MATCHWATCH : Millwall (h)

[windermereROYAL]

This will be a difficult game as it always is against them, good away record with 5 wins, could be our first home draw of the season.

[mikey_1871]

The pressures off getting automatic promotion now and I’m quite glad cos we will get crucified in the Premiership as our team is now. Have a look. Swift. Injury prone. Olise, is he as good as we’re all claiming and is he off soon? Richards, great player but his heads been turned and he won’t stay. Joao, selfish, moody not a team player etc etc.

Realism. Play offs a good lark for us all, but really not vital we get in the prem.

Millwall next, let’s just have a good game and be thankful for what we’ve got. I’m quite happy with Championship.

Imagine being a Sheffield United supporter right now.

If we went up, I'd say no

[Hendo]

The pressures off getting automatic promotion now and I’m quite glad cos we will get crucified in the Premiership as our team is now. Have a look. Swift. Injury prone. Olise, is he as good as we’re all claiming and is he off soon? Richards, great player but his heads been turned and he won’t stay. Joao, selfish, moody not a team player etc etc.

Realism. Play offs a good lark for us all, but really not vital we get in the prem.

Millwall next, let’s just have a good game and be thankful for what we’ve got. I’m quite happy with Championship.

Imagine being a Sheffield United supporter right now.

Moot point. The starting XI we have this season would not be the starting XI we have next season if we go up.

[Zip]

The pressures off getting automatic promotion now and I’m quite glad cos we will get crucified in the Premiership as our team is now. Have a look. Swift. Injury prone. Olise, is he as good as we’re all claiming and is he off soon? Richards, great player but his heads been turned and he won’t stay. Joao, selfish, moody not a team player etc etc.

Realism. Play offs a good lark for us all, but really not vital we get in the prem.

Millwall next, let’s just have a good game and be thankful for what we’ve got. I’m quite happy with Championship.

Imagine being a Sheffield United supporter right now.

Moot point. The starting XI we have this season would not be the starting XI we have next season if we go up.

This is also technically a stronger squad than the one promoted with McDermott. We have a number of players more suited to the PL than the Championship.

[Hound]

The pressures off getting automatic promotion now and I’m quite glad cos we will get crucified in the Premiership as our team is now. Have a look. Swift. Injury prone. Olise, is he as good as we’re all claiming and is he off soon? Richards, great player but his heads been turned and he won’t stay. Joao, selfish, moody not a team player etc etc.

Realism. Play offs a good lark for us all, but really not vital we get in the prem.

Millwall next, let’s just have a good game and be thankful for what we’ve got. I’m quite happy with Championship.

Imagine being a Sheffield United supporter right now.

Moot point. The starting XI we have this season would not be the starting XI we have next season if we go up.

You'd obviously strengthen. I think the team showed capabilities to play at a fast intense level on Wednesday that you'd need in the Prem. But of course there'd have to be a number of signings

The likes of Brighton and Sheff U did manage to stay up reasonably comfortably without completely overhauling their squads. Leeds and Wolves have obvs done more than just survive by building on very good champ sides with a couple of extra high class signings.

West Brom really didnt seem to prepare well for the season, not quite sure what they were expecting. Fulham have actually competed pretty well without really getting the points they should with much the same side as went up. Would certainly feel a lot more confident than if we'd gone up with Stam where realistically probably only Moore could have made the step up at the time.

I could see us doing ok if we went up. We've the right profile of players in that they are generally quite young and at a good technical level

[Hendo]

The pressures off getting automatic promotion now and I’m quite glad cos we will get crucified in the Premiership as our team is now. Have a look. Swift. Injury prone. Olise, is he as good as we’re all claiming and is he off soon? Richards, great player but his heads been turned and he won’t stay. Joao, selfish, moody not a team player etc etc.

Realism. Play offs a good lark for us all, but really not vital we get in the prem.

Millwall next, let’s just have a good game and be thankful for what we’ve got. I’m quite happy with Championship.

Imagine being a Sheffield United supporter right now.

Moot point. The starting XI we have this season would not be the starting XI we have next season if we go up.

This is also technically a stronger squad than the one promoted with McDermott. We have a number of players more suited to the PL than the Championship.

Agreed.

The pressures off getting automatic promotion now and I’m quite glad cos we will get crucified in the Premiership as our team is now. Have a look. Swift. Injury prone. Olise, is he as good as we’re all claiming and is he off soon? Richards, great player but his heads been turned and he won’t stay. Joao, selfish, moody not a team player etc etc.

Realism. Play offs a good lark for us all, but really not vital we get in the prem.

Millwall next, let’s just have a good game and be thankful for what we’ve got. I’m quite happy with Championship.

Imagine being a Sheffield United supporter right now.

Moot point. The starting XI we have this season would not be the starting XI we have next season if we go up.

You'd obviously strengthen. I think the team showed capabilities to play at a fast intense level on Wednesday that you'd need in the Prem. But of course there'd have to be a number of signings

The likes of Brighton and Sheff U did manage to stay up reasonably comfortably without completely overhauling their squads. Leeds and Wolves have obvs done more than just survive by building on very good champ sides with a couple of extra high class signings.

West Brom really didnt seem to prepare well for the season, not quite sure what they were expecting. Fulham have actually competed pretty well without really getting the points they should with much the same side as went up. Would certainly feel a lot more confident than if we'd gone up with Stam where realistically probably only Moore could have made the step up at the time.

I could see us doing ok if we went up. We've the right profile of players in that they are generally quite young and at a good technical level

Also agreed.

[CountryRoyal]

Moot point. The starting XI we have this season would not be the starting XI we have next season if we go up.

