Sheffield Unitd v Swindon Town Official Matchday Thread

[manc_red]

Too many players off form as well, Thompson and Kasim have been rubbish for weeks.  Doesn't sound like today was any improvement?

I thought Kasim was ok. Ward and Hall looked reasonably comfortable at the back. Ajose looked lively once or twice. Everyone else poor. Mason and Pritchard looked disinterested at times imo.

[Berniman]

To be fair, I think Sheffield United are one of many sides that Cooper wants out of the league before we are able to mount any sort of challenge. With that in mind, I don't think today's performance is all too surprising.

I believe Reg alluded to it the other day, but with the reduced budget we are going to have to prepare for a battle to remain in the league for the foreseeable future. With a bit of luck, Power's contacts will net us the odd decent transfer fee along the line and we can see where that takes us.

Hang about a minute, weren't you the one that has stated "hopefully the happy to stay up brigade will shut the fuck up now?" and play offs is the minimum that is acceptable otherwise Cooper will lose his job?

Nothing has changed from the start of the season with regards to the budget etc. we all knew that it was being reduced to maximum £2.3m, but those of us saying mid table would be a good season were being scoffed at.  You thoughts about STFC seem to be a bit bipolar to me..

[joteddyred]

I thought Kasim was ok. Ward and Hall looked reasonably comfortable at the back. Ajose looked lively once or twice. Everyone else poor. Mason and Pritchard looked disinterested at times imo.

Oh, was going on the radio saying that Kasim was off colour and his first touch was consistently poor.

[Arriba]

Another prediction league banker.... Need to start putting money on my genius. DMR take note

[ronnie21]

Never went, so cannot really comment but the underlying fact appears to be we were too negative, hoping for a 0-0, yet listening to Thompson and Ward being interviewed you would have thought we were extremely unlucky not to win!!  Didn't hear the Cooper interview - did he think we were unlucky not to win as well?

[manc_red]

Oh, was going on the radio saying that Kasim was off colour and his first touch was consistently poor.

Yeah I remember him giving it away poorly once or twice. But not the worst on the park by any means.

[fittons_coaching_badge]

Too many players off form as well, Thompson and Kasim have been rubbish for weeks.  Doesn't sound like today was any improvement?

Kasim has been crap since he got that contract extension.

Who was it on here who predicted that his form would go down the swanny after he signed that!?

[brocklesby red]

Well that was ninety minutes of my life wasted.What a tedious match in which Thompson and Kasim were poor,Mason spent most of the match arguing with the ref and our tactics seemed to be play the ball amongst the back four as long as we could and only push forward as a last resort.Louis Thompson had a decent game but otherwise very disappointing

[Sir Pissalot]

15,430 (551). Poor turnout.

Just got back home.  Was one of the "poor turnout ".  Fucking cheek!  Did you make the effort?

I think I must have missed the club announcement during the week. I thought I was shelling out to travel and watch a competitive league match today.  When did they cancel that and decide to replace it with a practice match-cum-Saturday-afternoon-kickabout?

I really don't mind them losing if they are actually trying to win, but there was precious little effort there today.  It looked like they were just trying not to lose and they are not good enough to do that.  Even poor sides like Sheffield United will score against us, if we let them have possession, time and space.  It really was a poor show again today.  And embarrassing that our fans were taking the piss out of our own team!

[leefer]

Love to come on with some positives...the only positive is that i am back home in the warm.
A grim matchday experience and the players and management need to take a check because the actual effort put in was a kin to a practice match.
I agree that there are matches where things just dont work out but this wasn't one of those times...it was poor and the management have to take it on the chin and sort it.
Nice to see Donkey and have some passionate discussion about Paolo....how i would have liked to seen his(PDC) outlook on the effort put in by todays players

On the plus side i got some nice photos of some Sheffield graffiti if you are interested.

[pewshamrobin]

I was one of the 551 today, very disappointing especially in 2nd half where we dropped deeper and invited pressure......... very few positives, ajose put in a shift but had such poor service and Hall played better. However Nathan Thompson poor out of position, Kasim lost possession often, Mason moaned at the ref all game and didnt put in a shift in. We didnt move the ball quick enough to catch Sheff Utd out and then after playing defensive most of the game struggled to change when we inevitably went behind.

Why is N'Guessan rotated so much, we could have done with his physicality today?

[FormerlyPlymRed]

Hmmm not impressed recently with the effort of some of the players plus there are a fair few who are pulling out of challenges. I really rate Mason but not been impressed since he has come back from his injury.

I cannot see us making play offs despite our current league position although hopefully we will kick on at some stage and everything will pull together and click 

[TheMajorSTFC]

Kasim has been crap since he got that contract extension.

Who was it on here who predicted that his form would go down the swanny after he signed that!?

I'm pretty sure it was me FCB, but can't be 100% sure! Hopefully he'll pick up again!

[THE FLASH]

Well I'm just slipping under the duvet. Will read back in a minute.

A real fucking let down today.

Blades were shit and there for the taking.

The 6:4 formation wasn't really needed as Blades did fuck all....the match just went to pish and never really improved.

We ran around a lot  ....hit a couple of long rangers (where was he?) but never really looked like scoring and on that note we matched the Blades.

After half time it turned into a next goal wins contest and some how they managed it..

Cooper decides to change and switches midfield??? masterstroke?  
Danny comes on (too late IMO) and seems to play out wide? WTF?!

By then the crowd turned and piss take songs rang out annoying the hardy bunch of Swindon til we die Lads. Some disagreements started from what I could see ref how the team/club should be supported.

My view is that if you've paid your money....you do what you want....if you want to boo and get on people's tits with negative comments or scream Swindon til I die as Cooper does a Paul Hart impression with his tactics ....then so be it.  Never believe that 'my way is the right way'.....it takes all sorts.

There was something that could not be argued with ...... Today didn't work and if Cooper didn't see that, I fear for us.

Our season is on a knife edge.

Players going, Ranger gone and Cooper continuing with shit set ups like this then we are in trouble and 52 points need to be bagged ASAP.

A blades fan on the way back to the car:

" I thought both teams were poor and dished up a poor game, we were fearful of Swindon and were surprised you never really had a go at us. We are desperate for points so we will take em when we can"

Now I will read back through and wind myself up...

[jutty274]

Love to come on with some positives...the only positive is that i am back home in the warm.
A grim matchday experience and the players and management need to take a check because the actual effort put in was a kin to a practice match.
I agree that there are matches where things just dont work out but this wasn't one of those times...it was poor and the management have to take it on the chin and sort it.
Nice to see Donkey and have some passionate discussion about Paolo....how i would have liked to seen his(PDC) outlook on the effort put in by todays players

On the plus side i got some nice photos of some Sheffield graffiti if you are interested.

it was nice to catch up with you Lee after the game, that was the only bright spark of a really bad day, i don't know what the commentary said today but we were awful. The fans that were singing that all we wanted was a shot on goal went home disappointed cos we were shit. There were no positives today apart from the fact that the stewards were really switched on.