We Need To Stick Together

[Slim Man]

I know it's tough and we all have different opinions but we really need to be sticking together in the midst of this complete shambles of a team we're paying to watch. Tensions have been very high on here and in the stands lately but we have to keep going through hope over expectation.

We all have different opinions on why we're in this mess be in the players, board, manager, or a mash of all 3. But one things for certain it certainly ain't the fans. The fan blaming has to stop, 20,000 yesterday and undoubtedly there'll be at least 16,000 there next season. There always is.

Come on guys, we're all Blades. We are the only thing worth shouting about from this torrid 5, erring on 6 years. If we give up the club we love and our past generations have loved for 125 years is done, livelihoods ruined and memories diminished.

If you want to protest feel free - don't slate them. If you want to vote with your feet feel free - don't slate them. If you want to keep going and blindly support them - feel free. We all want the same thing, we'll all have differing opinions on how to go about it but we do all want the same thing.

Let's stick together for us, for the past generations and the future, and for the club we love. It's all some of us have.

UTB

 

[Blade56]

We need a stick together slogan like Blades United



Ok, I nicked the idea from Esablade

 

[Martin]

Tell the board of directors then it's not us fans....................

 

[Canterbury Blade]

It has become more about a day out nowadays than watching the football.

I know thats a terrible thing to say, but it is true. I enjoyed the atmosphere in the renovated 'Railway' before hand watching Mahrez stuff Man City on the TV, was happy to meet up with old mates and my brother, sink some decent reasonably priced ale and even enjoyed a chip Butty (surprisingly rare in the South). However, apart from Baxter's chip saw absolutely nothing to inspire me to pay £20 to go in, let alone the train fare to get up from Kent.

Of course I will still turn up, will still support MY team and will see out the storm that is currently inside the higher management at Bramall Lane, but do I get the goosebumps and old excitement about watching the team, sadly no.

I will never give up on United, but I do feel patronised, taken for granted and given up on by the Board...

 

[Esablade]

We need a stick together slogan like Blades United



Ok, I nicked the idea from Esablade

I've a Mr Ferry on the line for you...

 

[sothall blade]

It has become more about a day out nowadays than watching the football.

I know thats a terrible thing to say, but it is true. I enjoyed the atmosphere in the renovated 'Railway' before hand watching Mahrez stuff Man City on the TV, was happy to meet up with old mates and my brother, sink some decent reasonably priced ale and even enjoyed a chip Butty (surprisingly rare in the South). However, apart from Baxter's chip saw absolutely nothing to inspire me to pay £20 to go in, let alone the train fare to get up from Kent.

Of course I will still turn up, will still support MY team and will see out the storm that is currently inside the higher management at Bramall Lane, but do I get the goosebumps and old excitement about watching the team, sadly no.

I will never give up on United, but I do feel patronised, taken for granted and given up on by the Board...

I have exactly the same thoughts

 

[Blade56]

I've a Mr Ferry on the line for you...

Feckin el. Now we've got a song, we're getting organised, be afraid McCabe, be very afraid

 

[finlaytheblade]

I know it's tough and we all have different opinions but we really need to be sticking together in the midst of this complete shambles of a team we're paying to watch. Tensions have been very high on here and in the stands lately but we have to keep going through hope over expectation.

We all have different opinions on why we're in this mess be in the players, board, manager, or a mash of all 3. But one things for certain it certainly ain't the fans. The fan blaming has to stop, 20,000 yesterday and undoubtedly there'll be at least 16,000 there next season. There always is.

Come on guys, we're all Blades. We are the only thing worth shouting about from this torrid 5, erring on 6 years. If we give up the club we love and our past generations have loved for 125 years is done, livelihoods ruined and memories diminished.

If you want to protest feel free - don't slate them. If you want to vote with your feet feel free - don't slate them. If you want to keep going and blindly support them - feel free. We all want the same thing, we'll all have differing opinions on how to go about it but we do all want the same thing.

Let's stick together for us, for the past generations and the future, and for the club we love. It's all some of us have.

UTB

I'll second that Danny let's see a show of hands in favour

 

[Woodwardfan]

I know it's tough and we all have different opinions but we really need to be sticking together in the midst of this complete shambles of a team we're paying to watch. Tensions have been very high on here and in the stands lately but we have to keep going through hope over expectation.

We all have different opinions on why we're in this mess be in the players, board, manager, or a mash of all 3. But one things for certain it certainly ain't the fans. The fan blaming has to stop, 20,000 yesterday and undoubtedly there'll be at least 16,000 there next season. There always is.

Come on guys, we're all Blades. We are the only thing worth shouting about from this torrid 5, erring on 6 years. If we give up the club we love and our past generations have loved for 125 years is done, livelihoods ruined and memories diminished.

