Was there a time when you (almost) gave up

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I've backed away a couple of times. Still went to the odd game, but nowhere near as invested.
 

No, but I stopped watching our games live on TV last season and did something more fun at the weekends
 
Last season after Xmas I could not see the point of going to games not only were we not good enough but everything that could go against us seemed to. I ended up letting the grand daughter use my season ticket as she was just getting into going to games, she has her own ST for this season. Can't say I've ever felt as much apathy as last season the turn around as been remarkable this season surely if we are promoted we will make a better go of it next season.
 
Not given up on the Blades but I stopped going to games when we got promoted to the Premier League, just before covid. Wanted to buy a season ticket but couldn't get one as the club had sold out the allocated number and wanted to keep X thousand seats for pay on the day, so, sod yuz....

Having said that, I've barely missed a game home or away for 3 years. Thanks in the main to astral projection. 😉
 
Only life circumstances stop me from going like at the moment. Always when we're bloody doing well too!
 
I've been an off and on match goer since 1980, mainly due to work and family chaos. However I've been able to have a season ticket now for the last 10 years.

The Adkins season was pretty dire and I was one of those that went to that Bury away game.
However, last season it got to the point where I almost dreaded going. I think when I walked out when Newcastle scored their 7th goal was a particular lowpoint. It did result in more time supping ale in the pub though, so every cloud an' all that.
 
Never, and I'm always somebody who watches the full game,

That said, I nearly walked out before half time once.

Think it was a midweek home cup game versus Stockport, and we lost 2v5, and went 3v0 down quickly, closest I've come to walking out very early.
 
I seem to remember the rough times at the club around the turn of the millennium. A good few turned their backs as I remember sitting in a very empty Bramall Lane for many a game with attendances probably a third of what they are now. There wasn’t much happening on or off the pitch really, I think we were even sponsoring ourselves and overall we weren’t in the best of positions….but many turned their backs during that spell.

I remained and home and away blade during these times and the terraces were so quiet and weird, a stark contrast to today.
 
Tony_Kaufman said:
I stopped going when Blackwell was in charge as I hated giving up my Saturday to travel to and from Sheffield to watch God awful football. Win, lose or draw we were dire. I pay to watch an entertaining game of football. The result is a bonus. If all I was bothered about was the result then I'd stay at home and look it up at full time.

Last season I watched very little after the New Year. There was no point. It was obvious that we had no chance of staying up and that we weren't even putting up a fight. The games had been dire to watch and were getting worse and there was no sign that anything would change. It was humiliating. I started to watch the live stream development games instead and started to enjoy watching matches again.

If you watch a game on TV as a neutral and the game is poor, you end up turning it off. But as a fan of a club people convince themselves to stay and keep going or keep watching. It's weird. The unwritten rulebook of "true fans." It's a bizarre concept where people convince themselves that they're more superior to other fans, same with never saying anything negative about their club. The "I'm bladier than thou" attitude.

If you're watching a movie and you realise that it's a load of crap and not going to get better you turn it off. Simple. Do you need to get grief or justify your decision to others?
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I was flying over from Dublin to watch games last season.

I did walk out numerous times in second half.

It was depressing, I was paying around 150 per game on top of the season ticket to be depressed miserable and fucking angry.

I've no idea why I kept doing it.
 
coaxingstar71 said:
I've been an off and on match goer since 1980, mainly due to work and family chaos. However I've been able to have a season ticket now for the last 10 years.

The Adkins season was pretty dire and I was one of those that went to that Bury away game.
However, last season it got to the point where I almost dreaded going. I think when I walked out when Newcastle scored their 7th goal was a particular lowpoint. It did result in more time supping ale in the pub though, so every cloud an' all that.
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I'm sorry to admit it but v Arsenal my Grandson wanted to walk but I said no. What the feckin Londoners were doing was such good football I'm ashamed to say I couldn't stop watching!
 
Stopped going for a while with pre Adkins and during. Definitely at the end of last season,both Hecky and Wilder totally out of their depth with how the premiership had moved on and how their tactics were crap. Enjoyed it more this year with young kids stepping up,credit Hecky and Wilder.
 
Probably the Clough into Adkins era.. I was as close to giving up as I ever was at the end of that Adkins season, I thought we were stuck in the lower leagues for another decade or more.
 
Preferred playing football after relegation to the 3rd division in 1979 (I had left school). Started going regularly again during the 1988/89 season.
 

I'm back in Sheffield today. 2 years away. Looking forward to maybe seeing a match this season, but getting tickets is so much hassle and expensive now.

'I'm never going again' is probably the most used phrase I've used as a fan after a bad result, or series of them, but there's something that never goes away. Although I've been in China for the last 6 months, the season before I was in Korea and every day first thing I did in the morning was look at the results - wondering how many we'd let in this time. I think if I had a season ticket last season, the ''excitement'' of being in the Prem would have soon died. I remember thinking when I saw the Newscastle result, that of every team in the Prem, they're the only team I could even begin to accept it, as I quite like Newcastle, and when it comes to thinking like that, you know... it's bad.

I think looking at the comments about the Walsall game are important here, because in some ways there is a similarity to this season... the severe down, then now every day I wake up to a good result. Division 4 was just when I was starting out, but too young to go. I think back to it now, and that season in the fourth was probab;y great to go. (and adds more records to our huge records history winning every division). The Darlington picture that often gets shown, shows that with all the shit, there are days that will live with you forever. (for me it's the Leicester game).

