Loosing interest?

[maxstertheblade]

I am 16 years old and am starting to loose interest in going to watch United play. Now I know many of the older generation etc are going to say get use to it and stuff but the thing is when we score a goal at home whether it be a derby or not I don't celebrate with passion anymore! The sad thing is I don't ever look forward to going anymore at all because it's just not worth the money. The atmosphere is poor which is why i'm considering selling my season ticket and going to just away games. Is this a sign of me loosing interest or just giving up?

 

[blade too long]

its called being to close to reality, your thinking to much
stop being a whimp and suffer like the rest of us

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I am 16 years old and am starting to loose interest in going to watch United play. Now I know many of the older generation etc are going to say get use to it and stuff but the thing is when we score a goal at home whether it be a derby or not I don't celebrate with passion anymore! The sad thing is I don't ever look forward to going anymore at all because it's just not worth the money. The atmosphere is poor which is why i'm considering selling my season ticket and going to just away games. Is this a sign of me loosing interest or just giving up?

If you don't like it take up something else like English Literature. Or fuck off to Meadowhall on a Saturday.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

If you don't like it take up something else like English Literature. Or fuck off to Meadowhall on a Saturday.

That's not a very nice thing to say.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

That's not a very nice thing to say.

Yes you're quite right.

Go to Meadowhall on a Saturday.

 

[Bladepicker]

Max lad.

How do you loose interest? Is it some inside journalistic jargon we are not party to?

In all seriousness you are getting to an age where women should be overtaking United in your list of interests and, if not, trust me, they should be. At least until we get promoted and/or you get fat.

 

[Mouth of the South]

Taking the rough with the smooth is all part of supporting a club. Given your age, the club’s continuing toil and failure to fulfil its potential should come as little or no surprise given that you're unlikely to remember the club achieving anything else.


However, following your obvious and well publicised excitement about the recruitment of Adkins and particularly Sharp in recent months I would have thought you'd at least give them some time before you loose (sic) interest and give up on them.


Therein may lay the root cause of the issue - the increasingly prevalent expectation and demand in today’s society for instant success and a hindrance free, shortcut to the top whether it be via TV programmes like X Factor, Euromillions jackpots or Man C/Chelsea like investment in the football club you support.

 

[Tyler Durden]

16 years old and losing interest? We've been shit since you were in short trousers, even longer actually. I really can't think of anything to say other than 'get used to it' I'm afraid.
Luckily 16 is a good age to lose interest, you can now spend your weekends trying to cop a hand job at the bus stop off some local slags, drink neat vodka through your eyeballs in a game of truth or dare and get told to piss off by a bouncer when you try to get into a club with a fake ID for the first time.

Sheffield United- Only For The Strong.....grrrrr.

 

[Boxer Blade]

Max, things can change quickly in football, it only takes 2 or 3 wins and suddenly everybody

starts talking positives and looking forward to the next game, then again we could lose the

next 2 or 3 so, yeah get your point son, think I'll go to Meadowhall tomorrow

 

[Sean Thornton]

If you don't like it take up something else like English Literature. Or fuck off to Meadowhall on a Saturday.

"Nothing comes from nothing" - King Lear.

It could be our motto.

 

[Bladesman]

It only takes a second to score a goal.

 

[BushBlade]

16 years old and losing interest? We've been shit since you were in short trousers, even longer actually. I really can't think of anything to say other than 'get used to it' I'm afraid.
Luckily 16 is a good age to lose interest, you can now spend your weekends trying to cop a hand job at the bus stop off some local slags, drink neat vodka through your eyeballs in a game of truth or dare and get told to piss off by a bouncer when you try to get into a club with a fake ID for the first time.

Sheffield United- Only For The Strong.....grrrrr.

