Next Season’s expectations

[71Blade]

We can’t recall loans outside the Transfer Window.

Shame

 

[Hallamboy87]

We need a new manager that has a system that is adapted to modern football. But someone that also has a plan B/C if required.

With that we need to get rid of the deadwood that won't take us forward. Easier said than done, but I think only 6/7 players could realistically take us to the play offs next season. Our back line is dreadful! I'm hoping Cooper is just having a bit of a blip as he has showed quality (last season). Maybe get Moore back from Sunderland to coach him a little and provide the experience in the GK department?

We need a new RW for sure! CB, LW and young hungry striker! Easier said than done but we are Sheffield United!!! It will be interesting to see who goes up. If Ipswich go up, they have 3 decent centre half's, which I wouldn't mind having at all as I'm sure they will invest in better quality they have. Also, that Klarer from Birmingham I really do rate!

On an end note, I think our recruitment staff need to be looked at. Some of the players that came in this season have been dreadful! For the money we had we wasted it. It seemed we went with the reputation rather than seeing them actually play.

 

[Æthelstan]

I always look forward to seasons in the Championship. It’s a great league, I prefer it to the PL which, frankly, bores me these days.

Next season’s Championship is shaping up to be a corker. I’m expecting some great games against good sides. I would accept a mid table finish provided that we get to see evidence of development and progression, and something being built. Making the play offs would obviously be a measure of success but I wouldn’t want to see that achieved by attempting to grind out dour 1-0 wins.

The Premier League is more boring to watch, but I'd rather be an established, stable and boring Prem side with the odd shot at the FA Cup like Palace.

The Championship is brutal and we seem to have drama every season of some kind. I know a chaotic roller coaster is seen as the Sheffield United way, but I want something better than that.

 

[Cheeky Blade]

My expectations are Wilder does the rebuild, bringing some of the young un’s into the squad alongside older heads. I can see a few tweaks in backroom staff, I know some are saying Billy will be back to help out but maybe one or two more also.

I’d expect the first 11 to be challenging for the play off’s whilst we re-focus on developing academy talent with a view to paths to first team squad.

P.S- I’m hoping rather than expecting for some of the attacking football we saw earlier this season under Wilder than the recent return to scraping out results.

 

[KMC-1889]

Has anybody got any insights into the relationship between Wilder and the owners now?
Obviously,what transpired over the summer and with his return,Wilders hand has been strengthened in that relationship,so are they listening to him more and basing future decisions on what he is telling them,with the possibility that the current problems may not be solved,or have they got another sounding board they can turn to that may tell them information they are not getting?
For example,any owner of a club should be asking questions about the failure to convert numerous winnings positions into actual wins,but what are our owners seeing,are they aware,if they are,are they seeing it as the big problem that it is,and if they are,what are they being told.
We already know that the Bord adventure proves they are novices in the game of English club ownership,but is Wilder now the only one who is going to try and educate them more,with all his pluses and minuses?

My hope is that the this season has reinforced that the decision was right to let him go but they need to spend the next 12 months improving the structure and operations of the club so whoever comes in isn't left floundering.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please.

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

My wife summed it up quite well.

We've been together ten years, she admits to knowing not that much about football, and dead seriously she said to me the other day "why did you decide to support such a shit team" .

Always next season though, it's the hope that kills you right!

 

[LBA_Blade]

My wife summed it up quite well.

We've been together ten years, she admits to knowing not that much about football, and dead seriously she said to me the other day "why did you decide to support such a shit team" .

Always next season though, it's the hope that kills you right!

Sounds like mine when I said I was off to last seasons play off final even though I had ruled it out from the time before and also when we went into the playoffs. She did the usual classic line of just because you are there it doesn't mean they are going to win or not. Obvious justification yeah but I can't take that chance

 

[Maurice Maurice]

My wife summed it up quite well.

We've been together ten years, she admits to knowing not that much about football, and dead seriously she said to me the other day "why did you decide to support such a shit team" .

