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I'm just disappointed in it all.

We've gone from the heady highs of a monumental rise to the PL, with some of the fastest attacking football that demanded absolute fitness in CW1.0 to this farce.

Players that really aren't up to it, where 'fitness' appears optional, being called out for your effort depends on who you are, and where our manager talks in cliches, losing too many 'games of football' to those managers around us and who is being properly, regularly schooled by them.

I still don't really understand why no money people would come in to buy a club from THE home of football with recent PL pedigree, and it makes me wonder why that actually is. What are the deeper reasons that serious players stay away from us?

The season started with drama, noise, hate, a sacking. CW3.0 has just about managed to keep us up. That's nothing to shout about at all, any competent manager in this league and probably many lower should have done.

He talked about a big finish at Derby in his post match presser. Yeah, ok Chris, whatever you say now.

A summer of crossing our fingers behind our backs, hoping that he finds some fit, young, talented footballers rather than the characters and experience that have too often let us down, or the vague hope that his 2016 fortunes come back in a Space Jam esq (ask your parents if necessary ) style really isn't filling me with much enthusiasm or hope.

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed in them all.

I can't be bothered to invest energy in being overly engaged in something that really matters, but where character politics and panicked decision making leads the way, and why should I?

Cheers Chris, Knilly, the backroom team, players who haven't taken responsibility and COH.

Talk is cheap. Actions matter and some huge decisions need making now.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" A quote generally attributed to Albert Einstein, but it doesn't take an intellect like old Albert to see that something has to change now.
 
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54yrblade said:
I'm just disappointed in it all.

We've gone from the heady highs of a monumental rise to the PL, with some of the fastest attacking football that demanded absolute fitness in CW1.0 to this farce.

Players that really aren't up to it, where 'fitness' appears optional, being called out for your effort depends on who you are, and where our manager talks in cliches, losing too many 'games of football' to those managers around us and who is being properly, regularly schooled by them.

I still don't really understand why no money people would come in to buy a club from THE home of football with recent PL pedigree, and it makes me wonder why that actually is. What are the deeper reasons that serious players stay away from us?

The season started with drama, noise, hate, a sacking. CW3.0 has just about managed to keep us up. That's nothing to shout about at all, any competent manager in this league and probably many lower should have done.

He talked about a big finish at Derby in his post match presser. Yeah, ok Chris, whatever you say now.

A summer of crossing our fingers behind our backs, hoping that he finds some fit, young, talented footballers rather than the characters and experience that have too often let us down, or the vague hope that his 2016 fortunes come back in a Space Jam esq (ask your parents if necessary ) style really isn't filling me with much enthusiasm or hope.

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed in them all.

I can't be bothered to invest energy in being overly engaged in something that really matters, but where character politics and panicked decision making leads the way, and why should I?

Cheers Chris, Knilly, the backroom team, players who haven't taken responsibility and COH.

Talk is cheap. Actions matter and some huge decisions need making now.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" A quote generally attributed to Albert Einstein, but it doesn't take an intellect like old Albert to see that something has to change now.
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Boo hoo 🤦‍♂️
 
It was crap today.

That's the second crap performance in the week.

I stayed until the end to give them the benefit of my advice about how they haven't properly represented our football club.

Serious doubts about Wilder now. He can't get a tune out of this lot when they are supposedly playing for their futures.

Atrocious.
 
54yrblade said:
I'm just disappointed in it all.

We've gone from the heady highs of a monumental rise to the PL, with some of the fastest attacking football that demanded absolute fitness in CW1.0 to this farce.

Players that really aren't up to it, where 'fitness' appears optional, being called out for your effort depends on who you are, and where our manager talks in cliches, losing too many 'games of football' to those managers around us and who is being properly, regularly schooled by them.

I still don't really understand why no money people would come in to buy a club from THE home of football with recent PL pedigree, and it makes me wonder why that actually is. What are the deeper reasons that serious players stay away from us?

