That's me done

[Champagneblade]

I've seen some awful times as a United fan.

Started off with some absolute shite under Billy McEwan not long after Porterfield left with a team of underperformers like Cadette, Kuhl, Pike etc.

Bassett started a fire with the glory days of Deane, Agana, Jock and co.

Then we had the false dawn of Kendall when we thought we'd got some money and we fell at the play off hurdle.

Then Spackman came and everything was seeming to click with Vass, Jan-Aage and the second coming of Deano but for us to commit football suicide by selling them both.

Bruce came along and did his best but eventually the Board kept wanting to sell players on so he left.

Kendall's former assistant Inched in and did very little after Thommo had failed at the first hurdle in the playoffs.

We had some good years Under Warnock, the triple assault season was magnificent but ultimately a let down and then the promotion with Jags, Monty and Tonge leading the way was fantastic especially we we had a good run against Wednesday. Warnock showed his shortcomings at the top table but he was to have a far better trajectory than Sheffield United over the ensuing years.

So we went for a big name in Robson and he ended up a big failure. It was at that point I moved to Singapore. My Dad always said if it wasn't for Bryan Robson's sucking the life out of it, I'd never have moved away. Even as a London based Blade I went to over 30 games a season.

Blacky stopped the rot that season but then more play off heartache followed though we did get to see a little of the Kyles before we did the usual United thing of flogging them off.

So we got rid of Blackie oddly 2 games in and went through Speed, Carver and Adams to a predictable relegation.

Danny Wilson was a nice bloke but never the right appointment and having failed with 3 attempts to get the right contingency in for Ched, we failed once more in the play offs. Wilson walked after a negative second year where we almost saw Diego emerge then lost him through injury. Morgan took us into the playoffs and a patchwork team were knocked out by minnows Yeovil.

A new dawn and an Arab Prince came along only for us to appoint the worst manager in our history in David Weir. He lasted about 10 games and Clough came along, steadied the ship and gave us a great cup run. We probably beat more PL teams in those cup runs than we have this season! But then he just lost the plot. We ended up with a bloated squad yet at the final denouement in the play offs we ended up with no centre half in a comedy game against Swindon.

So he was sacked or fell out with the Board depending on what you read.

We hired serial League One promotion winner Nigel Adkins and that, well, went inexplicably to shit. Worst finish on my living memory, I was just too young for the Matthews/Givens fiasco and though I caught the end of Morris/Edwards it was a vague recollection at best.

Totally lost and then in stepped Chris Wilder. A rocky opening 4 matches then all of a sudden he invented a way to play. Overlapping whatnots? Well it worked and then some. 100 points and see you later.

Up to the Championship and I'm convinced we would have been up a year earlier but for Coutts' injury. The holy trinity of Coutts-Fleck-Duffy. A crime they got robbed of their PL chance. But with Billy leading the way, we had a Blade as Manager and Captain and the club was galvanized. And who can forget Bouncing Day Flecky's free kick and Big Leon giving it to the grunters and Duffy's magical goal oh and Brooksy! I was in New York they day. I watched the game on the basement of the Empire state building. With one other lad who was a Blade (never met before) and a handful of Pigs. Oh how we rejoiced!

Fast forward one year and we even caught the attention of Mick Foley as we strode through the automatics with Egan now firmly set flanked by Bash and Jack, with Hendo shithousing us to promotion.

Then last year before Covid, it's still recent but I remain convinced but for this damn virus we'd have tasted Europe for the first time. We were in form, others weren't. We had no injuries, Spurs without Son and Kane, Man U without Rashford, Chelsea without Abraham. The stage was set then...only to Sheffield United could a global fucking pandemic upstage us.

I've lived in Singapore for 14 years now, bit I've remained addicted to my Blades. I've not missed a single PL game. It's meant watching at 4 in the morning, 2 in the morning, 6 in the morning, working the day with no sleep.

After the 9th place finish with some great matches the 3-3 with Man U, humping Chelsea and Spurs, to name but a few, we started this year with optimism.

How it all went wrong, no fans, terrible injuries, signings not coming off. But I could accept defeat after defeat because, even when we lost, I didn't always agree with Chris, but I knew it hurt the manager as much as me and I knew we'd be in safe hands long term.

Until now. My support of United reached the perfect crescendo Blade as Captain, Blade as Manager, one of our own. And now that's gone. Maybe it will come out some tit for tat on both sides but it doesn't matter. Chris is gone and we'll quite possibly not have a Blade as Manager in our lifetime once more. Certainly not one in the mould of Chris.

For the first time in 25 years of writing my own ill conceived idealistic nonsense on message boards, first Bladesunited, then Bladesmad before I found this place I looked at all the threads and thought I don't really care anymore. It's really done for me today.

So I'm just going to have a break from Sheffield United, spend more time with my daughter who I've raised to be a Blade, even though we are 7,000 miles from BDTDL. Hopefully something comes along to reignite the interest but today is a massive own goal and a massive turn off. So for a while at least, that's me done.

