We were “ok”last night

[FallowfieldBlade]

If the manager thinks that’s ok the players will do too

Shambolic performance and they should be doing laps of shirecliffe this morning

 

[AnstonBlade1]

If the manager thinks that’s ok the players will do too

Shambolic performance and they should be doing laps of shirecliffe this morning

Should make them sit and watch the whole game back, they would probably fall asleep mind.

 

[Champagneblade]

Losing to Rotherham at home is not ok.

Neither is throwing away leads and subsequently points to Birmingham and Blackpool.

Also not ok with the amateurish head start we gave out in the Norwich game.

Neither was QPR at home ok.

That's 5 homes games where we've thrown away points. You can't afford so many bad days at the office before you come unstuck.

The message has to be that none of the above is ok at all.

We're practically begging Watford to catch us up when they should be well behind on the rest view mirror, an unconvincing Norwich too.

 

[BettingBlade]

Its ok in the sense that it happens so often that it doesnt even register as a bad performance anymore.

Thats just what we are an ok Championship team. Shame really cause we could be so much better.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

I thought second half we were "okay" but poor first half. If Egan scored that chance early in second half we'd have won easily.

Shit happens.

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

If the manager thinks that’s ok the players will do too

Shambolic performance and they should be doing laps of shirecliffe this morning

love his interviews normally but just wish for once he'd show a bit of anger or throw a Wilder strop. That performance last night was pants.

 

[Carlton Blade]

If the manager thinks that’s ok the players will do too

Shambolic performance and they should be doing laps of shirecliffe this morning

It's almost as if slagging the players off in public is counter productive

 

[west_yorks_blade]

If the manager thinks that’s ok the players will do too

Shambolic performance and they should be doing laps of shirecliffe this morning

New day, new attempt to WUM fellow blades into infractions.

Very sad.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

It's almost as if slagging the players off in public is counter productive

There's a difference between slagging the players off and calling it how it is

Wilder sent years calling it how it was and he is the most successful manager we have had in recent years

 

[BettingBlade]

It's almost as if slagging the players off in public is counter productive

Tbf. Wilder started with about 1 a season which seemed to do the trick. Then he started slagging them off every other week, along with the board, his fucking window cleaner and the postman etc etc.

 

[Carlton Blade]

There's a difference between slagging the players off and calling it how it is

Wilder sent years calling it how it was and he is the most successful manager we have had in recent years

No he didn't. He said whatever it took to make it look like he was "super football manager man who get's the punters and keeps it real"

You haven't got a clue what was said in the dressing room or will be said at training.

Let's be honest, you haven't got a clue about anything

 

[Stretch]

We were crap. Totally lacking energy and ideas. Fair play to Rotherham though.

I am probably more annoyed because it was a local derby, and a terrific chance to capitalise on a great run of results, but fucking hell it was disappointing.

Before the game I was all for an unchanged team, and I don't blame Hecky for the selection, but rather than acting swiftly like he did against Bristol, it felt like he was happy to let this one drift until it was too late.

If we win on Saturday, yesterday is just a slip up, but I am not overly confident that the main 11 have enough gas in the tank.

 

[Bladeulike]

Not a great interview and has that tone of ‘well that’s the way it goes sometimes’. I appreciate Hecky likes to keep a level head but would like to have seen a bit more fire rather than resignation about him. He doesn’t have to dig out players but words like ‘completely unacceptable’ would be more fitting than ‘below the standards we set’. I’m becoming unsure exactly what our standards are - Bristol City away? Watford away? QPR at home? This more fatalist approach is doing my head in a bit. I heard the SMcC interview yesterday and the only part I didn’t like was when he said about ‘avoiding complacency’. For me, completely the wrong narrative. Complacency is for the likes of Man City , not us. If we are having to ‘avoid complacency’ then we are in trouble - should be a word a million miles away from even being used.

Unsure to what extent events on the pitch are being influenced by the management team (not enough in my view). Hecky praises Norwood for his involvement. Fair enough and he is having a good season generally. However, a team of professionals with genuine aspirations of reaching the Prem should have the integrity and honesty to say that Norwood shouldn’t be anywhere near free kicks. Dangerous positions completely wasted and wouldn’t be out of place in a Sunday league team. Why hasn’t this been addressed? What are our ‘standards’ when it comes to free kicks?? Time to get a grip of the team and make managerial decisions such as Norwood should not take free kicks not simply keep on taking them because he always has. Amateur an unprofessional

Let’s at least get a draw on Saturday and move on to a more fit team after the WC. Let’s also set some basic standards that mean we won’t keep making the same errors against teams we should be putting to the sword

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Tbf. Wilder started with about 1 a season which seemed to do the trick. Then he started slagging them off every other week, along with the board, his fucking window cleaner and the postman etc etc.

