My take ...

[lakedistblade]

I enjoy your very readable reports but I think you are contributing to the low confidence narrative that is feeding on itself among fans and at some level will be getting through to the players which is a very very bad thing right now. Fact is we held the team that has gone second in pl for 85 min. on another day Burke and mcgoldricks efforts in first half could have put us ahead. Our midfield is completely decimated with lundstram berge out, Norwood legs gone, fleck trying to get back from injury. This was not predictable by wilder or anyone else at beginning of season. Tactically we did change things round with a front three ( exciting/ bold) and god help us a midfield of Osborne and ampadu totally out of their depth. Compare that with lively fleck, imperious Norwood and on form lunny at start of last season. I don’t accept that most of the players arent giving 100% effort with the exception of brewster, ampadu and mousset. We are in a hole, your snarky know all carping from the sidelines is off the mark this time and while the sniggering support of people jumping on your bandwagon might make you feel better you aint helping the club. In short grow up.( but keep writing the reports )

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Wow. Plain to see now that although we are as good as relegated (and for us not to be, three or four other clubs need to be performing as bad as us if not worse, for the rest of the season, so good luck with that hope) but the mission now is 'how humiliating can our very quick return to the Championship actually be?'

Tonight we were typically gutless and toothless and played once again like a plucky (but fundamentally shit) Division One side playing against mighty Everton in the cup. That's a plucky Division One side which has jizzed £130m on some pretty substandard acquisitions.

Again - and I think people are starting to understand now - Wilder starts with his 'traditional, tried and tested' 5-3-2 which looking at a lot of people's 'who's gonna start?' line ups, he's done a job on your heads because everyone picks a 5-3-2 (or a 3-5-2 - although we hardly play 3-5-2 these days anyway) It doesn't work and with the slack handful of disappearing options I am baffled now as to why he or Knill feel it essential to revert to 'first principles' now after a quite simply disastrous season of failure and decline. This also after last week losing (ha, did we actually 'lose' anything, in fact?) Lundstram and then shifting Basham into midfield and being more balanced and combative in the middle of the park. Tonight we went back to what we are good at which is watching the opposition take the ball off us (or just simply surrender possession) and pass it round and through a pretty thin and pointless 'engine room'. Starting with Osborn - Ampadu - Burke was just asking for trouble. Burke can't play in that position and the other two are effectively championship class, so asking them to deal with Davies, Siggurdsson, Iwobi and Holgate (and those outside of them) is fucking stupidity personified. Quickly he then puts our top scorer into RCM, then LCM, then ... ooooh, somewhere in and around there and we still spend a lot of time being a practice/training team to play against for Everton. I am surprised Anchelotti didn't get the cones and bibs out. One decent pass and Didsy is a yard offside and nearly scores, Burke does his best to be just 'a nuisance' (because he's not a goalscorer) and that's it. Did Wilder up the ante in the second half to put pressure on Everton? No. Why should he? They weren't under pressure anyway, despite having some key players absent. All they had to do is what they'd done in the first half and play on our shocking lack of belief and confidence and press us into giving the ball up and put some stress on a heartstoppingly woeful Ramsdale. It's pretty formulaic stuff, and all opposition managers have to do - Dyche and Hodgson will do so, is watch, take notes and beat us. There won't be much in their brief that goes beyond:

1. They are shitting themselves every time they get the ball
2. Cover across and mark space. No one moves about much
3. Their midfield is piss weak and is different every game because of this
4. Their goalkeeper is a fucking bus/lorry/four cars and a school playground disaster
5. Just press. You'll get the ball off them
6. Their front two. Don't bother. They wont get the ball much and if they do, and if its McBurnie, it will hit his head and come to us

So, out of ten

Ramsdale 4/10: We need to get Verrips in. As much as we have spent on him, he's not good enough.
Baldock 5/10: His score is brought down by the play around him because as much as he tried to get up that flank, what can you do when there's fucking nothing moving to pass to or cross to?
Basham 6/10: Get's the higher mark because as ever, he seems to be the only player in red as white with any idea how to get forward, retain possession or be creative. And he's a fucking Centre Back. He needs to be in midfield.
Egan 6/10: Put some good stops and blocks in. Another high mark because again, he's playing two people's roles, covering for a fucking woeful:
Robinson C3/10PO: Yep. Protocol Droid. Robotic, slow, not at the game. What the fuck was he doing in the first half when as soon as that ball aimed at DCL was measured up, he drops 2m goalward to play him on - understandable if you haven't the legs to go up against a nimble attacker - but then completely fucking fucks it up and allows a striker such as he a free shot on goal ... with Ramsdale the only thing to beat? Second half he was just a glaring liability. IN fact, why am I giving him '3'? What did he do to earn that?
Stevens 3/10: He is simply struggling ... and for once in his defence, I think it's because of who is on his right hand flank. Like threepeeo.
Burke 5/10: What the tapdancing fuck is he doing staring RCM? Seen Full Metal Jacket? "Basic Military Journalism? Jeeeezuz H Christ, Joker! You gotta be fucking kidding me! What do you think you are, Micky fucking Spillane? You're not a writer ... you're a killer!" Similarly, Burke isn't a RCM. Bogle could be I suppose. I mean, he scored a fucking goal out of nothing last week from that very fucking position. Burke needs to be doing what he does best ... running about a lot and causing mayhem and missing sitters.
Ampadu 1/10: He's played everywhere now except up front and in goal. And today it showed he can't play CM in a three man midfield. At all, in fact. He's more lightweight than Norwood, and less productive. He was simply not even at the standard of the opposition players around him.
Osborn. 3/10: I like this little feller. But not in the PL. He tries, he really does. But he's not good enough.
McGoldrick 6/10: The only player with any guile and talent to try to take some control over our destiny. And what does Wilder do? Subs him for Norwood!
Brewster 2/10: Poor kid.

