Just (I say this lightly reading back over it) my opinion on Friday's game and a few other problems as I can still not get the sour taste out of my mouth nor the annoyance at the shite on display for a near 20 quid ticket.
Blades:
Where to fecking start, that first half was the worst performance I have ever seen in my entire life. It reminded me of my sunday league's Friday night training sessions Attack Vs Defence, it was nothing short of embarrassing.
- 1st Major pissed off point: DON'T EVER start with Porter and Kitson upfront, I walked into the ground on Friday with a good mate of mine to look at the first tv screen available for the team line-ups. The first few words that came out of my mouth: " Well we're fecked". Porter simply put is not good enough, there is simply no return for the lad. I understand his role of play, I am not expecting him to blast past players with pace and slam a shot into the bottom corner. However I do expect a few things from a big lad upfront. 1. Movement (non-existent) 2. Effort ( this is the only thing Porter has of which he seems to switch on and off like a girl making their mind up) 3. To actually attack a ball played up to him (doesn't happen and when it does its not as effective as when Kitson or Cressy do) 4. Score some goals (I don't need to explain this, and please don't comment oh well he got the winner against Stevenage because he did bugger all else in that game)
Defence: Jesus we look better with Collins at the back but that really does show how far we have dropped that Collins is indeed a Lynchpin of our team.
-2nd Major pissed off point: How badly Higgo played at LB on Friday which I don't think many have mentioned on here? I did not see him play one ball to feet, everything he hit was up in the air and did not find a man once. He was awful and was outpaced and skinned many a time. Easily the worst play on the pitch if not for one challenge he made near the end of the game saving us further embarrassment of conceding another. I cannot wait for LJF to come back in as we have no Lb's in this squad apart from him who are ok (LJF is prone to at least 1 ricket a game) but at least he gets forward, is strong, has a decent delivery and has PACE. Major difference between us last year and this year is how our fullbacks do not get forward. We miss this so much and slows our build up and attacking momentum unbelievably!
George Long- Some of you will disagree with this: The lad has done brilliantly however the right decision as soon as Howard is fit, is to put him back in the net. Since Christmas IMO there has been a drop in form from George. Many goals over the last month or so cannot solely be attributed to faults by George (apart from the obvious mistake pissing around with it) but there have been a lot that have gone in that I would have expected him or another keeper of League 1 standard to save. Perfect example was Cov's 2nd goal on Friday, although hit with pace was very poorly palmed out to the bell end Leon Clarke. (Kitson was the main fault for that goal)
Midfield- MAIN PISSED OFF POINT: NON-EXISTENT:There were times where Cov played 5 in the middle, however this is no excuse for the complete lack of any heart or effort from our two CM's. K mac will never be a player who will exert any effort than the minimal possible; in short he is a complete puff when any chance of getting mud on his shirt arises. He was a ghost for the 1st half however I put this down to lack of options which was clearly proven true as when Forte came on. Within minutes of Forte coming on making runs and dragging defenders to open up space for the wide men K mac played 2 cracking balls, one to Forte who was unlucky with the chance and a great 25 yard cross field ball to Flynn. It is obvious he has the best passing ability in this league but can do bugger all else. Put decent players around him and we will reap the benefits all day long.
Doyle: Please get dropped, Worst player on the pitch, I saw him the grand total of 3 times on Friday: all 3 of which he lost the ball stupidly in a dangerous area. He did not win anything and looked totally void of any knowledge. We needed a Cm in that transfer window to put pressure on them. We need an athletic ball winning box to box midfielder, with pace and strength. We may as well have no midfield against teams like Coventry with a bit of pace and strength.
Stop slagging Flynn off: annoyed with the morons who slag him off on this site. Flynn is one of our hardest working players who tries to get a cross in every time. Put him up against a decent pacey RB (i.e. Christie for cov) and he will struggle. However he beat him a few times down the wing and had much more luck when swapped with Murphy who was just god damn awful on Friday. Flynn works his bollocks off and has no overlapping help from Mcmahon or Higgo/Williams. If it weren’t for Flynn we would have conceded many more goals this season and not scored as many either. We know he is not good enough for the championship , neither is half our squad but he is for sure easily good enough for the majority of teams in this league. Murphy was awful and rightfully subbed, has the pace to get past people but no heart to continue and gives up if any player lays a finger on him, I'am hoping for a lot more from him.
- Robson: Quality delivery for the corner, looks a class act void of match fitness and needs to gel with the team, I really think he will turn out to be a good player especially at this level and am praying every night he replaces an awful Doyle in the middle of the park. Robson had some skills, a nice quick turn, great delivery (although his other corners was shocking) and looks like he has some bollocks ordering players around into the right positions he has only met 2 days ago. - 1 of the only positives.
