Roygbiv
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“Ref was the biggest homer I have ever come across”
“Got sympathy for Koeman now with the way their bench reacts”
“Our players are dirty? They seem to forget Morgan nearly killed Hume! At least we are still above them”
“We were shit today but so was the ref”
“Time to stop being nice. Unacceptable today. “
“Joke of a ref”
“Definitely disappointing to come away from that... Ref absolutely mugged us but more importantly, we need new players and fast!!! “
“Just sack Grayson”
“That's our first league defeat in quite a while. We were obviously deflated after our poor JPT exploits. “
“SG has just said on Radio Lancs that we were unlucky to loose today & that he felt that we were in the game until they scored a lucky 1st goal? “
“Negative Grayson costs us again. “
“it will be interesting to see what happened when Kennedy slid in on Ebanks-Blake ball across the box and colided with the post. Has our luck run out? “
“We need a striker”
“O'Grady would be a great signing for us”
“Sounds like the referee was a homer but a second second half where we've turned down the gas. “
“Ref cost us the game”
“I do hate all that "fill up my senses" rubbish. Heard it too often at that place. Lets just hope it is not another 30+ years until we win there again. “
“Sheff settled for 2 “
“Knocked out in the play-offs again is what's going to happen. Bottle every single big game we play.... Pathetic. Just puts fans off going on... That's why the crowds dwindle. “
“Something of a typical day at Bramhall Lane. “
“I'm sick to fucking death of Sheffield fucking United.
Just fuck off. “
“Agreed. It was laughable how many people who said the FA cup draw was a good one and slated anyone who said otherwise!! “
“We had the wind first half and should have ripped into them, thrown everything at them. Cautious dross though and we go in at half time having let them off the hook through trying not to lose the game instead of winning it.
They came out and battered us with the wind and strolled to victory. “
“One Lack of consistency today was the referee, than man in black today should have worn a blades home shirt he was so keen to do what the home fans wanted.
Totally out of his depth “
“Sheffield United supporters are not exactly famous for objectivity when it comes to appraising officials. Contrast their constant berating of the man in black for not booking north end players with what happens at Deepdale. “
“Well that was disappointing but as the North End fans were singing towards the end "2-1 to the referee" says it all. I'll give you a few examples, Humphrey attacks their defenders, their player moves into his path and takes him out no foul given, play goes down our end and they get their 2 nd. Ball is kicked in to our half, we appeal for offside linesman keeps his fag down, shot come in but misses and goes out of play linesman then flags for offside. Their player jumps into KD ref waves play on, KD tussles for a ball but is stronger than their player and wins the ball foul given. At the end of the game we are on the attack, ref blows for pushing by KD but no one else saw the push, Sheffield Utd players don't appeal for foul and pressure is received from Sheffield Utd box. I could go on but I don't have enough time.
A point would have been a fair result! “
“It did sound like the ref had an awful game.”
“We gave away 21 fouls............that's a foul every 4.5 minutes. “
“But in most games over half of those would not have been given as a foul, you only had to breath on one of their players and they fell over and the ref gave them a free kick “
“Go to an away match and the referee more often than not,show's an obvious bias to the home team.Get back to Deepdale and that bias mysteriously disappear's.The last 'homer' I can remember was Uriah Rennie,when he set up Ryan Kidd for the winning goal against Barnet about 20 year's ago “
“Buchanan Had JCR in his pocket first half. Roles reversal second half. “
“SG felt during the first half we were well in it, we controlled the game, kept the ball well, but needed to work the goalkeeper more, also stressed several times during the interview that you don't go to a difficult place like Bramall Lane and expect to carve out a lot of chances.
In the first 10-15 minutes of the second half we didn't manage the game well, and a flukey goal got them going.
We had some half-decent opportunities towards the end, and when asked about the strikers he said he felt SKD and Beckford did OK, without getting much service, as we didn't really create a lot (and again, you don't expect to create a lot at BL, etc., etc.) “
“I recorded Football Focus and just watched it. It was quite eye opening. Grayson said that of course we hope for automatic but if its the play offs again then so be it.
Clough on the other hand this morning states that automatic promotion still has to be the realistic expectation (even though they are miles behind us). “
“I suspect Clough is saying "automatic promotion still has to be the realistic expectation" because that reflects the target his board has given him for this season.
Whereas SG is saying "of course we hope for automatic but if it's the play offs again then so be it" because that the target he has been set”
“Shite game with a shite ref “
“Commentators say I was a difficult game for him as Doyle, Welsh & Kilkenny seem intent on winding each other up.”
