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"Al tell you what, I would loveit if we beat them LOVE IT". Mebbe that's what Wilder will be saying when Scunthorpe and Bolton pip us to automatic promotion.

Personally I'm fed up with Wilder's Kevin Keegan style attitude. Our problem is not scoring goals (we're the 2nd highest scorers in the whole football league) it's our shoddy defence. Wilder comes out and lambasts the strikers but we concede 2 soft goals at home to 20th in the league. 2 goals at home against Gillingham should be more than enough to win the match.

Tufty slams Lavery, Done, Sparky, Clarke etc but there is no mention of any defenders. Ebanks-Landel and O'Connell are his signings and so are Wright and Wilson. He leaves our best defender on the bench despite us conceding 4 the week before and then complains that we concede soft goals. It is obvious to just about every United fan (except Wilder) that we desperately need Wright in the team but despite us conceding 6 goals in the previous 2 games he keeps the same team. He plays Done at wing back too.

The Blades fans can take their share of the blame too. Idolising another poor player. Before it was Brayford, now Ebanks-Landel. What is about losers that we love? Back of Brayford became the cult hero and now it is Flatfeet-Landel. The latter is a joke of a defender. Slow, cumbersome and takes an age to react. He's good in the area but otherwise awful at defending. He's only been bailed out by his goals at the other end.

I forgot to mention Simon 'calamity' Moore. Does this guy do anything but pick the ball out of the net? The opposition shoots on target and they score. We may as well play without a keeper and stick another striker up top. Or get Wright in the team to cover for the 3 poor defenders at centre heif.

The midfield do their job and control the game, the attackers (or Billy) do their job and score but the defenders and keeper don't do theirs. But Wilder's answer is to criticise the strikers. Sorry Kev, but we cannot expect to score 4 every game. Even though we create a phenomenal amount of chances 2 goals should still be enough to win a match at home against poor opposition.

The wheels are off (a bit like Keegan's Newcastle when he signed Ausprilla) and Wilder has no answers. I'm sure he will sign a striker before the end of the JTW but Hanson won't make Flatfeet-Landel become positionally more aware. Wright needs to start on Tuesday and we need another keeper before the end of January. We all started to dream when we went 4 points clear but in truth we haven't played well for ages. Swindon is the last time we actually played really well.

Teams have worked out we are not very good and will now be coming to BDTBL and having a pop ... and taking points. No more parking the bus, playingnon thr counter, having a go and getting results. Managers can see we have a woeful defence and are a soft touch. Fook me, all they have to do is shoot on target.

Where would tufty the last dinosaur be without Billy's goals I ask thee? His team is being carried by an Adkins signing.

Not conceding goals is the key to winning matches Chris. We will score goals and are highly unlikely to draw against teams. Sort the defence FFS.
 
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Ollessendro said:
Where would tufty the last dinosaur be without Billy's goals I ask thee?
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What a stupid question and why the 'dinosaur' quip. At least even Pinchy has the grace to only apply it to a manager who left 20 years ago.

If you really think hes is 'a dinosaur' then please do one.

We have seen some of the best football at BDTBL since Kendall and you are having a pop - unbelievable!

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Not conceding goals is the key to winning matches Chris. We will score goals and are highly unlikely to draw against teams. Sort the defence FFS.
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Back to Clough?
Dreary One nill wins?
One up front, home and away?
"You start with a point..."

Can't make my mind up if you are just a complete idiot or trolling for a wind up.

Possibly both.
 
Ollessendro said:
"Al tell you what, I would loveit if we beat them LOVE IT". Mebbe that's what Wilder will be saying when Scunthorpe and Bolton pip us to automatic promotion.

Personally I'm fed up with Wilder's Kevin Keegan style attitude. Our problem is not scoring goals (we're the 2nd highest scorers in the whole football league) it's our shoddy defence. Wilder comes out and lambasts the strikers but we concede 2 soft goals at home to 20th in the league. 2 goals at home against Gillingham should be more than enough to win the match.

