Billy

[I should coco]

His finishing hasn't been good this season , he isn't fast , he's not a handful as much as some people like to think he is he only holds the ball up when you pass it directly to him

Hes a finisher but we have better options who we should be building the team around

Not good and yet he has still got 4 goals, plus 4 assists which is significantly better than anybody else.

Rank	Name	GoalsGL	AssistsA	PlayedP	Goals per 90	Mins per GoalMPG	Total Shots	Goal Conversion	Shot Accuracy
1	Billy SharpSharp	4	4	14	0.39	229	26	15%	50%
2	Morgan Gibbs-WhiteGibbs-White	3	2	7	0.44	206	14	21%	43%
3	Iliman NdiayeNdiaye	2	1	8	0.32	278	8	25%	63%
3	Ben OsbornOsborn	2	1	12	0.21	438	6	33%	50%

Plus hes 35 so there's no long term plant build a team around

That is a valid point, but I don't think anybody is saying 'build a team around him' He is our most lethal threat and has to play.

Im not saying he is crap im saying he isn't good enough to be no9 in a team wanting to be top 2 automatic

His goal tally suggests you are wrong so I'm not sure why you are sticking to this line so resolutely.

 

[Houston_Blade]

The crux of the argument is:

Don't play our best striker because he's 35 and we have 2 young lads (who just happen to be shit) who we should play instead because they might come good at some point in the future

Sound logic.

 

[SwissBlade]

The crux of the argument is:

Don't play our best striker because he's 35 and we have 2 young lads (who just happen to be shit) who we should play instead because they might come good at some point in the future

Sound logic.

100% this!

You don't play your players into form, you play your players in form.

 

[alcoblade]

Im not saying he is crap im saying he isn't good enough to be no9 in a team wanting to be top 2 automatic

Plus hes 35 so there's no long term plant build a team around

Plus from what I have seen this season he has been quite poor when you take of your bladey blade billy sharp bias glasses

His finishing hasn't been good this season , he isn't fast , he's not a handful as much as some people like to think he is he only holds the ball up when you pass it directly to him

Hes a finisher but we have better options who we should be building the team around

Who are these better options, and what is it about their previous 20 - 30 games that makes you think we should build around it?

Are you prepared to give up on this season in the hope that it might be better in the long term?

 

[alcoblade]

The crux of the argument is:

Don't play our best striker because he's 35 and we have 2 young lads (who just happen to be shit) who we should play instead because they might come good at some point in the future

Sound logic.

You beat beat me to it.

 

[dn5 shaun]

He doesn’t irritate me I love billy sharp he is a blades legend

He just isn’t good enough as I think has been shown over the course of the season bar Peterborough and I find it baffling that he is still starting every week and not even been subbed

I’m not sure where I said that the majority are kicking off just because I dare say a bad word about Lord Bill

Billy is starting every week cos rest are shit or fat

 

[SBSP]

Billy is starting every week cos rest are shit or fat

But Billy is shit AND fat (apparently)

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Not good and yet he has still got 4 goals, plus 4 assists which is significantly better than anybody else.

Rank	Name	GoalsGL	AssistsA	PlayedP	Goals per 90	Mins per GoalMPG	Total Shots	Goal Conversion	Shot Accuracy
1	Billy SharpSharp	4	4	14	0.39	229	26	15%	50%
2	Morgan Gibbs-WhiteGibbs-White	3	2	7	0.44	206	14	21%	43%
3	Iliman NdiayeNdiaye	2	1	8	0.32	278	8	25%	63%
3	Ben OsbornOsborn	2	1	12	0.21	438	6	33%	50%

That is a valid point, but I don't think anybody is saying 'build a team around him' He is our most lethal threat and has to play.



His goal tally suggests you are wrong so I'm not sure why you are sticking to this line so resolutely.

Its 2 goals in 12 from open play in the league which isn't good enough as much as anyone can sugar coat that

Yeah its better than mousset/mcburnie/brewster because we don't give others the opportunity sharp has played the full 90 for the majority

The only fair way to compare is to give the others a long run in the team like sharp id say mcburnie/mousset deserve that as IMO they have shown more in the 10 minutes they get than sharp has in the 12 matches

And Brewster well what's the point of him been here doesn't even get on the bench

 

[Mumbo]

Its 2 goals in 12 from open play in the league which isn't good enough as much as anyone can sugar coat that

Yeah its better than mousset/mcburnie/brewster because we don't give others the opportunity sharp has played the full 90 for the majority

