Time for a merger?

[grafikhaus]

Foxy/Linz, could you set up a poll on this?

My thoughts? Definitely yes. We're both utterly shite and a disgrace to the city. We'll never compete as long as we split our resources.

Tin hat time...

 

[maxtheblade]

I honestly think if it ever happened, you'd get two new upstart clubs 'FC Blades' and 'AFC SHIT' that would retain the majority of the support. The merged club just wouldn't get the backing from the fans. So rather than creating one superclub supported by all you'd just split the city's support in three!

 

[beightonblade]

No...........

 

[Karaoke Blade]

So rather than creating one superclub supported by all you'd just split the city's support in three!

However, I suspect it would increase the attendance at Sheffield FC. If there was a merger then I for one would never support the new club and my Saturday afternoons would be spent watching honest football at The Coach and Horses.

 

[Pragmatic Blade]

I think one club would have to go bust before it was even considered a possibility. There is too much history however shite both are at the moment. Sheffield seems to be an unfashionable place for the average footballing entrepreneur and thus neither club has attracted multi-million financial support that has helped many other clubs (Man City, Blackburn, Villa to name but a few)

 

[sheffielder]

It would ruin my life. I am not sure how any man can explain to the wife that his saturday afternoons are going to be spent watching FC Blades at some local park, nevermind telling her of your new love for 'Sheffield' and having to go down to whatever ground with her piggy old man.

 

[SwissBlade]

No, never. I'll watch us in any league but a merger serves no purpose

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

No no no no no no no no no.

 

[sothall blade]

dont bother linz & foxy

 

[TAMUS]

They should have been killed off this season ,we missed our chance to buy them for next to nowt and shut them down .

 

[borg elite]

I don't understand how people can even suggest such a thing. Honestly, it baffles me.

 

[Crazyblade]

No no and no, in that order. I will not support a merged Sheffield club. I'd rather go and watch Sheffield FC.

 

[oldblade]

Foxy/Linz, could you set up a poll on this?

My thoughts? Definitely yes. We're both utterly shite and a disgrace to the city. We'll never compete as long as we split our resources.

Tin hat time...

It seems to me that the possibility of a merger is only discussed when both United and Wednesday are going through bad times. It was never discussed when we were both in the premier league. To me it's like saying I don't want to follow my club unless it's successful, so I'll bin the current club and set up new one and hope that does better. The problem being, it's not the original club you supported, so you don't have any real attachment.

But let's suppose we do merge. What do we do if the merged club isn't successful? And there's certainly no guarantee it would be. Do we start discussing mergers with the otherSouth Yorkshire clubs and maybe Leeds? And then we could try and lure Forest and Derby into a giant North Midlands & Yorkshire FC. That should do the trick!

 

[super_pig]

we'll end up with one shit club rather than two .. personally i'd rather go and watch the (inevitable) fc united of sheffield in graves park.. the only way that you could pull this off is to give away free season tickets for the first year.. give everyone a free shirt, move the ground completely and get rid of 'every' member of staff.. perhaps its not such a bad idea ..

 

[ListerBlade]

it'll take a lot more than relegation to league 1 to make me consider standing on the terrace (sitting in the stands) with the unclean cheering on the same team.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

What's the point of setting up a poll?I think only the OP and lenners would be up for a merger.


I just wouldn't watch any football anymore.

 

[Yossarian]

Meh, fuck it.. why not? It can't realistically get much worse. At least we'll be able to blame the other half of Sheffield for us being shit.

 

[sothall blade]

What's the point of setting up a poll?I think only the OP and lenners would be up for a merger.


I just wouldn't watch any football anymore.

its not going to happen mate:thumbdown:

---------- Post added at 01:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 PM ----------

[/QUOTE]=oldblade;320376]It seems to me that the possibility of a merger is only discussed when both United and Wednesday are going through bad times. It was never discussed when we were both in the premier league. To me it's like saying I don't want to follow my club unless it's successful, so I'll bin the current club and set up new one and hope that does better. The problem being, it's not the original club you supported, so you don't have any real attachment.