Tufty slams Lavery, Done, Sparky, Clarke etc but there is no mention of any defenders. Ebanks-Landel and O'Connell are his signings and so are Wright and Wilson. He leaves our best defender on the bench despite us conceding 4 the week before and then complains that we concede soft goals. It is obvious to just about every United fan (except Wilder) that we desperately need Wright in the team but despite us conceding 6 goals in the previous 2 games he keeps the same team. He plays Done at wing back too.

The Blades fans can take their share of the blame too. Idolising another poor player. Before it was Brayford, now Ebanks-Landel. What is about losers that we love? Back of Brayford became the cult hero and now it is Flatfeet-Landel. The latter is a joke of a defender. Slow, cumbersome and takes an age to react. He's good in the area but otherwise awful at defending. He's only been bailed out by his goals at the other end.

I forgot to mention Simon 'calamity' Moore. Does this guy do anything but pick the ball out of the net? The opposition shoots on target and they score. We may as well play without a keeper and stick another striker up top. Or get Wright in the team to cover for the 3 poor defenders at centre heif.

The midfield do their job and control the game, the attackers (or Billy) do their job and score but the defenders and keeper don't do theirs. But Wilder's answer is to criticise the strikers. Sorry Kev, but we cannot expect to score 4 every game. Even though we create a phenomenal amount of chances 2 goals should still be enough to win a match at home against poor opposition.

The wheels are off (a bit like Keegan's Newcastle when he signed Ausprilla) and Wilder has no answers. I'm sure he will sign a striker before the end of the JTW but Hanson won't make Flatfeet-Landel become positionally more aware. Wright needs to start on Tuesday and we need another keeper before the end of January. We all started to dream when we went 4 points clear but in truth we haven't played well for ages. Swindon is the last time we actually played really well.

Teams have worked out we are not very good and will now be coming to BDTBL and having a pop ... and taking points. No more parking the bus, playingnon thr counter, having a go and getting results. Managers can see we have a woeful defence and are a soft touch. Fook me, all they have to do is shoot on target.

Where would tufty the last dinosaur be without Billy's goals I ask thee? His team is being carried by an Adkins signing.

Not conceding goals is the key to winning matches Chris. We will score goals and are highly unlikely to draw against teams. Sort the defence FFS.
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Morning Mr Adkins. How are we doing?
 
IMHO nowt wrong with some of the OP it's just the way it's expressed. think where he gets it wrong is bringing the style of football into the criticism. The style is a marked improvement on what we have had to endure in the past and so no criticism should lie there, however what I believe he was pointing out was that with that particular style you are always going to leave yourself open on the counter and also with some large gaps at the back which need covering with mobile and tactically aware central defenders.

The reference to Keeegan is presumably because his Newcastle squad was constructed to attack on the basis that they would always score more than the opposition and he famously neglected signings for his defence.

I see nothing wrong in pointing out that it seems that Mr Wilder is blaming his attack when the problem lies with his defence, that EEL when faced with an onrushing attacker on the counter is flat footed slow and cumbersome, that Done is not a left wing back and that he has apparently decided to leave out his best defender to show horn Basham into the team.

It is also not sacrilege to point out that every manager bar one that I have known since 1961 has had a myopic streak of wanting to prove a point re a particular player or tactics. They're all egotistic. Somebody has to point out to them not to believe their own publicity. I believe, and I'm entitled to an opinion, that he got it wrong.
 
Ollessendro said:
"Al tell you what, I would loveit if we beat them LOVE IT". Mebbe that's what Wilder will be saying when Scunthorpe and Bolton pip us to automatic promotion.

Personally I'm fed up with Wilder's Kevin Keegan style attitude. Our problem is not scoring goals (we're the 2nd highest scorers in the whole football league) it's our shoddy defence. Wilder comes out and lambasts the strikers but we concede 2 soft goals at home to 20th in the league. 2 goals at home against Gillingham should be more than enough to win the match.