Happy Mother's Day to you all (don't forget)

UTB
Champers

 

[Woodwaaard]

Very well written but he hasn't been sacked
There's more to it

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

It isn’t pal. They’ll draw you back in.

 

[Davalon]

Today certainly feels like one of the biggest kicks in the balls as a Blade.

I think what makes it worse is that it just feels like a repeat of all those other times when the club has seemed in a good place overall but we've shot ourselves in the foot.

 

[BettingBlade]

Today certainly feels like one of the biggest kicks in the balls as a Blade.

I think what makes it worse is that it just feels like a repeat of all those other times when the club has seemed in a good place overall but we've shot ourselves in the foot.

My only and I really mean only and it’s quite small hope is that this doesn’t feel like one of those knee-jerk decisions that results in a mad downward spiral.

There’s been something bubbling for a while under the surface that suggested the board and the manager had different long-term visions. Reading between the lines, I don’t think either side has been able to compromise enough to satisfy the other and in that kind of situation, the board will always outlast the manager.

I could of course be totally wrong and we do go on a mad downward spiral but that is my one positive I’m clinging to in what appears to be an overwhelmingly negative situation.

 

[Geordie Blade]

I'm going to wait a few days / weeks before blaming the club. But, if it turns out that they could have done more to keep CW (and, inevitably AK et al), then to say I'll be disappointed will be an understatement.

With fans having been out of the group for over a year, this is a very dangerous time to alienate the fan base. There's no guarantee at all that they'll come flooding back. It certainly feels like today will be seen as a major turning point in our medium term history.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

I've seen some awful times as a United fan.

Started off with some absolute shite under Billy McEwan not long after Porterfield left with a team lf underperformers like Cadette, Kuhl, Pike etc.

Bassett started a fire with the glory days of Deane, Agana, Jock and co.

Then we had the false dawn of Kendall when we thought we'd got some money and we fell at the play off hurdle.

Then Spackman came and everything was seeming to click with Vass, Jan-Aage and the second coming of Deano but for us to commit football suicide by selling them both.

Bruce came along and did his best but eventually the Board kept wanting to sell players on so he left.

Kendall's former assistant Inched in and did very little after Thommo had failed at the first hurdle in the playoffs.

We had some good years Under Warnock, the triple assault season was magnificent but ultimately a let down and then the promotion with Jags, Monty and Tongue leading the way was fantastic especially we we had a good run against Wednesday. Warnock showed his shortcomings at the top table but he was to have a far better trajectory than Sheffield United over the ensuing years.

So we went for a big name in Robson nas he ended up a big failure. It was at that point I moved to Singapore. My Dad always said if it wasn't for Bryan Robson's sucking the life out of it, I'd never have moved away. Even as a London based Blade I went to over 30 games a season.

Blacky stopped the rot that season but then more play off heartache followed though we did get to see a little of the Kyles before we did the usual United thing of flogging them off.

So we got rid of Blackie oddly 2 games in and went through Speed, Carver and Adams to a predictable relegation.

Danny Wilson was a nice bloke but never the right appointment and having failed with 3 attempts to get the right contingency in for Ched, we failed once more in the play offs. Wilson walked after a negative second year where we almost saw Diego emerge then lost him through injury. Morgan took us into the playoffs and a patchwork team were knocked out by minnows Yeovil.

A new dawn and an Arab Prince came along only for us to appoint the worst manager in our history in David Weir. He lasted about 10 games and Clough came along, steadied the ship and gave us a great cup run. We probably beat more PL teams in those cup runs than we have this season! But then he just lost the plot. We ended up with a bloated squad yet at the final denouement in the play offs we ended up with no centre half in a comedy game against Swindon.

So he was sacked or fell out with the Board depending on what you read.

We hired serial League One promotion winner Nigel Adkins and that, well, went inexplicably to shit. Worst finish on my living memory, I was just too young for the Matthews/Givens fiasco and though I caught the end of Morris/Edwards it was a vague recollection at best.

Totally lost and then in stepped Chris Wilder. A rocky opening 4 matches the ball of a sudden he invented a way to play. Overlapping whatnots? Well it worked and then some. 99 points and see you later.

Up to the Championship and I'm convinced we would have been up a year earlier but for Coutts' injury. The holy trinity of Coutts-Fleck-Duffy. A crime they got robbed of their PL chance. But with Billy leading the way, we had a Blade as Manager and Captain and the club was galvanized. And who can forget Bouncing Day Flecky's free kick and Big Leon giving it to the grunters and Duffy's magical goal oh and Brooksy! I was in New York they day. I watched the game on the basement of the Empire state building. With one other lad who was a Blade (never met before) and a handful of Pigs. Oh how we rejoiced!

Fast forward one year and we even caught the attention of Mick Foley as we strode through the automatics with Egan now firmly set flanked by Bash and Jack, with Hendo shithousing us to promotion.