That's exactly what you should be doing at that age. I lost interest when I was about 17. I couldn't use my Junior Blades card anymore and it had become expensive, just at a time when I could get served in pubs. Drinking beer won. Particularly after we sold Edwards to Leeds. I'd been brought up on the stories of how we selt Mick Jones and TC to them dirty bastards and I thought 'here we go again'. I should have left it at that and forgotten about the Blades for good. Then we got bloody Bassett...

 

[Jon Bon]

1 you can now spend your weekends trying to cop a hand job at the bus stop off some local slags

Hey that's a thought! Might try that tomorrow instead of going to the game. Anyone want a ticket for the kop..?

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

When I was 16, we were in Division 3, we'd lost 6 games by this stage of the season (& were about to lose our 7th, at Carlisle), & - though we didn't know it - we had the trauma of losing heavily to some vile unmentionable team wearing blue & white at a smelly, ramshackle stadium on Boxing Day yet to come. We ended the season 12th, & much worse was to come the following season.

Which all goes to say, Max, that you might be losing interest, you might even be on the verge of giving up right now, but no doubt the bug's bitten & you'll be back for much, much more pain & suffering.

Wish I could be more cheery...

 

[coaxingstar71]

I am 16 years old and am starting to loose interest in going to watch United play. Now I know many of the older generation etc are going to say get use to it and stuff but the thing is when we score a goal at home whether it be a derby or not I don't celebrate with passion anymore! The sad thing is I don't ever look forward to going anymore at all because it's just not worth the money. The atmosphere is poor which is why i'm considering selling my season ticket and going to just away games. Is this a sign of me loosing interest or just giving up?

From personal experience my advice is keep going until :-

a) You cease to qualify for a concession season ticket, ie if you are remaining a student then take advantage while you can.

OR...

b) You get a job that requires you work all day on a Saturday hence you'll be unable to attend games anyway.

At 16, you've got plenty of time to shag ugly birds and develop a drinking/drugs habit but you might not always have the opportunity to watch the (not so) mighty blades.

 

[CarlingBlade]

The Blades become much more interesting when you start drinking and one piss poor game fades into the other and you only remember the great games.

I've been following em since 1988 and can honestly say i don't think anything could stop me going to the games, when kids and a missus come along its the only ray of sanity I get.

 

[vorpal blade]

Look I know what havoc may be reaped by an over enthusiastic predictive text in an iphone but you aren't 'loosing' interest - that's what you might do if you had a dog called 'Interest' and were to let it off the leash.

I think you may yet be able to amend the title of your thread Maxter, it would make sense if you did... I mean it would make sense, because it doesn't at the moment.

 

[Deleted member 875]

The Blades become much more interesting when you start drinking and one piss poor game fades into the other and you only remember the great games.

I've been following em since 1988 and can honestly say i don't think anything could stop me going to the games, when kids and a missus come along its the only ray of sanity I get.

There are a few seasons where the football was mediocre and not memorable, they was the seasons that i enjoyed the most as i went everything with my mates, used to get wankered every week and if nothing else it was a top laugh

 

[1danewhitehouse]

I absolutely loved the triple assault season but not just because of the football on offer. I'd just started Uni at 18 and blew pretty much all of my student loans for the next 4 years on travelling to watch the blades and the piss-ups that went hand in hand with that. That carried on til I was about 24 when I met the current Mrs and settled down to family life. Those away days on the sauce are few and far between now but still enjoy them when I get chance. I can relate to not enjoying the home games though. The atmosphere is shit. At best you come out thinking "well at least it looks a bit healthier than before" and at worst come out livid with your weekend ruined. Still, I'm too far gone. I'll be there come rain or shine. Might need to invest in a cat to kick from now on though.

 

[UnitedBlade]

I've seen a few highs and many lows in 50 odd years but I'm here to the bitter end.

My big issue currently is that excitement and entertainment is being sucked out of the game.

We are crying out for exciting, adventurous attacking football but we plainly aren't getting it at the moment.

Adkins says that's what he wants but the current bunch of players just cannot deliver it.

