engage with.
 

Been going to BDBL since 1968. Followed home and lots of away games all the way down to what was then division four. Then back up and down over the years to where we are now.
For the last two years I've watched from over seas on my firesick. Don't think I've ever felt so disconcerted. It was obvious ( to me anyway) before a ball had even been kicked this season that we were destined to come straight back down. Confirmation being selling our best two players two weeks before the season began. WHAT CLUB WOULD EVER DO THAT??????
Oh yeah,........... The Blades.
I watch now more from habit, rather than expectations. If I was back home I would have given it serious thought about renewing my ST, but probably would have renewed. To paraphrase Michael Corleone ' just when I thought I was out, I get dragged back in again'.
I 'll be watching again when the season starts in August. But I 'll be watching in trepidation. It's a Fucking mess! Which imo will get worse. Nine players out of contract! The likes of Hamer and the up and coming prospect of Arblaster will probably be sold. Bretton Diaz, McAtee, Archer won't be back. Holgate, will probably stay ffs. You know things like this will happen. It's the Blades way!!!
We'll not find a buyer. We are stuck with an owner who doesn't want to be here. Wilder, for his detractors, did give us our club back. But since then it's been a clusterfuck. So where do we go from here??
Who the fuck knows? We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

There's nothing like being a Blade. I'm here for the long haul whatever.
 
Similar to some of the above, the effort they put in on a matchday is no longer worth the effort it takes me to get there. 17 games all season for me , usually around double that.
 
Grey Blade said:
Teams used to be built - now they're bought. Top teams have stacks of young players on their books and lend them out to lower level teams which slews results at a lower level.
Like metalblade, I have a 60+ minute journey to Bramall Lane and I'm beginning to wonder whether I would be better off doing the 15 minute walk to Wetherby Road and watch Harrogate Town instead
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We could go together.😂
Your ST would cost about the same, marginally more I believe, but think what you'd save in fuel and time.
Such a shame that we're married to the Blades. Not sure I could face a divorce though.😔
 
I think the faceless invisible ownership is the biggest issue for me. As fans we now have no idea of what the strategy is, who makes the decisions (Bettis is only the hired hand) or what the future might hold. At least with McCabe for all his faults (and there were many) there was a public face and a resemblance of understanding of what it means to the supporters. I will continue to go every week probably come what may but after supporting for nearly 60 years there is weary resignation that the Wilder / Warnock/ Bassett/Harris promotions is as good as it is going to get for the likes of me. Football has changed and the chances of teams like United winning anything or even competing at the top level are virtually non existent Probably the only realistic existent ambition in my lifetime is to see us win at Wembley (my late grandad was the last one in our family in 1925) but the prize for the play off final is pretty shit. Probably better dropping to league one and having a day out and winning the piss pot trophy or whatever it is called these days.

Maybe the big six will eventually break away and go and form their own super league and the rest off us can get back to enjoying a game that resolves around genuine sporting competition rather than money and the entertainment of a worldwide TV audience and tourists. Well done and good luck to Ipswich for yesterday. Funny how we were going in different directions last time we played each other. Make sure you enjoy it because as sure as hell it won't last long.
 
This was worse than the Covid season. And i’ve never fully recovered from that.

Wilder needs to get EVERYTHING right this summer. Not only does he need to rebuild, he needs to bring the fans back on side.

Alas, I think it’s even a job too big for anyone at the moment.

Now.. if he flogs Anel on Fitzallen Square. Then I might start to be swayed.
 
Not just United for me, but football in general. I've barely been to a Blades game this season and don't really watch any football at all anymore. The money, VAR, ridiculous added time, crazy ticket prices. I just don't care anymore. It's all gone to shit. I'll probably go to a few more games next season but I've pretty much completely fallen out of love with football - when I do attend games I find myself bored to tears and usually leaving early. I felt nothing when we got promoted and feel nothing now we're relegated - i've felt nothing after every battering this season too.

When you get older you realise how insignificant and meaningless football is - much more important things in life you should be spending your time and energy on. As a grown adult I just can't get emotional over out the result of a football game anymore. It just seems a bit immature and childish to me.
 
