Our most forgetful season since...

[1973Blade]

In years to come I suspect this season will be a bit of a blur, except for the Selles failure. I'd say we have had plenty of excitement in recent seasons, promotion campaigns, relegations, Cup Semi finals and the Premier League.
I'd say this is our most forgettable season since 2012 and 2013. Danny Wilson was manag for most of it, the football was dull and it ended up with a very poor promotion playoff defeat at Yeovil.
Hopefully we'll return to having memorable seasons next year (for the right reasons!).

 

[Chezzy Blades]

In years to come I suspect this season will be a bit of a blur, except for the Selles failure. I'd say we have had plenty of excitement in recent seasons, promotion campaigns, relegations, Cup Semi finals and the Premier League.
I'd say this is our most forgettable season since 2012 and 2013. Danny Wilson was manag for most of it, the football was dull and it ended up with a very poor promotion playoff defeat at Yeovil.
Hopefully we'll return to having memorable seasons next year (for the right reasons!).

I’d probably go for the Adkins 2015/16 season where we finished 11th in League One. In the 2012/13 season we beat Bournemouth away to go top on the 23rd February, we just fell away badly at the end after replacing Nick Blackman with Jon Forte.

 

[The Fox]

I cant remember the rememberable ones never mind the forgettable ones .

 

[1973Blade]

I cant remember the rememberable ones never mind the forgettable ones .

Do you remember what day of the week it is!

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Yes this has been a bad one, mainly for the number of losses, and the inexcusable self-destructive ways we engineered them.
Couple of highlights in the Wednesday victories, but overall not quite as dreary as the last Atkins season.
Mid-table League One is pretty grim.
Oh and yes those playoff defeats to Yeovil will be long seared in the memory, as well as all those times we were consistently bummed by friggin’ Scunthorpe.

 

[DifferentClass]

Do you remember what day of the week it is!

Day after Tuesday innit?

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Our purple patch in the middle of the season was awesome. But sadly it gave too many people (including me) false hope.

 

[s20Blade]

The early Warnock seasons like like nothing, just signing anyone that was free and would come us finishing midtable year after year.

 

[Æthelstan]

Yes this has been a bad one, mainly for the number of losses, and the inexcusable self-destructive ways we engineered them.
Couple of highlights in the Wednesday victories, but overall not quite as dreary as the last Atkins season.
Mid-table League One is pretty grim.
Oh and yes those playoff defeats to Yeovil will be long seared in the memory, as well as all those times we were consistently bummed by friggin’ Scunthorpe.

Remember when Fleetwood Town were one of our bogey teams?

Can anyone call themselves a real football fan if they haven't experienced a loss to all these woeful teams?

 

[Gimli]

Remember when Fleetwood Town were one of our bogey teams?

Can anyone call themselves a real football fan if they haven't experienced a loss to all these woeful teams?

I still have nightmares about facing Walsall after they seemed to destroy us every time we played them and their striker Bakayoko randomly turned into Brazilian Ronaldo for 90 minutes…

 

[metalblade]

Has to be Adkins season.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Blackwell's second season? Highlight of that was Jordan Stewart's appearance on the right wing

 

[Lane Ender]

Walsall always comes back to that horrible day

 

[bruce]

In years to come I suspect this season will be a bit of a blur, except for the Selles failure. I'd say we have had plenty of excitement in recent seasons, promotion campaigns, relegations, Cup Semi finals and the Premier League.
I'd say this is our most forgettable season since 2012 and 2013. Danny Wilson was manag for most of it, the football was dull and it ended up with a very poor promotion playoff defeat at Yeovil.
Hopefully we'll return to having memorable seasons next year (for the right reasons!).

I partially disagree about the football being dull under Wilson.
In his first season we played some pretty good stuff and Ched Evans was on fire.
Second season, no it wasn't as good, but that isn't surprising given how the squad was down graded. Largely through financial necessity.

 

[1973Blade]

I partially disagree about the football being dull under Wilson.
In his first season we played some pretty good stuff and Ched Evans was on fire.
Second season, no it wasn't as good, but that isn't surprising given how the squad was down graded. Largely through financial necessity.

I agree in the first season the football was good under Wilson. It wasn't his fault that we were short of strikers particularly after Blackman was sold and I think he was harshly sacked.

 

[ml1997]

I got a season ticket in 13/14, I’d say it’s our most forgettable season in my time by an absolute mile. But we have been a very entertaining team in that time.

 

[bruce]

Yes this has been a bad one, mainly for the number of losses, and the inexcusable self-destructive ways we engineered them.
Couple of highlights in the Wednesday victories, but overall not quite as dreary as the last Atkins season.
Mid-table League One is pretty grim.
Oh and yes those playoff defeats to Yeovil will be long seared in the memory, as well as all those times we were consistently bummed by friggin’ Scunthorpe.

Mid table in division 3 isn't anywhere near as bad as relegation to division 4.

But I agree that the Adkins season has to be up there as one of our most dreary seasons.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Mid table in division 3 isn't anywhere near as bad as relegation to division 4.

But I agree that the Adkins season has to be up there as one of our most dreary seasons.

