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Some people seem to play down his goals as merely tap-ins from the inside 6 yards, but as far as I'm aware that area has never been made off-limits to any other striker we've ever had at this club. I for one am delighted that we've got someone up front who is looking for those tap-in opportunities.

I'm home and trying to dry out and calm down (I live in Sheffield) 11 on 11 we were the better team. That's the crumb of comfort I'm clinging to here. However, we bottled it after the two sendings off- completely lost our heads and I think that's very worrying. Everything that was good in the first half just went out the window at 10 v 10 and we should have had the advantage; we were quicker than them for an hour and passed the ball better. We ran them ragged first half and yet we were blowing out our arses in the last 10 The penalty was as clear as they come and while I appreciate that Tomlin is the designated penalty taker, why the **** wouldn't he give it Tammy? He can only lose from that situation- if he scores so what. If he misses he looks like a**** who's just robbed an 18 year old of a hattrick. O'Neil's sending off was bullshit. HOWEVER you make a tackle like that, on a yellow card, after the ref has just sent a home player off, he's going to even things up So what was good. Tammy is an absolute beast. It's my first game of the season, I didn't expect him to be so physically dominant. Magnusson is clearly a top quality player, needs to work on his heading but his positioning and awareness are excellent and he's got a great pass on him. O'Dowda was also good, Bryan excellent and Brownhill was also very good first half The bad. Tomlin is part of the problem here folks. We want everything to go through him, but he just can't keep up with Tammy, COD or even Brownhill or Bryan. Then when he does get the ball he's holding on and holding on because he wants to be the one who plays the killer ball rather than just having the play go through him. Johnson either needs to find a different way to utilise him or bench him from my small viewing sample Midfield- Pack is too passive in a game like that, that's why O'Neil was having to make the kind of challenges that got him sent off. Pack is great when we have possession and are dominating play, he doesn't influence it enough when we're chasing the ball Flint- from the sublime to the ridiculous. He's making mistakes and he needs to cut it out Management- Johnson didn't do enough to influence that game and when he did, he frankly got it wrong. He brought Bobby Reid on to the right wing when Adam Reach was running riot. Bobby then constantly drifted inside, giving Reach so much room and space. It needed a proper winger on there to a) get behind him and b) reduce the space he had. Bobby was either poorly instructed or poorly disciplined Anyway, rant over. Hopefully some lessons will be learnt and some improvements made. The 1st half needs to be the norm and the 2nd half needs to be learnt from

I can't comprehend the meltdown. We're all gutted, but seriously? Some of these comments are outrageous. Tomlin - There's a fair chance we'd be playing in league one without him. When he missed the penalty we were still winning 2-1. He is not responsible for the end result! Yes RO'D's error was a howler. Yes GO'N should have done better. We're a work in progress. 13+ new players, all learning each other's games, having played less than 8 matches together. The knee jerk reaction to a new team is embarrassing. We're already showing so much more promise than last season which constitutes progress. Clearly that's not enough for those who suddenly expect us to be challenging for the top spots after a season spent fighting relegation. The comments talking about promotion and playoffs when we go 1-0 up is as clear an indication of the fickle nature of 'in the moment' comments. Lets take a minute to recall where we were last year, where we are now. Less than a quarter of the season gone, and we've just lost to a team who have strengthened over the summer after being one result away from the Premiership last season. i get the passion, and the in the heat of the moment disappointment. But let's save the pathetic abuse of the players who will be as gutted as any of us. Time to support, supporters.

I'm glad I don't rely on any of you lot next to me in the trenches during a war. What a bunch of whinging pussies who chop and change their over reactions backwards and forwards, before looking for the nearest person to lump blame on. Pathetic!

I hate playing you lot. Owlstalk in meltdown.

Genuinely cannot believe that people are slating Tomlin so much. It's actually embarrassing how deluded some people are about football.

