And he's our goalkeeper. That was the worst goalkeeping effort I have ever seen in my life. Please god get an emergency keeper before saturday.
hear hearm mucker. Long had an absolute mare today. You can dress it up however you want, but he was crap. 17, powder puff defence etc. He was shite. Not as bad as Baxter, but has to go down as one of the worst keeping performance I've seen at BDTBL.
To be fair the goals weren't down to him ,one was deflected and Williams and Maguire should have dealt with the others.
what nonsense.
Williams' first job is to defend. Nervous back five, 17 year old lad low on experience in the net, the ball should be leaving the area and out for a throw in without a second thought.
here we got again. United-ites defending the indefensible. Long had a tertible game. At fault for 3 of their goals.
With Simmonsen in net we'd have won easy today!
George may have not pulled up any roots with a sterling performance but was he solely to blame. Was he shit!
Williams fucked about with the first, LSF George was already there ready to claim under pressure Williams should have cleared the ball. Collins bottled his block and turned his back on the ball instead of standing stong, though it was an odd deflection that wrong footed Long. Monty should have made about three tackles before their player was able to make a cross to the back post. Even then what was Quinny doing playing their player onside, and Harry didn't put any effort into his header and missed it. Still then after Long tried to close the ball down, our whole back line just stood and watched the shot instead of someone covering the line. And this is all whilst considering, Wilson's fucking, tactic was to sit back and try and defend the lead at 3 - 2 instead of trying to kill the game off, when in recent games our defenders have shown they aren't capable of this. There was far more experience on and off the field that were questionable before the 17 year Goalie.
I despair. More Blades fans defending rubbish. Ah George is only 17, he is a Sheffielder. He was fucking crap yesterday and cost us points. 3 of the goals were clearly his fault.
1st and 4th goals Long was clearly at fault..Williams would have cleared it for the first if Long had told him too. The 4th goal you would be dissappointed to concede as a goalie at Sunday League level.
However Quinn and Monty were very poor today put the worst player on the pitch today was Maguire. He has been poor in quite a few games lately and teams are playing off him. Time for LJF to come in at centre half ?
As for Collins,thought he was the only one of our back 4 who tried to defend today and actually did well
This is true. Long cost us points, but oithers played poorly. Maguire was awful or their 4th (and should take some of the blame), the midfield (particularly Monty) was shocking for their 2nd (letting a player run unopposed for 40 yards), Williams dallied on the first and the third could easily have been prevented.
Quinn was shocking today. Constantly coming inside and narrowing the field of play,. a poor touch, wasteful and often going missing. I'd drop him for the game on Sturday. Lowton has been poor for a while and defensiely he was awful yesterday. I'd seriosuly think about dropping him and with Ertl coming back then maybe he should replace him.
Why will Long be a good keeper? I have seen nothing at Academy games (saw 7 or 8 last year) and the Youth Cup games to suggest this. Seriously. He is ordinary I am afraid but as you say should be nowhere near the first team.
As the first goal anyone who has played in goal knows it was his fault. He shuld have come and got the ball. He could see everythign in front of him and whilst some may blame Williams;the goalkeeper has to come and command. He was not great on the third aand the fourth he dithered badl. There was numerous other incidents when he was so indecivie. Whetehr he is 37 or 17; does not matter; he had a mare. He should be nowhere near the first team the rest of the season btu unfortuneatley nor should Simonsen. He has to get a keeper in. And a centre half. We look woeful at the back and when teams like Exter score 4 and could have had a lot more that says it all about how poor we are.
Finally someone talking sense. Long had a shocker ysterday an that is that. With Simmonsens in net we'd have won the game. If we had a semi decent keeper on the books, we'd be top 2!!?
First goal was a long way away, but it seemed Long should have come. Williams could probably have dealt with it, but I expected the kepper to smother it.
Second goal not Long's fault. Terrible defending, allowing a player to run 40 yards and skip past 3 or 4 challengers. He was not Maraddona for fucks sake, he plays in the third tier for Exeter.
3rd goal Long was at fault. No need for him to come out and if he stays on his line then they don't score. That was like watching Simmo! Monty should have not allowed the ceross, the player should never have bneen left alone and it was possibly offside. But Long made the header really easy (it trickled over the line into the middle of the goal). If Long stayts put then the guy hs a lot to do to beat him.
4th goal Long was at fault again. Maguire has to take his share of the blame for missing the header and losing his man. However Long comes rushing out and makes it easy for the striker Again, the ball trickled into the middle of the net. I think Long lost where his goal was. If he stays on his line, or narrows the angle properly then the strikers has a difficult job to beat him. Long made it easy for him and it should go down as a keeping mistake.
Before the we :heart: mediocrity brigade reply think about this. Keepers are paid to stop shots. A goalkeepers job is to stop the ball going in the net. You can blame the outfield players all you want, but keepers should make saves. With a decent keeper in goal, we'd have won easily yesterday. Our keeper had an absolute nightmare and that is that!
