Worrying apathy

[Deadbat]

Had a bit of this over the last few years but yesterday was a new low even for me.

I have not been away this season and have no plans to go. It is a complete waste of money and time and it hurts me to say that.

Yesterday, I met up with a few mates for an old work mates retirement do around Sheffield. Met them around 3pm and forgot we were even playing. Seriously. A lad I was with told me we had lost at 5.30pm. I was not surprised but not even angry. I barely looked at twitter or my phone at least in connection with SUFC.

I came home late and I did not look at the table, did not go on forums, did not tweet, nothing. I used to think about defeats for hours, days after and it would eat me up but now I can put it out of my mind almost instantly.

I am resigned to the fact we are crap. We have changed the manager and it has made no difference - we are even worse if anything. The players change most weeks but the results and performances do not. The optimism of Adkins early on has gone completely. We have the same repetitive comments from him and from Phipps every week. It bores me. Bores me rigid. But even due to all this I am not angry anymore.

The most worrying thing? I actually care less now about SUFC than I ever have done. I miss 3 games in the next few months due to work and holidays and I am not bothered. I actually don't even look forward to games any more - I look forward to a beer with mates and family pre game but SUFC does not excite me, even interest me that much any more.

I am sure it is a phase and sure it is down to the complete lack of success on the pitch and maybe 3 or 4 wins on the bounce and I will become more interested again but at the moment it's hard to even get annoyed. I should be but I can't. Does feel odd.

Anyone else feel the same?

 

[robbiez666]

Had a bit of this over the last few years but yesterday was a new low even for me.

I have not been away this season and have no plans to go. It is a complete waste of money and time and it hurts me to say that.

Yesterday, I met up with a few mates for an old work mates retirement do around Sheffield. Met them around 3pm and forgot we were even playing. Seriously. A lad I was with told me we had lost at 5.30pm. I was not surprised but not even angry. I barely looked at twitter or my phone at least in connection with SUFC.

I came home late and I did not look at the table, did not go on forums, did not tweet, nothing. I used to think about defeats for hours, days after and it would eat me up but now I can put it out of my mind almost instantly.

I am resigned to the fact we are crap. We have changed the manager and it has made no difference - we are even worse if anything. The players change most weeks but the results and performances do not. The optimism of Adkins early on has gone completely. We have the same repetitive comments from him and from Phipps every week. It bores me. Bores me rigid. But even due to all this I am not angry anymore.

The most worrying thing? I actually care less now about SUFC than I ever have done. I miss 3 games in the next few months due to work and holidays and I am not bothered. I actually don't even look forward to games any more - I look forward to a beer with mates and family pre game but SUFC does not excite me, even interest me that much any more.

I am sure it is a phase and sure it is down to the complete lack of success on the pitch and maybe 3 or 4 wins on the bounce and I will become more interested again but at the moment it's hard to even get annoyed. I should be but I can't. Does feel odd.

Anyone else feel the same?

I'm with you there. Listened to it yesterday and wasn't even angry when they scored. I kind of expected it.

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

Had a bit of this over the last few years but yesterday was a new low even for me.

I have not been away this season and have no plans to go. It is a complete waste of money and time and it hurts me to say that.

Yesterday, I met up with a few mates for an old work mates retirement do around Sheffield. Met them around 3pm and forgot we were even playing. Seriously. A lad I was with told me we had lost at 5.30pm. I was not surprised but not even angry. I barely looked at twitter or my phone at least in connection with SUFC.

I came home late and I did not look at the table, did not go on forums, did not tweet, nothing. I used to think about defeats for hours, days after and it would eat me up but now I can put it out of my mind almost instantly.

I am resigned to the fact we are crap. We have changed the manager and it has made no difference - we are even worse if anything. The players change most weeks but the results and performances do not. The optimism of Adkins early on has gone completely. We have the same repetitive comments from him and from Phipps every week. It bores me. Bores me rigid. But even due to all this I am not angry anymore.

The most worrying thing? I actually care less now about SUFC than I ever have done. I miss 3 games in the next few months due to work and holidays and I am not bothered. I actually don't even look forward to games any more - I look forward to a beer with mates and family pre game but SUFC does not excite me, even interest me that much any more.

I am sure it is a phase and sure it is down to the complete lack of success on the pitch and maybe 3 or 4 wins on the bounce and I will become more interested again but at the moment it's hard to even get annoyed. I should be but I can't. Does feel odd.

Anyone else feel the same?

I've said before Deadbat, these bastards suck all the enthusiasm out of me. Got to stage now where when we score at home, I give them a polite round of applause, can't even leap out of my seat now. We score, knowing in all probability that if we have taken the lead or equalised, we'll gift the opposition a goal back, which usually will prove to be the winner. I am now more immune to them ruining my weekend/ Tuesday night, but it still burns away deep inside. Waiting now for the latest disaster against Worcester.

 

[Superblades]

I was pi**ed off after the game but that soon went away. Slowly but surely learning to not give a f**k about it anymore. This club will always be the same, it always has been like it whilst I've been a supporter apart from the odd season or 2.

 

[Tyler Durden]

I wish I did feel that way.

