Angry ranting thread

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Looking for positives from today…

It’s one more point towards mathematical safety…

It’s another day in life closer to the warm embrace of The Reaper..

Apart from that I’m struggling

Thanks Jenna Ortega, looking forward to the new series!

 

[Davalon]

We should change our name to Sheffield Extra Touch United.

The amount of times we miss an opportunity to pass or shoot due to having an extra touch is off the scale.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Late season collapses are nothing new for us. Look at last season and how we managed to snatch failure from the jaws of success.

 

[54yrblade]

CW's ability to 'reconnect the club' is gone. He was really quite clever in making it all about him in 2016, but it's never been just about him.

When he came in, in 2016, I wasn't disconnected, I was gutted, maybe a bit disillusioned still rocking up to watch us play, but absolutely NOT disconnected.
He and Knilly put that '16 team together. A team who ran themselves into the ground every game, attacked everybody and everything that dared to set foot in Bramall Lane, and got the results.

Then, he left and we still don't know the truth behind it. After all his positive talk and noise, particularly about 'not going out the back door', and then he did just that.
Last season, the atmosphere had gone, the football was functional, at best, and we saw the results of Wilder 2. I really can't understand why his teams aren't fit enough to cope with real challenges, with no real intent or bravery and zero ability to flex and change in game. We're entitled to ask what happened? Why the huge drop off in fitness and levels that were the hallmark of Wilder 1.0? The two aren't comparable, in any metric.

This season, more of the same, or worse. Selles is history. What we see now is who Wilder is now. This team reflect his ability and his personality, and neither are likeable or enjoyable. He's becoming a parody of the back street battler, the Sheffield bloke, proud of his roots and never backing down.

But, time waits for no man. It catches up with us all, and it's happened to him too.

He's trotting out the same, performative lines as he has before. 'It'll be better next season' and passive aggressive messaging about how tough pre season will be. No one, gets a contract extension anywhere else these days with 'I'm sorry, I know it's rubbish but I promise better in the next year boss'.

Personally, I don't believe it. Us older Blades don't have another year to simply cross our fingers, let him carry on with what he sees as 'his' job and just hope that he comes good. I know a few around football. Our ground was once seen as the mythical 'fortress' that everyone loves to bang on about, even Mourinho praised us.

Not any more.

Away fans are heading here to enjoy the day out, knowing that the Lane will be quiet and that they don't have to shut us up any more. They know that any pressure on us flattens us on the pitch and off it. We're seen as a team that falls over and that there's a good opportunity for easy goals and points.

It's not about being 'reconnected'. It is about simply wanting to look forward to kick off, to see a team that leaves everything on the pitch, that works for each other, that gets us into the ground and off our seats.

Our club once had a real personality. Now it's 'same old, same old'. Same lines in the pressers, same deflections, same behaviours.

Cheltenham got beat at Chesterfield yesterday. I was there. A decent game but two things stuck out. Chesterfield went in front and still went at it, hitting the woodwork three times but, at the end, Steve Cotterill and all his team went over to the 250 away fans and clapped them. Cotterill lead at the front , he didn't disappear. Selles also fronted up even though he knew he was getting battered. He took it with his team and had the bottle to do that. Cotterill and his fans are 'connected'.

Real leadership isn't proved in the good times, that's easy. True leadership traits and character comes out in the tough times. Can you lead from the front when it's messy and it's about to come 'on top'? I know what I'm seeing.

Enjoy your weekend folks. Whatever you're doing.

 

[lazyfecklessblade]

We should change our name to Sheffield Extra Touch United.

The amount of times we miss an opportunity to pass or shoot due to having an extra touch is off the scale.

First half today felt like they were trying to stat pad their penalty box touches, one of you just have a swing ffs!

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Peck played an absolute beauty of a ball between the defenders first half, only for us to do the usual thing and take 300 touches and short passes in the box because no fucker is prepared to shoot. Why we have this obsession with trying to pass the ball into the goal is beyond me because we're shit at it and it doesn't work.

 

[Blademan89]

Problem you got is that when the board tried moving on from wilder it was a total car crash and got it wrong massivly in every department, they then rectified it by sitting themselves and bringing wilder back in, now I feel they will again shit the bed by not wanting to get rid and move on beacuse of what happened before.

This is what happens when people who have zero understanding or knowledge of football come in from the outside and expect to be able to run a club with no one at decent level knowing anything about football.. only one we have in postion of power of Bettis & he doesnt really know football that well, he had no background in it before joining us etc.

This is why if you have owners that have no idea of football a director of football that you trust is an absolute must. It will allow them to put a recruitment plan and philosophy in place.

This club has never moved on from Wilders planning, philosophy or recruitmen, and we will never move on and been restricted without major changes behind the scenes. Weve had wilders way for over a decade, so just getting rid of him wont work we need proper scouting and plans from above in how they want us to progress and a way of playing, we have no identity on the pitch especially this season & thats on Wilder.

Whilstever we have Wilder and all his mates (in bedded throughout club including scouting & ceo) then we will never see any progression and will always be old fashioned club.

 

[Ned the Donkey]

My football team failed to validate me as a person and for that they must pay. Dearly.

 

[steve26272]

OK but who would you get realistically as a replacement

Mousino at pompey and Bloomfield at Oxford

One if not both could be relegated, so would be tempted - they play good football and come across as decent intelligent men, next gen of British managers and are probably over achieving

what could they do with our squad and wage budget?

 

[Grappler]

Similar to playing Sunderland at Wembley, last Summer, I can never understand why we don't add another defender in the final 15-20 minutes to see the game out. Throw McGuinness on.

All three of our goals were stunners, they got a penalty (some refs will give that one, some won't) and then two shocking defensive errors.

When we trudged back to the pub after the game (in between my usual outbursts of "bloody United, ruined my weekend, AGAIN!"), Mrs. Grappler said, "did you notice that all of their subs seemed much fitter and much faster than our players?"

And, of course, she's right. Something seems very wrong with our fitness set up.

 

[Blademan89]

Similar to playing Sunderland at Wembley, last Summer, I can never understand why we don't add another defender in the final 15-20 minutes to see the game out. Throw McGuinness on.

All three of our goals were stunners, they got a penalty (some refs will give that one, some won't) and then two shocking defensive errors.

When we trudged back to the pub after the game (in between my usual outbursts of "bloody United, ruined my weekend, AGAIN!"), Mrs. Grappler said, "did you notice that all of their subs seemed much fitter and much faster than our players?"

And, of course, she's right. Something seems very wrong with our fitness set up.

And as usual all 3 of their goals come from our left.. seems to be an issue every single time burrows is playing. Hes decent going forward gets goals and assist but cost us just as many. Either play to his strength and use him as a wing back / back up LW or bring in someone more of a solid left back defensivly and move him on.

 

[loyalblade95]

I get why people are pointing to the fact that we've taken Jairo off and subsequently drawn the game, but I think that's a bit of an easy and IMO a slightly lazy observation to make.

Other than Jairo being really good at reading the game, most of what he does are the midfield basics, just at a higher standard than our other CM's.

Winning and keeping hold of the ball, tracking runners, holding off his man with the ball at his feet.

Yes he's better at it than our other CM's but surely you'd expect any player who comes on to replace him to be able to do all of those things, as they're just the basics.