4 Goals, am I dreaming?

Sheffield United 4 (Four) v Colchester United 1

Tuesday 10 February 2015

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Cor, we needed that.

Today’s drink was ….. Moor B-Moor on Keg at 6% in The Rutland. Lovely & bitter against almost red fruit sweetness. There's also a tartness. Maybe reminiscent of Cranberry. Deep & intense flavours. Great beer

Then Hopcraft, A Good Rogering 6.1% on Cask in The Rutland. Pleasant, but slightly disappointing if I’m honest. Not a lot of bittering to my taste.

I also had Stancill, Barnsley Bitter at 3,8% on Cask in The Red Lion. I like that as a does what it says on the tin beer. Nice, copper, bitter.

The B-Moor is hands down, Standout beer of the Day.

United had a good bit of luck with the first goal, keeper spills it, bit of pinball.  But, that really helped them settle down. You need a bit of luck down the way. That gave them the leeway to start attacking at pace - which they are very good at, but do infrequently.  At Gillingham on Saturday, we came perilously close to being absolutely appalling. We’ve got some way to go before we can ever claim to be dominant. But, the final score tells the story. It actually went a bit flat at times.

I remain a spine man. And I do think they’re better with Doyle in. Have we got Basham as a settled Centre Half now? Is he part of my Spine?  The January Window jiggles things up. I was very comfortable with Ryan Flynn playing at right back. Presumably, Brayford’s arrival jiggles that up. They’re sucking ordinary midfielders in, which might shove Louis Reed down the pecking order. More & more signings eases Diego even further out. Nigel seems to like McEveley - making it difficult to get Terry Kennedy in.

Things need to settle down. We need to get some results together. If we have to go back to first principles to do that - so be it. But, longer-term, I’d like to be able to get Reed & Kennedy into a settled side.  

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