What put me off going before I left England was seats, and not being able to sit next to friends. Going for a few beers with friends before the game then sitting on my own, just doesn't cut it.
 
NAnstonblade said:
Looking at what the pigs are discussing- not going to games etc. Was there ever a time when you came close to saying 'enough is enough'? For me the obvious one was the Walsall game in 81. I remember riding the 75 bus back to Woodseats with grown men crying and supporters throwing their scarves out the windows. A real down day. But, the other side of the coin, the following season was wonderful as we wazzed the 4th Division and felt so good. I guess my point is that sometimes we forget that we just want to see our team doing well and feeling good about it. Getting too wrapped up in chasing the Liverpools of this world is not good. Lesson over. The 2025 'me' is saying yes let's get on up and f*ck those Prem bastards! Oh isn't football the best thing ever created (apart from music and sex)!
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Yes, Mick Jones to Leeds '67 was tough, Mick was my hero as a kid and local lad so never thought he would go for money to LEEDS, massive mistake. TC came in in 68, a different type with all the grace and skill, the best we ever had. Broke my heart AGAIN in '76 when he went to LEEDS. So lets do one on the dirties this season, win the league with Burnley in 2nd, Leeds fall to Coventry in the play offs, dream come true. I'm still here after all those years, think it's The Lane, The fans, The memories, Being from Sheffield, Being a Blade!
 
I have never come close to giving up, but I did start to think my time as a fan that goes home and away was coming to an end in those few years after covid. Weirdly, those feelings were strongest after we were promoted under Heckingbottom. I didn't particularly enjoy that season, and it didn't even feel as though we'd been promoted at the time, as was discussed at length on here, and I did wonder if I just simply didn't care as much any more.

I do feel like I've been much more engaged this season though.
 
I gave up last season during the home game against arsenal. Sat in the posh seats, ended up leaving after 20 minutes.
 
Last season was the closest I have ever come to not going. Never left so many games early, thankfully been a million miles better this year
 
TaxiBlade said:
I'm back in Sheffield today. 2 years away. Looking forward to maybe seeing a match this season, but getting tickets is so much hassle and expensive now.

'I'm never going again' is probably the most used phrase I've used as a fan after a bad result, or series of them, but there's something that never goes away. Although I've been in China for the last 6 months, the season before I was in Korea and every day first thing I did in the morning was look at the results - wondering how many we'd let in this time. I think if I had a season ticket last season, the ''excitement'' of being in the Prem would have soon died. I remember thinking when I saw the Newscastle result, that of every team in the Prem, they're the only team I could even begin to accept it, as I quite like Newcastle, and when it comes to thinking like that, you know... it's bad.

I think looking at the comments about the Walsall game are important here, because in some ways there is a similarity to this season... the severe down, then now every day I wake up to a good result. Division 4 was just when I was starting out, but too young to go. I think back to it now, and that season in the fourth was probab;y great to go. (and adds more records to our huge records history winning every division). The Darlington picture that often gets shown, shows that with all the shit, there are days that will live with you forever. (for me it's the Leicester game).

What put me off going before I left England was seats, and not being able to sit next to friends. Going for a few beers with friends before the game then sitting on my own, just doesn't cut it.
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that's the thing i miss the most about going is the beers and the camaraderie before a match and then going with all mates around, singing and shouting and enjoying the match, it's why i love the blades and now i can't get a lot of the time, due to money travel and the like, it's a big miss but i will always support the Blades and my son who was born in Watford Hospital right next to Vicarage Road, supports the blades, we even did a mascot day during the Hecky promotion season which he loved.

So nothing would make me not follow or love the blades, and i wish i could go more often, but watching from afar is how it must be done for me, i still sometimes sing the songs when i hear the crowd on the box until the kids tell me to shut up!!
 
As bad as it seems this season im not as bothered as previous years, been a season ticket holder since god was a lad ,on the kop and go with my lad, sit with other relatives . But football is now terrible to watch , i believe its since pep came into english football. I can only think of about 4 games ive really enjoyed this year, yes its good to be winning but i like to be entertained. Also being 67 and although relatively fit having to rush back to look after others takes its toll, my lad isnt renewing either to spend his days off with kids who are not into football. I will probabally go to the odd game and ill watch on tv and the love for the blades will stay with me forever i will not be renewing next year so this will rule me out of being a bigger blade
 
I stopped going around 2009-2010, Mrs became ill and got out of the habit of going. Would go to a handful of games when I lived in Manchester and Huddersfield. We moved down to Southampton in 2015 and would probably go to 1-2 games a season, mainly when we play down here, although never been able to get to St Marys as we are either in different divisions or lockdown, and still watch games when we are on Sky

But I hope to be at the Blackburn game (if I get a ticket tomorrow)

Been close to stop going before, when Bassett was struggling after relegation from the Prem, under Heath and Bruce (left the Sunderland game after 60 mins) and under Robson
 

Cheeky Blade said:
No.

Because it’s always been more about the people, culture and city rather than any temporary triumphs or failures.
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This.
Although I must admit, if ever we left Bramall Lane for 1 of those lifeless sh!t 'ole stadiums, it may cross my mind. Like Cheeky says, it's more about the culture and other Blades/pals than just the football for me.
 
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