silverfox
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Looks like Robbo has the patience to get them to play his way.
Have the fans got the same patience?
From the Yorkshire Post.........
Sheffield United manager Bryan Robson says it could take a dozen games to impose his own fingerprints on the football at Bramall Lane.
The Blades, who entertain Robson's former club West Bromwich Albion this weekend, have taken only one point from their opening two games of the season.
Robson wants to eliminate the 'direct' style of football engineered by his predecessor Neil Warnock and transform the Blades into a cultured side with more players who are comfortable on the ball.
Whether that will mean bringing in more new signings remains to be seen – but Robson will give his current players every opportunity to show that they can adapt to a new regime.
"As a team, we can still work on how I want us to play," he said yesterday. "I feel a lot of the players are very direct in their play and I would like us to keep possession of the ball a lot more.
"Those sort of changes are going to take a little bit of time to get into the team," he stressed. "You have got to look for 10-12 games before things more or less settle down and you see a bit of a picture coming along. That's when you can start looking at the season and what you can maybe achieve or not achieve.
"I have got faith in these players but you must always look to try and improve," he added. "We have only took one point from the first two games and obviously there is a big improvement needed on that."
Early season injuries to summer signings Lee Hendrie and Gary Naysmith have not helped accelerate Robson's proposed transformation while record £4m capture James Beattie was criticised along with strikers Jon Stead and Danny Webber in the wake of last weekend's 1-0 defeat at Watford.
Despite the disappointment, Robson still thinks the Blades are capable of challenging for automatic promotion and securing an immediate return to the Premiership this season.
"As far as I am concerned, we have got a good enough squad to cope with a few injuries. We will keep working at it and we will get better," he said.
"There are signs from the squad that don't disappoint me too much. Defensively, we are capable of keeping clean sheets, even though we haven't in the two games, but there are signs that are good.
"I thought Chris Morgan and Matthew Kilgallon did a real good job against Marlon King and I thought Leigh Bromby had a good game. The back four performed very well and we looked solid as a side from set-plays.
"The boys annoyed me rather than disappointed me because if we had stepped up a gear in the second half, it was a game we could have won.
"It's frustrating to be so comfortable in a game and get beat. Watford are one of the favourites to win the division along with ourselves, Charlton, and others. The lesson we can learn from it is we can play against the best in the division," he said.
Striker Billy Sharp has been omitted from the last two games due to a broken hand but Robson is optimistic that he will be back to strengthen the side at the weekend.
"It's been three-and-a-half weeks now for Billy so hopefully it won't affect him anymore," he said.
"If he had fallen over on it and displaced it and needed a pin, he would have been out for six or seven weeks which we didn't want to happen. You have to look at the bigger picture rather than the short term and it was a risk worth taking to protect Billy."
Have the fans got the same patience?
From the Yorkshire Post.........
Sheffield United manager Bryan Robson says it could take a dozen games to impose his own fingerprints on the football at Bramall Lane.
The Blades, who entertain Robson's former club West Bromwich Albion this weekend, have taken only one point from their opening two games of the season.
Robson wants to eliminate the 'direct' style of football engineered by his predecessor Neil Warnock and transform the Blades into a cultured side with more players who are comfortable on the ball.
Whether that will mean bringing in more new signings remains to be seen – but Robson will give his current players every opportunity to show that they can adapt to a new regime.
"As a team, we can still work on how I want us to play," he said yesterday. "I feel a lot of the players are very direct in their play and I would like us to keep possession of the ball a lot more.
"Those sort of changes are going to take a little bit of time to get into the team," he stressed. "You have got to look for 10-12 games before things more or less settle down and you see a bit of a picture coming along. That's when you can start looking at the season and what you can maybe achieve or not achieve.
"I have got faith in these players but you must always look to try and improve," he added. "We have only took one point from the first two games and obviously there is a big improvement needed on that."
Early season injuries to summer signings Lee Hendrie and Gary Naysmith have not helped accelerate Robson's proposed transformation while record £4m capture James Beattie was criticised along with strikers Jon Stead and Danny Webber in the wake of last weekend's 1-0 defeat at Watford.
Despite the disappointment, Robson still thinks the Blades are capable of challenging for automatic promotion and securing an immediate return to the Premiership this season.
"As far as I am concerned, we have got a good enough squad to cope with a few injuries. We will keep working at it and we will get better," he said.
"There are signs from the squad that don't disappoint me too much. Defensively, we are capable of keeping clean sheets, even though we haven't in the two games, but there are signs that are good.
"I thought Chris Morgan and Matthew Kilgallon did a real good job against Marlon King and I thought Leigh Bromby had a good game. The back four performed very well and we looked solid as a side from set-plays.
"The boys annoyed me rather than disappointed me because if we had stepped up a gear in the second half, it was a game we could have won.
"It's frustrating to be so comfortable in a game and get beat. Watford are one of the favourites to win the division along with ourselves, Charlton, and others. The lesson we can learn from it is we can play against the best in the division," he said.
Striker Billy Sharp has been omitted from the last two games due to a broken hand but Robson is optimistic that he will be back to strengthen the side at the weekend.
"It's been three-and-a-half weeks now for Billy so hopefully it won't affect him anymore," he said.
"If he had fallen over on it and displaced it and needed a pin, he would have been out for six or seven weeks which we didn't want to happen. You have to look at the bigger picture rather than the short term and it was a risk worth taking to protect Billy."