The only fair way to compare is to give the others a long run in the team like sharp id say mcburnie/mousset deserve that as IMO they have shown more in the 10 minutes they get than sharp has in the 12 matches

And Brewster well what's the point of him been here doesn't even get on the bench

The manager picks the team,if Mcburnie or Brewster can’t get a game it’s because he does’nt think they warrant a place.
Personally and seemingly in agreement with the manager,I would rate Mcburnie as 4th choice behind Billy,Goldie and Moose and Brewster as last resort.
Their price tags and their age has got nowt to do with it,they have had chances and not took em.This is obviously not a ’team building‘season, this season is about getting back to the prem.
We can’t wait till Brewster pulls his finger out of his arse or Mcburnie put his boots on the right feet.

 

[Gin&Juice]

The manager picks the team,if Mcburnie or Brewster can’t get a game it’s because he does’nt think they warrant a place.
Personally and seemingly in agreement with the manager,I would rate Mcburnie as 4th choice behind Billy,Goldie and Moose and Brewster as last resort.
Their price tags and their age has got nowt to do with it,they have had chances and not took em.This is obviously not a ’team building‘season, this season is about getting back to the prem.
We can’t wait till Brewster pulls his finger out of his arse or Mcburnie put his boots on the right feet.

I think we should play 5 strikers tonight. Lets see what they can do!

MUMBO NUMBER 5

 

[Rudders]

This is obviously not a ’team building‘season, this season is about getting back to the prem.
We can’t wait till Brewster pulls his finger out of his arse or Mcburnie put his boots on the right feet.

Agreed, but last time we got promoted Billy got 25 goals and Didz got 15. Neither are scoring at that rate so far and it would be fanciful to suggest that they will suddenly do that this season, 2+ years down the line when they are both in their thirties. They will probably end up c.10 goals each. Thats 20 goals short from your strikers.
Look at the leading scorers and 'assisters' in this division currently, we don't have anyone anywhere near getting on either list. We are not going to go up by solely using Didz and Sharp, the only way is if Moose or one of the other strikers suddenly bursts into life and smashes a load in.
If we want to get promoted we need to buy in some proven Championship firepower at Christmas - otherwise it will be about re-building this squad.
We will need to rebuild this squad anyway at the end of the season as the average age of the squad has shot up and we have huge deficiencies that will be exploited in the Premier League...

 

[S64 Blade]

The crux of the argument is:

Don't play our best striker because he's 35 and we have 2 young lads (who just happen to be shit) who we should play instead because they might come good at some point in the future

Sound logic.

Ah yeah but McBurnie is good at defending corners, so everything else goes out of the window...

Imagine arguing that we should be playing a defender who's got a good shot on them, but can't defend?

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Another annonymous performance from Sir Bill counted he touched the ball 7 times in that first half and lost it 6 times the 7th he scored a penalty which will no doubt save him from any criticism

Sharp isnt good enough it’s time we gave someone else a run as no9 and not just 10 minutes every other game like we do with moose/Mcburnie/brewster

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Sharp isnt good enough

The guy who is our top scorer this season and has scored more goals than all our other strikers combined?

That Billy Sharp?

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

The guy who is our top scorer this season and has scored more goals than all our other strikers combined?

That Billy Sharp?

Because he’s the only one who plays

It’s now 2 goals in 13 from open play

If he’s not scoring then he’s not offering us anything else and he shouldn’t be on that pitch

Its baffling the stick mcgoldrick will get tonight after missing a sitter but sharp puts in dismal performances for months and nothing

 

[The Steel Roses]

If you want Sheffield United to become a force at this level you have to do it without Billy Sharp I’m afraid, it’s time to move on and move up, sentiment gets you nowhere

 

[ForgeBlade]

Unrelated to his performances, but can people PLEASE stop saying he is 36!!? He's 2 months older than me, and neither I (nor Billy) are yet 36!

 

[Vass Borbokis]

The guy who is our top scorer this season and has scored more goals than all our other strikers combined?

That Billy Sharp?

I mean that's not really a valid argument.

He's had 941 minutes of league football this season and scored 2 goals from open play (Huddersfield and Hull).
Mouse for example has got 1 goal in just 93 minutes of league action.

McBurnie and Brewster have both only just crossed the 300 minute mark and granted, haven't scored, but the majority of those minutes came at the start of the season when let's face it, we were awful.

Since we've had a settled formation, MGW and Ndiaye in the side, ONLY Bill has started upfront.

Give the others a chance in a creative side before writing them off completely.