McBurnie 1/10: Simply fucking piss. At his usual pub football best, diving and bitching, heading the ball to the opposition and missing the best corner Norwood has put in since Egan's goal v Wolves last season. Waste of money.
Norwood 1/10: Dreadful. Mistake after mistake, outplayed and outclassed.
Mousset No Mark. Not sure he touched the fucking ball. That'll be him injured now until March.

Wilder 0/10: Staring to lose patience with CW. He is not helping himself, or us as a set of supporters of his club. He continues to play this way despite every scrap of evidence suggesting we are simply easy to beat doing so, even by weaker teams. He also needs to take into account that a lot of us have been 'chests out' and strutting our stuff for the past few years, and now a lot of us are glad there's a fucking lockdown of sorts on and we don't have to account for this dogshit to our workmates and colleagues. And - for all of you lot who say 'the team are missing the fans' can you imagine the shit a packed BDTBL would heap onto the narrowing shoulders of the players week after week watching this fucking pisswankcuntshit? You've all been there ... every side of the Lane chorusing boos as we succumb weakly like we did under Weir and Adkins. Right now, it's a blessing BDTBL is empty for them if you ask me. I don't think 90 minutes of supporters lifting the players would make any difference and the chants of 'Wilder out!' would have started by now. Also, where he is concerned, the only two things that are keeping him in his job are:

1. The last few seasons and his affinity as a Blade. Any other manager would have been binned long ago.
2. The shit state of that shower of bellends at S6. Imagine if they were in the upper playoffs/autos or even running away with the Championship at the moment? Imagine how you'd feel as a Blade getting turned over every week, likely relegated breaking all humiliating records and the squealers looking like comfortably replacing us as runaway champions?

Unless he has a fucking good think now and makes the changes - tactically, positionally and strategically - then I feel the ice under his feet is becoming desperately thin. His approach to this season has been shit, his signings have been shit and his dealing with this crisis has matched the Tories calamitous dealings with COVID19. Other teams are in a relegation fight and will fight to the end. The only thing we have to fight is our own dismal, humiliating decline.

And for fucks sake, please, no one entertain any comfort we'd 'come back up straight away'. That seemed vaguely likely when we fell out of the PL with Warnock, but with CW and this lot I don't even think we'd beat a Championship side, including that bunch of fuckers from south Barnsley.

pommpey

Yet again you have it absolutely spot on my friend. I just wish it was a positive performance that you were commenting on?

Next season maybe

 

[Wards]

Actually felt there was very little in the game and 0-0 would probably have been a fair reflection of what was an awful 90 minutes of football. We were pretty woeful (Egan and Bash apart).

What I really can’t fathom is why we seemed content with a 0-0. What fucking good is that going to do us at this stage? The weather was obviously a massive leveller but given how we’ve performed this season we’d have never had a better chance to beat these. Setting up to nick 1-0 wins will never, ever be good enough with the points total we had and we could see that about 5 games ago.

Yer man Wilder talks about “leaving by the front door” but the way things are going he’ll be without a job having tried to sneak out of the bathroom window at 4am. He seems to have lost the mojo he had and the mojo which made me such a fan. I want to see us work towards a long term plan and if we went down with 20 points then I could kind of accept us being shit and having a bad season given the circumstances. Going down like this isn’t acceptable. I’m at a point where I’m questioning whether a change might be in the best interests of all involved (if he doesn’t walk, which he may well do).

Not going to wade in on your ratings. They’re largely accurate IMO, if a touch harsh given there was little between the two teams. I agree with the overarching sentiment though - not good enough.

