So where does that leave you personally? What do you get from your form of support which involves battering away at anything and everything to do with the club? Is that support or is it the opposite? Do you know any more, or have you so much of a personal stake in the doomsday scenario that you actually dread the club turning around? I suspect that you and a handful of others on here actually want Wilder to fail and fail quickly so that you can drive more and more wedges between fan and fan and also between fans and club. Strange way to support the club but so be it. " Not a hope in hell", you couldn't have captured your attitude any clearer. I think you are supporter which the club could do without frankly, not that I recall whether you go to games at all.
If you want some measured, reasoned debate i think you are choosing to debate with the wrong poster.
Barney will always try and pick faults, and i think deep down he wants us to be unsuccessful because it suits his own viewpoint for us not to be successful. In the odd fleeting moment last season when we had patches of half decent form he was mainly silent, after his stupid early season stunt where he claimed to have sold his season ticket in protest at the management of Nigel Adkins but shortly after he couldn't tell anyone which game it was he sold it after, and wouldn't divulge how much he had sold it for.
I don't think you are on the money where you suspect that a handful of others actually want Wilder to fail, I've already expressed a grave reservation that the Wilder appointment will fail, mainly due to other factors within the club such as the total clusterfuck of a board that we have, some of the remaining players who are sitting on their contracts, the toxic atmosphere that permeates around the club. That isn't a wish that we fail, far from it, just an observation made from a single supporter who has seen a lot of football, and knows a lot about Sheffield United, and its set up, and its history.
It wasn't always this way, but i remember the times when Sheffield United punched above its weight, when the sum total was more than the parts. I remember going in to the 2014-15 season under Nigel Clough on a wave of optimism but that got smacked out of me with the sale of Harry Maguire, and the non signing of Harry Maguire, i also remember being genuinely hopeful that the following season would be better because we had ditched Clough and his negative style and installed Nigel Adkins who would come in with a track record of getting out of this Division, and getting the best out of the set of players that he inherited, and on both occasions i was wrong.
With the exception of one or two, and i do mean one or two, and that the one thing that we all want, and are all solidly behind is the desire to see Sheffield United do well. This board is a broad church of people from different opinions, with totally different lives, different backgrounds and all with different levels of supports, but what harnesses all that together, is that collectively we all want Sheffield United to do well, we are all fed up of the current predicament, but there are 1,000 different opinions as to why we are still stuck here in this Division. Some are bang on the money, some are way off the mark, but they are opinions. You can't change them but you can debate and argue against other peoples opinions and how those opinions are formed. I can be a bit extreme with my views and post with my heart and not my head, but i can always justify my rationale as to why i came to those views.
I don't think we are as disparate as people think, personally I'm just mightily frustrated with the current predicament. Last season came as close as it possibly could to breaking my support, i attended most of the games and was not happy with the level of commitment shown by the players, the way we often appeared to be going through the motions, the lack of direction coming from the top. As much as people might not have agreed with some of my remarks, myself and many others (many of them also dissenting voices) are frustrated, are annoyed and are not optimstic in the slightest at the dawn of a new season.
I hope and pray that myself and many others who haven't been particularly positive so far about the new season are proved wrong, because i would rather be proven wrong and see us go up this season, because when Sheffield United do well, I'm generally happier, enjoy my football more, more proud of being a Blade and look forward to the days when it feels good to be a Sheffield United. That is why i invest valuable time and money in to this particular hobby. But for us to all join together in an act of blind faith and loyalty for Chris Wilder, we need something to believe in, and i believe that with the current state the club is in, you could take your pick from any top manager in the world and he could come to Bramall Lane and still fail, but if we began to see the board invest in the right players, the players in the pitch dragging their broken bodies off the pitch with pride that they have given their all, players throwing themselves in to tackles like their lives depended on it, then the supporters would be appreciate it, and the levels of blind faith and loyalty would soar, but i have the feeling that before that happens there has to be a lot of work done to be deserving of such faith, and blind loyalty.
