Wycombe match - just not clinical enough

[LoughboroBlade]

Really frustrating game. We controlled possession, looked to be using the ball well, and got done for the goal out of nowhere. Looked as though Maguire made an error for the goal.

From then on, we simply didn't take a number of decent chances. Poor-ter was terrible, never looked a threat and should have come off much earlier. Similarly, Willo was clearly not playing well - NML did look an improvement when he came on.

We had enough chances to win this, let alone draw. We won't be going up automatically if we have many more games like this.

On the plus side - Adams Park has to be one of the nicer grounds I've visited. Stewards surprisingly friendly. On the down side - bit disappointing that an older blade went and told the stewards to get everyone to sit down. They'd shown no desire to do this before, and there were plenty of other seats the guy could have moved to.

 

[Jehovah]

Sounded like it was just one of those days. Your summary sounds pretty much how the radio made it out to be. Evans aslso came in for a lot of stick from Edwards for basically being lazy. After he hit bar sounded like he had a great chance to level and spozzed wide lazily? Williamson sounded crap.
Big game saturday, we need to believe we can go up auto and beat one of the favourites. If we lose to hudds and then charlton at home, it will look like we cant beat anyone half decent.

 

[BaldeRunner]

I was next to the steward as the guy went to complain. Really, he should get out more. I thought the stewards were excellent - good humoured and oviously wanting to show that they could deal with much bigger crowds than they usually do in a pleasant & courteous way. They should be a model for other grounds. The guy who complained was an idiot and should have just sat somewhere else.

As for the game - talk about sleepwalking to defeat. We look pretty then we looked pretty clueless and then ended up simply clueless. Absolutely no idea where we were going to find another gear and let's face it Wycombe are a poor side. The final third of the field was a disaster - lobbed ineffectual balls into the middle, mislplaced passes and very, very few shots on goal. If we play like that against Charlton and Wednesday they will absolutley shred us.

I reckon promotions aren't won and lost with games against the top two or three clubs. They are won by despatching teams like Wycombe and getting points in the bank so you can afford to drop a few in the big games. Up to now we have been doing exactly that. Today made me very worried because we simply strolled around and had no sense of purpose or urgency. Danny, I think a severe arse kicking for those players would not go amiss.

 

[MunXy]

balderunner, this is what i said last season, we beat the dirties and a few other decent sides but what nailed or coffin was losing against clubs in bottom half and now it might just be a blip or it could be history repeating losing to "lesser" teams costing us dearly.
if our players cant go out against a bottom 3 side and brush them aside then to be honest we dont deserve promotion, theoretcally we should have no problems taking points from every team in this league, but we have now shown again how vunerable we can be, lose a goal and we think we can still win it, but if players just go thru the motions and expect a win then we could be in trouble again like last season, if we dont start being clinical in front of goal we wont win, simple.
in the last 3 games, 2 defeats and 1 win we have had over 20 shots on target yet scored only 3 thats approx 1 goal for every 7 shots on target, we should and need to cut that to 1 in 3-4.
if ched is our only hope infront of goal or should i say best hope then god help us, wilson should kick our "top" strikers in the arse and give tonne, philliskirk etc the chance they seem to hunger for,why not surely they can do better than our current strike rate and perhaps porter, evans and cresswell just might think if they cant get in a league one side then they truely arent good enough anywhere or hopefully give them enough of a shock to make them take league one seriously and put the effort in and score as they believe they are capable of.
until then bench the bloody lot and try out a few players that might just grasp their chance with both hands.

MunXy

 

[Micalijo]

Not a cat in hells chance of top two. Relax everyone, it was the case since day one. We have some very, very poor players, an atrocious strikeforce and a completely pathetic 'array' of widemen. Will finish in top 6? Unlikely. Top half -probably.

 

[BaldeRunner]

I'm still hopeful. I don't think we have some 'very, very, poor players' but I do think we have some very,very, poor performers and there were examples of that all over the pitch today. Thats the frustration of today (as it was last season). It felt like the players were simply thinking they were slumming it a bit at Wycombe and look how nice our tippy-tappy football is rather than sleeves rolled up and get stuck in. Thought that Morgan was the type of player we needed today....and Trevor Hockey....and Eddie Colquhoun...and Len Badger...and Deano...and TC....my God they would have eaten that Wycombe side for breakfast. Ok silly nostalgia stuff but I am sooooo pissed off with Blades teams playing like this over the last few years. Thought relegation to the third would wake a few of them up but after today i begin to wonder.

 

[Micalijo]

I'm still hopeful. I don't think we have some 'very, very, poor players' but I do think we have some very,very, poor performers and there were examples of that all over the pitch today. Thats the frustration of today (as it was last season). It felt like the players were simply thinking they were slumming it a bit at Wycombe and look how nice our tippy-tappy football is rather than sleeves rolled up and get stuck in. Thought that Morgan was the type of player we needed today....and Trevor Hockey....and Eddie Colquhoun...and Len Badger...and Deano...and TC....my God they would have eaten that Wycombe side for breakfast. Ok silly nostalgia stuff but I am sooooo pissed off with Blades teams playing like this over the last few years. Thought relegation to the third would wake a few of them up but after today i begin to wonder.

