“FOA BLADES you should beat us easily on Sunday. You’ve got a multi million pound squad, ours is patched together and threadbare. You should gain absolutely no sense of achievement by beating us. Should you fail to win, it will potentially be the most embarrassing Sheffield Derby result you’ve ever had.
You’ve spent your millions. You’re only a place above us despite us being at our lowest ebb in our history.
We can sense your fear. That joy of us almost going out of business has been replaced by fear that new owners are going to see the potential of this older, more successful club, come in, invest, and truly reawaken this sleeping giant. They will hopefully reap the rewards of that investment and take us forward. Potentially leaving you in our midst. That’s what’s worrying you. We know that, you know that.
Should you beat us on Sunday-and at the other Steel City Derby later in the season-the gloating will be the most intense it’s ever been, because it’ll be fuelled by that fear. You’ll want one last dig before the tide potentially turns. Well you’re welcome to it, because even in administration there is genuinely no way I’d swap our position for yours. We’ll see you on Sunday, try and behave yourselves, and remember the pressure is all on you. But should you beat us, the victory will be as hollow as your trophy room. “
“This is United’s chance to avenge Boxing Day. One of the highest valued squads in the league with Premier League riches still in the coffers, against a team which had no pre-season. needing to chuck in academy players, sign free agents who haven’t had a club for 6 months, a striker who hasn’t scored for 40 odd league games, are in administration, and doomed for League One before the Christmas trees have even gone up.
Our boys will run through brick walls, we know that. But, if United don’t tonk us this weekend, it’s the biggest failure in a Sheffield Derby in living memory.”
“Pressure is on them. They’ll be relieved more than anything if they get the result. But they know anything less than a win is a massive failure for them. The context is very different to a normal derby. If we lose, we’ll not be too down about it. If they play close to their best, they’ll win. But if they don’t, they’ll be up against a proper team of lads who’ve been through the absolute worst of it this season. Backed by a buoyed, hopeful crowd. We could nick it. If we win, it’ll be legendary. If they win, it’ll have an asterisk next to it and won’t be spoken about too often.”
“A victory might bring them a sense of relief, but there’ll be no “great pleasure” in kicking us while we’re down. No bragging rights this time. That’s why it will be hollow when compared with more equally matched games. Even Wilder will have to pretend to be magnanimous (he’ll be fooling nobody!)”
“they won’t admit it but you can feel the fear in them – even for Sunday – They’ve shot their bolt and missed, and they know it. We’re just in the process of loading ours.”
“Leeds are bricking it about the resurgence of The Wednesday too.”
“I reckon deep down Wilder knows that it won’t be too long before we’re dominating the city again.”
“Let the Porcine Scrubbers have their moment of glory next Sunday, because it will be the last one once we find out who our new Owners in a couple of months, and they are bricking it big style because deep down they fear it will be a big game changer.”
“Scrappy, but im not getting the dreaded nerves this time, due to situation were in. It does not make a difference to our season does it, and bragging rights, i dont think either club has anything to brag about, a win would be nice for sure, but i see it being a drab 0-0 or 1-1”
“I think United are in for a rude awakening on Sunday.”
“They’ll win.
We’ll sing without words on a screen.
They’ll stay up this season.
We’ll do the double over them in two seasons’ time.”
“Our day is coming soon. In the meantime we need to brace ourselves because I don’t think this will be a close game. I have watched a couple of their games where they have played well but not got the results. They are far better than us. Yes their defence is poor but not as poor as our forward line. By my reckoning we have 4 championship standard players who can play on Sunday. They will kick off with 11 and have another 5 on the bench. That’s the difference. I’ll be happy if they don’t avenge BDM this season because it is their last chance and we have been a sitting duck since 2018.”
“They’ve had a golden opportunity to overtake us over quarter of a century, and they’ve bottled it every time. This is hopefully the last season they get to lord it over us and they’re even making a boIIocks of that with how bad they are — we’ve hit rock bottom thanks to our previous owner but things are hopefully going to be very different very soon, they know it and they’re cacking themselves. “
“Obviously, I’ll still be disappointed if we lose on Sun, But the bigger picture, is that the balance of Power is going to dramatically change and the Porcine Scrubbers are in absolute panic mode.”
“A derby win is a derby win, I think they’ll be surprised by the “banter” not really annoying anyone though.
Unless they win by a margin of 4+. It’s all just meh this season.”
“They put us on a pedestal and love trying to knock us off ……………….. that’s all they’ve got.”
“Seen a few piggies having a laugh at Rob Wilson on Joe Crane’s podcast for calling us ‘the last of the sleeping giants.’
So I pointed out that they had a better ground, parachute payments, a squad packed with assets and were on the brink of the Prem League again… yet the only serious interest was a clueless, bloated US group offering £105m.
Meanwhile, we’re hurtling towards League One with an ageing ground, a depleted squad and a pile of debt — and we’ve still ended up with 11 prospective parties wanting to take us on at approx. £30m-£5om.
I think this tells its own story. “
“Dont drop down to piggies level of obsession with us,let them swill around in thier envy for ever.We are the MASSIVE everybody knows who’S the bigger,better,most successful club is and always will be.”
“I’d rather beat them than lose but fair to say that Wednesday is more important to United than United is to Wednesday
We live rent free in their heads”
“If we beat them this weekend, it’ll be a huge upset”
“I don’t care what the circumstances, a Derby win is 6 months bragging rights and listening to hand wringing and excuses, it can kick start a season and galvanise a team and fanbase.
The derby is never a small game, nor is it ever a foregone conclusion.
sounds more like we are making excuses before the fact, something we love laughing at other teams for doing.
I want a win, and I will dream of a win, and hope for a win, and if we don’t get one I will dust my self off and get on with life, but I am not going to pretend the result doesnt matter.”
“regardless of who wins, it certainly won’t be a ‘hollow victory’. Those that think that obviously don’t understand what local derbies are about.”
“all United fans I know say they are awful and there for the taking
we lose and it will hurt same as every other time “
“I can’t see anything other than a comfortable defeat. They desperately need a kick start to their season and we are sitting ducks, if we are being honest..”
“I’m worried about Bamford tbh, he’s the kind of player who can score a worldie one game then be incapable of hitting a barn door for months. It’d be typical for him to have his one decent game against us.
Starting to get the old derby day dread creeping in, I hate these games. “