Probably the season that left me most shocked and traumatized was Mark Stein’s last minute winner that dropped us out the Prem in 1994.
We were so safe until it all went massively to sh1t in the last second.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Mid table in division 3 isn't anywhere near as bad as relegation to division 4.

But I agree that the Adkins season has to be up there as one of our most dreary seasons.

Over my many years of watching the Blades I have seen us perform very badly over a number of seasons , but in terms of sheer dreariness none compare with that of the Adkins season which was painful to watch .

This was compounded by the absolute bullshit he came out with after virtually every match and which , together with the above , gives him my vote as being our worst manager of all time .

And that’s really saying something .

 

[cahill]

Yes this has been a bad one, mainly for the number of losses, and the inexcusable self-destructive ways we engineered them.
Couple of highlights in the Wednesday victories, but overall not quite as dreary as the last Atkins season.
Mid-table League One is pretty grim.
Oh and yes those playoff defeats to Yeovil will be long seared in the memory, as well as all those times we were consistently bummed by friggin’ Scunthorpe.

Yeovil ! Daft innit…Think that was the match I sat next to two blokes who lived in Italy but had made the trip in memory of a Blade who’d evangelised in their village and converted them to Bladeism. They couldn’t believe how quiet the Kop was.

 

[cahill]

Probably the season that left me most shocked and traumatized was Mark Stein’s last minute winner that dropped us out the Prem in 1994.
We were so safe until it all went massively to sh1t in the last second.

Same here. Weird, I can remember where and with who I was with when the results came in. JFK assassination and 9/11 nowhere near as much trauma. We’re cursed aren’t we !

 

[Chief_Froley]

I can't remember.

 

[Chezzy Blades]

Over my many years of watching the Blades I have seen us perform very badly over a number of seasons , but in terms of sheer dreariness none compare with that of the Adkins season which was painful to watch .

This was compounded by the absolute bullshit he came out with after virtually every match and which , together with the above , gives him my vote as being our worst manager of all time .

And that’s really saying something .

I remember being on the way back from a Tuesday night at Southend where we’d lost 3-1 and Adkins was on the radio saying we’d been the best side and it was a good performance ‘from his point of view’.

We were dogshit, he played Ben Whiteman at full/wing back and my dad is still angry about that interview 10 years on.

 

[diplomat]

In years to come I suspect this season will be a bit of a blur, except for the Selles failure. I'd say we have had plenty of excitement in recent seasons, promotion campaigns, relegations, Cup Semi finals and the Premier League.
I'd say this is our most forgettable season since 2012 and 2013. Danny Wilson was manag for most of it, the football was dull and it ended up with a very poor promotion playoff defeat at Yeovil.
Hopefully we'll return to having memorable seasons next year (for the right reasons!).

I’d rate it as more interesting than that one but I see your point. We’re a bit spoiled in many ways we’ve been involved since I was able to go to games under my own steam in a double promotion (Bassett) and then some dark tiimes but exciting escapes. Numerous relegation fights, successes for a couple of years. Then a lot of play off heartbreak. Then another relegation. Some more play off heartbreak where we limped in but still the envy of a lot of clubs. Then several more promotion and relegations. We’re a bit spoiled in some ways. Eg Stoke went up and mixed it but have been mid table fodder ever since. So it does feel weird but we were at one point below Wendy! And there was that period where we kept scoring three a game. Which was a revelation in some ways. So yeah, I kind of agree but kind of don’t. Those lost years in league one were worse.

 

[Bladesman]

Remember when Fleetwood Town were one of our bogey teams?

Can anyone call themselves a real football fan if they haven't experienced a loss to all these woeful teams?

You can call yourself a proper Blade if you watched us totally dominate Scunthorpe United for 90 minutes with us hitting every post, only to watch them go and score 4 goals on the counter with pretty much 4 shots on target.

 

[CrookesBlade]

I got a season ticket in 13/14, I’d say it’s our most forgettable season in my time by an absolute mile. But we have been a very entertaining team in that time.

Really? We got to an FA Cup Semi Final as a league one side that year.

 

[CrookesBlade]

Forgettable seasons

94/95
98/99 (the FA Cup game at Highbury not withstanding)
01/02
09/10

 

[Dkc]

Yes it has not been the best of seasons.

But it's not every season we go to Hillsborough and win. Then beat them at home to complete the double and mathematically relegate them in the process. That's on par with a cup semi final for me, at least.

 

[Maidenhead]

23/24

Hardly a lifetime ago and much worse than this season.

 

[blade too long]

started in 1960 61 as a 7 year old some 65 seasons probably only not been impressed in 45 or so of them

footballs like that , we watch MOTD to see the edited highlights , which takes 90 minutes and show 5 or 10 minutes to make it seem enthralling
the argument teams should be magnificent every game falls down flat when you see Coventry , best team this season draw 0-0 with Wednesday in a bland display

a season of 46 games might have 5 or 10 exciting games but the rest would be filed under edited highlights

take owls fans they expect to take an easy 6 points of us every time we meet and theyve managed it once since 1913, so their expectation is the most ridiculous
sort of delusion of being a dominant force
and their fa cup semi win , should have been 10-1 they say. but 90 minutes was 1-1 so they must have been shit up front in reality
seen hundreds of games where you play decently but then get sucker punched late on
some games we lose we played better than some we won, theres no rhyme or reason to any of it