-Attack:
Porter= crap
Kitson= worked hard put himself about, great header. Does what porter should be doing but better than porter could ever do. Needs a pacey striker alongside (Miller, Forte)
Forte: I was very impressed and need to retract my comments made on the original threads saying we had signed him. Movement was excellent, tried to get a shot off when possible, a nice few skills. Looks a million miles better then when we originally had him (again shows how far we have dropped) He will relish K mac putting balls through to them but in order to reap the best we need to replace Doyle with someone who can win the ball and is quicker and smarter, our best option being Robson.
- Summary from essay and general points of annoyance:
We are stuffed, there is no two ways about it. Play-offs? (notice I am not even considering auto) my arse, we were made to look a pub team by a distinctly average Coventry City. There are far better, hungry teams playing in this division then us. Stupid mistakes and distinctly low effort rates litter our team to produce bugger all but a late surge 30 mins before the end when we realise the team we are playing is actually just as shit as us. This is not good enough. The only things differing; that they had PACE and my god do we need that in more departments then we currently have, every performance screams out how much we lack pace echoed by our ability to build up an attacking threat at the pace of a slug. Also how much more they wanted it, we looked void of any interest untill it was too late. Robson looked the most passionate after his first touch on the pitch.... that really says something.
^ this was an essay and only covers maybe if I am lucky 1/3 of the crap on display on Friday. However who should we blame?
-McCabe = I think yes, of course we should, his poor management of the club has sat us in this shit, compounded by the disappearance of the most recent Blackman funds. Can he solely be blamed? No, you would be stupid to think so, how can he be blamed for shite performances of players? Managers who do not live up to expectations? How better off do you honestly think we would be without him?
- Wilson = Yes , the man is a poor motivator and a poor tactician. However he did wonders last year and was very unlucky, brought the best out of what was looking to be a shite 3m pound player, does seem to get in some decent players and helps to keep hold of some of our best i.e. K mac.
- Players= Yes, they are poor in a poor league. They should have more heart and try breaking a swet more often. They are also paid more than most other clubs in the league without at this time giving much of a return. However we all know they are better than they are playing right now and continually slagging them off isn't going to help.
I guess what I am trying to do is give those of you who didn’t go on Friday an image of how poor we were, while contradicting myself on who to blame as my annoyance levels just keep rising and rising with how poor we have been (lets be honest for most of the season) week on week. I think in sum up we really are wading deeper and deeper into deep shit and we really need an answer sharpish.
Change Doyle for Robson and give him captaincy, give Murphy a kick up the arse along with K mac to stop being such puffs and start with this squad as soon as possible and just maybe something might happen. ( Highly Unlikely):
Howard
LJF, Harry, Collins, McMahon
Flynn, Macca, Robson, Murphy
Forte, Kitson
>I know there is more to it but you could write a fecking book on the problems and still get nowhere near covering how poor we are at the moment.
Blades:
Where to fecking start, that first half was the worst performance I have ever seen in my entire life. It reminded me of my sunday league's Friday night training sessions Attack Vs Defence, it was nothing short of embarrassing.
- 1st Major pissed off point: DON'T EVER start with Porter and Kitson upfront, I walked into the ground on Friday with a good mate of mine to look at the first tv screen available for the team line-ups. The first few words that came out of my mouth: " Well we're fecked". Porter simply put is not good enough, there is simply no return for the lad. I understand his role of play, I am not expecting him to blast past players with pace and slam a shot into the bottom corner. However I do expect a few things from a big lad upfront. 1. Movement (non-existent) 2. Effort ( this is the only thing Porter has of which he seems to switch on and off like a girl making their mind up) 3. To actually attack a ball played up to him (doesn't happen and when it does its not as effective as when Kitson or Cressy do) 4. Score some goals (I don't need to explain this, and please don't comment oh well he got the winner against Stevenage because he did bugger all else in that game)
Defence: Jesus we look better with Collins at the back but that really does show how far we have dropped that Collins is indeed a Lynchpin of our team.
-2nd Major pissed off point: How badly Higgo played at LB on Friday which I don't think many have mentioned on here? I did not see him play one ball to feet, everything he hit was up in the air and did not find a man once. He was awful and was outpaced and skinned many a time. Easily the worst play on the pitch if not for one challenge he made near the end of the game saving us further embarrassment of conceding another. I cannot wait for LJF to come back in as we have no Lb's in this squad apart from him who are ok (LJF is prone to at least 1 ricket a game) but at least he gets forward, is strong, has a decent delivery and has PACE. Major difference between us last year and this year is how our fullbacks do not get forward. We miss this so much and slows our build up and attacking momentum unbelievably!
George Long- Some of you will disagree with this: The lad has done brilliantly however the right decision as soon as Howard is fit, is to put him back in the net. Since Christmas IMO there has been a drop in form from George. Many goals over the last month or so cannot solely be attributed to faults by George (apart from the obvious mistake pissing around with it) but there have been a lot that have gone in that I would have expected him or another keeper of League 1 standard to save. Perfect example was Cov's 2nd goal on Friday, although hit with pace was very poorly palmed out to the bell end Leon Clarke. (Kitson was the main fault for that goal)
Midfield- MAIN PISSED OFF POINT: NON-EXISTENT:There were times where Cov played 5 in the middle, however this is no excuse for the complete lack of any heart or effort from our two CM's. K mac will never be a player who will exert any effort than the minimal possible; in short he is a complete puff when any chance of getting mud on his shirt arises. He was a ghost for the 1st half however I put this down to lack of options which was clearly proven true as when Forte came on. Within minutes of Forte coming on making runs and dragging defenders to open up space for the wide men K mac played 2 cracking balls, one to Forte who was unlucky with the chance and a great 25 yard cross field ball to Flynn. It is obvious he has the best passing ability in this league but can do bugger all else. Put decent players around him and we will reap the benefits all day long.