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

What is bang on about this review is that this season is the result of a collective failure at this club:

• The players, for poor performances, poor decisions on the pitch and awful mistakes
• The manager for his poor signings, poor tactics, subsitutions etc

Arguably one can add the board to that, for not being prepared to pay higher wages for the likes of Cash etc. However, it is hard to be overly critical of them when CW has spent around £150m.

Debating on twitter last night, some still dont think CW should be questioned/blamed at all, which is bizarre (when in the same breath they are tweeting about poor substitutions etc).

 

[stringer]

A few weeks ago there was a post match interview with Wilder (can't remember which) when he kept looking down and sticking his chin into the zipped-up neck of his jacket. If I was CEO/owner of the club I would have been fuming at his attitude. You could see then that his head had gone.

He’s done that since League One, I wouldn’t read too much into it...

 

[dublin 10 blade]

I’d like to disagree with something / anything you’ve written Pommpey, but can only agree with everything you’ve put down
I thought if we got something from
Last nights game and take 5-7 points from next 3 games it might give us a chance but right now we’re gone
I also thought that if we did go down we’d come straight back up with the team / squad we have but even me one of the happiest of clappers out there is doubting that now
yes we will be financially secure as a club we will also be selling at least 4 of our first team players also
I will never stop following our club and be proud to do it , I’ll still wear something Blades related going to work and be proud to do that as well
But It’s getting to the point now where our club and team are becoming a laughing stock and that’s down to those players on the pitch
Well said Pommpey ,
and thank fuck dem pigs are even more fucked than we are

 

[Stevo]

All criticism is more than fair, what is it now, 2 points from 54, this team will go down as, if not already, the worst blades team in history and will be in the record books for decades to come, that in itself should be a motivator to the team to actually play like they give a shit, there performances have made them unsellable, and any dream some of them had about moves to other clubs and earning double or triple their wage are a mere fantasy now. The stark reality is we are stuck with these players for next season, the only hope is that the crowd will be back next season and can help motivate the team , but you then have to wonder if we go up again back up again, what will change

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

All criticism is more than fair, what is it now, 2 points from 54, this team will go down as, if not already, the worst blades team in history and will be in the record books for decades to come, that in itself should be a motivator to the team to actually play like they give a shit, there performances have made them unsellable, and any dream some of them had about moves to other clubs and earning double or triple their wage are a mere fantasy now. The stark reality is we are stuck with these players for next season, the only hope is that the crowd will be back next season and can help motivate the team , but you then have to wonder if we go up again back up again, what will change

I wouldnt worry about going back up for a while

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

 

[true99blade]

You can criticise the club but don’t you dare criticise pommpey’s cutting edge reports... even though they’re in public domain and are effectively the same every week slagging off specific players and manager.

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

Wow. Plain to see now that although we are as good as relegated (and for us not to be, three or four other clubs need to be performing as bad as us if not worse, for the rest of the season, so good luck with that hope) but the mission now is 'how humiliating can our very quick return to the Championship actually be?'

Tonight we were typically gutless and toothless and played once again like a plucky (but fundamentally shit) Division One side playing against mighty Everton in the cup. That's a plucky Division One side which has jizzed £130m on some pretty substandard acquisitions.

Again - and I think people are starting to understand now - Wilder starts with his 'traditional, tried and tested' 5-3-2 which looking at a lot of people's 'who's gonna start?' line ups, he's done a job on your heads because everyone picks a 5-3-2 (or a 3-5-2 - although we hardly play 3-5-2 these days anyway) It doesn't work and with the slack handful of disappearing options I am baffled now as to why he or Knill feel it essential to revert to 'first principles' now after a quite simply disastrous season of failure and decline. This also after last week losing (ha, did we actually 'lose' anything, in fact?) Lundstram and then shifting Basham into midfield and being more balanced and combative in the middle of the park. Tonight we went back to what we are good at which is watching the opposition take the ball off us (or just simply surrender possession) and pass it round and through a pretty thin and pointless 'engine room'. Starting with Osborn - Ampadu - Burke was just asking for trouble. Burke can't play in that position and the other two are effectively championship class, so asking them to deal with Davies, Siggurdsson, Iwobi and Holgate (and those outside of them) is fucking stupidity personified. Quickly he then puts our top scorer into RCM, then LCM, then ... ooooh, somewhere in and around there and we still spend a lot of time being a practice/training team to play against for Everton. I am surprised Anchelotti didn't get the cones and bibs out. One decent pass and Didsy is a yard offside and nearly scores, Burke does his best to be just 'a nuisance' (because he's not a goalscorer) and that's it. Did Wilder up the ante in the second half to put pressure on Everton? No. Why should he? They weren't under pressure anyway, despite having some key players absent. All they had to do is what they'd done in the first half and play on our shocking lack of belief and confidence and press us into giving the ball up and put some stress on a heartstoppingly woeful Ramsdale. It's pretty formulaic stuff, and all opposition managers have to do - Dyche and Hodgson will do so, is watch, take notes and beat us. There won't be much in their brief that goes beyond:

1. They are shitting themselves every time they get the ball
2. Cover across and mark space. No one moves about much
3. Their midfield is piss weak and is different every game because of this
4. Their goalkeeper is a fucking bus/lorry/four cars and a school playground disaster
5. Just press. You'll get the ball off them
6. Their front two. Don't bother. They wont get the ball much and if they do, and if its McBurnie, it will hit his head and come to us

So, out of ten

Ramsdale 4/10: We need to get Verrips in. As much as we have spent on him, he's not good enough.
Baldock 5/10: His score is brought down by the play around him because as much as he tried to get up that flank, what can you do when there's fucking nothing moving to pass to or cross to?
Basham 6/10: Get's the higher mark because as ever, he seems to be the only player in red as white with any idea how to get forward, retain possession or be creative. And he's a fucking Centre Back. He needs to be in midfield.
Egan 6/10: Put some good stops and blocks in. Another high mark because again, he's playing two people's roles, covering for a fucking woeful:
Robinson C3/10PO: Yep. Protocol Droid. Robotic, slow, not at the game. What the fuck was he doing in the first half when as soon as that ball aimed at DCL was measured up, he drops 2m goalward to play him on - understandable if you haven't the legs to go up against a nimble attacker - but then completely fucking fucks it up and allows a striker such as he a free shot on goal ... with Ramsdale the only thing to beat? Second half he was just a glaring liability. IN fact, why am I giving him '3'? What did he do to earn that?
Stevens 3/10: He is simply struggling ... and for once in his defence, I think it's because of who is on his right hand flank. Like threepeeo.
Burke 5/10: What the tapdancing fuck is he doing staring RCM? Seen Full Metal Jacket? "Basic Military Journalism? Jeeeezuz H Christ, Joker! You gotta be fucking kidding me! What do you think you are, Micky fucking Spillane? You're not a writer ... you're a killer!" Similarly, Burke isn't a RCM. Bogle could be I suppose. I mean, he scored a fucking goal out of nothing last week from that very fucking position. Burke needs to be doing what he does best ... running about a lot and causing mayhem and missing sitters.
Ampadu 1/10: He's played everywhere now except up front and in goal. And today it showed he can't play CM in a three man midfield. At all, in fact. He's more lightweight than Norwood, and less productive. He was simply not even at the standard of the opposition players around him.
Osborn. 3/10: I like this little feller. But not in the PL. He tries, he really does. But he's not good enough.
McGoldrick 6/10: The only player with any guile and talent to try to take some control over our destiny. And what does Wilder do? Subs him for Norwood!
Brewster 2/10: Poor kid.

McBurnie 1/10: Simply fucking piss. At his usual pub football best, diving and bitching, heading the ball to the opposition and missing the best corner Norwood has put in since Egan's goal v Wolves last season. Waste of money.
Norwood 1/10: Dreadful. Mistake after mistake, outplayed and outclassed.
Mousset No Mark. Not sure he touched the fucking ball. That'll be him injured now until March.

Wilder 0/10: Staring to lose patience with CW. He is not helping himself, or us as a set of supporters of his club. He continues to play this way despite every scrap of evidence suggesting we are simply easy to beat doing so, even by weaker teams. He also needs to take into account that a lot of us have been 'chests out' and strutting our stuff for the past few years, and now a lot of us are glad there's a fucking lockdown of sorts on and we don't have to account for this dogshit to our workmates and colleagues. And - for all of you lot who say 'the team are missing the fans' can you imagine the shit a packed BDTBL would heap onto the narrowing shoulders of the players week after week watching this fucking pisswankcuntshit? You've all been there ... every side of the Lane chorusing boos as we succumb weakly like we did under Weir and Adkins. Right now, it's a blessing BDTBL is empty for them if you ask me. I don't think 90 minutes of supporters lifting the players would make any difference and the chants of 'Wilder out!' would have started by now. Also, where he is concerned, the only two things that are keeping him in his job are:

1. The last few seasons and his affinity as a Blade. Any other manager would have been binned long ago.
2. The shit state of that shower of bellends at S6. Imagine if they were in the upper playoffs/autos or even running away with the Championship at the moment? Imagine how you'd feel as a Blade getting turned over every week, likely relegated breaking all humiliating records and the squealers looking like comfortably replacing us as runaway champions?

Unless he has a fucking good think now and makes the changes - tactically, positionally and strategically - then I feel the ice under his feet is becoming desperately thin. His approach to this season has been shit, his signings have been shit and his dealing with this crisis has matched the Tories calamitous dealings with COVID19. Other teams are in a relegation fight and will fight to the end. The only thing we have to fight is our own dismal, humiliating decline.

