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As you know, I've been eating humble pie over Hecky since he took over. Never had any faith in the entire directorate, management and squad set-up. McCall being my one exception to that rule.

Teams that develop significant leads in the table push on to play from the confidence that their position brings and crush opposition.

We've been far from that; no consistency and have rarely brushed our opponents aside.

I do believe the emperor's new clothes are now being exposed for what they are, threadbare.
Really hope I'm wrong.

But my hope for promotion or an FA Cup Final victory (and European football!!!) are already heading for the exit.

UTB
 
My 6-year-old, who's been to about a dozen matches with me starting at the arse end of the Slav era, hasn't wanted to go since January. He was lucky enough to see several 3+ goal-margin swashbuckling wins early on, including the demolition of Burnley, but the last few games he's been saying he's bored midway through the first half, wanting to leave before the end and not liking the unsettled vibe in the crowd. I don't want to force him to go, but I was at least hoping the prospect of the world's best players gracing the Lane next season might make him want to come to more games. Carry on down this trajectory and I can see him becoming an armchair Man City fan to fit in with his mates.

My own fault I suppose, walking out of the Burnley game I told him 'enjoy this son, it won't always be this good'. Didn't expect to be proved right within 3 days.
 
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Lord Eddard Muir said:
My 6-year-old, who's been to about a dozen matches with me starting at the arse end of the Slav era, hasn't wanted to go since January. He was lucky enough to see several 3+ goal-margin swashbuckling wins early on, including the demolition of Burnley, but the last few games he's been saying he's bored midway through the first half, wanting to leave before the end and not liking the unsettled vibe in the crowd. I don't want to force him to go, but I was at least hoping the prospect of the world's best players gracing the Lane next season might make him want to come to more games. Carry on down this trajectory and I can see him becoming an armchair Man City fan to fit in with his mates.
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Luckily my son is past that stage at 10 years old, we had a good conversation yesterday where he was on about the Liverpool and Man City fans at school who have changed allegiances a few times already. He said he'd much rather support the Blades, go to games and watch us be rubbish than just pretend to support another club for the sake of it.

Poor kid.
 
derekacorah said:
Luckily my son is past that stage at 10 years old, we had a good conversation yesterday where he was on about the Liverpool and Man City fans at school who have changed allegiances a few times already. He said he'd much rather support the Blades, go to games and watch us be rubbish than just pretend to support another club for the sake of it.

Poor kid.
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Sure my lad will follow suit but not going to push too hard, to be honest he's still probably a bit young to be going regularly. At least he's had a taste of the place now. I will, however, drag him to Wembley if necessary, which could of course put him off for life.
 
Lord Eddard Muir said:
Sure my lad will follow suit but not going to push too hard, to be honest he's still probably a bit young to be going regularly. At least he's had a taste of the place now. I will, however, drag him to Wembley if necessary, which could of course put him off for life.
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I think my son was 5 or 6 the first game he went to, home V Barnsley. Sharp scored and Clarke got sent off. He was on my knee when we scored and I managed to chuck him over the seat in front 🤣 he reminds me of it every time Sharp scores 🤦🏻‍♂️
 
Bladesman said:
This is Sheffield United. I guess we convinced ourselves it would be different. This is what we do and we do it very well unfortunately.

All I would say is at least put a few bets down and make some cash out of it.
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This is true
Even amongst the bookies we'll still be one of the favourites for next year if we screw it up this season.

Good opportunity to make some cash with an "All you can afford" bet on relegation next year
 
Lord Eddard Muir said:
My 6-year-old, who's been to about a dozen matches with me starting at the arse end of the Slav era, hasn't wanted to go since January. He was lucky enough to see several 3+ goal-margin swashbuckling wins early on, including the demolition of Burnley, but the last few games he's been saying he's bored midway through the first half, wanting to leave before the end and not liking the unsettled vibe in the crowd. I don't want to force him to go, but I was at least hoping the prospect of the world's best players gracing the Lane next season might make him want to come to more games. Carry on down this trajectory and I can see him becoming an armchair Man City fan to fit in with his mates.

My own fault I suppose, walking out of the Burnley game I told him 'enjoy this son, it won't always be this good'. Didn't expect to be proved right within 3 days.
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Sadly, or maybe not so sadly, he's learned at a very early age.
Thing is, we've had some good wins fairly recently, Swansea, Stoke etc looked like they were swept aside by this rampant top of the league, Premier League in waiting club.
But in reality it wasn't like that at all, it was every bit as boring as the Blackpool, Wigan, Huddersfield, Reading, Cardiff, Bristol City wins.

Wins yes, but my God, would it hurt to provide people with an ounce of entertainment now and then.
 
St Albans Blade said:
As you know, I've been eating humble pie over Hecky since he took over. Never had any faith in the entire directorate, management and squad set-up. McCall being my one exception to that rule.

