*~*~* Rotherham v Sunderland match thread *~*~*

[mutley]

They’ve beaten Boro
Drawn with Leeds, Ipswich, Southampton & Preston

They might be bottom but clearly on there day, they can pick up results against the top half sides.

Not as bad a result as some of you will make out!

aye, excellent away point against a team with three wins to their name

 

[bozwellboyce]

Tidied

Rancid ....speakmans obsessed with progression mantra looks ridiculous

....we"re regressing under Speakman

 

[Rocky77]

They’ve beaten Boro
Drawn with Leeds, Ipswich, Southampton & Preston

They might be bottom but clearly on there day, they can pick up results against the top half sides.

Not as bad a result as some of you will make out!

Performance was shocking though and there's nowt wrong with saying that.

 

[winnie]

If Clarke could cross a ball like a winger he'd be magic...

Exactly, we bring on the centre forward everyone was clamouring for, and don’t feed him anything in the air.

 

[Lonz]

Worst game of football I have watched us play for some time. Were like a bunch of strangers just rocked up for a game, no game plan, strategy nowt. It's like we went out with the intention of not getting turned over.

I would agree with you in the first half, and most of the second. Came alive for 10-15 mins and that was it.

Lucky to get a point.

 

[Hendon Mad Frog]

Beale won’t last the whole of 2024, thank fuck

He will with Speakeasy running the show.

 

[Billy Batts]

U gotta be taking the piss

They're good at home, took points off Ipswich, Leeds, beat Boro, they're just shite away.

 

[0321safc]

I can’t help but think we spend too much time feeding Clark instead of being direct and going for goal.
Lord help us if Clark gets an injury.

I’m almost desperate to see other players step to the fore, we are embarrassingly predictable. Pritchard does offer something different and has simply got to start against Preston and in the Derby.

 

[JJH]

I can’t believe I’m saying this again:

He has nothing to aim at! Nothing! Zero! There is no striker. Striker no there.

You mean we need a target man ….a center forward

You will be waiting a while. A few on here think teams don’t need a centre forward and our great DOF agrees

 

[palm 1]

Theses have drew with Leeds and Ipswich and beaten Norwich , Coventry and Boro . Some on here are deluded if they think we are just going to turn teams over by turning up , especially teams as physical as Rotherham.

 

[Lonz]

Exactly, we bring on the centre forward everyone was clamouring for, and don’t feed him anything in the air.

I don’t remember seeing anyone clamour for Burstow. Waste of a shirt.

 

[mutley]

It's actually happened what I mentioned earlier people saying was a good point because they beat Boro

24th place Rotherham

Some people are absolutely mental to be fair

 

[Morse]

Rotherham could have been out of sight if it wasn't for Patto in the first half

And our goal was a complete fluke.
Very lucky to get a point tonight.

 

[Rocky77]

He is but tell me one decent play he made tonight inside the box.

I don't need to know. He's contributed more than anyone and to single him out, imo, is utterly bewildering

 

[MoneyballII]

Say what you want about the forwards but he was through if Jobe slid in a simple last 5 mins

Was listening to the Last of the Summer wine commentary for Rotherham and he pointed out a couple of times that Burstow has made a number of excellent runs but wasn’t found.

Habits are not to play that ball it seems.

 

[Football Dinosaur]

KLD and Speakman must be so proud of themselves after that

I get the impression speakman is always proud of himself.

 

[Shieldsman]

I'm not watching mate. I do have a thread somewhere about Beale's style, which out of possession has generally been more about sitting in a mod block and allowing the opposition to play out and then restricting space in the centre.

I've no idea if that's what you're referring to in regards to tonight's match, mind.



That's at half time, so you can double it to 12%.

It finished at 0.33. Against bottom of the league Rotherham that’s a disgrace and to the best of my knowledge is our lowest of the season.

 

[Geppetto]

Awful that. Not sure what’s happened to our free flowing football. January transfer window huge for us

I thought Rotherham closed us down and put us under pressure well. They seemed to run out of steam at the end and that's when we looked at our most dangerous.

 

[Vore]

We showed yet again that if a team gets in to us, we don't have many answers. Easy as piss to play against us.

Glad Seelt got subbed, he never looked like he wanted play to go forwards.

Think he'll be a decent replacement for Ballard when he goes in the summer bit not a fullback or wingback in a million years.

 

[Drexl]

Theses have drew with Leeds and Ipswich and beaten Norwich , Coventry and Boro . Some on here are deluded if they think we are just going to turn teams over by turning up , especially teams as physical as Rotherham.

Here he is, Michael Beale’s butler