Then last year before Covid, it's still recent but I remain convinced but for this damn virus we'd have tasted Europe for the first time. We were in form, others weren't. We had no injuries, Spurs without Son and Kane, Man U without Rashford ,, Chelsea without Abraham. The stage was set then...only to Sheffield United could a global fucking pandemic upstage us.

I've lived in Singapore for 14 years now, bit I've remained addicted to my Blades. I've not missed a single PL game. It's meant watching at 4 in the morning, 2 in the morning, 6 in the morning, working the day with no sleep.

After the 9th place finish with some great matches the 3-3 with Man U, humping Chelsea and Spurs, to name but a few, we started this year with optimism.

How it all went wrong, no fans, terrible injuries, signings not coming off. But I could accept defeat after defeat because, even when we lost, I didn't always agree with Chris, but I knew it hurt the manager as much as me and I knew we'd be in safe hands long term.

Until now. My support of United reached the perfect crescendo Blade as Captain, Blade as Manager, one of our own. And now that's gone. Maybe it will come out some tit for tat on both sides but it doesn't matter. Chris is gone and we'll quite possibly not have a Blade as Manager in our lifetime once more. Certainly not one in the mould of Chris.

For the first time in 25 years of writing my own ill conceived idealistic nonsense on message boards, first Bladesunited, then Bladesmad before I found this place I looked at all the threads and thought I don't really care anymore. It's really done for me today.

So I'm just going to have a break from Sheffield United, spend more time with my daughter who I've raised to be a Blade, even though we are 7,000 miles from BDTDL. Hopefully something comes along to reignite the interest but today is a massive own goal and a massive turn off. So for a while at least, that's me done.
Happy Mother's Day to you all (don't forget)
UTB
Champers

Excellent stuff. We've all seen good and bad, some far more than others depending on how old we all are. These last 4 years have got to be, arguably, the best in living memory.

But since we hammered Spurs at home everything has been much of a muchness. This season has been abysmal. It has been an absolute polar opposite to what we're used to. Why? No idea. We hardly stripped the side. Or added too many.

But his signings have been awful. Ramsdale isn't good enough for what we needed. Hendo was always difficult to replace and I initially gave Ramsdale a clean slate. Far too anaemic for my liking in his first 20 games and £18m wasted.

McBurnie - £20m. I'm still unsure. He does have the ability and at champ level he'll do it. Will he stay?
Brewster - £24m and not a single goal. Waste of money. Will he stay?
Burke - I'd say a good signing. Certainly capable. If he stays he'll score a few.
Berge - I'm sure he's a fantastic player, or will be. But £20m is a lot of money for a player we didn't really need.
He's spent poorly since promotion. Is it £130m or so? And we're no better.

Keep the nucleus of this side and we'll be back up next season as the championship is shite. The 3 who went down are in good positions to go straight back up.

Moving forward? Anyone's guess is good as anyone else's.

 

[borg elite]

I hear what you're saying but surely this is what following a football club is all about. You have big highs and take some heavy blows. Repeat. Relegation to the fourth, now that was pretty bad! Some clubs meander along and do very little. We don't. I'm glad. Sometimes it's very difficult to get motivated on days like today but you will. I'm just glad we're not still stuck in the swamp that is L1. Yes I am fucked off today.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Today certainly feels like one of the biggest kicks in the balls as a Blade.

I think what makes it worse is that it just feels like a repeat of all those other times when the club has seemed in a good place overall but we've shot ourselves in the foot.

Going to disagree slightly suggesting the club has shot its sen in the foot. Wilder has been backed. He's pissed it away.

 

[Varkanoid]

With the 5pm press conference being cancelled looks like only way we going to find out is 2pm Sunday !

 

[Karaoke Blade]

I've seen some awful times as a United fan.

Started off with some absolute shite under Billy McEwan not long after Porterfield left with a team of underperformers like Cadette, Kuhl, Pike etc.

Bassett started a fire with the glory days of Deane, Agana, Jock and co.

Then we had the false dawn of Kendall when we thought we'd got some money and we fell at the play off hurdle.

Then Spackman came and everything was seeming to click with Vass, Jan-Aage and the second coming of Deano but for us to commit football suicide by selling them both.

Bruce came along and did his best but eventually the Board kept wanting to sell players on so he left.

Kendall's former assistant Inched in and did very little after Thommo had failed at the first hurdle in the playoffs.

We had some good years Under Warnock, the triple assault season was magnificent but ultimately a let down and then the promotion with Jags, Monty and Tonge leading the way was fantastic especially we we had a good run against Wednesday. Warnock showed his shortcomings at the top table but he was to have a far better trajectory than Sheffield United over the ensuing years.

So we went for a big name in Robson and he ended up a big failure. It was at that point I moved to Singapore. My Dad always said if it wasn't for Bryan Robson's sucking the life out of it, I'd never have moved away. Even as a London based Blade I went to over 30 games a season.

