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stevewall said:
For a neutral it was a good game its easy to focus on or two results , but I don't think you have as much to worry about as many on here seem to think ,
On 2nd half performance you were probably the best side I've seen at millwall this season , we have I think just about the best home record in the division and even with your 2 goals today only conceded 10 in 15 home games ,
The nerves will jangle but you will be going up automatically boro won't keep winning , and if your next game is watford , they aren't anything special even we did the double over them , good turn out by your fans today its not much fun with a 1230 kick off we had sunderland away at 12noon earlier this season , safe journey home for all those that come down and good luck
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Best thing I've read/ heard all day- thanks pal..
 



Can't comment today as I (reluctantly) had a wedding to attend. But did watch the first 30 minutes.
Not surprised in the least about the result despite our equaliser in the latter stages. My best mate here (an evertonian, so he knows about suffering too) couldn't understand how I 've been saying for a while we will struggle to go up.
Now he's getting the picture.
 
Watching Berge today was infuriating. Had a rare game with the wife and she agreed with me totally- she never normally does. He took forever to do things, slowed us down and when in good areas produced nothing at all. He had 2 or 3 great chances but fluffed a cross (nearly deflected in actually), a weak shot and a pitiful header.

Nice lad but lacks the fight we need for a team that needs players to grab hold of the game and impose ourselves.

I'm not sure Doyle or Norwood were much better fwiw. However Berge is supposed to be one of our main men and threats. He looks like someone just coasting. He was madening to watch today. Look at the two crosses they put in for goals and compare to the service we provided.

I'd take him out of the team and give us some legs in midfield but options are so limited with crocks Doyle and Fleck who can't last 60 mins or 2 games in a row. Maybe Coulibaly deserves a chance. He might give us some physicality. We are a complete soft touch in midfield currently. Doyle is not the answer. Thought outside ofvthe goal he was woeful too. He clearly has major fitness issues too. We literally have Norwood and noone else in the engine room. Patently obvious we needed to strengthen there and mismanagement from Abdullah and Co means we failed to strengthen and have no depth at all in the midfield or up front.
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ekke287 said:
So you’ve not marked him the very lowest every week, I never actually said you did, but well done.
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I don't know what 'consistently' means to you, but it's wrong

pommpey
 
Maurice Maurice said:
Fucking Wrexham??? £20 million player had a half decent game against a non league club and you're bigging him up for it? Jesus fucking wept, is that all you've got 🙊🙊🙊
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Best player on the pitch in the replay. Don't suppose you remember his quite good display against Tottenham a couple of years ago either.

Like I said, short memories.
 
Keef Chedwyn said:
Best player on the pitch in the replay. Don't suppose you remember his quite good display against Tottenham a couple of years ago either.

Like I said, short memories.
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So he played well against a non league team and had a good game 2 years back? Fucking hell, why wasn't he European Player of the Year? Stats like that he must be a fucking superstar.
 
We're playing almost as if there's a general apathy and uncertainty around the club and 80% of them will either be out of contract this summer or sold if we fuck this up and aren't promoted.

Need a big booted kick in the arse and Princey needs to get his head out of his arse and realise if we're not promoted he's sitting on a club worth a fraction of what he's trying to sell for now. Dozy isn't going to happen and the way it's going he'll have to firesell the club in summer anyway to prevent administration.

Worrying times but maybe the players might realise they're playing for the club & fans future.
 
Maurice Maurice said:
That's it in a nutshell. We look a top side when we knock the ball about but when teams press us we aren't tough enough to duke it out with them. We're going back to that slow build up again as well, probably because we don't have the pace to shift it forward quicker and as a result, we create lost of half chances but that's about it.
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That has been the case since we got promoted to the PL under Wilder.. After the spectacular initial period, teams realised that if we were pressed high, and Norwood was marked out of the game, we had nothing to offer. We look horribly inept against teams playing with the tempo we used to have for 90 mins instead of 10 just after KO. We get deeper and deeper before resorting to lumping it. We have a healthy points advantage and it is still very much in our hands but you sense that a loss against Watford and the season could fall apart.
For me, the absence of RND has had as big an impact on the balance of the team as losing Jack did.
 
