Hourihane

[Berkshire Blade]

We NEED to rotate and have fully fit and rested players for the coming weeks.

 

[Dark muffy]

Just leave your phone in the kitchen for 90 mins, then when it's finished take 10 mins to think about the whole game, then have a drink, then and only then unlock your phone. Lots of things can happen in a football match, many of them in the 2nd half.

 

[Willie Carlin]

Hourihane Can’t believe how bad Fleck and Berge have been. Never thought I’d want Hourihane on after his non-descript start to his Blades career but has been decent last couple of games.

Fleck was back to best today I thought. Got in the box a lot more than Hourihane does. Great vision for assist to Bogles goal.

 

[jono_t2000]

Feel sorry for Hourihane don't think he deserved to be dropped in all honesty.

Think he brings out the best in Norwood

 

[Weasel]

Don't feel too bad for the lad. He probably too the opportunity as he was in Birmingham to go back to Villa Park and masturbate himself in the car park all whilst sobbing and wailing 'why have you let me go you slag? ' like a lovesick spurned lover who's previous love interest has moved on and is now getting it on with a young stud muffin.

Been about a month since he was last in the media telling anyone who would listen that he's gutted to not be there (so hardly selling himself to his new club and showing hes fully committed to the cause) so he's due a sobbing session soon.

It's a bit like starting to see a new woman and she regularly tells her mates whilst your there with them, that she's gutted that shes not still with her ex and regularly getting serviced by his 12" schlong. Wouldnt be long before you'd be telling her to fkin do one. Hopefully the lovesick puppy has started to move on from 'the Villa'.

He might have been better served saying he had a great time at Villa but it's time to move on, and he hopes he can get fixed up at SUFC who are another historic and great club who he would love to join long term. I'm still waiting to hear the latter.

 

[blade67]

We NEED to rotate and have fully fit and rested players for the coming weeks.

Exactly. CH has looked much better in recent weeks but our midfield still isn't balanced. With the 5 players we have (Norwood, CH, Fleck, Berge and Osborn) who can play in these positions, our best approach is to rotate them. Perhaps CH had a slight knock as well who knows.

 

[Panini]

He might have been better served saying he had a great time at Villa but it's time to move on, and he hopes he can get fixed up at SUFC who are another historic and great club who he would love to join long term. I'm still waiting to hear the latter.

He's already said most of those things.

Conor Hourihane out to impress at United after accepting Villa fate

The 30-year-old says he has resigned himself to the fact that his time at Villa Park is over

www.examinerlive.co.uk

As for 'telling anyone who will listen he's gutted not to be there', that's nonsense. He was a guest interview on a Villa podcast, where he had loads of Villa fans' tweets saying they miss him read out to him. What was you like him to have said instead?

He also did a similar interview with Barnsley whilst a Villa player. He seems to have enjoyed most of his career and made good decisions along the way. Sheffield United may or may not the next of those decisions.

Expecting players to denounce their affiliations with previous clubs just because they happen to play for us now will leave you disappointed.

 

[Champagneblade]

I think it will very much be horses for courses.

All depends on the next match and when Gibbs-White is fit.

You can certainly have Norwood and Hourihane a bit deeper if Gibbs-White is going to be given room to express himself.

I suppose it depends what sort of game we anticipate. If we can have it as a football match then Norwood, Hourihane and Gibbs-White can out football anyone. If it's going to be more of a battle then Flecky probably has the edge and a flatter three might be preferred and Berge is the closet we have for RCM.

Plenty of matches. Looking forward to see how Hecky plays it. He has options. That's the good thing.

 

[Weasel]

He's already said most of those things.

Conor Hourihane out to impress at United after accepting Villa fate

The 30-year-old says he has resigned himself to the fact that his time at Villa Park is over

www.examinerlive.co.uk

As for 'telling anyone who will listen he's gutted not to be there', that's nonsense. He was a guest interview on a Villa podcast, where he had loads of Villa fans' tweets saying they miss him read out to him. What was you like him to have said instead?

He also did a similar interview with Barnsley whilst a Villa player. He seems to have enjoyed most of his career and made good decisions along the way. Sheffield United may or may not the next of those decisions.

Expecting players to denounce their affiliations with previous clubs just because they happen to play for us now will leave you disappointed.

