The sooner we’re out of the FA Cup the better!

TeaCider said:
So you think it's because we played Spurs a week ago then, yes?

Half an hour's extra football is not why we lost.

We play in the Championship, there are regularly two games a week.

If Spurs had knocked us out, would our players have suddenly been physically and mentally rejuvenated?

Before tonight we'd played fewer matches than almost every other side in the Championship.
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It’s not the extra time it’s the extra effort and concentration that it takes to stay in contention. Sheffield Utd we’re by far the better team but we had absolutely no response even in the second half which away from home we have at least improved. Sheffield Utd pressing us all over the park is nothing to do with the Spurs game, the dawdling too long on the ball and wayward passes are.
 
WoodallServices said:
It’s not the extra time it’s the extra effort and concentration that it takes to stay in contention. Sheffield Utd we’re by far the better team but we had absolutely no response even in the second half which away from home we have at least improved. Sheffield Utd pressing us all over the park is nothing to do with the Spurs game, the dawdling too long on the ball and wayward passes are.
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I think the far more likely answer is that we faced a good side who were deeply familiar with Wilder's style of play and management and knew exactly how to counter it.

Bar the odd player, almost every starter in their team tonight was brought in by Wilder or had years under his management.
Even Paul Heckingbottom was brought to the club by Wilder.

That and we had some absolutely diabolical individual performances.

Peltier was woeful tonight, and you certainly cannot try and blame the FA Cup for that.
Bola looked every bit a player who had been injured for months.
Etc etc.

I think it's a lazy excuse to try and blame it on a cup match when we've already played and won since then.
 
270 minutes away from an achievement our club has never pulled off in the last 146 years. Agree with SameAs, if you're not up for that it's pointless being a fan.

Besides we'll make the playoffs anyway. UTFB.
 
SuperStu said:
270 minutes away from an achievement our club has never pulled off in the last 146 years. Agree with SameAs, if you're not up for that it's pointless being a fan.

Besides we'll make the playoffs anyway. UTFB.
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Not on tonight’s performance we won’t.
 
There is another thread This day 1975 - The 1st time I was devestated after a Boro cup exit.

It' s all about cup game memories.

I can't see a thread about Premier League memories. I want to go up but it is no where near the fun of the Championship. Football chess is not for me, Wilders way if playing is exciting.
 
To be honest, I'm becoming more invested in our cup run then our promotion campaign.

Unfortunately I'm beginning to believe that our away form is going to cost us a play-off place, but beat Chelsea and we may just draw Forest or Everton in the semis, stranger things have happened.

You'd have to then fancy our chances of getting to the final.
 
Yep, another who'd rather we won the FA Cup this season than got promoted, if of course I could have a choice....
An FA Cup win is forever, promotion is often just for a season or three (if we are lucky)
 
Our squad is not big enough to cope with the sheer volume of games that comes hand in hand with a successful cup run.
Whilst we've had a couple of amazing victories in the cup and hopefully the biggest yet to come, I would prefer promotion over a cup run that ultimately ends without silverware.
 
I'd take a cup win over promotion every time. Can't stand the Premier league. Sorry, meant the "promised land" ™
 
Chris Wilder said in one of his recent press conferences he wanted to go deep in the cup, but it wasn’t the main aim of course. That tells me he (and/or the club) wants promotion more too.
 
Heine_Otto said:
I wonder how Huddersfield have managed?
They’ve played the same number of FA cup games as us.
I can’t see them bleating
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Same number of FA Cup games and more league matches.

Though admittedly they didn't play last night, because they had fewer postponements.
 
WoodallServices said:
Great as it’s been these long hard fought games just suck the life out of us physically but more importantly mentally. Taking nothing away from Sheff Utd they were better on the ball and off it,
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I would take a decade of league two football, a ginger kid, not being able to ever eat bread or cheese and no teeth for the rest of my life to win the fa cup. Beat Chelsea and we have two games to win it.

Give your head a shake opening poster.
 
TeaCider said:
Nothing to do with naivety.

You're talking utter ***** if you think we were well beaten tonight because we beat Spurs a week ago.

Or that we were well beaten because the players were thinking about a match that is 12 days away and has 2 other games before it.

We were well beaten because they were better side on the night and the players didn't turn up.

It happens.
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But it has happened 3 away games in succession, the ‘it happens’ line wears thin…….
 
I’m going to say this tongue in cheek, but it was Chloe Crooks (Matt’s sister’) fault we lost last night.
She is a Blades fan and she put a hex on us and especially him as the “tree” resembled a weeping willow last night.
 
the_holgate_roof said:
But it has happened 3 away games in succession, the ‘it happens’ line wears thin…….
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I don't think it has happened in 3 away games in succession.

The result was bad against Bristol City, but we were the better team.

Not that it's much comfort that we were only awful for 2 away games in a row.
 
1991/92 League Cup Semi Final and FA Cup Fifth Round didnt stop us from finishing second and we didnt have a massive squad back then
 
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