Sharp should not be starting week in week out, he needs to be an impact sub when we're pinning teams in/hoping to nick a goal.

 

[Champagneblade]

Another game, another goal contribution for Billy.

Well done lad, keep it going. That's 9 goal contributions this season including the cup.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Sharpe has to be the first name on the team sheet.

 

[jono_t2000]

Sharpe has to be the first name on the team sheet.

Fortunately we don't have a SharpE in the squad.

I do think our resident troll is being a bit harsh on Billy but I've said it before and will say it again, i don't think we have a 20 goal in a season striker on our books (yes I know Sharp and Mcb have done it before but that is then, this is now)

Unless it's a penalty or Sharp can get on his own created chances i do wonder where the goals will come from.

 

[Champagneblade]

Because he’s the only one who plays

It’s now 2 goals in 13 from open play

If he’s not scoring then he’s not offering us anything else and he shouldn’t be on that pitch

Its baffling the stick mcgoldrick will get tonight after missing a sitter but sharp puts in dismal performances for months and nothing

Ah yes, the old 'penalties don't count'.

If they are such gimmes then Brewster and McBurnie would have scored and we'd have knocked out Southampton.

I don't see how you can discount goals regardless of where they come from. Are we to start adding assists where others should have scored but didn't? MGW's missed open goal header and Bogle's effort cleared off the line on Saturday all from Billy's efforts.

He's got 5 goals and 4 assists in 15 matches, amounting to 1,007 minutes, aka 11 full games and 70 minutes.

Apart from Mousset, who is never consistently fit, I haven't seen anything in the last 2 seasons to suggest we are leaving someone out who betters his current contribution.

In fact, despite the 40m we spunked on them, I'd swap McBurnie and Brewster for Wallace and Cooper tomorrow and we'd be all the better for it!

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

Ah yes, the old 'penalties don't count'.

If they are such gimmes then Brewster and McBurnie would have scored and we'd have knocked out Southampton.

I don't see how you can discount goals regardless of where they come from. Are we to start adding assists where others should have scored but didn't? MGW's missed open goal header and Bogle's effort cleared off the line on Saturday all from Billy's efforts.

He's got 5 goals and 4 assists in 15 matches, amounting to 1,007 minutes, aka 11 full games and 70 minutes.

Apart from Mousset, who is never consistently fit, I haven't seen anything in the last 2 seasons to suggest we are leaving someone out who betters his current contribution.

In fact, despite the 40m we spunked on them, I'd swap McBurnie and Brewster for Wallace and Cooper tomorrow and we'd be all the better for it!

Sharp has been anonymous for most of the last 4 games. I can’t blame him though, he been asked to play 90+ minutes 3 times a week

 

[S64 Blade]

Was good the first half yesterday, held it up well. Second half anonymous, but perhaps not helped with the ten men. Should have been subbed really to have given us another outlet when we were a man down.

 

[metalblade]

I'm sorry but it is criminal to ask a 35yr old to play two games every week up front on his own. To me at the moment it looks like he is struggling and running in treacle in the last few games he has missed more chances than he has put away, late on last night even one of Millwall's cloggers out paced him for a ball down the channel.
The true crime here though is we had £28m worth of strikers on the bench last night who couldn't even get on the pitch plus around £30m worth of strikers who were seen as not good enough to even make the bench and all the while McGoldrick is missing one v one's and simple two yard tap in's.

 

[AnstonBlade1]

Slav must really think the rest of our strikers are crap to be playing 36 year old Billy for 90 minutes, there centre half’s we’re giants last night, Billy had no chance.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Was good the first half yesterday, held it up well. Second half anonymous, but perhaps not helped with the ten men. Should have been subbed really to have given us another outlet when we were a man down.

He was the worst player on the pitch first half every time he touched the ball he lost it we were already playing with 10 men with him upfront

 

[S64 Blade]

He was the worst player on the pitch first half every time he touched the ball he lost it we were already playing with 10 men with him upfront

Hi Oli.

 

[Rudders]

I'm sorry but it is criminal to ask a 35yr old to play two games every week up front on his own.

Playing nearly 36 year old Sharp up front on his own continually in every game flies in the face of sports science and analysis doesn't it. There won't be any another manager in any pro league in Europe doing that, I can guarantee that.
Maybe SJ is the genius and everyone else is wrong but the league table suggests otherwise.
I would start McBurnie against his former club at the weekend.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Hi Oli.

Mcburnie should be starting

Id start any one over sharp of Mcburnie/Moose/Brewster/Mcgoldrick/Burke