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That was an absolute disgrace tonight, truly abysmal. Agree with virtually all the comments on this thread - except WHF, sorry don't like to get personal, I'd rather argue the point being made, but you're either delusional or Nigel Adkins or both.

I'd make this the second worse team in our history (the '81 team only get that 'honour' due to relegation, I'm sort of assuming this lot will pick up at least 1 win in the last dozen games to guarantee safety).

It's not all Adkins fault, but he has to go, we need someone in who can kick some ass and galvanise the place.
 
I'll admit 1st 20 mins we were alright but after it went downhill rapidly Because that 2nd half was poor as anything. Barely anything to shout about to me in look like a group of players who know the season is all but over & players given up cant believe Collins patronising clapping us at end. Ive a 6yr old neice I tried to make sure she watches some of the game but I cant blame her at moment because it's no wonder shes bored considering that 2nd half

Now is obvious anything season is over we wont get playoffs or relegated. We need to get any positives for next season that we can & in these "dead rubbers" lets see if any academy lads that have gone unbeaten in 12 since mid nov are good enough to step up & Im seriously in a quandry because I want to keep faith with a manager at some point & dont want to be a sacking club like chelsea but then 12th in league 1 is a catastrophe. But a lack of patience was a big fault under clough as everyday that goes by im realising we shouldve stuck. So dont want to make same mistake twice
 
Wow. Just wow.

About as bad a performance as I've ever seen since I started going to the Lane, probably the worst.

To back WHF slightly, I'd agree that Edgar & McEv should be exempted criticism (Edgar, in a sea of utter ineptness & in a total lost cause, was actually excellent). But what Adkins was doing or thinking, God only knows. That was truly appalling
 
I'm confused watching them. Adkins decisions are baffling.

Edgar in midfield.

Done playing as wing back. He used to play full back for Barnsley
sometimes, he was wank there. The reason we signed him was because he's a goal scorer.

Changing formations 3 or 4 times in a game.

Brayford at left back.

Bringing on two wildly inexperienced teenagers whilst one nil down and chasing a game in a negative environment.

Playing long balls to Adams and Sharp time and time again.

And that was just tonight. I get the impression that Adkins thinks he is being smart with some of these decisions but frankly it makes him look stupid. The players look like they don't know where they should be one minute to the next, hardly surprising since he's moving them around every 20 mins or so.
 
I wonder what Adkins said to em at half time. 'Well done lads, you've kept the crowd off your backs, just hang in there for another 45 minutes and we might just get away with it.'
Say what you like about Warnock, but he would not have accepted that gutless performance from his players.
 
I saw a lack of pressing aside from an occasional Basham chase. The time their players had to consider who to pass to/where to shoot was frightening.

I saw a team unsure of their individual roles in the first formation, even less so in the second formation. I lost track of if we actually had a formation after a while.

I saw a league one journeyman (Duffy) look like some kind of serie a wing wizard who could create space at will.

I saw Long make a couple of decent saves. One of which was allowed by criminally lethargic defending.

I saw a team that offered no sign of being able to provide so much as a glimmer of a sustained period of pressure or create clear cut chance.

I saw our new loanee provide a comedy (was it his first?) touch where he sliced it high and kind of behind himself. Like the ghost of Nyron.

I'm sick of seeing players running behind their markers or moving in to impossible positions when other teams, like burton, show that it's quite easy to pass and move if you practice it and want to do it. No-one wants to drive the play. Basham tried with energy a couple of times but is limited creatively. Whiteman drove one passage of play. Cuvellier for all the talk of being a potential messiah seems to be a lot of misguided energy with little in the way of tackling or positive possession for me (and that includes the port vale 20 min that loads of people were raving about),

You know what? I'm not even angry. I'm just bored now.
 
sheffielder said:
Worst I have seen ever
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William Henry Foulkes said:
Sorry but that's rubbish.

Jay played till he couldn't walk. Edgar looked.good again. Collins always plays with passion. The Beard is a strange one. Bash played as hard as ever. Done too. Billy obviously - though he got nothing.

We were snuffed out by the better team tonight. They picked up second balls all night. Like they'd played together a long time.

And we conceded the 83rd goal this season from a player cutting in from their left/our right.

