Thoughts on the match V Sheff Utd
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Red_till_im_ded
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Challenge outside the box that continued into it. How that challenge didn't warrant a red card is beyond me. Both feet off the ground and out of control. You can see the studs going into Dom's thigh
Topfarrier
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Couldn't really give him more than a six given the time he was on the pitch....did the job he was given....headed ...blocked....kicked.
Sorry Roger
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I can think of an example. Beating QPR at home. Eddie sends on Brett Pitman as we defend a corner in injury time. With his only touch of the game, Brett heads it off the line to salvage the win. Is that a 10/10?
Neil Dawson
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Interesting debate. A keeper who has nothing to do but catch some crosses which they do is also technically a 10… however… a score to me is an impact on a result over 90 mins
USCherry
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yeah it is interesting. you could also see a player scoring a perfect hattrick and playing a blinder for 70 mins, getting subbed to save their legs and being MoM.
Stuart Read
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I thought Kelly was struggling with McBirnie in the air and Meps came on and dealt with him really well. Did not lose a challange.
James Hayter didn’t deserve more than a six against Wrexham then.
AFCBade
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These marks are a helpful guide for fans who didn’t go and a good source of debate for fans who did. No need to mock posters who put effort into give their opinion. We get the idea meps helped us over the line by giving him an 8 - whereas 6 implies he was just ok. I am comfortable with 8 mark.
Monmouthred
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I'm just starting this thread, so I am assuming you rightly got slaughtered for this horseshit, but just in case, no, there is no just in case, just **************** off
Monmouthred
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One guy on his own (I was impressed) , gave us his song
There's a starman playing on the right
His name is Ryan Christie and he's fucking dynamite
Def_II_Royalz
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Bumbles used to run a secret after hours called "The Knacker's Yard" - you only knew about if you could unravel the secret cipher in the Exchange & Mart's "Bric-A-Brac" section and boy you could get kicked in the balls all manner of ways in there. The Warren Aspinall machine was a crowd favourite.
I agree !! These type of scratches are part and parcel of a fast moving sport.
I use to get worse scratches than that going blackberry picking with my mum
4FCB
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No doubt about it now for me, this current team / squad are a whole lot better at grinding out a win than any of the other combinations we’ve seen over the last six or seven years.
But is that down to the players or the manager?
It’s way too early to compare him to Eddie, but I can’t see us having Scotty in charge for as many seasons as we did with Ed as these performances will have already caught the eye of those in charge of certain teams who are experiencing continued troubled times.
I also worry about the point where the club will have no option but to stop matching Scotty’s ambitions with the level of investment in players that he will want to progress the team in whichever league we’re in.
I guess we just have to enjoy what we’re watching and hope that we don’t join the likes of West Brom and Norwich in being an ‘up-down’ team in future years.
But is that down to the players or the manager?
It’s way too early to compare him to Eddie, but I can’t see us having Scotty in charge for as many seasons as we did with Ed as these performances will have already caught the eye of those in charge of certain teams who are experiencing continued troubled times.
I also worry about the point where the club will have no option but to stop matching Scotty’s ambitions with the level of investment in players that he will want to progress the team in whichever league we’re in.
I guess we just have to enjoy what we’re watching and hope that we don’t join the likes of West Brom and Norwich in being an ‘up-down’ team in future years.
MB1980
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Exactly! Probability is a team or 2 will come back at some point, but if we didn't employ our current tactics sides may have have equalised a lot more often so far.
Topfarrier
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If Mepham had scored a hat trick I'd have given him more than a 6....hth
So attacking contributions deserve to be rated higher than defensive contributions, seems a bit unfair.
Matt Stevenson
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Here's the xG timeline.
On the radio it sounded a tight game, which the stats support for a lot of the game. The big chances for us were Dom's scramble just after half time and the penalty. Billing's goal was ranked about 1 in 11 which looked a little low, but it was a good finish. Zemura's effort about the same.
For the Blades, there was the Sharp chance after Kelly's mistake, the goal itself and the Mousset header (he really should have scored) / McBurnie follow up.
On the radio it sounded a tight game, which the stats support for a lot of the game. The big chances for us were Dom's scramble just after half time and the penalty. Billing's goal was ranked about 1 in 11 which looked a little low, but it was a good finish. Zemura's effort about the same.
For the Blades, there was the Sharp chance after Kelly's mistake, the goal itself and the Mousset header (he really should have scored) / McBurnie follow up.
