View From Watford

“Haven’t won at home in 10 months?
Better Call Watford. “

“Frustrating as i felt we were good for a point today. “

“Deserved a draw in my opinion. I don’t think Sheff Utd go up with Wilder. Such a poor manager as we all saw. With the team they have, they should have put our starting 11 to the sword. They didn’t. If we were to make it to the play off final against them, I would fancy our chances. “

“The right result overall I think, we didnt really lay a glove on them but quite easily could have been a draw. “

“We were poor, they weren’t much better.
The match as whole was a crap watch. “

“A little unlucky not to get a point, but another encouraging display with plenty of effort and intent.
Sheff Utd were marginally the better side and did very well indeed defensively.”

“Equal first half, we were disappointing 2nd half.
Thought Sheffield looked pretty ordinary in all honesty though they did look sharper and physically stronger than us at times especially in midfield. They also looked after the ball better than we did.”

We were dragged down into a dog fight and couldn’t string 3 passes together all day. The ref was horrific, blew up over every bit of contact and let them get away with some dirty challenges.
It’s disappointing we didn’t have a proper go 2nd half but they were nothing special at all and will finish mid table this season.”

“Let’s not pretend Sheffield United look a particularly decent side. They were bang average. We could have played for a month without scoring.”

“Poor day at the office for us & the ref. The only positive is Sheffield Utd looked ordinary too. “

“A (perhaps needed?) reality check. Not because Sheffield Utd were particularly good, but rather because we had too many of our deficiencies on display and were poor.Rak-Sakyi looked the best player on the pitch and showed why supposedly some PL clubs and also apparently ourselves were after him. But while Sheffield Utd have lots of individual quality all across the pitch I thought they looked less than the sum of their parts. A slicker, more confident side even at Championship level would have put a few passed us playing how we did today. In the end 1-0 was probably a fair reflection of the game considering how bad we were but also how wasteful they were.”

“That was always going to be difficult,not least because Wilder clearly feels he was hard done by and was stirring it pre match.
I thought we competed well and kept going but Hamer and O’Hare looked lively,as they usually do.
Souttar will give Frankenstein a run for his money! “

“UTD were very gritty and dragged us down in the last 20 mins. Horrible team, but they did the job on us there.”

“First half thought we played well. Didn’t deserve to go in 1-0 down at HT. We were hardly exceptional first half, but did enough to go in level!
Second half totally different story! They wanted it more than us and at times it looked like we had 10 men on the pitch!”

“A reality check to some? Thought it was a fairly even game but Sheff U deserved it based on chances (from memory, a missed pen and 2 or 3 Bachmann saves and a howler by our keeper vs a very, very misplaced lob and the woodwork)”

“The real season starts here for him IMO – we had a nice start to the season, fairly soft fixtures. Always looked like it was going up a level today – the task is to make sure we meet that level in the next games as today we looked like we thought we would turn up after 5 wins and not have a hard game”

“Maybe shows where we really are I guess .
Sheffield U probably much better than anyone else we have played .”

“SU were well up for it and ground out a win. “

“Sheffield played at a far higher tempo than anything we have encountered so far. Some of our passing was poor under the pressure. I think Wider got his tactics right. “

“We were second best, really, but then again, that is to be expected going up against a side that will likely challenge for the top two at the end of the season. “

“Definitely 2nd best. By no means embarrasing performace but clear gap. “

“Sheff U better than us overall but no lack of effort from us.”

“Sheff Utd looked good “

“Sheff Utd look a good team so nothing to be alarmed about”

“Enjoyed that proper game. Thought we did ok against one of the teams that will be up there. “

“Their pen was a pathetic dive. Deserved to be missed.”

“The pen that was awarded wasn’t a pen, which was atleast offset by Sissoko’s blatant pull back on O’Hare later on.”

“I thought it was pretty cute by Sissoko really. That never gets given in a non-VAR competition like this league. In fact in real time it almost looks like he just puts his arm down to steady himself after the coming together and accidentally lands on O’Hare’s ankle. It’s only the slow-mo you can see it was deliberate. The ref was never going to spot it though. And that’s without getting into whether the ball was out of play, which it was close to at least.”

“If I remember correctly Sissoko was fully off the pitch as was O’Hare’s foot so as it was an incident off of the field of play would a penalty even be appropriate? “

“Did Jebbison burn down an orphanage in Sheffield or something? Bizarre angry reaction to him every time he touched the ball. “

“Wasn’t impressed with Jebbison. Difficult given that he only signed yesterday, but didn’t really offer much – would have preferred to see Vata come on instead “

“Wilder – “deserved win” “battle” “work in progress” “crowd shouting” “we were always a threat”, yawn, yawn. What on earth persuaded WFC to employ that dinosaur?”

“Chris Wilder could make a fortune on Onlyfans with those moobs
Love that we aren’t scared of playing a team as good as this at their place and are happy to go at them
That Soutter looks odd – haircut looks bizarre on him
O’Hare looks like he’s come straight from a girly spa weekend – those eyebrows!”

“Not sure how we got so much sand up Rob Kozluk’s private parts. Didn’t think much of us at all on the BBC feed. Telling us to ‘go home’. “