Name our 'good' performances so far this season

[Yoonited]

It was a similar vibe in Hecky's season, but I'll always look back on that season with good memories watching Ndiaye. Same as this with Cooper, Hamer.

But by no means does that disregard what I'm saying... I'm just not sure why people don't want to be entertained when they've spent hundreds on a season ticket?

Some of us have stopped buying a season ticket because we want to be entertained.
I stopped hero worshipping not long after Currie,Woodward n one or two others left.

 

[haich1889]

Wah wah you entitled c**t bedwetter t**t.
There, got it in before you lot could.

I'm intrigued to what the thoughts are on this.

Inarguable: Oxford, Luton and Boro @ home / Blackburn and QPR away

Opinion based (not necessarily mine): Wednesday, Sunderland and Leeds @ home / Hull, Cardiff and Preston away

Even being a bit generous with those, I'm struggling to come up with more than 11 games we've played well in. I wouldn't say one or two in the line above were good performances, but I'm happy to concede to others who might.

It's just dismal dross for 2/3 of the season so far. And plenty more to come. Yay!
The lazy coaching needs to stop. Entertain your 'punters' Chris and maybe they won't leave before the injury time board comes up.
Just a thought.

Anyone else got any to add to the 'good' performances?

thought Sunderland away was a better performance than at home. Suppose it was because we were a goal down & not able to shut up shop with 7 or 8 defenders for the last 20 minutes. You can't knock where we are in the League but it seems like Wilder has become obsessed with "seeing the game out", whatever it takes. I know we got punished badly in the 1st premiership season late in games but shutting up shop seems to start earlier every game.
The mindset was so deep, it took more than 5 mins and a 3rd goal before we got a striker on against Leeds. { found it mind boogling we didn;t have Moore ready in case the inevitable happened. They were celebrating for 3 minutes, Moore should have been in play before we kicked off.

 

[Working Class Hero]

There aren't many times this season we can say we've seen a complete performance, especially for a team on track to accumulate 96 points. It's been a very strange season so far in that regard.

There seems to be an attitude that we should dominate teams every week though, which has never been the case for anyone at Championship level. A solid away win has always been considered a good performance, and in any season before 2021 we'd have all been delighted with that type of game. For whatever reason though, that's just not good enough for our fans any more.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

i don't know. its not the feeling im getting from this thread. i think if some of people on here had a choice they would sack wilder now. & bring in someone more entertaining

but then we do have a dose of unrealistic ambitions. where we should be dominating like prime man city. & winning 3-0 every week

I would say peak “Wilder out” mode generally occurs in that rage filled walk to the car, bus, train or pub immediately after the game…After that, rationality usually kicks in for most sensible people after a pint or the journey home…We’ve all done it.

 

[LondonBlade89]

Have there been many highs this season?

I’ve felt pretty good after our victories this season, yeah. It might not be the incredible high of a last minute winner or a brilliant performance but I love it when we win. And we’ve won a lot this year, more than most others.

 

[Carlton Blade]

I’ve felt pretty good after our victories this season, yeah. It might not be the incredible high of a last minute winner or a brilliant performance but I love it when we win. And we’ve won a lot this year, more than most others.

There's no right or wrong answer. I've just found this season completely unremarkable

 

[LondonBlade89]

There's no right or wrong answer. I've just found this season completely unremarkable

I hear you. It was different earlier in the season for sure. But now every game we win, I love it. I’m having a drink. My mum is cracking open the sherry. I wish other people could take enjoyment out of three points, or even one point. We’re edging closer to promotion. This is rare.

 

[Younger Dryas Blade]

Shit housed 90% of our victories, head to head against the better teams we don't get away it with how we play.
Better hope the dull as fuck, shit housering lasts to the end of the season, not sure it will.

 

[Carlton Blade]

I hear you. It was different earlier in the season for sure. But now every game we win, I love it. I’m having a drink. My mum is cracking open the sherry. I wish other people could take enjoyment out of three points, or even one point. We’re edging closer to promotion. This is rare.

Doesn't feel 'new' anymore. I think the fact we've been a very good Championship team fir the ladt 220+ games means it's all gone a bit stale

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

Is the problem on the pitch, or in the stand in people's heads?