Teams that develop significant leads in the table push on to play from the confidence that their position brings and crush opposition.

We've been far from that; no consistency and have rarely brushed our opponents aside.

I do believe the emperor's new clothes are now being exposed for what they are, threadbare.
Really hope I'm wrong.

But my hope for promotion or an FA Cup Final victory (and European football!!!) are already heading for the exit.

UTB
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If you want City Center turn left onto Shoreham Street.
 
Lord Eddard Muir said:
Sure my lad will follow suit but not going to push too hard, to be honest he's still probably a bit young to be going regularly. At least he's had a taste of the place now. I will, however, drag him to Wembley if necessary, which could of course put him off for life.
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What do you mean? We won there in 1925. Isn't that recent enough?!? 🤣
 
St Albans Blade said:
As you know, I've been eating humble pie over Hecky since he took over. Never had any faith in the entire directorate, management and squad set-up. McCall being my one exception to that rule.

Teams that develop significant leads in the table push on to play from the confidence that their position brings and crush opposition.

We've been far from that; no consistency and have rarely brushed our opponents aside.

I do believe the emperor's new clothes are now being exposed for what they are, threadbare.
Really hope I'm wrong.

But my hope for promotion or an FA Cup Final victory (and European football!!!) are already heading for the exit.

UTB
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If you want City Center turn left onto Shoreham Street
St Albans Blade said:
Will do, just after I’ve picked up a bargain in the club shop’s ‘we nearly got promoted and almost won the FA Cup’ end-of-season sale 😉

It’s the hope that kills us!

UTB
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I would love to see that printered on a T-shirt 😆
 



Lord Eddard Muir said:
Sure my lad will follow suit but not going to push too hard, to be honest he's still probably a bit young to be going regularly. At least he's had a taste of the place now. I will, however, drag him to Wembley if necessary, which could of course put him off for life.
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I’m 61 and my dad still makes me go

He says that I should stop moaning and appreciate the good times . He says he can remember when there were no pies or Hendos , when all the commentators were ex army red blooded blokes who talked the kings English , he says that he can remember having to walk to the ground from flamborough head , and back again - with only the lighthouse beam to guide him .

He says that he remembers his father having to swim to the shore from his fishing cobble on a Friday night so he could get first choice of overcoat before he himself set off to walk to the lane with my dad stuck down the front of his trousers

He’s making me go to the quarter final even though it’s Mother’s Day and that’s the only time in the year I get to see my mum .

Wish I had stood up to him more
 
MagnifiqueShorehamStreet said:
Promotion is based on a long season, not 2 games, where we one one, and lost one.
Have faith my friend, it’s been a very successful season so far.One bad loss doesn’t mean we’ve blown it.
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Do people walk about living in cloud cuckoo land or something

You're not the only clapper to talk about this "one bad loss"

We have just lost to ALL FOUR teams directly behind us
 
JJBlade said:
Do people walk about living in cloud cuckoo land or something

You're not the only clapper to talk about this "one bad loss"

We have just lost to ALL FOUR teams directly behind us
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Alright there Jimmy Muir’s dad???
 
JJBlade said:
Can you remember anyone being 14 points clear with two thirds of a season played, and then blow it.

I suppose it's just another of those extraordinary, unbelievable fuck ups specially reserved for the fans of Sheffield United
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Didn’t Blackburn have a shocker in the early 90’s when they were flying in the championship only to squeeze into the playoffs in 6th? I think they then won the playoff final. I am comforting myself with the fact that we could have 3 Wembley trips this season with an FA cup final and play-off final.
 
PaulHalfway said:
Failure to beat the top 6 sides recently or even get a draw out of these games has been horrendous and so damaging,
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I was talking to a mate a few weeks ago and he said "we're playing all the decent teams soon again so we'll not win many". I was of the opinion at the time that we were good and that we'd just sweep them aside. Turns out he was right.

Apart from Burnley I think they're out of the way now so hopefully we go back to looking good again for a few weeks.
 
Torrix1889 said:
My biggest fear is next season if we don't go up....takeover doesn't happen, half the squad leave on frees, transfer embargo remains.......nailed on return to L1
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theres at least 12 clubs in the championship a lot shittier than us at our worst

13 if wednesday come up
 
Wandsworth Blade said:
Didn’t Blackburn have a shocker in the early 90’s when they were flying in the championship only to squeeze into the playoffs in 6th? I think they then won the playoff final. I am comforting myself with the fact that we could have 3 Wembley trips this season with an FA cup final and play-off final.
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Well remembered. Blackburn were top, 7 points clear of Ipswich in 2nd place in mid February 1992. That lead had dropped to 3 points in mid March. They didn't pick up another point and by mid March they were 13 behind Ipswich in 6th. They rallied, won another 8 points in 5 games and finished the season 6th, 10 points behind Ipswich. They went up in the play offs, and the rest, as they say is history.
 



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