Middlesbrough vs Sheffield United

EFL Championship Matchweek 4 - Saturday 30th August 2025 - 12:30 - Riverside Stadium
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Referee: Lewis Smith
Assistants: Alex James and Andrew Dallison
Fourth Official: Oliver Langford

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[hull-Blade]

Over 2.5 games. Probably 4+ hours

Shocking .

 

[Blade56]

Please please bring him back.

Just see your therapist and stop it, he’s history, good history and bad history but he’s a very wealthy man of history

 

[harrry1990s]

Right in our face here, is how much of a better punt Rob Edwards would have been than Sellés. So much less of a risk

Absolute madness that we went for an unproven manager who had recently been sacked by Hull.

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

Wasting your time..some people can only look backwards.

Where you looking?

 

[MiserableBlader]

Well they are shit and the manager poor but could be 3-0 up primarily because they have a right footed winger playing where he should be whilst we waste two or three if you include Hamer on the right of a three.
Gordon doing well but should be RCB
Little T totally unimpressive. Knew he was too small can see he is too slow (should have been booked for holding.) Hides any quality he has well. An honest pro but a waste of big money on the first half.
Bindon at least has height and can strike a ball. Burrows should be left wing back
Ohare should be sent to Coventry but has a reasonsable last 10 mins despite appalling first 35
Peck was red card but managers fault for insane complicated risky tactics.
Hamer out of position.
Number 10 or right wing in this formation
Brooks left sided midfield or left of a three wasted and again seems to be being told to come inside
Campbell needs balls played into space not linking play.
Barry wasted and very limited at this level on the left rather than the right.
Apart from that its all great.
Well done manager
PRESS the destruct button on the imbecile you shysters

Entirely predictable defeat.
Four winnable league games all lost by an imbecile manager.
100% effort by all the players generally totally misdirected.
Best chance wasted created by one of the all too few instances of genuine wing play but missed by a typical Wilder journeyman signing rather than finished by Brooks playing in that correct position.
It is pointless discussing the glaring problems Selles is causing.
PRESS the destruct button or get relegated because apart from taking advantage of a wide open defence they looked a poor team that could lose 4-0 at home to Donny
The big worry is who will be leaving this week
And for far too little as per the #sufc shambles with transfer fees.
Hamer Campbell and Brooks have all been linked to moves and all are being wasted by the imbecile.

 

[Nick Jansky]

The Fans singing Wilder's name - -1 - The club needed your support and yet you prefer to undermine the players and the manager by singing the name of a former manager. Pathetic.

A change of manager is looking inevitable. It won’t be Wilder and that will be a big step towards finally putting that sort of shite to bed.

 

[harrry1990s]

Watching Sky Sports and Rob Edwards talks a lot of sense.
To be fair, even Warnock seems like a great option right now.

 

[Kenworthy’s Tash]

Just how bad does the effeminate Miss Sadie Peck have to play before he gets dropped?

 

[bakeblade]

Terrible

Selles has to be sacked. Worst manager I've seen at the club. Weir, Heath, Robson, Slav, Adams all much better.

Cooper - 4 - Crap today. Completely misjudged a cross when they should have scored and looked all over the shop
Burrows - 2 - 0 first half, bit better in the second but positionally naïve and despite getting little help massive gaps down his side.
Bindon - 3 - Did ok second half. Terrible in the second.
Tanganga - 8 - By far an away the only player who deserves to be paid for their efforts today.
Godfrey - 5 - Did ok. poorer in the second but ok in the first
Peck - 1- Should have been sent off for a ridiculous tackle. Did his usual. Always out of position. Always slows it down. backwards, sideways.
O'Hare - 2 - Ran around a lot but so lightweight and continuously makes poor choices.
Hamer - 2 - Took some good set pieces but no discipline again. How he can be made captain is beyond me. Shows zero leadership. He disappears for much of games. Only pops up when there's an attacking chance.
Barry - 1 - Terrible today. Childlike stupidity going forward. Just runs at 4 defenders and surprisingly gets tackled. Provides no cover for Burrows.
Campbell - 1 - Got booked for being mardy. Wrestled a bit but did next to nothing. Static.
Brooks -1 - Started off quite well. went outside and beat his man. Went downhill rapidly as the game progressed. That ridiculous run where he didn't bother looking up but kept coming inside until he lost the ball sums up why he shouldn't be playing at this level.