Maurice Maurice said:
So he played well against a non league team and had a good game 2 years back? Fucking hell, why wasn't he European Player of the Year? Stats like that he must be a fucking superstar.
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The type of "supporter" we can do without. He's young, adapting to the pace of the English game, coming back from injury, showed glimpses of quality since he arrived. Liverpool were interested in him ffs.

I hear Meadowhall is suited to some people on a Saturday afternoon.
 
My 6 … yes 6 year old son… turned to me and asked : “Daddy why are we so slow?” …. Then added “running and passing” said it all really.
 



Jan Age said:
My 6 … yes 6 year old son… turned to me and asked : “Daddy why are we so slow?” …. Then added “running and passing” said it all really.
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🤣🤣🤣 Course he did
 
Keef Chedwyn said:
The type of "supporter" we can do without. He's young, adapting to the pace of the English game, coming back from injury, showed glimpses of quality since he arrived. Liverpool were interested in him ffs.

I hear Meadowhall is suited to some people on a Saturday afternoon.
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He's in his fourth season in English football and second at this level, so he's not adapting. Ndiaye is only in his professional season in the Championship and he's young too, but he seems to be fine. Sander was hit and miss in his first season with us and has continued to be hit and miss ever since. Stop making excuses for him. He's inconsistent, always has been and he only shows us half the time. The rest of the time he goes through the motions of playing but contributes nothing. Over the four seasons he's been here he's not delivered what we expected for the money we paid, and he's been a waste of time overall. Sell in the summer whether we go up or not. We don't need him and never did in the first place.
 
sonofbruce said:
He's in his fourth season in English football and second at this level, so he's not adapting. Ndiaye is only in his professional season in the Championship and he's young too, but he seems to be fine. Sander was hit and miss in his first season with us and has continued to be hit and miss ever since. Stop making excuses for him. He's inconsistent, always has been and he only shows us half the time. The rest of the time he goes through the motions of playing but contributes nothing. Over the four seasons he's been here he's not delivered what we expected for the money we paid, and he's been a waste of time overall. Sell in the summer whether we go up or not. We don't need him and never did in the first place.
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^All of this^

As much as we have 'bed wetters' on here, we also have an unhealthy cohort of excuse mongers who purposefully fail to see the reality of what Sander Berge is, and does, as a player. And it isn't favourable at all. He might be 'a nice lad' but he is incredibly shy on delivering what his price tag suggests and his arrival in my opinion, started the fragmentation of what was a pretty decent and developing midfield of Fleck - Norwood - Lundstram. We were playing a fairly consistent flat three back then who would counter with rapidity and battle for the space. Fleck and Lundstram also worked very well with Baldock and Basham on one side and O'Connell and Stevens on the other. Berge has given us four seasons of injury and inconsistency, slotted into all three positions after arriving from a team with the 'Right Footed Defensive Midfielder' label attached, from a league which doesn't play football like the English Leagues do. Despite the fact we didn't need a RDM because we didn't have that position, it was clear Wilder bought him 'because he could' and to me that upset the applecart with Lundstram shitting his nappy and the second PL season being effectively ruined. It's not Berge's fault we were relegated - Widler deserves most of the blame for that for being tactically ossified into 5-3-2 and having his player so indoctrinated in that they could play no other system and the rest of the players themselves for effectively chucking their hands in. But, when Berge arrived, we went from a 'contender' to a 'capitulator' despite having the squad boosted by about £100m of supposed playing talent. Berge, Moussett, Freeman L, Robinson and Brewster (and the loanees) were horrendous follies of signings and we have paid heavily for that, both in the fact that the team can't move on from Wilder and the fact that we are now looking over our shoulder nervously as the wheels wobble on our promotion bus. Furthermore, it's expected that is we go up, we'll retain the playing style and core team, so that will mean more performances like yesterday and against far superior teams that won't allow us to score goals either.

pommpey
 
Addison said:
Had written this game off as a loss before the Mboro game when I saw they had 24 hours longer rest and a 12.30 kick off. Our levels of conditioning and training are sub standard not helped by the fact the players still can't train fully on the improved pitches. What is coming home to roost is the manager has been shafted by the powers that be. Not content with delaying the pitch improvements by 6 weeks they incur an embargo and we fail to get targets such as Archer over the line. Both teams we've just lost to strengthened in the JTW.

To-day the players were just not in the right physical condition to play a game less than 2 and a half days since the last one. The FA Cup games have caught up with us and the whole team look physically and mentally knackered.

