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[bakeblade]

I think it’s fairly likely that they’ll go up though. They’re outperforming the league on a lot of stats and there isn’t a Leeds or Burnley (or competent Blades team) this season to stop them.

First time I've seen them properly this season and I'm surprised how direct they are. No messing about at the back, just give it to the keeper who launches it. Obviously working for them

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Not the best game Coventry tonight?

 

[Gimli]

Hope Cov can beat these Hollywood upstarts tbf

 

[Roygbiv]

Quite impressed with both of these to be honest.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

the caants, oh shit I also hate wrexham as well...

 

[fifty shades of blade]

That jap lad for cov and kabore for wrexham are gonna murder burrows for pace

 

[Bladesthorpe]

Who's the big lad up front for Wrexham, two goals already

 

[Bladesthorpe]

Make that 3, Kieffer.

 

[AWetFlannel]

Yeah they're up.

Fat Frank finally found out how to manage

After undeservedly walking into his 20th plum job, one is finally going well.

Until tonight...

 

[gooseh]

Who's the big lad up front for Wrexham, two goals already

 

[bakeblade]

Quite impressed with both of these to be honest.

Both have have recruited well and have solid champ players.

 

[Houston_Blade]

First time I've seen them properly this season and I'm surprised how direct they are. No messing about at the back, just give it to the keeper who launches it. Obviously working for them

If that’s what they do they’ll get 3+ against us.
We can’t defend direct football for toffee.

 

[b1ade4life]

Steady on there

 

[SRBlade]

These two will murder us home and away I reckon

 

[gooseh]

Steady on there

That 60p was my balance. I'd love to claim some kind of genius, but it was right after his second

 

[Matlock Blade]

Moore got a hatrick playing alongside another striker. This is why good strikers turn bad when we sign them. Wilder needs to be braver if he wants us to move up the table. I bet Cannon will start scoring when he moves on.

 

[Deleted member 25842]

Moore got a hatrick playing alongside another striker. This is why good strikers turn bad when we sign them. Wilder needs to be braver if he wants us to move up the table. I bet Cannon will start scoring when he moves on.

This, but also, we don't create anywhere near enough chances. Prime Alan Shearer would struggle to get goals the way we've been set out in the past couple of years.

I knew Moore would get goals elsewhere. Also, like you, strongly suspect Cannon might come good elsewhere.

It's one of the reasons I keep schtum and don't join in on the threads laying into strikers (which seems to happen every time we don't win). I'm not saying they're totally blameless, it's a collective effort, but there have been bigger problems (not least with how we've set out). We need to be more adventurous, certainly need to create more chances, or we really are in big trouble this season.

 

[ATL Recs]

Moore got a hatrick playing alongside another striker. This is why good strikers turn bad when we sign them. Wilder needs to be braver if he wants us to move up the table. I bet Cannon will start scoring when he moves on.

We are better with one up top
What’s the point in having 2 stood doing nothing
Due to the turgid sliw static shyte we have coming forward

 

[Wards]

We are better with one

Yet last season I thought we looked much more effective with two up, especially towards the end of the season when we took the handbrake off a little.

 

[ATL Recs]

This, but also, we don't create anywhere near enough chances. Prime Alan Shearer would struggle to get goals the way we've been set out in the past couple of years.

I knew Moore would get goals elsewhere. Also, like you, strongly suspect Cannon might come good elsewhere.

It's one of the reasons I keep schtum and don't join in on the threads laying into strikers (which seems to happen every time we don't win). I'm not saying they're totally blameless, it's a collective effort, but there have been bigger problems (not least with how we've set out). We need to be more adventurous, certainly need to create more chances, or we really are in big trouble this season.

100% and Cannon is another who just doesn't fit to how we play at all he has something -all the historical evidence is there

 

[ATL Recs]

If that’s what they do they’ll get 3+ against us.
We can’t defend direct football for toffee.

It’s not direct like that all the time tho
But when they are direct watch the movement off the ball

 

[Gimli]

This, but also, we don't create anywhere near enough chances. Prime Alan Shearer would struggle to get goals the way we've been set out in the past couple of years.

I knew Moore would get goals elsewhere. Also, like you, strongly suspect Cannon might come good elsewhere.

It's one of the reasons I keep schtum and don't join in on the threads laying into strikers (which seems to happen every time we don't win). I'm not saying they're totally blameless, it's a collective effort, but there have been bigger problems (not least with how we've set out). We need to be more adventurous, certainly need to create more chances, or we really are in big trouble this season.

In fairness, you could see Moore had qualities that made him a potentially very decent championship striker.

As for Cannon, well god knows I tried to defend him, but to score goals you have to actually get into positions where you might score a goal - I appreciate people without their UEFA A licence might struggle with that and it is, pretty advanced thinking even if I say so myself…

 

[MojoMuffin]

I mean, fair play, Frank is doing wonders, 10 points clear, cracking attacking football, theirs to lose at this point.

But, maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old man, but what an obscene amount of insufferable fans have come out the woodwork... or is it just me?

I don't find it hard to stretch my mind that long ago to a half empty home ground week in, week out.

Stoke, Millwall, even flipping Preston are doing very well and yet I've seen hardly any early promotion parties or gloating from any of their fans.

Like I say, maybe it's just me or the fact they've been irrelevant for the past....?... plenty of seasons. All I know is that another #PUSB is going to give me hemeroids, that could be the age thing again though.

 

[Champagneblade]

I think the ironic thing is that he was getting far more publicity when he was doing no way near as good a job in prior roles.

He had some amazing loan signings at Derby and despite the cheerleading in the media got fewer points than Rowett the prior year at Derby. Funny, I don’t remember Rowett getting linked to the Chelsea job.

In that one his media mates were keen to mitigate his lack of achievement by highlighting the lack of signings despite them squeezing in Pulisic and a gazillion loan signings returning to the squad.

So then he had to drop to Everton for his next gig where he did the usual Everton just surviving thing.

So his Star had started to wane. His media mates were quiet. Then suddenly rather than just do a journeyman job at Coventry, he’s doing amazing. GLTTL.

Still irks we were 20 points plus ahead of them and now 20 plus behind but it just goes to show how stability works at this level.

 

[DifferentClass]

 

[CarlMcBlade]

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Isn’t that, Frank Lampards Coventry Crumble.

 

[SwissBlade]

Its certainly getting tighter, considering how far ahead they were they've allowed the gap to be closed.

We could actually do them a favour with a draw or beating Boro tomorrow. But Ipswich, Hull C and even Millwall not far behind, the pressure is mounting for old Frank.

Not that I care in the slightest for Coventry, but it would be an almighty collapse if they didn't make automatics

 

[Kenilworth]

Good points in this and your other posts. Can't think of a team that hasn't suffered injuries and the loss of key players, us included.
Early in the season we lost our young midfielder, Arblaster, which at the time we considered to have a really detrimental impact on our season.
Happily some of our other youngsters have stepped up and acquitted themselves admirably, most obviously Sydie Pike, who although still learning continues to show great promise. Your ex-player, Hamer, is obviously someone who can make things happen, and although he's sometimes guilty of petulance is more likely to be a game changer and can do the unusual and create chances for his team-mates.

As for your point about being proud of our team, we are, which is why tonight's crowd, almost 31,000, turned up in numbers to watch us.

DON’T TELL HIM, PECK!