Last Time We Won a Big Home League Game?

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Oxford, Peterborough, Swindon this season, all big games in respect of the bigger picture.
 



LJBlade said:
You started by saying we don't win big home games but you've just listed 5. How many have we lost in the same period of time?
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Didn't beat Scunthorpe last week
Failed to beat Barnsley last season - needed to win to keep play off hopes alive, big crowd. 0-0
Brentford 2013 - still a shout of auto's, lost 0-2. hopes over.
Stevenage 2012
Failed to beat pigs, Charlton, Hudd's all at home in 2012-2013
Forest in 2009 - we'd just won 5 on the bounce and got into 2nd spot. Big crowd, a win would keep us 2nd, we draw 0-0, end up finishing 3rd.
The Wigan 2007 game.
Millwall home 2005 - lose and miss out on play offs.
Ipswich game, final home game of 2003-2004 season, win would all but get us in the play offs, we draw 1-1.

If you have any that come to mind then go for it, as the title of the post says.
 
Borbokisfreekick said:
I'm a positive Blade (at least by our standards) but I can't see us winning today purely due to us never winning BIG home league games. We have a decent record in cups, play offs etc. but never seem to win the big league games at home when we really need to.

Can anyone think of a big one we've won at home in the past 10 - 20 years aside from the odd derby day win??
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Weather must be shit in Seattle yer nesh twat ;)

We're flying mate, with a Blade in charge and 29,000 in the stands. A team that works its proverbials off and would run through a brick wall.

These are good times. It's bad enough living through the rough spells, so why not enjoy and make the most of things?

Look forward, not back. Make a difference, don't wait for it to go wrong.

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do some of our fans forget every game we win

all home games are big
ask the opposition who all raise their game when they come here

we are TOP of the league because weve won more games than the rest
so YES we continually win BIG games
 
Rodley said:
Weather must be shit in Seattle yer nesh twat ;)

We're flying mate, with a Blade in charge and 29,000 in the stands. A team that works its proverbials off and would run through a brick wall.

These are good times. It's bad enough living through the rough spells, so why not enjoy and make the most of things?

Look forward, not back. Make a difference, don't wait for it to go wrong.

Up
Dem
Blades
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Like i said in the original post - I'm a positive Blade - but was just thinking of the topic and how we rarely do win those types of games. I've loved this season, Wilder is the best manager we've had since Warnock, and probably the best we'll have for years to come. He'll get us up this season.
 
Rodley said:
Weather must be shit in Seattle yer nesh twat ;)

We're flying mate, with a Blade in charge and 29,000 in the stands. A team that works its proverbials off and would run through a brick wall.

These are good times. It's bad enough living through the rough spells, so why not enjoy and make the most of things?

Look forward, not back. Make a difference, don't wait for it to go wrong.

Up
Dem
Blades
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No Trappist vow for you today, I'm guessing?....
 
Borbokisfreekick said:
Didn't beat Scunthorpe last week
Failed to beat Barnsley last season - needed to win to keep play off hopes alive, big crowd. 0-0
Brentford 2013 - still a shout of auto's, lost 0-2. hopes over.
Stevenage 2012
Failed to beat pigs, Charlton, Hudd's all at home in 2012-2013
Forest in 2009 - we'd just won 5 on the bounce and got into 2nd spot. Big crowd, a win would keep us 2nd, we draw 0-0, end up finishing 3rd.
The Wigan 2007 game.
Millwall home 2005 - lose and miss out on play offs.
Ipswich game, final home game of 2003-2004 season, win would all but get us in the play offs, we draw 1-1.

If you have any that come to mind then go for it, as the title of the post says.
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Half of he ones you've listed weren't big games and as you've already shown, we have won several big games over the last few years. I'm not denying that we've lost big games when we should've won. I'm just trying to dispel the myth that we never win any of the big games
 
Borbokisfreekick said:
Like i said in the original post - I'm a positive Blade - but was just thinking of the topic and how we rarely do win those types of games. I've loved this season, Wilder is the best manager we've had since Warnock, and probably the best we'll have for years to come. He'll get us up this season.
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He's far better than Ol' Big Nose. The quality of our football now would baffle Warnock...

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LJBlade said:
Half of he ones you've listed weren't big games and as you've already shown, we have won several big games over the last few years. I'm not denying that we've lost big games when we should've won. I'm just trying to dispel the myth that we never win any of the big games
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All those games were big games and had a direct effect on us failing in our objective, and some put the final nail in the coffin. They were big games as they were hyped up and had big crowds and had a lot riding on them. Those are the types of games I'm talking about.
 
Borbokisfreekick said:
All those games were big games and had a direct effect on us failing in our objective, and some put the final nail in the coffin. They were big games as they were hyped up and had big crowds and had a lot riding on them. Those are the types of games I'm talking about.
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The only game that directly had an effect on our objective was the Wigan one. Otherwise you could say that every game has an effect on whether we achieve or fail our objectives.
It seems that our definition of a big game differs somewhat.
 



Oxford united at home in august. As that was a pretty big game
 
Borbokisfreekick said:
Didn't beat Scunthorpe last week
Failed to beat Barnsley last season - needed to win to keep play off hopes alive, big crowd. 0-0
Brentford 2013 - still a shout of auto's, lost 0-2. hopes over.
Stevenage 2012
Failed to beat pigs, Charlton, Hudd's all at home in 2012-2013
Forest in 2009 - we'd just won 5 on the bounce and got into 2nd spot. Big crowd, a win would keep us 2nd, we draw 0-0, end up finishing 3rd.
The Wigan 2007 game.
Millwall home 2005 - lose and miss out on play offs.
Ipswich game, final home game of 2003-2004 season, win would all but get us in the play offs, we draw 1-1.

