Why am I still so angry about last night?

[Trafford]

We played well, held our own for most of the period that we were down to 10 men and could / should have scored more - but the defeat is still eating away at me, almost as if we had just lost in a play off final. Can’t explain it, thought I would be ok today but am still grumpy as hell.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Maybe because we lost pal.

 

[Roygbiv]

We lost a game when we deserved to win by about 5 goals. It's annoying

 

[Tyler Durden]

Because we huff and puff to little effect whilst the opposition stroll past our inept defence and put us to bed with ease.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Same here. For me it’s the Fleck sending off that is still bubbling. 11 men on the pitch and we hammer them.

UTB.

 

[Bladepicker]

We lost a game when we deserved to win by about 5 goals. It's annoying

Especially given our run - a win would have been the perfect tonic and was deserved. I think the importance of the win makes an underserved loss harder to take.

 

[Bladesman]

Because we huff and puff to little effect whilst the opposition stroll past our inept defence and put us to bed with ease.

I think you're being a bit harsh on a well-meaning body of men.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I think you're being a bit harsh on a well-meaning body of men.

What's that line from? I should coco has it as a tagline too.

 

[Bladesman]

What's that line from? I should coco has it as a tagline too.

Mr Barraclough says it in Porridge.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

We played well, held our own for most of the period that we were down to 10 men and could / should have scored more - but the defeat is still eating away at me, almost as if we had just lost in a play off final. Can’t explain it, thought I would be ok today but am still grumpy as hell.

Is it a feeling that the footballing gods are perhaps back in business...?

 

[Davalon]

We played well, held our own for most of the period that we were down to 10 men and could / should have scored more - but the defeat is still eating away at me, almost as if we had just lost in a play off final. Can’t explain it, thought I would be ok today but am still grumpy as hell.

Me too a bit mate. Think it's just frustration.

All of a sudden the top two is disappearing into the distance, and we're hanging on to 6th spot with tricky games coming up missing two key cogs in the machine.

And all this seems a little harsh based on how we've played in general with one or two exceptions.

Being pragmatic about it I also felt top 2 was a pipe dream even though I slightly started to buy into the notion for a few weeks.

We keep on doing what we've been doing and hopefully strengthen in January.

Then we may manage a play off spot which would be a tremendous achievement.

 

[oldblade]

We played well, held our own for most of the period that we were down to 10 men and could / should have scored more - but the defeat is still eating away at me, almost as if we had just lost in a play off final. Can’t explain it, thought I would be ok today but am still grumpy as hell.

Probably because it is a match from which we really should have taken something.

We did play well, even when down to 10 men and that is a positive. However there is no getting away from the fact that we threw this match away and we seemed to try really hard to throw it away. Bristol City didn't beat us, we beat ourselves.

What makes it worse is that we have had a bad sequence of results and it looked like we were going to get a well earned point against the odds, only for it to disappear at the death.

 

[zablade]

Cos with eleven men we would have won, and with ten men we should have at least drawn only to throw it away with some head scratching decisions.

 

[cahill]

Spoiled the weekend for me, no interest in any other result, feeling down, a general malaise, football shouldn’t do this to me, or anyone. I’m sixty three for f***s sake !

 

[yorkshirecoast]

A combination of incredible bad luck (how can any team hit the woodwork 4 times?) and our own stupidity (the brain dead challenge for the sending off and the ludicrous substitutions) make the defeat even more difficult to take.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

We’re all pissed off after having our pocket picked , positives I thought it was the best we have played since second half against Hull & thought Lundstram had his best game linked well with the other 2 midfielders.
Someone’s gonna get an arseholing off us , hope it’s 12th Jan , we really need to get the first goal next week & not find ourselves chasing the game

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Spoiled the weekend for me, no interest in any other result, feeling down, a general malaise, football shouldn’t do this to me, or anyone. I’m sixty three for f***s sake !

I've got bad news for you- it's not much better when you get to 70!

 

[Harrisblade]

I've got bad news for you- it's not much better when you get to 70!

But remember a little while ago when there was no stress at all about the result as whether it was win, lose or draw, we knew we weren't a good enough team to seriously challenge for anything and the whole season was basically meaningless

Now tell me whether or not it's better to have an adrenaline shot whilst waiting for every result

 

[Sirius]

I've got bad news for you- it's not much better when you get to 70!

Bad new for both of you I'm afraid

 

[rednwhitedogs]

We didn’t get the rub of the green last night and it’s wrecked a lot of weekends, but if ever we needed a pick me up it’s tonights result at carrow road. Yes someone’s gonna get a thumping soon, Villa?, piggies?
Just rest on the fact that we are playing good football and we will come back UTB️️️!

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Me too a bit mate. Think it's just frustration.

All of a sudden the top two is disappearing into the distance, and we're hanging on to 6th spot with tricky games coming up missing two key cogs in the machine.

And all this seems a little harsh based on how we've played in general with one or two exceptions.

