So who is actually that bothered about relegation?

[Mousey]

Genuine question, who is really THAT bothered about us getting relegated now?

As realisation kicks in and the summer is creeping up on us, are you still angry and upset about us being relegated or do you now think that worse things have happened and next season should be good?

I've got to admit, despite how awful this season has been (excluding a few victories) I am looking forward to next season already. I don't care that we're skint, I don't care that we're losing thousands of season ticket holders, I don't care who Micky Adams brings in, I don't even care who he ships out (to an extent). Next season will be a lot more exciting than this and I for one am looking forward to it.

 

[SwissBlade]

I had my usual low on Sat after the match, but I was more pissed off than down.

Its been apparent for a while that without any sort of fightback, we were down and we've not had any sort of fightback.

The odd thing is that whilst we've been losing, Palace/ Donny haven't pulled away and could well get leapfrogged by Scunny/ Preston unless they pull their fingers out.

As for relegation, I accepted that there was absolutely no way back after Boro and to be honest, I'm more bothered about this season ending, it can't come soon enough.

It feels like the only high point this season has been v Leeds and perhaps the Donny comeback, the rest of the season has just passed us by.

I'd be more bothered about relegation if we'd been good enough, but we deserve to go down and I'm looking forward to next season already, at least as much as you can do when you're team has let you down badly

 

[Ted Danson]

I lost my anger when it had truely sunk in that we were going down which was against Leiscter at home. Now Ive had plenty of time to get used to the idea and not that bothered atall. I think it would have been worse for it to go down to the last day and then we get relegated in the style Wendy did last year. Dont expect us to piss league 1 but will be nice to see a fresh squad. Roll on next season. UTB!

 

[Oreyt]

At least it hasn't been a suprise.

Like a bout of depressing break-up sex as opposed to being violently raped in an Asda carpark.

 

[S64 Blade]

I don't really feel too bothered either as relegation seems to have been a long time coming. It's been more of a gradual disappointment as opposed to the sudden, unexpected one when we got relegate from the Premiership.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I'm looking forward to next season actually.

Royally cheesed off that it's come to this though.

 

[beechblade]

Relegation does hurt but I accepted it a couple of games a go now, the pain as others have said has died a bit, I still get the little blues if we don't win, but that’s a life of being a fan I suppose. But as others have said, with the disappointment also comes the excitement of something new, the squad should finally get its shake up that has been required for a while now and we should hopefully be starting to build a team with the young and hungry players from the youth team and development squad. I'm not expecting an immediate jump straight back to the Championship, I just want us to build a squad and finish in a comfortable position next year, so we can start to push on after that.

 

[Grecian2000]

Just me then.

YES, I am royally fucked off that we have been/are about to be, relegated to the wasteland of being associate members of the football league.
Johnson Paint Trophy??? Out of the FA Cup by Christmas??? Playing the pigs in the third tier. Fuck me I've seen it all before and didn't like it one little bit.

I wouldn't mind so much if we'd been unlucky, or had fought like fuck or our big players had been injured and missed masses of the season. But it hasn't been like that at all. We've got a non particiapting owner, a bunch of overpaid, undercaring money sponges who don't give a shiny shite for our predicament and we are expected to soak it all up and be happy to start again in the pits of the lower league.
Yep, on reflection I AM bothered about us going down!

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Throwing away the two goal lead at Scunny convinced me we were down so it's had plenty of time to sink in as far as I'm concerned. I think not having the major disappointment the same as you get in a one-off game has made it a bit easier to cope with as well as the writing's been on the wall for a while. That's not to say it's not a massive disappointment and there's plenty of lessons the club still need to learn from it as debated elsewhere.

Must admit, I've now moved on to 'quietly optimistic' about next season. As I said a while ago, going down will force the club to make the changes that should have been made ages ago in terms of introducing our own kids rather than someone elses and I'm looking forward to re-visitng some old grounds and some new ones. I've no problem with MA remaining in charge and whilst next season won't be a doddle by any means, a good summer behind us with the right re-building and we can be reasonably optimistic.

 

[Worksop II]

The odd thing is that whilst we've been losing, Palace/ Donny haven't pulled away and could well get leapfrogged by Scunny/ Preston unless they pull their fingers out.

2 or 3 more wins during Micky's reign would have saved a whole year in Division 3 - that gets me wound up

 

[blader]

2 or 3 more wins during Micky's reign would have saved a whole year in Division 3 - that gets me wound up

*2 or 3 more wins during blackwell's reign would have saved a whole year in division 3
*2 or 3 more wins during speed's reign would have saved a whole year in division 3
*2 or 3 more wins during carver's reign would have saved a whole year in division 3

that's what has wound me up

 

[Highbury_Blade]

May i remind you what position we were in prior to speeds departure?

