seanbeanstattoo
Vital Football Hero
Never felt that under Wilder before today.
No excuses.
No excuses.
Think we spent the best part of 90 mins on our knees .Should we all take a knee. Would that help..?
Did you not see the first half against SouthendNever felt that under Wilder before today.
No excuses.
On the bright side, if there is one, we fell away in the 1st season back in the Champ and the next season saw us achieve a dream!!!What completely baffles me is all the hype in the press was about how uber fit we were in readiness for the restart.
I've watched most of the games so far and we look way behind EVERY other side on that score as well as showing virtually no initiative.
The next game is huge. Another drubbing and the end of the season can't come soon enough.
Wilder nailed it post yesterdays debacle when he said 6 months plus work destroyed and thrown away in 180 mins.
Daft as it sounds if Billy had put that one away I think that would have galvanised the side and we would have got a point, as bad as we were.Something else Wilder said, and he is bang right. Until the enforced break every player played at the absolute top of their game which meant as a team we could compete with anyone. It is clear when a number of players are short of that level the outcome is what we saw at Newcastle and to a lesser extent at Villa. We do not have the luxury of depth in quality to make a bit of a loss of form not a catastrophe.
Berge's the biggest conundrum there. Does CW trust him to play in his normal position? If not there's a problem.All fair points TT, however....what do we do with Berge, Ollie and Robbo. Thats about £50m. How as you put it would you tackle that?
On the bright side, if there is one, we fell away in the 1st season back in the Champ and the next season saw us achieve a dream!!!
Got to agree about the fitness ( CW says the stats are good) but it's the lethargy, the lack of intensity that's worrying.
I reckon we are missing the crowds more than anyone ( Stuart Pierce also said he thought we would before the restart) For me this team thrives on being the underdog, upsetting the odds, quitening the away crowd, being bloody minded, in your face and proving everybody wrong.They feed off the home crowd and revel in the atmosphere- it spurs them on.
Pretty difficult to do now but we have to adapt soon, get manure over, reset and go again even though it might be a disappointing end to the season.
But let's temper that thought- a disappointing end- with what will happen, we'll be 9 or more points above relegation with that spectre not having crossed our mind all season.
Your choice MoM not to watch but when playing away you can affect the crowd, you can keep them quiet, you can defy the odds and, for me, that's a big part of our mental make up.Every team can say the lack of crowd hasn't helped them, but we haven't played a home game yet.
The empty stadiums should affect the home team more than the away team.
I cant see how a full stadium at Villa or Newcastle would have helped us.
We'll get nothing at Old Trafford and I'm so confident of that I'll not bother watching it. It'll be a waste of time watching us create absolutely nothing and just trying to dig in and hold them at bay, which we won't do without our usual goalie and three quarters of the defence missing.
Watching us do absolutely nothing creative to contribute to the game will only put me in a bad mood, so I won't bother.