“Realistically, it’s likely to be a difficult scoreline for us. Wilder will have them well organised and highly motivated, so they’ll probably start with intensity.
I expect we’ll be competitive for a spell, particularly if we stay disciplined and compact. However, over the course of 90 minutes, their depth and physicality may begin to tell. If we tire or lose concentration, they’re capable of taking control of the game.
The key will be managing those momentum shifts and staying in the contest for as long as possible — otherwise it could become uncomfortable by full-time.”
“I don’t think we will be competitive at all.
Wilders United always start rapid and base their games on the first 15 of each half.
They will score inside 15 mins then go on to dominate the game from there.
If by some miracle we get to HT at 0-0 the same happens in the second half where they will be rapid for 15 mins to score.
If it’s 0-0 after 60 mins they might be tired, the issue is so will we and if you look at our games past 60 mins there’s nothing to suggest we will last 30 mins without conceding.
I would absolutely take a 3-0 loss. Sign of the times. 3 or less and move on to getting the season out of the way.”
“They’ll make a dvd out of this.
The fact they will love it shows how little they’ve achieved “
“It’s their Cup Final, never forget that. They live to put a derby trophy in their empty cabinet. What else have they got?!”
“this is why it’ll be made into the biggest thing in the history of Sheffield football in their eyes.
They’ve nowt else.”
“The end of one of their best period in their history leaves them………….a mid-table Championship club.
With two disastrous premier campaigns and one failed play-off campaign.
All they can get from this Sunday is something to troll Wednesday fans about and they are getting giddy.
Sure we’ll get over it.”
“even now in our lowest ebb and their highest peak, they are nowhere near us. This Sunday will at best for them be a Pyrrhic victory. . Trophies, global presence, history set, recency of historical significance, overall highs are much higher, overall lows are still higher, legendary players in their own right, stronger community engagement. They are the better team and “franchise” right now, but Wednesday are the greater club. “
“Sunday will be uncomfortable as will the rest of this season but they are merely the smaller, unsuccessful and very jealous younger brother and they can’t stand it. It fuels their hatred. This really is their Cup Final and a chance to get one over on us.”
“when some pig tells me that we live in the past I always reply with ‘well to live in the past you have to have one don’t you’”
“Am I the only one who’s genuinely not bothered whether we get relegated at the lane?
it’s not like we’re in a relegation fight where we may or may not go down, and they are the deciding factor. That’d be different.
we’ve been down since August. “
“Nope I’m with you.
Utterly baffled people think this is some defining moment in our history.
We are on -7 ffs. Not like it’s happened in April after we’ve battled all season.
Its February and they think this is the biggest game in the history of the derby”
“we’ve known from the start we would be relegated, playing them is pure coincidence that maths might confirm that not even the miracle to end all miracles is possible…it means nothing that it might be against them.
I know a good number of Blades, not a single one that I’ve spoken to feels like it’s anything to gloat about…those that do are simple minded, we’ve never been in a relegation battle this season, I checked out of caring about results weeks ago……now, if by some bizzare quirk of reality we even draw never mind win THEY will have to live with it…for us it’s a free pass.”
“we’re not bothered. Relegation was sealed long before this game. Long before. It’s just to show that beating a bunch of kids and a few players that will definately not be here next season doesn’t effect us 1 bit. That will bother them more than it does us. It’s ALL about next season. End of!.”
“Paying any attention to the pigs is their Christmas, it’s just another game we’re going to lose. They can celebrate all they want, it’s meaningless to us and doesn’t matter.”
“It will be painful if we lose.
But imagine being such a loser that you celebrate wildly the defeat of a collapsed neighbour, who’s downfall you had literally no impact on.
Small club mentality. “
“I think for the pigs it will be the highpoint of their entire lives.
Its like a grown man winning a fight against a one legged 5 year old.”
“No pig fan who is old enough to remember 1993 genuinely believes this is the biggest derby game in its history no matter how many times they tell themselves it is.
I remember back then the feeling of anticipation was growing for weeks before we headed down to Wembley and considering that the winner made it to the FA Cup final and nobody alive has seen them in a cup final, there was a lot more at stake that day than relegated a side who’ve been deducted 18 points.
They know this and so do we.”
“Honestly most of their fans would rather relegate us than go up. We live rent free”
“The way things are for us at the moment…Makes us kind of regret creating them for a laugh.If we had not done that we could be a 1 city club just Sheffield Wednesday.Premier league probably champions league.One of the top 6 that gets all the money and that they rigged the game for.But so far in hindsight and all that,was worth giving all that up just for to laugh at them and all the comedy they gave us so far.”
“This kind of sums up their whole existence. They created themselves just to screw us over.”
“if you want to try and equate that with an FA Cup semi-final for instance or the beginning of a sequence at the end of a season which saw one team get promoted instead of the other, then good luck to you. You’re making yourself look tremendously silly.”
“We’d be enjoying it, but we wouldn’t be proclaiming it as the most significant derby game ever as some of them are trying to. We’re 40 points adrift and have been doomed all season, it’s not like a late season decisive relegation six pointer.They’re just so desperate though, they don’t have a derby win as significant and important as Boxing Day, Wembley 1993 or the 2012 “derby they can afford to lose”.
