Wilder Bottled It

[Barry Butlin]

Showed them far too much respect, got what we deserved, all our attacking threats on the bench!!

 

[Bladesman]

Shit performance. Can't Nigel Clough it and defend hoping to nick a result.

 

[Cherry Street]

Completely agree. Changed a winning formula for a tried and tested formation with new, unfamiliar personnel.

 

[Nedski]

Yep. Should have gone toe to toe with them but changed our entire system to play it safe.

It's not the end of the world but it is disappointing

 

[SUFC Guy]

Wrong formation and tactics, but it's only 1 loss in 10 so not so bad. Beat these fuckers at the Lane and we'll restore parity.

Wilder got it wrong, but....

UTMB

 

[Antarctic Monkey]

Might as well go all out attack and lose

 

[YES Blade]

To go into that match with the best record in the division and set up like we’re a relegation team was massively disappointing.

A defeat tonight was always going to be fucking shit! But it’s even worse when we waved the white flag from kick off!

 

[VictoryBlade]

That was rubbish, Leeds are rubbish btw they wont go up auto in million years, but for fuck sake what was that from us? We looked scared shitless! Cant win a tackle, cant track a runner.............................really?

 

[VictoryBlade]

I'm furious!

 

[Bell4]

Wilder bottled it

Totally

Crap

 

[YES Blade]

Wrong formation and tactics, but it's only 1 loss in 10 so not so bad. Beat these fuckers at the Lane and we'll restore parity.

Wilder got it wrong, but....

UTMB

I could’ve taken the defeat and had a “not so bad” view if we’d played for win. But it makes the defeat even worse setting up like that.

 

[Danetheblade]

Absolutely shit his trousers.

 

[TJ blade]

That's on you Wilder! We were playing Leeds not fucking Man Cityffs!

 

[Bertie Mee]

Wrote it off as soon as I saw the team sheet. Big time Chris, ain’t no Pep. Fuckin knobhead.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

First 10 or so minutes the change worked. Then It didn't. They only got Infront after 70 minutes.

If we hadn't had points deduction we would still be above them.

Nobody wins every game.

 

[sufc323]

Tried to be way too clever and changed so much. Fucked around with the defence, O’Hare looking lost playing up top with Moore, Blaster more advanced than normal and fuck knows where Hamer was meant to be but it was far from playing to his strengths

 

[Kenworthy’s Tash]

Well that was shit. That loss has been coming for a while though, results have been papering over the cracks.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

We wouldn’t have won playing 4-2-3-1 too many players had off days. We also don’t have strength in depth which massively showed today.

If I was Wilder/ the board I’d be looking at Kent and the other frees available on a 9-10 month contract. We need to bulk out this squad.

 

[BladeInIreland]

I don't recall wilder ever getting it so wrong.

 

[Stretch]

That has really wound me up.

Up against a local rival, with already the best defence in the league, and Wilder sets us up to be even more defensive.

It's Leeds FFS, not Real Fucking Madrid.

There were some good performances out there tonight but the lads were on a hiding to nothing with those tactics. Cowardly and unnecessary.

Farke will be pissing himself all weekend after that.

 

[Frank the tank]

We set up like we were Oldham

 

[SuperSonicBlade89]

Was thinking the exact same thing as op.
His pre-match conference he was paying far to much respect to Leeds, it really pissed me off.

That was one of the most boring anti-football I've seen from Wilder in a long time.

I understand what Wilder was getting at, play Farke at his own game, but it didn't work. We should have been playing to our own strengths.

They never looked bothered. The majority of the match from our point of view was Soutar passing to Anel and back.

Fuck me, if this is how we bottle big games then the pigs will have a field day.

Once again the Blades have let us all down after a shite week.

 

[Champagneblade]

Just play this team forever unless injured:

Cooper
Gilchrist Souttar Anel Burrows
Arblaster Souza
JRS O’Hare Hamer
Moore

It’s not complicated.

Christ knows why we had to revert to a formula we haven’t played all season and that we shipped 104 goals under.

 

[PrestwichBlade]

First 10 or so minutes the change worked. Then It didn't. They only got Infront after 70 minutes.

If we hadn't had points deduction we would still be above them.

Nobody wins every game.

True, but it were shite weren't it?

 

[sufc323]

I was sat waiting for an all out attack last 10 mins and it never came. Campbell was a strange sub so early on, why not get Brookes and JRS on and run at their defence. We know Bogle is suspect at the back and we never even tested him.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

Have to agree.
The manner of that loss is on Wilder. It's fine to lose away to Leeds, I think they're going up as Champions.

However, we were riding in as the only unbeaten team in the league and top performing side. No injury concerns...

So why have we gone there, changed the system, dropped our best attacking threat in JRS and made absolutely no attempt to win the game?

At 60 mins, at 0-0, rather than deciding to go after them (RB, JRS and Brooks all on the bench), we make a series of negative / neutral (at best) substitutions and the game is subsequently lost.

Really disappointed with Wilder.
We've gone out the back door tonight. Something his Blades teams very rarely do.

This Moore & O'Hare experiment does have to end now. It doesn't work.
O'Hare can't play that role.

I hope Wilder learns from that.
We're good enough to go toe-to-toe with anyone in this league. Let's not do that again.
We can (& will) lose games again, but not like that.

 

[Bladesman]

Just play this team forever unless injured:

Cooper
Gilchrist Souttar Anel Burrows
Arblaster Souza
JRS O’Hare Hamer
Moore

It’s not complicated.

Christ knows why we had to revert to a formula we haven’t played all season and that we shipped 104 goals under.

Like I said he tried to Clough it and it won't work against a team like Leeds.

 

[mattbianco1]

Showed them far too much respect, got what we deserved, all our attacking threats on the bench!!

Hindsight is great in defeat, but I agree, we were too cautious tonight

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

Just play this team forever unless injured:

Cooper
Gilchrist Souttar Anel Burrows
Arblaster Souza
JRS O’Hare Hamer
Moore

It’s not complicated.

Christ knows why we had to revert to a formula we haven’t played all season and that we shipped 104 goals under.

We’d have lost with this tonight, Leeds were more up for it tonight than we were.

I don't think we should have changed tactics but we’re not creating enough against bad teams, we wouldn’t have broken Leeds down tonight playing like we have.

We simply need more strength in depth.

 

[Rodders]

Well that was shit. That loss has been coming for a while though, results have been papering over the cracks.

Ey up Tony! T’internet back on in S6?!