“FUCKING STAR WARS MUSIC HAHAHAHAHAHA”
“Ref gave a foul against Kev whenever he went s near anyone. He wasnt great for them either. Seems to give some soft ones and letting others go”
. “ref was a complete homer. Shite game. “
“2 garbage teams”
“a terrible performance and a deserved defeat. “
“Very poor today, against nothing more than a very ordinary Sheffield Utd, who if we had shown any real attacking ambition before being two nil down then the result could and should have been totally different. More performances like this forget automatic promotion, play offs at best and would not like us to meet Sheffield Utd because after today we would bottle it again. “
“The first half was dreadful, Sheff Utd looked a poor side but we failed to take advantage and only really got going in the last 10 minutes. Not great considering they haven't won a league game at Bramall Lane since mid October. “
“Why are our fans so bitter, we lost, we were shit, get over it “
“Going to be a feisty encounter in the FA cup after that game today. Difference is its on our patch “
“Hate seeing us lose away. Fans were pure class today though against 17k silent Sheffield fans “
“North end have the best fans in the league without a shadow of a doubt... It's a shame the football is shite “
“Had a great 1st first half was just a shame not to put the chances away !!! “
“Our midfield was massively overrun”
“Got sympathy for Koeman now with the way their bench reacts”
“Our players are dirty? They seem to forget Morgan nearly killed Hume! At least we are still above them”
“We were shit today but so was the ref”
“Time to stop being nice. Unacceptable today. “
“Joke of a ref”
“Definitely disappointing to come away from that... Ref absolutely mugged us but more importantly, we need new players and fast!!! “
“Just sack Grayson”
“That's our first league defeat in quite a while. We were obviously deflated after our poor JPT exploits. “
“SG has just said on Radio Lancs that we were unlucky to loose today & that he felt that we were in the game until they scored a lucky 1st goal? “
“Negative Grayson costs us again. “
“it will be interesting to see what happened when Kennedy slid in on Ebanks-Blake ball across the box and colided with the post. Has our luck run out? “
“We need a striker”
“O'Grady would be a great signing for us”
“Sounds like the referee was a homer but a second second half where we've turned down the gas. “
“Ref cost us the game”
“I do hate all that "fill up my senses" rubbish. Heard it too often at that place. Lets just hope it is not another 30+ years until we win there again. “
“Sheff settled for 2 “
“Knocked out in the play-offs again is what's going to happen. Bottle every single big game we play.... Pathetic. Just puts fans off going on... That's why the crowds dwindle. “
“Something of a typical day at Bramhall Lane. “
“I'm sick to fucking death of Sheffield fucking United.
Just fuck off. “
“Agreed. It was laughable how many people who said the FA cup draw was a good one and slated anyone who said otherwise!! “
“We had the wind first half and should have ripped into them, thrown everything at them. Cautious dross though and we go in at half time having let them off the hook through trying not to lose the game instead of winning it.
They came out and battered us with the wind and strolled to victory. “
“One Lack of consistency today was the referee, than man in black today should have worn a blades home shirt he was so keen to do what the home fans wanted.
Totally out of his depth “
“Sheffield United supporters are not exactly famous for objectivity when it comes to appraising officials. Contrast their constant berating of the man in black for not booking north end players with what happens at Deepdale. “
“Well that was disappointing but as the North End fans were singing towards the end "2-1 to the referee" says it all. I'll give you a few examples, Humphrey attacks their defenders, their player moves into his path and takes him out no foul given, play goes down our end and they get their 2 nd. Ball is kicked in to our half, we appeal for offside linesman keeps his fag down, shot come in but misses and goes out of play linesman then flags for offside. Their player jumps into KD ref waves play on, KD tussles for a ball but is stronger than their player and wins the ball foul given. At the end of the game we are on the attack, ref blows for pushing by KD but no one else saw the push, Sheffield Utd players don't appeal for foul and pressure is received from Sheffield Utd box. I could go on but I don't have enough time.
A point would have been a fair result! “
“It did sound like the ref had an awful game.”
“We gave away 21 fouls............that's a foul every 4.5 minutes. “
“But in most games over half of those would not have been given as a foul, you only had to breath on one of their players and they fell over and the ref gave them a free kick “
“Go to an away match and the referee more often than not,show's an obvious bias to the home team.Get back to Deepdale and that bias mysteriously disappear's.The last 'homer' I can remember was Uriah Rennie,when he set up Ryan Kidd for the winning goal against Barnet about 20 year's ago “
“Buchanan Had JCR in his pocket first half. Roles reversal second half. “
“SG felt during the first half we were well in it, we controlled the game, kept the ball well, but needed to work the goalkeeper more, also stressed several times during the interview that you don't go to a difficult place like Bramall Lane and expect to carve out a lot of chances.
In the first 10-15 minutes of the second half we didn't manage the game well, and a flukey goal got them going.
We had some half-decent opportunities towards the end, and when asked about the strikers he said he felt SKD and Beckford did OK, without getting much service, as we didn't really create a lot (and again, you don't expect to create a lot at BL, etc., etc.) “
“I recorded Football Focus and just watched it. It was quite eye opening. Grayson said that of course we hope for automatic but if its the play offs again then so be it.
Clough on the other hand this morning states that automatic promotion still has to be the realistic expectation (even though they are miles behind us). “
“I suspect Clough is saying "automatic promotion still has to be the realistic expectation" because that reflects the target his board has given him for this season.
Whereas SG is saying "of course we hope for automatic but if it's the play offs again then so be it" because that the target he has been set”
“Shite game with a shite ref “
“Commentators say I was a difficult game for him as Doyle, Welsh & Kilkenny seem intent on winding each other up.”
“FUCKING STAR WARS MUSIC HAHAHAHAHAHA”
“Ref gave a foul against Kev whenever he went s near anyone. He wasnt great for them either. Seems to give some soft ones and letting others go”
. “ref was a complete homer. Shite game. “
“2 garbage teams”
“a terrible performance and a deserved defeat. “
“Very poor today, against nothing more than a very ordinary Sheffield Utd, who if we had shown any real attacking ambition before being two nil down then the result could and should have been totally different. More performances like this forget automatic promotion, play offs at best and would not like us to meet Sheffield Utd because after today we would bottle it again. “
“The first half was dreadful, Sheff Utd looked a poor side but we failed to take advantage and only really got going in the last 10 minutes. Not great considering they haven't won a league game at Bramall Lane since mid October. “
“Why are our fans so bitter, we lost, we were shit, get over it “
“Going to be a feisty encounter in the FA cup after that game today. Difference is its on our patch “
“Hate seeing us lose away. Fans were pure class today though against 17k silent Sheffield fans “
“North end have the best fans in the league without a shadow of a doubt... It's a shame the football is shite “
“Had a great 1st first half was just a shame not to put the chances away !!! “
“Our midfield was massively overrun”