 

[blader]

that doesnt argue with the facts? speed lost half of his 18 games in charge. If we had won 3 more of those, we wouldn't be in the relegation zone. Fact.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Point taken, but from a purely managerial point of view it's hard to look beyond Micky for the reason we are where we are.

 

[blader]

possibly, possibly not. Who can really say? the fact is we are where we are because EVERYTHING is wrong with the club, going back to Bryan Robson. Yes, Micky has taken us down and i agree that he could (should) have done better, but I'm not convinced we would have stayed up under any other manager available at that time!

 

[SwissBlade]

Point taken, but from a purely managerial point of view it's hard to look beyond Micky for the reason we are where we are.

From a purely managerial point of view you have to look at the entire season and look at the mistakes made... Sacking a manager 2 games into a season is always a good starting point

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I don't disagree on the stupidity of the timing of Blackwell's departure.

 

[Linz]

I just want to get this season over and done with. We're down... I accepted it months ago.

Unfortunately, the players did too. And that pisses me off.

 

[iggle-theblade]

look at phil browns record at preston it took him time but he's getting the wins now
look at alan Knill he has come in and scunny have picked up wins where you wouldn't have expected them to
then Freedman at Palace he turned it round and had Palace winning at home

Adams has not managed to turn it round at all but is that down to bad players or bad management ? ?
i would say a bit of both

we have to give Adams a chance in League 1 with his team his players.

 

[sheffielder]

As a club and fans we need to use this opportunity to start again. We are no billy big times and maybe some can stop thinking football owes the Blades. Some of the people on here act at though this is the worst thing that has happened to us in our history. It isn't and we can come back bigger and stronger.

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

If you don't want to buy a season ticket jog on, I don't care so in summary I am big Meh about relegation because it might be for the overall best for us as a club

 

[Jon Bon]

No, I'm not too bothered. I'm quickly losing interest in football as a whole. I have been for a couple of years and this season has only escalated things. I can envisage that in 5 years time, I won't even bother to make an effort to look for our results.

 

[Paulus]

I've been convinced that we were going down since well before Speed left so it isn't exactly a shock. With these things it's always the hope that does for me not the inevitability of it. We have been utter garbage this season and thoroughly deserve to finish bottom. The real downer for me is that I don't see an end to the decline as yet. If nothing changes in the boardroom then its a relegation battle at best next season.

 

[Jehovah]

I have only just accepted its over. I believed a win at Preston may have given us hope. As for bieng bothere , yes i am seriously upset. To think donny and Barnsley will be a league higher than us beggers belief. sacking blackwell was the biggest mistake in the history of mankind.

 

[cahill]

Agree with the original poster. Surprisingle living in Dingleland I've coped with the stick quite well and the In -Breds don't get the satisfaction of seeing me upset. Peversely I think they're secretly pissed off at us and the Pancakes playing in a lower division as their only raison d'etre are their matches v Sheffield clubs

 

[Worksop II]

sacking blackwell was the biggest mistake in the history of mankind.

I hope you mean the timing of sacking bLackwell

 

[DP8789]

mccabe clearly isnt bothered - what a prick.

 

[Stafford Blade]

we deserve to go down so i can't say i'll be shedding any tears over it. we've cut every possible corner money wise and if any clubs need advice on how to get relegated then they should just copy what we have done this season.

and we go into next season with a manager who is short on ideas and will more than likely continue taking us in the wrong direction, blaming everyone bar himself along the way

 

[DronnieBlade]

On the basis that it gives the club a genuine chance of offloading a high percentage of the current squad that was (largely) assembled by Mr Blackwell, then I for one welcome this opportunity.

Backwards to go forwards if you like.

Trouble is it might take 3 + years (and thats if Adams gets his squad rebuilding right) to rectify the damage that bloke has caused.

Blackwells legacy runs very very deep IMHO.

 

[Stafford Blade]

On the basis that it gives the club a genuine chance of offloading a high percentage of the current squad that was (largely) assembled by Mr Blackwell, then I for one welcome this opportunity.

Backwards to go forwards if you like.

Trouble is it might take 3 + years (and thats if Adams gets his squad rebuilding right) to rectify the damage that bloke has caused.

Blackwells legacy runs very very deep IMHO.

And then Adams can go and sign some more players equally as wonderful as Doyle and Collins?

 

[rotweissler]

I can envisage that in 5 years time, I won't even bother to make an effort to look for our results.

For me that point was 18 months go - I've bottomed out and I'm back to listening to BladesPlayer even with KE

Season before last I was actually in Plymouth visiting No1 son when I looked at teletext (as I couldn't be bothered before the day o the game) to see who we were playing = @ home v Plymouth...

For me the downward spiral started with letting Warnock go, Robson and all the loan players under Blackwell and then the crap performance at Wembley - but that was the Blades Way

But I had no confidence in Blackwell to move us forward and Speed was the wrong move

I'm a little more confident in Adams, but only a little. If he does turn to the "youth" then I'll be happy