All people want is free flowing, extravagant, passionate football, £20 tickets, cheap beer, full ground, not getting relegated, wild crowd but no pyros, singing but no bad language, cherry on top, delivered free by 9am on Prime.
But can the club leave some things that these people can grumble about, because that's what they really want, thanks.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Things like this are always going to come down to personal opinion.

If people want to have a go at the performances, fair enough that's their opinion.

Personally, I don't mind these tight wins as it shows good mentality, and 9 times out of 10 we win those games, especially against some decent sides.

Portsmouth and Plymouth weren't good performances from us but those teams (despite their league positions) came to the Lane and had a go, same way that Norwich and Middlesbrough came (in better league positions) and were poor.

League positions are never guarantees of beating teams (e.g 2nd beats 23rd) in any league of football, especially in the Championship.

Hull drew 3-3 with Leeds, beat us 0-3 and Sunderland 0-1 in the space of a few weeks, despite having been in the bottom 6/7 all season, they've had a bad season despite picking up points in decent games because they turned up in those games.

To be honest I’m usually quite good at taking defeat on the chin, this is SUFC after all. But the thing that always grinds my gears is the haphazard way we try to defend a slender lead, when it is quite apparent, we aren’t very good at it…especially since big Soutts left. Yes, we badly missed Souza in the middle, but in general our ball retention isn’t that great anyway.

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

It’s a squad that’s fairly new to eachother yes but I’d expect to have scored a few more goals than we have and actually going for it rather than sit back at 1-0. I mean it was embarrassing how we let Bristol, who let’s face it are nothing special, control the game. Pigs have scored more than us ffs.

 

[loyalblade95]

Pigs have scored more than us ffs.

True, but they have conceded more than us.

Norwich are the second highest scorers this season and they're mid table, only Leeds have scored more than them.

 

[Jacobsenthecrab]

At the start of the season we played some good football and I expected us to improve once the players got to know each other and the management team had time on the training ground.
However, since Souttar got injured we’ve regressed and the new signings haven’t given us the bounce we expected.
I’m guessing the management team have tried to offset Souttars loss by being more defensive across the pitch and more cautious tactically, however that’s produced some pretty dull football.
I hope it doesn’t cost us a top 2 finish but have a feeling it will, I just can’t see us eeking out narrow wins with the fixtures we have coming up.
Hope I’m proven wrong.

 

[MKY]

Feels like the Hecky promotion season to me. Really underwhelming with excitement at a premium. We rarely convince for sustained periods & I can’t abide the self inflicted pressure we invite by attempting to defend slender leads. Wen we do win it’s a sense of relief rather elation.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

When I watch any Sheffield United match I treat myself as a neutral viewer. I support Sheffield United and want us to win, but overall I want to see a good game of football. I don't pay for results. I can get the result for free at the final whistle. I pay for what happens from the first minute to the last and we have been poor quality to watch for the last 4-5 seasons. It's no surprise that home or away RoysView is filled with the same comments after just about every match, no matter who we play, home or away. I miss the promotion from League One to us staying up in the Premier League, when RoysView and Deadbat's reports were a pleasure to read. Now you can copy and paste every post of theirs and just switch out the opponents name. Rinse and repeat.

I worry for next season as Wilder has talked up every opponent this season, shown them too much respect and been too negative and defensive with his tactics and subs, and worse than that been outplayed by nearly everyone, with them playing the same formation and tactics against us but more effectively and look more entertaining doing it. I worry that our fitness levels are still poor and yet a young winger at Sunderland could bomb up and down the pitch at full pace all match tearing us apart. I worry about him having money to spend as his record with money is woeful and we're still feeling the effects years later from his last stint in charge, as we couldn't move on any of the dross he bought other than Bogle for a minor profit, and Berge for a signing loss. I worry that the players are being suffocated by "system" football instead of letting them play with their instincts. Every decision has already been made for them for every scenario. It's why Rak-Sakyi is so predictable and wooden going forward. Take the shackles off and he could single handedly destroy teams, but he does the same thing over and over because "he's been told to."

