Miffed

What’s McNeil going to be thinking tonight? Oh great I scored twice today? Or …. I missed that penalty that ultimately cost us the game?

It was given to him for the wrong reasons For the sentimental reason of giving him his hat trick If we were 3-2 up, fair enough, we’re already winning….. but see the game out first. When you see things like that, it’s usually when the game is won…. Like Arsenal playing Tony Adams up front at the end of that game Sentimentality was chosen over winning the game, it clouded the judgement when it was only earlier this year we paid for doing the same thing with Ugbo When you consider everything, it really was a ridiculous decision

if it was Ingelsson then it’s really poor leadership from Bannan as club captain to allow it to unfold the way it did, knowing full well that the last time it happened it cost us.

looking at the stats and having seen the game, do you think we’re good enough to win today?

That’s how bothered they are about Wednesday,….. that every single one of them found the England women more important. Couldn’t have just one of them turned up to Hillsborough today or split the duties.

You can see people getting fed up in the stands. Kids with gloomy faces walking out of the stadium. Even as a season ticket holder, I’m starting to now question how long I can keep this going for. Especially for any upcoming midweek games where it’s going to be freezing or banging it down, stopping where it’s warm and watching on the box is looking more appealing. The fans just need something right now, anything to get excited about, but personally, I feel the players and manager aren’t rewarding the fans. Yeah, I get the bigger picture and not putting anything aside, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot

Doesn’t matter how many he’s scored, I think we can say that he wasn’t the designated penalty taker, it was done for sentimental reasons. The players had the opportunity to send the fans home happy for a change, it’s a concern that a captain chose sentimentality over winning the game. Keeping McNeil on two would have kept him hungry for more, missing the penalty might have knocked that confidence back. Shocking decision and even worse from the manager for not condemning it

Awful decision, they haven’t learned from the Ugbo situation. Chance to send the fans home happy, and yet again we have to endure the away fans having all the fun. Who knows if that’s knocked McNeils duck too Mentality of the squad is wrong. Expected better leadership from the captain. Sickener

This I’m going today, and strangely looking forward to it….. but after last Sunday I can see why some fans would struggle to find the energy to turn up when the players can’t. And knowing that we still have to play that lot in their own back yard bothers me

I understand the sentiment and why people sometimes thing like this, but unless your ambitions are to ultimately compete at the highest level amongst the elite, then what’s the point? It would be like an England fan watching the qualifiers but not being interested about the World Cup

(Except for the minority of idiots) the fans aren’t and never have been the problem at this club. We’ve done our bit

You can guarantee, no matter what team Wilder put out in a Sheffield Derby, even if it was a team of jobbers picked from the Sunday leagues, he would demand effort and commitment. He wouldn’t have accepted that showing from us. Some fans have a low bar

If you want to put it that way.....Peoples main gripe at the Forest Green game wasnt necessarily the result, but the all round bad performance and perceived lack of effort from the entire team. Not putting a shift in against Forest Green away is one thing, but to not do it against our biggest rivals at home is another. Get beaten 3-0 when youve left everything out on the pitch is also one thing........ the fans did their bit, the majority of the players didnt. They let the fans down.

I’m happy to write this season off…. I expected far more hammerings than we have received, I even resigned myself that it would be a heavy defeat against the blunts. Having said that, you pull on that blue and white shirt in the Sheffield derby and I expect you to give it your all. I can accept that players aren’t talented enough, or aren’t good enough…. What I can’t accept, is lack of effort That made the game at the weekend even tougher to swallow. The result hurt so don’t tell me it didn’t matter

Does this mean the play offs are back on?