I had that resigned feeling when we got relegated, even though we were losing and drawing every game. I sort of cheered myself up with the notion that relegation would be the shock treatment we needed and we could wipe the slate clean, start over again, piss the league and build a strong Championship side.
Safe to say it didn't work out like that.

All I feel at matches now is a burning anger at these lazy, feckless playboys stealing a good wage for playing shit and not giving one.
I have nothing but contempt for them I'm sorry to say.
I never used to be the negative type and always gave the managers, players and board far more leniency than they probably deserved in the past, but something snapped in the second half of last season after too many capitulations to crap teams who weren't even trying particularly hard to win, just harder than us.

The problem is I've got a season ticket and I'll be damned if I pay £380 and not make full use of it, however miserable it makes me.

The away games are getting scaled back though. Wigan on Boxing Day for the piss-up, Southend and Blackpool if we get them on a weekend. But the football won't be the main part of those trips.

In the meantime, these arseholes need to be told in no uncertain terms that this is bang out of order.

 

[Deadbat]

I wish I did feel that way.

I had that resigned feeling when we got relegated, even though we were losing and drawing every game. I sort of cheered myself up with the notion that relegation would be the shock treatment we needed and we could wipe the slate clean, start over again, piss the league and build a strong Championship side.
Safe to say it didn't work out like that.

All I feel at matches now is a burning anger at these lazy, feckless playboys stealing a good wage for playing shit and not giving one.
I have nothing but contempt for them I'm sorry to say.
I never used to be the negative type and always gave the managers, players and board far more leniency than they probably deserved in the past, but something snapped in the second half of last season after too many capitulations to crap teams who weren't even trying particularly hard to win, just harder than us.

The problem is I've got a season ticket and I'll be damned if I pay £380 and not make full use of it, however miserable it makes me.

The away games are getting scaled back though. Wigan on Boxing Day for the piss-up, Southend and Blackpool if we get them on a weekend. But the football won't be the main part of those trips.

In the meantime, these arseholes need to be told in no uncertain terms that this is bang out of order.

I agree. Only way I will go away is maybe Millwall or Southend for a piss up and grounds I have never done.

Wonder how the side feels this morning? Probably do not give a damn.

 

[judge]

Been like that for a while now but just put it down to living out of sheffield and not being able to get most saturdays fue to work/ money

Truth is i could go if i really wanted but i dont there was a time i couldnt sleep nights when a big game was coming up
Now i never know who we are playing till i see it on here

The worst thing the thing that angers me the most is the players and their total lack of heart
Winds me up even more when we play a decent team and they olay out tgeir skins and look like decent players only to revert back to going through the motions in the next game

The club needs a warnock or a basset to come in be ruthless and cut out this cancer rhat is killing the club

 

[sheffielder]

Still angry and making enquiries about shotguns

 

[Chicken with no head]

Agree with all the sentiments above, these players are shit for the money we're paying them. I'm sure we could do better, but the blames lies with the board, manager, fans in that order ( and when I say fans it's the booing)

 

[Roygbiv]

I wasn't angry either yesterday. I just find it all quite pathetic now. How the players and board have made so many of us totally apathetic to something we have cared so deeply about all our lives is something I hope they feel ashamed about.

 

[Revolution]

I find myself still caring about the club and it's poor state....but I couldn't care less about the players. Many if them should be ashamed of their performances this season. Even the good players aren't pulling their weight.

Thank goodness for my own football and Revolution jrs football. That's still enjoyable. And Chelsea are hilarious this season.

 

[Roygbiv]

I find myself still caring about the club and it's poor state....but I couldn't care less about the players. Many if them should be ashamed of their performances this season. Even the good players aren't pulling their weight.

Thank goodness for my own football and Revolution jrs football. That's still enjoyable. And Chelsea are hilarious this season.

Yeah to be fair I still care about the club because the club is you and me. The fans. Its just the people representing the club I have no time for

 

[Small Mendonca]

We all need to ditch SUFC and watch a real sport like darts

 

[Tyler Durden]

We all need to ditch SUFC and watch a real sport like darts

I'd rather watch the full 90 minutes against Crewe than look at Phil Taylor for 5 seconds.

 

[Bladeloyal]

I'll tell you what I've watched this great club from being 6 that's 48 years and we've had A lot of ups and downs .but patiance is running low .we have a squad of complete tossers .bar 3or 4 ,New manager has come in big reputation and what's he done . Jobs for the boys , ex players .ex scouts .and is delivering sterile boring football by numbers .you can't play a premeir template without quality in midfield .and a keeper that's quick thinking and has the ability to move the ball quickly. Adkins another wanabe failure

 

[BushBlade]

I nearly packed it in over the Ched business. Then my mate talked me into going to the Fulham match. Then, living near Fulham I had to go to the replay.
And just like the crackhead who picks up the pipe again, I was hooked.
Losing interest now again though. Doubt I'll go again now until Christmas, when it's just a reason to meet up with my mates and have a moan about how shit we are.