I believe Adkins is our only hope for getting it right but we also know many need to shipped out and new brought in before we see success.

We have no option to be patient but we may not be successful this year and we probably have more pain to endure.

UTFB

Just noticed, 2000 posts, do I get a biscuit ?

 

[Blade56]

I am 16 years old and am starting to loose interest in going to watch United play. Now I know many of the older generation etc are going to say get use to it and stuff but the thing is when we score a goal at home whether it be a derby or not I don't celebrate with passion anymore! The sad thing is I don't ever look forward to going anymore at all because it's just not worth the money. The atmosphere is poor which is why i'm considering selling my season ticket and going to just away games. Is this a sign of me loosing interest or just giving up?

Try and stick with it maxter but if you and your finances are getting drawn in other directions don't worry about having a few years off, you can always come back and I speak from experience from when I lost my football Mojo!
Much better to do something that floats your boat at you tender age and come back refreshed (if your interest returns) while we are doing so bad. The current atmosphere and entertainment being dished up is worse than when we went down to the forth tier so no one will blame you.
Next season will see a dramatic reduction in attendances ergo atmosphere unless a miracle happens. I'm gonna hunker down at keep my ST but I'm not happy, I've nearly lost my Mojo again and I'm not enjoying the football.

 

[Northyorksblade]

If you don't like it take up something else like English Literature. Or fuck off to Meadowhall on a Saturday.

English language may be better

 

[Worksop II]

I am 16 years old and am starting to loose interest in going to watch United play.

This is why Beer was Invented

Go for it, you will soon find some issues larger than the Blades, and following the Mighty Blades will seem like Sanctuary

 

[Tyler Durden]

That's exactly what you should be doing at that age. I lost interest when I was about 17. I couldn't use my Junior Blades card anymore and it had become expensive, just at a time when I could get served in pubs. Drinking beer won. Particularly after we sold Edwards to Leeds. I'd been brought up on the stories of how we selt Mick Jones and TC to them dirty bastards and I thought 'here we go again'. I should have left it at that and forgotten about the Blades for good. Then we got bloody Bassett...

Just when you thought you were out......they pull you back in, to quote Al Pacino.

My dad lost interest when Woodward went, never forgave em for that. But he was with my mum by then so was too old and settled for a hand job at the bus stop.

At least I hope so

 

[drinksmat]

You have to experience the dross to appreciate the not quite so dross times.

 

[vorpal blade]

Hey Max, sorry for the tone of my previous advice - btw there is a fairly glaring error in my English in that post that dawned on me (reaped isn't the word, is it wreaked? does that even exist? wrought may be?) - and I can't blame predictive text.

I think Blade56's advice is sound, like any drug, don't get addicted to it - you would miss out on so much if you only went to watch football matches from now on in. Share your season ticket around, that way, its still yours if we have a decent run in to the season?

 

[Boxer Blade]

Yes the atmosphere is poor as it was last season but we all know what its like when its

buzzing, and thats it for me really, it will come again, dont know when like but it will and

thats part of the reason I (we) go, I just hope it can be this season, cos if it is then next

season with a lot of the players being out of contract and the manager I understand

having a budget to move us forward it could just be one of those seasons we all look

back on in umpteen years time and talk about adkins in the same light as harry and

warnock.

 

[judge]

I am 16 years old and am starting to loose interest in going to watch United play. Now I know many of the older generation etc are going to say get use to it and stuff but the thing is when we score a goal at home whether it be a derby or not I don't celebrate with passion anymore! The sad thing is I don't ever look forward to going anymore at all because it's just not worth the money. The atmosphere is poor which is why i'm considering selling my season ticket and going to just away games. Is this a sign of me loosing interest or just giving up?

ITS FUCKING LOSE OR LOSING

 

[Bartleby]

ITS FUCKING LOSE OR LOSING

it certainly is at the moment

 

[alcoblade]

ITS FUCKING LOSE OR LOSING

It's "it's".



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