Blades v Bournemouth - Match Highlights
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Brian Deane
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Watching those highlights it looked as though it could have easily been another Newcastle. Cringeworthy.
shorehamview
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I’m not watching any of that. Not even at gunpoint. Shoot me. Just don’t press play.
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Not bothered about what Paul or any of the players have to say at all either. Complete apathy at this point. We're going to be looking at some record low PL crowds for us
Keen Blade
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Wes doesn’t even fight for the ball after misscontrolling it , pathetic , if we could have got in at ht at 0-1 , there was a chance of coming back in 2nd half but the Wes fuckup killed us
Should have been four immediately after it became three, if they convert from the rebound rather than hitting the side netting then it could have been. Semenyo in particular was having a field day
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No thank you.
Once was bad enough.
Once was bad enough.
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Difficult to know where to begin. The lack of quality throughout the game was clear, but tactically there needs to be questions asked about why a player like Hamer, bought to the club as a sometimes central/licence-to-roam midfielder, is played out of position. Far too often we looked green, naive, not prepared for the cut and thrust of Prem football, as if we were shellshocked, and all this against a side hardly what you'd call a quality outfit, but against the Blades, well it doesn't take much for us to be opened up and concede.
I've tried, and I'm still trying, to be objective, but I can't help but look at the root and branch naivety of this club. Any club worth it's weight in pride, whose focus should be on it's first team, should have a continual and informed approach to first team development. So what do little old Sheffield United do on their return to the Premier Division? They consider it a good move to bring in journeymen, with the potentially most expensive player weighing in at a reported £18mil (with a contract that allows him to return to the club we bought him for if we're relegated, which at the time of writing looks likely).
I'm writing this the day after the B'mouth game. There's a tangible absence of optimism, offset by anger from the supporters. Deserved I should add. Hard earned money is paid by supporters, and for what? Every supporter I know expected this season to be hard. Of course we'd lose games, far more than we've been used to, but it's the manner in which we lose that disappoints and angers supporters.
I'll finish by what has become a customary criticism of the prince (the absence of a capital 'P' on Abdullah's title shows my lack of deference for someone I hold in low regard). Quite early on I referred to him as a carpetbagger, a term originating from the aftermath of the American civil war. It describes someone who saw an opportunity based purely on economic gain, in this case the hope that SUFC would become a Prem club whose value would escalate. Unfortunately part of that equation seems to have been lost on the prince, as his desire for a sale that would pocket him tens of millions has blinded him to the consequence of not strengthening the team and giving us a chance of survival. To sell a club it needs to have certain things in place, and at the heart of those essentials is a team that suggests it has quality and the potential to improve. Abdullah, your plan to sell to the highest bidder has come unstuck. It's not as if you've played a blinder, your eye has, for too long, been on the prize, not the reasons for strengthening this squad so that improvement and longterm planning were the bedrock of our present and future.
I've tried, and I'm still trying, to be objective, but I can't help but look at the root and branch naivety of this club. Any club worth it's weight in pride, whose focus should be on it's first team, should have a continual and informed approach to first team development. So what do little old Sheffield United do on their return to the Premier Division? They consider it a good move to bring in journeymen, with the potentially most expensive player weighing in at a reported £18mil (with a contract that allows him to return to the club we bought him for if we're relegated, which at the time of writing looks likely).
I'm writing this the day after the B'mouth game. There's a tangible absence of optimism, offset by anger from the supporters. Deserved I should add. Hard earned money is paid by supporters, and for what? Every supporter I know expected this season to be hard. Of course we'd lose games, far more than we've been used to, but it's the manner in which we lose that disappoints and angers supporters.
I'll finish by what has become a customary criticism of the prince (the absence of a capital 'P' on Abdullah's title shows my lack of deference for someone I hold in low regard). Quite early on I referred to him as a carpetbagger, a term originating from the aftermath of the American civil war. It describes someone who saw an opportunity based purely on economic gain, in this case the hope that SUFC would become a Prem club whose value would escalate. Unfortunately part of that equation seems to have been lost on the prince, as his desire for a sale that would pocket him tens of millions has blinded him to the consequence of not strengthening the team and giving us a chance of survival. To sell a club it needs to have certain things in place, and at the heart of those essentials is a team that suggests it has quality and the potential to improve. Abdullah, your plan to sell to the highest bidder has come unstuck. It's not as if you've played a blinder, your eye has, for too long, been on the prize, not the reasons for strengthening this squad so that improvement and longterm planning were the bedrock of our present and future.
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Once upon a time, a Sheffield United team ridiculed by pundits, written off by experts and given little respect by opposition sides would have come out with liquid steel in their blood, spitting history of our greater days and thrown a tsunami of attacks at the opposition.
Yesterday summarised our efforts of trying to have a nice relaxing poo when suffering acute constipation.
What happened to passion? I didn’t go (still recovering). Watched it live and felt for the fans that turned out to watch that. Apart from Trusty and McB’s late effort I can’t give more than 1/10 for any player (Osula looked fresh and sharp but not enough time to make a mark).
Anel hero to zero
Wes is L1 swap with cash for Johansson at Rovverum
Thomas wtf ditto Osborn
Norwood? no, got nothing
McAtee, destroying his career as a potential Citteh future star
Hamer and Archer with McAtee as an attack is like having the Umpa Lumpas up against the BFG in goal.
My footy mojo has gone!
Yesterday summarised our efforts of trying to have a nice relaxing poo when suffering acute constipation.
What happened to passion? I didn’t go (still recovering). Watched it live and felt for the fans that turned out to watch that. Apart from Trusty and McB’s late effort I can’t give more than 1/10 for any player (Osula looked fresh and sharp but not enough time to make a mark).
Anel hero to zero
Wes is L1 swap with cash for Johansson at Rovverum
Thomas wtf ditto Osborn
Norwood? no, got nothing
McAtee, destroying his career as a potential Citteh future star
Hamer and Archer with McAtee as an attack is like having the Umpa Lumpas up against the BFG in goal.
My footy mojo has gone!
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Only just got round to watching the 'highlights'. It seems that most games we are out run by our opponents. I don't mind being out skilled but to be consistently out run is unforgiveable. I didn't expect us to finish above the bottom 3 but I did expect us to put up some sort of a fight - and by that I don't mean kicking the ball against someone's head at point blank range!
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