darius henderson

[spadge]

starting to feel really sorry for him the refs seem to have a big vendetta against him, today AGAIN there must have been 90% of the fouls that was given against him were wrong im not saying that im a professional or anything but come on its becoming a joke. To make things worse you have also got people going on radio sheffield saying hes a terrible player, i think up to now this season he has held the ball up great and lost nothing in the air, i know he doesnt score loads of goals but thats what ched and ward are for.

main point of this thread anyways is how bad again were the referees and linesman decisions today, thing is it isnt the first time this season either it seems to be every week.

 

[Foxy]

Thought he played fairly well today, works very hard.

Some of the decisions were diabolical, he gets absolutely battered by defenders, the second he stands his ground, the ref blows!

They also got away with murder on Morgs on every set piece today. So blatent and yet completely ignored by the officials.

 

[bramptonblade]

Totally agree

 

[Elsecar_Blade]

The treatment of Henderson by the referees is an absolute disgrace. Fair enough, Hendo is a dirty bugger but so are 90% of the defenders he plays against. He should at least get 40/60 decisions wise but in truth gets nowhere near. It gives many people a negative attitude towards him - there is a clown sits besides me that wants him subbed after 5 minutes - whereas if he was treated fairly, he'd be the best target man in the Championship by an absolute mile. It will wreck his career because eventually a manager - Blackwell or otherwise - will have to give up on him and that is unfair.

Compare Henderson and Bednar today in terms of challenges and decisions. Bednar probably won't get as many decisions against in ten games as Hendo got in 90 minutes today. The referees are a complete joke.

And don't get me started on the 'referee assistants' otherwise known as 'referee puppets' ... Since when did the LINESMAN need the referee to point which way a throw in is given before he can flag? Complete joke.

 

[Silent Blade]

WBA were my tip as Championship winners but after today I realised that we were physically stronger than them. They would foul us and the ref would turn a blind eye. When we challenge for the ball fairly, the ref blow for a foul against us.

I thought Leicester looked to be a better team than WBA

 

[Compound_Legend]

I felt sorry for the front 2 lads today.Every time they moved,they were either flagged for offside,or a blatant decision was either missed (probably wimped out of) by the linesmen,or given to the opposition by them.

To be honest,Phil Crossley didn't have a bad match until he started to lose the thread in the last 10 minutes. He got made to look worse than he actually was by being let down though by his assistants.Now I don't usually mince my words,but in particular,the lino with the yellow flag today was a fucking disgrace.

Most of us have played the game,and probably have had dealings with their own teams with refs through junior,youth,sunday league pub,or non league,and have had reason for complaint.But this pillock was so bad he got every decision he was responsible for 100% wrong.

Believe me,if this duckegg had done one of my matches in the Imperial last year,our referee's secretary would have dropped him like a stone.But this idiot will do another league game next week,then another,then another.If I did my job as bad as this,it'd be p45,and fuck off.But this knobend will get a pat on the back for a job well done.

But at the end of the day,we're just Sheffield United.Next time officials come to the Lane,they need to understand - WARNOCK'S GONE - because I'm sure they think he's still on the touchline.

 

[bottletree]

Got to disagree. I thought a bobble on the pitch would be more useful then Henderson today.
Having him in the team encourages the long ball. If all else fails lump it up to Hendo, Blackwell says in his team talks.
Thought the ref got majority of decisions right today.
Good first half with some nice passing, but second half we let ourselves down.

 

[Tony Currie]

Also got to disagree , Henderson was very poor today. He spent the entire time going for the other man and very nearly gave away a penelty with the last WBA free kick. I'm sure they had taken the kick when Henderson bundled over Bedner - it was plain stupid. As a proffessional no matter what the opposition do play the ball. His control of the ball was also poor today.

 

[Micalijo]

I am totally fed up with watching a wrsetling contest and for as long as Daz plays it will always be the same. I ahve paid £400 to watch a football club play football. Basically the game boils down to how a ref interprets the collision between Daz and the defender and I'm sick of it.

Why aren't we talking about passing, movement? I like Daz for his effort, he is massively up for it and wants to win and I have no complaints about him but it's just very hard to watch.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

The really odd thing was that the ref let absolutely everything go in the 1st half - Hendo either wasn't penalised, or we got a free-kick. The 2nd half was such a transformation it almost felt like someone from the West Brom staff had been having a word with the ref at half-time.

