pommpey
THE FUTURE ... AS IT USED TO BE
- Banned
- #1
Bit of a truncated My take as I only managed to get a stream on 35 minutes, by which time C3PO had lost his leg again and given Wolves the lead. Seems like it's his stock-in-trade doesn't it? And still players such as he are not transfer-listed.
It also seems to me that the margin between teams like us and teams like Wolves is 'class'. Whilst Wolves own players who can turn shit on and put teams like us to the sword ... or bring players on who simply go through the gears to do that, we huff and puff with players way below what their bought value was and still rely on three or so old-school evergreens - Sharp, McGoldrick and Basham mainly - to prop up a creaking setup bereft with errors and fuck ups and lapses in concentration. Don't get me wrong, I thought today we still showed we are a better prospect than Slavs shower of don't-wanna-play-like-this losers. We gave Wolves a bit of a game in periods, but we strained and we struggled, and we endeavoured to either overplay it, put in a shit cross or find row Z without their keeper being much troubled. Okay, Didsy missed a sitter and Sharps goal should have stood but we have Tierney who is basically David Ellerary's and Graham Poll's bastard lovechild. We were never gonna get a decision out of him. But for us we have ostensibly low-rent tryhards playing for us. Osborn would be fucking outstanding in Div One, Robinson possibly in the Sheffield Sunday League, players like Hourihane elsewhere but nowhere near our squad. We need a revamp and we need to start right now if we are not to be seen as a failing club again, despite recent resurgences. There's no way we should be stepping up, for example, to allow their two last goals and simply allowing them to be played onside. But we did. It's naivety and it's something we are great at. Its that stuff which remind us of what we actually are, and it sucks a satchel of big dicks.
We brought on substitutes and moved from 5-3-2 to 3-4-2-1 but we still looked vulnerable and behind the speed of play and to me it was only a matter of time before they went further ahead. It was a game that had some small plusses but really was a litmus test of our lack of strength in depth. We played our best and it wasn't good enough so any thoughts of playoffs>autos>promotion need to be tempered.
Outside of this we have a shitload of deadbeat players we now need to have a fire sale for and build the squad around the three veterans to move ahead ... then get solutions for them as they retire ... if we are to move forward. Today was a lesson where we need to be at and we are still a long way from that.
Foderingham 5/10: Fairly blame free game until his gaffe out wide in the box. Loses two points for that
RND 5/10: He's still a bit more fragile than Stevens, especially in the challenge
Robinson 2/10: We need Jack to be moved on now, bless him
Gordon 4/10: He's no Egan. There's room for development but he was caught too far up the pitch at times
Basham 6/10: Still seems to be in the right place and do the right thing, especially when we moved him into midfield
Bogle 5/10: I like Bogle. He's about the only signing Wilder made who has discharged his responsibility adequately but fuck me ... that cross in the second half
Osborn 4/10: Still Timmy Tryhard but nothing on the end of it. He is indicative of 'the gulf in class'
Hourihane 3.5/10: Cut price Norwood
Berge 4.5/10: An unremarkable outing for him
Sharp 5.5/10: Still the only player when the ball is pumped forward you can guarantee he is on the end of it or is challenging
McGoldrick 4/10: Fairly 'okay' game apart from the sitter, for which he loses a point
Freeman 3/10: Way past his best. Wolves bring Moutinho on, we bring Freeman on. Point made. He's like another Jose Baxter to me
Burke 2/10: Like Robinson, I sincerely hope this is his last game in an United shirt. He's fucking rubbish. His FIFA22 player is far better than him even with the settings tweaked downwards
Norwood 3/10: Came on. Started pointing. Did fuck all.
Ndaiye 5/10: At least tried to link and make openings, even though the game was done by the time he was on
No shows for Egan (off to 'Boro, I reckon) Brewster (gerrim selt) McBurnie (I think he's simply fucked off), Davies (?), Baldock (?), Fleck (?), Guediora (lol, he's just this season's Rodwell, isn't he?) and fucking sicknote Moussett.