The season started with drama, noise, hate, a sacking. CW3.0 has just about managed to keep us up. That's nothing to shout about at all, any competent manager in this league and probably many lower should have done.

He talked about a big finish at Derby in his post match presser. Yeah, ok Chris, whatever you say now.

A summer of crossing our fingers behind our backs, hoping that he finds some fit, young, talented footballers rather than the characters and experience that have too often let us down, or the vague hope that his 2016 fortunes come back in a Space Jam esq (ask your parents if necessary ) style really isn't filling me with much enthusiasm or hope.

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed in them all.

I can't be bothered to invest energy in being overly engaged in something that really matters, but where character politics and panicked decision making leads the way, and why should I?

Cheers Chris, Knilly, the backroom team, players who haven't taken responsibility and COH.

Talk is cheap. Actions matter and some huge decisions need making now.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" A quote generally attributed to Albert Einstein, but it doesn't take an intellect like old Albert to see that something has to change now.
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There should be a " big finish at Derby" and im not talking about the result😉
 
Total apathy once again rules at this Club. It was and will always be run by tits who couldn’t manage a Welk barrow. Who the fuck goes back to the same Manager three times? Especially after he walked out of the Club the first time, “I can’t do this anymore” at Crystal Palace. Maybe that should have given the owners a clue? But no, him and his cronies back at the club, football that makes me want to watch a girder rust instead. Going sideways more than a crab with piles. His picking up of players with more injuries than Evil Knievel. I think I’m the bigger tit though having forked out another £580 to watch this bobbar again. God it’s depressing.
 
Hillsboro Blade said:
Total apathy once again rules at this Club. It was and will always be run by tits who couldn’t manage a Welk barrow. Who the fuck goes back to the same Manager three times? Especially after he walked out of the Club the first time, “I can’t do this anymore” at Crystal Palace. Maybe that should have given the owners a clue? But no, him and his cronies back at the club, football that makes me want to watch a girder rust instead. Going sideways more than a crab with piles. His picking up of players with more injuries than Evil Knievel. I think I’m the bigger tit though having forked out another £580 to watch this bobbar again. God it’s depressing.
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Trying to decide whether The Crab liked the essence of the post ot the phrase "Going sideways more than a crab with piles"
 
I disagree with the assessment of the season. I think we were the Jairo/ Bamford and/or an average to poor managerial appointment away from certain relegation. The signings were pivotal as we would've been virtually down by January regardless of who the manager was (including under Wilder).

The club has been run incompetently under COH. They've continued the failure to recruit enough players in the summer that continues to plague us. Numbers matter and we haven't had enough players pre January for two seasons. That's a structural issue from above that then forces us into shopping too much in the bad Jan market The Prince/takeover was responsible for that last season; the current board this season. That combined with the shocking recruitment this season leaves us needing a turnover of 15-20 players going into next season. That's abject, chronic mismanagement. Injuries to Campbell and Cooper (no idea if they'll be any any good next season) adds the cherry to the turd cake

The new ownership should be striking fear into all Blades fans until proven otherwise. They've sold the dream of an intelligentsia atop the club that coincides with many Blades fans - uninformed and informed - desire to modernise the club and work like the football luminaries e.g. Bloom, Benthem and FSG. They were going to revolutionise the scouting, medical side, general fitness etc etc. They have done nothing of the sort and look very much like an emperor sans clothes who burnt the foundations of the rebuild down. They've left the club with an abortion of a squad and a huge bill for themselves if they want to overturn it and have a competitive squad next season - regardless of who is the manager.

I don't know but I'm guessing they've made promises re the squad, but even if they have doing all that and being competitive seems highly unlikely. We are back to the beginning of a rebuild. Get year one wrong next year and we're down.
 



54yrblade said:
I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed in them all.
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Your impashioned cries would carry more weight, if your posts over recent months hadn''t been so suicidally negative,

I'm not saying today was good, but a sad 'considered' post from you, looks a bit suspect tbh.

You reap what you sow, and all that.
 