Who exactly wasn't trying?
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WHF, when the opposition picks up the 2nd ball all night then you have to ask questions about the players application. For their goal too many players out of position and not tracking back, shocking. They also had 3 or 4 incidents in the first half when only 1 player reacted to a short free kick or corner leaving a free cross or shot. That is inexcusable for a professional football team. I'm afraid we were out fought tonight by a team with a work ethic and a bit of pace in places. We offered nothing and looked shaky at the back. It's a terrible mess and your pretence that things aren't that bad is not borne out by performances or results.

This team looks as bad as the Haslam/Peters shower, thank god that we have enough points on the board already so that we can't really get dragged into a relegation scrap.

God knows what Adkins can try next, I suppose Hammond is the 1st name on the team sheet for Satdi
 
Another goal down our right hand side. Having said that the main problem today was our inability to create anything.
 
I dashed out of work at 4pm and sat in traffic for 3 hours to get to that utter clusterfuck of rancid excrement.

Been going since 1982. Worst set of players, playing the worst football I have seen in all that time.

I think we managed one shot all game? Or am I being generous?
Fuck off you useless idle bastards.
 
William Henry Foulkes said:
Sorry but that's rubbish.

Jay played till he couldn't walk. Edgar looked.good again. Collins always plays with passion. The Beard is a strange one. Bash played as hard as ever. Done too. Billy obviously - though he got nothing.

Sending on Whiteman and DCL looked like a changing of the guard and planning for our Division 3 future.

We were snuffed out by the better team tonight. They picked up second balls all night. Like they'd played together a long time.

And we conceded the 83rd goal this season from a player cutting in from their left/our right.

Who exactly wasn't trying?
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The players looked like they gave up to me. Before I have just said they have been crap but tonight quite a few looked like they did not want to be there. They are set of players going through the motions. Sorry but if you thing that was good effort I am concerned by what we expect. We were second all night to most balls. That is effort in most occasions.
 



William Henry Foulkes said:
Sorry but that's rubbish.

Jay played till he couldn't walk. Edgar looked.good again. Collins always plays with passion. The Beard is a strange one. Bash played as hard as ever. Done too. Billy obviously - though he got nothing.

Sending on Whiteman and DCL looked like a changing of the guard and planning for our Division 3 future.

We were snuffed out by the better team tonight. They picked up second balls all night. Like they'd played together a long time.

And we conceded the 83rd goal this season from a player cutting in from their left/our right.

Who exactly wasn't trying?
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mate you're just barney coming from a different angle..
 
blade67 said:
WHF, when the opposition picks up the 2nd ball all night then you have to ask questions about the players application. For their goal too many players out of position and not tracking back, shocking. They also had 3 or 4 incidents in the first half when only 1 player reacted to a short free kick or corner leaving a free cross or shot. That is inexcusable for a professional football team. I'm afraid we were out fought tonight by a team with a work ethic and a bit of pace in places. We offered nothing and looked shaky at the back. It's a terrible mess and your pretence that things aren't that bad is not borne out by performances or results.

This team looks as bad as the Haslam/Peters shower, thank god that we have enough points on the board already so that we can't really get dragged into a relegation scrap.

God knows what Adkins can try next, I suppose Hammond is the 1st name on the team sheet for Satdi
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The two short corners were poor. This happened at Rochdale from memory too.

It was awful. I agree - but tarring all the players with the same brush is just wrong, and doesn't do anyone any good.

The team that put in that performance against Rochdale suddenly mutated into a relegation outfit?

Listening to the interview - and looking at the performance I think one or two of the Dead Men Walking are dragging the club down.

Baxter had already. Tonight maybe it was Coutts.
 
William Henry Foulkes said:
The two short corners were poor. This happened at Rochdale from memory too.

It was awful. I agree - but tarring all the players with the same brush is just wrong, and doesn't do anyone any good.

The team that put in that performance against Rochdale suddenly mutated into a relegation outfit?

Listening to the interview - and looking at the performance I think one or two of the Dead Men Walking are dragging the club down.

Baxter had already. Tonight maybe it was Coutts.
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The only players to leave tonight with any credit, IMO, are the defence. As bad as we were we weren't breached very often, despite Basham trying to gift them a goal in the first half.

No body in front of the defence leaves with any credit at all, IMO.
 
