Where would sending Wednesday down next week rank?

[Jimmy23]

So let’s be honest, it’s going to take an unrealistic combination of results elsewhere (currently in which the bookies are offering 59/1 to all come in) for us to NOT send them down. So the realistic chances are; we will send them down next week with a win..only that’s what I believe.

Question is; where would it rank for you? Does it finally put Boxing Day to bed once and for all? Is it on par with the finale of 89/90 on that sunny day with Leicester?

Personally, I can see both sides to it. Yes they were down before the season started, but when will we ever have a situation to directly relegate our neighbours on our own turf? This is once in a lifetime stuff that the police etc tend to avoid which is why we never play them last game/2nd to last game of the season - same goes for the other derbys around the UK.

Your thoughts?

 

[Blade In Flame]

Higher than any man in Wome.

 

[loveWalrusDaveTheBlade]

So let’s be honest, it’s going to take an unrealistic combination of results elsewhere (currently in which the bookies are offering 59/1 to all come in) for us to NOT send them down. So the realistic chances are; we will send them down next week with a win..only that’s what I believe.

Question is; where would it rank for you? Does it finally put Boxing Day to bed once and for all? Is it on par with the finale of 89/90 on that sunny day with Leicester?

Personally, I can see both sides to it. Yes they were down before the season started, but when will we ever have a situation to directly relegate our neighbours on our own turf? This is once in a lifetime stuff that the police etc tend to avoid which is why we never play them last game/2nd to last game of the season - same goes for the other derbys around the UK.

Your thoughts?

My thoughts are….let’s just win the match first. The Football Gods are listening…..

 

[CrookesBlade]

Boxing Day has long been “put to bed”. It only lives on in their minds, obsessing about a scoreline from nearly 50 years ago. It’s as relevant as us banging on about the 7-3 in the 50s.

It will be great to beat them and seal another double and will be hilarious to send them down at our place but it won’t compare to any genuine success.

This would be a far bigger deal for them if the boot was on the other foot given what a footballing non-entity they’ve become.

 

[Snake]

So let’s be honest, it’s going to take an unrealistic combination of results elsewhere (currently in which the bookies are offering 59/1 to all come in) for us to NOT send them down. So the realistic chances are; we will send them down next week with a win..only that’s what I believe.

Question is; where would it rank for you? Does it finally put Boxing Day to bed once and for all? Is it on par with the finale of 89/90 on that sunny day with Leicester?

Personally, I can see both sides to it. Yes they were down before the season started, but when will we ever have a situation to directly relegate our neighbours on our own turf? This is once in a lifetime stuff that the police etc tend to avoid which is why we never play them last game/2nd to last game of the season - same goes for the other derbys around the UK.

Your thoughts?

I don't doubt the bookies, but please explain to me as im obviously being thick. Looking at the table all we need is Leicester to not lose at Stoke next Saturday, then if we beat the piggies, they are down. Isn't that right? They would have 13 games left after a loss to us - 39 points max. They are on -7, so a net of 32. All the other teams except Leicester have more than 32.

So 59/1 ???? "An unrealistic combination"???? Leicester to win or draw and us to beat pigs?

I'm obviously missing summat - please explain

 

[Roygbiv]

Boxing Day was put to bed in 2017. It was also 47 years ago. Most of the fans who sing about it don't remember it and a lot weren't even born. It was a third division game too. I get why they'd brag about beating us at Wembley but a third tier game from almost 50 years ago is the definition of tin pot.

We won't know where it ranks until we do it. There's lots of backslapping going on for something that hasn't happened yet. They don't get hammered often and we've got some brain-dead players who could quite easily get sent off early doors. We obviously should win but until we do, we won't know how good it will feel. The manner of any potential victory will determine how high it ranks. A boring 1-0 won't feel the same as a 4-0 hammering. A last minute winner to send them down would be a great story for the history books.

We'll see next week how it compares to other derbies. We need to win first

 

[Cheeky Blade]

Does it finally put Boxing Day to bed once and for all?

It could well do if we get a big win.
Whatever Blades think the pigs still bang on about ‘Boxing Day’.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

The unprecedented expectation of us winning would flip it entirely the other way if the unthinkable happened.

It would rank as the most embarrassing defeat in the 135 year history of the fixture.

 

[Snake]

Boxing Day was put to bed in 2017. It was also 47 years ago. Most of the fans who sing about it don't remember it and a lot weren't even born. It was a third division game too. I get why they'd brag about beating us at Wembley but a third tier game from almost 50 years ago is the definition of tin pot.

We won't know where it ranks until we do it. There's lots of backslapping going on for something that hasn't happened yet. They don't get hammered often and we've got some brain-dead players who could quite easily get sent off early doors. We obviously should win but until we do, we won't know how good it will feel. The manner of any potential victory will determine how high it ranks. A boring 1-0 won't feel the same as a 4-0 hammering. A last minute winner to send them down would be a great story for the history books.

We'll see next week how it compares to other derbies. We need to win first

Mate, I take all your points, but don't forget it's the pigs we are talking about here. They are sooooooooo up their own maoooooooosive arse that they really believe all the shite that their grandads and dads have force fed into them for generations.

