Quitters!

[Camden Blade]

I stayed until the end including the 6 mins of injury time but everyone was just going through the motions. The game was dead, the players had given up and it's hard to blame them given the previous 90 mins. Players still did the 'lap of honour' but the Kop was empty. It's a home defeat, not the end of the world.

 

[finlaytheblade]

I stayed until the end including the 6 mins of injury time but everyone was just going through the motions. The game was dead, the players had given up and it's hard to blame them given the previous 90 mins. Players still did the 'lap of honour' but the Kop was empty. It's a home defeat, not the end of the world.

I stayed to the end as I always do but can understand the exodus. The frustration was acute and lots of fans cant cope with it so went early to spare the pain.Not all masochists ( spelling right?) like me.
Hopefully this will make the players stronger in the long run , to dominate the game as we did and lose like that was a bit cruel.
That's football we move on.

 

[JohnDenver]

Exactly how i felt. I could barely watch. It sounds stupid but i felt like my heart had been ripped out. Just kept saying "whats the f'in point"

As you say i felt like the game as we know it had gone.

Accept it was onside.
Accept ref signslled to play on
But the linesman was still stood with the flag up when the kid scored.
Theres no longer an point in lineman looking for offside.

Anyway on to Norwich.

Another reason why the system isn’t up to it. Basically the game progressed with one official taken out of the game. Anything that occurred from that point wasn’t being properly officiated.

 

[Wards]

I left on 93 mins - the first time I’ve left ‘early’ at a home game. Just felt so deflated after that second goal and a little sick truth be told - a part of the game’s gone for me. Left me feeling empty.

 

[SWB]

Agreed, pathetic. But sadly, shit fans are part of the modern game.

GET OVER IT!!! each to their own, there's no set rules

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I can’t remember a goal having quite the impact on me. Not just deflated, just...different. In the aftermath I’ll concede the goal was technically correct, but we’re all paying the price for getting things technically right. Almost as if the beauty of the game was in its idiosyncratic imperfections

It's exactly the point I made in a post before the season started, about VAR. The imperfections are what makes it exciting. Take them away and you have a "sterile" game. I also said VAR would create even more delays (someone on here argued back that it won't cause any more delays than players celebrating a goal - I hope they were at Spurs the other week!) and that it's use will spread to other aspects of the game. It would be lovely to hear back now from all those that disagreed with this - and maybe they have some ideas as to how we can stop our national game from being killed off by this ridiculous interception?

 

[Cerberus Blade]

In 30 odd years of going to game, I have never seen a time where folk don't start filtering out at 80 mins.

-Beat the traffic
-Need to catch a bus/train
-Get a sneaky couple of pints before the rush
-Result sewn up
-Never going to score here
-Shit game
-etc etc

That 2nd goal was just stupid though, on every level. I have never left a game early but I wouldn't blame anyone for losing interest at that point.

I totally agree with you there mate. I've been critical of folks who leave the game early. At the Man U match the other week, several folks sat on our row left when Man U went 3-2 up. I cannot understand their mentality - I really can't. 10 minutes plus added time remaining - and they are off! All because the other team took the lead. The Blades had been magnificent all night up until that last 10 minutes when Man U got 3 back - but that was it - for them..."done". Like little children who don't want to play anymore when things aren't going their way. I'm just glad it wasn't their "casey" we were playing with, or I'm sure they'd have grabbed it back and said, "I've got to go nah for me tea" and that would have been it.

Yet, despite my disdain for those who leave early - I totally understood why folks left early after that bloody farce of a goal v Newcastle the other night. You know when you've been watching (and playing) football all your life, you have certain expectations that things will happen a certain way. What I never expected is that a linesman can clearly flag for offside and everybody stops, except one player who, intent on time-wasting, casually rolls it into the net past a goalkeeper who makes only a half-hearted attempt to stop it. I've never seen that before. There wasn't one player, or supporter, in fact, not one person in that ground at that point in time who thought that was a legitimate goal. Not one.

The danger here is, if you allow that sort of intervention to completely change the way the game goes, then you disenfranchise a lot of people, because that's exactly not what they understood the game to be. It's almost like getting to the end of a game and saying, "the team with the most goals lose". It feels completely alien - it's not normal, it's not what any of us understood the game to be about. And when you don't understand something and feel completely disenfranchised by the way things have happened, then it's perfectly normal to be disillusioned with it, to the point of thinking, "bollocks to it" - and that's exactly what many fans felt after that. I do not blame them one bit.

