pommpey
THE FUTURE ... AS IT USED TO BE
- Banned
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Gawd. Where to start?
Listen. I am not accepting this piss-watery 'we haven't played for five weeks and it's disturbed our karma/momentum' horseshit. It's not a practical excuse, or even a reason behind why we simply gave the game up today. Derby again, weren't that good. They are where they are because of who they are and the amount of poor play displayed by them today against what should be ostensibly a Premier League outfit. As people reliably assured me when I was super-critical of last seasons deadbeats, with this seasons squad we should be - on paper - picking teams like Derby up and wiping out shitty arses on them. As it stood, and with all Derby County's shortcomings, all they had to do (as with most other teams this season) was weather any powderpuff attack and hit us when our concentration lapses. Both their goals were exactly that.
The matchday side contained the utter failures of the past with Robinson now a wretched example of a player who needs to move onto another club and start again in at LCB. We have Berge who is simply working his ticket, Norrington-Davies who seriously - is the only alternative option to an already poos Enda Stevens, the midfield a complete fragile mess of Norwood and ... I dunno ... Ndaiye ... McGoldrick (?) and up front leading the line Billy Sharp aged 35, who as it seems has blotted his copybook with an unsavoury altercation with bating Derby wankers after the game. Hardly captain stuff, Billy.
The first half we were in and out of the game. We looked to get a goal, maybe two ahead, but how is this gonna happen when you have shit crossing from Bogle and RND and some frankly head smackingly crap development play from a midfield which looks more like last seasons clueless shitbox, Norwood reverting to base principles and the other two just playing duty traffic cone to Derby's more agile central players.
Second half we completely sank and sank further when McCall and Lester decided to make changes to change the game. It did just that and we simply regressed and died. Two goals, one a Maradonaesque waltz through the final third and the second a failure of playing progression on the edge of their box translated into their player bending it into the top bin thanks to catastrophic recover play (C3PO taking RND out) and again a failure to press and deny shooting opportunity and we are home and hosed.
Simply no excuses. Not good enough United. We should be far better than what was seen today. What saw instead was a side far below the Championship promotion side a few years ago and we have spent £100+m on them.
Foderingham 5/10: No chance with the goals
Bogle: 5/10: Good going forward but cutting inside and crossing was shite
Basham 6/10: Lovely tekkers, but was uncharacteristically skinned for their first
Egan 6/10: Decent first half but in the second he looked bereft of confidence
Robinson 3/10: Nice long throws but defensively he's done at this club. Please move him on where he can regenerate his career and credibility
RND 5/10: Plenty of endeavour and bustle but fuck all to show as an end result
Norwood 3/10: back to last year's levels of pointless hollywood balls and substandard midfield industry
Berge 2/10: Utter shite. A complete waste of a transfer fee. He has nothing at all to offer the English game and is simply lightweight and ineffective, despite many people remaining bone-hard about his capability
Ndaiye 4/10: Lots of graft but with the sum total of fuck all
McGoldick 3.5/10: A poor outing. He's not nearly as sharp or effective as we've seen him in the past. This season should be his last.
Sharp 0/10: Billy loses all his points here for that fucking stupid reaction to wanker Derby fans outside the ground. You are our club captain and our talismanic waypoint through some challenging times. Cunts outside your game don't matter. Leave that for bellends like McBurnie.
Hourihane 2/10: Can anyone tell me why we have signed this berk on loan?
Brewster 2/10: Completely out of his depth. Another useless, waste of money
Osborn 2/10: Just to cap the raft of pointless substitutions
We've just regressed to Slav levels of uselessness with today's outing, foretold by some pretty shit football last week. We have a few short days to sort this shit out or Preston will push us further back down the table and we can solidly forget any bounceback fantasy most of us hoped would happen.
We need a fucking vast clear-out and give January has resulted in zero arrivals or departures apart from the frankly useless Olsen, I don't hold out much hope until the end of the season and if we turn in performances like todays, we might be involved in a relegation battle come the end of the season.
