Thank you Blades

[shrubbery]

I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone Blades related for making this a great Christmas break.

The two games at the Lane this past week have been two of the most enjoyable I’ve seen in ages. They had everything. Frustration, dodgy refereeing decisions, coming back against adversity, great goals, good banter with away fans, amazing atmosphere and above all - 6 points.

I then get to come on here and read all about it, enjoy Roy’s View From and Deadbat’s match report and delight in just revelling in the great times that Chrissy Wilder and Alan Knil have brought back to the Lane alongside fellow Blades.

This truly is a great time to be a Blade and long may it continue.

Bring on 2019.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Well said. At the Derby match I had my kids and grandkids with me, and the enjoyment we all got from the game was unbeatable. Grandkids live in Birmingham, their father is from Newcastle (enough said), but they are Blades, and seeing United play like that and being on the Kop with that atmosphere has got them looking forward already to their next game up here. And what that match, with all its different ingredients, brought home to me is that there is no substitute for being at a live game; put the best 2 sides in the world live on TV in a 7-goal thriller, and the experience would be nothing like the experience of being at the Lane on Boxing Day. Wilder and Knill and co. have not only made us fall in love with United again, but have reminded us why football can be so special. A wonderful achievement.

 

[BigBed]

Like whores!!

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Very well said that Blade!

 

[Stretch]

Like whores!!

Have a like

 

[BigBed]

Have a like

Thank you my good man, you have one too!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Like whores!!

I always believe a polite 'thank-you' is in order when somebody does something good for you. In my years at the Lane, I cannot recall a squad/management team which has done more to enthuse the fans and create a unity which is great to experience. We have had more talented individuals, and teams which have achieved more, but in terms of teams which have been consistently better to watch, I don't think there have been better since I started watching in 1953.

 

[BigBed]

I always believe a polite 'thank-you' is in order when somebody does something good for you. In my years at the Lane, I cannot recall a squad/management team which has done more to enthuse the fans and create a unity which is great to experience. We have had more talented individuals, and teams which have achieved more, but in terms of teams which have been consistently better to watch, I don't think there have been better since I started watching in 1953.

I can concur with you my good man, I can concur.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I can concur with you my good man, I can concur.

Have a like, sir. And feel free to slam my next rubbish post.

 

[Pinchy]

Have a like, sir. And feel free to slam my next rubbish post.

This one is it. The reference to the like is superfluous. It’s already endorsed on his previous contribution. The second sentence purports to grant him a freedom that he already enjoys.

So, nothing of the slightest value. Rubbish. Tell him, BigBed.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

I always believe a polite 'thank-you' is in order when somebody does something good for you. In my years at the Lane, I cannot recall a squad/management team which has done more to enthuse the fans and create a unity which is great to experience. We have had more talented individuals, and teams which have achieved more, but in terms of teams which have been consistently better to watch, I don't think there have been better since I started watching in 1953.

1971 team was way better.
Dave Bassett's promotion teams better for entertainment.

 

[spongebobblade]

1971 team was way better.
Dave Bassett's promotion teams better for entertainment.

I can’t comment on the 71 team as I was only a nipper. I’d disagree about Bassetts teams being entertaining. For me it was “exciting” watching us under him and the blood and guts all action 100% effort is what connected us all at the time. We were desperate for something, anything however when it comes to watch United under Wilder then we ARE talking entertainment. We have a combination 100% effort again (a Blades must) together with attractive risk and reward football. Yes we will lose some but Christ what a difference from the “We start with a point let’s make sure we don’t lose it” Clough type football

 

[Pinchy]

1971 team was way better.
Dave Bassett's promotion teams better for entertainment.

Depends what you call entertainment.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

This one is it. The reference to the like is superfluous. It’s already endorsed on his previous contribution. The second sentence purports to grant him a freedom that he already enjoys.

So, nothing of the slightest value. Rubbish. Tell him, BigBed.

I just like to be clear with people. As your idol Chris Morgan admirably exemplified, if you like to dish it out, you've got to be prepared to take it. He wasn't the greatest footballer, but I loved his attitude.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

1971 team was way better.
Dave Bassett's promotion teams better for entertainment.

All about opinions and emotions. My idols in the late 50s/early 60s probably under-achieved. In the early 1970s I was starting work, my kids were born, and I played football on Saturdays, so I saw that team less regularly - wonderful to watch, great talents, but a bit brittle? They rather collapsed after Best's goal at Old Trafford. Bassett got a terrific amount out of a limited squad, but watching Vinnie Jones and Wally Downes in Blades shirts was hard to stomach. And my attachment to Wilder's team is partly emotional - sharing days like the last match of 2016-17 and Boxing Day v Derby with the grandkids makes up for the joylessness of sharing the late 1970s with my kids when they were young - culminating in the Walsall disaster. So a lot of my views are based on emotion.