The best bits about being a Blade at the moment.


Tyler Durden said:
Exactly. Everything I used to enjoy about matchdays had become a pale imitation, I was just going through the motions. Our identity had whittled away down to nothing and I thought it would last a very long time.

Wilder instantly changed that and the transformation has been phenomenal. I don't I've ever felt more involved with the club than right now.
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It has reminded me of why I fell in love with the Blades, never stopped but last season especially it had become a labour. I started to wonder whether the Club and I were changing...

I reassured myself that all relationships have peaks and troughs, that we would come out of the malaise. And haven't we just!

So, given there were still many reasons why being a Blade was great last season and every season (not all to do with the 90 minutes football, granted) PLUS all the stuff already mentioned on this thread, who would pick any other football team to support??

:)
 
the old roller coaster is back in play
weve been climbing that big hill to the the top of the big one and have got our hands in the air ready to get excited


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Sheffsteel said:
When we concede it doesn't phase me anymore because I know we'll get back into the match and create chances. Also even if we don't win then it doesn't bother me so much because at least we've performed and given it a go.
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Interesting one. Building on that thought.

Before Adkins I used to get a real belly pang if we conceded / if there was a real threat of conceding - whether I was there at the match, watching on the TV or listening intently on BladesPlayer
That's happened for years and years with me. o_O

Under Adkins I lost that feeling.
It just seemed inevitable.
We'd fuck about with the ball at the back, create no goal mouth action at all and end up with a sucker punch goal to show for very little determination and effort.
:tumbleweed:

Roll forward to this season and I don't get any belly pang at all when we concede. :cool:
Not one jitter.
Why?
Cos I know were going to fucking hammer the opposition into submission and they will concede eventually (Walsall didn't but should have). :p


Thank you Mester Wilder :D



Having said all that bollocks, I'm pretty fucking sure that the pang thing will be back when the Sheffield derby comes around next season :eek:
Fecking screws with my guts, big style, does that game :oops:
 
I'm finding the best bit is just playing the whole thing down at the moment around family & drinking friends when they bring the subject up.......as if it's no big deal.
Then when "it" happens ......Boom !! They're all going to know exactly what it means to me.
 
Go on then, anymore for any more?!

UP THE BLADES!
 
The best bits about being a Blade at the moment...................

is that these moments don't come around too often, and I'm 61...........but now we have CW & AK, then who knows...........these 2 might just break our PO duck............and soon.

UTB
 
Having in depth conversations with fellow Blades and not arguing with each other about the causes of our crappycrapMcCrapface football club and why we won't make the automatic or struggle in the playoffs conversation.
 
I think this thread needs revisiting.

Since writing this, its nice to look back on a record breaking season as deserved Champions, noone came close to us. Now, to see my club making a great start to life back in the Championship, I couldn't be more proud.

They say no man is bigger than the club, but bollocks - this is one of my happiest ever periods as a Blade and its all thanks to Wilder and Knill. So much so that I now refer to things as BC. For example we lost to Huddersfield in the Playoff Final in 4BC (4 years Before Chris).
 
Blade for Sale said:
Knowing the team are going to put a shift in every game. Knowing the manager isn't going to sugar coat his interviews with platitudes about fucking geese. Knowing that we will go and try to win every match instead of making sure we keep hold of the precious fucking point we started with against the likes of Port Vale. Knowing that we are, 9 times out of 10, going to score at least once every match. Knowing that opposition teams are somewhere between respectful and shitting it every time they play us, as opposed to the fucking belly tickling opportunity we offered so many of them last year. Knowing that, regardless of what they say, our neighbours are quietly shitting it at the very real prospect of playing us next season with Tony Ferrino at the helm up against a snarling dyed in the wool Blade. That's what's good about being a Blade at the moment.
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I think Blade for Sale nailed it and everything in this post still holds true.
 

blademark said:
I have an unshakeable feeling that NOTHING is impossible under this management team. It allows me to fantasise daily about what can be achieved.
At 62 years old it's like being given an eternal youth serum, and I love it.
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I'm 10 year younger than you but totally agree.
Wilder seems to be able to turn ordinary players into world beaters, it makes no sense.
It's all getting reminiscent of Cloughie at Forest.

Normally I'd be nervous with a Steel City Derby upon us
BUT even if we don't win I am 99% confident we will be impressive and have spells where we give Wednesday the run around and out football them.

Can't wait for their fans to say "where's that Duffy/ Fleck/ Coutts come from, he's a really good player".

I'm also confident that after the match Wednesday fans will be saying once we sort out attack out we have a realistic chance of play-offs. We'll all be saying "I told you so".

Although after we had spells out footballing them then maybe they'll say how badly they played etc.
Seems a common theme. All the oppositions teams seem to play really poorly against us.
 
Tyler Durden said:
Exactly. Everything I used to enjoy about matchdays had become a pale imitation, I was just going through the motions. Our identity had whittled away down to nothing and I thought it would last a very long time.

Wilder instantly changed that and the transformation has been phenomenal. I don't I've ever felt more involved with the club than right now.
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Don't come on here that much (and when I do tend to be more of a graser than poster...) but things must be good wen TD posts a totally positive, non-sarky, lacking vitriol comment (said kindly )
Now if IFollow cud just get their second half video feed sorted....
 
GreenhillBladeinToronto said:
Don't come on here that much (and when I do tend to be more of a graser than poster...) but things must be good wen TD posts a totally positive, non-sarky, lacking vitriol comment (said kindly )
Now if IFollow cud just get their second half video feed sorted....
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And (Foxy...) over how long a period (albeit infrequently...) do you have to be posting before ur no longer deemed to be a newbie....?
 
Blimey GHBinTO , you've gone from 'newbie' to 'regular poster' in a 23 minute spell !!

You better get that iFollow sorted before I pitch up in Toronto tomorrow.

(Have we ever watched a live-transmission Blades match together on TV when in Canada ?)
Can't be missing out on a rare opportunity !

Anyway , this is a great thread and we all know a lot can be achieved with a positive mental attitude.

Our next step this season will be to prove we can recover from conceding a goal , something we haven't managed yet , but our new-found confidence should see us through.

At Boro & Cardiff , I agreed with CW that the players "...somehow felt they didn't deserve to be here...".

They should be over that little mental hurdle now ..... and striking the right balance between knowing they have the ability to do the job but realising they have to show it by working hard in every game.

That's the best thing about being a Blade at the moment - seeing a team formed wholly of decent , honest players who aren't of the highest transfer value or the best paid , but love the challenge of beating the expensive ones by giving their all for the shared cause.
 
And if we lose at home to Norwich tomorrow , don't forget we unexpectedly did that on Boxing Day 2005 , but got promoted to the Prem in May 2006 !
 
Good morning all.

Having worked in Northampton on a part time basis for the last few years, I became 'friends' with 2 ardent followers of Reading and Fulham - both of whom never really acknowledged our achievements of last season in League 1 because of the 'never looking at things below us syndrome', and both took great pleasure in extolling their pre-season 'Championship Wisdom' ....'You'll never believe the step-up you're about to make', 'Survival is the best you can hope for in you're first season back' and countless more concerns of our impending doom.

I text both of them after our win at Sunderland in an attempt to 'share the joy' of 'bursting into the top 6' and repeated the exercise after Notlob.....just to say how nice the vibe was to be 'Nestled in Third'

Have not heard anything back surprisingly.

My missus has complained because i said mean things about the 'arrogant toffee nosed fuckers'.
 
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