Before today we had two games remaining to use players and a system that may be the way forward for next season.

Tom Davies has been told that he won't be with us next season.

With this in mind why did we waste a place on the subs bench with Tom Davies?

Does our manager ever speak to the academy staff about any of the youngsters who would benefit from being with the first team in these last couple of games?

Or was it that he was hoping we could be a couple of goals to the better and Tom Davies making a farewell entrance and for us all say thanks for his service and contribution to our club?
 
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54yrblade said:
I'm just disappointed in it all.

We've gone from the heady highs of a monumental rise to the PL, with some of the fastest attacking football that demanded absolute fitness in CW1.0 to this farce.

Players that really aren't up to it, where 'fitness' appears optional, being called out for your effort depends on who you are, and where our manager talks in cliches, losing too many 'games of football' to those managers around us and who is being properly, regularly schooled by them.

I still don't really understand why no money people would come in to buy a club from THE home of football with recent PL pedigree, and it makes me wonder why that actually is. What are the deeper reasons that serious players stay away from us?

The season started with drama, noise, hate, a sacking. CW3.0 has just about managed to keep us up. That's nothing to shout about at all, any competent manager in this league and probably many lower should have done.

He talked about a big finish at Derby in his post match presser. Yeah, ok Chris, whatever you say now.

A summer of crossing our fingers behind our backs, hoping that he finds some fit, young, talented footballers rather than the characters and experience that have too often let us down, or the vague hope that his 2016 fortunes come back in a Space Jam esq (ask your parents if necessary ) style really isn't filling me with much enthusiasm or hope.

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed in them all.

I can't be bothered to invest energy in being overly engaged in something that really matters, but where character politics and panicked decision making leads the way, and why should I?

Cheers Chris, Knilly, the backroom team, players who haven't taken responsibility and COH.

Talk is cheap. Actions matter and some huge decisions need making now.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" A quote generally attributed to Albert Einstein, but it doesn't take an intellect like old Albert to see that something has to change now.
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AI crap.
 
Thing is, apart from being angry, is anyone surprised?

Said it before, there has been huge turmoil since COH rolled into town and took over from HRH. They've clearly upset a lot of the connective tissue within the club. Firstly sacking Wilder, secondly recruiting Selles and thirdly putting their trust in AI to bring a laughably rubbish array of players to the club who seriously can't play football at all.

And then bringing Wilder back for a third time.

Wilder, here or not in August, has made some sort of pledge of a bonfire of players after the last game. Frankly, if any of them went, it wouldn't break my heart too much. Usually you are dreading the offers coming in but after Blackburn and today, all of them have the option for me. They have proven that after the slim hope of the playoffs disappeared (which we'd mess up anyway) they have just given up. The crowd and the good name of Sheffield United don't matter any more. What we feel as lifelong supporters is inconsequential. Their mercenary behaviour is so evident. And that is criminal.

No idea if Wilder resigns, is sacked or stays after Derby. Whatever happens, our fate is in the hands of these odd owners who don't seem to get what we are about as a club. But then again, did Columbotti, Green, Woolhouse or Brearley, to name but a few 'fit and propers'?
 
No. Not happy.
However, I temper my disappointment with the recollection of the shit show we all endured in the 6 years before Wilder arrived, which were absolutely shocking.

I get that people are pissed off
I get they blame the manager.
However it’s the new entitlement that pisses me off.
A bit of success on the pitch, for a change, and they expect it every season as if we’ve made it big.

It appears that many fail to remember the success of the last 10 years was not born out of clever planning at board level, a vision and a strategy at director level, or a huge injection of funds to upgrade the infrastructure, back room staff, and playing staff. The reality is it was a managerial appointment, by chance, that changed the fortunes of the club. Immediately before that there was an apathetic malaise after years of abject failure, culminating in that stroll of shame around the pitch after the Scunthorpe game in the final home match of the Adkins season. That’s the benchmark point for me.

