Surely we're due a break???

[DanOundogg]

Surely we've got to break with this constant bad luck / failures, we've had in past 20 or so years.
I mean how long can we fall at the final hurdle? It HAS to stop at some point.
If things would have been a tiny bit different in't past, just had that bit of good fortune, things gone our way etc. .
We could have been in 4 FA Cup finals, 2 League Cup finals, and spent at least another 5 seasons in Premiership.
Instead we're in 3rd division. Gotta be our time now, an't it?????

 

[Worksop II]

Surely we've got to break with this constant bad luck / failures, we've had in past 20 or so years.
I mean how long can we fall at the final hurdle? It HAS to stop at some point.
If things would have been a tiny bit different in't past, just had that bit of good fortune, things gone our way etc. .
We could have been in 4 FA Cup finals, 2 League Cup finals, and spent at least another 5 seasons in Premiership.
Instead we're in 3rd division. Gotta be our time now, an't it?????

Our weak point at the moment is if something happens to Brayford and / or Basham

Though a CB pairing of Scougal and Holt would be revolutionary

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

I think chalking things up to bad luck is a losers mentality, and probably goes a long way to explain why we are where we are.

 

[DanOundogg]

Not saying it's Bad Luck, just for whatever reason, we've never cracked it. Wether it's missing out on a final, not getting that point to stay up or not getting over line in Play-Offs. It has to change at some point done it?

 

[Northyorksblade]

If we end up playing Preston NE in the final, wouldn't they be saying exactly the same?

 

[SotonBlade]

We'll be playing the MK Dons I would imagine. Can't see us getting anything against Chesterfield. And an MK-Chesterfield final.

 

[pommpey]

Surely we've got to break with this constant bad luck / failures, we've had in past 20 or so years.
I mean how long can we fall at the final hurdle? It HAS to stop at some point.
If things would have been a tiny bit different in't past, just had that bit of good fortune, things gone our way etc. .
We could have been in 4 FA Cup finals, 2 League Cup finals, and spent at least another 5 seasons in Premiership.
Instead we're in 3rd division. Gotta be our time now, an't it?????

Hate to say it (yet-a-fucking-gain) but you invest to succeed.

Anyone tell me that in the past twenty years ... no, let's go further ... forty years ... Sheffield United have ever had a board who has the potency to strategise and build a team capable of getting to and remaining in the Premier League? Let's look at some of our contemporaries:

Swansea City
Watford
Wigan
Burnley
Hull City
Bournemouth (fucking Bournemouth?)
Brentford
Charlton

Amongst others. In teh case of Wigan Athletic, although they have their wheels coming off their van at an alarming rate these days, they acquired promotion to the PL in 2005 and sustained eight years there. Average attendance in their brand new stadium over those years was around 16000, which is what we get these days in Div Three. Whatso for Brentford, Watford and Bournemouth?

It's all very well building, The South Stand, The Tout en Casse Kop, The BL extention and hotel, the new JSS, but out on the pitch its the same old inconsistent 'Fukcinelfuckinellfuckinell!', boot it long to the opposition, ship two daft goals in the second half, go-backwards-down-the-wings. who-was-picking-him-up-then? shit from players who don't really, really belong at Bramall Lane but are there largely by necessity to fill a failing position or somewhere we have failed to replace, then the result is there to see. It's a tragic-comedy that we already know the outcome from.

I think the phrase is 'The Blades Way'.

pommpey

 

[Dalelane01]

I think weve had that break this season by getting into playoffs. our results have not been great. but other results around us being poor have got us into the playoffs. we are struggling to beat the likes of yeovil orient oldham crewe in our last few games for instance.so maybe this could be our year

 

[pommpey]

I think weve had that break this season by getting into playoffs. our results have not been great. but other results around us being poor have got us into the playoffs. we are struggling to beat the likes of yeovil orient oldham crewe in our last few games for instance.so maybe this could be our year

Good call, my friend.



pommpey

 

[Esablade]

Surely we've got to break with this constant bad luck / failures, we've had in past 20 or so years.
I mean how long can we fall at the final hurdle? It HAS to stop at some point.
If things would have been a tiny bit different in't past, just had that bit of good fortune, things gone our way etc. .
We could have been in 4 FA Cup finals, 2 League Cup finals, and spent at least another 5 seasons in Premiership.
Instead we're in 3rd division. Gotta be our time now, an't it?????

