'Memries' Passion on the field as well as in the stands.

[Speedracer]

After the season we have just had I was feeling a bit jaded with what we were watching, & this morning browsing YouTube I happened upon the highlight reel of our 5-2 home win against Burnley in the '22/23 season. The difference in the style of play was stark compared to now, the football was exciting, direct, & the movement & speed of passing between the players was a world away from the slow, side to side stuff we had to endure of last season. The crowd were loud & drove the players on, like an irresistible force that would not be denied.

I was pretty shocked at the difference really. I will always support us no matter how we perform, it is in my blood & that is just the way it is, but by god can we get back to the core values that made the team such a pleasure to watch please?

 

[John Street West Terrace]

When we played 442 last season between Nov & the turn of the year it was a good watch like the days of Wilder Mk 1 ..on the front foot & scoring for fun . Then we lost at Charlton & back we went to fkg boring 4231

 

[dexter101]

When we played 442 last season between Nov & the turn of the year it was a good watch like the days of Wilder Mk 1 ..on the front foot & scoring for fun . Then we lost at Charlton & back we went to fkg boring 4231

Those games really seemed like we had turned a corner and not really sure what prompted the swing back.

Only things I can put it down to are:

Red cards at Charlton meant bans
Injuries?

Was Gus not playing for a few of those games?

 

[Lane Ender]

When we played 442 last season between Nov & the turn of the year it was a good watch like the days of Wilder Mk 1 ..on the front foot & scoring for fun . Then we lost at Charlton & back we went to fkg boring 4231

Thought we’d turned the corner in that period why didn’t Wilder stick with it

 

[SB_90]

yeah that period between that others have talked about was fantastic, as i said during the season we scored 3+ goals 3 times in the 90/92 pt season. then between hillsborough in november & oxford start of febuary. we scored 3+ goals 9 times in 16 games. it was fantastic to watch the most ive enjoyed sheff utd for many years.

then from middlesborough to the end of the season we scored 3+ once in the final 15 games

id love to know what changed because wilder seemed to realise our defence was awful, so we needed to attack teams & outscore them. lost 2 games to best team we saw at the lane & the champions. he seemingly got scared & tried to rely on our dreadful defence to keep a clean sheet

 

[joe casey]

Those games really seemed like we had turned a corner and not really sure what prompted the swing back.

Only things I can put it down to are:

Red cards at Charlton meant bans
Injuries?

Was Gus not playing for a few of those games?

Tbf looking at results - we lost the game straight after this against Southampton (Peck/Arblaster midfield - Bamford on bench - no Tanganga) - but then went on to beat Ipswich 3-1 and get a decent draw v Millwall and a win at home to Oxford.

We then lost to Boro in a tight game where they showed their class before wins v Portsmouth and Pigs. A tight loss to Cov was then followed by a win v QPR.

It wasn't actually until March that results started to falter - 6 games without a win and only 3 points. It was March-April that killed us really.
I think we/the team saw the Southampton/Boro /Cov losses as real hits to confidence when in reality we bounced back from all with pretty decent results but made a mess of the middling fixtures (west brom/norwich/brum/Wrexham/swansea/bristol)

 

[Geordie Blade]

It's common for football fans of all teams to identify one or two great performances in a season, and then assume that that standard should be the 'norm'. Therefore, the other 44-odd games are seen as being below par and boring.

The OP here picked out the 5-2 win against Burnley. But three days later, we lost 0-1 at home to Rotherham. I'm sure that if we compared that performance to those of this/last season, we'd conclude that we've actually irmpoved.

 

[billyblademan]

Tbf looking at results - we lost the game straight after this against Southampton (Peck/Arblaster midfield - Bamford on bench - no Tanganga) - but then went on to beat Ipswich 3-1 and get a decent draw v Millwall and a win at home to Oxford.

We then lost to Boro in a tight game where they showed their class before wins v Portsmouth and Pigs. A tight loss to Cov was then followed by a win v QPR.

It wasn't actually until March that results started to falter - 6 games without a win and only 3 points. It was March-April that killed us really.
I think we/the team saw the Southampton/Boro /Cov losses as real hits to confidence when in reality we bounced back from all with pretty decent results but made a mess of the middling fixtures (west brom/norwich/brum/Wrexham/swansea/bristol)

Even leaving the QPR game, it felt like we were playing for snookers. During the decent run before it Wrexham matched us pretty much toe for toe so we never got closer. Frustratingly, Wrexham seemed to drop off just as we did, not helped obviously by us folding against them in the home game.

The match after QPR was WBA at home, and it felt flat as it seemed that we'd run our race.

 

[Varkanoid]

They were a broken team this season. With the fans a lot of first thought was "here we go again". Wilder coming in just put a sticking plaster on it I still think in their minds mentally they carried the poor season start. Proof of the pudding is whether we see a change mentally 26/27.

 

[DifferentClass]

*Pashun

 

[true99blade]

That Burnley game was a complete 1 off, even in a promotion season, after October we barely looked convincing. Still better than the shite we were served up for most of the last 2 seasons.

 

[CrookesBlade]

Those games really seemed like we had turned a corner and not really sure what prompted the swing back.

Only things I can put it down to are:

Red cards at Charlton meant bans
Injuries?

Was Gus not playing for a few of those games?

People were saying at the time of the Charlton game that was season over and it turned out to be correct.

That said we’d maybe have had a fighting chance if Bamford, Phillips and Rothwell all didn’t get sent off in subsequent games.

Players noticeably downed tools as well once there was nothing to play for.

 

[dexter101]

People were saying at the time of the Charlton game that was season over and it turned out to be correct.

That said we’d maybe have had a fighting chance if Bamford, Phillips and Rothwell all didn’t get sent off in subsequent games.

Players noticeably downed tools as well once there was nothing to play for.

I had forgotten we seemed to go through that phase of games where we just had no discipline.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Thought we’d turned the corner in that period why didn’t Wilder stick with it

Fk knows pal ..he was actually getting a tune of of Cannon also when partnered with Bamford in that system

 

[ancientblade]

When we played 442 last season between Nov & the turn of the year it was a good watch like the days of Wilder Mk 1 ..on the front foot & scoring for fun . Then we lost at Charlton & back we went to fkg boring 4231

wilder mark 3 is nothing like the wilder mark 1 hes gone from progressive adventurous attack minded manager to cautious boring slow tippy tappy sideways backwards type of manager i will back him 100% but just think hes had his day at the lane i hope he proves mr 100% wrong