It reminds me of Detroit Red Wings this season. They sacked their coach and the new coach told them to ignore patterns of play, ignore systems, trust their instincts and "just play *ing hockey." They went on to win their next 7 games in a row scoring a lot of goals, as the coach put faith in their ability and decision making. Wilder is too fixated in his system to have the balls to do this, and this is why there is a huge gap between the two parts of the midfield, while other teams play the same formation against is with no gap between their two parts of the midfield. I honestly don't believe that Wilder understands the 4-2-3-1 formation as we still look disjointed and waiting to click after more then 3/4 of the season, and this is why we have struggled to put together a consistent 90 minute performance all season, but he'll tell you it's because team set to stop us playing, which is horse *, as we stop ourselves playing with poor general play and predictable slow build up in the final third. Only Hamer plays with any kind of instinct.

 

[Thrice]

I definitely would love a more attacking-minded approach, without completely sacrificing defence of course. We have the players to overwhelm most teams in this division. But Wilder seems to have this safety first attitude and just can't help himself, it seems.

If we do go up we really can't play like this in the Premier League though. Would be an exercise in futility.

 

[JJBlade]

I definitely would love a more attacking-minded approach, without completely sacrificing defence of course. We have the players to overwhelm most teams in this division. But Wilder seems to have this safety first attitude and just can't help himself, it seems.

If we do go up we really can't play like this in the Premier League though. Would be an exercise in futility.

He will though

 

[Slim Man]

Since I made this thread over a month ago we've added Coventry at home to the mix.

What on earth do we do in training developing patterns of play?

 

[haich1889]

Did Coventry make it 4 or 5, not sure!!!!

 

[Champagneblade]

We created more of the two teams tonight.

But Millwall didn’t need to be better because they got a goal and simply defended well.

I’m not going to dwell on this. It’s made a shit weekend even shitter but you can offset this against the win we got against Portsmouth who should have been out of sight.

It’s a 5 game mini season now.

For some reason we’re not great when we are the ones being shot at. There’s a shift now.

Aim has to be to win them all. 98 points gets us up. I’d be surprised if 96 didn’t.

 

[Thrice]

We created more of the two teams tonight.

But Millwall didn’t need to be better because they got a goal and simply defended well.

I’m not going to dwell on this. It’s made a shit weekend even shitter but you can offset this against the win we got against Portsmouth who should have been out of sight.

It’s a 5 game mini season now.

For some reason we’re not great when we are the ones being shot at. There’s a shift now.

Aim has to be to win them all. 98 points gets us up. I’d be surprised if 96 didn’t.

Problem is, one of those games is at Turf Moor which is a must win game now. Wilder and the players can really show what they're made of in that game. If we do win there, then we deserve to go up. I can't say I'm very confident though.

 

[Champagneblade]

Problem is, one of those games is at Turf Moor which is a must win game now. Wilder and the players can really show what they're made of in that game. If we do win there, then we deserve to go up. I can't say I'm very confident though.

We’ve dropped another spot, but strangely it’s still all in each team’s hands.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Since I made this thread over a month ago we've added Coventry at home to the mix.

What on earth do we do in training developing patterns of play?

I think the focus is on how to stop teams as we seem to approach every game and opposition the same attacking wise, home and away, no matter how they set up. There's no indication that we've done our homework on how to open them up or get through them, unlike everyone we come up against who have clearly done their homework on us.

"Boss, how do we stop Sheffield United from creating chances against us?"
"That's simple. Give them the ball."

 

[Carlton Blade]

All 4 times we've gone behind at home this season, we've lost.

 

[JJBlade]

There's no right or wrong answer. I've just found this season completely unremarkable

That's Sheffield United for ya
The only club on planet Earth that could even make a promotion season shit

 

[paidsy]

That's Sheffield United for ya
The only club on planet Earth that could even make a promotion season shit

Won't be a promotion season

 

[Carlton Blade]

That's Sheffield United for ya
The only club on planet Earth that could even make a promotion season shit

It's not shit. It's just.....there

 

[JJBlade]

Won't be a promotion season

Yes I know, but if it is it'll have been shit.
And let's face it Heckys promotion team wasn't exactly sparkling with entertainment was it ?

 

[paidsy]

No but this has been much worse. Hecky didn't blow 12m on a mug like Cannon at least