Tomlin didn't mean to miss the penalty. An extra inch the other way and you'd all be creaming over it so don't lay into the lad. I'm way more pissed off about the fact that even though we were taking a penalty and playing against 10 men, Gary O'Neill had to make a stretching challenge from behind to stop them going 2 on 1 against us. Where is the organisation there?! Schoolboy stuff

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Nervous about tonight, left Abdi and Forestieri on the bench which is interesting. Big storm here in the south side of the city, hope it doesn't affect the game. Still early days but it's not been a good start for us with disappointing defeats against Burton and L**ds. Hope those of you that made the journey up here arrived safely. Be interesting to see how our new record signing Adam Reach performs on his debut. May the best team win.

Ok from one who was there...here's my perspective. Tomlin buries the Penalty then it was game over. O'Neil resists the cynical tackle then we would have had the extra man advantage. These things obviously didn't happen...I'm currently sat with several Wednesday fans and their summaries go from "That were a crazy five minutes" "How did we win that" "I can't believe how lucky we were your man missed the pen" "Your boys battered us 1st half and turned off in the 2nd" "Play like that and you're gonna have a good season" "we robbed you" Now for what it's worth I think we folded when then pressure was applied...Bannan yet again bosses the midfield and we just watched as he pinged balls around and made ours look silly. The meltdown I've read through on here wasn't quite what I witnessed at Hillsborough. Conceded again isn't great and yes I'm pissed off we lost in the manner we did but I think it was a fair result.

You seriously wouldn't want to work with a few on here would you, you'd be frightened to turn your back for a minute for fear of being stabbed. Disgusting attitude to one of the most honest teams we have had in decades.

Some of you lot are remarkable. Night all.

The goal: Sorry about the sh*t quality, I wasn't expecting it!

Are they so worried about us that they moved the goal nearer to the water to get the game called off ?

Sorry lads, cruel way to lose a game that. Was a big win for us after our shaky start to the season. Hopefully we'll both be around the top 6 for the return fixture in January. Have a safe trip back.

Brownhill did well here!

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Yep I agree,Has anyone ever missed a penalty before? I'm gonna google it

Please please please don't start using Tomlinson as a scapegoat, we had enough of that nonsense with Jet

First name Tia?

Although many moons ago and prior to his Gas days, I think Darrell's radio phone-in is a peach and should be added to the list.

Seriously. Why? The guy just narrowly missed a pen. At the point he hit that post we were still 2-1 up against 10 men. I could understand some flack if he'd completely skied it or tried a cheeky Zidane and been caught out, but as missed pens go, it was as good as they get.

Last season we would have given our eye teeth for two away draws. No one expects us to gain promotion Top half is fantastic after last season COYR

Let's not start on Tomlin because he's had a few bookings and missed a penalty...

I get having a preferred penalty taker but you have a kid who is on fire and on a hat trick, why not let Tammy take it?!

I assume anyone diving in this match will be given a score by a panel of judges based on difficulty and execution?

Sorry I must correct this: "One living off benefit in Yorkshire"

He may well have been supporting Chelsea when we played them for the final time in Division Two of the old Football League. No doubt we took the Shed End in the away game, and he's never forgotten how we travel in numbers!

Yes but before the season started I wouldn't have had Barnsley to beat Wolves. I'm hoping LJ does have the players in tomorrow, only to clear the air and really find out what went so wrong. These things can't be left or they will fester. It seemed pretty even and then suddenly we were 2 up. Were we then too confident, sloppy? Tomlin must have hit the pen well as it bounced off the post with power and went half way up the pitch, can't understand the hate he is getting. O'Donnell too was so safe last season, I can't believe people are calling for Frankie who lacks match practice and previously hasn't shone in the Championship anymore then O'Donnell has. O'Neil should have known better, but he is saying he got the ball. I wasn't there. Let's hear from those who were.

Sure but I think it's about perspective. People tend to claim we're brilliant when we win and awful when we lose and the truth is we're a decent Championship side who are stronger than last season but still riding our luck a bit and are probably more mid-table than play-off contenders. I also think the flipside to what you've said is that football supporters on internet forums sometimes feel they have impunity to criticise as harshly as they like without impunity but then seem a bit surprised when people criticise them harshly. Ultimately if someone's not prepared to put up with abuse on the internet, they probably shouldn't be abusing people on the internet.