Always next season though, it's the hope that kills you right!

Met my wife 22 years ago and she's never known the Pigs in the Premier League. The Mighty Blades may have our ups and downs but at least we're not that shit...

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Met my wife 22 years ago and she's never known the Pigs in the Premier League. The Mighty Blades may have our ups and downs but at least we're not that shit...

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Your wife was 4 or younger when you met?!

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Your wife was 4 or younger when you met?!

Bless you my friend

 

[HillmortonBlade]

I am expecting to have a much more enjoyable season. But that’s because I’m moving north and will be able to get to many more games. Days out with the family, beer and football. As a wise friend once said and it’s worth repeating “don’t let the 90 minutes ruin your day out at football”.

 

[JayGreen17]

We are not 'massive'

We have a club that is badly run at board level, a manager who has been used to curry favour with the fans ('we've given you what you want, please don't hate us') by a board who are floundering in a place they didn't sign up to be in. They wanted PL. The team and manager ballsed it up.

We have an impressive ground, 27000+ fans who will turn up every home game to watch sub par performances but the hope is dropping out.

We could have been bigger had we not screwed our PL times up so embarrassingly badly, but we're OK with that, apparently. We're massive remember?

A big club in buildings and big fan numbers, but the on and off field truths tell a different story.

Not massive. Badly led, we lack real positivity and business direction.

Leave 'massive' for S6 eh?

Nice fireworks and suit though .....

I said for this league… which we are.

 

[Harry's Game]

Next season might be a bucket of cold water in the face for some, we will have no parachute payments and that will be first time since 2018 we are not one of the richest clubs at Championship level.. now I know for us old gets 2018 doesn’t seem that long ago but for a supporter aged 20 the last time we were in this position they were aged 12 ..

… it is going to be quite a culture shock for some to see what pool of players we are likely to be fishing in this summer.

 

[jt64]

I expect another season of boring mediocrity with several outgoings, bringing in a bunch of aging frees looking for one last contract, not giving any of the kids a chance, not progressing the club structure in the slightest, and a comfortable mid table finish despite the doomers on here being convinced we will go down

 

[BarcaBlade]

My expectation is difficulty getting tickets for the away game at Lincoln.

 

[Harry's Game]

I expect another season of boring mediocrity with several outgoings, bringing in a bunch of aging frees looking for one last contract, not giving any of the kids a chance, not progressing the club structure in the slightest, and a comfortable mid table finish despite the doomers on here being convinced we will go down

I agree we will put together a squad that will finish comfortably mid table next season and never look like going down…. But the fans will get grumpy we aren’t competing at the top end, Wilder in turn will get grumpy with the fans, I can then see him leaving by mutual consent at the end next season, we will appoint a new manager in the summer of 2027… and then get relegated to League one in season 27/28

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

I said for this league… which we are.

No club currently in the Championship is massive for this league.

Leicester have had the most success in recent times and look at the predicament they're in.

 

[T-Blade]

A club like ours should always be aiming for promotion every season when in this league. Expecting annything less is negative and defeatist.

 

[Hallamboy87]

Depends on when we get rid of Wilder. Can't take another summer of his recruitment of OAPs from the premier league who are way past it! we do need a rebuild from top to bottom.

 

[Selly]

My "expectation" - and this is based on who we are as a club - is that we should be challenging for top 6, ideally top 4.

However my "expectation" based on the team we have, are likely to have, and the teams coming down is that we are more likely to be challenging for 7-10th.

My biggest fear (as others have pointed out) is that anything less than this and we become a Preston - perennial existers in the Championship and nothing more.

Been there before - and I can tell you its far preferential to do that than diarrhoea our way down into L1.

 

[LBA_Blade]

Depends on when we get rid of Wilder. Can't take another summer of his recruitment of OAPs from the premier league who are way past it! we do need a rebuild from top to bottom.

