18/12/10 - Sheffield United v. Swansea City

[Linz]

This is the match thread for Saturday's game for:

• Predictions
• Line-ups
• In-game chat
• Post-match reaction

Weather permitting as more snow is forecast for Thursday.

 

[ListerBlade]

new managers first match?

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

new managers first match?

Unless you think Carver is going to be the new manager

 

[SteelCity Blade]

Simonsen
Lowton, Bartley, Nosworthy, Taylor
Yeates, Britton, Montgomery, Reid
Ward, Evans

Aksalu, Calve, Batth, Ertl, Quinn, Williamson, Slew​

Blades to win 1-0 with a good performance in front of the prospective gaffer

Scorer.....Reid!

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

it will be snowed off

Well it's a prediction!

 

[bartman]

Simonsen
Lowton, Bartley, Nosworthy, Taylor
Yeates, Britton, Montgomery, Reid
Evans, Bogdanovic

Aksalu, Calve, Batth, Ertl, Quinn, Ward, Slew​

Blades to win 1-0 with a good performance in front of the prospective gaffer

Scorer.....Bogdanovic!

Boggy will do well do score....he is still banned !!!

 

[Kev Gee]

im going for a draw.

1-1. (yeates for us)

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

it will be snowed off

Well it's a prediction!

Or maybe it won't in which case 2-1 Swansea

 

[SteelCity Blade]

Boggy will do well do score....he is still banned !!!

Quite right sir. I had initially counted the Reading game when looking down our fixtures (which obviously doesnt count).

Lineup and scorer edited, taking into account Willo is available for the squad as well now according to OS.

 

[bartman]

Simmo
Lowton Noz Bartley Taylor(tempted to say Koz)
Yeates,Monty,Quinn.Reid
Evans Slew

subs-Aksalu,Koz,Ironside,Britton,Ertl,Calve,Wlliamson

If Slew doesn't play...put Quinn up front and play Britton

win 4-0 Evans hatrick and one for Reid

crowd 18500

We are gonna have a big win one match this season aren't we ?:thumbup:

 

[Kopped]

Simmo
Lowton, Ronny, Bartley, Taylor
Calve, Britton, Reid, Yeates
Ward, Evans

Subs:
Aksalu, Batth, Williamson, Montgomery, Quinn, Slew, Ertl

Blades 3-1 Swansea

Ward 2, Reid : Pratley

Crowd 17093

 

[S5Blade]

Blades 1-2 Swansea

Yeates for us

Crowd 18,546

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

A swansea win for me too, and if he plays Cotterill to have a stormer and maybe score and take the piss down the flanks. Never got much of a chance with us imo.

 

[shorehamview]

Cold. Miserable. Grumpy. Cold. No beer - driving. Cold. Fizzy pop. Cigar. Cold. No pie. Cold. Grumpy. Seat frozen. Cold. Rubbish. Cold. Welsh twats. Cold. Miserable. Snotty. Sneezing. Cold. Shivering. Cold. Shaking like a shitting dog. Cold. Numb. Cold. Cigar. Cold. Car cold. Grumpy. Cold. Polar bear wandering up Abbeydale Road. Cold. Snottier. Praise or grumble? Fucking guess. Seth. Twat. Caller not been to Dingle game but heard terrific commentary, just for a change. Car too hot now. Grumpy. Home. Warm. Beer. Joy. Score? No idea. Snotty.

 

[Paulus]

Yeeehah Come on the Chedmeister

 

[SwissBlade]

Well done United! Up the Blades, we really needed that win and well done to Ched for the goal!

 

[shorehamview]

Cold. Snotty. Fought off band of marauding penguins in back garden. In house. Warm. Happy.

 

[Linz]

I think today has succeeded Southampton in 2005 as being the coldest match I have ever been to. I am bloody starved through.

Special mentions:

* Chedwyn Evans - ran his little socks off today. Had a tendency to drift out to the left a little too much in the second half and his control was a bit off at times but he took his goal well and never stopped trying. Bravo.

* Jean Calve - I'm glad he had Bartley alongside him!

* Nyron Nosworthy - today's game summed him up. Looks fairly steady then does something fist-clinchingly worrying! We were lucky Swansea couldn't capitalise.

* Mark Yeates - Ellis and Carver were on his back the whole match. But if that's how he plays when he's being ragged, then more of the same.

* Swansea - a hearty round of applause to the handful of hardy souls who made the trip from south Wales. Dyer and Cotterill when he came on were anonymous. We aren't missing them.

EDIT:

Looks like there should have been more Swansea fans...

http://www.swanseacity.net/page/Latest/0,,10354~2247419,00.html

The bad weather has caused a large number of supporters travelling to Sheffield for today's game to turn back around and go home.

Both official supporters' coaches had reached the Midlands but a combination of accidents and snowy conditions meant that had they continued their journey they would have missed most of the game, or even all of it.

