“We played probably the worst team in the division last week that had no fight with a manager who is tactically clueless at this level, Sheffield United know they have to beat us to have any chance of a top six finish. Saturdays game is going to be a tough one and the players will have to up their game if we are going to get anything out of it, missing open goals is going to cost us eventually.”
“Spine of their team could be missing, Tanganga (suspended) Bindon Missed the Ipswich game through Illness but could be back, Djibril Soumare suspended, Jairo Riedewald Injured and Bamford Suspended”
“I see bamford looked at the fixture list before needlessly getting sent off in the last minute”
“In his defence, it is very hard for him to resist a dive in the box regardless of the next fixture.”
“They beat Ipswich 3-1 last Saturday without two or three of their regulars, so they obviously have a decent squad. This will be tough one.”
“This will be a tough game irrespective of their bans or injuries..
Expectations are sky high now, but they’ll also be expecting something from the game…..
We need to convert a few more of our early chances”
“If Sheff U had not gone through , the ridiculous dance with getting rid of Wild”er and bringing him back, they would be comfortably top six.
It’s as hard a home game as we have left. Snatch your hand off for a 1-0 now.
“People keep going on about hard games ahead …………………. we are a hard game for everyone else. None of them will be wanting to play us”
“If we can harness Hamer, I think we should win.”
“And O’Hare.”
“O’Hare was always a threat against us when he was with Coventry”
“Sheffield United easily have a top four squad. And should be treated as such.
But as said, they have shot themselves in the foot by making it so they can’t go into games thinking a point is a good result. They need to go for it really. That’s not to say they have to win every game, but the mindset has to be quite aggressive and attacking every game. Maybe why they’ve had three sending offs in last few games…
It suits a Alex Neil side to let them have the ball.
Should be a good game.”
“Sheffield United have to go for it now. Especially when playing teams they want to overtake. They will be going for a win, so should be an open game. Which probably suits us a lot more than teams that come to defend.”
“If we keep our heads and focus, tough game as it will be, there’s a good chance we’ll do the business.”
“They’ve lost four of there last five away games. Last two they failed to score at Southampton and against the Spotter although they were down to nine men. If we play to the best of our ability I think we’ll beat them.”
“I think we usually do pretty well against Sheff Utd over the last few years.”
“Bannan is match fit and played every game this season, he is also a machine and runs as much as a man half his age so there is no reason not to start apart from getting acclimatised to his new team mates which should,nt be a problem for a pro.
There is also the oppo beieng the United half of Sheffield so i would bet he would like to be involved considering who he played for the last eleven years.
Would love to see him start.”
“Looking like selling out Friday/early Saturday as has been the case for most Saturday 3pm KO’s this season.”
“We have a tough noisy crowd. The stick the subs get from the west lower bods has them rattled before they get a kick of the ball.”
“I lived in Sheffield 25 years ago. Brammall Lane was quite a rowdy ground to be fair on the occasions I went along to watch them. But even now, 25 years later I’d say The Den has more actual venom and that all sides going ape shit at a bad ref.”