Tufty slams Lavery, Done, Sparky, Clarke etc but there is no mention of any defenders. Ebanks-Landel and O'Connell are his signings and so are Wright and Wilson. He leaves our best defender on the bench despite us conceding 4 the week before and then complains that we concede soft goals. It is obvious to just about every United fan (except Wilder) that we desperately need Wright in the team but despite us conceding 6 goals in the previous 2 games he keeps the same team. He plays Done at wing back too.

The Blades fans can take their share of the blame too. Idolising another poor player. Before it was Brayford, now Ebanks-Landel. What is about losers that we love? Back of Brayford became the cult hero and now it is Flatfeet-Landel. The latter is a joke of a defender. Slow, cumbersome and takes an age to react. He's good in the area but otherwise awful at defending. He's only been bailed out by his goals at the other end.

I forgot to mention Simon 'calamity' Moore. Does this guy do anything but pick the ball out of the net? The opposition shoots on target and they score. We may as well play without a keeper and stick another striker up top. Or get Wright in the team to cover for the 3 poor defenders at centre heif.

The midfield do their job and control the game, the attackers (or Billy) do their job and score but the defenders and keeper don't do theirs. But Wilder's answer is to criticise the strikers. Sorry Kev, but we cannot expect to score 4 every game. Even though we create a phenomenal amount of chances 2 goals should still be enough to win a match at home against poor opposition.

The wheels are off (a bit like Keegan's Newcastle when he signed Ausprilla) and Wilder has no answers. I'm sure he will sign a striker before the end of the JTW but Hanson won't make Flatfeet-Landel become positionally more aware. Wright needs to start on Tuesday and we need another keeper before the end of January. We all started to dream when we went 4 points clear but in truth we haven't played well for ages. Swindon is the last time we actually played really well.

Teams have worked out we are not very good and will now be coming to BDTBL and having a pop ... and taking points. No more parking the bus, playingnon thr counter, having a go and getting results. Managers can see we have a woeful defence and are a soft touch. Fook me, all they have to do is shoot on target.

Where would tufty the last dinosaur be without Billy's goals I ask thee? His team is being carried by an Adkins signing.

Not conceding goals is the key to winning matches Chris. We will score goals and are highly unlikely to draw against teams. Sort the defence FFS.
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What a shit post.
 
The title of the thread I agree with, the cheap attacks on the manager and players lets the post down.

To be talking about the attack not putting away chances having scored 7 in the last 3 seems a little odd when the defence gets off relatively lightly having conceded 8 in 3.
 
mattbianco1 said:
Ollessendro - I was with you until you slagged Moore off. He has won us so many points this season.
Coutts, Fleck and Duffy are getting all the plaudits (rightly so) this season but between Sharp and Moore, they must have won us 30+ pts.
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I'd add O'Connell to that list too. No coincidence that as soon as we start shoe-horning Done at LWB that JOC has had his two worst games.

Wilder has got so much right so far, but on that he's been wrong. I only hope Riley plays LWB on Tuesday.
 
YES Blade said:
The title of the thread I agree with, the cheap attacks on the manager and players lets the post down.

To be talking about the attack not putting away chances having scored 7 in the last 3 seems a little odd when the defence gets off relatively lightly having conceded 8 in 3.
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Where the attack is concerned, it has been the same all season, Billy apart. So when the defense needed digging out, and with ample opportunities to do so, the frustration is that they failed. And as Wilder correctly said, it should have been over by half time. You can be sure that was the basis of Gills half time team talk and they came out feeling pretty good about life, and it showed.

You are of course right about the defense, but until the last three games, the defense has been reasonably solid, first four games apart. I'd be very surprised if Wright didn't feature on Tuesday, or that we weren't in the market for another CB.
 
I just get the feeling that now EEL has got his contract at Wolves he is not half the player he was, not convinced by any of our defenders to be honest add to the back three two wing backs who can't defend for toffee and there is no surprise Gillingham got 2 goals as soon as the decided to have a go. Wilder needs to sort the defence out sharpish we concede way too many for a team hoping to be in the top two. I think he was harsh on Lavery who has done more in the few games he has played than Clarke and certainly more than runaround Done, yes we need a striker but the priority must be to shore up the creaking defence.
 