And for fucks sake, please, no one entertain any comfort we'd 'come back up straight away'. That seemed vaguely likely when we fell out of the PL with Warnock, but with CW and this lot I don't even think we'd beat a Championship side, including that bunch of fuckers from south Barnsley.

pommpey

Can you email a copy to Wilder please?

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

Got to say pommpey , these match reports are one of the few things I look forward to on matchdays at this point. Searingly honest, and funny to read as well, in a sort of morbidly-fascinating kind of way. Top marks. Please keep doing them, however miserable it may be.

Trouble is he could write Tuesday's report now and get it 100% right.

 

[gordoncharles]

I really do feel sorry for Jack Robinson.

If I was him, or his agent, I'd be alerting Amnesty International because Wilder insisting on putting him in a Premier League back three is nothing less than systematic torture. For fans, naturally, but I imagine it's much worse for him.

It's not his fault. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Wilder trafficked him up the M1.

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

Also, this is a superb piece of swearing. I do love a good swear.

You do. On the basis of sitting or standing next to you at BDTBL for the best part of 25 years, at your sweariest you just edge it over Pommpey!

 

[Bergen Blade]

The formation in this report is not right. Burke was never in RCM. We tweaked the formation and played a 3-4-2-1 with two holding midfielders in Ampadu and Osborn. McGoldrick and Brewster played behind/wide of Burke, and defensively they dropped down wide of the central midfielders to help out.



We kept this formation until Norwood came on, then returning to our usual 3-5-2.

I think it played a part in Everton not looking great either. But we did lack rhythm and I also thought we needed Basham's energy and enthusiasm in midfield.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

Exactly my take on the game and our current position. No other manager in football league survives this current run. Fact. Imagine Watford he’d of gone after 5 games (which isn’t the right approach before someone abuses me about it)

 

[pommpey]

. We are in a hole, your snarky know all carping from the sidelines is off the mark this time and while the sniggering support of people jumping on your bandwagon might make you feel better you aint helping the club. In short grow up.

As said, what to do then but 'carp from the sidelines'?

Want me to get a kit on and come on as a sub? Or clap every lost ball, missed pass, fucked up venture into the dead zone or cheer when we inevitably go one down?

Not sure what this 'grow up' business is. This is a forum, where we submit our opinions and views. I've given mine. Where's yours? Where does it differ? Did you see some miraculous shit everyone else didn't? If so, 'what'? And, here's a 'grown up' question for ya. Is it any different from the rest of the abject displays this season?

We're bottom of the league on two points with two equally disappointing draws to speak of and our team looking like what Alan Ball one described as a 'glorified third division side'. Do you disagree? Did we play like a Premier League side last night?

Any failure to answer this possibly proves that I'm not the one who needs to grow up here.

pommpey

 

[pommpey]

You can criticise the club but don’t you dare criticise pommpey’s cutting edge reports... even though they’re in public domain and are effectively the same every week slagging off specific players and manager.

What do you suggest then?

Do you think we should all have a collective warm and happy feeling at being beaten every week?

'Slagging off'. What a crock of shit. You don't know what you're talking about. Pretty evident and you can't disagree with my assessment and tell me where it is wrong. Another one who needs to tuck the bottom lip in for fear of tripping over the fucker.

Here's your chance. Tell me, in detail, where I am wrong.

pommpey

 

[true99blade]

What do you suggest then?

Do you think we should all have a collective warm and happy feeling at being beaten every week?

'Slagging off'. What a crock of shit. You don't know what you're talking about. Pretty evident and you can't disagree with my assessment and tell me where it is wrong. Another one who needs to tuck the bottom lip in for fear of tripping over the fucker.

Here's your chance. Tell me, in detail, where I am wrong.

pommpey

I’m simply alluding to the fact that you got very touchy and upset at a poster’s criticism, whilst you lambast players and management yet again. Don’t be upset when people don’t blow smoke up your arse is all.

There are bits I agree and disagree with, but I’m not too interested in having another discussion with you about your reports.

 

[pommpey]

I’m simply alluding to the fact that you got very touchy and upset at a poster’s criticism, whilst you lambast players and management yet again. Don’t be upset when people don’t blow smoke up your arse is all.

There are bits I agree and disagree with, but I’m not too interested in having another discussion with you about your reports.

I'm touchy about people's criticism of 'me', because this forum isn't pommpey's forum, all about me. I offer 'My take' on the game, and other's (such as you) seem to have huge issue about 'My take' as if I don't deserve the bandwidth to offer it, or that I should forgo criticism of the team for consistently disappointing, abject performances which have resulted in our unarrestable slide out of the Premier League. In you humble opinion then, do you think the players shouldn't be 'lambasted', even though they've been beaten 'yet again'? And what's your issue about people 'blowing smoke up my arse'? Is simply agreeing with me 'blowing smoke up my arse'/ Do you have an issue with them also because they see the same game I do?