Here we go, we ae all officially shite, apparently !

ha ha - the doomsayers come out from behind the woodwork now they have something to whinge about....

You want to blame some one blame o'neil it's his rash tackle that put us down to ten men, he should know better, 10 v 11 we wouldn't be drawing to blame tomlin is idiotic

Well yeah. But players miss penalties. Tomlin's scored them for us before but that's a thing that happens. Tomlin has absolutely no control of O Neill's legs and what they do. It's absurd to blame him for O Neill getting red carded. That's on either O'Neill or the ref, depending on how you call it.

Are you smoking crack?

What an absolute clusterfuck.

Don't you mean... Tony was grrrrrrrrreat!

First one since Tony Thorpe?

I saw him first you cow!

Half decent this Abraham fella...

In January 2004 Scandinavian Branch shuffled Blundell Park from snow only to se the game postponed due to a waterlogged pitch from heavy rain over the night. My bad.

So I'm not saying it's raining hard but the concourse is leaking. However, thanks to the finest technology Yorkshire has to offer, we've found a bucket.

I felt the need to go a little bit quicker on my way home from Edinburgh and let my impulsive side take over..... I've now arrived at Hillsborough and looking forward to a win, but will settle for a point. The Steak Pies are alright, the cider is nasty.

I was suggesting that after a long and arduous journey for the 925 fans that shall attend tonight to witness a 1-2 win even though I hope for a 0-4 thumping you all visit a bar that is a purveyor of 50 rums called Revolucion de Cuba on Mappin Street. I am suspicious they will have anything beyond Havana Club, Ron Santiago or Club Varadero and that the rest will be the usual mass produced fayre but it might be worth a visit. A welcome rest after your travails up our delightful motorway network. I had a few more inconsequential remarks in my thread that I cannot begin to re-gurgitate now after a glass and half of .. no not rum... but wine other than to say thank you to our marvellous fans for such tremendous support in what is a 360 miles round trip, more if you visit the bar in question of course or it will feel like it if you over indulge. I do wish OTIB was a little more forgiving and functional than it is. I do really. That is all. Enjoy the game.

I'll save you the bother. Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, inferior to York, Harrogate and Leeds who are unlike Sheffield not featured on every chan 5 documentary life on the dole etc Its famous for having two underachieving football teams and making cutlery FFS. The Owls a bird which is the symbolic creature of Leeds represents Wednesday, backwards isn't the word for that really a bit like sticking a blue bird on our shirts! Then there's obviously UTD a club that has police cells underneath it, a subway to navigate back to the train station and some of the most up their anus supporting fans in the country, oh and they like hitting women and scarfers, wow! HOWEVER there are nice areas of Sheffield like most parts of every big city, they are just a bit tougher to find. Having visited friends in Toxteth, Liverpool on Saturday I can honestly say it was like a tropical paradise compared to some parts of Sheffield. I shall see the other 20 of you at the game as its a long way to go especially after. Saturday. Regards Yorkshire Sectioned.

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Whoosh?

Their one and only beef with SL is that he pumps millions into us, not them. That's it. This bitterness is compounded by the fact they have never had anyone willing or able to back them to the same degree (when they so desperately need it). Until now, of course. What they could do, with someone like SL... But to throw mud at SL simply because he is red, not blue would leave them wide open to ridicule, too easily dismissed, so they pretend to be outraged by his non-dom status. Of course, if they were geniunely affronted by football club owners not doing their bit for their country or for being questionable characters, they would be "banging on" about the owner of Sports Direct, or the one running Villa into the ground until recently, or the ones borrowing hundreds of millions to buy Man Utd and lumbering the club with the debt, or the goon at Cardiff/Fulham/Forest (take your pick), not the one employing local people at the going rate along Anchor Road and ploughing millions into the local economy in south Bristol (and rescuing long established local sporting clubs, rather than taking advantage of them at their most vulnerable). But they don't give a f*** about any of that. What pisses them off is that he is spending millions on us, not on them. It's hypocrisy laced with decades of bitter, bitter envy. A toxic combination.