Is it time to revert back to Done and Billy upfront, if lafferty is back? Go back to how we set up at the start? Just hope billy can score enough for two!
 
Ollessendro said:
"Al tell you what, I would loveit if we beat them LOVE IT". Mebbe that's what Wilder will be saying when Scunthorpe and Bolton pip us to automatic promotion.

Personally I'm fed up with Wilder's Kevin Keegan style attitude. Our problem is not scoring goals (we're the 2nd highest scorers in the whole football league) it's our shoddy defence. Wilder comes out and lambasts the strikers but we concede 2 soft goals at home to 20th in the league. 2 goals at home against Gillingham should be more than enough to win the match.

Tufty slams Lavery, Done, Sparky, Clarke etc but there is no mention of any defenders. Ebanks-Landel and O'Connell are his signings and so are Wright and Wilson. He leaves our best defender on the bench despite us conceding 4 the week before and then complains that we concede soft goals. It is obvious to just about every United fan (except Wilder) that we desperately need Wright in the team but despite us conceding 6 goals in the previous 2 games he keeps the same team. He plays Done at wing back too.

The Blades fans can take their share of the blame too. Idolising another poor player. Before it was Brayford, now Ebanks-Landel. What is about losers that we love? Back of Brayford became the cult hero and now it is Flatfeet-Landel. The latter is a joke of a defender. Slow, cumbersome and takes an age to react. He's good in the area but otherwise awful at defending. He's only been bailed out by his goals at the other end.

I forgot to mention Simon 'calamity' Moore. Does this guy do anything but pick the ball out of the net? The opposition shoots on target and they score. We may as well play without a keeper and stick another striker up top. Or get Wright in the team to cover for the 3 poor defenders at centre heif.

The midfield do their job and control the game, the attackers (or Billy) do their job and score but the defenders and keeper don't do theirs. But Wilder's answer is to criticise the strikers. Sorry Kev, but we cannot expect to score 4 every game. Even though we create a phenomenal amount of chances 2 goals should still be enough to win a match at home against poor opposition.

The wheels are off (a bit like Keegan's Newcastle when he signed Ausprilla) and Wilder has no answers. I'm sure he will sign a striker before the end of the JTW but Hanson won't make Flatfeet-Landel become positionally more aware. Wright needs to start on Tuesday and we need another keeper before the end of January. We all started to dream when we went 4 points clear but in truth we haven't played well for ages. Swindon is the last time we actually played really well.

Teams have worked out we are not very good and will now be coming to BDTBL and having a pop ... and taking points. No more parking the bus, playingnon thr counter, having a go and getting results. Managers can see we have a woeful defence and are a soft touch. Fook me, all they have to do is shoot on target.

Where would tufty the last dinosaur be without Billy's goals I ask thee? His team is being carried by an Adkins signing.

Not conceding goals is the key to winning matches Chris. We will score goals and are highly unlikely to draw against teams. Sort the defence FFS.
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Some grade A trolling from one of the original trolls. Wilder and the team deserves much better than that.
 
Coily said:
Where the attack is concerned, it has been the same all season, Billy apart. So when the defense needed digging out, and with ample opportunities to do so, the frustration is that they failed. And as Wilder correctly said, it should have been over by half time. You can be sure that was the basis of Gills half time team talk and they came out feeling pretty good about life, and it showed.

You are of course right about the defense, but until the last three games, the defense has been reasonably solid, first four games apart. I'd be very surprised if Wright didn't feature on Tuesday, or that we weren't in the market for another CB.
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The problem is, this is League One, the strikers that need less chances to score end up in higher leagues. It's unrealistic to expect us to take a high proportion of our chances and kill teams off before half time on a regular basis.

It's a team game so when the goals aren't flowing (2 at home ain't bad by the way), that's when the defence need to do their job and secure us the win with a clean sheet.
 
Wilder is right though ,Gillingham ,and every other team have few chances but somehow manage to take them.We have many more chances and dominate games but even though we score a lot it could be so many more. Entertainment goals ,quality passing ,its down to the way we play and I love it ,being top of the league 7 points clear of third makes it even better and long may it continue ,1 draw and a defeat and all hell breaks loose ,its pathetic.
 
