key points tonight

[spongebobblade]

Oh come on, nick 6th place, lets be honest we are finding this division [at this stage of the season] as tough as we expected it to be. We are looking at others collapsing to enable us to nick a place. It is not going to happen! With 11 to play including Cardiff, Middlesbrough, Preston, Millwall & Bristol City we will be fortunate to reach 70 points, which bearing in mind the last 6 years is highly commendable & beyond our wildest expectations.

We are showing weaknesses at the front & at the back, conceding too often & not scoring enough. ONE clean sheet away from home & a number of poor performances against teams we should have been better against [Bolton, Hull, Preston, QPR, Millwall], have been the real reasons we are out of the running.

But it has been a great season & I am sure still will be. In fact my only real disappointment is that the January signings have made very little difference to the team that has been spluttering since November. Up front and in defence are areas we need to look at if this season is to be a Launchpad for the future.

UTB

MTLBWY

Plenty of other sides around us have tough run ins too and all will drop points at some stage. Beat Boro and Preston at home and who knows? Plenty still to play for and I wouldn’t write us off just yet.

 

[finlaytheblade]

No disgrace losing to the best attacking team in the division who are on a. great run and full of confidence. 11 games to go and still all to play for .Wilder and us fans won't be happy if we just give it up.
We have lost to the two outstanding teams in the division,we can compete with the rest we may fall short but I can't see Wilder tolerating the players throwing in the towel.
Really they are playing for there futures as
Wilder will want to improve the team for next season ,be it championship or premiership

 

[sitwell]

Cairney is the best player in this division by a long way.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

75 mins in and I've got 3 key points from tonight.

1. Fulham are rather good and I can't believe they don't have this division tied up with Wolves.
2. We're not bad either, just don't have the quality of the top sides in this division - which is no surprise given where we've been for 6 years.
3. If United ever give these fucking plastic fan clapper things that Leicester have and these have tonight, I'll stop going.

Agree with all 3 points.

 

[robbiez666]

Do we though? Wilder's mentality is to play your own game and let the opposition worry about us. As soon as you abandon that you introduce fear into the psychology of the team.

We're new to the league and only two teams have rinsed us. We've lost other games, but far more often than not, we've had a chance to win those games, but a bit of quality has cost us.

So I'm all for maintaining the method. Maybe have a change of shape for certain games to free up some pace from wide which we lack now. But we need more quality, not a defensive mindset.

The method which worked a lot better at the start of the season when players were fresh and we surprised the opposition?

It's not going to get us up unless there's a large increase in funds. In order to get up we'd need to have a chance of winning games like tonight. To be able to surprise an opposition. Stifle them and chance it on the break.

 

[Bergen Blade]

I think Wolves and Fulham away were two games where we should have tried a more solid and defensive approach. On both occasions we met a superior opposition who were really in the mood and very confident.

We have played our best games of late with Duffy behind two strikers, so I think it was too tempting to keep the same side that did so well at Reading. But Reading were awful on the day and we should have expected tonight to be very different.

If we somehow stumble into the play offs and have to play this fixture again I'd try:

Blackman
Basham Stearman O'Connell
Baldock - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stevens
Evans
Leonard - - - - Fleck

Brooks
Clarke​

Shame Sharp and Donaldson couldn't take their first half chances though. It could have been very different if they had.

 

[Roygbiv]

Let's not forget this key point

James Whaling‏Verified account @jjwhaling 9m9 minutes ago
There are statistically seven worse teams in the Championship than Sheffield Wednesday. Absolutely staggering. #swfc

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Just seen a Wednesday fan trying to take the piss and say we are "finding our level". Whatever our level may be it's a lot fucking higher than theirs

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Fulham are in sensational form, there's no denying that. You could argue looking at their squad that they ought to be though, and that they've massively underachieved earlier in the season, but not take away from their current run - they've had the hardest run-in in the division.

I didn't expect owt from tonight, but I hoped for something. Win our game in hand and we're still very much in contention. I'll take that scenario.

 

[PokerBlade]

OK, i'm going to buck the trend a little and go against the tide of the Fulham love in.

How is losing 3-0 to a promotion rival acceptable?

Because we haven't had the time or investment to consider our current league position even a little bit close to failure.

 

[mancunianblade]

I know Cardiff are on a good run but reckon it will be Wolves and Fulham to go up automatic with Villa beating Cardiff in the final

 

[spongebobblade]

Just seen a Wednesday fan trying to take the piss and say we are "finding our level". Whatever our level may be it's a lot fucking higher than theirs

I’d say he ought to concentrate on his own teams short comings rather than ours against the divisions outstanding form team. Let’s cut the bullshit. They will only survive because the majority of the sides below them, despite beating them are just as shit as they are

 

[Northyorksblade]

3. If United ever give these fucking plastic fan clapper things that Leicester have and these have tonight, I'll stop going.

Seriously, me too. Call that atmosphere? Our fans showed them what atmosphere is, singing their hearts out and still singing at 90 minutes.

 

[finlaytheblade]

I know Cardiff are on a good run but reckon it will be Wolves and Fulham to go up automatic with Villa beating Cardiff in the final

Agree with the scenario but if we .make the play offs we are capable of beating both Cardiff and villa.still all to play for