This January Transfer Window is the best chance for us to straighten out the kinks in our squad and get us all facing the same direction.
pommpey
It also seems to me that the margin between teams like us and teams like Wolves is 'class'. Whilst Wolves own players who can turn shit on and put teams like us to the sword ... or bring players on who simply go through the gears to do that, we huff and puff with players way below what their bought value was and still rely on three or so old-school evergreens - Sharp, McGoldrick and Basham mainly - to prop up a creaking setup bereft with errors and fuck ups and lapses in concentration. Don't get me wrong, I thought today we still showed we are a better prospect than Slavs shower of don't-wanna-play-like-this losers. We gave Wolves a bit of a game in periods, but we strained and we struggled, and we endeavoured to either overplay it, put in a shit cross or find row Z without their keeper being much troubled. Okay, Didsy missed a sitter and Sharps goal should have stood but we have Tierney who is basically David Ellerary's and Graham Poll's bastard lovechild. We were never gonna get a decision out of him. But for us we have ostensibly low-rent tryhards playing for us. Osborn would be fucking outstanding in Div One, Robinson possibly in the Sheffield Sunday League, players like Hourihane elsewhere but nowhere near our squad. We need a revamp and we need to start right now if we are not to be seen as a failing club again, despite recent resurgences. There's no way we should be stepping up, for example, to allow their two last goals and simply allowing them to be played onside. But we did. It's naivety and it's something we are great at. Its that stuff which remind us of what we actually are, and it sucks a satchel of big dicks.
We brought on substitutes and moved from 5-3-2 to 3-4-2-1 but we still looked vulnerable and behind the speed of play and to me it was only a matter of time before they went further ahead. It was a game that had some small plusses but really was a litmus test of our lack of strength in depth. We played our best and it wasn't good enough so any thoughts of playoffs>autos>promotion need to be tempered.
Outside of this we have a shitload of deadbeat players we now need to have a fire sale for and build the squad around the three veterans to move ahead ... then get solutions for them as they retire ... if we are to move forward. Today was a lesson where we need to be at and we are still a long way from that.
Foderingham 5/10: Fairly blame free game until his gaffe out wide in the box. Loses two points for that
RND 5/10: He's still a bit more fragile than Stevens, especially in the challenge
Robinson 2/10: We need Jack to be moved on now, bless him
Gordon 4/10: He's no Egan. There's room for development but he was caught too far up the pitch at times
Basham 6/10: Still seems to be in the right place and do the right thing, especially when we moved him into midfield
Bogle 5/10: I like Bogle. He's about the only signing Wilder made who has discharged his responsibility adequately but fuck me ... that cross in the second half
Osborn 4/10: Still Timmy Tryhard but nothing on the end of it. He is indicative of 'the gulf in class'
Hourihane 3.5/10: Cut price Norwood
Berge 4.5/10: An unremarkable outing for him
Sharp 5.5/10: Still the only player when the ball is pumped forward you can guarantee he is on the end of it or is challenging
McGoldrick 4/10: Fairly 'okay' game apart from the sitter, for which he loses a point
Freeman 3/10: Way past his best. Wolves bring Moutinho on, we bring Freeman on. Point made. He's like another Jose Baxter to me
Burke 2/10: Like Robinson, I sincerely hope this is his last game in an United shirt. He's fucking rubbish. His FIFA22 player is far better than him even with the settings tweaked downwards
Norwood 3/10: Came on. Started pointing. Did fuck all.
Ndaiye 5/10: At least tried to link and make openings, even though the game was done by the time he was on
No shows for Egan (off to 'Boro, I reckon) Brewster (gerrim selt) McBurnie (I think he's simply fucked off), Davies (?), Baldock (?), Fleck (?), Guediora (lol, he's just this season's Rodwell, isn't he?) and fucking sicknote Moussett.
This January Transfer Window is the best chance for us to straighten out the kinks in our squad and get us all facing the same direction.
pommpey