If you want to protest feel free - don't slate them. If you want to vote with your feet feel free - don't slate them. If you want to keep going and blindly support them - feel free. We all want the same thing, we'll all have differing opinions on how to go about it but we do all want the same thing.

Let's stick together for us, for the past generations and the future, and for the club we love. It's all some of us have.

UTB

Largely agree with the gist of your OP but our home crowd is hard to play in front of. Morgan was quoted recently in the Star saying exactly that.

17000 great fans in a 20000 crowd never compensates for 3000 moaners.

 

[UnitedBlade]

I've a Mr Ferry on the line for you...

Much prefer Bob Hite's version with Canned Heat

 

[Esablade]

Much prefer Bob Hite's version with Canned Heat

Let's work together...subtle differencr eh?...I like both!

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Is there a YouTube video about how people constantly feel the need to post YouTube videos? I'd really not like to see that.

 

[Leonardo Green]

i think you will find that the correct term is 'united together'

 

[Esablade]

Is there a YouTube video about how people constantly feel the need to post YouTube videos? I'd really not like to see that.

Is there a YouTube video that show people how not to press play on a YouTube link if they don't want to to view it?

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Is there a YouTube video that show people how not to press play on a YouTube link if they don't want to to view it?

No but I bet there's an amusing meme of a crying baby or a cat with suitable instructions.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Just for WestYorksBlade...

 

[Tyler Durden]

Of course, sticking together can be taken a bit too far sometimes

 

[Blade56]

i think you will find that the correct term is 'united together'

Just for WestYorksBlade...

Of course, sticking together can be taken a bit too far sometimes

Well that's the end of our newly formed organised group, arguing already about or theme song and feckin Leonardo Green's chucked his bricks out about the feckin slogan

 

[Slim Man]

i think you will find that the correct term is 'united together'

We've got to be United Together keeping it out at one end and sticking it in the other.

OOOOO MATRON!

 

[Blade56]

Stick together like Mr Turnbuuls dentures?

 

[grafikhaus]

It has become more about a day out nowadays than watching the football.

Ditto. I'm like an old biddy who's been going to t'bingo for donkeys. I don't particularly like it - in fact it's boring but it gets me out o t'house, a chance to have a natter etc. The actual game is boring and I'll never win owt but you get set in your ways.

Anyone got the number for Dignitas?

 

[Blade56]

Anyone got the number for Dignitas?

Contact / Address
DIGNITAS in Switzerland

DIGNITAS
P.O. Box 17
8127 Forch

Telephone national: 043 366 10 70
Telephone international: +41 43 366 10 70
(Monday to Friday, 8:30 - 12:00 / 13:30 - 17:00 hours)

Fax national: 043 366 10 79
Fax international: +41 43 366 10 79

E-mail: [email protected]





DIGNITAS in Germany

DIGNITAS-Deutschland e.V.
Schmiedestrasse 39
30159 Hannover

Telephone national: 0511 336 2344
Telephone international: +49 511 336 2344
(Monday to Friday, 14:00 - 18:00 hours)

Fax national: 0511 336 2682
Fax international: +49 511 336 2682

E-mail: [email protected]

(only in German language)

Got em on speed dial

 

[SRBlade]

Largely agree with the gist of your OP but our home crowd is hard to play in front of. Morgan was quoted recently in the Star saying exactly that.

17000 great fans in a 20000 crowd never compensates for 3000 moaners.

A Bramall Lane crowd is only difficult to play in front of if you don't have the mental strength to do so. These players are fortunate to be playing in front of the crowds that they are. In fact I cannot wait for those professional footballers who struggle to play in front of an expectant crowd to go off to the likes of Fleetwood, Crewe, Rochdale, Oldham etc. and play in front of fewer than 10,000 fans, of whom may tolerate their inabilities more so than Unitedites. Bottom line is that if they cannot cope with a big expectant crowd, they should not be here.

 

[Woodwardfan]

A Bramall Lane crowd is only difficult to play in front of if you don't have the mental strength to do so. These players are fortunate to be playing in front of the crowds that they are. In fact I cannot wait for those professional footballers who struggle to play in front of an expectant crowd to go off to the likes of Fleetwood, Crewe, Rochdale, Oldham etc. and play in front of fewer than 10,000 fans, of whom may tolerate their inabilities more so than Unitedites. Bottom line is that if they cannot cope with a big expectant crowd, they should not be here.

Some truth in that but Morgan said it was a problem and he knows the club inside out.

Perhaps they shouldn't be here but they are here and are selected to play. Where do you go from there Sunderland?

Perhaps they wholeheartedly wish they were elsewhere, but they're not!

 

[finlaytheblade]

Some truth in that but Morgan said it was a problem and he knows the club inside out.

Perhaps they shouldn't be here but they are here and are selected to play. Where do you go from there Sunderland?

Perhaps they wholeheartedly wish they were elsewhere, but they're not!

