Utter Crap

[JJBlade]

Yep, three midfielders playing 70 yards behind the front two is never gonna create very much.

We've been brought up on a diet of whack it long and hope for the best. We've seen this gradually return over the last two months and guess what, we've blown automatic promotion and are well on our way to blowing the play offs now.

I thought Wilder would have understood that sentiment enough to abolish that from our game altogether. But creative attacking midfielders and strikers are the games most expensive commodity, so Sheffield United will struggle on without those types thank you very much

[JJBlade]

We know Leonard isn’t as bad as we’ve seen tonight, same goes for Evans. Collectively they were Shiite not one solid performance. Only Blackman and Basham deserve above a 3.

They are all decent players, but they are all similar players and like somebody above has said they cannot all play at the same time.
They are win it and pass it sideways to somebody more creative types of players.

Our creativity has long gone and every game is now a struggle.

The players who needed replacing in January are our best players, Fleck and Duffy. That might sound daft because when I say replace I don't mean literally replace them, I mean they are the types of players who should have had serious competition for their places

[GrayBlade]

I here Wilder’s had a rant in his interview but to be honest I’m not interested this time around. I must be one of his biggest fans but I think that he needs to have a good look at himself after that shower of ****e.

How many if us thought that a midfield three of Fleck, Evans and Leonard had enough attacking flair and why did every player just hoof it out of deference especially in the first half? That has to be down to Wilder’s instructions, not one player tried to consistently pass the ball out of defense until the second half, but they scored the goal and that killed it just as it looked like we’d started to play.

Chris and Alan are as much to blame for that shocker.

[Longshortandtall]

They are all decent players, but they are all similar players and like somebody above has said they cannot all play at the same time.
They are win it and pass it sideways to somebody more creative types of players.

Our creativity has long gone and every game is now a struggle.

The players who needed replacing in January are our best players, Fleck and Duffy. That might sound daft because when I say replace I don't mean literally replace them, I mean they are the types of players who should have had serious competition for their places

To be fair Duffy has got serious competition IMO in Holmes for his place. What you don't do is not play him when the back up is out injured.

[tomytony]

I think you may well be right GB.

The interview was pretty full on, angry,upset and far too blunt.

It made him look a bit mardy and I imagine plenty of other club's fans will be ridiculing him.

Maybe he knows he screwed up and his anger is really with himself.

If not he's not done himself any favours.

[JJBlade]

Wouldn't be United if things went along nice and smoothly would it ?

We've had our good times for the next 20 years I'm afraid

Winning the Third Division and giving it a decent go in the Championship for half a season. I think that's enough excitement for us for a while

[gardsPNE]

Obviously us Nobbers are happy tonight however I just watched his interview and I thought CW truly looked p1ssed off just due to the fact I don’t think he has seen his team play like that this season. I think he is truly not happy with the performance with a smidgen of over to you lads to prove me wrong. You have had a crackin first season back in the Championship and like us you still have plenty to play for and there will be many twists and turns before the season ends from a load of clubs still in the mix.

[GrayBlade]

I think you may well be right GB.

The interview was pretty full on, angry,upset and far too blunt.

It made him look a bit mardy and I imagine plenty of other club's fans will be ridiculing him.

Maybe he knows he screwed up and his anger is really with himself.

If not he's not done himself any favours.

So according to Wilder, Jack O’Connel must have decided not to bomb forward and overlap once in the whole game and he wasn’t playing to instructions, and every player just decided to lump it out of defence and hope somebody got a flick on for most of the first half?

It doesn’t stack up TT, either something’s gone off behind the scenes or Chris tried to change the way we play (again) and it’s backfired. He needs to take as muchresponsibility as the players for this one and leave being p1ssed off to the the fans.

[Longshortandtall]

So according to Wilder, Jack O’Connel must have decided not to bomb forward and overlap once in the whole game and he wasn’t playing to instructions, and every player just decided to lump it out of defence and hope somebody got a flick on for most of the first half?

It doesn’t stack up TT, either something’s gone off behind the scenes or Chris tried to change the way we play (again) and it’s backfired. He needs to take as muchresponsibility as the players for this one and leave being p1ssed off to the the fans.

I agree Gray that CW must take full responsibility for team selection tonight. I don't see that there were tactics to hoof the ball forward more that were playing three deep lying midfielders and there was a huge gap up to the front two without Duffy on the pitch. I just don't understand why we played this formation against a bottom four team. It allowed their midfield to press higher up the pitch. Duffy got some pelters for a poor peformance on Tuesday. I disagreed with that. Duffy is usually every game marked by two or even three players. Not having a number 10 on the pitch meant their midfield was less occupied defensively resulting in our midfield having less time on the ball and missing Duffys ability to find space for a forward pass.

CW should have changed it at half time but we don't seem to do adventurous substitutions. Jack hasn't bombed forward for a while now mainly due to Stevens poor form I suspect.

We have to play with a number 10 in every game for me as without one it hinders our style of play. Yes we got a result at Norwich away but Fleck played much further forward that game. I'd like to say its just one of those games and we need to move on but we've had too many games like this when we have tinkered with the team. I like CW expect a reaction on Tuesday. If we don't get one then the season has gone.

[boltonblade]

This squad ain’t good enough for promotion. End of. Wilder is spot on. That interview was a cry for investment. Imagine what I could do if you gave me some £££’s Mr McCabe. Sign off a transfer kitty of £10million plus in the summer or wave good bye to the best manager we’ve had since Warnock.