He was here for 5 years it worked for 4 1/2 years

All the best managers say it like it is

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

Rotherham came with a game plan & executed it extremely well. This happens in football (regardless of who the opponent are) & if you play to your strengths, you give yourself the best chance of getting a result.

That’s exactly what happened last night. We got harassed from minute 1 to minute 90. No space around the Rotherham penalty area, no time on the ball for any of our creators & as a result, we only got a couple of half chances. So did they, & they took their big chance - We didn’t. Sometimes, you just have to say “fair fucks” to the opposition. We were beaten by the better side on the night.

Move on.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Rotherham came with a game plan & executed it extremely well. This happens in football (regardless of who the opponent are) & if you play to your strengths, you give yourself the best chance of getting a result.

That’s exactly what happened last night. We got harassed from minute 1 to minute 90. No space around the Rotherham penalty area, no time on the ball for any of our creators & as a result, we only got a couple of half chances. So did they, & they took their big chance - We didn’t. Sometimes, you just have to say “fair fucks” to the opposition. We were beaten by the better side on the night.

Move on.

" This happens in football "

Its happening all the time with us id say in the last 10 games we have played properly well for about 40 minutes v burnley

The problem is hecky thinks our main strengths are a JLT or a corner

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

" This happens in football "

Its happening all the time with us id say in the last 10 games we have played properly well for about 40 minutes v burnley

The problem is hecky thinks our main strengths are a JLT or a corner

We’re 3 points off top of the league after 20 games.

It certainly is not “happening all the time” is it?

 

[Bladeulike]

Rotherham came with a game plan & executed it extremely well. This happens in football (regardless of who the opponent are) & if you play to your strengths, you give yourself the best chance of getting a result.

That’s exactly what happened last night. We got harassed from minute 1 to minute 90. No space around the Rotherham penalty area, no time on the ball for any of our creators & as a result, we only got a couple of half chances. So did they, & they took their big chance - We didn’t. Sometimes, you just have to say “fair fucks” to the opposition. We were beaten by the better side on the night.

Move on.

Fair point and we were beaten by the better team on the night. No problem with that. However, we do need to learn from the performance and some of the issues weren’t related to being beaten by a better team. Free kicks, timing and nature of substitutions, fresh legs sitting on the bench whilst many on the pitch we’re clearly flagging badly, an inability to adapt our style against a pressing game are just some examples of endemic problems that don’t appear to be being addressed by the management. It feels as though it’s up to the players to decide in-game how to adapt.

No knee jerk reaction needed and we are still sitting pretty in the league but this is a good squad and last night’s performance highlights that rinse and repeat isn’t a good strategy

 

[Harry's Game]

There's a difference between slagging the players off and calling it how it is

Wilder sent years calling it how it was and he is the most successful manager we have had in recent years

and in the end no one wanted to play for him…

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

I don’t know the bloke but he comes across as a bit of a wet fart who hasn’t got a bollocking in him. Can you imagine Fergie, Clough etc putting up with that effort last night? Said it many times, can stand us losing but when the players look disinterested that really does boil my piss. If Hecky thinks that performance was ok last night he wants his bumps feeling and it gives the players the excuse to put in performances like that when they cant be arsed. Not good enough all round.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

It's almost as if slagging the players off in public is counter productive

Always considered that should never be done and things said in the changing room should stay in the changing room and the royal "we" should be used for the media.

That said I would have liked to seen more impact from the half time team talk but nothing seemed to change.

We seem to be subbing subs quite a lot these days too!

 

[cahill]

Côme on Hecky lad you can’t do this to us. Making us nervous wrecks

 

[shorehamview]

No he didn't. He said whatever it took to make it look like he was "super football manager man who get's the punters and keeps it real"

You haven't got a clue what was said in the dressing room or will be said at training.

Let's be honest, you haven't got a clue about anything

A harsh but fair assessment. FACT.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

No he didn't. He said whatever it took to make it look like he was "super football manager man who get's the punters and keeps it real"

You haven't got a clue what was said in the dressing room or will be said at training.