Swansea City officials and members of the Welsh press - including the Evening Post, Western Mail and BBC Wales - were also forced to turn around in the same area.

 

[Karaoke Blade]

Ched's best game for us...keep it up son.

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

Just shows what a topsy turvy division this is. As a neutral you would have not said swansea were higher than us in the table, never mind in 3rd position.

 

[broomhillblade]

A win against strong opposition and this site is as quiet as the grave.
Situation normal.

Well done the Blades!

 

[Wapping Blade]

Just shows what a topsy turvy division this is. As a neutral you would have not said swansea were higher than us in the table, never mind in 3rd position.

I had no idea where Swansea were in the table and was surprised to say the least when someone told me, they were bob-aaaah!

---------- Post added at 09:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 PM ----------

I think today has succeeded Southampton in 2005 as being the coldest match I have ever been to. I am bloody starved through.

Thanks Linz, I was trying to remember my coldest games today, Derby away in the snow a few years ago (Feb 2006, 1-0 win, Akinbyi?) was one and I knew there was another one and you've nailed it. However, fortified by the majestic brews in the Rutland, I wasn't too bad today

 

[SwissBlade]

17,496 today, obviously affected a bit by the Swansea fans and the cold, but how was the atmosphere/ backing for Carver?

Linz mentioned some key points from the match but what did those that were there think of Carver, his substitutions, tactics?

Were we trying to play more football, last week it was hoof?

RS commentary suggested that Ched was getting pulled out wide a lot, which seems familiar

 

[Northyorksblade]

I had no idea where Swansea were in the table and was surprised to say the least when someone told me, they were bob-aaaah!

---------- Post added at 09:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 PM ----------

I think today has succeeded Southampton in 2005 as being the coldest match I have ever been to. I am bloody starved through.

Thanks Linz, I was trying to remember my coldest games today, Derby away in the snow a few years ago (Feb 2006, 1-0 win, Akinbyi?) was one and I knew there was another one and you've nailed it. However, fortified by the majestic brews in the Rutland, I wasn't too bad today

Newcastle away about 15 years ago, lost 4-0 I think. Those seats today were the coldest I've ever sat on! Chilled to the piggin bone!

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Thanks Linz, I was trying to remember my coldest games today, Derby away in the snow a few years ago (Feb 2006, 1-0 win, Akinbyi?) was one and I knew there was another one and you've nailed it. However, fortified by the majestic brews in the Rutland, I wasn't too bad today

here were some truly awesome brews in there today, weren't there? Nice mince pies too!

 

[GAZBLADE]

A win against strong opposition and this site is as quiet as the grave.
Situation normal.

Well done the Blades!

Fair comment bb.
Where would the fun be in congratulating the lads and picking out the good points from the match!

 

[travellingblade]

For me, my coldest ever game has got to be the 0-0 draw at home to Coventry, years ago, when Steve Ogrizovic saved everything that we threw at home. He repeated the exercise the following year in another 0-0 home draw, but it wasn't as cold the second year.

 

[cooperblade]

Newcastle away about 15 years ago, lost 4-0 I think. Those seats today were the coldest I've ever sat on! Chilled to the piggin bone!

I was at that one. One of the lads borrowed his brother's car. We drove all the way with the choke out because he didn't know it had been mended! Cost a fortune in petrol. Car kept cutting out, once quite spectacularly on a big roundabout in Newcastle, so we got there late.

2-0 down when we got in, lost 4-0. The highlights were the huge chunks of snow falling off the roof of the home end onto the Newcastle fans and Chris Kamara having one cleared off the line.

Got back to the car after to find it had been broken into. My sandwiches had gone as had my mate's Gameboy which he'd only bought that day. Happy days!

 

[Billyblade]

First chance I've had to talk about Saturdays game.
I have recently been becoming increasingly disillusioned with football in general. Tired of overpaid twats mincing around for 90 minutes not giving a shit and then driving home in a Ferrari. That's not just United but Premiership, Championship, England. Sick of it all.
On Saturday, I think I fell just a little bit back in love with the game (even though I was friggin freezing). It looked like it mattered on Saturday, it looked like they cared. That's all I want. I'm not an idiot, I don't expect world beating performances from players that aren't capable but I expect to see some effort for God's sake.
Against swansea, there was some effort, there was some passion. Certain players ran themselves into the ground and we looked like a team. Special mentions:-

Evans - Took his goal well and generally ran his bollocks off. Good Lad.
Quinn - Covered virtually every blade of grass today and still had some left at the end.
Reid - different class, one of our few footballers. New manager must keep him.
Bartley - plays like a Blade. Couple of immense boneshaking challenges on Sat.
Yeates - lots of effort and running. One thing though, Mark, you can't hit the ball through the full back because he's a solid object. You must send it round him.

Good performance in general against a decent team. We closed them down well and didn't allow them much time and space on the ball. When we had the ball we tried to use it well.