Blacky stopped the rot that season but then more play off heartache followed though we did get to see a little of the Kyles before we did the usual United thing of flogging them off.

So we got rid of Blackie oddly 2 games in and went through Speed, Carver and Adams to a predictable relegation.

Danny Wilson was a nice bloke but never the right appointment and having failed with 3 attempts to get the right contingency in for Ched, we failed once more in the play offs. Wilson walked after a negative second year where we almost saw Diego emerge then lost him through injury. Morgan took us into the playoffs and a patchwork team were knocked out by minnows Yeovil.

A new dawn and an Arab Prince came along only for us to appoint the worst manager in our history in David Weir. He lasted about 10 games and Clough came along, steadied the ship and gave us a great cup run. We probably beat more PL teams in those cup runs than we have this season! But then he just lost the plot. We ended up with a bloated squad yet at the final denouement in the play offs we ended up with no centre half in a comedy game against Swindon.

So he was sacked or fell out with the Board depending on what you read.

We hired serial League One promotion winner Nigel Adkins and that, well, went inexplicably to shit. Worst finish on my living memory, I was just too young for the Matthews/Givens fiasco and though I caught the end of Morris/Edwards it was a vague recollection at best.

Totally lost and then in stepped Chris Wilder. A rocky opening 4 matches then all of a sudden he invented a way to play. Overlapping whatnots? Well it worked and then some. 100 points and see you later.

Up to the Championship and I'm convinced we would have been up a year earlier but for Coutts' injury. The holy trinity of Coutts-Fleck-Duffy. A crime they got robbed of their PL chance. But with Billy leading the way, we had a Blade as Manager and Captain and the club was galvanized. And who can forget Bouncing Day Flecky's free kick and Big Leon giving it to the grunters and Duffy's magical goal oh and Brooksy! I was in New York they day. I watched the game on the basement of the Empire state building. With one other lad who was a Blade (never met before) and a handful of Pigs. Oh how we rejoiced!

Fast forward one year and we even caught the attention of Mick Foley as we strode through the automatics with Egan now firmly set flanked by Bash and Jack, with Hendo shithousing us to promotion.

Then last year before Covid, it's still recent but I remain convinced but for this damn virus we'd have tasted Europe for the first time. We were in form, others weren't. We had no injuries, Spurs without Son and Kane, Man U without Rashford, Chelsea without Abraham. The stage was set then...only to Sheffield United could a global fucking pandemic upstage us.

I've lived in Singapore for 14 years now, bit I've remained addicted to my Blades. I've not missed a single PL game. It's meant watching at 4 in the morning, 2 in the morning, 6 in the morning, working the day with no sleep.

After the 9th place finish with some great matches the 3-3 with Man U, humping Chelsea and Spurs, to name but a few, we started this year with optimism.

How it all went wrong, no fans, terrible injuries, signings not coming off. But I could accept defeat after defeat because, even when we lost, I didn't always agree with Chris, but I knew it hurt the manager as much as me and I knew we'd be in safe hands long term.

Until now. My support of United reached the perfect crescendo Blade as Captain, Blade as Manager, one of our own. And now that's gone. Maybe it will come out some tit for tat on both sides but it doesn't matter. Chris is gone and we'll quite possibly not have a Blade as Manager in our lifetime once more. Certainly not one in the mould of Chris.

For the first time in 25 years of writing my own ill conceived idealistic nonsense on message boards, first Bladesunited, then Bladesmad before I found this place I looked at all the threads and thought I don't really care anymore. It's really done for me today.

So I'm just going to have a break from Sheffield United, spend more time with my daughter who I've raised to be a Blade, even though we are 7,000 miles from BDTDL. Hopefully something comes along to reignite the interest but today is a massive own goal and a massive turn off. So for a while at least, that's me done.

Happy Mother's Day to you all (don't forget)

UTB
Champers

You'll be back Champers. The Blades are a drug. I've tried kicking the habit before.
A regular season ticket holder for over thirty years, I finally decided I'd had enough when we went down to League One and I promised myself I'd spend more Saturdays watching Sheffield FC. I even missed the opening Blades home match, but spent most of the afternoon checking the score. Needless to say, I did'nt miss another home game all season and reinstated my season ticket the following season.
Keep the faith fellow Blade and think of all the happiness, alongside the heartache, that our beloved Bladesmen have brought us over the years.

 

[BushBlade]

Aye, alreight. See you next season.

 

[knowsnowt]

Have a wank and a rethink?
Usually works for me.

 

[robbiez666]

I can understand stepping back, going less, taking a break etc but I can't understand how you can stop supporting a football club. It's not a choice it's a lifetime addiction.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Its stinks, but after three generations going back to 1889 I'm stuck with it.

 

[Hague Blade]

I've seen some awful times as a United fan.