It will take us beating them by more than 4 goals to finally put it to bed. Even then the deludilol will kick in and they will claim that because their club is in such a shit state this game doesn't count

I was on the Lep on Boxing Day - not nice. That really was the turning point in the fortunes of both clubs for literally 20 years. I'm praying for 5 nowt and nothing less!!

 

[SwissBlade]

So let’s be honest, it’s going to take an unrealistic combination of results elsewhere (currently in which the bookies are offering 59/1 to all come in) for us to NOT send them down. So the realistic chances are; we will send them down next week with a win..only that’s what I believe.

Question is; where would it rank for you? Does it finally put Boxing Day to bed once and for all? Is it on par with the finale of 89/90 on that sunny day with Leicester?

Personally, I can see both sides to it. Yes they were down before the season started, but when will we ever have a situation to directly relegate our neighbours on our own turf? This is once in a lifetime stuff that the police etc tend to avoid which is why we never play them last game/2nd to last game of the season - same goes for the other derbys around the UK.

Your thoughts?

As others said, the significance of the Bouncing day slaying by Duffy in the 2-4 put Boxing Day to bed in a manner that they Never dreamed of. It wasn't the dream that Carlos, Howson or the Bouncing twats they had the night before that late September game. Having come up from the Pub League with a Pub Manager, Pub Players to Publicly humiliate them from the 1st mins with Flecks goal, to their mascots being slumped against a wall and the videos of the bouncing stopping. It has become perhaps the biggest counter to their Boxing Day claims. Yet they don't accept it.

We didn't know at the time, but almost a decade later, which itself doesn't seem to be that long ago, but that game changed their fortunes and ours for the next decade. We went from plucky league one winners to Premier League Yo-Yo club because of that game, that season.

Putting them down on Sunday will carry significance after the comments they made of our latest PL disaster season, for them to go down in February without even putting up a fight, they've rolled over and given up.

To kick the lid closed and put that final nail in the coffin, it would be something we will all look back on with delight. They've done their own damage. As a collective. Not just Chansiri. There is a huge amount of shame at their club and how they've behaved. To send them back to League one to spend yet more time in what is increasingly becoming their level, well it'll be just wonderful.

Lets hope we put on a performance to merit it and send them down in style.

 

[JustLookin]

I dunno. It depends on if they’re going to start celebrating. That’s going to ruin everything. I’ll be fuming.

 

[steve26272]

Seeing Whitehouse score in front of the kop or the Bobby Davison double at their shithole are way above. They were favourites and we shut em up

This relegation has been death by a thousand cuts

Popping up with the last dagger is more putting them out of their misery than inflicting some hammer blow

 

[KMC-1889]

I think it’s equal to this.



The perfect scenario would be a game where we relegate them and secure promotion on the same day, but this is so unlikely I’ll take just relegating them.

 

[COME BACK CHED]

I don't doubt the bookies, but please explain to me as im obviously being thick. Looking at the table all we need is Leicester to not lose at Stoke next Saturday, then if we beat the piggies, they are down. Isn't that right? They would have 13 games left after a loss to us - 39 points max. They are on -7, so a net of 32. All the other teams except Leicester have more than 32.

So 59/1 ???? "An unrealistic combination"???? Leicester to win or draw and us to beat pigs?

I'm obviously missing summat - please explain

We beat the pork they can get 13x3-7 =32 4th bottom already have 33 , so next week we win they are down Bookies taking the piss ,......

 

[Lightsoot]

It would rank nowhere. Beating an abysmal team in a distressed state is nothing to wax lyrical about, even if it’s ’THEM’.

Gloating about it with smug satisfaction as if it’s an achievement is embarrassing, and says more about how bad this season has been.

I’d rather celebrate actual success. Putting a final nail in their pathetic coffin is a million miles away from that.

 

[Champagneblade]

My hope is that it simply proves to be a catalyst to the good run we had when we beat them away, back in November.

A really good 5 or 6 game run would be very welcome at this stage of the season.

 

[Shawy24]

Couldn’t care a shiny shit if it’s we or others that relegate them.

What I care about is that they’re still in existence still scamming and begging when they should be a distant embarrassing memory.

I hope they’re gone before I am.

 

[HarryHaslam]

7-3, 0-4, 4-2 etc etc… big scorelines will happen for both clubs throughout history and the next 100 years. But, never ever will one club relegate the other again, as far as the history books show till the end of time it will be biggest thing that’s happened or will happen in a derby game imo.

 

[Frank the tank]

It would rank nowhere. Beating an abysmal team in a distressed state is nothing to wax lyrical about, even if it’s ’THEM’.

Gloating about it with smug satisfaction as if it’s an achievement is embarrassing, and says more about how bad this season has been.

I’d rather celebrate actual success. Putting a final nail in their pathetic coffin is a million miles away from that.

Sounds like you get a lot out of being a football fan

 

[Ned the Donkey]

Does it finally put Boxing Day to bed once and for all?

I was at Boxing Day - which cast a long shadow - but Bouncing Day totally dispelled it for me.