Being pragmatic about it I also felt top 2 was a pipe dream even though I slightly started to buy into the notion for a few weeks.

We keep on doing what we've been doing and hopefully strengthen in January.

Then we may manage a play off spot which would be a tremendous achievement.

Colin will start tinkering Jan/Feb/March that's when we real Cardiff back in.

 

[Kenilworth]

We played well, held our own for most of the period that we were down to 10 men and could / should have scored more - but the defeat is still eating away at me, almost as if we had just lost in a play off final. Can’t explain it, thought I would be ok today but am still grumpy as hell.

Could be worse.
Could be a grumpy Wendy tonight


Bwahahahahahahahahahaha

Ha!

 

[blade.i.am]

Not just us feeling pissed off about it. Although I am expecting Mr Duffy to get a visit from the Grammar Police.

 

[Tommoblade66]

So some people are grumpy over recent results, which may be the easiest thing to do, but why be bothered? It's not as though being grumpy is going to change anything for the better. After all, we did hit the woodwork 4 times, on another day ... ? There's nothing drastically wrong and personally we're doing a lot better than I expected

 

[spongebobblade]

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Not just us feeling pissed off about it. Although I am expecting Mr Duffy to get a visit from the Grammar Police.

So it’s Duffy who’s responsible for the bloody 2018 calendar then!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I get excited when the Blades win and feel disappointed when they lose - but I can honestly say I've never got "angry" about it. I think that's very negative if it's doing that to you?

I suppose it depends on how much your life revolves around Sheffield United?

I think Sheffield United are a big part of my life, I've been watching them for nearly 50 years and I go to every home game and maybe half the away games every season. However, it's not the be all and end all in my world.

I can see how for some folks it is though. I just think if it's getting to you like that you maybe need to find some other outlets for your thoughts and energies, otherwise it will consume you. And believe it or not, there's more important things in life than letting a football team control your mood.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Trafford - I'm the same pal, and I'll try and explain it as I see it...

1. Sky builds it up as a top of the table clash of two sides who are overachieving. It's a close cut thing, too close to call.
2. I'm feeling apprehensive, will we hold our own, we're missing a few key plays. I just know before kick off if we had those players, we could batter these and show that we mean business.
3. The game begins, we batter them. Absolutely batter them. The game hinges on the sending off, that is it. Before that, there was only gonna be one winner. The pundits in the studio; Andrews and Browny recognise this.
4. Hitting the woodwork loads, dominating possession, they are billed as being as good as us; they score one long ranger and a last minute winner. Sod off, they aren't anywhere near as good as us!
5. The fickle poncey match commentators (not those in the studio) show how plastic they are then, and this really gets my back up. Their fickle opinion changes as follows: First half they are talking up United, it's all United. Bristol score, it's all Bristol. Clarke scores, United are the best side, it's all United. Bristol score the winner "..and this Bristol City side just will not go away!" Oh, fuck off you fickle arseholes! They have offered nothing! Don't try and sum it up as if they have dominated. They were god awful.

Fucking infuriating, isn't it?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I get excited when the Blades win and feel disappointed when they lose - but I can honestly say I've never got "angry" about it. I think that's very negative if it's doing that to you?

I suppose it depends on how much your life revolves around Sheffield United?

I think Sheffield United are a big part of my life, I've been watching them for nearly 50 years and I go to every home game and maybe half the away games every season. However, it's not the be all and end all in my world.

I can see how for some folks it is though. I just think if it's getting to you like that you maybe need to find some other outlets for your thoughts and energies, otherwise it will consume you. And believe it or not, there's more important things in life than letting a football team control your mood.

Interesting. Football is an emotional game, and lifelong commitment to one team is an emotional commitment. I enjoy the fact that it is not real life. Particularly under floodlights, the whole world is contained on the pitch for 90+ minutes, and you can let emotions show. Controlled emotions, preferably, but joy, anxiety, anger, gloom, hope, etc. can all come along in one game (as on Friday), and the world outside does not matter. When you get back to life outside, the emotion is still there, but less raw, and less important than real life. I have justified inflicting my love for United on the next generations of HBTs with my philosophy of life: 'If you can cope with supporting United, the rest of life is easy'. It's the glory-hunters, who switch from Chelsea to Real Madrid to Man City, that I feel sorry for.

 

[Trafford]

Think I finally sussed what pissed me off today - the match brought back too many memories of the Adkins and Clough eras! Back then we used to tell ourselves that somebody was going to get a good tonking one day, we used to go so close to scoring but hit the woodwork or just missed, and then lost to late goals as we went for the winner. I’ve chilled now but one aspect is the same now as it was then - all goals count, not just the ones that nestle right in the corner, so let’s just get it on target and challenge the keeper to make a fantastic save. Leon just hits them, he doesn’t try to bend them into the corner, and look how many he scores!

 

[Sean Thornton]

So it’s Duffy who’s responsible for the bloody 2018 calendar then!

Yes. All those blaming Stearman should be ashamed of themselves.