Started off with some absolute shite under Billy McEwan not long after Porterfield left with a team of underperformers like Cadette, Kuhl, Pike etc.

Bassett started a fire with the glory days of Deane, Agana, Jock and co.

Then we had the false dawn of Kendall when we thought we'd got some money and we fell at the play off hurdle.

Then Spackman came and everything was seeming to click with Vass, Jan-Aage and the second coming of Deano but for us to commit football suicide by selling them both.

Bruce came along and did his best but eventually the Board kept wanting to sell players on so he left.

Kendall's former assistant Inched in and did very little after Thommo had failed at the first hurdle in the playoffs.

We had some good years Under Warnock, the triple assault season was magnificent but ultimately a let down and then the promotion with Jags, Monty and Tonge leading the way was fantastic especially we we had a good run against Wednesday. Warnock showed his shortcomings at the top table but he was to have a far better trajectory than Sheffield United over the ensuing years.

So we went for a big name in Robson and he ended up a big failure. It was at that point I moved to Singapore. My Dad always said if it wasn't for Bryan Robson's sucking the life out of it, I'd never have moved away. Even as a London based Blade I went to over 30 games a season.

Blacky stopped the rot that season but then more play off heartache followed though we did get to see a little of the Kyles before we did the usual United thing of flogging them off.

So we got rid of Blackie oddly 2 games in and went through Speed, Carver and Adams to a predictable relegation.

Danny Wilson was a nice bloke but never the right appointment and having failed with 3 attempts to get the right contingency in for Ched, we failed once more in the play offs. Wilson walked after a negative second year where we almost saw Diego emerge then lost him through injury. Morgan took us into the playoffs and a patchwork team were knocked out by minnows Yeovil.

A new dawn and an Arab Prince came along only for us to appoint the worst manager in our history in David Weir. He lasted about 10 games and Clough came along, steadied the ship and gave us a great cup run. We probably beat more PL teams in those cup runs than we have this season! But then he just lost the plot. We ended up with a bloated squad yet at the final denouement in the play offs we ended up with no centre half in a comedy game against Swindon.

So he was sacked or fell out with the Board depending on what you read.

We hired serial League One promotion winner Nigel Adkins and that, well, went inexplicably to shit. Worst finish on my living memory, I was just too young for the Matthews/Givens fiasco and though I caught the end of Morris/Edwards it was a vague recollection at best.

Totally lost and then in stepped Chris Wilder. A rocky opening 4 matches then all of a sudden he invented a way to play. Overlapping whatnots? Well it worked and then some. 100 points and see you later.

Up to the Championship and I'm convinced we would have been up a year earlier but for Coutts' injury. The holy trinity of Coutts-Fleck-Duffy. A crime they got robbed of their PL chance. But with Billy leading the way, we had a Blade as Manager and Captain and the club was galvanized. And who can forget Bouncing Day Flecky's free kick and Big Leon giving it to the grunters and Duffy's magical goal oh and Brooksy! I was in New York they day. I watched the game on the basement of the Empire state building. With one other lad who was a Blade (never met before) and a handful of Pigs. Oh how we rejoiced!

Fast forward one year and we even caught the attention of Mick Foley as we strode through the automatics with Egan now firmly set flanked by Bash and Jack, with Hendo shithousing us to promotion.

Then last year before Covid, it's still recent but I remain convinced but for this damn virus we'd have tasted Europe for the first time. We were in form, others weren't. We had no injuries, Spurs without Son and Kane, Man U without Rashford, Chelsea without Abraham. The stage was set then...only to Sheffield United could a global fucking pandemic upstage us.

I've lived in Singapore for 14 years now, bit I've remained addicted to my Blades. I've not missed a single PL game. It's meant watching at 4 in the morning, 2 in the morning, 6 in the morning, working the day with no sleep.

After the 9th place finish with some great matches the 3-3 with Man U, humping Chelsea and Spurs, to name but a few, we started this year with optimism.

How it all went wrong, no fans, terrible injuries, signings not coming off. But I could accept defeat after defeat because, even when we lost, I didn't always agree with Chris, but I knew it hurt the manager as much as me and I knew we'd be in safe hands long term.

Until now. My support of United reached the perfect crescendo Blade as Captain, Blade as Manager, one of our own. And now that's gone. Maybe it will come out some tit for tat on both sides but it doesn't matter. Chris is gone and we'll quite possibly not have a Blade as Manager in our lifetime once more. Certainly not one in the mould of Chris.

For the first time in 25 years of writing my own ill conceived idealistic nonsense on message boards, first Bladesunited, then Bladesmad before I found this place I looked at all the threads and thought I don't really care anymore. It's really done for me today.

So I'm just going to have a break from Sheffield United, spend more time with my daughter who I've raised to be a Blade, even though we are 7,000 miles from BDTDL. Hopefully something comes along to reignite the interest but today is a massive own goal and a massive turn off. So for a while at least, that's me done.

