If we had won the playoffs...

[Houston_Blade]

Were does it bottom out mate, that's the question?

Sportbilly /Detroit Blade will be having his bottom out on the town hall steps if our form carries on.

 

[ancientblade]

couldnt understand the majority of pundits saying that van dyk's goal for liverpool against city should have stood no different to the decision to dissallow burrows goal at wembley which cost us 160m

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Sportbilly /Detroit Blade will be having his bottom out on the town hall steps if our form carries on.

We're still not going down is my view.

Maybe it's wishful thinking!

 

[mattbianco1]

We didn't deserve to go up.

Glad we didn't. It may have papered over the sh*tshow cracks that were then, and are now, so glaringly obvious.

The sooner this bottoms out, the better.

You seem fun

 

[Houston_Blade]

We're still not going down is my view.

Maybe it's wishful thinking!

Let’s hope so. We’ll likely need to score some goals and keep a few more out at the other end if we want to stay up though.

 

[mattbianco1]

Let’s hope so. We’ll likely need to score some goals and keep a few more out at the other end if we want to stay up though.

Did you see we signed Bamford?

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Perhaps your thoughts could wander to something other than food ?

Footie?

 

[Harry's Game]

 

[GymClassHero]

Parallel universe time.

If Burrows goal vs Sunderland hadn't been chalked off by a dodgy VAR decision, we'd be in the Premier League this season with our new owners for the very first time.
Chances are we'd have kept Souza and Anel (not sure they're Prem quality tbh) and signed better than we did, but how much better?

So overall how do you think we'd be doing in the Prem? Better than last time under the Prince? Better than the last 2 seasons under the prince? As good as 19/20? Or worse than ever?

Based on the available evidence, our signings would still be garbage.

 

[CPB]

It's a complete unknown.

But from what I've heard had we gone up the owners had some new investors lined up to help make our budget bigger. How much bigger I dunno.

I don't think we would be doing a Sunderland by any stretch. But optimistically we could be doing similar to what either Leeds or Burnley are doing. And thus right now be in the mix to stay up or go down. That would be my prediction given the way Wolves, West Ham and Forest have started.

Deffo feels like this season is a good opportunity to have gone up

 

[Houston_Blade]

Did you see we signed Bamford?

Yep, not sure what to think about it. He could be good, he could be Rodwell, let’s hope he can play actual football matches and have a positive influence on the results.

I’m glad we’ve done something instead of nothing though.

 

[jt64]

Clear dumpster fire. Any semblance of longer term planning prior to that point had been thrown out the window in favour of short term bullshit. 15 points would have been optimistic

 

[gordoncharles]

Had we gone up?

Wolves would have at least one victorry by now.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Kenilworth]

We didn't deserve to go up.

Glad we didn't. It may have papered over the sh*tshow cracks that were then, and are now, so glaringly obvious.

The sooner this bottoms out, the better.

We were better than Sunderland over the 46 games so that’s patently bollocks.

 

[Tanny1889]

I think we’d have been fighting, I think the owners plan would suit the PL more than it does the championship

 

[54yrblade]

We were better than Sunderland over the 46 games so that’s patently bollocks.

We did nothing against the teams at the top and choked again in the final.

'Culture carriers' proved to be just words and a throwback to the past.

Serial bottlers last season and lead to where we are now.

Flat track bullies.

Good morning

 

[54yrblade]

You seem fun

Just pragmatic. It is what it is. I stopped believing the bladey nonsense a few years ago.

 

[54yrblade]

Were does it bottom out mate, that's the question?

And that's the concern mate. Right now we're in free fall and can't see a decent leader anywhere in the club set up to slow it down.

We can live in the past and cross fingers but that's nowhere near good enough

 

[54yrblade]

Absolutely pathetic mate

We are where we are for good reason.

Several years of poor strategic management and long term planning.

This is what happens. The reality of a poorly run business.

The club and fans deserve much, much better.

Both of us included

 

[Frank the tank]

We are where we are for good reason.

Several years of poor strategic management and long term planning.

This is what happens. The reality of a poorly run business.

The club and fans deserve much, much better.

Both of us included

3 seasons in the prem out of the last 5 years is not too bad for a middling size club with miserable fans and poor strategic planning

 

[Kenilworth]

We did nothing against the teams at the top and choked again in the final.

'Culture carriers' proved to be just words and a throwback to the past.

Serial bottlers last season and lead to where we are now.

Flat track bullies.