Subs:

One -6 - Was shocking playing high left but actually was one of our better players as wingback. Actually the one player on the pitch showing determination and trying to get an equalizer.
Cannon - 0 - Noticed him jog once when the ball was loose. The guy needs fucking off as far as possible from the club. Never tries.
McCallum - 4 - Missed a good chance at the end but at least he bust a gut to get there.
Chong -4 - Looked slow and uncertain but only just arrived
Ings - 4 - Had a good shot. Looked knackered!

Selles - 0 - Clueless again. Same formation again. Same obvious issues again. Doesn't change anything. Looks out of his depth. I would not be surprised to discover that a rich Wednesday fan is paying him to make us lose every game. He's that bad. I

The Fans singing Wilder's name - -1 - The club needed your support and yet you prefer to undermine the players and the manager by singing the name of a former manager. Pathetic.

Boro - They were good first half and should have had a couple. Looked as bad as us for parts of the second but you can see there's a plan and some class players.

Bit unfair on Cannon, he actually won a header.
For that he should be upgraded to 0.5

 

[JHaber]

First time I've been able to watch any of the football this season and that was dire and confusing. The play, the subs and the casualness of it all. Most worrying is that over the summer good players have become bad and ok players have become really bad - so much jogging around when it's meant to be high intensity. All of them. We don't know how to get the ball to the forwards, no matter who's playing there.

If this has been the same every week then he's not looking at strengths and weaknesses (Peck, Hamer, O'Hare, Campbell) and blindly doing what he thinks is the right way - same as the Man U guy, that just shows your limitations as a manager, not the players. You're just exposing theirs!!!

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

How many minutes without a goal now ?

It's been awhile sir. But are you not entertained by this front foot attacking football?

Granted it's the opposition, but at least we let them.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I'm off to listen to some Yes. Should I play Close to the Edge or Fragile? Definitely not Going For The One.

 

[robbiez666]

Bit unfair on Cannon, he actually won a header.
For that he should be upgraded to 0.5

Must be when I decide to do a bit of hovering because I couldn't contain my excitement!

 

[harrry1990s]

Just realised it spelt Selles - hopefully worn have to bother remember how to spell it because he’ll be gone soon.

 

[Jon Bon II]

Unfortunately we are singing another 5 foot 9 midfielder

I don't know that one, how does it go? Do you have the lyrics?

 

[Ron_Justice]

Horrible. No idea how he turns this around.

 

[Bergen Blade]

Edwards is no attacking genius, but our midfield shape is a gift to the opposition. They tried on several occasions to get two players for Peck to deal with centrally. For a while our defenders (especially Tanganga) managed to compensate and rescue the situations, but eventually it paid off:

 

[Sean Thornton]

Please please bring him back.

 

[Bartleby]

I'm off to listen to some Yes. Should I play Close to the Edge or Fragile? Definitely not Going For The One.

Think Dazed and Confused might be an appropriate choice.

 

[harrry1990s]

Horrible. No idea how he turns this around.

On a human level, this is pretty grim.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Horrible. No idea how he turns this around.

There is no come back. None. People wanted Wilder out for more obscure reasons with huge success. They won. Majority want this guy out. Unless a one in a hundred season happens it isn't turning around for him

 

[Ron_Justice]

On a human level, this is pretty grim.

Sickening. Looks completely lost.

 

[SouthStandGBlock]

Wonder if we will be taking an International break in more ways than one???

 

[paidsy]

On a human level, this is pretty grim.

Really, really sad. But this is the game, he should take himself out of the fire if COH won't.

 

[Bladedog]

Where you looking?

I would have liked rosenior before wilder came back..but that ship has sailed...someone progressive and forward thinking..think mark Robins would do good job with the squad we have.

 

[Blade56]

 

[UddersBlade]

This has worked out worse than anyone could have imagined. Honestly 5 straight defeats!!! Must be our worst ever start to a season with Ipswich away next - so that will be 6 in a row.

Make no mistake - we are in a relegation fight right now despite £40 million parachute money. Shocking!

 

[UddersBlade]

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The guy is deluded and totally out of his depth…..Did he not know that we were meant to be pushing for top 2 this season!!!! We are not meant to be in a relegation battle!

 

[bruce]

How many minutes without a goal now ?

Around +600.

 

[The Crab]

There is no come back. None. People wanted Wilder out for more obscure reasons with huge success. They won. Majority want this guy out. Unless a one in a hundred season happens it isn't turning around for him

Oh for fucks sake.

It wasn’t about “winning”.

It was about change that was needed. The board decided this.

Whilst it was needed, it was upsetting nonetheless given the times we have had, great times, but change was needed.

It baffles me that only one man is deemed as capable of turning things around. There should be plenty of options out there.

As to how many will want to work for this board, well that’s another question.

One thing I’m sure we can agree on, this isn’t working