Happy Mother's Day to you all (don't forget)

UTB
Champers

Tanjong Pagar FC. That’s who I watched when I lived in Singapore. They’re rubbish, but they play in red & white stripes, and I watched games with John Burridge whenever he was in town. Up the Cougars, but like others have said, you’ll be back. The Blades are for life.

 

[S64 Blade]

To be fair, Cadette redeemed himself by posting all those transfer rumours on here.

Can’t argue with too much else of the OP though.

 

[Bell4]

Have a wank and a rethink?
Usually works for me.

 

[Chabuddy G]

Why don’t you just start following Chris Wilder around then?

 

[robbiez666]

Have a wank and a rethink?
Usually works for me.

That's one way to keep warm at halftime.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

Ultimately the Prince can't afford to run a premiership club and didn't invisage us going down because he's naive.

Wilder wants to bounce straight back with current squad because they were signed as a squad to take us back up and do their best in the Prem which is happening.

When Wilders been told players will go and he’ll have a DOF telling him who's coming in he's left with no choice but to leave.

His big money signings haven't been great but his management overall has.

 

[boss hog]

I've seen some awful times as a United fan.

Started off with some absolute shite under Billy McEwan not long after Porterfield left with a team of underperformers like Cadette, Kuhl, Pike etc.

Bassett started a fire with the glory days of Deane, Agana, Jock and co.

Then we had the false dawn of Kendall when we thought we'd got some money and we fell at the play off hurdle.

Then Spackman came and everything was seeming to click with Vass, Jan-Aage and the second coming of Deano but for us to commit football suicide by selling them both.

Bruce came along and did his best but eventually the Board kept wanting to sell players on so he left.

Kendall's former assistant Inched in and did very little after Thommo had failed at the first hurdle in the playoffs.

We had some good years Under Warnock, the triple assault season was magnificent but ultimately a let down and then the promotion with Jags, Monty and Tonge leading the way was fantastic especially we we had a good run against Wednesday. Warnock showed his shortcomings at the top table but he was to have a far better trajectory than Sheffield United over the ensuing years.

So we went for a big name in Robson and he ended up a big failure. It was at that point I moved to Singapore. My Dad always said if it wasn't for Bryan Robson's sucking the life out of it, I'd never have moved away. Even as a London based Blade I went to over 30 games a season.

Blacky stopped the rot that season but then more play off heartache followed though we did get to see a little of the Kyles before we did the usual United thing of flogging them off.

So we got rid of Blackie oddly 2 games in and went through Speed, Carver and Adams to a predictable relegation.

Danny Wilson was a nice bloke but never the right appointment and having failed with 3 attempts to get the right contingency in for Ched, we failed once more in the play offs. Wilson walked after a negative second year where we almost saw Diego emerge then lost him through injury. Morgan took us into the playoffs and a patchwork team were knocked out by minnows Yeovil.

A new dawn and an Arab Prince came along only for us to appoint the worst manager in our history in David Weir. He lasted about 10 games and Clough came along, steadied the ship and gave us a great cup run. We probably beat more PL teams in those cup runs than we have this season! But then he just lost the plot. We ended up with a bloated squad yet at the final denouement in the play offs we ended up with no centre half in a comedy game against Swindon.

So he was sacked or fell out with the Board depending on what you read.

We hired serial League One promotion winner Nigel Adkins and that, well, went inexplicably to shit. Worst finish on my living memory, I was just too young for the Matthews/Givens fiasco and though I caught the end of Morris/Edwards it was a vague recollection at best.

Totally lost and then in stepped Chris Wilder. A rocky opening 4 matches then all of a sudden he invented a way to play. Overlapping whatnots? Well it worked and then some. 100 points and see you later.

Up to the Championship and I'm convinced we would have been up a year earlier but for Coutts' injury. The holy trinity of Coutts-Fleck-Duffy. A crime they got robbed of their PL chance. But with Billy leading the way, we had a Blade as Manager and Captain and the club was galvanized. And who can forget Bouncing Day Flecky's free kick and Big Leon giving it to the grunters and Duffy's magical goal oh and Brooksy! I was in New York they day. I watched the game on the basement of the Empire state building. With one other lad who was a Blade (never met before) and a handful of Pigs. Oh how we rejoiced!

Fast forward one year and we even caught the attention of Mick Foley as we strode through the automatics with Egan now firmly set flanked by Bash and Jack, with Hendo shithousing us to promotion.

Then last year before Covid, it's still recent but I remain convinced but for this damn virus we'd have tasted Europe for the first time. We were in form, others weren't. We had no injuries, Spurs without Son and Kane, Man U without Rashford, Chelsea without Abraham. The stage was set then...only to Sheffield United could a global fucking pandemic upstage us.

I've lived in Singapore for 14 years now, bit I've remained addicted to my Blades. I've not missed a single PL game. It's meant watching at 4 in the morning, 2 in the morning, 6 in the morning, working the day with no sleep.