We concede an early goal and are left chasing the game. Wes at fault for the first shouldn't get beaten at the near post. For the second as the cross comes in JLT is rooted to the spot and allows Bradshaw a free header. Last goal epitomises the fact the team were treading on treacle. The players were just too slow to get back to cover allowing an easy tap in.

The opposition make full use of their 5 subs and again despite the tiring schedule we only make use of 3. Why didn't we give some game time to Clark? Lowe was all over the place and either moving JLT across to LWB or Osborn and additionally bringing Fleck or Coulibaly on in midfield would have provided fresh legs. If you're not giving your subs some game time on a regular basis you can't expect them to perform for a full match.

We are too open at the moment. When we bring flair players on such as Ndiaye and Mcatee we look good going forward. Teams can see the gaps down the flanks behind the wing backs and exploit this on the counter. We are probably 4 weeks away from getting Baldock and RND back, for me first choices, you win games if you stop the opposition scoring.

Its not a disaster at the moment but some things need to change in how we approach and manage games as does some of the personnel in the team. I'm not going to go overboard about PH as he has a lot to contend with off the pitch as the Club is leaderless. We have to put the league games as priority now and treat the Cup as a free hit as far as team selection is concerned. We've got a full week to rest now. Onto Watford
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Cracking post buddy

Nailed it for me
 
A Storm of Blades said:
That first half though… Jesus
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Wasn’t it just ….. I can’t remember a display as bad as that from a team of professional athletes / footballers -

It was an embarrassment to all of us associated with the club . They should hang their heads .

Hecky has now got a hell of a job on his hands . The two wing backs are awful defenders and one of them is awful , full stop. The days of playing CB are long gone - add the above together and it results in Egan becoming a basket case as he has to almost single handedly deal with 5/6 players running through us . His decision making was tragic.

Norwood - see above re Egan . The help he gets in midfield is , er , zero.

As some have said , Baldock and RND cannot return too soon . Anel needs to somehow rediscover his early season form and Clark needs to return .Perhaps there is a role for Bogle right side middle ?

The decision not to add to the squad was madness , especially in midfield and upfront . HRH has a lot to answer for.

Hecky has to sort this out and now .

Failure to go up will be a catastrophe which I don’t think we will recover from for years to come .

The club is a circus right now
 
pommpey said:
Really disappointing match for us. It is actually all coming home to roost. Our propensity to not win team and individual battles out on the park and defend effectively will add to our anxieties that automatics may be at risk, despite adopting such a commanding lead against the chasing pack. At best this is a blip and we can ride it out. We've been beaten twice in one week home and away by teams up in the top six and despite questionable refereeing, we still have the team and the manager to blame for that. As with most things United do, eventually we get found out and are so wedded to a system it's difficult switch to another system. Millwall simply out fought us today and Bradshaw shows exactly what it's like to get away from a lummox like Egan and score some easy goals to put us down.

I was hoping we'd be much like the Swansea game when they put us under pressure and we emerged and dominated, but save for a vague period when we pressed in the second half, there wasn't one area on the pitch today where we won the game. Next game - Watford at home - the opposition are gonna smell blood and they are simply going to do the same as Boro and Millwall have done and that is out-football us. Millwall were impressive and focussed and picked on our frailties and when our midfield looks so weak and disjointed, the game is there to be lost before kickoff. Sure, we scored two away from home but this is more about the three we needlessly let in, and how Millwall bullied and bossed us and also about some strange refereeing decisions although they didn't much contribute to how we lost.