 

[bartman]

Got to disagree. I thought a bobble on the pitch would be more useful then Henderson today.
Having him in the team encourages the long ball. If all else fails lump it up to Hendo, Blackwell says in his team talks.
Thought the ref got majority of decisions right today.
Good first half with some nice passing, but second half we let ourselves down.

Also got to disagree , Henderson was very poor today. He spent the entire time going for the other man and very nearly gave away a penelty with the last WBA free kick. I'm sure they had taken the kick when Henderson bundled over Bedner - it was plain stupid. As a proffessional no matter what the opposition do play the ball. His control of the ball was also poor today.

Must have been to a different game to you guys today. Henderson was THE threat today. Power,strength and his movement was better than Evans' who i thought was poor today.

I thought the long ball came from West Brom with them plying the better football when the got 30 yards from goal

 

[Dog Blade]

Henderson was excellent today. Worked hard and linked the play up well - especially with the shite ball that we just lump up to him.

Evans was poor, and his work rate worries me a little, still off the mark fitness wise I hope...though looking at the 'creative duo' in the middle of the park today I think I'd get a little tired of waiting for the ball to never arrive where and when it should.

Henderson and Ward as a two at the end looked more promising than Henderson and Evans. Though can't see him dropping Henderson if he continues to play lump it long as Evans doesn't appear to be that type of front man for Ward to play off.

 

[sothall blade]

cant fault hendo for his work,but the way the officials are treating him,he is inaffective so we have to play a different way

 

[Vancouver]

So Henderson is the new Jostein Flo?

 

[cooperblade]

Must have been to a different game to you guys today. Henderson was THE threat today. Power,strength and his movement was better than Evans' who i thought was poor today.

I'd like to see Evans allowed to play further forward, he seems to be playing behind Henderson at the moment.

 

[Jon Bon]

We may as well have this playing up front for us for all the good he does us...

 

[spadge]

thing is with hendo, yes we do play the long ball up to him alot which i dont agree with but i think evan when we play the football hendo can still be a part you get the ball up to him and he holds it up really well he looks the fittest hes ever been. Do think thats a good point though eventually he will be dropped me and my uncle was on about it earlier how long can it go on, like it has been said the decisions were beyond poor today.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

I think he was unlucky with a lot of the decisions but my main problem with him was the ease which he allowed players to come over the top of him. I lost count of the amount of times the ball was knocked forward to him and a player came over the top of him and Henderson just stood there with his back hunched and his hands out looking for the ref to give something.

I think as a big lad he needs to be tussling and fighting for position with his marker, not looking to be the victim. I think that's maybe also why he's had three refs in a row not give him a thing.

 

[Bakewell Blade]

Hendersons started to warrant his starting place more now. Before he seemed to be frustrated and I think this was due to a lack on decent service but now he's starting to come into his own. But why is he treated so poorly by officals, fair enough he's physical but it's not netball they're playing! Center halves climb all over him and as soon as his head ducks a millimeter he's pulled up for it!

2nd half at Reading Henderson was different class not only was his goal wrongly chalked off but every time the ball came to his feet he layed it on a plate to quinny or ward and then made a burst for the far post

 

[Bladepicker]

Henderson was quality again today in his role, he wins and holds up the ball so well, we'd be a much much weaker side without his precense, as was shown at Wembley. He gets the rough end of decisions but this surely cant continue, Blackwell should send Hackett a compilation of the decisions ala Myes with Johnson, bit of publicity might get him some much needed slack.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Henderson dived for the penalty and there were several occassions throughout the match where he was just stood dormant watching the ball pass by him. Very frustrating to watch.

 

[Bladepicker]

Henderson dived for the penalty and there were several occassions throughout the match where he was just stood dormant watching the ball pass by him. Very frustrating to watch.

You cant have had a good view of the pen, their defender took his bloody legs away.

he ran across the length of the pitch to win a second half header and was back in the left back position defending down the line in the second half. Some of our fans really get that they dont like a player in there heads and then he can do no right. I know he has his flaws but we are a weaker side without him, opposition fans I speak to regularly down here think he is a nuisance, strong and hate it when he plays against them.

