This time last year

[Username]

United sat in 20th, 1 point above the relegation zone, yet to win away from home, just lost 2-0 to bristol, where billy sharp was brought on in the 88th minute to try and score 2 and save the day.

blackwell has done alright tbf!

 

[stinkyblade]

He has done a great job, slowly but surely bringing the passion and belief that Robson had lost within his time here.

 

[Linz]

just lost 2-0 to bristol

Good God don't remind me One of the worst away trips I've had in a long while.

The team are doing it on the pitch but, while I don't want to advocate getting carried away, many of the fans seem very cautious about things.

Come on ladies and gentlemen... we're in fourth spot in the table!

Billy Sharp is our top scorer!

When we win, we tend to do so by a large goal margin.

Arsenal aside (I've wiped it from my memory) we've only ever lost by a single goal.

We have SJH on the bench! Surely that in itself is a measure of a good team?

A lot of people complain that Blackwell is negative and naïve as a manager... but looking at the results, he hasn't gone too far wrong.

 

[S64 Blade]

Yeah you're right. We've only lost 3 games this season as well. Two of which were last minute goals after a good performances where we deserved at least a point.

 

[Billyblade]

United sat in 20th, 1 point above the relegation zone, yet to win away from home, just lost 2-0 to bristol, where billy sharp was brought on in the 88th minute to try and score 2 and save the day.

blackwell has done alright tbf!

Excellent point.

In the grand scheme of things Blackwell is doing a great job of unravelling the mess that Captain Yawn got us in to.

Lets hope we've seen the last of the long ball.

Onwards and upwards.

Just hope we can go to the sty now and restore some normality. Surely we can do better than last season. And if someone gives Laws a scarf again can somebody please choke the twat with it

 

[happyhippy]

I might be the only one to think this, but we need the long hoof in our game. What we don't need, is for it to be our game. there isn't a side in the country who doesn't use long ball tactics. We just find that if Manure and the like use it, it's not long ball, but a 'cultured pass'.

To go back to the OP, even if we were near the bottom, I'd still be feeling more confident than when Sornob was about. Not that I was ever an apologist for Sornob (most will know I was rather the opposite), but he never stood a chance, rightly or wrongly.

No, rightly

It is still early days, and all sorts can still happen, but we're where we should have been at this point last year, and we might well have still had Quinn the Eldest and Brombomb too even now, to provide more continuity.

Whichever way, let's just get on with slaughtering Day Before Thursday soon!

 

[beightonblade]

this time last year bollox................gi me this time next year plan for the future don't dwell on the past.

 

[Sensiblade]

this time last year bollox................gi me this time next year plan for the future don't dwell on the past.

Just a comparison of how far we have come since getting rid of Byron.
Can't tell the future but the past is fact so it's easier to comment on.
So not really Bollox as you put it.

We are leaps and bounds better as a club from last years disaster.

Onward and upwards!

 

[Linz]

I might be the only one to think this, but we need the long hoof in our game. What we don't need, is for it to be our game. there isn't a side in the country who doesn't use long ball tactics. We just find that if Manure and the like use it, it's not long ball, but a 'cultured pass'.

Indeed. Is it any coincidence that both ourselves and Palace got promoted by playing Neil Shipperley? You find that the majority of teams leave this division by playing the "big man up front". Where they go wrong is failing to see that these tactics won't be as effective when they play in the Premiership.

We need a team to get up and a team to stay up and these aren't necessarily the same things.

 

[SotonBlade]

Lets hope we've seen the last of the long ball.

The only way we will see the last of long ball is if Morgan is kept out of the side, either that, or every time he hoofs it up field he's fined £500 from his weeks wages!

 

[Billyblade]

I might be the only one to think this, but we need the long hoof in our game. What we don't need, is for it to be our game. there isn't a side in the country who doesn't use long ball tactics. We just find that if Manure and the like use it, it's not long ball, but a 'cultured pass'.

I didn't mean ditch it all together, it does have its place. Any way of mixing up your game has got to be a distraction for the opposition.

But in certain matches earlier this season that seemed to be our only game plan. Either Blackwell told them to do it or the players realised there was no-one in the team who could pass the ball through central midfield. Brian Howard showed in glimpses against Brizzle what could be done if someone puts their foot on the ball rather than through it.

 

[TonyAgana]

The only way we will see the last of long ball is if Morgan is kept out of the side, either that, or every time he hoofs it up field he's fined £500 from his weeks wages!

Morgan is the ONLY source of our long balls?