Northyorksblade said:
Such a shame that we're married to the Blades. Not sure I could face a divorce though.
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That's the problem though isn't it. The whole thing becomes a habit. You go along to Bramall Lane with your friends, get to know people round about you - some you like, some who annoy you but it's like one big family with ups and downs - mainly down at the moment.
You go to away games and look out for people you have got to know, but only see every now and again - once again it's a bit like a family but the members of whom you only see at weddings and funerals.
My main disillusionment is with the premier league. I still feel loyalty to United and anyone who was at Bury on a wet night during the Adkins season has seen it all before but with a bit of luck and a few changes we will be back
 
Look, this season has been completely soul destroying to see. I am a glass half full type of person so I had higher expectations than most.

However 12 months ago, we were outside the town hall celebrating.

Our club is isn't really in any worse a state now that it was then.

Everyone needs a break, go and watch England at the euros and come back in August looking forward to the new season. We can't be as uncompetitive next season as we have this year. Even if we aren't dominating and top of the league, we should be able to expect close games and I for one am excited for that. I will never get tired of the build up to a game, the walk to the ground, GCB being sung

UTB
 
I first started going to the Lane in 1982 in all that time before this season I’d left before 85th minute on precisely two occasions, once against Oldham in 1988 and once against Sunderland in 1998..

This season I have left before the 85th 6 times 5 of those before 80 minutes, twice before the 65th minute and once before half time.

I will also have missed four home league games, three by choice,

Never felt this low about the clubs prospects even in the Adkins days, this time because we have blown a golden opportunity over the last 5 years to establish ourselves as at least one of the top 25 teams in the country just be the sheer incompetence of the owner, and there is no sign of him leaving.

I have renewed for next season out of habit more than anything but I am dreading the next few years.
 
I’m relieved we’re down but fuck me thought we might’ve put up more than just 40 mins fight yesterday.

I feel more connected now than under Adkin’s even though the football is worse.

But the players like Souza, Anel, Trusty, Grbic, Slimane, Larouchi just annoy me. Hopefully we can move a few on this summer and keep/ bring in players that want to be at the club
 
I enjoyed four previous promotions to the top tier but from the start of this one we all knew how it would pan out .
We’ve got an owner who will bleed us dry he’s needs it to prop up his nondescript clubs he owns he dosnt give a fuck about us our best players will leave for sure in the summer.
Secondly what chairman would put up with Wilder he should have gone after the Villa game come on clappers he’s a fucking failure fitness levels, team selection , substitutions, after match comments could anybody respect a wanker like him
 
Been going since 1970 seen some real dross as I am sure many of us owd uns av but this season has been a real low poor players bad recruitment poor fitness conceding 100 some real worldies in there to be fair but I still feel connected to the club the pre match pint the pie the bovril the walk to the ground it’s ingrained in me and love it
 
Addison said:
I don't buy into the view that its all the players fault and getting rid of the majority of them will solve all our problems.
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It’s not all the players fault, but as a group they’re now poisonous.

Without a ruthless removal of the rot, there’s only one direction of travel. If we have to take a hit in offloading Souza, Anel, and anyone else who’s not 100% committed and/or carrying mental scars, then take it now.
 
I've pretty much had it with the whole game. What's the point in getting passionate about a side when the prize for success is to go back into a league where most of the results have been bought by the owner's billions during the transfer window.
The Blades are in my blood, my family's blood - and for me it goes back to Woodward and Currie - and while that's all still there, the whole game is broken.
I walked away for a little while after Tevez, but now I just can't see the point of getting into a sport that is more about money than it is about competition.
I'll still keep an eye out for results and BDTBL will always be a special place - but for me it's over. I have better things to do with my time and money.
 

SheepdipBlade said:
I've pretty much had it with the whole game. What's the point in getting passionate about a side when the prize for success is to go back into a league where most of the results have been bought by the owner's billions during the transfer window.
The Blades are in my blood, my family's blood - and for me it goes back to Woodward and Currie - and while that's all still there, the whole game is broken.
I walked away for a little while after Tevez, but now I just can't see the point of getting into a sport that is more about money than it is about competition.
I'll still keep an eye out for results and BDTBL will always be a special place - but for me it's over. I have better things to do with my time and money.
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Great Post- I felt exactly the same about 3 years ago, and now watch non league instead and enjoy it so much more, and I've been watching the blades since 1977.
 
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