If you're not too interested with having another discussion, why even comment in the first place, if you don't want to account for what you have said? Says more about you, than it does me.

pommpey

 

[Davalon]

I’m just saying ‘your take’ would carry more weight if it was subjective and contributed something of substance. But it doesn’t and you don’t!

It’s your bottom lip that’s hanging out... clearly highlighted by that post.
If you can tell me what good that overly critical post has achieved then I’ll take it all back. But you can’t so I won’t.

Like I said... we’re all down in the dumps... but that was a massive overreaction. Both teams were piss poor, it could’ve gone either way, they took their chance we didn’t.
That doesn’t justify the slating. It’s doing no good

It's a football forum.

His post is neither doing good nor bad. It's an opinion.

 

[true99blade]

I'm touchy about people's criticism of 'me', because this forum isn't pommpey's forum, all about me. I offer 'My take' on the game, and other's (such as you) seem to have huge issue about 'My take' as if I don't deserve the bandwidth to offer it, or that I should forgo criticism of the team for consistently disappointing, abject performances which have resulted in our unarrestable slide out of the Premier League. In you humble opinion then, do you think the players shouldn't be 'lambasted', even though they've been beaten 'yet again'? And what's your issue about people 'blowing smoke up my arse'? Is simply agreeing with me 'blowing smoke up my arse'/ Do you have an issue with them also because they see the same game I do?

If you're not too interested with having another discussion, why even comment in the first place, if you don't want to account for what you have said? Says more about you, than it does me.

pommpey

It really isn’t as deep as you’re making out. Merely pointing out the hypocrisy, it wasn’t a scathing attack on you as a person. We’re all hurting, calm down.

 

[pommpey]

It really isn’t as deep as you’re making out. Merely pointing out the hypocrisy, it wasn’t a scathing attack on you as a person. We’re all hurting, calm down.

Hypocrisy? Jesus. Look, take your spade, and you know that pile of earth you've been happily stacking up over there? Well, slide the blade of it into the rich soil and start chucking it back into that vast hole you've been digging. You accuse me of hypocrisy, and then deny it's a scathing attack. You must be a fucking joy to be with especially at the Lane.

'We're all hurting', huh? I'd have never known. Players, staff, supporters, shareholders. It's a dismal position. And why? Well, see 'My take ... ' If you disagree, let's see your working out (keep asking this, but alI we get is psychobabble)

And if you're not interested in having this conversation, don't comment. It's hypocritical to do so, see?

pommpey

 

[true99blade]

Hypocrisy? Jesus. Look, take your spade, and you know that pile of earth you've been happily stacking up over there? Well, slide the blade of it into the rich soil and start chucking it back into that vast hole you've been digging. You accuse me of hypocrisy, and then deny it's a scathing attack. You must be a fucking joy to be with especially at the Lane.

'We're all hurting', huh? I'd have never known. Players, staff, supporters, shareholders. It's a dismal position. And why? Well, see 'My take ... ' If you disagree, let's see your working out (keep asking this, but alI we get is psychobabble)

And if you're not interested in having this conversation, don't comment. It's hypocritical to do so, see?

pommpey

 

[Athens Blade]

Wow. Plain to see now that although we are as good as relegated (and for us not to be, three or four other clubs need to be performing as bad as us if not worse, for the rest of the season, so good luck with that hope) but the mission now is 'how humiliating can our very quick return to the Championship actually be?'

Tonight we were typically gutless and toothless and played once again like a plucky (but fundamentally shit) Division One side playing against mighty Everton in the cup. That's a plucky Division One side which has jizzed £130m on some pretty substandard acquisitions.

Again - and I think people are starting to understand now - Wilder starts with his 'traditional, tried and tested' 5-3-2 which looking at a lot of people's 'who's gonna start?' line ups, he's done a job on your heads because everyone picks a 5-3-2 (or a 3-5-2 - although we hardly play 3-5-2 these days anyway) It doesn't work and with the slack handful of disappearing options I am baffled now as to why he or Knill feel it essential to revert to 'first principles' now after a quite simply disastrous season of failure and decline. This also after last week losing (ha, did we actually 'lose' anything, in fact?) Lundstram and then shifting Basham into midfield and being more balanced and combative in the middle of the park. Tonight we went back to what we are good at which is watching the opposition take the ball off us (or just simply surrender possession) and pass it round and through a pretty thin and pointless 'engine room'. Starting with Osborn - Ampadu - Burke was just asking for trouble. Burke can't play in that position and the other two are effectively championship class, so asking them to deal with Davies, Siggurdsson, Iwobi and Holgate (and those outside of them) is fucking stupidity personified. Quickly he then puts our top scorer into RCM, then LCM, then ... ooooh, somewhere in and around there and we still spend a lot of time being a practice/training team to play against for Everton. I am surprised Anchelotti didn't get the cones and bibs out. One decent pass and Didsy is a yard offside and nearly scores, Burke does his best to be just 'a nuisance' (because he's not a goalscorer) and that's it. Did Wilder up the ante in the second half to put pressure on Everton? No. Why should he? They weren't under pressure anyway, despite having some key players absent. All they had to do is what they'd done in the first half and play on our shocking lack of belief and confidence and press us into giving the ball up and put some stress on a heartstoppingly woeful Ramsdale. It's pretty formulaic stuff, and all opposition managers have to do - Dyche and Hodgson will do so, is watch, take notes and beat us. There won't be much in their brief that goes beyond:

1. They are shitting themselves every time they get the ball
2. Cover across and mark space. No one moves about much
3. Their midfield is piss weak and is different every game because of this
4. Their goalkeeper is a fucking bus/lorry/four cars and a school playground disaster
5. Just press. You'll get the ball off them
6. Their front two. Don't bother. They wont get the ball much and if they do, and if its McBurnie, it will hit his head and come to us

So, out of ten

Ramsdale 4/10: We need to get Verrips in. As much as we have spent on him, he's not good enough.
Baldock 5/10: His score is brought down by the play around him because as much as he tried to get up that flank, what can you do when there's fucking nothing moving to pass to or cross to?
Basham 6/10: Get's the higher mark because as ever, he seems to be the only player in red as white with any idea how to get forward, retain possession or be creative. And he's a fucking Centre Back. He needs to be in midfield.
Egan 6/10: Put some good stops and blocks in. Another high mark because again, he's playing two people's roles, covering for a fucking woeful:
Robinson C3/10PO: Yep. Protocol Droid. Robotic, slow, not at the game. What the fuck was he doing in the first half when as soon as that ball aimed at DCL was measured up, he drops 2m goalward to play him on - understandable if you haven't the legs to go up against a nimble attacker - but then completely fucking fucks it up and allows a striker such as he a free shot on goal ... with Ramsdale the only thing to beat? Second half he was just a glaring liability. IN fact, why am I giving him '3'? What did he do to earn that?
Stevens 3/10: He is simply struggling ... and for once in his defence, I think it's because of who is on his right hand flank. Like threepeeo.
Burke 5/10: What the tapdancing fuck is he doing staring RCM? Seen Full Metal Jacket? "Basic Military Journalism? Jeeeezuz H Christ, Joker! You gotta be fucking kidding me! What do you think you are, Micky fucking Spillane? You're not a writer ... you're a killer!" Similarly, Burke isn't a RCM. Bogle could be I suppose. I mean, he scored a fucking goal out of nothing last week from that very fucking position. Burke needs to be doing what he does best ... running about a lot and causing mayhem and missing sitters.
Ampadu 1/10: He's played everywhere now except up front and in goal. And today it showed he can't play CM in a three man midfield. At all, in fact. He's more lightweight than Norwood, and less productive. He was simply not even at the standard of the opposition players around him.
Osborn. 3/10: I like this little feller. But not in the PL. He tries, he really does. But he's not good enough.
McGoldrick 6/10: The only player with any guile and talent to try to take some control over our destiny. And what does Wilder do? Subs him for Norwood!
Brewster 2/10: Poor kid.

McBurnie 1/10: Simply fucking piss. At his usual pub football best, diving and bitching, heading the ball to the opposition and missing the best corner Norwood has put in since Egan's goal v Wolves last season. Waste of money.
Norwood 1/10: Dreadful. Mistake after mistake, outplayed and outclassed.
Mousset No Mark. Not sure he touched the fucking ball. That'll be him injured now until March.

Wilder 0/10: Staring to lose patience with CW. He is not helping himself, or us as a set of supporters of his club. He continues to play this way despite every scrap of evidence suggesting we are simply easy to beat doing so, even by weaker teams. He also needs to take into account that a lot of us have been 'chests out' and strutting our stuff for the past few years, and now a lot of us are glad there's a fucking lockdown of sorts on and we don't have to account for this dogshit to our workmates and colleagues. And - for all of you lot who say 'the team are missing the fans' can you imagine the shit a packed BDTBL would heap onto the narrowing shoulders of the players week after week watching this fucking pisswankcuntshit? You've all been there ... every side of the Lane chorusing boos as we succumb weakly like we did under Weir and Adkins. Right now, it's a blessing BDTBL is empty for them if you ask me. I don't think 90 minutes of supporters lifting the players would make any difference and the chants of 'Wilder out!' would have started by now. Also, where he is concerned, the only two things that are keeping him in his job are:

1. The last few seasons and his affinity as a Blade. Any other manager would have been binned long ago.
2. The shit state of that shower of bellends at S6. Imagine if they were in the upper playoffs/autos or even running away with the Championship at the moment? Imagine how you'd feel as a Blade getting turned over every week, likely relegated breaking all humiliating records and the squealers looking like comfortably replacing us as runaway champions?

