Hold up!!! I'll talk about this if I put my name forward for the Boxing Day game preview, if you don't mind!!!
Already taken by 'Davidms'... FFS!!! Who the fcuk are YOU in Steel City, Davidms??? What are your credentials??? STATE THEM NOW!!! Odds on you're an ex-student, now an 'academic'...
Thread asking for volunteers at the start of the season, you had your chance an looks like you blew it. Frankly it's a godsend, don't really want somebody who actually knows and likes the area writing it, it misses the point. Think there are still slots available for places you don't know and can be rude about if you are interested.
There's an ok pub across the road from the water feature outside Sheffield train station. Definitely not in my top 5 pubs across the road from a transport hub water feature.
What are del boys personal problems? I agree about Quina and Kaba. Surprised no one has mentioned Welbeck can play left back - he's a very complete footballer.
Very possible. I gather Holebas is currently the 8th best left back in the squad. Masina isn't in the top 10.
3 at the back would solve the problem . Will make us much more solid. You can then have Holebas & Jamnatt as wingbacks.
Please can we support the team and not boo the first time a player mis-controls the ball? I know booing is great fun for people who can't control their anger, but it does nothing to benefit the situation. It only increases the chances of the players playing badly and eliciting more booing. Boo at the final whistle after we lose if you must, but while the game is alive a good atmosphere will help us to win, which is what we all want. Thanks.
You snooze you lose! My credentials are that throughout my adult life I have owned objects with steel in them.
It should work in our favour, being underdogs for this one. Sheff Utd complacent thinking they just need to turn up.
Anyone who waits for the first miscontrolled pass to crack on with booing just isn't committed enough.
AT LAST...….we have good officials for the match and on VAR for the first time this season. Andre Marriner will referee the match and Martin Atkinson will be on VAR. The omens are suddenly good. Marriner is an excellent official, and so is Atkinson.
Sheffield United have played well so far and far better than anyone anticipated but I fully expect them to burn out and be down there at the bottom come the season so 3 points from this is a must. We have more individual quality but Sheffield United have players that know their responsibilities and have a compact and solid 5-3-2 which Liverpool struggled to break down at the weekend. They are narrow and have 2 holding midfielders which makes it hard to play between the lines so I think we would be best off attacking them down the wings, therefore I would like to see us play Sarr on the right and Deulofeu on the left.
Took a school trip to a Charlton match once at home to Sheff Utd. We were placed next to the away support. What a bunch they were. Sang "get your **** out for the lads" to the 12 and 13 year old girls in the group. Threw a few coins our way (yes at the kids). Ran over to taunt us when the scored. This is all fully grown men by the way. But it was worth it all when one of them did the I'm taking my top off in mid winter because I'm hardcore routine. He gave it the arms out wide I'm a top boy mean look at the kids. Then a few minutes later realised he was bloody cold and went to put his top back on - at which point all the kids started jeering him. He quickly popped it off again and then waited until he thought he wasn't being watched and this repeated several more times. One of the smallest Year 7 boys next to me started doing a crying motion to him and he had no idea what to do in return. So all in all I wasn't massively impressed with their fans mentality. And for that reason, and not because we need the points or even that it's enjoyable to win, I hope we beat them.
Would take a single goal defeat here. Baby-steps. Aim to win a game by new year and we can easily hit 12 points! COYH #stayhumble #rememberwhoweare# #didn'texistin1880
I don't think the result is important here, as long as we see an improved performance. A narrow defeat with grit and determination and I'll be content to support the lads all year.
I don't think the result is important here either. As long as the officials do their jobs correctly and there's no controversial decisions to get in a tizzy over and distract us from just not being good enough, then we'll have no cause for complaint.
To be honest this is right. 100% effort from the lads and I will always support them. Wolves and City quite a few players fell well short of that. The owners and Giraldi are the ones I give grief to for not doing their job and fixing our defence, for two consecutive years now.
I'm watching the Atalanta - Shakhtar Donetsk match right now, in which Duvan Zapata has just put Atalanta one up. Just a few short years ago he was a Pozzo makeweight who didn't even have a character photo on his fifa player profile; imagine what it would be like to have a striker like him leading the line now
I for one hope that Marriner and Atkinson are enjoying their last few days of being top officials. Come 4:45pm on Saturday they will be thrown on the scrap heap of mediocrity and we will erase all knowledge that we ever said they were good.
You can speak for yourself with all this “Royal we” talk. These two, along with Mike Dean are the Holy Grail of officialdom. Marriner has a long line of famous sailors in his family. Nelson, Drake and Popeye are part of his ancestry. Atkinson is a patronymic surname which dates back to before 1066. It’s derived from the son of Akin who was a famous referee during the Norman Conquest. Akin created the first VAR camera by drawing a line around the shadow of soldiers in real time, so Generals could see if their advances on British territories were gaining momentum. Dean comes from the Pearl & Dean family, who was 50% part of the greatest advertising enterprise in British cinema in the 1970’s. You see, all these guys are from genes from which the British Empire was founded. I think we’re going to be in safe hands on Saturday.
Honestly, I just want football to win on Saturday. A good honest game where everyone tries hard and has fun. And importantly the neutral fan can enjoy a nice day out. If football wins in ambivalent about the result.
