I have posted a lot of negative stuff since yesterdays defeat - a lot of general stuff.
Specifics on yesterday -
- Another referee sends their full back off and they play 60 mins with 10 men - I have now seen the tackle and it's touch and go whether it wasn't a straight red on its own merits.
- A proper centre forward would have got a hat trick yesterday - two in the first half and one in the second.
- One error cost us a point.
The above though disguises the consistent malaise in the the whole club though but with a bit of luck it might have been a win.
Just balancing my positive/negative books that's all!

Out of curiosity. Who would you have picked ?

Even if you accept the argument that Hodgson has not been supported in the transfer market ,his role is surely to get the best out of the available resources.
He seems to have decided that this is to try and keep it 0-0 until half time and then hope the opposition make a slip .
But if this doesn’t work then what?
We looked clueless against Southampton and Sheffield Utd when they went ahead.
Surely you have a plan B if plan A isn’t working.
Yesterday we took Benteke off and put Townsend on - the guy who may be able to supply crosses that Benteke requires.
We then seemed to try Ayew and Townsend up front in a two man frontline for about five minutes.
We then stuck Cahill up front and I got lost as to who was playing where.
There was no evidence of any strategy or thinking from the dugout.

So I get home at gone 10pm after train trouble and ask myself, "will I make that 200 odd return journey again to watch the same football"?
Probably, yes.
Let's face it we are all frustrated after yesterday, me also. I sense that much of what has been written on this thread is not so much about yesterday's game but about the way we play at home since Roy has come in.
Looking at yesterday first:
1. Sheffield Utd have the 2nd best defensive record in the league and demonstrated why that is. They are well drilled.
2. We bossed the first half and played some nice intricate football in the opponent's half.
3. We were unlucky not to score, especially from the chance at the far post when the cross was slightly deflected by their defender.
4. At half time I was fairly happy with how we played
BUT THEN
5. One moment of a combination of luck, wind and Vincente's wrong decision changed the game in that we seemed to lose all confidence and control and the Blades started to show they did have a bit of an attacking threat as well as a superb defence.
IN conclusion, this was a game we didn't deserve to lose but then how often this season have we taken points we didn't deserve?

One final frustrating thing is that we can play on the front foot as we did in what I consider was our best home performance, the defeat against the runaway leaders, when we went toe-to-toe with them and our wingers kept their full-backs occupied for much of the game. If I'm going to watch us lose, that's the kind of game I want to see.

It’s a real indictment of Hodgson’s management that nobody in the ground seemed remotely surprised that we lost that game yesterday.
A newly promoted team has done the double over us and we have failed to score against them.
They’re a decent side ,but nothing special, and we can’t claim we’ve been unlucky against them in either game
One of my old colleagues used to say ‘ the real crime in life is to aim low and still miss ‘ and I sometimes feel we are guilty of that under Hodgson.
He couldn’t hide behind injuries or tiredness yesterday so then trotted out the excuse that ‘we weren’t scoring with these same players before their injuries either.’
Accept some responsibility for what’s happening on the field.

Same formation has picked since the second game of the season. It didn't work against Sheffield United away, so he tried exactly the same thing at home.

His tactics have cost us more points that we have earned though them this season.