This season’s shit show is firmly at the door of COH. Their naivety and arrogance led them to think it was all a simple process and they’d be absolutely fine to go with the snake oil salesman, Bord. Bord then applied his toy to manage all recruitment, up to the end of the summer transfer deadline, and set the club back 3-5 years. They recruited a bag of shite, on high wags and long contracts, or loans that were no where near the standard required.

Their choice of rookie and unproven manager came and went with a whimper. Five league games in, zero points. Very few clubs survive such a dreadful start to a season. Even the basket case had more points than us.
All this exciting, continental style football many creamed themselves about turned out to be a Gung Ho set of bollocks that exposed us completely. Confidence and morale was on the floor, both in the stands and in the squad

Change was made and the majority of people stated they’d be happy with staying up and climbing to mid table.

Now it’s as though none of that happened and we were expecting a play off push. Since we’re not at that race people are throwing toys out the pram.

Norwich are doing better than us after a dreadful start. Yep, they are. Yet they won’t reach the playoffs offs either.
 
What bothers me most is the amount of basic errors that we're making in every match, and most of these are coming from players who can't be dropped because we don't have anyone else in their position.

McGuinness and Tanganga have really dropped off these last few games (especially after Watford and Hull) but they can't be dropped because there's no CB's left now that Bindon is injured.

Rothwell and Burrows both had bad games on Wednesday, but both got dropped because we had other players in their position, but we can't do that with Tanganga and McGuinness, unless we went for an Academy player.

Said it on Wednesday and I'll say it again, cutting out crosses and winning headers are just the basics of defending and I'd expect any CB to be able to do both regardless of the system/tactics.
 
loyalblade95 said:
What bothers me most is the amount of basic errors that we're making in every match, and most of these are coming from players who can't be dropped because we don't have anyone else in their position.

McGuinness and Tanganga have really dropped off these last few games (especially after Watford and Hull) but they can't be dropped because there's no CB's left now that Bindon is injured.

Rothwell and Burrows both had bad games on Wednesday, but both got dropped because we had other players in their position, but we can't do that with Tanganga and McGuinness, unless we went for an Academy player.

Said it on Wednesday and I'll say it again, cutting out crosses and winning headers are just the basics of defending and I'd expect any CB to be able to do both regardless of the system/tactics.
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Although I’d question the drop off bit.
 
Kenilworth said:
No. Not happy.
However, I temper my disappointment with the recollection of the shit show we all endured in the 6 years before Wilder arrived, which were absolutely shocking.

I get that people are pissed off
I get they blame the manager.
However it’s the new entitlement that pisses me off.
A bit of success on the pitch, for a change, and they expect it every season as if we’ve made it big.

It appears that many fail to remember the success of the last 10 years was not born out of clever planning at board level, a vision and a strategy at director level, or a huge injection of funds to upgrade the infrastructure, back room staff, and playing staff. The reality is it was a managerial appointment, by chance, that changed the fortunes of the club. Immediately before that there was an apathetic malaise after years of abject failure, culminating in that stroll of shame around the pitch after the Scunthorpe game in the final home match of the Adkins season. That’s the benchmark point for me.

This season’s shit show is firmly at the door of COH. Their naivety and arrogance led them to think it was all a simple process and they’d be absolutely fine to go with the snake oil salesman, Bord. Bord then applied his toy to manage all recruitment, up to the end of the summer transfer deadline, and set the club back 3-5 years. They recruited a bag of shite, on high wags and long contracts, or loans that were no where near the standard required.

Their choice of rookie and unproven manager came and went with a whimper. Five league games in, zero points. Very few clubs survive such a dreadful start to a season. Even the basket case had more points than us.
All this exciting, continental style football many creamed themselves about turned out to be a Gung Ho set of bollocks that exposed us completely. Confidence and morale was on the floor, both in the stands and in the squad

Change was made and the majority of people stated they’d be happy with staying up and climbing to mid table.

Norwich are doing better than us after a dreadful start. Yep, they are. Yet they won’t reach the playoffs offs either.
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When does ‘it could be worse’ stop being an argument? Two seasons, same patterns, poor performances when it counts and almost exclusively looking lost against better teams.