Are you McCabe in disguise?

 

[grafikhaus]

I think weve had that break this season by getting into playoffs. our results have not been great. but other results around us being poor have got us into the playoffs. we are struggling to beat the likes of yeovil orient oldham crewe in our last few games for instance.so maybe this could be our year

Totally true. It's incredible given the vast bulk of our performances this season that we've snuck into the play offs. Getting the breaks? Luck? Or simply a division where appalling standards have been the norm. Expect reality to return. In the next couple of weeks.

 

[Blade for Sale]

Totally true. It's incredible given the vast bulk of our performances this season that we've snuck into the play offs. Getting the breaks? Luck? Or simply a division where appalling standards have been the norm. Expect reality to return. In the next couple of weeks.

I agree we've been poor but we haven't 'snuck' into the play offs. We've been in 5th position for 2.5 months!

 

[pommpey]

Totally true. It's incredible given the vast bulk of our performances this season that we've snuck into the play offs. Getting the breaks? Luck? Or simply a division where appalling standards have been the norm. Expect reality to return. In the next couple of weeks.

Could you imagine if we did get promoted? Seriously? Let's extrapolate the faithful's belief system now and imagine we are triumphant at Wembley. We scrape through the semis on pens and a ball hits a passing shitewhawk and ricochets into the opposition net and we go up.

Then what? In the Championship with this team?

We'd be bottom from day one and struggle to get past that for the next eight months. Take Bournemouth for example. I now we beat them at Dean Court/Broadsands about two years ago, but this team today against that team now? They would batter us. Even some of the mid-rankers would have a fucking birthday with our makeshift defence and their back fours could all go and mark Murphy (or Done on the bench) and we'd still blank.


pommpey

 

[pommpey]

I agree we've been poor but we haven't 'snuck' into the play offs. We've been in 5th position for 2.5 months!

No. We have sustained a marignal position in the playoffs.

In that 2.5 months we have taken 24 points out of a possible 51.

Fucking ON FIRE, us!

pommpey

 

[DanOundogg]

Think if we do go up, Maguire should be top of shopping list

 

[Kenilworth]

Could you imagine if we did get promoted? Seriously? Let's extrapolate the faithful's belief system now and imagine we are triumphant at Wembley. We scrape through the semis on pens and a ball hits a passing shitewhawk and ricochets into the opposition net and we go up.

Then what? In the Championship with this team?

I dare say it wouldn't be the same team Pommps.
It would need a good deal of investment, that's for sure, but I believe that would be forthcoming if we actually managed to get out of this league this season.

 

[Dalelane01]

No. We have sustained a marignal position in the playoffs.

In that 2.5 months we have taken 24 points out of a possible 51.

Fucking ON FIRE, us!

pommpey

Agree if it wasnt for other results going our way we would probably finished 7th/8th its certainly not our own doing thats gotnus where we are

 

[pommpey]

I dare say it wouldn't be the same team Pommps.
It would need a good deal of investment, that's for sure, but I believe that would be forthcoming if we actually managed to get out of this league this season.

You are indeed an optimist. It's been enough of a struggle to shake the money tree this season to get out of this fucking division. Imagine next season, us ... the lowly fans expecting Sheffield United to compete and sustain a respected position in the league above (where the tempo is definitely higher) and fuck me ... beat that bunch of cunts up at S6?

You can see why they don't want us up, can't you?

pommpey

 

[Kenilworth]

You are indeed an optimist. It's been enough of a struggle to shake the money tree this season to get out of this fucking division. Imagine next season, us ... the lowly fans expecting Sheffield United to compete and sustain a respected position in the league above (where the tempo is definitely higher) and fuck me ... beat that bunch of cunts up at S6?

