Wigan Review/Cov Preview - Red Half of Sheffield

[Nessman930]

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We review Sheffield United's 1-2 away win at Wigan Athletic and preview our upcoming Boxing Day fixture against Coventry City with Glenn Watkin of SkyBlueFansTV

 

[biggiesablade]

Cheers boys! Nice to see you still knocking round on ere and not fucked off to start a pod on a Sky

 

[Fatlad666]

1st time I've listened to you, excellent keep up the good work

 

[Nessman930]

1st time I've listened to you, excellent keep up the good work

Cheers mate! Thanks for listening!

 

[Sneinton Blade 1952]

This sounded like Sheffield United being discussed on The Muppet Show ...

 

[lazyfecklessblade]

This sounded like Sheffield United being discussed on The Muppet Show ...

To be fair given some of the co-comms teams we were subjected to during the world cup, I'd take Statler and Waldorf in the press box.

 

[Nessman930]

This sounded like Sheffield United being discussed on The Muppet Show ..

By Chad’s own admission he has a certain Kermit the Frog quality to his voice.

 

[Cappy]

By Chad’s own admission he has a certain Kermit the Frog quality to his voice.

I haven’t listened to it yet but now all I will hear is Kermit. So thanks for that



That Miss Piggy was a bit rapey, wasn’t she. Haven’t seen her on the tv recently. Did Kermit report her finally? She should have focussed on Gonzo. More in it for her.

 

[Sheffsteel]

I haven’t listened to it yet but now all I will hear is Kermit. So thanks for that

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That Miss Piggy was a bit rapey, wasn’t she. Haven’t seen her on the tv recently. Did Kermit report her finally? She should have focussed on Gonzo. More in it for her.

I've been listening to all of the podcasts and never thought of the Kermit connection, now you mention it ha ha I can't stop picturing Kermit doing this podcast.

The match was a bit weird. We were totally in control 1st half, looked a clear class above a very poor Wigan side.
The only concern was we were only 1-0 up at half-time when our performance deserved more goals.
Wigan slightly improved 2nd half (they couldn't be any worse) but we still clearly looked the better side.
Once we made it 2-0 you sensed that was "game over" BUT this is United we're talking about.
At 2-0 up we took out foot off the pedal and decided to sit back defending or maybe it was more to do with our midfield running out of gas and being over run.
Berge and McAtee (our midfield) were really good in the 1st half but both struggled 2nd half allowing Wigan to dominate possession.
Wigan pulled it back to 2-1 and for the last 10 minutes we just parked the bus defending. When ever we got the ball we just desperately booted it back to their players.
Always a dangerous tactic to sit back defending (inviting pressure) but Wigan struggled to create anything.
In the end it was a comfortable and deserved win, the down side is we almost messed up drawing a game that we could have won 3 or 4-0.

Regards XG it can sometimes be slightly misleading because Wigan only had 1 real chance but it was almost an open goal
3 yards out, so their goal would have contributed 0.9 towards their XG.