Is it time to look for a new rival?

[SUFC Guy]

They are pretty piss poor at it afterall

• Haven't beat us since 2012
• Haven't finished above us since 2016/2017
• They've not graced the top division for 26 years
• Relegated at their main rival when they only had 10 men for half of the game
• 1 win all season
• Completely stunk out the Championship
• Oh, and they smell

• We have more wins H2H
• We've done the double double over them
• Far better stadium, squad, academy, recruitment and fan base.

They're not keeping up their end of the bargain.

It's time for them to fuck off down to the lower leagues. We'll find someone else.

Suggestions anyone?

 

[Silkblade]

If Sheffield Wednesday actually doesn’t exist anymore then it would easily be Leeds followed by Barnsley in my opinion. Then Nottingham Forest.

 

[DifferentClass]

Dirties and dog shaggers.

 

[Camden Blade]

No. It's time to focus on ourselves. We don't need a new rival. The Pigs will always be our rival, but we can just forget about them now for a good while.

 

[Westran]

We had this conversation earlier, and all agreed Forest.

 

[Slug]

Definitely Forest.

Or if Wednesday go bust and we want someone to challenge us the same level as they did then Alfreton may be a shout.

 

[Northernsoulblade]

Wrexham

 

[Gavlar]

Sheffield fc.

 

[Paisley Blade]

SISU ( this week especially)

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Heat death of the universe

 

[1889]

Stocksbridge Park Steels?

 

[T-Blade]

Forest next year

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Not Gainsborough Trinity please or I'd have to buy a half and half scarf which would finish me off.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Lincoln could have some needle next season.

Agree with others though, Forest would be next after Wednesday but it would never feel the same.

 

[YES Blade]

No. It's time to focus on ourselves. We don't need a new rival. The Pigs will always be our rival, but we can just forget about them now for a good while.

I do think some of our fans judge success by being better than Wednesday, which for a long has been a very low standard. So if they continue to slide down the leagues, we will, as you say, start to focus on ourselves more and hopefully raise our standards.

 

[S64 Blade]

We have more actual rivalry with Leeds and Forest. Been involved in 2/3 promotion battles with each club in the last 20 odd years. Plus big cup games.

 

[Champagneblade]

Bristol City and Nottingham Forest are in a similar boat with lower league intercity rivals.

Maybe we should get tips from them how to keep it interesting.

Wilder is back. We are top dogs at first team level, U21 level and above them at U18 level too.

That said, we have a habit of building on supremacy about as convincingly as the England cricket team so let’s not get too carried away.

So many open questions for them. Bord takeover? Ashley coming in and -15? New Manager? More players to leave? Continued embargo? Demands on the ground? Ownership of the ground?

This may feel like the lowest ebb but it may well not be.

I saw an informative thread on their site about the impact of the Boxing Day game. I’d argue that the 4-2 pendulum swing was just as significant, plus it was 4 goals away, if not the same margin. They has seen plucky United lord it over them for a decade and it isn’t swinging back soon.

Yesterday rather than being built up to be anything was simply taking them out back and putting them down in mercy. The tone of Wilder’s interview probably said as much. Sad in a sense that the Sheffield derby could be gone off the calendar for a few years now.

 

[SouthStandGBlock]

I think Leeds then Forest.

Potentially yesterday could be the last time we ever play Wednesday. They've been an hour from being liquidated in the past, and I think the same fate might await them this summer.

We might genuinely need a new rival.

Then again, would life be better without one?

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

I may be a voice in the Wilderness but I consider Wednesday should keep their local rival status until/unless they drop out the EFL.

It's always possible that James Bord could turn up at a friendly against Halifax, identify key targets currently playing in San Marino through AI technology and then pump several pounds into them.

 

[Addison]

If you've grown up on a Sheffield council estate you understand why they are our rivals. They always will be whether we like it or not. To suggest otherwise is to fall into their deluded fantasy world where we dont exist and they are playing Real Madrid in the Champions league final.

We are an irritating scratch that wont go away. They try to re write history at every opportunity because its not in their DNA to concede that we might just be better. They formed us. They were called the Blades and we stole if from them. They let us have BDTBL. They were here first thats why they are the bigger club. A Boxing Day low league victory is far more important than losing 6 points to your rivals and costing you the first division title. The Midlands Cup is more prestigious than the FA Cup. Attendance is the judge of greatness.

Yesterday will have been another dagger through the heart of pig mythology. We didnt relegate them Chansiri and the EFL did.

We have what Weeds or even SISU, up next, crave. A proper two team city rivalry on a par with Manchester and Liverpool. The fact is out of all the big derbies ours is up there as one of the most fiercely contested.

I dont like them or their delusional supporters with their scripted rhetoric. They've turned relatives and respected work colleagues into imbeciles when they talk Wendy. Yet without them we wouldn't have the joy of yesterday putting them back in their box after relegating them. 48 wins to 36. Mind the gap. Its what rivalry is all about.

So no, whilst I have a dislike of clubs, such as Weeds, Florist, and SISU, who cheat, as our neighbours did in the past, they will never replace them as our rival. Its too much fun at the moment winding them up.