After the 9th place finish with some great matches the 3-3 with Man U, humping Chelsea and Spurs, to name but a few, we started this year with optimism.

How it all went wrong, no fans, terrible injuries, signings not coming off. But I could accept defeat after defeat because, even when we lost, I didn't always agree with Chris, but I knew it hurt the manager as much as me and I knew we'd be in safe hands long term.

Until now. My support of United reached the perfect crescendo Blade as Captain, Blade as Manager, one of our own. And now that's gone. Maybe it will come out some tit for tat on both sides but it doesn't matter. Chris is gone and we'll quite possibly not have a Blade as Manager in our lifetime once more. Certainly not one in the mould of Chris.

For the first time in 25 years of writing my own ill conceived idealistic nonsense on message boards, first Bladesunited, then Bladesmad before I found this place I looked at all the threads and thought I don't really care anymore. It's really done for me today.

So I'm just going to have a break from Sheffield United, spend more time with my daughter who I've raised to be a Blade, even though we are 7,000 miles from BDTDL. Hopefully something comes along to reignite the interest but today is a massive own goal and a massive turn off. So for a while at least, that's me done.

Happy Mother's Day to you all (don't forget)

UTB
Champers

I know how you feel pal ,I've never felt this disillusioned even in league 1.

 

[Eskimo]

Gioer wi thi barm Champers. Cup match next Sunday. Is Raffles open?

 

[Eskimo]

Gioer wi thi barm Champers. Cup match next Sunday. Is Raffles open

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Champagneblade - well said mate.

I've had a love-in for your posts, dating back to the old Bladesmad days. Balanced, reflective, articulate and honest. On this topic, I'm roughly where you're at in your thinking - disillusioned, apathetic.

Sure, we've encountered disappointing times galore in the past; but this time feels different. This is about who this involves, the manner in which it's played out and the contrast of the current rotten feelings surrounding a bitter end to an era, with the feel-good factor of the past 4 years. It just doesn't sit right. The club could take an immeasurable amount of time to recover from this.

Enjoy your time with the family & take care. UTB

 

[SK10Blade]

61 years a Blade and i'm so pissed off at the moment but once a Blade always a Blade and i know i'll be back. A Blade through thin and thinner and an eternal optimist, even I admit there is no way we can avoid relegation.

I've suffered when friends take the piss out of me but i've also been able to remain clear of arguments between the "big" supporters because "he's a Blade"

Loved the Dave Bassett era because the team cared, loved Warnock because he did as well but then again his comments of "best set of lads" really annoyed and proved he was only looking after himself.

Loved Tufty, we needed him and he will be a legend forever but was he sacked or did he believe he was unsackable?

I'm half way through a bottle of whisky tonight, still love the Blades, goodness knows where it goes from here but 5-0 against Leicester was a big kick in the teeth.

Rambling over, my glass is half empty so i'm going to fill it up, hopefully the next time I raise it will be celebrating reaching the FA Cup semi final, you never know.

 

[sitwell]

I've seen some awful times as a United fan.

Started off with some absolute shite under Billy McEwan not long after Porterfield left with a team of underperformers like Cadette, Kuhl, Pike etc.

Bassett started a fire with the glory days of Deane, Agana, Jock and co.

Then we had the false dawn of Kendall when we thought we'd got some money and we fell at the play off hurdle.

Then Spackman came and everything was seeming to click with Vass, Jan-Aage and the second coming of Deano but for us to commit football suicide by selling them both.

Bruce came along and did his best but eventually the Board kept wanting to sell players on so he left.

Kendall's former assistant Inched in and did very little after Thommo had failed at the first hurdle in the playoffs.

We had some good years Under Warnock, the triple assault season was magnificent but ultimately a let down and then the promotion with Jags, Monty and Tonge leading the way was fantastic especially we we had a good run against Wednesday. Warnock showed his shortcomings at the top table but he was to have a far better trajectory than Sheffield United over the ensuing years.

So we went for a big name in Robson and he ended up a big failure. It was at that point I moved to Singapore. My Dad always said if it wasn't for Bryan Robson's sucking the life out of it, I'd never have moved away. Even as a London based Blade I went to over 30 games a season.

Blacky stopped the rot that season but then more play off heartache followed though we did get to see a little of the Kyles before we did the usual United thing of flogging them off.

So we got rid of Blackie oddly 2 games in and went through Speed, Carver and Adams to a predictable relegation.

Danny Wilson was a nice bloke but never the right appointment and having failed with 3 attempts to get the right contingency in for Ched, we failed once more in the play offs. Wilson walked after a negative second year where we almost saw Diego emerge then lost him through injury. Morgan took us into the playoffs and a patchwork team were knocked out by minnows Yeovil.

A new dawn and an Arab Prince came along only for us to appoint the worst manager in our history in David Weir. He lasted about 10 games and Clough came along, steadied the ship and gave us a great cup run. We probably beat more PL teams in those cup runs than we have this season! But then he just lost the plot. We ended up with a bloated squad yet at the final denouement in the play offs we ended up with no centre half in a comedy game against Swindon.