WE'RE DOOMED CAPTAIN MAINWARING, DOOMED I TELL THEE
 
Antonb said:
Is it time to revert back to Done and Billy upfront, if lafferty is back? Go back to how we set up at the start? Just hope billy can score enough for two!
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That's a point Sharp and Done have 20 goals between them, at this stage of the season, that's not too bad is it?
 
Ollessendro said:
"Al tell you what, I would loveit if we beat them LOVE IT". Mebbe that's what Wilder will be saying when Scunthorpe and Bolton pip us to automatic promotion.

Personally I'm fed up with Wilder's Kevin Keegan style attitude. Our problem is not scoring goals (we're the 2nd highest scorers in the whole football league) it's our shoddy defence. Wilder comes out and lambasts the strikers but we concede 2 soft goals at home to 20th in the league. 2 goals at home against Gillingham should be more than enough to win the match.

Tufty slams Lavery, Done, Sparky, Clarke etc but there is no mention of any defenders. Ebanks-Landel and O'Connell are his signings and so are Wright and Wilson. He leaves our best defender on the bench despite us conceding 4 the week before and then complains that we concede soft goals. It is obvious to just about every United fan (except Wilder) that we desperately need Wright in the team but despite us conceding 6 goals in the previous 2 games he keeps the same team. He plays Done at wing back too.

The Blades fans can take their share of the blame too. Idolising another poor player. Before it was Brayford, now Ebanks-Landel. What is about losers that we love? Back of Brayford became the cult hero and now it is Flatfeet-Landel. The latter is a joke of a defender. Slow, cumbersome and takes an age to react. He's good in the area but otherwise awful at defending. He's only been bailed out by his goals at the other end.

I forgot to mention Simon 'calamity' Moore. Does this guy do anything but pick the ball out of the net? The opposition shoots on target and they score. We may as well play without a keeper and stick another striker up top. Or get Wright in the team to cover for the 3 poor defenders at centre heif.

The midfield do their job and control the game, the attackers (or Billy) do their job and score but the defenders and keeper don't do theirs. But Wilder's answer is to criticise the strikers. Sorry Kev, but we cannot expect to score 4 every game. Even though we create a phenomenal amount of chances 2 goals should still be enough to win a match at home against poor opposition.

The wheels are off (a bit like Keegan's Newcastle when he signed Ausprilla) and Wilder has no answers. I'm sure he will sign a striker before the end of the JTW but Hanson won't make Flatfeet-Landel become positionally more aware. Wright needs to start on Tuesday and we need another keeper before the end of January. We all started to dream when we went 4 points clear but in truth we haven't played well for ages. Swindon is the last time we actually played really well.

Teams have worked out we are not very good and will now be coming to BDTBL and having a pop ... and taking points. No more parking the bus, playingnon thr counter, having a go and getting results. Managers can see we have a woeful defence and are a soft touch. Fook me, all they have to do is shoot on target.

Where would tufty the last dinosaur be without Billy's goals I ask thee? His team is being carried by an Adkins signing.

Not conceding goals is the key to winning matches Chris. We will score goals and are highly unlikely to draw against teams. Sort the defence FFS.
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So many inaccuracies and strange comments.
For a start scoring more than you concede is the key to winning matches.
It's Phil Parkinson Bolton that concentrate on having a solid defence and their fans hate their style.

Teams have worked out we are too good so they are not having a go at us.
They are parking the bus and defending in numbers making some matches attack against defence.
It's that conundrum we have to overcome where strikers have no space and don't need pace .
We've tried putting some physicality (EEL) in the oppostion penalty area and its worked quite well in a similar way
To when we use to bring big Wayne Allison on as sub.
Assume that's why Hanson is a target to use when teams inevitably sit back deep defending in numbers.
Also Hanson does have limitations, so wouldn't cost that much compared to other strikers.

Assume you're deliberating making stuff up just to get attention. You little tinker you.
 