Foderingham 6/10: Not his best game and looking nervy. Beaten at the near post for Bradshaw's first and slow across his line for the second. He also maybe should have reacted for the cross for the third but I thing Egan has a shout in that
Bogle 5/10: An assist but a whole heap of problems what with Millwall charging up the flanks. He tried today did Jayden but you can see he is suffering from Berge being completely disconnected. He's just got no one to play with and play to.
Basham 5.5/10: I have no idea why Bash is playing today, even though at his age, he did his best. Skinned a few times and at others involved but slow these days
Egan 1/10: A real shocker. Worst game I have seen him play since the PL and he had some bobbar games then. Bullied all over the park, slow to track Bradshaws run for the first, jumping under the ball for the second and totally at blame for the third. Might I say he may benefit from a period on the bench next match?
Robinson 6.5/10: Had a real job coping with combined pace and physicality of Bradshaw and Burke but as ever, gave us a committed if clunky performance
Lowe 5/10: Timid outing. Ran all over at times by Burke and the rest of their flankers
Berge 2/10: A reversion to form for him. Berge isn't firstly worth his transfer fee and secondly suited to the English Championship game. He's dreadfully casual, slow and easy to pick off, his movement on and off the ball is well below what is needed and how the fuck he stays on after half time is anyones guess. If the board are after advertising him for sale and recouping some cost then he's letting that plan down by his dismal, carefree and somewhat nesh footballing
Norwood 5.5/10: Surrounded and robbed a few times but tried and failed to get some or other control. But it's control we lack.
Doyle 5.5/10: Up to his well taken if 'George Longed' free kick I was unimpressed. He grafted but it was more Osborn than Brown.
Jebbison 5/10: Couldn't really get engaged with the game and make the effect he can do. Should do better with one on ones.
McBurnie 5/10: Ran and ran and tried to mix things up but in truth achieved fuck all but winding up the ref. No idea why he was booked.

Osborn 5.5/10: Although he got involved, Osborn is not the answer and certainly not for Doyle who was playing far better than Berge
NDaiye 6/10: See also, hooking Jebbison for NDaiye. If the impetus is to go to 4-3-3 or 5-2-1-2 then get shut of Berge for Osborn and put NDaiye in the false nine or number ten billet to encourage play down the middle of the park. When he did arive NDaiye did at least fight to win the ball
McAtee 6.5/10: Looked a lot better and forward facing than recent games. Took his goal really well

HJ&SMcC 3/10: Poor tactics, poor ability to gain control and typically some daft substitutes in way of 'where's Coullibally?' 'why not stick Clark/Anel on for Bash or even Egan?' and 'what the fuck is a 'Sander Berge'?'

Lastly, two things. Sky TV are cunts. They can't wait for Middlesborough to overhaul us, it's clear. Why don't they just say it? And secondly, the standard of refereeing in this division is dreadful, really dreadful. It needs fixing or VAR is the answer.

Heads up for Fallowfield to wallop Watford

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Bogle--------------Norwood-----------------------McAtee-----------------Lowe

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pommpey
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I thought you’d picked 12. Then I realised I was including Pommpey. I suggest we give this lad a go! Can’t do any worse just a question of whether he gets picked in goal instead of Near Post Wes, in central defence instead of anyone or in midfield instead of the Beige lad.

So many bones to pick out of that game.

First off, your point on the coverage. I thought we had left behind the nauseating anti-United, or at least pro-someone else’s-narrative behind. Unfortunately we’ve stepped into Carrick-Fergie-Protégé-world that the media are so desperate to get behind.

The commentator I listened to had clearly digested one fact he was keen to use to death - Millwall have a good set-piece output. Completely failed to mention that we are right up there as well. The ‘wouldn’t it be great if Boro caught them’ is a narrative I hope the players would like to ram down their throats. Maybe this is how we get the underdog/everyone is against us tag that we are far more comfortable with!

On the playing side, I really can’t get rid of the nagging thought that 2022 was Wes’ peak and we are starting to see the onset of a downturn. That’s two he has let in at the bear post. Sounds harsh but he did let Archer bash one in where if he stood tall there would have been no way past. Today he was crouching down and had his angles all wrong. Then he wasn’t decisive and could have given away a penalty. He went down in slow motion almost Ramsdaleesque vs Villa. Where was his footwork? He did the same for the offside (but wrongly given) goal that we conceded vs Wigan. The third as you say, was more Egan and those stopping the cross but he was neither use nor ornament, reaching out for a ball he could never get an this not forming a barrier on the line either. Even if we do get back on track, we should be under no doubt that a keeper should be a priority. Like Long did against Jebbo, he made a save with his legs vs Bradshaw and I’m not sure either take that much credit; it was more bad striking they picked their legs out to be honest. Also he needs harden up a bit. He’s got all the resilience of a Rich Tea biscuit. I’ve never seen a goalkeeper go down so much after the slightest of collisions.

Defensively we seem to have lost all sense of organisation. Robinson wasn’t the main culprit but the left side was badly exposed twice in a few days. I think we need Clark in there. Robbo may consider himself unlucky but Clark might add more organisation to a defence losing its way. Maybe he can compete with Lowe. Norton from-Davies is a huge upgrade defensively on both Lowe and Robinson. We’re unfortunate to have lost O’Connell, got Rhys and then lost him too.

