SteelCity Blade
Active Member
Now that we’ve sunk almost as low as I think we can, I want to acknowledge the supporters as someone who has just about had enough of the shit we’ve had to endure. My message is that as supporters, you have nothing to feel bad about. You’ve paid your money; you’ve backed the team vocally and generally done your bit whilst getting fuck all in return. The team that went out on that pitch last night don’t deserve the kind of following they get and I don’t think they fully realise just how much it hurts the average Blade to see where we are. Perhaps they don’t even care.....
Footballers are paid handsomely for what they do and it isn’t a hard job. The pressure of having to beat piss poor sides after a long winless run is the least they should have to cope with and I feel no sympathy for any criticism they get. We’re told we need to get behind them and not be negative (it’s all about their feelings) when Joe Sheffield on the Kop has to work a 40+ hour week in a physically or mentally draining job to earn just enough disposable income to go and watch them. Such sentiments of supporters having a responsibility to player confidence are way off the mark IMO. What we actually need is for the players to man up and fucking grow a pair.....
It’s difficult when you’re losing games; anyone who has played the game knows that. But it gets to a point where professional pride has to kick in. Not just amongst the players but at the club, both of whom have seemingly left it far too late to rally and to recruit. Now that they’ve reached this point they don’t know what to do and all that is left is the Blades faithful, contemplating life in the third division. It may have been unthinkable a year or so ago but it is now almost inevitable as we stare it in the face. When we eventually bottom out (and I don’t think we have yet) many of the current crop will have moved on in some shape or form and the supporters will be left with the heartache. That’s football all over for you but I won’t go into that now.....
Sadly there is little we can do as supporters other than hope for a miraculous turnaround which quite frankly isn’t going to come – that’s quite apparent. I find the blame being levelled at Micky Adams fairly preposterous when you consider that the club has gone from one calamity to another since relegation from the PL. A lot of parties are to blame here and the only thing Micky is accountable for (IMO) is an inability to conjure a win from a lacklustre, apathetic group of players and as the paid manager of the football club he must take inevitable responsibility for results under his tenure. That is not to say I feel it is his fault, or that he should move on because I don’t, but it’s his job in part to do something about it. At the moment he is up that famous old creek without a paddle.....
In spite of all that Sheffield United is our club, it belongs to the supporters and always will. If ever there was a big club that’s life blood was its supporters it’s this one. Whatever problems there are on the pitch or at boardroom level just remember, YOU are Sheffield United not them. The people playing for and running it are largely overpaid mercenaries that will move on whilst you’re still there supporting. Do yourselves a favour, don’t turn on each other and don’t ever forget the good times you’ve had simply following the Blades in your own way because when it boils down to it the most fun we have is when we sing together, win together and even at times when we suffer together.....
As the song goes “We are the Blades” and unlike those we turn out to watch, we are fit to wear the shirt.
UTB!
Footballers are paid handsomely for what they do and it isn’t a hard job. The pressure of having to beat piss poor sides after a long winless run is the least they should have to cope with and I feel no sympathy for any criticism they get. We’re told we need to get behind them and not be negative (it’s all about their feelings) when Joe Sheffield on the Kop has to work a 40+ hour week in a physically or mentally draining job to earn just enough disposable income to go and watch them. Such sentiments of supporters having a responsibility to player confidence are way off the mark IMO. What we actually need is for the players to man up and fucking grow a pair.....
It’s difficult when you’re losing games; anyone who has played the game knows that. But it gets to a point where professional pride has to kick in. Not just amongst the players but at the club, both of whom have seemingly left it far too late to rally and to recruit. Now that they’ve reached this point they don’t know what to do and all that is left is the Blades faithful, contemplating life in the third division. It may have been unthinkable a year or so ago but it is now almost inevitable as we stare it in the face. When we eventually bottom out (and I don’t think we have yet) many of the current crop will have moved on in some shape or form and the supporters will be left with the heartache. That’s football all over for you but I won’t go into that now.....
Sadly there is little we can do as supporters other than hope for a miraculous turnaround which quite frankly isn’t going to come – that’s quite apparent. I find the blame being levelled at Micky Adams fairly preposterous when you consider that the club has gone from one calamity to another since relegation from the PL. A lot of parties are to blame here and the only thing Micky is accountable for (IMO) is an inability to conjure a win from a lacklustre, apathetic group of players and as the paid manager of the football club he must take inevitable responsibility for results under his tenure. That is not to say I feel it is his fault, or that he should move on because I don’t, but it’s his job in part to do something about it. At the moment he is up that famous old creek without a paddle.....
In spite of all that Sheffield United is our club, it belongs to the supporters and always will. If ever there was a big club that’s life blood was its supporters it’s this one. Whatever problems there are on the pitch or at boardroom level just remember, YOU are Sheffield United not them. The people playing for and running it are largely overpaid mercenaries that will move on whilst you’re still there supporting. Do yourselves a favour, don’t turn on each other and don’t ever forget the good times you’ve had simply following the Blades in your own way because when it boils down to it the most fun we have is when we sing together, win together and even at times when we suffer together.....
As the song goes “We are the Blades” and unlike those we turn out to watch, we are fit to wear the shirt.
UTB!
