Ollessendro
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I’ll hold my claps until the end of this week, despite some vast improvements by the Blades. From Saturday’s performance it could be assumed that cheap as chips (mark II) does indeed walk on water, but I want to see if we can break two poor teams at home before I get carried away. Yes this is a negative post, but before everyone gets carried away and starts with the personal abuse, then bear in mind that this is merely my opinion. I am not trying to force my views on people, but am merely being ‘objective’ and unless this forum has suddenly being subjected to totalitarian rule (which it certainly seems to be moving towards to) then there is nothing wrong with me posting a little negativity. Still, I expect the barrage of abuse for ‘not posting in the spirit of the forum’ just because I don’t share the opinion of the masses.
I thought the pies that Blackwell’ wife had been making at the Lane were bad until I had the one’s at Pride Park. Not only that, but it took me ages to get to the front of the queue. Then I had to drink by (flat) beer in 5 minutes to get back in time for the second half. It all started badly on the Friday night when I couldn’t sleep properly (I was up worried about how ‘insignificant my life was’ and worried that if we might actually win and I’d get some stick) and then had to get up at 7am in order to make the early kick off. I like my Saturday morning lie in and this made me even grumpier than usual. Blade in Thatcham (my driver) didn’t have nay bacon in his fridge and hence I didn’t get any breakfast. Not only that, but there were no greasy bacon selling vans on the motorway going to Derby. I was in a foul mood and my stomach was grumbling before I even arrive in Derby and it was always going to make it difficult for Speed’s boys to please me. Then I had a dud pint of Marston’s Pedigree. Oh yeah, the football …….
United picked up and unexpected 3 points with an impressive performance against Derby. It has to be said though that Derby were awful and a team full of grandma’s would have run rings round them. United did pass the ball around well, but how much of us looking good was down to Derby being down right terrible?
So the Blades season has been put on track by a French-man and two moments of magic. This is the guy who Kevin Blackwell decided not to take on after his trial, but luckily Gary Speed called Calve back. Clave was possibly the most impressive man on the pitch for the 60 minutes that he played and the fact that Blackwell sent him packing speaks volumes. There is actually hope as Speed saw something and this shows that he has more talent spotting in his little finger than KB had all over. In fact Blackwell probably though that Calve was too attacking.
I agree with a lot of the sentiments in Cooper’s post, but will hold judgement until we play Scunthorpe and Pompey at home this week. Creswell’s miss hit shot somehow made it past Bywater and then our finishing was absolutely awful. The lacklustre Evans couldn’t score for toffee, Monty (despite a good performance) shot like Monty and Ertl erm, well. It’s embarrassing that a professional footballer with that much time and space can do what he did. Fortunately Cresswell got in the right place at the right time and his scuffed shot won it for us.
There was no pressure on United for this game and it will be interesting to see if the midfield partnership of Essien, Viera and Platini …… I mean Britton, Ertl and Monty can break down the lowly Scunny at home tomorrow night. Scunthorpe are awful and we should bare beating teams like that at home. However I expect them to put men behind the ball and frustrate us. Similar story with Pompey, who are shit. We should be beating them at home, but when the pressure is on can the lads perform.
Hats off to Jamie Ward who was the only player on the pitch who was (arguably) better then le magnifique Jean Calve. The messiah McCabe must be rubbing his hands at the thought of how much money he can rake in for him in January. If Ward stays fit (big IF) and plays like he did on Saturday up until Christmas then we’ll probably get around £3 million for him. Of course ‘we’ll try to keep him, BUT’ …… ‘It was his pesky agent’ ….. ‘we are not a selling club, but he wanted to go.’
I’ll begrudgingly admit that United’s performance was better than I’ve seen for a while, but still look at our squad and think are we up to this? Monty, Ertl and Brittion (all defensive midfielders) worked well away from home on Saturday, but can Speed play that at home. Can they break teams down. For me we are still lacking that bit of quality (a winger and an attacking/creative central midfielder). Unless the board give Speedo a bit of money in January or back him with some cash for a couple of decent loan signings we’ll still fall short this season.
I thought the pies that Blackwell’ wife had been making at the Lane were bad until I had the one’s at Pride Park. Not only that, but it took me ages to get to the front of the queue. Then I had to drink by (flat) beer in 5 minutes to get back in time for the second half. It all started badly on the Friday night when I couldn’t sleep properly (I was up worried about how ‘insignificant my life was’ and worried that if we might actually win and I’d get some stick) and then had to get up at 7am in order to make the early kick off. I like my Saturday morning lie in and this made me even grumpier than usual. Blade in Thatcham (my driver) didn’t have nay bacon in his fridge and hence I didn’t get any breakfast. Not only that, but there were no greasy bacon selling vans on the motorway going to Derby. I was in a foul mood and my stomach was grumbling before I even arrive in Derby and it was always going to make it difficult for Speed’s boys to please me. Then I had a dud pint of Marston’s Pedigree. Oh yeah, the football …….
United picked up and unexpected 3 points with an impressive performance against Derby. It has to be said though that Derby were awful and a team full of grandma’s would have run rings round them. United did pass the ball around well, but how much of us looking good was down to Derby being down right terrible?
So the Blades season has been put on track by a French-man and two moments of magic. This is the guy who Kevin Blackwell decided not to take on after his trial, but luckily Gary Speed called Calve back. Clave was possibly the most impressive man on the pitch for the 60 minutes that he played and the fact that Blackwell sent him packing speaks volumes. There is actually hope as Speed saw something and this shows that he has more talent spotting in his little finger than KB had all over. In fact Blackwell probably though that Calve was too attacking.
I agree with a lot of the sentiments in Cooper’s post, but will hold judgement until we play Scunthorpe and Pompey at home this week. Creswell’s miss hit shot somehow made it past Bywater and then our finishing was absolutely awful. The lacklustre Evans couldn’t score for toffee, Monty (despite a good performance) shot like Monty and Ertl erm, well. It’s embarrassing that a professional footballer with that much time and space can do what he did. Fortunately Cresswell got in the right place at the right time and his scuffed shot won it for us.
There was no pressure on United for this game and it will be interesting to see if the midfield partnership of Essien, Viera and Platini …… I mean Britton, Ertl and Monty can break down the lowly Scunny at home tomorrow night. Scunthorpe are awful and we should bare beating teams like that at home. However I expect them to put men behind the ball and frustrate us. Similar story with Pompey, who are shit. We should be beating them at home, but when the pressure is on can the lads perform.
Hats off to Jamie Ward who was the only player on the pitch who was (arguably) better then le magnifique Jean Calve. The messiah McCabe must be rubbing his hands at the thought of how much money he can rake in for him in January. If Ward stays fit (big IF) and plays like he did on Saturday up until Christmas then we’ll probably get around £3 million for him. Of course ‘we’ll try to keep him, BUT’ …… ‘It was his pesky agent’ ….. ‘we are not a selling club, but he wanted to go.’
I’ll begrudgingly admit that United’s performance was better than I’ve seen for a while, but still look at our squad and think are we up to this? Monty, Ertl and Brittion (all defensive midfielders) worked well away from home on Saturday, but can Speed play that at home. Can they break teams down. For me we are still lacking that bit of quality (a winger and an attacking/creative central midfielder). Unless the board give Speedo a bit of money in January or back him with some cash for a couple of decent loan signings we’ll still fall short this season.
and remember you cannot be objective but you can be an object. Smile classes are being arranged for you and the rest who forum agents are processing as we speak.