But let's suppose we do merge. What do we do if the merged club isn't successful? And there's certainly no guarantee it would be. Do we start discussing mergers with the otherSouth Yorkshire clubs and maybe Leeds? And then we could try and lure Forest and Derby into a giant North Midlands & Yorkshire FC. That should do the trick!

quite right old blade,our teams all have the calibre of fans that only go when they win, or a trip to wembley,and the merged clubs WOULD NOT be successful because they would most likely have to start in the underbelly of the football league,thus spending years in the wilderness ,because if any of the shower of shit that is currently inolved in running SUFC are involved in a merger .........well need i go on. i would rather ground share with sheffield eagles and yorkshire cricket club:thumbdown:

 

[davidpinder]

Like i said last time this was on general chat. If there was a merge the team could only have one name Sheffield UNITED because thats what it would be. The team would surely have to be based in sheffield city centre so that is BDTBL. So personally i see no difference to us blades, in fact i would take there chairman because he has more ambition at this moment in time and ours has lost interest. As for current managers both are shite and will be sacked come xmas so new gaffers all round.

 

[sitwell]

Anyone who would want this is simply not a Sheffield United fan in my opinion ,harsh I know but why would you want to support another club ? If you want big gates and success support Man Utd ,whats the difference ?

 

[Yossarian]

The difference would be one of the major reasons that we're Sheffield United fans: because we'd prefer to follow a local team that is a part of our own community.

 

[oldblade]

But it would not be Sheffield United.

We have chosen United above other local clubs, and we have done that for a variety of reasons. It maybe because the rest of your family supports United, or because they were the first side you saw live, or because you were particularly mesmerised by the star players of the time (be that Hagan, Jones, Currie, Woodward, Edwards, Deane, Whitehouse, Brown, Beattie etc), or because you were rebellious and didn't want to support the establishment team, or because you like the underdog, etc etc. It can even be as simple as you like red and white stripes better than blue and white stripes. Sometimes its's a combination of things. But none of those things would be there to attach you to a merged club.

Quite simply the merged club would not be the club any of us (or even Wedneday supporters) have chosen to support. To a greater or lesser extent we all acquaint ourselves with our club's history and we all have old 'war stories' to tell about what we have seen or done in following our club.

But all of that is what attaches us to United. Not Sheffield City, Sheffield Rovers, or Sheffield anything else. Because the new club would not be United. It would not play at Bramall Lane and none of our history to date would attach to it.

The fact is that the Sheffield area has an ample population to support two football clubs (and probably more). The fact success appears illusive is more down to the way the clubs have been run than anything else.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Top post Oldblade. Firmly agree.

 

[Kopped]

It would never happen but for arguments sake here is what I think would happen if it did:

They would play in Blue and Red stripes! Black, White and Yellow Away strip (not sure on stripes)
They would play at BDTBL cause they have BOTH played their at home in their history (expanded as the Fans came back)
They would be called Sheffield City FC

Just my opinion

 

[broomhillblade]

The argument for a merger is that you would get the best of both worlds.

However, you could just as easily end up with the worst of both worlds - and twice the debt.

No thank you.

 

[Trigger Blade]

What's the point of setting up a poll?I think only the OP and lenners would be up for a merger.

I just wouldn't watch any football anymore.

I think you do len a disservice on this one. He'll probably come on and say he thinks it's a good idea, but he doesn't really, he's just being a bit provocative.

There have been better times to be a Blade, but as sitters says, if you'd contemplate a merger, you aren't a proper Blade.

I didn't ever expect glory or to be following a team that wins things, though I hadn't quite envisaged this when I signed up in 1961. They did entice me with a promotion and a cup semi-final about that time, which was a bit naughty.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

We'll never compete as long as we split our resources.

I don't see a problem for Man City and Mane Ure, Brum and Villa, Rangers and Celtic. Why should Sheffield be different? Catchment area is 650,000 people. more than enough to support two premier league clubs. Bolton and Blackburn combined population is only 230,000.

 

[oldblade]

There have been better times to be a Blade, but as sitters says, if you'd contemplate a merger, you aren't a proper Blade.

I think that's right. I don't think people who favour a merger have a very strong attachment to the club. They can't have, because in effect they are wishing it out of existence!

 

[gavtheblade]

fuck em both off and lets see a return of yorkshire cricket to sheffield-something all of us can support.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

I don't see a problem for Man City and Mane Ure, Brum and Villa, Rangers and Celtic. Why should Sheffield be different? Catchment area is 650,000 people. more than enough to support two premier league clubs. Bolton and Blackburn combined population is only 230,000.

Absolutely, there are more than enough people to support two clubs. Unfortunately without proper support from a decent owner (rather than potless property spiv-boy) we are heading south at a rate of knots.