19/10/10 - Hull City v. Sheffield United

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Match thread for Tuesday night's game.

* Predictions
* Line-ups
* In-match chatter
* Post-match reaction and reports

 

[Kopped]

I'll go for:

Simmo,

Lowton, Morgan, De Laet, Jordan

Calve, Britton, Ertl, Yeates

Bogdanovic, Ward

Subs:
Wright, Ronny, Bartley, Williamson, Quinn, Montgomery, Evans

 

[Ollessendro]

Prediction: 1-1

My team would be:

De Laet Morgs Bartely Jordan

-------- Britton
----- Quinn Ertl
Ward ----------------- Yeates
--------- Boggy

 

[raul]

Think I'd be looking to try Goalie wag at home first tbh Ollingtons.

 

[bricktop]

Id go with

Wright

De Laet
Morgan
Nosworthy
Jordan

Ertl
Britton
Quinn
Yeates

Ward
Bogdanovic.

Just got a feeling we are gonna snare a narrow win.

 

[blader]

Jordan in, and nosworthy...

still has a fu**ing place in the first 11!! ok De laets injured, fair enough. But my bet of 0-0 has now disappeared on the assumption Nozza would be dropped. Bla-bla-bla, we have no replacement, give me a shirt, and i'll have a go at centre back!! Anyone else will do!!

 

[broomhillblade]

Confirmed Teams

Stephen Jordan returns to the starting line up for the Yorkshire derby at Hull.

The left-back is a straight swap for Ritchie De Laet, who drops to the bench after picking up a calf problem at the weekend.

Jamie Ward is available again and is amongst the substitutes.

Hull's goalkeeper is Sheffield-born former Blade, Matt Duke.

Hull: Duke, Dawson, McShane, Garcia, Folan, Kilbane, Cairney, Cullen, Koren, Gerrard, Ayala.
Subs: Mannone, Ashbee, Bostock, Barmby, Simpson, Solano, Vine.

Blades: Simonsen, Jordan, Nosworthy, Morgan, Ertl, Britton, Bogdanovic, Yeates, Calve, Cresswell, Quinn.
Subs: Wright, Taylor, Ward, Bartley, De Laet, Lowton, Slew



Evans doesn't even make the bench. Is he injured?

 

[Mad Mick]

Get in

 

[Seth The Blade]

Great win tonight, could be the start of a few wins in a row?

 

[diplomat]

Chuffed to bits with that win. This league is so tight it's untrue. Derby looked pap a couple of weeks ago, now 7th. Our win against Pompey now looks good as they seem to be hitting a bit of form. Can't see the top two being unseated though. I was rather hoping Cardiff would have financially imploded by now to make the league more open.

 

[Houso]

Great post.

 

[Kopped]

Have faith, Norwich or Watford'll knock 'em off there perch and then they'll implode

 

[moDtheGod]

Your truth Houso is.

 

[DuncDisorderly]

Yes, excellent result. 3pts and clean sheet against an 'unbeaten at home' side. Could it be that we are not actually shit after all? Decent performance and some kind of result on Saturday and I think we might be forgiven for imagining that a corner has indeed been turned and the dark days of a month ago have passed. Shame everyone around us picked up points too though...

 

[Ollessendro]

Yes, excellent result. 3pts and clean sheet against an 'unbeaten at home' side. Could it be that we are not actually shit after all? Decent performance and some kind of result on Saturday and I think we might be forgiven for imagining that a corner has indeed been turned and the dark days of a month ago have passed. Shame everyone around us picked up points too though...

How predicatble that you choose one game from 10 to make your judgement. You convinient base your overly optimistic views on one game, completely ignoring the fact that we were gash in the other 10.

 

[j j]

How predicatble that you choose one game from 10 to make your judgement. You convinient base your overly optimistic views on one game, completely ignoring the fact that we were gash in the other 10.

Nice cheery response to a decent win. Predicatble is not the word (or even a word).

 

[Ollessendro]

Nice cheery response to a decent win. Predicatble is not the word (or even a word).

Not at all. I'm not taking anything away from what was a good away result. HOWEVER, to assume that we are 'not shit' based on us winning one game is naive at best. We have been shit for the most part this season and hence this results look more like a one ofd than a sign we are going to light the division up. Perhaps I'll be proven wrong, but getting carried away after one decent result might just be getting a little carried away.

 

[SwissBlade]

Not at all. I'm not taking anything away from what was a good away result. HOWEVER, to assume that we are 'not shit' based on us winning one game is naive at best. We have been shit for the most part this season and hence this results look more like a one ofd than a sign we are going to light the division up. Perhaps I'll be proven wrong, but getting carried away after one decent result might just be getting a little carried away.

I'm not agreeing with much you say at the moment Olle, but I guess thats what this forum is about

Watching us on Sat was a bit of a breath of fresh air. Sure we've a heck of a long way to go but we're not shit. We've had and are still having a poor spell.

Home results have some what tainted things, but if you look at the Away results, we've either played well or have been unlucky from the reports i've read. Even Leeds away, we didn't create, but we kept Leeds at bay for long spells and could've nicked a draw in the end. Nothing to shout about perhaps, but when you look overall, our away form isn't too bad (5th in last 5 games and 8th on away form since season started.)

So its actually wrong to assume that we're shit away from home.

 

[DuncDisorderly]

The point is that we knew that there would be a process of changing the team and style of play from Speed taking over from Blackie. That process is now 10 games old. The first few have been painful, agreed. Now we seem to be getting two ends to meet. Speed has got a handle on how to play us to his style but getting some points, and the squad seem to be getting what he wants of them and getting a bit of confidence in doing so. Its early days and I expect a few setbacks yet, but if it continues to improve then it does start to make it obvious that all the hyperbole and hysteria might, just might be somewhat misplaced.

3 points away and a clean sheet is worth a small celebration regardless of anything else in my book. Enjoy the battles and the war will take care of itself...

 

[Ollessendro]

I'm not agreeing with much you say at the moment Olle, but I guess thats what this forum is about

Watching us on Sat was a bit of a breath of fresh air. Sure we've a heck of a long way to go but we're not shit. We've had and are still having a poor spell.

Home results have some what tainted things, but if you look at the Away results, we've either played well or have been unlucky from the reports i've read. Even Leeds away, we didn't create, but we kept Leeds at bay for long spells and could've nicked a draw in the end. Nothing to shout about perhaps, but when you look overall, our away form isn't too bad (5th in last 5 games and 8th on away form since season started.)

So its actually wrong to assume that we're shit away from home.

Oreit Swiss. We are disagreeing again!?

The home results for me are a better sign of our quality. That's when we have to break teams down. This is often where Blackwell fell down. The pressure is on us at home and when teams come to the Lane and sit back we have no answer. We've looked completely lost. Speed's teams haven't know whether to attack or play negative.

It's easier away from home because there is no pressure. Games at Derby, Leeds, Forrest and Hull we were expected to get nothing. We played solidy and got some results. Not taking away from 7 good away points, but Blackwell's record away from home was very good.

Morale of the stroy is that I'll be more convinced when we start out playing teams at home rather than nicking one nil wins away.