pommpey
THE FUTURE ... AS IT USED TO BE
- Banned
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Another disappointing outcome. United continue to make fucking hard work of easy tasks. Rotherham are truly no great shakes are they? I don't think we've actually played a team yet who have truly outclassed us but we've played a lot who have been allowed by us to make Sheffield United question why they are so many points ahead and looking like automatic anointment to the big time. Okay, again we didn't lose but like many games this season it still didn't reinforce my faith and if anything justifies where our weak areas are for next season. We won't get away with how we play games if we play like we did today and Hecky and his team have a hell of a job hucking out the shite and persuading the new owners what to buy to replace them and provide strength in depth just to finish out of the relegation zone. Rotherham aren't anywhere near the Premier League yet made us look distinctly ordinary and its that propensity for poor sides to make us look equally poor which worries me.
First half we start as we always do straight at them but as we always do (again) we fail to deliver punch after punch after punch which actually lands and puts the opponents against the ropes. True to form Rotherham looked fairly comfortable going in at 0-0 and emerged with a 'just do what you did in the first half' brief in their ears because as we've seen, Hecky is rubbish at change let alone making an early (and crucially the correct) substitution. The midfield today, although showing a slightly improving Berge, failed to take the ball up the middle and we relied too much on pointless, aimless and hopeful punts up the park to the front two who were being mauled under the nose of a shit referee. I have no idea why we don't run forward five yards, five more, lay left, run into space, receive, thread a pass and just keep it on the deck for a change.. It's what the midfield are for and its what chances generally come from. Our midfield has looked like a fucking 1.0 Morris Ital engine dropped into a fucking Sierra Cosworth shell. And other players also didn't pull their weight throughout todays game or failed to make good of the chances we had to come away with three points rather than a meagre one. Discounting the Deadpool Cup Tie (which we have to win if only to give us the chance of going out versus Harry Kane's Spurs FC plc) we have Swansea next week who will make sure we pay for our timid, light-touch output if we let them. And we'll let them, believe me.
Foderingham 6/10: Distribution a bit pish at times. Two good saves and in the right place for some of their attempts on goal
Bogle 4/10: Thought he had a poor game where it seemed his confidence and concentration looked suspect
Anel 4/10: No idea what has happened to him. Since coming back he's looked fragile, uncomposed and not willing to be that vanguard at the back and moving through into attack. As much as Basham is now 58 years old, it might be a good idea to bench Anel for a few games to work on him and restore that spark we know he has
Egan 6.5/10: As ever, marshalled the central of the back three and put a decent, if unremarkable shift. Hugill was a problem for him though
JLT 7/10: Almost Morgan-like in his duties. Committed, no-fucks-given and focussed
Lowe 6/10: Quiet game for him but did his job both high up the pitch and tracking back to defend despite being shirt handed over that side
Berge 6.5/10: A better game for him, if not wholly complete. Actually won headers, got into space and got involved, if with not much to show for it
Norwood 6.5/10: Seemed to be the only midfielder propping things up at times and wasn't unguilty of hoofing it again many times into nowhere
Osborn 3/10: Really dismal. Usual 'big effort' stuff but the footballing output was piss-poor. How he gets the nod over McAtee is a fucking mystery. In May, up or not, he needs to be moved on. I was always suspicious of Wilder buying him in the first place and over a few seasons has never delivered much beyond one-wipe bobbar and a dry trump for me.
NDaiye 6.5/10: As with most games, when we can't get our midfield firing on all three cylinders, it's the drivetrain that ends up struggling and NDaiye needs chances. He did dig out his own but they were scrappy half scuffs and times where he tried at least to take most of their team on.
McBurnie 7/10: Thought he had a decent game to be honest if a small part shithousy but in defence, their defence itself leant on him. Like NDaiye, he's starved of crosses (hang your fucking head in shame Osborn) or threaded balls to put him in. Give him that and we win the game.
McAtee 5/10: gave us a lot more than Osborn. Then again, if I came on at sixty years old now and a fair few stone overweight and unfit as fuck I think I'd do more than the Hecky's Hobbit. At least McAtee kept the ball on the deck and ran at them a bit rather than invite the fans to collectively yell 'Fuck's sake!' on shoutbox, on the terraces, in their living rooms or sat on the shithouse on a stream.
Sharp 4/10: No idea why we took McBurnie off. Sharp gave us fuck all. Hecky - this isn't the last game of the season in Sharp's testimonial year. We need McBurnie on to at least look like we'll score.
HJ&SMcC 5/10: We didn't win, we didn't lose but we did draw. Note the 'but' there. Although Burnleh are hiome and hosed now and Company can effectively send his first team on holiday right now, we are eventually going to start losing matches. And we know what we are like after that, don't we? We seem to be coasting nervously now rather than coasting with confidence. Rotherham should have been a game we come away as 2-0 winners but given the amount of wated effort doing fuck all and the chances we spurned, we need to start stronger against Swansea and kill them off in the first half and not tolerate going on the defence at any time in the game. We need to keep opposition teams moving and guessing rather than knowing we play it to the wingbacks. We need also to be hitting it from distance and testing keepers. When was the last time we scored a worldie?