We are entering a new era of football where "VAR is the Star" and the fans are lost in some distant galaxy wondering what the hell is happening?

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Sat up in the Westfield It really boiled my piss when the South Stand (Barbour section) very audibly jeered a couple of misplaced passes by Norwood and I think one from Enda of all people. I wish these people went home early.

 

[BigBed]

Ok I misread the thread title, eagerly clicked on hoping for...oh well........

 

[alcoblade]

GET OVER IT!!! each to their own, there's no set rules

I’ve nothing to get over. It’s just an observation, though rather sad for the team and management.

 

[Stretch]

I totally agree with you there mate. I've been critical of folks who leave the game early. At the Man U match the other week, several folks sat on our row left when Man U went 3-2 up. I cannot understand their mentality - I really can't. 10 minutes plus added time remaining - and they are off! All because the other team took the lead. The Blades had been magnificent all night up until that last 10 minutes when Man U got 3 back - but that was it - for them..."done". Like little children who don't want to play anymore when things aren't going their way. I'm just glad it wasn't their "casey" we were playing with, or I'm sure they'd have grabbed it back and said, "I've got to go nah for me tea" and that would have been it.

Yet, despite my disdain for those who leave early - I totally understood why folks left early after that bloody farce of a goal v Newcastle the other night. You know when you've been watching (and playing) football all your life, you have certain expectations that things will happen a certain way. What I never expected is that a linesman can clearly flag for offside and everybody stops, except one player who, intent on time-wasting, casually rolls it into the net past a goalkeeper who makes only a half-hearted attempt to stop it. I've never seen that before. There wasn't one player, or supporter, in fact, not one person in that ground at that point in time who thought that was a legitimate goal. Not one.

The danger here is, if you allow that sort of intervention to completely change the way the game goes, then you disenfranchise a lot of people, because that's exactly not what they understood the game to be. It's almost like getting to the end of a game and saying, "the team with the most goals lose". It feels completely alien - it's not normal, it's not what any of us understood the game to be about. And when you don't understand something and feel completely disenfranchised by the way things have happened, then it's perfectly normal to be disillusioned with it, to the point of thinking, "bollocks to it" - and that's exactly what many fans felt after that. I do not blame them one bit.

We are entering a new era of football where "VAR is the Star" and the fans are lost in some distant galaxy wondering what the hell is happening?

As the old saying goes mate 'there is no such thing as bad publicity' and VAR is certainly keeping people talking about the PL 'product' for longer and longer each week.
Despite its problems, I imagine that the PL big knobs are delighted with it, for that reason alone. As you say, its all about the VAR drama now and the excitement of what the decision might be. I knew we [as in every supporter/player and manager] was in trouble with this as soon as they gave it a cool logo. The sponsors won't be far off,mark my words.

I am now at a point where I don't feel I understand the rules of the game anymore, and this has been echoed by every person with whom I have discussed Thursday's match. That includes Blades, Pigs and neutrals of all persuasion. Whilst each of them found it infuriating, funny or just baffling to varying degrees, they all agreed that the had absolutely no idea how that goal was allowed to stand, never mind why it even went to a VAR check.

The good thing is that we have little time to stew on it. I really hope the team take it out on Norwich tomorrow, in the most brutally efficient way possible!

 

[Stanthemanfan]

I actually think it’s quite telling that tonight is the first time I’ve ever left the ground early. Not at 4-0 down v Scunthorpe, not at 4-1 down v Shrewsbury, not at 3-0 down v Flewtwood, not at 3-0 down v Southend.

Tonight was the only game I’ve sat there and gone ‘nah fuck it I’ve had enough’. Tonight I’ve sat and watched a team play as though they are a league one side hoofing the ball to the big twat up front and look to get a goal. I’ve seen a team time waste at 0-0 and continue to feign injury and watch the referee not do a damn thing about it.

Then after all that and the countless fucking guesswork of the referee, they make a total fucking cock up of epic proportions. I’ve watched officials blatantly go against the instruction that we’ve all been told they’ve been given. They didn’t have the first clue how to deal with the game tonight. They’ve made it up as they’ve gone along. I physically could not watch a single second more of that mess of a game.

This is the Premier League for fucks sake. Supposedly the best league in the world and it’s completely broken.

Nail on head
The var farce was the last straw after the refs shocking performance
It's so deflating when you know the ref is against you
Added to his performance in the var room v wolves it's scary how bias he was