Bogle needs to be more decisive. He made a lot of backward passes and at one point just stood with the ball either because he’d no idea what to do or that there were no options made for him.

Norwood is going to live and die by those around him. We know what he does well. He’s being left completely in exposed by those around him disappearing.

Berge in games like this is a liability. There should be few instances where someone given a role in the middle of the park is seen strolling around. Midfield should always be involved. Him turning up on about 65 minutes doesn’t do justice to a guy who is supposedly coveted every window. If he thinks he’s better than us then he’s in for a rude awakening. He needs to be dropped or hooked if that is his current capabilities right now. Like Egan he’s not seemingly allowed to have a bad game, he’s merely having a game where something good will come from him, but later, so we need to persevere with 60 minutes of absence in the hope that something pivotal may occur. You can’t run a team like this. I’d rather have 30 mins of running his blood to water than 90 with 2/3 of it an exercise in conserving energy.

Doyle scored and it’s his first game back. If he was ready to play then I don’t see why he had to depart so early. His replacement I don’t wish to demean but if Osborn is the answer, I’m not sure of the question. Plus why have 3 left sided short midfield players whilst leaving a box to box right footed player at home. It makes no sense unless Coulibaly was injured. I saw enough vs Wrexham to suggest he’s more about him then Osborn ever will have.

I thought McBurnie, despite being given little protection from the ref and limited opportunities, continued to lead the line well and provided a sublime outside of the foot pass to Jebbison.

Jebbison still has a bit of Bambi on ice about him and really needs to protect the ball more but to me it did seem like we may have found the Jake Cooper, someone tall and quick and he seemed to have him rattled, to use the word of the moment. This then left me more perplexed as to why he was withdrawn if we were ‘going for it’.

We ended up with:
Wes
Bogle Egan Robinson Lowe
Berge Norwood McAtee Ndiaye
McBurnie Ndiaye

I would have preferred to have seen something like:

Wes
Bogle Egan Clark Robinson
McAtee Norwood Fleck
Ndiaye
Jebbison McBurnie

The subs made no sense. Osborn I’ve mentioned would not have been in my squad. He brings none of what Fleck would have brought. His first impact was to fail to clear the first man on balls into the box and like Lowe, if he was there for defensive robustness, where was he on the third?

Hecky needs to stop favouring players. I don’t know if we go with a Man City midfield and have both Doyle and McAtee next game but I don’t want Osborn in there and I wouldn’t let Berge off the hook with two half-arsed performances. Maybe there is even room for Fleck, Norwood and Doyle together, with McAtee as first change.

Final bug bear. Subs. We can make five. So get used to making 5. It will stop us getting so ragged late on in games and it will also more evenly distribute minutes and protect against injuries. It’s as if Hecky doesn’t know the rules changed and as one of the bigger clubs, it arguably favours us. Also as we can make 5, make use of all of them. Don’t hang back with 4 just in case. When we could only make 3, we didn’t just make 2 just in case, did we?

Please jeep Coulibaly in the match day squad. You risk alienating a potential long term talent for the club. In favour of what? Making sure Ozzy feels involved. He’s contributed 1 goal and 1 assist in all competitions. He’s one of the first I’d let go in the summer. Coming on as sub unconvincingly isn’t what will take us forward and he’s failed to nail down any spot for 4 years now. He had a little spell under Slav but that’s your lot. He can’t live off one good game vs Peterborough at home. Coulibaly can be part of future options. He’s not going to want to stay if he’s the one that’s always the first one dropped.
 
It's all very familiar and predictable when following Sheffield United and here we go again, be it selling our best striker or him getting locked up or a failure in the play off's something always comes along to fuck this clubs chances of a bit of success. The other year it was Covid now it looks like we have an owner who has run out of money and is so desperate to sell the club that he falls for deals with an obscure American crook and an alledged Nigerian billionaire who no one has ever heard of. We really are the definition of a ship without a rudder, anyone care to name the members of the boardroom? Probably the only person who goes into the boardroom nowadays is old Florence the cleaning lady with her feather duster to keep the cobwebs at bay everyone else is sat on their arse in Riyadh playing fantasy football. Not really very conductive to results on the field when you have a manager who is just there to keep things ticking over with no powers to buy or sell players, filtered down you end up with a team with no leaders and no drive to win as we have seen in the last two games a bit of youthful exuberence does not cut it. I can't think of two more disjointed performances when it really mattered. A good 15mins v Boro and a good 15mins 2nd half v Millwall isn't going to win games or promotion all these poor performances we have worried about are coming home to roost. A few weeks back we liked certainties for promotion now it looks like we are in the process of throwing it all away, get ready boys the wheel of Sheffield football has just about turned full circle the other lot will soon be top dogs again how thorourly depressing.

