Its not though is it? Its an indication of our lack of investment to have a squad capable of being rotated and still get results. We've had this before. There are two ways of going about survival. You either spread your quality on your first 11 and risk injuries taking you down. Or you spread it over the squad and risk the lack of quality in key areas taking you down. Rafa was a spreader, Bruce seems to be one for sticking with the best 11 where possible. Pardew did similar. All 3 of them seem to have had similar success with their approaches. I thought we'd do a lot worse than we have with this end of season set up. It favoured those with big plentiful squads. Its why I think someone like West Ham has turned the corner a bit. They have quite a deep squad. So they can rotate and not lose quality. I looked at their bench the other day and they had the likes of Yarmolenko, Haller, Felipe Anderson and Lanzini - that's got to make a difference.
My current record tonight is 3 in each eye. Aiming for five in each eye but it’s getting a bit hard to see where I put the lat 4 nails...
The sooner he fecks off back to Cheshire to be closer to his beloved Manchester United the better for me!
" Once upon a time there was a man who had very hands and this man was considered a c#nt by lots of people in Newcastle "
Has he been sitting waiting to press send. I assume he's equally scathing of Rafa given their near identical performance levels? Some of our fans are hilarious. They flit from one of the scale to the other. Same as always, both did a good solid job (well hopefully its did with Bruce anyway...)