William Henry Foulkes said:
I can't see how this makes sense. Whatever we had - they had it covered.

There was nothing on. They were very well drilled. They covered runs passes moves that we had. DCL tried something different second half a first time ball out to our right. They were there waiting for it.

They were a better team than us.

Closest comparison atm is that nondescript Greece team winning the Euros.
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How does it not make sense? You say they snuffed us out. I replied saying it would be alright if we actually had offered something to snuff out.....I'm sure you understand what the inference is there.

We offered nothing all match to "snuff out" - so in effect we had nothing!

And you kind of say that yourself anyway.......when you state "there was nothing on"
Seems a bit of a nothing post to me as you clearly do understand.
 
Deadbat said:
The players looked like they gave up to me. Before I have just said they have been crap but tonight quite a few looked like they did not want to be there. They are set of players going through the motions. Sorry but if you thing that was good effort I am concerned by what we expect. We were second all night to most balls. That is effort in most occasions.
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Who looked like they gave up or didn't want to be there?

I think DCL and Whiteman was some statement of we want players out there who care about the club.

Billy was poor - but that may be down to the opposition.

And we do just lack creativity. It's just the way it is.
 
Reading this thread it mostly lists the reason why I did not go tonight despite having a season ticket, I did not go to the last home game either, funny thing is I can't remember who we played in the previous home game or what the score was that is how much interest I have in all things Blades related at the moment. Apathy truly rules for many Unitedites just now, I see the attendance was put at 17,000 I wonder how many ST holders bothered to turn out, the pay per game fans are drifting away and by the seasons end I can see us being down to only ST holders watching and many of those will not be eager to renew. I will always follow United but at the moment I could not give a fuck about them there is just nothing there to make a game enjoyable, going to the Lane has become a chore and when that happens it is time to find a new interest. I will not be attending again this season to see the worst United team in my 50+years of going to watch football at the Lane.
 
Gordon cowans said:
Blades with no heart,desire,tactical shape is what I've just watched,a stadium with no atmosphere,we are in a gloomy place at present..............ive said this b4,i dont mind losing but losing like that is as bad as it gets.........gutless or simply poor players?.......both?!?
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Least we've got Che
 
metalblade said:
Reading this thread it mostly lists the reason why I did not go tonight despite having a season ticket, I did not go to the last home game either, funny thing is I can't remember who we played in the previous home game or what the score was that is how much interest I have in all things Blades related at the moment. Apathy truly rules for many Unitedites just now, I see the attendance was put at 17,000 I wonder how many ST holders bothered to turn out, the pay per game fans are drifting away and by the seasons end I can see us being down to only ST holders watching and many of those will not be eager to renew. I will always follow United but at the moment I could not give a fuck about them there is just nothing there to make a game enjoyable, going to the Lane has become a chore and when that happens it is time to find a new interest. I will not be attending again this season to see the worst United team in my 50+years of going to watch football at the Lane.
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No way was that 17000, looked about 13-14000
 
I was there for the Game against Walsall in 1981 when we lost 1-0 and were relegated to the 4th division and I remember the game we lost at home to Port Vale 3-1 watched by about 9,000 I seem to recall, after which Adrian Heath resigned. Both were massive low points in my time as a supporter (and there have been a few others) but even against those, tonight must be the most inept performance I have ever seen. Frankly Burton were pretty poor. I cannot believe they are top of the League and were there for the taking. I accept that they took their goal well and deserved to win but the Blades were woeful. There was no passion, no organisation, no plan, no skill and certainly a complete lack of confidence. It was very difficult to see what the formation was. No one seemed to know what the plan was and players seemed to running around like headless chickens, like a bunch of school boys chasing the ball. It was like 11 individuals out there - no team or team spirit. Players who can be good playing well below their true skill levels. We made it so easy from Burton. I cannot believe that this bunch of players ran Spurs very close in the League Cup Quarter Final just over 12 months ago.
Who is to blame? Well the players could have shown more passion (with some exceptions) but the main problem to me seemed to be that they are not motivated or interested in playing for this manager and that whatever his plan is they were either not aware of it or did not want to buy into it. In short he appears to have completely lost the dressing room or there are serious factions within it that are disrupting things. I am totally despondent. I know that NA inherited some poor players and "crocks" but we are nowhere near as bad on paper as we were tonight or our League position suggests. Our squad is surely capable on paper of getting a play off place if it played to its potential. How many of Burton's players would get into our team? The difference was they played as a team - we did not. We cannot surely afford to sack another manager and all his backroom staff but since the start of the season we seem to have gone backwards. None of his signings have been an unqualified success (with the possible exception of BS) and nearly every player is playing below his potential so even if we have a clear out in the summer I have no confidence that any replacements will be better. The downward spiral seems to be getting faster.
What's the solution? I do not know. Anyone else any ideas?
 
