Will we sell out?

[FATTYFOULKE]

All things considered I think if there’s a next time we should struggle to take 15000. Any other similar sized club with our history and that’s what you’d be looking at.

We get there again next season and how I feel at the moment wild horses couldn’t drag me there.

Whatever we do we just seem to find a way to lose big games. Some of it by our own doing, others by the cruelest of luck.

VAR shouldn't have ruled that goal out yesterday. We know this because it wasn’t a clear and obvious error which was the original intention of bringing in VAR.

If it was clear and obvious the referee wouldn’t have been asked to take a look at the screen.

It could have gone either way but we should have been given the benefit of the doubt. IMO when the ball was struck the keeper had a clear view.

VAR hasn’t been used throughout the campaign, it shouldn’t have been used yesterday.

It’s ended up with a very poor team in Sunderland being promoted. Surely that isn’t good for the Premier League. I know they’ll strengthen but it’ll have to be an incredible rebuild throughout the team. We have the stronger squad and better players.

We all allowed ourselves to think that maybe this time things would be different. More fool us.

Still say though that despite all the kicks in the teeth our fanbase has suffered, to get the gates we do is incredible. Taking 30 odd thousand down there was unbelievable after what we’ve been through.

You can’t on the one hand laugh at our appalling record in play-off games and semi-finals then on the other hand have a go at how many we take to these games.

We have incredibly loyal fans who deserve better.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

All things considered I think if there’s a next time we should struggle to take 15000. Any other similar sized club with our history and that’s what you’d be looking at.

We get there again next season and how I feel at the moment wild horses couldn’t drag me there.

Whatever we do we just seem to find a way to lose big games. Some of it by our own doing, others by the cruelest of luck.

VAR shouldn't have ruled that goal out yesterday. We know this because it wasn’t a clear and obvious error which was the original intention of bringing in VAR.

If it was clear and obvious the referee wouldn’t have been asked to take a look at the screen.

It could have gone either way but we should have been given the benefit of the doubt. IMO when the ball was struck the keeper had a clear view.

VAR hasn’t been used throughout the campaign, it shouldn’t have been used yesterday.

It’s ended up with a very poor team in Sunderland being promoted. Surely that isn’t good for the Premier League. I know they’ll strengthen but it’ll have to be an incredible rebuild throughout the team. We have the stronger squad and better players.

We all allowed ourselves to think that maybe this time things would be different. More fool us.

Still say though that despite all the kicks in the teeth our fanbase has suffered, to get the gates we do is incredible. Taking 30 odd thousand down there was unbelievable after what we’ve been through.

You can’t on the one hand laugh at our appalling record in play-off games and semi-finals then on the other hand have a go at how many we take to these games.

We have incredibly loyal fans who deserve better.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Koh Samui Blade]

We were on level 1 bang on the halfway line with only the netted off seats below the tv cameras between us and the Sunderland fans. When we put the ball in the net for the second time, they went totally flat. Loads were off to the concourse. On our side, everyone was bouncing, noisy, giddy. When the VAR check was announced it was like a punch in the gut. When the expected decision was made, Sunderland fans made a huge roar, we were totally flat. We never recovered.

Then in the second half we had to watch the negative tactics that had failed to work against the better teams in the league, keep ball, pass back and time wasting from the off.

Was the result all Wilders fault? Obviously not, but where does the responsibility lay? Who’s going to take put their hand up for their part in it? Our managers retreat to the dressing room and the usual press interviews should be a starting point.

One thing seems certain, he won’t go of his own volition, there’s no bigger job out there for him, he’ll probably have to accept a DOF managing him. Now there’s a recipe for disaster.

Me and my Son ventured to Baker Street for pre match refreshments, 1st 4 Pubs said Sunderland only, yet there were 2 Massive Blades Flags hanging outside 2 of them?
Found the "Allsop," this was about 11:45 nobody outside.Again Bouncer said Sunderland only.Spoke to a copper, he directed us to the 3 pubs we had been refused entry?
Just by luck a local overheard us and told us about the 2 Bars at "Marylebone Station", at last we got a Drink but we dare not try to look anywhere else.
Messages told us friends were in the "Torch", after 30mins que outside we got into the Coach park, where mates had 2 more beers waiting.
What a waste of time, next ,National Stadium,left to have last drink inside.Surprisingly got straight to bar, What the Fxxk, no pumps to be seen,our choice was 1 Cider or 1 Beer (Stella).Both Cans served directly out of their cardboard cases(no fridges).Silver service tho, a lady opened the can dumped it upside down into the plastic pint container and left it their until it self poured, very hygienic.Wembley owners ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Cost of the worst pint experience in my life 8 fxxkxxg £'s per can.
Checked into our hotel £170 for 1 night, still waiting to see what £ we waisted on the Tube trailing around London, trying to get in a pub and food.
Not to mention that 2nd half!
People wonder why Blades have had enough of Wembley days.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Me and my Son ventured to Baker Street for pre match refreshments, 1st 4 Pubs said Sunderland only, yet there were 2 Massive Blades Flags hanging outside 2 of them?
Found the "Allsop," this was about 11:45 nobody outside.Again Bouncer said Sunderland only.Spoke to a copper, he directed us to the 3 pubs we had been refused entry?
Just by luck a local overheard us and told us about the 2 Bars at "Marylebone Station", at last we got a Drink but we dare not try to look anywhere else.
Messages told us friends were in the "Torch", after 30mins que outside we got into the Coach park, where mates had 2 more beers waiting.
What a waste of time, next ,National Stadium,left to have last drink inside.Surprisingly got straight to bar, What the Fxxk, no pumps to be seen,our choice was 1 Cider or 1 Beer (Stella).Both Cans served directly out of their cardboard cases(no fridges).Silver service tho, a lady opened the can dumped it upside down into the plastic pint container and left it their until it self poured, very hygienic.Wembley owners ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Cost of the worst pint experience in my life 8 fxxkxxg £'s per can.
Checked into our hotel £170 for 1 night, still waiting to see what £ we waisted on the Tube trailing around London, trying to get in a pub and food.
Not to mention that 2nd half!
People wonder why Blades have had enough of Wembley days.

I paid £7.50 for an ice cream from one of the vans outside the stadium. I made sure I got free raspberry sauce for my efforts, though.

I said to the owner, "It's the most expensive ice cream I've ever had, but I need it, so make it the biggest you've got. With a flake."

He replied, "It's the most expensive ice cream I've ever sold. I don't usually charge this much, but I had to change my prices, and I'm not happy about it."

I once paid £1.50 for an ice cream at Marillion's "Welcome to the Garden Party" at Milton Keynes Bowl in 1986, and I thought that was steep. Still, at least that day I got to see Jethro Tull as well, and there was no VAR.