FAC Q/F v Sheffield United (a) - 19/3/23, 12pm K/O

[alcd]

The needless substitutions killed it. Britton and Wharton were hugely off the pace and that cost us. Why do coaches do it?? Neither JRC nor Hedges were out on their legs. Madness.

[RevidgeBlue]

Ten minutes away, two goals up -absolutely gutted.

Wanted the win today far more than any play off challenge, you'd imagine that chances to finish in the top six will be fairly commonplace whereas chances to reach Cup semi finals, finals win it will be very rare indeed.

Odd substitutions - if it ain't broke, don't fix it, having made those subs we were always stuffed if we conceded the equaliser.

[Rochdale_rover]

  On 03/02/2023 at 18:07, Groundhog said:

 

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  On 19/03/2023 at 14:10, roverandout said:

This loss is on the manager 100 percent 

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 And morton for being a soft arse

[DanielMB]

I get that Morton isnt a popular figure but he did get a hand in his face. Freekick or at the very least a stop in play.

[booth]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:11, Wing Wizard Windy Miller said:

He constantly lost the ball/shit out of tackles and jogged back. Yes he's a young lad but that was unacceptable. Its not the first rime either.  

I wouldn't play him again to make a point. 

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What's the O'Brien debacle cost us so far, how much is it for an FA cup semi final?

[Hasta]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:08, Exiled_Rover said:

Because switching to a back 5 for the last 10 minutes in a tight game has repeatedly worked for him this season.

I wouldn't have done it, I'd have brought Dolan and Garrett on for Morton and Szmodics, but I can't really fault the idea behind it. 

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In the game at Ewood, we brought Hedges and Brereton on to defend a one goal lead.  
 

I felt right up until he made the changes that we would score again in that game. After the changes I can’t recall having the ball in their box.
 

 

[K-Hod]

  On 19/03/2023 at 13:59, roverandout said:

City will slaughter these thick half wit, bellend backwards country bumpkins

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Fancy calming down chief? Not just for the sake of the forum, thinking your blood pressure as well….

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:08, Exiled_Rover said:

Because switching to a back 5 for the last 10 minutes in a tight game has repeatedly worked for him this season.

I wouldn't have done it, I'd have brought Dolan and Garrett on for Morton and Szmodics, but I can't really fault the idea behind it. 

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They were the 2 subs to make. 

[Tugay-is-God]

Brought on the wrong Wharton for me. 

[TheRovers1994]

On the bright side all energy goes into the league now and getting to Wembley the other way! Jdt didn’t make the right subs we knew that when it happened but it was still down to the men on the field to keep the lead against mediocre opposition and thanks to a stupid bit of play acting it’s cost us. No way are sheff utd worthy of the top 2, horrible side dull football and cheats 

[RTM08]

Waiting for the tram back to my car. What a sickener.

We were all over them and creating chance after chance, and the second I saw those subs I knew what was coming. Adam Wharton and Dolan should have come on to keep the press going, and instead we sit back and throw the game. It's this kind of decision making that leaves tactical questions at JDT's door.

Also send Morton back to Liverpool. I don't want to see him in blue and white again.

[Mike E]

Enjoyed the game tbh. Played reasonably well in the face of a physical side, a lot of bad luck, and a bent ref.

JDT's tactical change buggered us. Imo, you bring Dolan on there to push them back, not Wharton. However, he has credit in the bank for getting a paper thing squad this far.

Morton's tackle created our second goal, but I don't want to see him in our halves again after that little pratfall.

Edited March 19, 2023 by Mike E

[DanielMB]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:11, alcd said:

The needless substitutions killed it. Britton and Wharton were hugely off the pace and that cost us. Why do coaches do it?? Neither JRC nor Hedges were out on their legs. Madness.

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Needless? Do you think the players are machines?

[joey_big_nose]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:07, jim mk2 said:

Not worried about going out of the cup. Piss poor post 

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Id loved to have made it but thought we played really well and weve got a massive fight for playoffs on our hands.

If wed played poorly and been thrashed Id have been gutted, but to play like that, come out feeling weve acquitted ourselves really well, going into the last 9 games it feels like plenty more to play for.

[pick32]

Morton has been bad all season, floats around pulling out of challenges and chips audacious long balls that find nobody 

[West Yorks Rover]

Got to give the manager a lot of credit for getting us to play to that level, we were the better team and could and should 

have been more than 2-1 up.

But he cocked up big style with those subs, no doubt about it.

 

[RTM08]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:13, DanielMB said:

Needless? Do you think the players are machines?

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He didn't need to go ultra defensive did he?

[TheRovers1994]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:12, DanielMB said:

I get that Morton isnt a popular figure but he did get a hand in his face. Freekick or at the very least a stop in play.

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Fact is you get up and bust a gut to get the ball back instead of rolling around pointlessly 

[Hasta]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:11, XLM said:

Morton was exceptional prior to the winner. Exceptional. And anyone calling him out again should give their head an enormous shake.

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No he wasn’t. He was fairly anonymous first half, and had started tiring and giving the ball away long before the winner. We’d been saying before the subs were made that it had to be Garrett or A Wharton on for Morton, and we’re surprised that he stayed on,

[alcd]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:07, Ewood Ace said:

Be it under Mowbray or JDT I have never seen us play 3/5 at the back and look any good playing it. We were in control of that game until the surrender subs. Brittain absolutely dreadful when he came on just like at Leicester no sooner had he been on he had been culpable for a goal. 

 

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Briton certainly lacks the strength and tenacity of JRC. 

[Bethnal]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:11, booth said:

Contrast that with McBurnie who was fighting for everything.

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Strongly dislike him and think he’s constantly on the brink of getting a red but you’d love to have players with his passion, at a minimum. So strange to me that you spend your whole life to “make it” as a professional in something that simply could not be more difficult to do that in, with a narrow career window, and not basically destroy yourself to get a win every time you play. In the words of another Sheffield United figure, “you’ve got to fucking die to get three points.”

[BankEnd Rover]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:10, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Subs simply not needed,they were on the back foot...huge tactical mistake.

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I kind of understand the reasoning behind it but keep the same shape, keep the same players who have got us infront. It was literally 10more minutes to hold on. We changed shape and that costs us.

[wilsdenrover]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:10, BigBar said:

I'm sure he is just angry, wrong words maybe but he hindered his own team that's for sure.

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I’m absolutely certain he’s just angry - I prefer that to not caring, still needed pointing out though.

For what’s it’s worth, I’d have brought Dolan on for a Gallagher at 2-1 and saved any further subs to ‘kill the game’ in the last five minutes 

[K-Hod]

  On 19/03/2023 at 14:04, DanielMB said:

This messegeboard after a loss……

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Aye, it’s full of fans upset that we lost. Who’d have thought it?

[ItsRoverZ]

Only thing that will make this better and have me get over it is if sheff United fall into the play offs and we beat them in the final to make the prem