This is also technically a stronger squad than the one promoted with McDermott. We have a number of players more suited to the PL than the Championship.

Agreed.

Moot point. The starting XI we have this season would not be the starting XI we have next season if we go up.

You'd obviously strengthen. I think the team showed capabilities to play at a fast intense level on Wednesday that you'd need in the Prem. But of course there'd have to be a number of signings

The likes of Brighton and Sheff U did manage to stay up reasonably comfortably without completely overhauling their squads. Leeds and Wolves have obvs done more than just survive by building on very good champ sides with a couple of extra high class signings.

West Brom really didnt seem to prepare well for the season, not quite sure what they were expecting. Fulham have actually competed pretty well without really getting the points they should with much the same side as went up. Would certainly feel a lot more confident than if we'd gone up with Stam where realistically probably only Moore could have made the step up at the time.

I could see us doing ok if we went up. We've the right profile of players in that they are generally quite young and at a good technical level

Also agreed.

Assuming we never had any injuries I agree our first team would probably do ok, the only change I’d really like to see is maybe a better keeper. Rafael’s reflexes and reactions are good, but often his positioning is suspect he his absolutely beyond atrocious with the ball at his feet.

But we would have to drastically improve our squad depth, and suspect our starting defence might need strengthening too in reality.

[Zip]

This is also technically a stronger squad than the one promoted with McDermott. We have a number of players more suited to the PL than the Championship.

Agreed.

You'd obviously strengthen. I think the team showed capabilities to play at a fast intense level on Wednesday that you'd need in the Prem. But of course there'd have to be a number of signings

The likes of Brighton and Sheff U did manage to stay up reasonably comfortably without completely overhauling their squads. Leeds and Wolves have obvs done more than just survive by building on very good champ sides with a couple of extra high class signings.

West Brom really didnt seem to prepare well for the season, not quite sure what they were expecting. Fulham have actually competed pretty well without really getting the points they should with much the same side as went up. Would certainly feel a lot more confident than if we'd gone up with Stam where realistically probably only Moore could have made the step up at the time.

I could see us doing ok if we went up. We've the right profile of players in that they are generally quite young and at a good technical level

Also agreed.

Assuming we never had any injuries I agree our first team would probably do ok, the only change I’d really like to see is maybe a better keeper. Rafael’s reflexes and reactions are good, but often his positioning is suspect he his absolutely beyond atrocious with the ball at his feet.

But we would have to drastically improve our squad depth, and suspect our starting defence might need strengthening too in reality.

Agreed. Rafael has cost us a good number of goals too. A bit fortunate to still be first choice.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

This will be a difficult game as it always is against them, good away record with 5 wins, could be our first home draw of the season.

Yes - I'm thinking a draw, then hopefully win at Bristol with their injury crisis.

On the subject of injuries Puscas has posted a pic on twitter suggesting he's not far off...be great to have him back

[windermereROYAL]

Agreed.



Also agreed.

Assuming we never had any injuries I agree our first team would probably do ok, the only change I’d really like to see is maybe a better keeper. Rafael’s reflexes and reactions are good, but often his positioning is suspect he his absolutely beyond atrocious with the ball at his feet.

But we would have to drastically improve our squad depth, and suspect our starting defence might need strengthening too in reality.

Agreed. Rafael has cost us a good number of goals too. A bit fortunate to still be first choice.

Raphael is a decent stopper but he doesn`t stand up to what we normally expect, the other night when he pushed the ball out to Toney was just the latest in a lengthening list of errors this season, any keeper worth his salt would know you push the ball out to the sides rather then back out into the danger area.
IMO that position should be top of our priorities in the summer.

[Sutekh]

Holmes and Gibson in for Yiadom and Richards

[Hound]

4 CBs in the starting 11 today then....

Guessing Yiadom and Richards need a rest

What it does do is give us more attacking options on the bench - Richards, yiadom and Esteves can all play wide mid

[Sutekh]

So nothing like consistency with getting good performances from the team and the reward is to bog about with the full backs. This will not go well.

[windermereROYAL]

Twitter is melting down.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Completely understand re Yiadom, just back from long term injury and a compressed run of games coming up, Holmes gives us more height too and they will lump balls in to the box as always.

Don't get Richards decision though.

[Hound]

Possibly a bit injured? There’ll be a reason I’m sure

No Wallace for them. Bod starting. Good news for us

Looking at how they are lining up would have to fancy a tight game. We should be able to dominate the midfield tbh

[Jagermesiter1871]

This is a weird lineup

[South Coast Royal]

4 CBs in the starting 11 today then....

Guessing Yiadom and Richards need a rest

What it does do is give us more attacking options on the bench - Richards, yiadom and Esteves can all play wide mid

Please stop going on about players needing a fcuking rest.
The other day posters said about young Olise needing a rest which is understandable but Richards?

I wonder if this is Pauno over-reacting a bit to the opposition and their aerial attack.
It would be understandable if we were away going for a point but at home when you are 5th in the division I would have thought the focus would have been on the way that we play, not the opposition.

Anyway it could well work out and with Bournemouth only drawing just now I wouldn't be too disappointed in a draw.

[Zip]

4 CBs in the starting 11 today then....

Guessing Yiadom and Richards need a rest

What it does do is give us more attacking options on the bench - Richards, yiadom and Esteves can all play wide mid

Is it more about nullifying Millwall? They could cause us problems at set pieces.

[Snowflake Royal]

Completely understand re Yiadom, just back from long term injury and a compressed run of games coming up, Holmes gives us more height too and they will lump balls in to the box as always.

Don't get Richards decision though.

Both of them struggled a bit against Brentford.

On top of that, Holmes and Gibson will be able to compete much better at each end at set pieces.