 

[groveblade]

All I feel at matches now is a burning anger at these lazy, feckless playboys stealing a good wage for playing shit and not giving one.
I have nothing but contempt for them I'm sorry to say.
I never used to be the negative type and always gave the managers, players and board far more leniency than they probably deserved in the past, but something snapped in the second half of last season after too many capitulations to crap teams who weren't even trying particularly hard to win, just harder than us.

I couldn't have expressed my own thoughts better than this! Exactly how I feel at the moment and I'm usually one of the most positive "clappers" around...yesterday was just disgraceful - Adkins and the team alike - absolute spineless garbage.

 

[dingledog]

The only real suprise is it's taken this long for so many of us to 'come out'. I'm in total agreement with original post.

The reality is that there is something seriously wrong at our once great club. I don't get it, changing managers and keeping same shit players. The directors must be absolutely certifiable if they think the same players with a different manager will give us a different outcome.

Until and if there is a willingness to recognise these overpaid 'lower league' wannabes are paid off, nothing will change.

 

[Northyorksblade]

there was a time i couldnt sleep nights when a big game was coming up

There was a time when I couldn't sleep before ANY game. Would wake up with butterflies, feel sick during the game until the final whistle when we'd won and elated if we had, despairing if we hadn't. I once went eight years without missing a home game and very few away. This season, I'll be missing loads of home games and the only thought I have is at least I won't be watching this shite while I'm away. Very sad times for us Blades. 'It's only the hope that
keeps you going', well even that hope is gone at the moment. And it's not even the first time we've been beaten by a poor Crewe.

 

[judge]

There was a time when I couldn't sleep before ANY game. Would wake up with butterflies, feel sick during the game until the final whistle when we'd won and elated if we had, despairing if we hadn't. I once went eight years without missing a home game and very few away. This season, I'll be missing loads of home games and the only thought I have is at least I won't be watching this shite while I'm away. Very sad times for us Blades. 'It's only the hope that
keeps you going', well even that hope is gone at the moment. And it's not even the first time we've been beaten by a poor Crewe.

I remember the 2-2 draw with leeds in tye bassett promotion season biting my nails so much my fingers bled

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Deadbat's OP completely reflects how I feel about them at the moment. It's an absolute waste of time following them. I have never felt more apathetic towards SUFC than I do today and I sense that's creeping in across a fairly big section of our fan base. Even those that still go shrug their shoulders and forget about it instantly.

It's getting to the point where I pop on here every now and then just for a read and an odd post to keep in touch with the Blades community. Living where I do now this forum is probably my only active connection to the club....mainly because I haven't been to a game since Bury at home as the warning signs were there again.

The whole operation is failing and has been consistently failing for a long time, right from the boardroom to the pitch. They can blame managers all they want and keep sacking them. At some point there has to be an accountability in other areas and an ability to finally start getting it right. They have to deliver just like most of the supporters do in their own lives and jobs. Football is a product nowadays and it has to deliver value to its paying punters or it has no excuse.

I've taken a stand, both against football in general and my own club. I refuse to pay to watch it again until it represents value and until more do the same you'll get the same end product you're getting now. Football and the performance of our own club both stink to high heaven and fans are accountable while ever they choose to keep coughing up and effectively telling those running the show that it's ok......it isn't.

 

[stringjunior]

I don't live in Sheffield anymore and work 1 in 3 Saturdays yet I very nearly bought a season ticket. So glad I didn't.

 

[Kev Gee]

The club is in serious danger of shedding its fanbase soon if results do not improve.

Its remarkable that were still getting 20k after our 5th season in this godforsaken league.

Someone needs to show this thread to the board members.

The fans patience is wearing thin.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I'm another one how doesn't live in Sheffield any more. I dread the Monday morning conversations in the kitchen at work when I get a coffee. I invariably bump into other footy-mad colleagues who support Leicester, Coventry, Burton, Derby. I don't hang about long in there. It's fucking embarrassing talking about Blades performances.

Think I'll bring my own coffee in a flask.

 

[Grappler]

Mrs G made the choice for us yesterday, when she decided that rather than go to Crewe, we should go and help a local boozer get set up for a Halloween fund raiser, all in aid of Blue Bell Wood children's hospice. I am so glad she talked me out of going to the game. After Port Vale and Oldham, this one would have sent me into meltdown.

Something seriously wrong at SUFC.

 

[Bedrock Blade]

I completely forgot (not on purpose) about football yesterday and went fishing instead.

 

[Lane Ender]

Yeah to be fair I still care about the club because the club is you and me. The fans. Its just the people representing the club I have no time for

I agree. Only way I will go away is maybe Millwall or Southend for a piss up and grounds I have never done.

Wonder how the side feels this morning? Probably do not give a damn.

They are the only away games I'm going .
Exept Barnsley but we aren't going to the match it's a mates 50th
I'm punch drunk with them only go to the home games for the day out with the mates.
Pull it around and I'll be up for it again

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I completely forgot (not on purpose) about football yesterday and went fishing instead.

Catch owt?
I'm off fishing next week.

 

[Bedrock Blade]

Catch owt?
I'm off fishing next week.

Fuck all!

 

[Worksop II]

Fuck all!

Fish payback for all those Sammon puns on here ..............