Sheffield United (A) Thread (4 Viewers)

[sw88]

Wilson and Delphonso still out I assume he was just caught short and stayed behind.....

 

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[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Goal to Sheffield
1-1

 

[sw88]

1-1 Ryan Flynn

Fleck loses out to a dummy, some quick passing between their players and slotted nearly past Murphy and backtracking defenders. Neat goal tbf

 

[sw88]

We win a corner. Andy Webster in open space. Ball falls to him but he can't compose himself and keeper makes an easy save. Anyone else in his place may have done better

Lino giving us nothing right now

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

2-1 to Sheffield

 

[sw88]

Terrible defending

2-1 Sheff U

 

[Kingokings204]

We were winning 10 mins ago. Some things never change ey

 

[savosdad]

2-1 to sheff for me

 

[sw88]

Thomas off for Baker

 

[savosdad]

Why are we so poor, must be about time for liquidation and Sisi cunts to go

 

[savosdad]

Dont you just wish we had been deducted 15 points and put all this shit to bed

 

[ccfc92]

2-2 would be a decent result

 

[covmark]

Why are we so poor, must be about time for liquidation and Sisi cunts to go

Its hard to work out if you're taking the piss or just a complete tit

 

[sw88]

Ecclestone for Prutton

 

[sw88]

Dont you just wish we had been deducted 15 points and put all this shit to bed

And you really think another relegation would have been the answer?

 

[sw88]

Marshall gets into a good position to cross where Ecclestone and Wilson unmarked. Instead he shoots. Over the bar. Poor effort and Callum told him so in what I imagine weren't polite terms judging by his body language

 

[savosdad]

The problem is we have to play all these decent teams again next season, and we are not decent doesn't look good

 

[ccfc92]

The problem is we have to play all these decent teams again next season, and we are not decent doesn't look good

we said that last season, and look at how well we did until new years day

 

[savosdad]

I'm a cock and really taking the piss

 

[savosdad]

I'm a cock and really taking the piss

 

[savosdad]

And you really think another relegation would have been the answer?

if only

 

[ccfc92]

I'm a cock and really taking the piss

Thought so, thought RFC's nemesis was posting

 

[ccfc92]

ah well, could have easily been a charlton on the cards PUSB

 

[shmmeee]

Pressley's first full season (without deduction): 9th - 13pts off playoffs, 14 off relegation. Good enough, considering the circumstances?

People said avoiding relegation would be a win, we did that by 4 points.

I'd imagine if you took our form without Leon it'd look decidedly more worrying.

 

[sw88]

Not to get a point from that was disappointing. Not sure how Marshall lasted the whole 90. His touch was very poor today, and not sure if he became greedy because he wanted a goal so much, but he definitely didn't turn up today

 

[James Smith]

Just finished work and seen the result. Bit of a let down that we couldn't beat the Blades but they've always been a bit of a bogey team. Well Elvis kept us up and that's an achievement in itself - next up is Brazil and the World Cup.

 

[Rusty Trombone]

Just finished work and seen the result. Bit of a let down that we couldn't beat the Blades but they've always been a bit of a bogey team. Well Elvis kept us up and that's an achievement in itself - next up is Brazil and the World Cup.

Most teams seem to be our bogey side, are we the bogey side for anyone?

Edit, apparantly it is, or was, Liverpool.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2008/sep/10/1

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

First game I've seen for a while, with a few new faces on view.

Defence generally looked OK, although as others have noted, Willis doesn't get forward very much.

We didn't offer much in midfield. Thomas doesn't look half the player I saw in some of the earlier games. Prutton was tidy but not very creative. Sheffield obviously rated Marshall as there were two men on him every time he got the ball in advanced positions. Perhaps partly because of that, he didn't look too impressive, but also his control let him down several times and as noted above, his decision to shoot from a tightish angle with 3 waiting for a pull back wasn't his finest moment.

Delph took his goal well, but otherwise didn't offer much and he and Wilson appeared never to have met each other before, let alone played together. Wilson always looked like he might do something special, but had very little support.

At least the weather was good and it was nice of the stadium announcer to say that he hoped we'd be in a stadium that we deserved next season - at least, I think he was being nice........

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Just finished work and seen the result. Bit of a let down that we couldn't beat the Blades but they've always been a bit of a bogey team. Well Elvis kept us up and that's an achievement in itself - next up is Brazil and the World Cup.

Bit ambitious for a mid-table League 1 side.

 

[Astute]

Even worse for me was that I emptied my betting accounts a few weeks ago and missed the last winning HT/FT bet I have been doing all season

 

[spider_ricoh]

Just saw that Sheff U got over 20k for the game yesterday...anyone remember the last time we got 20k?? West Ham or Southampton in the Championship relegation season?

On a separate note, there's a video on the BBC Sport website with an interview of the Derby CEO and COO (looks like this was BBC Look North or something) - in this, the presenter discusses how the club has done a lot of work to build up relationships with the support base. The CEO agrees and recalls how earlier in the season the board was "starting to panic that we'd get less than 20,000 for a midweek game".... whenever did we last get 20k for a midweek game?

I always think that we are a similar size of club to the likes of Derby, Forest and Leicester, but even when we were around the same level in the PL, they would get betting 23-27k attendances when we were getting 16-17k average - yes, the likes of Hull, Swansea, Burnley and Blackpool have done well without huge crowds, but when we are struggling that is a huge handicap - this obviously pre-dates SISU, but don't tell me that our owners have done a good job of building relations with the fans - averaging 2000 at home is about as bad as things can be without us being out of business.

 

[shmmeee]

Just saw that Sheff U got over 20k for the game yesterday...anyone remember the last time we got 20k?? West Ham or Southampton in the Championship relegation season?

On a separate note, there's a video on the BBC Sport website with an interview of the Derby CEO and COO (looks like this was BBC Look North or something) - in this, the presenter discusses how the club has done a lot of work to build up relationships with the support base. The CEO agrees and recalls how earlier in the season the board was "starting to panic that we'd get less than 20,000 for a midweek game".... whenever did we last get 20k for a midweek game?

I always think that we are a similar size of club to the likes of Derby, Forest and Leicester, but even when we were around the same level in the PL, they would get betting 23-27k attendances when we were getting 16-17k average - yes, the likes of Hull, Swansea, Burnley and Blackpool have done well without huge crowds, but when we are struggling that is a huge handicap - this obviously pre-dates SISU, but don't tell me that our owners have done a good job of building relations with the fans - averaging 2000 at home is about as bad as things can be without us being out of business.

Fan relations have been terrible as long as I've been a fan (suing Nev from GMK is a fine example), but Sisu have taken the incompetence to new levels. I would say that all 3 of Forest Leicester and Derby have been significantly bigger than us in footballing terms in living memory. A little bit of major success goes a long way, football is a hard habit to break. We desperately need a promotion. Sisu's biggest crime of all has been wasting our best chance in a generation to bring a significant number of new fans on board with a successful season or two. Stupid and short sighted.