Let's be honest, you haven't got a clue about anything

When i see Paul heckingbottom i dont see a leader of men which is what you have to be to gain the respect of 30 players to motivate them to go out and put performances in week after week

Im judging that based on the way the team plays one good performance every 4or5 games and his interviews where he couldnt inspire a wet fart

I like the bloke but as a football manager he has been dealt a very very good hand at this level

Instead of saying i don't have a clue tell me what about the stuff I'm saying is wrong

After every performance wilder called it for what it was if we won and were crap or poor and scraped a win he'd call a spade a spade

If hecky wont call out crap performances then the players will assume that its ok to play bang average every week which they have bar 30 minute here and there

 

[ATL Recs]

He was here for 5 years it worked for 4 1/2 years

All the best managers say it like it is

worked for 3 3/4 years

 

[robbiez666]

When i see Paul heckingbottom i dont see a leader of men which is what you have to be to gain the respect of 30 players to motivate them to go out and put performances in week after week

Im judging that based on the way the team plays one good performance every 4or5 games and his interviews where he couldnt inspire a wet fart

I like the bloke but as a football manager he has been dealt a very very good hand at this level

Instead of saying i don't have a clue tell me what about the stuff I'm saying is wrong

After every performance wilder called it for what it was if we won and were crap or poor and scraped a win he'd call a spade a spade

If hecky wont call out crap performances then the players will assume that its ok to play bang average every week which they have bar 30 minute here and there

When I see FallowfieldBlade I don't see an expert on football , let alone a Sheffield United fan.

 

[ATL Recs]

When i see Paul heckingbottom i dont see a leader of men which is what you have to be to gain the respect of 30 players to motivate them to go out and put performances in week after week

Im judging that based on the way the team plays one good performance every 4or5 games and his interviews where he couldnt inspire a wet fart

I like the bloke but as a football manager he has been dealt a very very good hand at this level

Instead of saying i don't have a clue tell me what about the stuff I'm saying is wrong

After every performance wilder called it for what it was if we won and were crap or poor and scraped a win he'd call a spade a spade

If hecky wont call out crap performances then the players will assume that its ok to play bang average every week which they have bar 30 minute here and there

You bloody idiot what is said in public and to the media is not how it goes down, I can guarantee you.

 

[Carlton Blade]

When i see Paul heckingbottom i dont see a leader of men which is what you have to be to gain the respect of 30 players to motivate them to go out and put performances in week after week

Im judging that based on the way the team plays one good performance every 4or5 games and his interviews where he couldnt inspire a wet fart

I like the bloke but as a football manager he has been dealt a very very good hand at this level

Instead of saying i don't have a clue tell me what about the stuff I'm saying is wrong

After every performance wilder called it for what it was if we won and were crap or poor and scraped a win he'd call a spade a spade

If hecky wont call out crap performances then the players will assume that its ok to play bang average every week which they have bar 30 minute here and there

He literally took a team that was down on it's arse last season and led it up the table to the playoffs. Not a single player has grumbled publicly about anything he's done. Who cares about the egofest that is manager press conferences, it's just pantomime for the fans.

Just because he doesn't shout at journalists doesn't mean he doesn't have the respect of everyone at the club. By all means have issues with his matchday tactics and changes, I certainly do. But I don't question his management of the players as actual people. Because he's really fucking good at it

 

[United Aren't Back.]

New day, new attempt to WUM fellow blades into infractions.

Very sad.

He's not worth it.
A Wednesday or Leeds fan is worthy of your tome by comparison to that.

 

[JJBlade]

I said it since Saturday what was going to happen.

A draw with Burnley and we'd have won last night

But dispatching Burnley convincingly meant the wankers could have a day off, feeling they'd be free from criticism.

Total unprofessionalism that plagues this club because we, like most clubs have players that basically don't give a fuck, not really, and at least not often enough.

Because we will never have players that give a fuck often enough, and are quite prepared to rest on their laurels when they get a good result we can only ever have a modicum of success with a certain type of manager.

A Bassett, a Warnock or a Wilder, a snarling, raging, nasty type that will not let the players switch off and toss it off after a good result.

This is the only thing that has ever worked for us because we are never going to have the best players no matter what division we're playing in.

So, nice guys like Slav and Spackman and Hecky that try to get us playing a certain way will always fail, because the players are directionless and unmotivated cunts that need a rocket up their arses constantly to level them up with other teams