Yewsman said:
I was there for the Game against Walsall in 1981 when we lost 1-0 and were relegated to the 4th division and I remember the game we lost at home to Port Vale 3-1 watched by about 9,000 I seem to recall, after which Adrian Heath resigned. Both were massive low points in my time as a supporter (and there have been a few others) but even against those, tonight must be the most inept performance I have ever seen. Frankly Burton were pretty poor. I cannot believe they are top of the League and were there for the taking. I accept that they took their goal well and deserved to win but the Blades were woeful. There was no passion, no organisation, no plan, no skill and certainly a complete lack of confidence. It was very difficult to see what the formation was. No one seemed to know what the plan was and players seemed to running around like headless chickens, like a bunch of school boys chasing the ball. It was like 11 individuals out there - no team or team spirit. Players who can be good playing well below their true skill levels. We made it so easy from Burton. I cannot believe that this bunch of players ran Spurs very close in the League Cup Quarter Final just over 12 months ago.
Who is to blame? Well the players could have shown more passion (with some exceptions) but the main problem to me seemed to be that they are not motivated or interested in playing for this manager and that whatever his plan is they were either not aware of it or did not want to buy into it. In short he appears to have completely lost the dressing room or there are serious factions within it that are disrupting things. I am totally despondent. I know that NA inherited some poor players and "crocks" but we are nowhere near as bad on paper as we were tonight or our League position suggests. Our squad is surely capable on paper of getting a play off place if it played to its potential. How many of Burton's players would get into our team? The difference was they played as a team - we did not. We cannot surely afford to sack another manager and all his backroom staff but since the start of the season we seem to have gone backwards. None of his signings have been an unqualified success (with the possible exception of BS) and nearly every player is playing below his potential so even if we have a clear out in the summer I have no confidence that any replacements will be better. The downward spiral seems to be getting faster.
What's the solution? I do not know. Anyone else any ideas?
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We need to get in a manager who knows how to recruit the players in the mould we're after, and will buy into that recruitment philosophy. He also needs to have the personality, the no-nonsense attitude and the passion to relay to the players.

It might seem expensive in the short term, to invest the monies required to rebuild the squad with the right signings as well, but it wouldn't even come close to the amount we'd end up shelling out for third maybe fourth division football for four years as a result of Adkins repeating the unbelievably poor managerial ability he hasn't failed to showcase and warn us with time and time again in the shape of signings/tactics/formations/substitutions/motivational ability.
 
west_yorks_blade said:
I dashed out of work at 4pm and sat in traffic for 3 hours to get to that utter clusterfuck of rancid excrement.

Been going since 1982. Worst set of players, playing the worst football I have seen in all that time.

I think we managed one shot all game? Or am I being generous?
Fuck off you useless idle bastards.
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Epic summation. Quite poetic actually. You have my sympathy.
 
William Henry Foulkes said:
Sorry but that's rubbish.

Jay played till he couldn't walk. Edgar looked.good again. Collins always plays with passion. The Beard is a strange one. Bash played as hard as ever. Done too. Billy obviously - though he got nothing.

Sending on Whiteman and DCL looked like a changing of the guard and planning for our Division 3 future.

We were snuffed out by the better team tonight. They picked up second balls all night. Like they'd played together a long time.

And we conceded the 83rd goal this season from a player cutting in from their left/our right.

Who exactly wasn't trying?
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The only person trying is you to take any positives out of that shower of shit performance. You really are the most deluded person on this forum. Can you not just say that was an absolute bag of shite
 



Barney said:
We need to get in a manager who knows how to recruit the players in the mould we're after
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Adkins hasn't had that chance yet, his hands have been tied this season on that front. When was the last time a manager only brought in 6 players all season, 2 of which being permanent ?
 
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