Doyle: Please get dropped, Worst player on the pitch, I saw him the grand total of 3 times on Friday: all 3 of which he lost the ball stupidly in a dangerous area. He did not win anything and looked totally void of any knowledge. We needed a Cm in that transfer window to put pressure on them. We need an athletic ball winning box to box midfielder, with pace and strength. We may as well have no midfield against teams like Coventry with a bit of pace and strength.
Stop slagging Flynn off: annoyed with the morons who slag him off on this site. Flynn is one of our hardest working players who tries to get a cross in every time. Put him up against a decent pacey RB (i.e. Christie for cov) and he will struggle. However he beat him a few times down the wing and had much more luck when swapped with Murphy who was just god damn awful on Friday. Flynn works his bollocks off and has no overlapping help from Mcmahon or Higgo/Williams. If it weren’t for Flynn we would have conceded many more goals this season and not scored as many either. We know he is not good enough for the championship , neither is half our squad but he is for sure easily good enough for the majority of teams in this league. Murphy was awful and rightfully subbed, has the pace to get past people but no heart to continue and gives up if any player lays a finger on him, I'am hoping for a lot more from him.
- Robson: Quality delivery for the corner, looks a class act void of match fitness and needs to gel with the team, I really think he will turn out to be a good player especially at this level and am praying every night he replaces an awful Doyle in the middle of the park. Robson had some skills, a nice quick turn, great delivery (although his other corners was shocking) and looks like he has some bollocks ordering players around into the right positions he has only met 2 days ago. - 1 of the only positives.
-Attack:
Porter= crap
Kitson= worked hard put himself about, great header. Does what porter should be doing but better than porter could ever do. Needs a pacey striker alongside (Miller, Forte)
Forte: I was very impressed and need to retract my comments made on the original threads saying we had signed him. Movement was excellent, tried to get a shot off when possible, a nice few skills. Looks a million miles better then when we originally had him (again shows how far we have dropped) He will relish K mac putting balls through to them but in order to reap the best we need to replace Doyle with someone who can win the ball and is quicker and smarter, our best option being Robson.
- Summary from essay and general points of annoyance:
We are stuffed, there is no two ways about it. Play-offs? (notice I am not even considering auto) my arse, we were made to look a pub team by a distinctly average Coventry City. There are far better, hungry teams playing in this division then us. Stupid mistakes and distinctly low effort rates litter our team to produce bugger all but a late surge 30 mins before the end when we realise the team we are playing is actually just as shit as us. This is not good enough. The only things differing; that they had PACE and my god do we need that in more departments then we currently have, every performance screams out how much we lack pace echoed by our ability to build up an attacking threat at the pace of a slug. Also how much more they wanted it, we looked void of any interest untill it was too late. Robson looked the most passionate after his first touch on the pitch.... that really says something.
^ this was an essay and only covers maybe if I am lucky 1/3 of the crap on display on Friday. However who should we blame?
-McCabe = I think yes, of course we should, his poor management of the club has sat us in this shit, compounded by the disappearance of the most recent Blackman funds. Can he solely be blamed? No, you would be stupid to think so, how can he be blamed for shite performances of players? Managers who do not live up to expectations? How better off do you honestly think we would be without him?
- Wilson = Yes , the man is a poor motivator and a poor tactician. However he did wonders last year and was very unlucky, brought the best out of what was looking to be a shite 3m pound player, does seem to get in some decent players and helps to keep hold of some of our best i.e. K mac.
- Players= Yes, they are poor in a poor league. They should have more heart and try breaking a swet more often. They are also paid more than most other clubs in the league without at this time giving much of a return. However we all know they are better than they are playing right now and continually slagging them off isn't going to help.
I guess what I am trying to do is give those of you who didn’t go on Friday an image of how poor we were, while contradicting myself on who to blame as my annoyance levels just keep rising and rising with how poor we have been (lets be honest for most of the season) week on week. I think in sum up we really are wading deeper and deeper into deep shit and we really need an answer sharpish.
Change Doyle for Robson and give him captaincy, give Murphy a kick up the arse along with K mac to stop being such puffs and start with this squad as soon as possible and just maybe something might happen. ( Highly Unlikely):
Howard
LJF, Harry, Collins, McMahon
Flynn, Macca, Robson, Murphy
Forte, Kitson
>I know there is more to it but you could write a fecking book on the problems and still get nowhere near covering how poor we are at the moment.
