cherryexile
Vital 1st Team Regular
Funny old day. Rushing around at home and worrying about leaving the youngest two on their own most of the day, so that we could get to Sheffield in time to find a Car Parking Space. Listening to Chelsea wop Norwich while my boy watched it on his iPad as we wove our way through the Peak District. Getting to Sheffield in time to find a half-empty Middleton Road Park 'n' Ride that I didn't have to pay to park in.
A dose of reality, as I imagined the issues with over-crowding as we negotiated the Rat Hole of corners and narrow passages that lives below the Leppings Lane stadium, and the feel of the eerie hand of the 96 not helped half-way through the game by the smell of smoke (presumably from some idiot with a flare that I didn't see). It took ages to tip-toe out of the Stadium and then we sat in crappy traffic getting out of Sheffield. Poor driving by half-a-dozen cars on the way home and a closed country road so the Police could recover vehicles from an accident, was topped by the cock up at McDonalds 2 miles from home.
In between coming and going there was a game of football.
We played reasonably well in the first half and apart from one block by Jackson's head and a Saido Berahino shot at the near-post that Griffiths did well to save, Wednesday were barely a threat. Scully should have pulled the ball back for Bishop when we robbed their defence and it should have been 1-0 to us at half-time.
We could easily have had another had things gone our way with the shot from the edge of the box, the whip across the six-yard box that Scully couldn't quite get on the end of and the Maguire incident where the ball sat 1 yard out of the goal with no-one around to tap it in (for reference it was a fair tackle and Maguire's touch had better get better, because whatever other talents and application he shows, at the moment his control is shit). Griffiths was unlucky with the goal - good save and nearly kept out the follow-up. We were lost in midfield and Bishop is wasted on the wings. He should have the position behind the front three to drive into the box. Poole's passing was poor today, but defensively he was sound. Robson wasn't as quick as his opponents and Bramall would have made more of two or three of the forays forward from the back.
Scully wasn't missed when he went off. N'Lundulu was more of a threat than Draper. McGrandles had made a great tackle in the first-half but the booking stifled his game and Lincoln looked better without him, though I would have taken Maquire off too. Montsma's header looks even better on the Highlights real than it did at the game, where I concentrated on watching the ball kicked from the corner, glace his head and squirm under the keeper, completely missing his movement and the 10 Pin Bowling he did on the opposition. Superb.
We were good for the point. We showed application and quality in patches and indolence, apathy and disorganisation in others. We were sometimes ponderous and sometimes it clicked. We missed Bridcutt and Hopper. Three points wouldn't have been outrageous, but we just don't have the sharpness, the edge or the speed that we had last year.
All in all. OK, could do better and capable of more consistency.
A dose of reality, as I imagined the issues with over-crowding as we negotiated the Rat Hole of corners and narrow passages that lives below the Leppings Lane stadium, and the feel of the eerie hand of the 96 not helped half-way through the game by the smell of smoke (presumably from some idiot with a flare that I didn't see). It took ages to tip-toe out of the Stadium and then we sat in crappy traffic getting out of Sheffield. Poor driving by half-a-dozen cars on the way home and a closed country road so the Police could recover vehicles from an accident, was topped by the cock up at McDonalds 2 miles from home.
In between coming and going there was a game of football.
We played reasonably well in the first half and apart from one block by Jackson's head and a Saido Berahino shot at the near-post that Griffiths did well to save, Wednesday were barely a threat. Scully should have pulled the ball back for Bishop when we robbed their defence and it should have been 1-0 to us at half-time.
We could easily have had another had things gone our way with the shot from the edge of the box, the whip across the six-yard box that Scully couldn't quite get on the end of and the Maguire incident where the ball sat 1 yard out of the goal with no-one around to tap it in (for reference it was a fair tackle and Maguire's touch had better get better, because whatever other talents and application he shows, at the moment his control is shit). Griffiths was unlucky with the goal - good save and nearly kept out the follow-up. We were lost in midfield and Bishop is wasted on the wings. He should have the position behind the front three to drive into the box. Poole's passing was poor today, but defensively he was sound. Robson wasn't as quick as his opponents and Bramall would have made more of two or three of the forays forward from the back.
Scully wasn't missed when he went off. N'Lundulu was more of a threat than Draper. McGrandles had made a great tackle in the first-half but the booking stifled his game and Lincoln looked better without him, though I would have taken Maquire off too. Montsma's header looks even better on the Highlights real than it did at the game, where I concentrated on watching the ball kicked from the corner, glace his head and squirm under the keeper, completely missing his movement and the 10 Pin Bowling he did on the opposition. Superb.
We were good for the point. We showed application and quality in patches and indolence, apathy and disorganisation in others. We were sometimes ponderous and sometimes it clicked. We missed Bridcutt and Hopper. Three points wouldn't have been outrageous, but we just don't have the sharpness, the edge or the speed that we had last year.
All in all. OK, could do better and capable of more consistency.