Unless he has a fucking good think now and makes the changes - tactically, positionally and strategically - then I feel the ice under his feet is becoming desperately thin. His approach to this season has been shit, his signings have been shit and his dealing with this crisis has matched the Tories calamitous dealings with COVID19. Other teams are in a relegation fight and will fight to the end. The only thing we have to fight is our own dismal, humiliating decline.

And for fucks sake, please, no one entertain any comfort we'd 'come back up straight away'. That seemed vaguely likely when we fell out of the PL with Warnock, but with CW and this lot I don't even think we'd beat a Championship side, including that bunch of fuckers from south Barnsley.

pommpey

I can’t disagree with much of that. However, knowing that Berge, O’Connel and Lunny are out; that Fleck, Norwood, and Stevens are not at the races, and as you don’t rate Ampadu, who would you play in our midfield?
The only players with any consistency for me this year have been Basham, Egan, Baldock and Didsy, the rest have been hit and miss.

 

[Bashamed]

Hypocrisy? Jesus. Look, take your spade, and you know that pile of earth you've been happily stacking up over there? Well, slide the blade of it into the rich soil and start chucking it back into that vast hole you've been digging. You accuse me of hypocrisy, and then deny it's a scathing attack. You must be a fucking joy to be with especially at the Lane.

'We're all hurting', huh? I'd have never known. Players, staff, supporters, shareholders. It's a dismal position. And why? Well, see 'My take ... ' If you disagree, let's see your working out (keep asking this, but alI we get is psychobabble)

And if you're not interested in having this conversation, don't comment. It's hypocritical to do so, see?

pommpey

You actually told somebody to tuck their bottom lip in haha.

To be honest you don't seem like you're hurting, you seem like you can't wait to slate us and show how much of a realist you are with your ridiculously over the top views. Your report and ratings are too childish to properly debate. As for "let's see your working out" what are you talking about, it's not maths is it.

Also the way you put your username after every post is so lame.

 

[Stretch]

Fair play to you pommpey

A read that was painfully truthful and hilarious in equal measures. That "Protocol Droid"comment still has me laughing now .

What a state things have become. Humour is the only thing we have left.

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

Totally agree Pomps. I have been a “Wilder has earned the right to try again next season” advocate. However, the harsh reality is that this league is a brutal examination and he simply can’t cut it. So, we give him another season in the Championship and maybe (but I doubt it) we bounce back. So what? He can’t manage at this level. Take nothing away from what he has done from league 1 to the PL but it is clear that he is a clueless broken man. This squad is simply not good enough and he can’t even get them competing now. It was obvious that, at half time, he was setting up for a 0-0 draw - bloody embarrassment. Why McB and not Mousset?

I guess Mousset is not totally fit ??

 

[pommpey]

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Yeah. That works

Anyone? Nah. Me neither.

pommpey

 

[pommpey]

You actually told somebody to tuck their bottom lip in haha.

To be honest you don't seem like you're hurting, you seem like you can't wait to slate us and show how much of a realist you are with your ridiculously over the top views. Your report and ratings are too childish to properly debate. As for "let's see your working out" what are you talking about, it's not maths is it.

Also the way you put your username after every post is so lame.

Oh, bless your little cottons.

I don't seem like I am hurting and "can't wait to slate 'us'". By 'us', you mean 'the team and staff'. Unless you're part of that setup, I can't see how you can vicariously claim association of my critique. 'Over the top'? I mean, that would be a fair comment if yesterday night was a one-off in a season where we were mid table, four wins and five draws and looking likely to sweat out an existential crisis of confidence and capability - and stay in the Premier League. But we're not. Like many mardy arses on here, you're failing to take into account (again) us being rock fucking bottom of the league, very, very likely relegated (prove otherwise outside hope and blind faith) and putting in losing performance after losing performance. Or is that inconsequential? I mean, if it aint 'realism', what is it?

So my report and ratings are 'too childish to debate', huh? So don't then. Scroll the fuck past and open knowsnowts thread and sit there with your rabbits foot and deluded thoughts on what ...



... this means, and yet, loss, after loss (and where it's not a loss, it's a lucky VAR assisted draw or a calamitous defensive fuck up) it's 'too childish to properly debate'. It points toward the fact that you can't debate it because you don't really want to face the harsh reality of our brief flirtation with the top flight, as wonderful as it was last year, is now over. And you haven't the potatoes, nor the intelligence to 'show your working out' to either refute it or even agree with it. Or better still, not comment at all.

Oh, and here you go (since 1997, back on SUISA) ...

'pommpey'

Suck it up, buttercup