Swansea City vs Sheffield United

EFL Championship Matchweek 2 - Saturday 16th August 2025 - 15:00 - Swansea.com Stadium
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[robbiez666]

Dreadful game of football. Dreadful performance. A mix of don't know what they're doing and can't be bothered. We look really shot. There was nothing all game.

Cooper - 4,5 - Not great but, relatively speaking, one of out better players. He's looking a lot less assured this season though. Some great hoofs to the opposition keeper.
Burrows - 4 - He does stuff. He runs up and down but there's no quality there.
Robbo - 5 - Made one really good block and one cross where he just let his man go. The rest wasn't great.
Bindon - 6.5 - Thought he was easily our best player. The one player who looked good.
Seriki - 4 - Clumsy. Not clever enough and gives too many fouls away. Apart from one run, he looks laboured going forward.
Peck - 2 - He's a headless chicken. Apart from when he runs backward towards his own goal and then he's a lazy jogging cunt. Cooper right to ride him for the goal. Thinks he's a big shot. All he does is get the ball, give it away. Rinse and repeat for 90 minutes.
Soumare - 6 - Decent full debut. Considering he's clearly not up to speed there's clear quality there. Looks like a great signing.
O'Hare - 4 - Ran around a lot but nothing came off all game. Too many wrong choices.
Barry - 5 - Looked dangerous first half but poor decision making. Looked shout after about 40 minutes
Hamer - 4 - Got booked for a wild stupid challenge (welcome back Gus). Loves a moan. Runs a bit. Doesn't impact the game anywhere near enough. Looked like he'd rather be anywhere else second half. Seemed to be upset that he had to stay on the pitch.
Campbell 2 - He got almost zero support and looked frustrated but he may as well have not been on the pitch after 20 minutes. Sulked.

Subs:

Cannon - 3 - One good run but he always seems to play at 75%
Brooks - 4 - At least looked to have a go, but no quality there.
One - 1 - Looked like he'd never played football before. The ball seemed scared to stay anywhere near him.

Selles - 3 - We haven't got enough players. It's quite clear, just look at the bench. However we set up, we're short handed. I think we all agree that he picked the best players available. There just seems to be no energy there. No spark. I'm not sure what the plan was. We were going long but there's no one to win the ball. We passed it backwards a lot. There's was zero creativity and zero plan by the look of it. And he's so passive. ANother second half when nothing is working and it just keeps carrying on the same.

Carl Asaba - STFU about Gus. You're entirely boring and lack any insight.

Swansea - They've been on a decent run since the end of last season. That Korean lad looked so bad at football he could play for us. They created a lot more than us. They were hardly convincing but will do well at home.

 

[paidsy]

Carl Asaba - STFU about Gus. You're entirely boring and lack any insight.

Don't look on his X timeline then

 

[McGrath]

They didn't seem to have any issues with him or the system pre season.

Pre season friendlies don't count

 

[metalblade]

Well that was better we went to HT at 0-0 and we only conceded one.
Selles wanted chaos and he has certainly achieved that, WTF was that system??? Needs a few crate of beer on the coach for the way back then the players can say they have been on the piss & not just look like they have, W 's. Peck needs to get his bottom lip off the floor he has gone full on Lunnycunt idle 2hat

 

[paidsy]

Pre season friendlies don't count

How convenient.

 

[KMC-1889]

Selles clearly isn’t getting his point across to these players, but everyone single one of them was appalling today, really basic stuff like 10 yard passes going astray, no movement, no creativity. Swansea were just as bad so it was always going to be the first team that clicked that won it, and it never looked like being us.

Positives??

• soumare looked good
• Bindon improved
• Robinson didn’t throw a wobbler
• burrows looked a bit more like the player from last season

Negatives
- pretty much every other player was dog shit. Barry did nowt, Campbell waddled about, Hamer forgot how to pass, Seriki can’t track his man.

 

[Whitby-Blade]

Crazy to think there were more positives getting smashed 4-1 at home last week. Little or nothing positive in today’s performance.

Results and performances need to improve fast or a section of the fans will turn on Selles quicker than most neutrals would imagine.

We knew this was a possibility when the board chose to roll the dice, it was always a high risk decision removing wilder.

Still happy to see how the 1st ten games play out before passing judgement.

 

[ancientblade]

What baffles me is WHY are we bottom when U comes before W in the alphabet

exactly i dont understand that either maybe because their goal was away but they should be bottom and will be after next weekend

 

[MiserableBlader]

Missed first 10 minutes re ITV+1 on
No crosses from Barry and Ohare as to be expected.
Brookes on the left (for Ohare), Hamer on the right, Barry and Campbell a front two and we win this easily barring more disasters at the back.
OHare on the edge of their box at corners.
can't shoot and cannot tackle or catch a fast breaking opponent as we saw for 12 months.
Which clown is responsible for that?
And FFS as if it was not bad enough that **** Walker on comms

Possibly the worst game and worst #sufc performance I have ever seen.
I remember ONE cross all game from an attacking player in open play.
73 minuter RIGHT footed Hamer down the RIGHT wing.
It is not coincidence
It is the fault of the #ManagersAreMorons Selles.
'Football is a simple game, complicated by people who should know better.'
ATTACK WIDE defend narrow.
A game easy to win, even in the second half after screwing up in the first.
BAD, pointless changes were made too late.
How the useless muppet OHare stayed on is beyond me.
Good players will be on the phone to agents to get out unless something sensible occurs NOW.
I'm not holding my breath for any good changes.
They are being made harder with every disastrous game, every disastrous sale.
The die appears cast.
BAD owners, BAD manager.

 

[CoatesyBlade]

We didn’t even do the basics right today… what is going on? Utterly woeful performance!

