Everybody has a breaking point and I'm just fed up of it now, the club truly is retarded beyond belief.
Truth is several hundred thousand people have given up on them, some people I've bumped into from 20 and 30 years ago laugh about how stupid they were to support them.
They say, "Oh my God, you don't still follow that load of shyte do you?" While their sons and daughters wear Man Utd shirts.
Yes, maybe their wankers, but that's not the point
The knock on effect over the decades is disastrous, several hundred thousand people who would have been United fans under normal circumstances have never been introduced to United by their older relatives because they're older relatives haven't got a single good thing to say about them.
This indicates a dying club. And that should worry people.
The club has been given three extremely lucky breaks under Bassett, Warnock and Wilder, lucky breaks that cost fuck all, there was no real planning, it just happened, it happened cheaply and unbelievably, and each time after relegation we ended up being a club not even good enough for the Championship.
That takes planning of epic proportions, and it's no wonder why so many Sheffield and South Yorkshire people who would normally be fans, never become fans.
I can see what you're saying MnM.
The thing with SUFC for me is that they will always be my club- as Chips says - you don't just give up on them .
Similarly the level , the commitment, the interest, the desire,the devouring every bit of news we all had 2 seasons ago declines in direct proportion to the scale of F. up achieved.
I know I'd watch any clip, any snippet of any news or coverage as we surprised the nation.Look how much busier this forum was then as an example.That appealed to the " we'll show 'em,we're that rufty tufty club that ruffles every other clubs feathers" approach that CW loved too ( something BTW that , regardless of any future achievements, he will NEVER experience again).
What is remarkable though is the SCALE of F*** up we achieve. 12 years to get back twice with a 3rd on the horizon. That makes the scale of support even more remarkable given the depth of the subsequent F ups we achieve.
We don't get relegated as much as freefall off a steep cliff.That is due, as you say, to the lack of any plan, any cohesion throughout the club. Lurching from one disaster ( in football terms) is no business plan but it's a model we favour.
The lost potential is massive , Sheffield and the wider region is there for the taking- yes, there'll always be the rump (pork butt?) of pigs but present & future generations are incresingly fickle and will ally themselves to success far faster than the dyed in the wool supportes of the past ( us!) but no club has the nous to see this, exploit it or even seem to want it.( cf the N west- there's plenty of clubs but Manure have that market sewn up).
As I write this I realise you're right.What other major city could have such untapped potential and seem to actively want to ignore it?
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