What with the two blokes slagging Hendo, Quinn and Monty off today for 90 mins behind me on the Kop, I really sometimes wonder why they bother going.

 

[Silent Blade]

Also got to disagree , Henderson was very poor today. He spent the entire time going for the other man and very nearly gave away a penelty with the last WBA free kick. I'm sure they had taken the kick when Henderson bundled over Bedner - it was plain stupid. As a proffessional no matter what the opposition do play the ball. His control of the ball was also poor today.

Very poor?? Are you the sort of fan that thinks strikers like Duncan Ferguson, Joe Jordan, Peter Crouch and other old fashioned centre forwards are poor? it was Obvious that WBA FEARED Hendo a lot so their CBs obviously were instructed to climb over him at every challenge

 

[La_Blade]

I think the general idea of a "big man little man" combo up front is to give the oppo some decisions to make. Do you push your defensive line up to combat the big guys effectiveness in the box? If so that leaves space in behind for the pacy little guy to break the offside trap and run onto through balls and flick ons. Or do you sit deep to stop the little guy turning you and getting in behind, which then allows the big guy to hurt you from crosses and balls into the box.
Yes I've been playing too much Football Manager I feel like Andy Townsend in his "Tactics Truck"

 

[shorehamview]

I thought Henderson did well, but he's very much like Monty in that he seems to be a "Marmite" type of player. People either like him or hate him, or at least that's the impression I get. I like the way he tries to bring other players into the game, certainly more than Beattie J. did. I do however think that we could always try lumping it to his head a little less.

The other thing is, like Marmite, once you've made your mind up about it it's impossible to change, no matter how hard others persuade you. It's either loved or loathed.

 

[LSF]

I'd agree on the 'marmite' theory Shoreham. I can see Big Darius becoming the next target for the 'lets see who we can boo next' shite that troll the Lane.
Hendo is such a handful and defenders hate playing against him, i think he's a far better player on the deck than some give him credit for. Starts every time for me.
Now Evans has to make a bigger impression before i start to believe he'll be worth what we've payed. However, I reckon he's not reached full match fitness yet and some may forget the kid is only 20, some way to go yet before we see his best form me thinks.
Back to hendo, lady behind me hates him with a passion and when we got the pen she said he dived and hoped we didn't score from it cos he'd won it for us ..... there really is no hop for some is there

 

[Jon Bon]

The problem with playing Hendo is that you just fall into the trap of playing lumpball up to him all the time and it's relatively easy to counter. When we try and play it on the deck he adds nothing for me.

Very poor?? Are you the sort of fan that thinks strikers like Duncan Ferguson, Joe Jordan, Peter Crouch and other old fashioned centre forwards are poor?

That doesn't wash with me at all Silent, you could have added Deane in there too. All of those players are much more mobile than Hendo, much better finishers than him, internationals and far, far better players. If it's comparisons you're after, if you had said Jon Parkin, Luke Beckett and Ashley Ward (post Dingles) then you would have been much nearer the mark.

 

[WhiteHawk]

Got to agree, Henderson is constantly getting harshly punished. When he got the booking yesterday, the first time the ball came to him after it, he didn't dare go for it, and then there were people slagging him off!!! Do you think he's shagged Hacketts missus or something?

I think he's a great player but he simply can't do anything cause the refs are always giving free kicks against him.

As for the comments about long ball, I thought WBA hoofed it a lot more than we did yesterday.

 

[The One]

No matter how good or poor a player Hendo is. He constantly gets pulled by the referee. Which makes it pretty much pointless in playing him, or at least hoofing the ball upto him.

 

[Bladepicker]

There are a number of posts each week from different people on different sites who say;

I don't like Hendo....
I think Hendo's a donkey....
I think Hendo can't ever be considered a footballer....
I'm not Hendo's biggest fan......

....but he did play well today/we did miss him etc etc.

He is the new Monty in that despite him having good games, leading the line better than any striker we've had at the Lane in years and being harshly treated by refs which people round me are starting to blame him for for having a reputation!!!! If people start booing him in great numbers, that might be it for me, having being on many an England away tour in cricket, our 'support' of the likes of quinny the other saturday leaves a sour taste.