Good voice from our fans today in a meagre crowd. Although I didn't pay for SUTV also, the club needs to hold those fuckers to account regarding the reliability of their output too.
pommpey
First half we start as we always do straight at them but as we always do (again) we fail to deliver punch after punch after punch which actually lands and puts the opponents against the ropes. True to form Rotherham looked fairly comfortable going in at 0-0 and emerged with a 'just do what you did in the first half' brief in their ears because as we've seen, Hecky is rubbish at change let alone making an early (and crucially the correct) substitution. The midfield today, although showing a slightly improving Berge, failed to take the ball up the middle and we relied too much on pointless, aimless and hopeful punts up the park to the front two who were being mauled under the nose of a shit referee. I have no idea why we don't run forward five yards, five more, lay left, run into space, receive, thread a pass and just keep it on the deck for a change.. It's what the midfield are for and its what chances generally come from. Our midfield has looked like a fucking 1.0 Morris Ital engine dropped into a fucking Sierra Cosworth shell. And other players also didn't pull their weight throughout todays game or failed to make good of the chances we had to come away with three points rather than a meagre one. Discounting the Deadpool Cup Tie (which we have to win if only to give us the chance of going out versus Harry Kane's Spurs FC plc) we have Swansea next week who will make sure we pay for our timid, light-touch output if we let them. And we'll let them, believe me.
Foderingham 6/10: Distribution a bit pish at times. Two good saves and in the right place for some of their attempts on goal
Bogle 4/10: Thought he had a poor game where it seemed his confidence and concentration looked suspect
Anel 4/10: No idea what has happened to him. Since coming back he's looked fragile, uncomposed and not willing to be that vanguard at the back and moving through into attack. As much as Basham is now 58 years old, it might be a good idea to bench Anel for a few games to work on him and restore that spark we know he has
Egan 6.5/10: As ever, marshalled the central of the back three and put a decent, if unremarkable shift. Hugill was a problem for him though
JLT 7/10: Almost Morgan-like in his duties. Committed, no-fucks-given and focussed
Lowe 6/10: Quiet game for him but did his job both high up the pitch and tracking back to defend despite being shirt handed over that side
Berge 6.5/10: A better game for him, if not wholly complete. Actually won headers, got into space and got involved, if with not much to show for it
Norwood 6.5/10: Seemed to be the only midfielder propping things up at times and wasn't unguilty of hoofing it again many times into nowhere
Osborn 3/10: Really dismal. Usual 'big effort' stuff but the footballing output was piss-poor. How he gets the nod over McAtee is a fucking mystery. In May, up or not, he needs to be moved on. I was always suspicious of Wilder buying him in the first place and over a few seasons has never delivered much beyond one-wipe bobbar and a dry trump for me.
NDaiye 6.5/10: As with most games, when we can't get our midfield firing on all three cylinders, it's the drivetrain that ends up struggling and NDaiye needs chances. He did dig out his own but they were scrappy half scuffs and times where he tried at least to take most of their team on.
McBurnie 7/10: Thought he had a decent game to be honest if a small part shithousy but in defence, their defence itself leant on him. Like NDaiye, he's starved of crosses (hang your fucking head in shame Osborn) or threaded balls to put him in. Give him that and we win the game.
McAtee 5/10: gave us a lot more than Osborn. Then again, if I came on at sixty years old now and a fair few stone overweight and unfit as fuck I think I'd do more than the Hecky's Hobbit. At least McAtee kept the ball on the deck and ran at them a bit rather than invite the fans to collectively yell 'Fuck's sake!' on shoutbox, on the terraces, in their living rooms or sat on the shithouse on a stream.
Sharp 4/10: No idea why we took McBurnie off. Sharp gave us fuck all. Hecky - this isn't the last game of the season in Sharp's testimonial year. We need McBurnie on to at least look like we'll score.
HJ&SMcC 5/10: We didn't win, we didn't lose but we did draw. Note the 'but' there. Although Burnleh are hiome and hosed now and Company can effectively send his first team on holiday right now, we are eventually going to start losing matches. And we know what we are like after that, don't we? We seem to be coasting nervously now rather than coasting with confidence. Rotherham should have been a game we come away as 2-0 winners but given the amount of wated effort doing fuck all and the chances we spurned, we need to start stronger against Swansea and kill them off in the first half and not tolerate going on the defence at any time in the game. We need to keep opposition teams moving and guessing rather than knowing we play it to the wingbacks. We need also to be hitting it from distance and testing keepers. When was the last time we scored a worldie?
Good voice from our fans today in a meagre crowd. Although I didn't pay for SUTV also, the club needs to hold those fuckers to account regarding the reliability of their output too.
pommpey