It is a problem we have because of the demands of the fans,Adkins mentioned this early this season ,he also said it was a good thing
To be demanding.This is the reason we go for experienced players ime not saying I agree with that but every manager during this term in div1
has gone down that road (Wilson, weir and clough) I hope Adkins doasnt do the same.It's not easy to find young players with the mental strength to cope with the pressure of playing at the lane.Barnsley are a good example they have loaned a load of young players from top clubs would These players be able to cope with the pressure at Bramall lane,they were floundering not long ago but an influx of new loans
seems to have them flying ,when the pressures on as it will be if they maintain there present form will they be able to cope.The pressure would be on from day one at the lane,with the expectancy level it's not the same at Barnsley,but as I said earlier if they continue to climb the table it soon will be.That's the only danger with young players.With so many loans I would imagine the pressure wouldn't be as great since most will be going back to there parent club.

 

[super_pig]

Largely agree with the gist of your OP but our home crowd is hard to play in front of. Morgan was quoted recently in the Star saying exactly that.

17000 great fans in a 20000 crowd never compensates for 3000 moaners.

christ.. it's the fans again
all they have to do is look bothered and show some passion. i don't really care if they are crap but i'm not putting up with people like baxter and sammon strolling around and coutts not chasing back and dropping the beard in the shit every five minutes

 

[Woodwardfan]

It is a problem we have because of the demands of the fans,Adkins mentioned this early this season ,he also said it was a good thing
To be demanding.This is the reason we go for experienced players ime not saying I agree with that but every manager during this term in div1
has gone down that road (Wilson, weir and clough) I hope Adkins doasnt do the same.It's not easy to find young players with the mental strength to cope with the pressure of playing at the lane.Barnsley are a good example they have loaned a load of young players from top clubs would These players be able to cope with the pressure at Bramall lane,they were floundering not long ago but an influx of new loans
seems to have them flying ,when the pressures on as it will be if they maintain there present form will they be able to cope.The pressure would be on from day one at the lane,with the expectancy level it's not the same at Barnsley,but as I said earlier if they continue to climb the table it soon will be.That's the only danger with young players.With so many loans I would imagine the pressure wouldn't be as great since most will be going back to there parent club.

Surely it's not healthy to rely on more than say 3 loan players in the squad if we are trying to build something. Definitely not healthy to have more than an odd older loan player and we have 3!!

Under our present circumstances young quality loan players with pace, drive, mobility and hunger would have been great. What we got has not helped at all and must have been far more expensive in wages. Criminal really, mismanagement as is the failure to ensure Reed and Adams get more and more playing experience.

Decisions like Salmon, Hammond and Edgar are not the board's fault. The fact that Woolford and Sharp have no pace is not the board's fault. The board have to find the money though.

 

[Woodwardfan]

christ.. it's the fans again
all they have to do is look bothered and show some passion. i don't really care if they are crap but i'm not putting up with people like baxter and sammon strolling around and coutts not chasing back and dropping the beard in the shit every five minutes

Of course it's not the fans' fault but we are part of the problem.

Bramall Lane is a really tough place for Salmon, Woolford and Hammond to play and they are seasoned pros.

Unfortunately it's also a tough, unforgiving place for Reed and Adams now.

I'm not saying our fans are not loyal nor that we are not abused over decades, no other club with such backing has had so little success or has taken their fans to the brink only to let them down so many times. There are good reasons our crowd is depressed and cynical, but it doesn't help any player, particularly young players.

As a result any manager will only look to sign experienced players who can handle it better in theory. Unfortunately they have their own baggage and limitations and we need the things they don't have - pace, mobility and optimism.

By the way Baxter was a very young player when he signed for us and still is relatively young. He has his limitations but he has real skills; he also has hundreds of fans who holler at him when he makes the slightest mistake. What good is that to anybody?

 

[Grecian2000]

As a result any manager will only look to sign experienced players who can handle it better in theory. Unfortunately they have their own baggage and limitations and we need the things they don't have - pace, mobility and optimism.

You mean like Che Adams, K Wallace, Scougal and McNulty? All "young" players Clough was happy to sign and play in front of the baying mob! Or the old stager Coady that Weir drafted in. Oh how scared he looked.

Add to that players like Naughton, Walker, Maguire and Kennedy who all came through at a young age to thrive playing for the club.

Maybe, just maybe, it's to do with the skill level of the players after all.

 

[BushBlade]

You mean like Che Adams, K Wallace, Scougal and McNulty? All "young" players Clough was happy to sign and play in front of the baying mob! Or the old stager Coady that Weir drafted in. Oh how scared he looked.

Add to that players like Naughton, Walker, Maguire and Kennedy who all came through at a young age to thrive playing for the club.

Maybe, just maybe, it's to do with the skill level of the players after all.

Or maybe the players you mentioned had big bollocks and were mentally tough enough to cope?

I'm not saying I know the answer either.