but a Steve Evans side would not have rolled over and had their tummy's tickled by Sheffield Wednesday. We were well beaten today by a better side and it pains me to say that.
Steve Evans side had their tummies tickled by MK Dons and Fulham at home. They were his quality over quantity players you were watching tonight. Tuesday we were good against a good side. Tonight we gifted an average team 3 points. Redfearn has a lot to do and he is only three games in. It is sad to watch good pros struggle but we have three or four players who are simply off the pace and not up to the job. There is no hiding place and the game can be brutal like that. I have Green, Derbyshire, Collins and Buxton in mind. Maguire needs to buck his ideas up sharpish and Grant Ward needs to show up more - he can go missing at times.
Agree everything you say Smiler. However, we shouldn't underestimate the toll that 3 games in 7 days has taken out of our small squad. In the 2nd half there appeared to be no desire but in retrospect I think they were all knackered. If I was a SWFC fan, I'd be concerned that they only managed to score from two pieces of comical defending. They were a just average side at best.
I think what S8 says has some merit. There is a different feel and set up to the team. In big games like this it may well be true we would not have given up the ghost so easily.
One can't deny the 3 games in 7 days impact too.
Wednesday changed more than 50% of the team tonight after they more than matched QPR 3 days ago. Facts are facts and our small squad is not as good as their big squad. Indeed, on tonight's showing there is only JCH who looks like he would get in their squad.
Wednesday were very mobile, skilful and we'll organised. Shame we didn't test them. Better team won despite the goals coming from woeful defending. We couldn't match their rapid and intricate support play. They could have had 4 tonight.
Only JCH could hold his head up tonight . The rest were average to poor.
Redders has a lot of work to do because he ain't steve evans. If he is going to build then it may not be in time for this season.
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Wednesday were decent but they are not 'on the way back' like their deluded fans think they are. We gave them two incredibly soft goals and until then it was even stevens. That changed the game completely as it would. They looked fresher than us second half, which they were because six of their starting eleven had not played midweek. The 'told you so' Evans apologists should rein their necks in. We are in the middle of a tough run of fixtures in which Redfearn is having to work with what Evans left him. Our easy run of games was at the start of the season which their hero made a complete hash of. Redfearn has a tough job and to even begin to judge him after three games in six days is ridiculous.
Personally I think Redfearn is partly to blame. Ward and Green were fubar after the Reading game and Smallwood and Maguire should have started. The first half was like watching paint dry but the second half showed a difference in quality that money buys.
What I will say is we got 1 more point than I thought we would in the last 2 games. Get ready to see no lose November.
I appreciated Redders post match interview it was very honest and passionate. He himself admitted a lack of fight and commitment on the night. He was also forthright. He is very honest and actually more direct-like every good yorkshireman-than evans.
The worry is that we will go down because there may be a necessary sacrifice of immediate results for a longer term goal of a paid for squad of permanent team members. That being said, he has said he will revert to short term solutions be y wanting to bring in 4 emergency loanees; a luxury that is lost to all small clubs after January and which TS has cited as a main reason for sacking SE. Things won't improve quickly and we may have to give up our championship status. Both approaches are gambles.
The spectre of League One is looming large over the horizon.
Can we stop it advancing?
Trust you to cheer me up, Andy, you miserable git. But I am afraid you are right. No chance of staying up. It will take money and time to rectify the utter b*lls up made by Humpty Dumpty.
Whoa steady on. Relegation is illy, even probable but not definite. Enjoy the season for what it is and you never know we might stay up.
H, I backed us to go down before the season (terribly disloyal I know) and as Kempo will tell you I only bet on sure things. I am enjoying the season: relegation holds no great terrors for me: been there, done that and am wearing the t-shirt.
certainly looks a good bet ridgeway..somewhat better than my mid table bet!
I cant fault the effort from the players..They are just not good enough.
Its torture watching poor old Greeny...he needs putting out to grass in a lovely field somewhere to have a frolic around.
Well, it would be my first successful bet since 1977. Your mid-table bet had merit at the time you proposed it and for a while I thought you were on a winner. I may seem disloyal but really I have shed many, many tears following this team for more than half a century. The point you make is absolutely right: "Just not good enough" and I am afraid I blame TS to some extent - he understands the building of a shiny new stadium but knows very little about what it takes to get a team good enough to grace it.
But I am afraid you are right. No chance of staying up. It will take money and time to rectify the utter b*lls up made by Humpty Dumpty. 