Face it. Sheffield United aren't very good, at all.
pommpey
Listen. I am not accepting this piss-watery 'we haven't played for five weeks and it's disturbed our karma/momentum' horseshit. It's not a practical excuse, or even a reason behind why we simply gave the game up today. Derby again, weren't that good. They are where they are because of who they are and the amount of poor play displayed by them today against what should be ostensibly a Premier League outfit. As people reliably assured me when I was super-critical of last seasons deadbeats, with this seasons squad we should be - on paper - picking teams like Derby up and wiping out shitty arses on them. As it stood, and with all Derby County's shortcomings, all they had to do (as with most other teams this season) was weather any powderpuff attack and hit us when our concentration lapses. Both their goals were exactly that.
The matchday side contained the utter failures of the past with Robinson now a wretched example of a player who needs to move onto another club and start again in at LCB. We have Berge who is simply working his ticket, Norrington-Davies who seriously - is the only alternative option to an already poos Enda Stevens, the midfield a complete fragile mess of Norwood and ... I dunno ... Ndaiye ... McGoldrick (?) and up front leading the line Billy Sharp aged 35, who as it seems has blotted his copybook with an unsavoury altercation with bating Derby wankers after the game. Hardly captain stuff, Billy.
The first half we were in and out of the game. We looked to get a goal, maybe two ahead, but how is this gonna happen when you have shit crossing from Bogle and RND and some frankly head smackingly crap development play from a midfield which looks more like last seasons clueless shitbox, Norwood reverting to base principles and the other two just playing duty traffic cone to Derby's more agile central players.
Second half we completely sank and sank further when McCall and Lester decided to make changes to change the game. It did just that and we simply regressed and died. Two goals, one a Maradonaesque waltz through the final third and the second a failure of playing progression on the edge of their box translated into their player bending it into the top bin thanks to catastrophic recover play (C3PO taking RND out) and again a failure to press and deny shooting opportunity and we are home and hosed.
Simply no excuses. Not good enough United. We should be far better than what was seen today. What saw instead was a side far below the Championship promotion side a few years ago and we have spent £100+m on them.
Foderingham 5/10: No chance with the goals
Bogle: 5/10: Good going forward but cutting inside and crossing was shite
Basham 6/10: Lovely tekkers, but was uncharacteristically skinned for their first
Egan 6/10: Decent first half but in the second he looked bereft of confidence
Robinson 3/10: Nice long throws but defensively he's done at this club. Please move him on where he can regenerate his career and credibility
RND 5/10: Plenty of endeavour and bustle but fuck all to show as an end result
Norwood 3/10: back to last year's levels of pointless hollywood balls and substandard midfield industry
Berge 2/10: Utter shite. A complete waste of a transfer fee. He has nothing at all to offer the English game and is simply lightweight and ineffective, despite many people remaining bone-hard about his capability
Ndaiye 4/10: Lots of graft but with the sum total of fuck all
McGoldick 3.5/10: A poor outing. He's not nearly as sharp or effective as we've seen him in the past. This season should be his last.
Sharp 0/10: Billy loses all his points here for that fucking stupid reaction to wanker Derby fans outside the ground. You are our club captain and our talismanic waypoint through some challenging times. Cunts outside your game don't matter. Leave that for bellends like McBurnie.
Hourihane 2/10: Can anyone tell me why we have signed this berk on loan?
Brewster 2/10: Completely out of his depth. Another useless, waste of money
Osborn 2/10: Just to cap the raft of pointless substitutions
We've just regressed to Slav levels of uselessness with today's outing, foretold by some pretty shit football last week. We have a few short days to sort this shit out or Preston will push us further back down the table and we can solidly forget any bounceback fantasy most of us hoped would happen.
We need a fucking vast clear-out and give January has resulted in zero arrivals or departures apart from the frankly useless Olsen, I don't hold out much hope until the end of the season and if we turn in performances like todays, we might be involved in a relegation battle come the end of the season.
Face it. Sheffield United aren't very good, at all.
pommpey