Its patently obvious that since personnel changes, United have lost their ability to frequently win the ball high up the pitch and strangle the opposition. This has been the hallmark of this team; the reason for the teams success. We had the correct shape and the players to make it fairly successful, despite the limitations of certain players. We were scoring a similar amount of goals, but crucially letting less in - despite carrying a non scoring striker with dubious technical ability. We could carry him when in possession with a negligible impact on goal scoring return and points acquired. The limitations of certain players were always there, but they were being hidden and unexposed due to the high press system.

Unfortunately, many Blades fans don't see this, as they have an old fashioned (outdated?) appreciation of the game:strikers score goals, defenders stop goals. This approach has had its day: you have to now have a team plan to win the ball back and then affect play when in possession. We have had this plan for the majority of the season and will hopefully return to it. The strikers still have to score goals, but this is only part of their job.Midfielders, in this system, have to rely on the high press working or they will be caught too far up the pitch and are ripe for the counter attack. The opposition, if your high press is bad, get in your half more: any team getting up the pitch with more frequency,and increased time on the ball, with your players scampering the full length of the field reactively is bound to hurt you more. They are bound to get more set pieces, too, and expose you there. Any flaws in the defensive makeup of your midfielders (tracking runners)is bound to be exposed more. Flaws in your defense (lack of pace) is going to get exposed more. Personnel problems are going to be exposed more (Done at LWB, no leader marshaling the defensive line, dodgy keeper etc),
Moving forward, we have to either successfully continue playing this system or abandon it. We could return proven personnel to correct positions (if it aint broke why fix it approach). Get different personnel or new signings to fit into the style as successfully as the old players (this hasn't happened yet!). More controversially: abandon the system and play a more defensive style. Worryingly, Wilder may already be putting the wheels in motion with the Hanson signing. If you go from back to front the midfield and defensive line can play much deeper, and there is no necessity for your strikers to be involved in defensive play. This will cover up a lot of the flaws mentioned above, but could expose different ones - especially when in possession.
 
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Its patently obvious that since personnel changes, United have lost their ability to frequently win the ball high up the pitch and strangle the opposition. This has been the hallmark of this team; the reason for the teams success. We had the correct shape and the players to make it fairly successful, despite the limitations of certain players. We were scoring a similar amount of goals, but crucially letting less in - despite carrying a non scoring striker with dubious technical ability. We could carry him when in possession with a negligible impact on goal scoring return and points acquired. The limitations of certain players were always there, but they were being hidden and unexposed due to the high press system.

Unfortunately, many Blades fans don't see this, as they have an old fashioned (outdated?) appreciation of the game:strikers score goals, defenders stop goals. This approach has had its day: you have to now have a team plan to win the ball back and then affect play when in possession. We have had this plan for the majority of the season and will hopefully return to it. The strikers still have to score goals, but this only part of their job.Midfielders, in this system, have to rely on the high press, or they will be caught too far up the pitch and are ripe for the counter attack. . The opposition, if your high press is bad, get in your half more: any team getting up the pitch with more frequency ,and with time on the ball, and your players scampering the full length of the field is bound to hurt you more. They are bound to get more set pieces, too, and expose you there. Any flaws in the defensive makeup of your midfielders (tracking runners)is bound to be exposed more. Flaws in your defense (lack of pace) is going to get exposed more. Personnel problems are going to be exposed more (Done at LWB, no leader marshaling the defensive line),
Moving forward, we have to either successfully continue playing this system or abandon it. We could return proven personnel to correct positions (if it aint broke why fix it approach). Get different personnel or new signings to fit into the style as successfully as the old players (this hasn't happened yet!). More controversially: abandon the system and play a more defensive style. Worryingly, Wilder may already be putting the wheels in motion with the Hanson signing. If you go from back to front the midfield and defensive line can play much deeper, and there is no necessity for your strikers to be involved in defensive play. This will cover up a lot of the flaws mentioned above, but could expose different ones - especially when in possession.
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Agree but the team ,its personnel and its tactics has to be a moving animal ,we have to be fluid and adapt as the season progresses and always look to improve. We will easily get in the top two with the players we have and the way we play ,Bolton will fall away badly and no one else is anywhere near.
 
