More Millers Memries

[grafikhaus]

So we’ve got ‘them’ out of the way and face a Rotherham side who haven't won an away game in the Championship all season and have only 7 points from a possible 51 away points. Not quite ‘high noon’ (12.15 KO) but a game every bit as important as Monday’s.

My previous Memries of Rotherham.

Relegated from The Championship after finishing rock-bottom with just 23 points (28 points from safety) in the 2016/17 season without winning a single away game, Rotherham spent just one season in League One before being promoted back to The Championship via the play-offs in the 2017/18 season.

Last gaining an away win in The Championship on 9th April 2016 with a 4-0 win at MK Dons, this Saturday is The Millers’ 43rd attempt to get three away points at this level – 1,064 days…However The Millers have recently become ‘draw specialists’ with creditable away draws at Reading, Hull and Millwall. Six days early, but ‘Beware The Ides of March’?

An ultimately disappointing draw at New York Stadium last November meant that The Blades have only lost one league game against The Millers since 21st February, 1981.

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Recent games against Rotherham United



Full history Sheffield United v Rotherham United

Our League record v. Rotherham is:

Home: P: 15 W: 10 D: 1 L: 4 F: 28 A: 19

Away: P: 16 W: 7 D: 6 L: 3 F: 30 A: 20

Championship Table:

United – with two upcoming home games – have a good chance to get back into the automatic promotion places…


Norwich v Swansea playing this Friday (8th March)

…while Rotherham remain in danger of an instant return to Division One.


Full Championship Table

Form Guide:

Based on the last six league games, United are second in the overall ‘form’ guide and are top of the ‘home’ form guide. Rotherham are, surprisingly, 14th in overall form without a defeat since their narrow 2-1 home loss to Leeds United on January 26th. However, their poor results ‘on the road’ mean they are 19th in the ‘away’ form guide.


Full Championship Form Guide

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[grafikhaus]

Top Scorers:


Men to Watch:

Top-scorer Michael Smith has failed to score in over two months.



Tipped for a call-up to the Wales squad, Will Vaulks (above) has been Rotherham’s stand-out scorer since Kieffer Moore left to join Barnsley on 8th January 2018.


Former Arsenal trialist Oluwasemilogo Adesewo Ibidapo Ajayi (Semi Ajayi to his friends) scored a brace in last Saturday’s 3-2 home win against Blackburn Rovers and one in the previous game – a draw at Reading.

Winger Jon Taylor is an injury doubt after limping off in the Blackburn game.

The Manager:



Paul Warne joined Rotherham as a player in 2009, where he played over 250 games. With the resignation of Kenny Jackett on 28th November 2016, Warne was appointed caretaker manager and became a permanent appointment – on a one-year rolling contract – on 13th January 2017.

 

[Houston_Blade]

They're unbeaten in 6........ we should be happy with a point

I was convinced we'd lost 3-2 at NYS earlier in the season due to the manner of the result but it seems we drew, I'll add us a point on.

 

[Weasel]

Tricky little game for us, but one we should really win.

It starts to make you feel old though when you see that we've only lost one league game to them since Feb 1981...and then then realise you was there that day at the Lane and can still recall all the details of that game (John Ryan scored for us, Rhodes and Finney for them in a 2-1 loss) as clear as day. Nearly 40 years ago, how time flies.

 

[Baaaaaaa Blades]

can see Rotherham really up for this but sure we will be too - cannot imagine CW will allow a repeat performance of the away game ,

i don't like teams who haven't won way for many months /years , has bitten us on the arse on more than one occasion in the past !

 

[coaxingstar71]

We need to be 'us' for this game.