Ha! Yes - that's just what I am known for on here Pommps

 

[Blade for Sale]

Agree if it wasnt for other results going our way we would probably finished 7th/8th its certainly not our own doing thats gotnus where we are

With respect that's a load of rubbish. We are the 5th best team in the division at this moment in time. If we lose next weekend we will be the 6th best team in the division. Both places are rewarded with a play off place. We haven't snuck into anything, we are guaranteed a play off place with a match to spare. This is because we are the 5th/6th best team in the division.

Whether we have underachieved, of whether or not this is an inconsistent and poor league are different arguments for a different day. We are in the play offs on merit.

 

[grafikhaus]

No. We have sustained a marignal position in the playoffs.

In that 2.5 months we have taken 24 points out of a possible 51.

Fucking ON FIRE, us!

pommpey

I think the terms we're looking for are 'treading water' or 'flatlining'... Not once in all those weeks have we even looked like showing ambition, cashing in on others' slip-ups, going for auto. Well the stern reality of this total lack of ambition is about to come crowding in.

 

[Kev Gee]

All this bad luck shizzle becomes a self fullfilling prophecy.

We need to be positive from the off. Just like we were against Hull last year.

Hopefully we will get a result this time though.

 

[Dalelane01]

With respect that's a load of rubbish. We are the 5th best team in the division at this moment in time. If we lose next weekend we will be the 6th best team in the division. Both places are rewarded with a play off place. We haven't snuck into anything, we are guaranteed a play off place with a match to spare. This is because we are the 5th/6th best team in the division.

Whether we have underachieved, of whether or not this is an inconsistent and poor league are different arguments for a different day. We are in the play offs on merit.

Agree but it would have been the icing on the cake if we had got there under our own steam and not had to rely on rochdale dropping points just that top 3 seem to be a class of there own and just to win our last two matches would have shown we were up for the playoffs

 

[Bladesman]

Surely we've got to break with this constant bad luck / failures, we've had in past 20 or so years.
I mean how long can we fall at the final hurdle? It HAS to stop at some point.
If things would have been a tiny bit different in't past, just had that bit of good fortune, things gone our way etc. .
We could have been in 4 FA Cup finals, 2 League Cup finals, and spent at least another 5 seasons in Premiership.
Instead we're in 3rd division. Gotta be our time now, an't it?????

The Palace Play-Off final is the one final I thought we should have won. That ginger twats goal was a complete fluke.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

The Palace Play-Off final is the one final I thought we should have won. That ginger twats goal was a complete fluke.

Disagree. I was sat right behind the trajectory of the ball and it was completely intentional. The most boring PO final ever. Sunderland/Charlton the year after was a bit more entertaining...

 

[blade.i.am]

Over the last 20 years players, managers and board members have come and gone. The only constant is the fans. Therefore, I deduce, it must be our fault.

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Surely we've got to break with this constant bad luck / failures, we've had in past 20 or so years.
I mean how long can we fall at the final hurdle? It HAS to stop at some point.
If things would have been a tiny bit different in't past, just had that bit of good fortune, things gone our way etc. .
We could have been in 4 FA Cup finals, 2 League Cup finals, and spent at least another 5 seasons in Premiership.
Instead we're in 3rd division. Gotta be our time now, an't it?????

We cannot work on , we are due a break . The devil is in the detail of preparation , by Clough and his coaching staff . This is the key to success or failure . We are in a game of chess , and we have to outwit our opponent ( who ever it may be ) by being tactically astute . Whether we have the management and players to do it , time will tell . They also have to be hungry and want it , like us fans are . I know its common sense , but thats another factor being missed this season.

UTB

 

[stringjunior]

Over the last 20 years players, managers and board members have come and gone. The only constant is the fans. Therefore, I deduce, it must be our fault.

Quality

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Over the last 20 years players, managers and board members have come and gone. The only constant is the fans. Therefore, I deduce, it must be our fault.

Many a true word spoken in jest.

A private conversation with someone not long ago . We got rid of Bassett , Warnock , Blackwell , Wilson to appease the fans . Its not going to happen this time with Clough .

UTB.

 

[Northyorksblade]

No. We have sustained a marignal position in the playoffs.

In that 2.5 months we have taken 24 points out of a possible 51.

Fucking ON FIRE, us!

pommpey

Reminder to self - don't visit shout box on either play off game.