sitwell said:
Agree but the team ,its personnel and its tactics has to be a moving animal ,we have to be fluid and adapt as the season progresses and always look to improve. We will easily get in the top two with the players we have and the way we play ,Bolton will fall away badly and no one else is anywhere near.
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I agree, but I'm not sure that we have the personnel to get the best out of Hanson - even if we changed approach completely. At the minute we don't cross the ball in the air much, we try and cut it back or drill it across goal. We don't have orthodox wingers. I think he would help a lot when were battering teams at home, having fifteen corners and loads of free kicks etc to no avail. A plan B.
 
No system is perfect and if we'd gone more defensive we may have drawn more and won fewer.
 
Ollessendro said:
"Al tell you what, I would loveit if we beat them LOVE IT". Mebbe that's what Wilder will be saying when Scunthorpe and Bolton pip us to automatic promotion.

Personally I'm fed up with Wilder's Kevin Keegan style attitude. Our problem is not scoring goals (we're the 2nd highest scorers in the whole football league) it's our shoddy defence. Wilder comes out and lambasts the strikers but we concede 2 soft goals at home to 20th in the league. 2 goals at home against Gillingham should be more than enough to win the match.

Tufty slams Lavery, Done, Sparky, Clarke etc but there is no mention of any defenders. Ebanks-Landel and O'Connell are his signings and so are Wright and Wilson. He leaves our best defender on the bench despite us conceding 4 the week before and then complains that we concede soft goals. It is obvious to just about every United fan (except Wilder) that we desperately need Wright in the team but despite us conceding 6 goals in the previous 2 games he keeps the same team. He plays Done at wing back too.

The Blades fans can take their share of the blame too. Idolising another poor player. Before it was Brayford, now Ebanks-Landel. What is about losers that we love? Back of Brayford became the cult hero and now it is Flatfeet-Landel. The latter is a joke of a defender. Slow, cumbersome and takes an age to react. He's good in the area but otherwise awful at defending. He's only been bailed out by his goals at the other end.

I forgot to mention Simon 'calamity' Moore. Does this guy do anything but pick the ball out of the net? The opposition shoots on target and they score. We may as well play without a keeper and stick another striker up top. Or get Wright in the team to cover for the 3 poor defenders at centre heif.

The midfield do their job and control the game, the attackers (or Billy) do their job and score but the defenders and keeper don't do theirs. But Wilder's answer is to criticise the strikers. Sorry Kev, but we cannot expect to score 4 every game. Even though we create a phenomenal amount of chances 2 goals should still be enough to win a match at home against poor opposition.

The wheels are off (a bit like Keegan's Newcastle when he signed Ausprilla) and Wilder has no answers. I'm sure he will sign a striker before the end of the JTW but Hanson won't make Flatfeet-Landel become positionally more aware. Wright needs to start on Tuesday and we need another keeper before the end of January. We all started to dream when we went 4 points clear but in truth we haven't played well for ages. Swindon is the last time we actually played really well.

Teams have worked out we are not very good and will now be coming to BDTBL and having a pop ... and taking points. No more parking the bus, playingnon thr counter, having a go and getting results. Managers can see we have a woeful defence and are a soft touch. Fook me, all they have to do is shoot on target.

Where would tufty the last dinosaur be without Billy's goals I ask thee? His team is being carried by an Adkins signing.

Not conceding goals is the key to winning matches Chris. We will score goals and are highly unlikely to draw against teams. Sort the defence FFS.
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we had let in 4 goals in the previous 10 home league games
just a fact that might be relevant

its still the most pertinent fact we create far more chances than we need to win games
just need to be more ruthless , then on the odd occasions we concede it wont matter

all teams concede goals now and again ask rochdale
bolton let in 2 at home last week , but only, managed one themselves
now that is a problem

according to your reasoning it was impossible for liverpool to concede 3 at home to crappy swansea ,,, but shit happens
 
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