So he was sacked or fell out with the Board depending on what you read.

We hired serial League One promotion winner Nigel Adkins and that, well, went inexplicably to shit. Worst finish on my living memory, I was just too young for the Matthews/Givens fiasco and though I caught the end of Morris/Edwards it was a vague recollection at best.

Totally lost and then in stepped Chris Wilder. A rocky opening 4 matches then all of a sudden he invented a way to play. Overlapping whatnots? Well it worked and then some. 100 points and see you later.

Up to the Championship and I'm convinced we would have been up a year earlier but for Coutts' injury. The holy trinity of Coutts-Fleck-Duffy. A crime they got robbed of their PL chance. But with Billy leading the way, we had a Blade as Manager and Captain and the club was galvanized. And who can forget Bouncing Day Flecky's free kick and Big Leon giving it to the grunters and Duffy's magical goal oh and Brooksy! I was in New York they day. I watched the game on the basement of the Empire state building. With one other lad who was a Blade (never met before) and a handful of Pigs. Oh how we rejoiced!

Fast forward one year and we even caught the attention of Mick Foley as we strode through the automatics with Egan now firmly set flanked by Bash and Jack, with Hendo shithousing us to promotion.

Then last year before Covid, it's still recent but I remain convinced but for this damn virus we'd have tasted Europe for the first time. We were in form, others weren't. We had no injuries, Spurs without Son and Kane, Man U without Rashford, Chelsea without Abraham. The stage was set then...only to Sheffield United could a global fucking pandemic upstage us.

I've lived in Singapore for 14 years now, bit I've remained addicted to my Blades. I've not missed a single PL game. It's meant watching at 4 in the morning, 2 in the morning, 6 in the morning, working the day with no sleep.

After the 9th place finish with some great matches the 3-3 with Man U, humping Chelsea and Spurs, to name but a few, we started this year with optimism.

How it all went wrong, no fans, terrible injuries, signings not coming off. But I could accept defeat after defeat because, even when we lost, I didn't always agree with Chris, but I knew it hurt the manager as much as me and I knew we'd be in safe hands long term.

Until now. My support of United reached the perfect crescendo Blade as Captain, Blade as Manager, one of our own. And now that's gone. Maybe it will come out some tit for tat on both sides but it doesn't matter. Chris is gone and we'll quite possibly not have a Blade as Manager in our lifetime once more. Certainly not one in the mould of Chris.

For the first time in 25 years of writing my own ill conceived idealistic nonsense on message boards, first Bladesunited, then Bladesmad before I found this place I looked at all the threads and thought I don't really care anymore. It's really done for me today.

So I'm just going to have a break from Sheffield United, spend more time with my daughter who I've raised to be a Blade, even though we are 7,000 miles from BDTDL. Hopefully something comes along to reignite the interest but today is a massive own goal and a massive turn off. So for a while at least, that's me done.

Happy Mother's Day to you all (don't forget)

UTB
Champers

Is it Rob ?

 

[ancientblade]

61 years a Blade and i'm so pissed off at the moment but once a Blade always a Blade and i know i'll be back. A Blade through thin and thinner and an eternal optimist, even I admit there is no way we can avoid relegation.

I've suffered when friends take the piss out of me but i've also been able to remain clear of arguments between the "big" supporters because "he's a Blade"

Loved the Dave Bassett era because the team cared, loved Warnock because he did as well but then again his comments of "best set of lads" really annoyed and proved he was only looking after himself.

Loved Tufty, we needed him and he will be a legend forever but was he sacked or did he believe he was unsackable?

I'm half way through a bottle of whisky tonight, still love the Blades, goodness knows where it goes from here but 5-0 against Leicester was a big kick in the teeth.

Rambling over, my glass is half empty so i'm going to fill it up, hopefully the next time I raise it will be celebrating reaching the FA Cup semi final, you never know.

same here sk good post sad week for a great football club

 

[3-GBlade]

Its stinks, but after three generations going back to 1889 I'm stuck with it.

This indeed...
I do disconnect from things for my own good, but Im never not a Blade.....
its as much part of me as bin too fat and too stupid would be if I was either of those

I man fuck me, in 1975 I was just about old enough to "get it" that them Blades were a top division one team...
by the time I was at Junior School we were in the fourth fuckin diviosn....

I never eer expect owt good!!

 

[Tezza1889]

You're not really done though Champagneblade

You've just got to that point where you need some time out...

The manager is "key"

Players can be sold and bought, but a decent manager comes along once in a blue moon, I'd have followed wilder to division 4 had we gone bankrupt, now who knows what's next.. Another long line of try hards who are still getting a % from thier last sacking, or a genius..

Maybe a blakey look alike bus driver from Belgium..

I'm having time out too.. So you won't be on your own..