Expecting improvement over the course of a season isn’t 'entitlement' - it’s what managers are judged on.
 
Kenilworth said:
No. Not happy.
However, I temper my disappointment with the recollection of the shit show we all endured in the 6 years before Wilder arrived, which were absolutely shocking.

I get that people are pissed off
I get they blame the manager.
However it’s the new entitlement that pisses me off.
A bit of success on the pitch, for a change, and they expect it every season as if we’ve made it big.

It appears that many fail to remember the success of the last 10 years was not born out of clever planning at board level, a vision and a strategy at director level, or a huge injection of funds to upgrade the infrastructure, back room staff, and playing staff. The reality is it was a managerial appointment, by chance, that changed the fortunes of the club. Immediately before that there was an apathetic malaise after years of abject failure, culminating in that stroll of shame around the pitch after the Scunthorpe game in the final home match of the Adkins season. That’s the benchmark point for me.

This season’s shit show is firmly at the door of COH. Their naivety and arrogance led them to think it was all a simple process and they’d be absolutely fine to go with the snake oil salesman, Bord. Bord then applied his toy to manage all recruitment, up to the end of the summer transfer deadline, and set the club back 3-5 years. They recruited a bag of shite, on high wags and long contracts, or loans that were no where near the standard required.

Their choice of rookie and unproven manager came and went with a whimper. Five league games in, zero points. Very few clubs survive such a dreadful start to a season. Even the basket case had more points than us.
All this exciting, continental style football many creamed themselves about turned out to be a Gung Ho set of bollocks that exposed us completely. Confidence and morale was on the floor, both in the stands and in the squad

Change was made and the majority of people stated they’d be happy with staying up and climbing to mid table.

Now it’s as though none of that happened and we were expecting a play off push. Since we’re not at that race people are throwing toys out the pram.

Norwich are doing better than us after a dreadful start. Yep, they are. Yet they won’t reach the playoffs offs either.
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Some of that entitlement comment is true for some people.
However, lots more aren't like that. They just want to see more than we did 1st half yesterday and midweek.
Even in the same match we show how much better we can be.
I don't crave for a PL push this season, but the dire performance , and boring back pass football, in those games, and before that gets us nowhere here except in trouble, is what annoys most people.
 



54yrblade said:
I'm just disappointed in it all.

We've gone from the heady highs of a monumental rise to the PL, with some of the fastest attacking football that demanded absolute fitness in CW1.0 to this farce.

Players that really aren't up to it, where 'fitness' appears optional, being called out for your effort depends on who you are, and where our manager talks in cliches, losing too many 'games of football' to those managers around us and who is being properly, regularly schooled by them.

I still don't really understand why no money people would come in to buy a club from THE home of football with recent PL pedigree, and it makes me wonder why that actually is. What are the deeper reasons that serious players stay away from us?

The season started with drama, noise, hate, a sacking. CW3.0 has just about managed to keep us up. That's nothing to shout about at all, any competent manager in this league and probably many lower should have done.

He talked about a big finish at Derby in his post match presser. Yeah, ok Chris, whatever you say now.

A summer of crossing our fingers behind our backs, hoping that he finds some fit, young, talented footballers rather than the characters and experience that have too often let us down, or the vague hope that his 2016 fortunes come back in a Space Jam esq (ask your parents if necessary ) style really isn't filling me with much enthusiasm or hope.

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed in them all.

I can't be bothered to invest energy in being overly engaged in something that really matters, but where character politics and panicked decision making leads the way, and why should I?

Cheers Chris, Knilly, the backroom team, players who haven't taken responsibility and COH.

Talk is cheap. Actions matter and some huge decisions need making now.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" A quote generally attributed to Albert Einstein, but it doesn't take an intellect like old Albert to see that something has to change now.
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Wouldnt call our last prem season pedigree we didnt winalot😅😅😅
 
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