 

[raimond]

It would rank nowhere. Beating an abysmal team in a distressed state is nothing to wax lyrical about, even if it’s ’THEM’.

Gloating about it with smug satisfaction as if it’s an achievement is embarrassing, and says more about how bad this season has been.

I’d rather celebrate actual success. Putting a final nail in their pathetic coffin is a million miles away from that.

I 100% agree. We've all bloody loved it when the silly bastards have gloated and acted all Billy Bigbollox then we've shut them up (Whitehouse match, Davison match, Duffy match).

They're a smug, petty lot, always thinking they're bigger and better without the balls to back it up. It's funny like, no denying that, if timing and karma wise it happens at Bramall Lane. A bunch of kids though on minus points...not much glory in beating them and we'll be acting more like their lot if we're too gloating, petty and twatty about it.

 

[SRBlade]

Its never happened before and likely to never happen again, being able to say we sent them down has to be an opportunity to be relished.

Then, once they're gone, I hope we never play them again and over time I hope I never hear any anti pigs songs at our games because they've become so irrelevant.

So yes, I will enjoy it more so if we win and we send them down.

 

[Frank the tank]

I 100% agree. We've all bloody loved it when the silly bastards have gloated and acted all Billy Bigbollox then we've shut them up (Whitehouse match, Davison match, Duffy match).

They're a smug, petty lot, always thinking they're bigger and better without the balls to back it up. It's funny like, no denying that, if timing and karma wise it happens at Bramall Lane. A bunch of kids though on minus points...not much glory in beating them and we'll be acting more like their lot if we're too gloating, petty and twatty about it.

How the fuck can you be TOO gloating petty or twatty about relegating your hated rivals on your ground in February ?

I'm sure if the shoe was on the other foot ( as it was for most of us growing up in the eighties and nineties )
They would suddenly develop self awareness and humility and just crack on

 

[GymClassHero]

Boxing Day was put to bed in 2017. It was also 47 years ago. Most of the fans who sing about it don't remember it and a lot weren't even born. It was a third division game too. I get why they'd brag about beating us at Wembley but a third tier game from almost 50 years ago is the definition of tin pot.

We won't know where it ranks until we do it. There's lots of backslapping going on for something that hasn't happened yet. They don't get hammered often and we've got some brain-dead players who could quite easily get sent off early doors. We obviously should win but until we do, we won't know how good it will feel. The manner of any potential victory will determine how high it ranks. A boring 1-0 won't feel the same as a 4-0 hammering. A last minute winner to send them down would be a great story for the history books.

We'll see next week how it compares to other derbies. We need to win first

Tbh boxing day has been put to bed many times over... 0-3, bouncing day, doing the double etc. They've been a laughing stock most of this century.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Personally think if we could get 5/4/3 points off the play offs that's a bigger deal and really brings our season alive. Granted it wouldn't be remembered as much in the decades down the line but potentially more importan to us.

That said nailing their championship coffin shut will be funny.

 

[raimond]

How the fuck can you be TOO gloating petty or twatty about relegating your hated rivals on your ground in February ?

I'm sure if the shoe was on the other foot ( as it was for most of us growing up in the eighties and nineties )
They would suddenly develop self awareness and humility and just crack on

No they wouldn't pal, because they're twats. That's my point, I just think we're a bit less twatty. I grew up exactly then and always loved us being underdogs and beating the bastards.

This to me just feels a bit like walking past the prick who always picked on you, nicked your girlfriend and razzed around in a sports car giving it the big'un, seeing that he's lost everything and is now nowt. Do you feel better giving him a fiver or wapping your shlong out and pissing on him (I actually think I know your answer to this though mate )

 

[Lightsoot]

Sounds like you get a lot out of being a football fan

I get loads out of it. With United it’s never dull and typically a white knuckle ride, with many highs and lows. I just think sending Wednesday down in their present state, when they’re already down, is nothing to get excited about. If you do then you’re setting a really low bar.

 

[JFK]

It really doesn't matter what the scoreline is next week. Even if we beat them ten nil their approach will be the trumpian one of minimise, deny, deflect. Bouncing day should have put to bed the gloating about boxing day. Not for them, the poor deluded souls had a celebratory dinner.
We can hopefully enjoy the outcome, but don't expect any trace of humility from them lot.

 

[Stretch]

I couldn't care less what team they put out, or what their points tally is before the game. As I have said before, this is a bitter rivalry and each side should make the most of every opportunity to humiliate the other and inflict the maximum damage possible, when such opportunities arise.

If roles were reversed, make no mistake they would be throbbing with excitement now at the prospect of how Sunday might play out, and no doubt Clive Betts would be pushing parliament to vote in an extra bank holiday, so that the country can forever rejoice about the day that Wednesday relegated their local rivals.

At the end of the day though, anything can happen in football. If Pedersen has anything about him he won't want another hammering by United and will have his players fired up for it. But we also know how much this means to Wilder and he won't be taking anything for granted.

 

[Carlton Blade]

As a tool to take the piss out of them, really high. That's enough for me