Wes 5
Bogle 6 a point for the assist
Lowe 5 mile wide gap between him and C3PO
Bash 4 got done in the lead up to Millwall's 2nd this will be his last season at this level sadly
Egan 1 he did put his boots on the correct feet didn't he? A performance not even fit fot a league 2 CB
C3PO 5 see Lowe our best defender but that is no compliment
Berge 4 fuck it I'm joining the get rid movement, slow ponderous, weak as piss despite having all the ability I guess the guy just doesn't have the heart or the ruthless streak that is needed.
Nowood 4
Doyle 5 a point for getting the free kick over the wall grateful for the assist by George Long
McBurnie 6 again one of the few players to show a bit of fight or desire
Jebbo 5 missed a sitter

McAtee 7 well taken goal
Ndiaye 6
Osborn 4 laughable attemp to cross with his right foot was his only highlight

Hecky 3 the next few weeks will show if he can kick arse as good as he can the 4th officials board. This team needs a huge kick up the arse or has he too given up due to the clubs lack of leadership and direction?
 
It’s been a bad week, for sure.
It was a poor performance yesterday, and I’m getting worried that the opposition are targeting Lowe as a weakness, in our side.For me a lot of our probs stemmed from down that side.I hope Max can prove em all wrong in future weeks, we need him to, and he’ll be getting my full support on Saturday, to help him out.
I understand the frustration and the need to vent it, on here.
As a Blade for nearly 60 years now, I get the neurosis, based on a longer line than most,of disappointments and let downs.I’m probably a bit more positive than a good few on here, but still needed a couple of extra glasses of whiskey last night, to get over it.
Here’s the thing, though
The transfer window is shut, so we can’t add to the squad
Some on here think our players aren’t up to it,`I disagree,and think the marking, comments, on here, at times are way too harsh.But either way, we must go with what we have.
‘The players and management team have got us here so far, and again, we have no alternative but to trust them to finish the job.I think, they can.
But there is something we can do as a fan collective.
Get the frustrations out of the way on here, all week, if we have to, by all means, but come Saturday, let’s get right behind em at the Lane, for 90 mins.They need us to be positive for that 90 mins.
When the Lane is rocking we can make it a fortress, and become the twelfth man.That’s the best way we can help at the moment, to get what we all want, that second place ahead of Boro.
 
Good if slightly generous summary Pommpey,
Think the knock Fods took early doors might have hindered him ? Only a guess mind
Bash , love the guy and for all he’s done for us but please no more , his legacy is being destroyed , by his performances recently. Whisper it he’s not good enough now ( like Stevens )
Egan for an international defender hang your bastard head in shame , an absolute shocking game , if his game on satdi was as good as his ability to chew gum we’d be champions
Lowe after a poor start , he got better then seems to going backwards in performances , maybe he does need to take his head from out his shite pipe
Berge , the mind fucking boggles , for me he’s turning into another Lunscunt, I hope I’m wrong as there is a baller in there ( somewhere )
Jebbo , just calm down and stop snatching at the chances that come your way , should have bagged one yesterday
Doyle , lucky goal but bit meh
Agree with that team pommpey
Time to man the fuck up United
Still going up 🛗 mind
UTB
 
Seems to me like Hecky has got carried away a bit with our run and subsequent points cushion and is quite happy for every game to be a basketball match, end to end until we establish superiority and come out with a result.
This is ok when playing the lesser teams and they haven't quite got the ammo to beat us,although some hsve come close and we have struggled in some games,but now against better teams,a more pragmatic approach might be required,especially with the drop in standards of the defence not being able to do basic defending and midfield being overrun and unable to get a grip of the opposition.
Unless he tightens things up so it gets back to a cohesive unit in both areas and doing the basics correctly things csn get a lot worse.
Play like the last 2 against Watford and they are going to be all over that with pace,power and strength to run right over what we have offered up recently.
Hecky best start banging heads together and coming up with a plan,because with the games coming up,the standard required to get automatic will be second half v Burnley.
 