“Everyone beats Chansiri FC so where is the kudos in doing so.
If that is all they can brag about, I feel sad for them.
There’s some of their fans understand the situation and want us back as a competitive team so they can beat us fair and square. I respect those people. The ones who take pride in beating Chansiri FC are beyond redemption, they aren’t real football fans.”
“It’s the equivalent of beating up a disabled person. Have at it piggies! At the end of it all we’ll still be older bigger and inevitably better. Only takes a clued up owner. Let’s hope this next one is that or leads to that. “
“They’ve not seen them lift a trophy, play in Europe, finish in the top 3 of the top division, play in an FA Cup final or even win a playoff final after 10 playoff attempts…They never get to see their team win anything, so glory to them has become simply seeing us suffer. It’s totally natural.Stop weeing on their bonfire!! Bless em.”
“Its not a level playing field, its embarrassing how much the pigs are squealing about next Sunday
Whatever the result it should have an asterisk alongside it as it will be a fake result “
“Needs a huge banner …..Chansiri relegated us ….or …We were relegated by the EFL …making ….showing all game .. picked up by the media…..this would make Utd fans know what we all know”
“It will annoy them for sure. I was at a game at the sty and we were losing but bouncing away and unfortunately the only way I could go to the match was in their stand. Loads of them were getting very angry about us bouncing and I mean proper mad”
“It would be great to see people dressed in costumes such as those that looks like they are riding a large bird, such as an ostrich.
Would let them know we aren’t taking it remotely seriously.
Ride an Ostrich* to the Sty Day “
“This is absolutely how we get to them, dancing in the face of adversity. Let them have nothing from us…. How annoying is that, if you’re them, few goals up and the away end is the one bouncing and lit up with colour, what an amazing idea”
“all the media attention would go to the party in the stands not what they do to us on the pitch … and they would hate it”
“Just someone put up a banner in our fans section to them: ’ This is your greatest day. And it’s all you have.’”
“We should tease them about being our ‘B’ team – only set up because our chairman wanted a club to play in the stadium we had vacated. Something along the lines of being happy to see our children growing up and becoming independent perhaps!”
“Any victory against us at the moment is as hollow as it could possibly be
Lets just laugh it out, it will freak them out completely”
“Just sing ‘Won League In March’ … relegated in May … that should wind them up”
“How about singing non-stop…
”Wembley! Wembley!
We’re the famous Sheffield Wednesday and we WIN at Wembley”
“Unfortunately this is going to sting but on the flip side it really is rock bottom. It doesn’t get and won’t get any worse than this”
“We still go on about the semi when we were in a different universe player wise to them. We just need to suck this up”
“So you think beating a bunch of kids will make up for 100 years without a major trophy and 10 Wembley failures”
“It will to them, cause it’s all they’ve got.
Deep down they know it doesn’t, and we know that, that’s what will make them play on it to try and make it relevant. “
“All about opinions.
But it absolutely matters to me.
Yes, it’s been coming. But any of the other 44 games in the season would be tolerable. But to go there, and get stuffed and relegated will be something they never shut up about, regardless of the circumstances.
The record books will show it without any real context and for generations them lot will bang on about it.
I don’t really care if we lose the following 13 games, but please let us scrape something in this one.”
“If (probably when) they relegate us next Sunday, it will go down in history forever. A quite unique slap in the face. Boxing day will just be an irrelevant long forgotten memory. This sh!t will stick forever.”
“Why can’t fans just admit that getting relegated there will hurt like **** and not put on this silly bravado about not being bothered??
it’s just weird “
“pretending we’re not bothered just makes us look silly.
they will beat us and we just have to soak it up and get on with it.”
“don’t understand why we’re making a big deal about not being bothered, when we all are?”
“I think our comments prove it does matter to a lot of the posters who are trying to pretend that its of no consequence.”
“For god sake, some people on here just don’t get football at all do they
let them have it’
‘doesn’t really count’
’relegated anyway’
Sorry – none of that is true, they have every right to complete go for us and humiliate us – we would not care the other way round, just suck it up and get on with it. “
“Doesn’t matter if we’re a team full of kids or not.”
“They have the opportunity to put the “R” next to our name. We can say whatever we like about the circumstances surrounding the club — they won’t care. For them, it’s a holy grail moment.
If they really want to go for it, they could easily put five or six past us, then spend the rest of the time bragging about relegating us in February.
I think we just need to accept it for now and hope better times are ahead.
Chansiri has truly turned us into a ramshackle laughing stock.”
“i hate them just as much as any owls fan but just becausewe are a few places behind them in the league doesnt mean we arent a distance away as a club.”
“None of it will change the outcome or the score, but for me if you don’t watch it, switch off social media for the next 36 hours, you are less wound up about it.
But I am a believer in karma, what goes around comes around. It may take 20 years but one day it will happen “
“There is a flip side to this.
Imagine if the worst team in second division history was to win next Sunday?
They’d never live that down either!”