Good stuff Balde - glad you have some hope left re SUFC. Afraid Wilson's signings have been piss poor and we are in deep, deep shite as a club - the table will soon look very, very different and I dread to think what a hungry and motivated Wendy side will do later this month.

 

[Fiery Blade]

Whilst I will give Wilson time, he does not endear himself by coming on the radio and stating that the team played 'fantastic' and he was extremely pleased!
The reason we lost to Huddersfield was poor defending and missing a host of chances - today a defensive mistake by McGuire and missing a host of chances!
We cannot go to places like Wycombe and get beat - Wycombe are only going one way this year - Down to Div 2 (Division 4 in real money)
Wake up a smell the coffee Wilson - losing one nil to Wycombe might be 'fantastic' to you but it is embarrassing to most supporters.
Pretty football is ok if you have someone to score - Porter, Cresswell and Evans are not ruthless enough, Williamson was garbage today and apparantly Quinny wanted to take five touches when one would be enough!
Losing 1-0 might be 'fantastic' for Wilson to me it's just not good enough! Get it sorted!!! Quickly

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Good stuff Balde - glad you have some hope left re SUFC. Afraid Wilson's signings have been piss poor and we are in deep, deep shite as a club - the table will soon look very, very different and I dread to think what a hungry and motivated Wendy side will do later this month.

Quite the resounding win against the mighty Exeter I see.

How was that game? Did you enjoy?

 

[Micalijo]

Quite the resounding win against the mighty Exeter I see.

How was that game? Did you enjoy?

Now aint the time for your pathetic games Paddy lad. Think about the demise of SUFC mate. I'll have a row with you in a few days if you want.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Now aint the time for your pathetic games Paddy lad. Think about the demise of SUFC mate. I'll have a row with you in a few days if you want.

The last thing I want is a row Micky lad. In a relatively upbeat mood despite defeat.

Merely asked for your opinion of the piggy performance today. Never mind.

 

[MunXy]

and its the time for your optimism mic?
its ok slagging off if you have a little constuctive criticism in the post, rather than "they are crap" and "its all mccabes fault" and "how a hungry wendy team will slaughter us" try to give a little construcion mic not just defeatist please.

MunXy

 

[Pedro Verde]

Sounds like we need a player like Beattie to finish these chances

 

[broomhillblade]

Sounds like we need a player like Beattie to finish these chances

You mean like a slow, overweight, ageing crock?

 

[gavtheblade]

You mean like a slow, overweight, ageing crock?

id take a gamble on an overweight ageing crock as you put it.
Beattie has quality finishing in his piss,no one slagged over weight ageing crock neil shipperley when the bloke helped us promoted-led the line-fed of scraps and buried some headers.
beattie doesnt need to cover every inch of turf-he thrives of chances,and with todays chances and the chances against huddersfield he would have stuck 90% of those away fit or not.
The blades would benefit of beattie.if anyone disagrees then they have there head up there own arse.porter\cresswell arnt even 40%the quality beattie would bring to the lane-along with a thousand or so more arses on those red and white seats.
i wish some people would see sense.

 

[Rudders]

You mean like a slow, overweight, ageing crock?

What's wrong with Cresswell?

He did more than Porter today = wage stealer

We could have done with a pacy striker today like Jordan Slew, or their number 20 who had our centre backs on toast...

 

[Bergen Blade]

Today made me very worried because we simply strolled around and had no sense of purpose or urgency. Danny, I think a severe arse kicking for those players would not go amiss.

Was it similar to first half vs Walsall? I thought then our lack of urgency and tempo was worrying, but it improved second half.

 

[Toronto Blade]

I agree with Gav about BT not only would he make space for others as managers would be worried about him.He would not let all these scoring chances go wildly by.

As for charlton and the unclean they looked very poor when they played one another on tv ,I can't see either of them shredding us to pieces.

It is not always the best team that wins the game it is the best team on the day.

 

[gavtheblade]

I agree with Gav about BT not only would he make space for others as managers would be worried about him.He would not let all these scoring chances go wildly by.

As for charlton and the unclean they looked very poor when they played one another on tv ,I can't see either of them shredding us to pieces.

It is not always the best team that wins the game it is the best team on the day.

I agree with toronto.!

 

[Rudders]

I agree with almost all of what has been said here on this thread. We need to be more clinical in delivery. Crosses whipped - not floated, more direct passing and running forward. Better, earlier crosses from wide.

We also need more conviction up front, better finishing. More agression. More pressing of the opposition defence.

At the back tighten up. Protect the back 4 better. More talking from the goalie and centrebacks. Better positional sense.

But depite these deficiencies we still should have won today and we have it in us to steamroller many of the bang average teams in this division.