Agreed with that, it's a difficult one based on positional changes within the squad, we probably have a handful on players that on current form you would say are first names on the team sheet when available

Cooper (no competition), Seriki, Brooks (RW partnership), Bamford (goals although drying up), Jairo (to steady the ship but needs to last 90).... Then we look at the outgoings, we should be offloading alot, all of the loans, Mee and Ings along with both Davies (Adam and Tom). That leaves us very light in several areas, personally I think we can justify getting rid of Burrows and Hamer.

Currently based on that Squad we would be set-up something like the below. I don't think we need an influx of Strikers, we will have One, Campbell and Cannon alongside Bamford, potentially we may look for another. However Arblaster could take the role below from Rothwell or come on for either or drop Peck in there. We either need strength down the left in particular but the CB's (I have purposely left out Tanganga and McGuinness as I don't think these are strong enough as a CB pairing.

The reason I have gone with a 4-2-3-1 pairing is that if Seriki is back tracking Rothwell can drop to cover, Jairo covers the middle and picks his man. you could even play Arblaster in the DM's with him pushing forward and have an anchor point with Jairo sitting in front of the back 4. If that wasn't working it could be switched to a 4-1-3-2 using Jairo sitting in front of the back 4 and playing another striker alongside Bamford. Formation wise we aren't doing anything different and we create chances but not put them away. Ideally we should be playing 2 up top but the problem comes when we seem to get caught out at the back, we need dominant CB's and DM's that pick up their men and take the game by the scruff of the neck.

 

[S74Blade]

I want exciting , positive football. Not holding on to 1-0 's for a playoff place.

Agree and not backwards sideways keeper forwards backwards bloody sideways. Get the ball look for someone in space and move it forward quickly. Football is a borefest at the moment.

 

[KMC-1889]

Agreed with that, it's a difficult one based on positional changes within the squad, we probably have a handful on players that on current form you would say are first names on the team sheet when available

Cooper (no competition), Seriki, Brooks (RW partnership), Bamford (goals although drying up), Jairo (to steady the ship but needs to last 90).... Then we look at the outgoings, we should be offloading alot, all of the loans, Mee and Ings along with both Davies (Adam and Tom). That leaves us very light in several areas, personally I think we can justify getting rid of Burrows and Hamer.

Currently based on that Squad we would be set-up something like the below. I don't think we need an influx of Strikers, we will have One, Campbell and Cannon alongside Bamford, potentially we may look for another. However Arblaster could take the role below from Rothwell or come on for either or drop Peck in there. We either need strength down the left in particular but the CB's (I have purposely left out Tanganga and McGuinness as I don't think these are strong enough as a CB pairing.

The reason I have gone with a 4-2-3-1 pairing is that if Seriki is back tracking Rothwell can drop to cover, Jairo covers the middle and picks his man. you could even play Arblaster in the DM's with him pushing forward and have an anchor point with Jairo sitting in front of the back 4. If that wasn't working it could be switched to a 4-1-3-2 using Jairo sitting in front of the back 4 and playing another striker alongside Bamford. Formation wise we aren't doing anything different and we create chances but not put them away. Ideally we should be playing 2 up top but the problem comes when we seem to get caught out at the back, we need dominant CB's and DM's that pick up their men and take the game by the scruff of the neck.

Based on flogging Hamer, Peck & Burrows to clear the drop in revenue I'd expect us to start something like this:



If we're going to stick to 4-2-3-1 we desperately need some decent options for that LW role that aren't Hamer or Chong.

 

[LBA_Blade]

Based on flogging Hamer, Peck & Burrows to clear the drop in revenue I'd expect us to start something like this:

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If we're going to stick to 4-2-3-1 we desperately need some decent options for that LW role that aren't Hamer or Chong.

Yeah that can defiantly work, but like you say, it is massively down to who we we get rid of in the summer. I think it would be naïve to think that people wont be looking at Peck and Brooks (especially now with an international call up) Definitely agree too that the LW needs improving without a doubt.