 

[SLB]

Did he actually play today?

Hardly, and is still our best player.

 

[metalblade]

What are the odds for a Sheffield relegation double???

 

[Hamer's Right Peg]

When the manager starts criticising the board and the players are playing like that then it only ends one way.

 

[Thrice]

Too bad Tom Davies is such an unreliable crock. He's really needed right now, especially if Peck keeps playing like he has this year.

 

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[Revolution]

Possibly the worst game and worst #sufc performance I have ever seen.
I remember ONE cross all game from an attacking player in open play.
73 minuter RIGHT footed Hamer down the RIGHT wing.
It is not coincidence
It is the fault of the #ManagersAreMorons Selles.
'Football is a simple game, complicated by people who should know better.'
ATTACK WIDE defend narrow.
A game easy to win, even in the second half after screwing up in the first.
BAD, pointless changes were made too late.
How the useless muppet OHare stayed on is beyond me.
Good players will be on the phone to agents to get out unless something sensible occurs NOW.
I'm not holding my breath for any good changes.
They are being made harder with every disastrous game, every disastrous sale.
The die appears cast.
BAD owners, BAD manager.

Worst you’ve ever seen? When did you become a fan, August 2024?

There were at least 15 worse displays than that in the Relegation season and thats without even really thinking about it.

 

[toledo]

There is serious difference betwwen pro teams (all sports) here in the US... you can go 0-16 in the NFL orNBA, or MLB and you will stay in the same division playing the same teams. There is no promotion / relegation in any professional sport here: you still get the crowds, all teams get TV money, and if you are the worst team ever, you are rewarded by getting the best young college talent in the post season draft lottery.

Maybe, our new owners from Cleveland have yet to understand what it means to be outside of the Prem in England.

Either way, todays performance was one of the worst I've seen in many years.. worse than anything last season.

Something has to change and quickly...

toledo

 

[SLB]

I don't think transfers are going to make a difference.... those players are good enough to win, something here is really wrong.

This exactly. It seems that in a lot of fans minds this year's scapegoat is the ownership and there's a reluctance to criticise Selles because he's a nice guy.. We have players who were outstanding last season but can't pass a ball ten yards now. Their body language was interesting today and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them don't like the new tactics or don't understand them.
And no, I don't want CW back.

 

[71Blade]

Selles clearly isn’t getting his point across to these players, but everyone single one of them was appalling today, really basic stuff like 10 yard passes going astray, no movement, no creativity. Swansea were just as bad so it was always going to be the first team that clicked that won it, and it never looked like being us.

Positives??

• soumare looked good
• Bindon improved
• Robinson didn’t throw a wobbler
• burrows looked a bit more like the player from last season

Negatives
- pretty much every other player was dog shit. Barry did nowt, Campbell waddled about, Hamer forgot how to pass, Seriki can’t track his man.

game of opinions I thought burrows was terrible and very weak all game

 

[ancientblade]

might be way off here but looks to me like the players just arnt playing for selles too many downed tools today just like last saturday and been proven many times in the past most do not look as though they like selles system big game next saturday

 

[Revolution]

There is serious difference betwwen pro teams (all sports) here in the US... you can go 0-16 in the NFL orNBA, or MLB and you will stay in the same division playing the same teams. There is no promotion / relegation in any professional sport here: you still get the crowds, all teams get TV money, and if you are the worst team ever, you are rewarded by getting the best young college talent in the post season draft lottery.

Maybe, our new owners from Cleveland have yet to understand what it means to be outside of the Prem in England.

Either way, todays performance was one of the worst I've seen in many years.. worse than anything last season.

Something has to change and quickly...

toledo

What the hell is wrong with people today?

We lost 6-0, 8-0, and 5-0 (twice) at home less than 2 seasons ago and that’s one of the worst you’ve seen in many years?

 

[luffenhamblade]

What the hell is wrong with people today?

We lost 6-0, 8-0, and 5-0 (twice) at home less than 2 seasons ago and that’s one of the worst you’ve seen in many years?

To be honest when you look at the opposition, I agree with toledo

 

[toledo]

Yes it was... at least with the big EPL losses, we were completely outplayed by top clubs.

Today, we played Swansea City... let me remind you, Swansea City, and everyone and thier brother are saying this was a putrid performance.

I am here in the US, 5 hours behind, almosty 90 degrees outside, and I watched almost 100 minutes of abjecticity: no plan, no control, no tacticis, it was a team performamce of 11 individuals not knowing what they hell to do. What the f--- was the tactical plan today.

We made terrible choices, bad passes, no fluency, not one shot on goal... so I repeat, this was Swansea City,

My U10 girls team in Dayton would have beaten this group today.

So, yes, it was worse than anything last year and I;m not a CW fan... I just try to tell it the way I see it and we are in for a very difficult season.

toledo

 

[RAP51]

What the hell is wrong with people today?

We lost 6-0, 8-0, and 5-0 (twice) at home less than 2 seasons ago and that’s one of the worst you’ve seen in many years?

But the opposition was slightly better

 

[Revolution]

But the opposition was slightly better

So?

 

[Blade-on-Tyne]

What are the odds for a Sheffield relegation double???

Wednesday have a pretty good excuse. What's ours ?

 

[Berkshire Blade]

I'm not going to go in too hard today. I think without context of last Saturday that's a perfectly below average away performance.

 

[dn5 shaun]

Worst you’ve ever seen? When did you become a fan, August 2024?

There were at least 15 worse displays than that in the Relegation season and thats without even really thinking about it.

I've seen 15 worse seasons than that

 

[vegleeds]

What baffles me is WHY are we bottom when U comes before W in the alphabet

This is the old "two bald men fighting over a comb" story innit?