Winning the league IS everything.

[Hamburg Blade]

Years of disappointment have made Blades pessimistic and glass-half-empty types. If Chelsea or Man Utd were top of the PL 4 points clear with 7 to play, would their fans forums have threads talking about them dropping into 2nd? Maybe, but I doubt it, or at least those saying it would be told to shut it. Of course we could finish 2nd, even 3rd! But why contemplate it? It's not as if we are the crap team in the division being chased by giants of football. Anyway, Bolton are one of the clubs I don't like, so I'm not even going to think about it.

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

We don't deserve anything yet, a season is 46 games long.

The most annoying thing is just how similar this Bolton team is to that Wednesday team from 2011-12 in the way they go about bullying teams.

Wouldn't surprise me if the bastards win every game from now until the end of the season just like those cunts did.

My point being that Bolton had a 12 point start on us. Thanks for pointing out there's 46 games in the season

 

[BushBlade]

At the start of the season I'd have been happy just to go up. Why would I now raise my expectation? So there's a greater chance I can be disappointed? To give me something to moan about?

 

[Esablade]

 

[ShorehamRevolution]

I'm not daft enough to think promotion is a certainty and obviously at the start of the season I would have accepted promotion by any means, but as the season stands now- winning the league has become EVERYTHING to me.
Being 31 means I've only witnessed one promotion, but being that age also means I've seen United win the grand total of fuck all. Unless you count "most play off final defeats" as a feather in our cap?

I don't know whether I've always felt this way or the Bolton factor has played it's part but I want... no, I NEED us to win this league.
I want to win it for Wilder,
I want to win it for Sharp,
I want to win it to spite Wednesday,
I want to win it for my dad,
I want to win it because of how much Bolton moaned about their ticket allocation, Madine on twitter, their manager slagging us off, their fans attacking ours outside the ground and how much Le Fondre pissed me off diving around the whole second half...

I need to win it though because its the first season my little one has had a kit.
I need to win it because this is the season my grandad didn't see the end of and I keep saying we are going to win the division for him,
and I NEED to win it so my team can finally be the bride and for once not be the bridesmaid.

Finally, I think we will. We are 4 points ahead of Bolton (a team we recently played off the park) and there's supporters already resigning themselves to accepting second place. Why? What has Wilder done this season to make you think that we will fold under pressure or that he doesn't want to go up as champions as much as we do? He's a winner, our team are beginning to enjoy being winners too. We are eternal underdogs and pessimists but our attitude can get us over the line. We don't have to brag and gloat like Leeds and the pigs but let's try a bit of optimism.

This is already my most enjoyable season I've witnessed. Get behind the boys, don't panic if we drop a point or two, and let's get out of this league in style!

U.as Champs.T.B.

Post of the year goes to this man

 

[MobileBlade]

I'm not resigning myself to coming second (ohh matron) but I've posted elsewhere it's a possibility, were scraping results and going behind in almost every game, like it or not sharp is on a poor run right when we don't need it..

They always let you down..... so just focus on promotion.....and you won't be let down, try to see the title as icing on a cake.. I am..

10 unbeaten - won 8 drawn 2. Very happy to scrape away

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Great OP. Agree with every word. Champions or Runners Up,. Total no brainer As someone said,it is quite probable that this is the ONLY thing we will win in the lifetime of anyone who posts on here. I find that a sobering thought but if you take a moment to think about it then you have to accept it really is probable.

 

[hoylandblade]

I want to see that P at the side of our name when the league tables are on TV, them I will then believe that we WILL be champions

 

[Rodley]

At the start of the season I'd have been happy just to go up. Why would I now raise my expectation? So there's a greater chance I can be disappointed? To give me something to moan about?

Last one.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

I want to see that P at the side of our name when the league tables are on TV, them I will then believe that we WILL be champions

Not if the P appears after 46 games we won't.

 

[FTPE]

Post of the year goes to this man

Haha cheers mate, it's more nerves and frustration to be honest, but I know there's a lot of us in the same boat.

 

[TJB.]

Once, just once, I'd like us to be able to say 'We were the best'. It's not about greed, it's about glory.

Agree with the sentiment of the OP. I want the title.

 

[Blade for Sale]

IF (and it's still an IF for me) we secure promotion relatively quickly, I think the league title will follow. The only thing that will stop this side is nerves. Once released from the shackles of the main objective, promotion, I think we'll go on to win the remaining matches in some style. On a purely footballing level we are much better, and have much more strength in depth, than any other side in this league. It is those intangible demons of tension and nervousness that, if anything, will be our downfall.

I am heartened however by the man at the helm, and that fact that this is, so far, almost a carbon copy of Northampton's season last year. As was alluded to elsewhere, they kept their foot on the throat of the rest of the division right to the end of last season and ended up with 99 points. With a fair wind and a vociferous crowd, we can piss this.