His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

Next two games, I think, will determine whether we stay up or not.  3/4 points we may scrape up.  6 points definately stay up.  0,1,2 points down. First half on Tuesday was very poor.  Nobody seemed to have any idea what they were doing.  Vokes up front didn't touch the ball, that I can remember.  I had almost walked out immediately after I had arrive, when my mate told me Cresswell was captain.  He set a superb example of how not to play football. I was so bored in the first half, that I happened to notice the column of seats in front of me was completely empty :- This really was the highlight of the first half. Second half, Stephen Jordan was subbed for Lowton.  He'd had trouble marking Kebe, who looked impressive on the right. Blades had chances, but couldn't convert, then a killer pass put Long through, Lowton got in front of him and looked like he'd rescued it, but next thing Long had scored. Anyway Boggy managed to get and score...

Another solid performance (apart from the labouring Bent) with reasonable performances all round.  We deserved the points, I thought, and the ref did his best by helping with a fairly dubious penalty. For me, it needs to be Bogdanovic and Evans on Tuesday night.  Bent didn't look that interested.  Later on in the game, Quinny started to look a dangerous player and we could do with him back to his old best.  Evans again looked like a great centre forward, throwing his weight around getting involved.  Apparently he was ill during the week, and got substituted during the second half.  The crowd for once were booing the decision to take Evans off, rather than booing Evans. However, good performances aren't enough and even with Bassett in the directors box, we need to start getting 3 points each game.  Tuesday is a huge, huge game now. Blades 1 - 1 Millwall

Frustrating game as the Blades had great chances, hitting the crossbar/post, forcing an incredible save from a Monty long-range rasper, having one cleared off the line and having a couple of good chances inside the box. Blades were in charitable mood, gifting the foxes an early goal by not marking anyone and having a keeper stood two miles off his line allowing a tame lob to nestle in the back of the net. They then picked it up a bit.  Joe Mattock at left back didn't look very good, but was getting a harsh reception from the Leicester fans (not sure what the history is there).  We he got stretchered off, they were still giving him abuse which was pretty much disgraceful.  The stadium announcer piped up, saying "I'm sure all fans wish Joe a speedy recovery."  Shameful. Once crab eyes got into his stride we started to look better, creating chances and were unlucky not to get in at half time level. The second half continued in the same vein, with Blades dominati...