MagnifiqueShorehamStreet said:
It’s been a bad week, for sure.
It was a poor performance yesterday, and I’m getting worried that the opposition are targeting Lowe as a weakness, in our side.For me a lot of our probs stemmed from down that side.I hope Max can prove em all wrong in future weeks, we need him to, and he’ll be getting my full support on Saturday, to help him out.
I understand the frustration and the need to vent it, on here.
As a Blade for nearly 60 years now, I get the neurosis, based on a longer line than most,of disappointments and let downs.I’m probably a bit more positive than a good few on here, but still needed a couple of extra glasses of whiskey last night, to get over it.
Here’s the thing, though
The transfer window is shut, so we can’t add to the squad
Some on here think our players aren’t up to it,`I disagree,and think the marking, comments, on here, at times are way too harsh.But either way, we must go with what we have.
‘The players and management team have got us here so far, and again, we have no alternative but to trust them to finish the job.I think, they can.
But there is something we can do as a fan collective.
Get the frustrations out of the way on here, all week, if we have to, by all means, but come Saturday, let’s get right behind em at the Lane, for 90 mins.They need us to be positive for that 90 mins.
When the Lane is rocking we can make it a fortress, and become the twelfth man.That’s the best way we can help at the moment, to get what we all want, that second place ahead of Boro.
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Our turnout home and away is superb - the fans have backed the team , when the players turn up they get superb vocal support- trouble is they turn up for 15/20 min stretches
 
For 45 mins we looked like we’d be out on the piss in Borough Market the night before , could have subbed all 11 we couldn’t string 2 passes together , the back three looked like 3 strangers & made Bradshaw look like he was the current holder of the Ballon D’or .. then Doyle dispatches a lovely freekick & miraculously we go in level ?
Obviously a deserved HT bollocking was handed out & we came out a lot better and started to take the initiative . We again gift them the lead & again pull ourselves level only to concede on absolute stinker of a third and gift wrap a present to them .
Fodders & Robinson at fault for the first .. he’d already decided that Bradshaw was crossing that and beat him at the front post at fkg waste height .. unforgivable for a keeper that one.
Back 3 atrocious .. Egan looked like he’d lost the concept of sticking with your man and marking him , Bash sorry mate more a liability than stability nowadays .. Robby up for a hard tackle or header but all over positionally .
Wing backs subdued and offered little offensively . Midfield bypassed first half , better second half but Berge should have been hooked before Doyle . We looked a different side when Ndiaye came on and dropped short linking things up , something McAtee was profiting off . Frontline again we’re feeding off scraps until Illys introduction so hard to be critical to them .
After we got level at 2-2 I thought we’d got a point minimum , to flush it down the shitter in such fashion was gauling .
It not a crisis as some are saying be we need some of our ‘bigger’ players to show some character , leadership & togetherness . We need to get the tempo back up and press teams the opposition on to the back foot as we did pre WC break & move the ball a lot faster than some of this slow tippy tappy shite we are not playing in Mexico City in the middle of the summer !
Time to put that in room 101 & stand up and be counted boys .. there’s still 42 points to play for & they’ll be twist and turns along the way .
Some of our fans are waving the fkg white flag already .. fk me yes we’ve lost 2 but are still second in league .. but then again the same ones will be pronouncing European Champions if we won three on the spin .
Get behind them we never do owt easy ⚔️
 



Like most, I was utterly pissed off yesterday.

Two back-to-back defeats, and letting in 6 goals in those two games. Weak team, with only Oli McB and JLT showing any sort of positive aggression. Sander strolling around the pitch, Bash coming too far up the pitch and then having to try and grab a shirt as the Millwall player breezed past him.

We get it back to 2-2 and then go to sleep. Jebbo should have scored when Oli McB put him through with a fantastic ball.

To dominate the second half and then switch off at the crucial moment was depressing. From best defence and keeper in the league to worst in a matter of weeks.

How is Coulibaly not even on the bench? Something not right there.

We have to somehow find a way to cling on to second place, because I wouldn't fancy us in the play offs, at all, and then a free fall next season.
 
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