Good morning

Makes no difference that we didn’t beat the top two.
It’s just nonsense to opine we didn’t deserve to be promoted. We were the third best team in terms of points accumulated and the top two got 100 points.
Choked in the final?
We choked in 2003 but we were by far the best team that reached the play offs - and did so well in the cup comps that year.
It’s utter bollocks to suggest that Sunderland deserved to go up more than Blades did. They won a one off game - fair play. We were 14 points better off than Sunderland at the end of a 46 game season. That’s an objective position based on fact.
If your position is that we didn’t deserved to be promoted because we bottled a play off, I have news for you

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

3 seasons in the prem out of the last 5 years is not too bad for a middling size club with miserable fans and poor strategic planning

What's bad is how we seem to be financially worse off now after having had 3 seasons of the past 6 (not including this one) in the Prem. That's the financial "lottery win" most other teams can only dream of and look at the state of us.

 

[Blademan89]

I think we would be in and around bottom 3 with a good chance of finishing above bottom 3. Wilder would have stayed & the spine would have still been there.

We would have added a few more positions to make us stronger and also to ensure we have a string squad next season if we was to go down, I feel the loans would have been top notch ones.

 

[54yrblade]

3 seasons in the prem out of the last 5 years is not too bad for a middling size club with miserable fans and poor strategic planning

Did you miss the bits where we were a total embarrassment, out of our depth and looked punch drunk after ten games of each of the last two PL seasons?

And what have we got to show for it now?
Rails (largely unused) at the back of the kop, an ongoing fitness issue amongst the squad, looking at loans in the jtw, and our current, hoped for life belts, appear to be Blasters return, hoping beyond hope that Hamer becomes an athlete and that our strikers suddenly start striking.

Fact - Two teams from THE home of football who's best hope this season is to be slightly less sh*t than the other.

It's shameful after '3 seasons in the prem out of the last 5 years.'

 

[Frank the tank]

Did you miss the bits where we were a total embarrassment, out of our depth and looked punch drunk after ten games of each of the last two PL seasons?

And what have we got to show for it now?
Rails (largely unused) at the back of the kop, an ongoing fitness issue amongst the squad, looking at loans in the jtw, and our current, hoped for life belts, appear to be Blasters return, hoping beyond hope that Hamer becomes an athlete and that our strikers suddenly start striking.

Fact - Two teams from THE home of football who's best hope this season is to be slightly less sh*t than the other.

It's shameful after '3 seasons in the prem out of the last 5 years.'

No but it seems you missed the bit where we are Sheffield United

You sound like a pig ,deluded and arrogant

 

[54yrblade]

No but it seems you missed the bit where we are Sheffield United

You sound like a pig ,deluded and arrogant

Nonsense. 54, coming up 55 yrs so far. It appears that daring to step out of line and criticise the club brings 'pig' insults. Standard replies.

I remember better years. Real connection in the club, not just talked about. The Warnock years when the atmosphere was the best I've ever seen. Div 4 away games, Leicester promotion, River Plate, some amazing players grafting in the red and white.
Everything we don't have now.

Winning big games against the top clubs because of that connection.

We are Sheffield United.
I want better. We deserve better. We can and should be better. We've been better. Much better.

The hard evidence lies in the past and with other clubs, much smaller than us that have made the best of what we had and left us behind.

It saddens me.

 

[Frank the tank]

Nonsense. 54, coming up 55 yrs so far. It appears that daring to step out of line and criticise the club brings 'pig' insults. Standard replies.

I remember better years. Real connection in the club, not just talked about. The Warnock years when the atmosphere was the best I've ever seen. Div 4 away games, Leicester promotion, River Plate, some amazing players grafting in the red and white.
Everything we don't have now.

Winning big games against the top clubs because of that connection.

We are Sheffield United.
I want better. We deserve better. We can and should be better. We've been better. Much better.

The hard evidence lies in the past and with other clubs, much smaller than us that have made the best of what we had and left us behind.

It saddens me.

Football has changed a bit in 55 years
Money is king now ,thanks to our strategic decisions we have had enough to be a yo yo club in the top twenty six ,now that's coming to an end you want to cry about why we haven't become Manchester United with Sheffield United resources

 

[54yrblade]

Football has changed a bit in 55 years
Money is king now ,thanks to our strategic decisions we have had enough to be a yo yo club in the top twenty six ,now that's coming to an end you want to cry about why we haven't become Manchester United with Sheffield United resources

'Money is king'. Correct.

Others have shown us that managing it and spending it wisely, growing steadily with long term planning is more than possible.

If you're happy with it, fill yer boots.

 

[Frank the tank]

'Money is king'. Correct.

Others have shown us that managing it and spending it wisely, growing steadily with long term planning is more than possible.

If you're happy with it, fill yer boots.

Like who ?