So where in that report other than going on about his time at Villa which is fair enough, does he mention anything about looking forwsrd to his time at SUFC?

No one's expecting anyone to not refer to their former clubs, but perhaps sound a little more enthusiastic about his current club and the challenge ahead.

Tbh, nothing what Connor Hourihane does or says in the media will 'disappoint' me as long as he stays professional and does the business on the pitch for United. I have no emotional attachment or interest in the lad. He is just one of many professional footballers who will come and go during the history of SUFC and will have long moved on again when I am still supporting SUFC.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

We NEED to rotate and have fully fit and rested players for the coming weeks.

100% this.

Hecky is a student of football - he'll be picking different players/formations for whoever we play next.

Hourihane and Norwood are fine against a team like P'boro - all they did was sit off us virtually the whole game.

Brum had some big players plus we dropped into a 352 formation - which worked perfectly in the end.

We are having slightly less possession than we did under Slav, but we are using that possession much more effectively.

Players are also getting rests - which will be needed with all the sat/tue/sat games coming up.

We just need to carry on doing what we are doing - winning at home, not losing away and up that table we will go.

Right tactics for me from the new management team.

We have for me got 2 years to do this kind of thing - this one and next year to get out of this division before real and proper cost cutting takes hold of our finances.

UTB

 

[guancheblade]

Fleck was rubbish

But

Made an interception that stopped a goal

Made a pass that won it

That’s Utd

Poor heggy

Also took really dangerous set pieces all game. Can't remember last time I said that about a blades player

 

[MobileBlade]

100% this.

Hecky is a student of football - he'll be picking different players/formations for whoever we play next.

Hourihane and Norwood are fine against a team like P'boro - all they did was sit off us virtually the whole game.

Brum had some big players plus we dropped into a 352 formation - which worked perfectly in the end.

We are having slightly less possession than we did under Slav, but we are using that possession much more effectively.

Players are also getting rests - which will be needed with all the sat/tue/sat games coming up.

We just need to carry on doing what we are doing - winning at home, not losing away and up that table we will go.

Right tactics for me from the new management team.

We have for me got 2 years to do this kind of thing - this one and next year to get out of this division before real and proper cost cutting takes hold of our finances.

UTB

Actual run of sequence from the Birmingham game is:
Fri / Wed / Sat / Tue / Sat / Wed / Sat / Fri / Tue / Sat / Wed / Sat

So just one midweek off (and even then its Sat to Fri) before the next international break.

 

[ancientblade]

Actual run of sequence from the Birmingham game is:
Fri / Wed / Sat / Tue / Sat / Wed / Sat / Fri / Tue / Sat / Wed / Sat

So just one midweek off (and even then its Sat to Fri) before the next international break.

yes and 6 out of the next 8 at the lane great chance to get in to the top 6 by mid march

 

[Cappy]

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Great, ill sleep better tonight;-)

 

[Weasel]

People no longer seem to have simple jobs now, or job roles. They all have to be going on a 'journey' or starting a 'project'.

Hope he's packed his passport (just in case) as he starts his new journey...

Maybe a bit of 'blue sky thinking' can be chucked into the mix too, as he puts the cones out at the start of a training session.

 

[The Crab]

People no longer seem to have simple jobs now, or job roles. They all have to be going on a 'journey' or starting a 'project'.

Hope he's packed his passport (just in case) as he starts his new journey...

Maybe a bit of 'blue sky thinking' can be chucked into the mix too, as he puts the cones out at the start of a training session.

It can be a stratospheric journey putting the cones out.

Just ask Sausage Rohl…

 

[I should coco]

People no longer seem to have simple jobs now, or job roles. They all have to be going on a 'journey' or starting a 'project'.

Hope he's packed his passport (just in case) as he starts his new journey...

Maybe a bit of 'blue sky thinking' can be chucked into the mix too, as he puts the cones out at the start of a training session.

Maybe he will get chance to 'speak his own truth' too.

 

[ATL Recs]

It can be a stratospheric journey putting the cones out.

Just ask Sausage Rohl…

Surely McCall is the master of the art of “cones on grass”

 

[The Crab]

Surely McCall is the master of the art of “cones on grass”

The Cannavaro of the cones. He doesn’t even put them out. Just waves his hand like a Jedi knight and they put themselves out…