 

[BaldeRunner]

Was it similar to first half vs Walsall? I thought then our lack of urgency and tempo was worrying, but it improved second half.

I suppose it was similar but this time we didn't improve. Not at all, not at any time in the game did we look remotely like stepping up our urgency or pace

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I agree with almost all of what has been said here on this thread. We need to be more clinical in delivery. Crosses whipped - not floated, more direct passing and running forward. Better, earlier crosses from wide.

We also need more conviction up front, better finishing. More agression. More pressing of the opposition defence.

At the back tighten up. Protect the back 4 better. More talking from the goalie and centrebacks. Better positional sense.


But depite these deficiencies we still should have won today and we have it in us to steamroller many of the bang average teams in this division.

Absolutely right. I wonder what the collective earnings of the players and management team on show today actually are? I wonder if they could use your post as the training programme for the coming week. It has to make more sense than whatever was influencing the crap that they put on show today

 

[Jehovah]

Embarassing thread. We lose 1-0 to a mstake and suddenly we have poor poor players and will do well to finish well in the top half FFS

 

[MunXy]

hey jehovah its hardly suddenly and even though most are playing better than last season, league accepted, it doesnt detract from the fact we are still making too many mistakes at the back and not taking the chances up front.
the midfield on the whole are doing their jobs theres still not enough protection of the defence tho going forward has improved.
the fact is if we lose to so called lesser clubs in this league and the other "big" clubs dont we will do well to finish top half.
i think on the whole most fans are happy with the start so far but still think we need to realise we are in league one and have to play accordingly not just think teams below us are easy, they too are league one clubs and like us until they prove otherwise are here on merit.

MunXy

 

[BaldeRunner]

Embarassing thread. We lose 1-0 to a mstake and suddenly we have poor poor players and will do well to finish well in the top half FFS

Don't see what is embarassing about the thread. 'we lose 1-0 to a mistake' is probably the worst summary of a match I've ever read. We lost because of 90 minutes of lack of application and urgency to a team third from bottom of the third division who were in a dreadful run of form until we turned up. I'm still hopeful because what i saw was poor performances not poor players and that can and should be rectified. There should be a lot of embarassment after yesterday but it ain't with this thread.

 

[ponteblade]

You still need a bit of luck in football, like goalkeeper comming out for a ball he should'nt like Brighton keeper in last seconds of match on Friday night. Keep the faith!
I did'nt want Wilson but give him a chance it's only second defeat in league and a bit of luck could of won today. We must bounce back against Charlton and Ithink we will.
Good luck Danny boy.

 

[alcoblade]

With a bit of luck we could have won, but that would have masked over our problems. We don't play with enough urgency and lack pace up front. Though Pinchy must be delighted with the way we dominate posession in our own half, we really need to get the ball forward more quickly. Having a modicum of pace up top would help offer more options. The idea that Beattie would answer our problems doesn't work for me.

I've said pretty much the same week in week out. I'm not overreacting to defeat.

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[Fiery Blade]

You still need a bit of luck in football, like goalkeeper comming out for a ball he should'nt like Brighton keeper in last seconds of match on Friday night. Keep the faith!
I did'nt want Wilson but give him a chance it's only second defeat in league and a bit of luck could of won today. We must bounce back against Charlton and Ithink we will.
Good luck Danny boy.

'Fantastic' was the word Wilson used in the BBC Radio Sheffield interview after the match =- I would use 'embarrassing'and 'very dissapointing' in relation to yesterdays result!!
If Wilson is satisfied that his forwards can't hit a cows arse with a banjo, the attack lacks width and pace, our 'Dead Ball' techniques are very poor, we have no-one that can succesfully take a corner kick, we have a midfield (McDonald apart) that consistantly gives away possession and a goalkeeper that the defence cannot trust and rely upon - yet Wilson is extremel;y satisfied.
Look at the reaction on the board - yesterdays defeat hurt - yes we should have got something out of the game - we didn't because for the second time in three games we couldn't score a goal and give silly goals away!
Good luck Danny Boy? - Get your arse into gear Wilson and sort it! -Thats what you're paid for!!!!!

 

[alcoblade]

For me, it's about the first goal. If we get it then our game works. The opposition must come at us and we have more room to play. Until then, by the time we get into the opposition half, we've got a full team to pass through. That's why urgency and pace needs adding.

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[cahill]

"on the plus side Adams Park is a lovely little ground" and "the stewards were friendly" well that's some comfort then as our great start to the season starts to fade. Were there nicely tended flower beds on the roundabouts too ?

Otherwise thanks for the report, hope it's not a foretaste of things to come, 'cos 5 other teams have beaten Wycombe recently.

 

[alcoblade]

The blades would benefit of beattie.if anyone disagrees then they have there head up there own arse.porter\cresswell arnt even 40%the quality beattie would bring to the lane-along with a thousand or so more arses on those red and white seats.
i wish some people would see sense.

As opposed to offering reasoned opinion as to why Beattie isn't the missing piece to the jigsaw? It's debatable who's got their head up their arse fella.

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