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Game over. Absolutely shocking squad who got lucky against some out of form teams.

Honestly our squad collectively have the worst first touches in the entire football league.

All the good that could have come out of the momentum of the last few games is about to be undone by the obvious lack of squad depth and CN issues that literally everyone apart from those at Ewood saw.

Do you normally get cramp in the knee?

For once, glad to be proved wrong. Still don't think it's a "turning point" though, I've never seen a team more open to the counter attack in my entire life, and the goals both required incredible chunks of luck. I'm really, really hopeful I am proved wrong again.

No point watching the rest, zero fight in this squad.

It is, but yet we are significantly below even the worst this league has to offer. It's certainly not a lack of luck on our end, we're just nowhere near the standard required. Everyone bar maybe two or three posters on here saw it coming a mile off.

Just wait 'til we're getting pasted by Accy!

It doesn't really what happens. If one of the sporting director, manager, owners and squad are bad you can change and survive, two becomes harder, three nigh on impossible. We have ALL FOUR. This isn't ending in League One, and I don't see how we ever come back from this ownership.

Because we're an abysmal team.

Put your house on both of them being instrumental to a Blades win.

This a 100% must win. Even a draw won't be good enough but I'll be honest I just don't see it. Even if for arguments sake we say we play well, we a)don't have the quality up front to get clear and b)show time and again that we completely lose all composure at key moments game after game. Rovers 0-1 Sheff Utd

The number of losses for me is the more damning statistic.

Unsurprisingly, another good "spell" that means absolutely nothing because we have stripped our squad to the bone as far as decent players are concerned. I will say one thing - Ohashi scored a few last season, because we supplemented his weaknesses with Championship experience. Now we are seeing why that was so important. Real life isn't Football Manager.

Hate going to 3-5-2, it's not worked for multiple managers over the past few years. I understand the reasoning, but all I see is us playing at the edge of our own area and getting battered. Sod's law on the other hand says we'll nick a win here.

We'll either win 1-0 or get hammered 6-0. It will take a miracle to come out of this without being embarrassed though.

And hopefully that't the last we'll see of Pears. Glad he's locking down his position.

I know it's a friendly but can't argue with this so far against a Wales side who have generally been quite good under Bellamy. Good to see that we want to keep pushing forwards even at 3-0 - one of my biggest criticisms of Southgate was his inability to capitalise on momentum.

The two chances I'd say should have been 100% buried in the last 2 games didn't even result in a shot, and ended up with the ball in our own net in one case. Poor chance creation and even poorer finishers is a worrying combination.

To be fair to De Neve he's done a lot in this game, would be Cantwell with the assist though.

Stoke have sat off since the goal and know we won't lay a glove on them. Like, we've had a few shots and plenty of crosses but have any of them really caused any difficulty for their keeper?

Cantwell gets petulant at some point every game, he's going to get himself sent off eventually.

Do any of our long throws/corners ever beat the first man?

Morishita finally starts finding some positions in behind Stoke so he immediately gets hooked. It's like Ismael pays no attention to the game ever. Yuki already showing why he is ten times the player the other strikers are. Scored a few last season when he had better players around him.

We're a 2 man squad - if Cantwell and/or Alebiosu get injured we could start to see some real cricket scores.