Post by ancientblade on Feb 8, 2009 0:25:19 GMT -1
Right. Here goes.
I am not happy. Not happy at all.
Yet another 300 mile round trip to see a load of rubbish masquerading as football.
I have now had a beer or two (or several more) and the pain has still not eased.
I have just witnessed something that has not happened since 1914. Wednesday have completed a league double over us.
And I have just witnessed another thing that hasn't happened since 1967. Wednesday have just won at Bramall Lane.
Two very proud records gone in one 90 minute spell of total ineptitude.
Don't get me wrong. Wednesday were the better side and thoroughly deserved their win. They played with purpose and they actually had a game plan. Billy Sharp (well, I think it was him) nearly equalised at the death, but somehow it was tipped away for a corner. Had it gone in I would certainly not have complained. But it would have been thoroughly undeserved.
Derby defeats are never pleasant. But I am very angry about today's. If you pick your best team, play to their strengths , they try their best and you lose..........that's hard to take, but it happens to all of us.
Today, we barely employed anything deserving of the word tactics. We played with no width at all. We lumped the ball forwards in a hit and hope way, in the general direction of Halford. He then had absolutely noone to pass to because we had no width!! Noone overlapping or making themselves available at all. From this position, the only option is to try and win a throw. This was done numerous times. The script is then that Halford (or once or twice, Bromby) despatches a long throw towards the middle of the penalty area, and hopefully one of our players can get on the end of it.
Unfortunately, this succceeeded once very early on, so it was felt necessary to repeat over and over again until something like the 75th minute, when we finally twig that it's not working anymore and try and change things by bringing on Hendrie and actually testing the opposition by such revolutionary ideas as passing to someone on your own side more than once in succession, and trying to stretch the play by going wide.
And can someone please try and explain to me what Brian Howard does better than Michael Tonge, because I have yet to see it.
I am not happy. Not happy at all.
Yet another 300 mile round trip to see a load of rubbish masquerading as football.
I have now had a beer or two (or several more) and the pain has still not eased.
I have just witnessed something that has not happened since 1914. Wednesday have completed a league double over us.
And I have just witnessed another thing that hasn't happened since 1967. Wednesday have just won at Bramall Lane.
Two very proud records gone in one 90 minute spell of total ineptitude.
Don't get me wrong. Wednesday were the better side and thoroughly deserved their win. They played with purpose and they actually had a game plan. Billy Sharp (well, I think it was him) nearly equalised at the death, but somehow it was tipped away for a corner. Had it gone in I would certainly not have complained. But it would have been thoroughly undeserved.
Derby defeats are never pleasant. But I am very angry about today's. If you pick your best team, play to their strengths , they try their best and you lose..........that's hard to take, but it happens to all of us.
Today, we barely employed anything deserving of the word tactics. We played with no width at all. We lumped the ball forwards in a hit and hope way, in the general direction of Halford. He then had absolutely noone to pass to because we had no width!! Noone overlapping or making themselves available at all. From this position, the only option is to try and win a throw. This was done numerous times. The script is then that Halford (or once or twice, Bromby) despatches a long throw towards the middle of the penalty area, and hopefully one of our players can get on the end of it.
Unfortunately, this succceeeded once very early on, so it was felt necessary to repeat over and over again until something like the 75th minute, when we finally twig that it's not working anymore and try and change things by bringing on Hendrie and actually testing the opposition by such revolutionary ideas as passing to someone on your own side more than once in succession, and trying to stretch the play by going wide.
And can someone please try and explain to me what Brian Howard does better than Michael Tonge, because I have yet to see it.