If you have any that come to mind then go for it, as the title of the post says.
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You seem to be enjoying this a bit too much mate. While what you are posting is accurate, the timing of your posts just a few hours before the game it is shite if you don't mind me saying so.

We all need to have our positive heads on today. It's like Churchill addressing his troupes just before they sail off to Normandy and saying 'I don't know why we bother, the Germans' always win the big battles'. Every day is a new day and fortunes change. UTB.
 
Borbokisfreekick said:
I'm a positive Blade (at least by our standards) but I can't see us winning today purely due to us never winning BIG home league games. We have a decent record in cups, play offs etc. but never seem to win the big league games at home when we really need to.

Can anyone think of a big one we've won at home in the past 10 - 20 years aside from the odd derby day win??
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hull is the obvious one. Crazy game finished with the chant "that's why we're going up ringing around the stadium.

I'd also suggest victories over forest and Leeds during the run in to our relegation from the championship were big games in that they kept our season alive.

Beating Rotherham at our place under clough, I suppose that kept alive our slim play off chances at the time.

Cloughs second season we eventually won some games to see us into the play offs, so they must have been important games.

Beating west ham in the premier league season late on

All depends on how negative you want to be really ;)
 
4 nil to the Blades, Fleck screamer to start the goal rush. Nil nil at half time, you heard it here first!

Its not about history, its about making history. fookin ell I am starting to sound like Adkins.
 
Caveblade said:
4 nil to the Blades, Fleck screamer to start the goal rush. Nil nil at half time, you heard it here first!

Its not about history, its about making history. fookin ell I am starting to sound like Adkins.
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Woah Woah Woah...... goal rush means both teams to score in my bookies. :)
 
Borbokisfreekick said:
Didn't beat Scunthorpe last week
Failed to beat Barnsley last season - needed to win to keep play off hopes alive, big crowd. 0-0
Brentford 2013 - still a shout of auto's, lost 0-2. hopes over.
Stevenage 2012
Failed to beat pigs, Charlton, Hudd's all at home in 2012-2013
Forest in 2009 - we'd just won 5 on the bounce and got into 2nd spot. Big crowd, a win would keep us 2nd, we draw 0-0, end up finishing 3rd.
The Wigan 2007 game.
Millwall home 2005 - lose and miss out on play offs.
Ipswich game, final home game of 2003-2004 season, win would all but get us in the play offs, we draw 1-1.

If you have any that come to mind then go for it, as the title of the post says.
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Add to that list the big one

1981 Home to relegation threatened Walsall.
We only needed to draw to gaurantee safety but a few other teams need to win or draw.

We lost 0-1 and went down to div 4 for the first time ever missing a last minute penalty.

The only massive matches I remember us winning was
1989 Away at Leicester BUT it's typical that the result had NO affect.

Leeds won their last match so we couldn't win the title and
Newcastle lost so we were up even if we lost to Leicester.

The only other massive match effecting promotion was
1984 Burnley 0 Hull 2

Hull were allowed to play their rearranged game after the season had ended.
So it's bloody typical. We get promoted that season in spectacular fashionbut wasn't even given the chance to celebrate it.

I listened to the Burnley- Hull game on the radio, it wasn't live commentary but they kept giving match updates every 10 minutes Think Hull were winning 1-0 at half -time, but they made it 2-0 early in the 2nd half. The last 20 minutes was all out Hull attacks, loads of goal mouth scrambles but Burnley held on.
 
Depends what you call big. I can't remember us ever winning a big, 1 off season decider. But beating the spammers 3-0 at the lane felt big at the time and should have been had they had the points deduction.
 
I know what the OP means. Promotion rivals, big crowd...we don't often win these games.

Even when we go up our record against the other promoted teams is patchy at best:

1982: beat Wigan but drew with Bournemouth and Bradford
1984: lost to Wimbledon and Oxford
1989: beat Wolves, drew with Port Vale
1990: drew with Leeds, lost to Sunderland
2006: drew with Reading, lost to Watford
 
Revolution said:
I know what the OP means. Promotion rivals, big crowd...we don't often win these games.

Even when we go up our record against the other promoted teams is patchy at best:

1982: beat Wigan but drew with Bournemouth and Bradford
1984: lost to Wimbledon and Oxford
1989: beat Wolves, drew with Port Vale
1990: drew with Leeds, lost to Sunderland
2006: drew with Reading, lost to Watford
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1970-71: Beat Leicester and Cardiff
 
1danewhitehouse said:
Depends what you call big. I can't remember us ever winning a big, 1 off season decider. But beating the spammers 3-0 at the lane felt big at the time and should have been had they had the points deduction.
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Agree, that was a big game at the time and seen in a similar light to today's game.
If we win today then we've taken a massively step towards promotion
But beating West Ham back then was also a massive step towards safety.
 



Sheffsteel said:
Agree, that was a big game at the time and seen in a similar light to today's game.
If we win today then we've taken a massively step towards promotion
But beating West Ham back then was also a massive step towards safety.
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Just goes to show that whatever happens today, nothing is decided. But a win would make things look very positive indeed.
 
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