Play-offs

[Ringwood]

Bellingham mk2 is very average

 

[Malaga]

Brewster has been anonymous, apart from his yellow

 

[bakajack]

Brewster has been anonymous, apart from his yellow

Brewster work off the ball has been immense

 

[bakajack]

MotM for me so far though has been Moore
He’s won practically everything in the air and has been the foundation for almost all of Sheffield uniteds attacks

 

[Ringwood]

Hamer off could be significant

 

[bakajack]

Sunderland could lose a number of their better players if they lose today. Someone will definitely poach Mungle, Patterson might get poached too

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

I can't get over how bad Sunderland have been, that is daylight robbery

 

[bakajack]

Wow out of nowhere 1-1 when they could easily have been 3 or 4 down

 

[Malaga]

Brewster work off the ball has been immense

I obviously haven't been paying attention, my bad

 

[bakajack]

In the context of the game now Patterson is possibly man of the match. A worldie save after 70 seconds and that second crucial save minutes before the equalizer kept Sunderland in it

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Carthorse Scummer Moore blows promotion

 

[bakajack]

Unbelievable Jeff

 

[Dr. Winston]

Memories are so unreliable. If you'd asked me about the promotion season before you posted that, I would have thought about us rampaging through the Championship that season and being unlucky to not get promoted automatically.

Yet the truth is that we lost 14 games as you say (more than all 3 other playoff teams and only 5 less than we lost this season!) and only spent a few weeks in the top 2. We were inconsistent early on and struggled to get the striker position right, even while Sinclair was banging them in regularly. We tried Beattie, Moore, Priskin, Nouble, Easter to not much success, although I do remember Beattie's beauty away at Ipswich. It was only when Rodgers started Dobbie regularly that things improved and then Borini came in of course.

I was looking at the results from that season, games like Boro and Ipswich away, Norwich and Leeds home are the ones I remember most, alongside the derby games of course. I'd completely forgotten beating Palace 3-0 home and away. I clearly remember Borini's debut, scoring twice as we beat Forest 3-2, with the other goal being that brilliant run and shot from Sinclair. I didn't remember that was our only win in 5 games, losing 3 of the others.

Of course the playoff games are very clear in my memory and hopefully will be for a long time. I agree with others that it was a very good thing for us and football that Cardiff lost to Reading.

We had three spells of really decent form in the league. Unbeaten in seven games between 28/09/10 and 07/11/10. Two defeats in eleven between 21/1210 & 26/02/11 (that Leeds game), and we finished on a run of two defeats in nine. We looked like a really good side in that run too with Dobbie slotting in at the #10 role and looking like he'd been playing there for years.

 

[bakajack]

Daylight robbery?
More like grand larceny with assault and battery charges thrown in for good measure

 

[SwanseaJack]

We beat these on their home turf a few weeks ago, more promise for next season