I thought he was top, top class today and showed why we wont, imo, be keeping him beyond May 2012. In fact, if he keeps this up we will do well to keep him beyond January as I'm sure someone will come in with a cash offer for the player and I dont know whether that would mean his loan could be nilled and void? He was the reason that Bruce effectively hasn't been sacked this evening imo. At 3.05 pm today, Bruce was mentally clearing his desk and saying his fond farewells to the staff and players at the club. He was effectively a manager without a hope of keeping his job. A third goal at that time would have been the end of the game and the end of Steve Bruce. However, in almost a one man show of what a top quality centre forward should be made of, he wrestled the game back to 2-2. He was fantastic and no wonder he tired badly for the last 10 mins or so. He gets a 10/10 today for his holding up of the ball, heading, dribbling, awareness and passing game - oh and he scored a goal and set the other up. Brilliant. It may well have bought Bruce another 5 mins on the stop watch countdown but in essence all it really did was stick another sticking plaster on a gaping wound. It hasn't cured anything and in not too short a time, it will all just flare up again and require another sticking plaster to stem the hemorrhage of confidence and ability that is slowly strangling the club at the moment. Having been 0-2 down inside 4 mins and than coming back to 2-2 and maybe even nicking it sound like great team spirit and an enthralling and exciting game, the reality in fact is nothing like it. That was a performance that had me shaking my head in disbelief AGAIN. 2-0 down to Chelsea or Man Utd at home and coming back to draw 2-2 would be in that exciting and incredible comebacks. 2-0 down to a completely ****e WBA team AT HOME after only 4 minutes then scrambling back to take a point off the game is quite frankly a massive embarrassment to the club. If as all the Bruce fans say we have improve then beating ****e like this at home should be a formality. It wasnt and it hasn't been at home for the last 9 months either. We have still only won 3 games in 2011 at home. If as reported Bruce and Quinn had a love in down the tunnel after the game and Quinny is happy with the way things are going currently then to be quite honest, maybe its time the pair of them went because thats a team that is going to struggle along all season in the bottom 6 or worse. Whether a new manager will make a difference is open to debate because I really am beginning to question how good these players really are but to be honest, there isn't an option for me now. There has to be a change asap if this isn't to be another seat of our pants attempt to avoid the dreaded drop. Bruce's interview tonight after the game was that of a manager that had just won the game 6-0 not scrambled a 2-2 draw against a shower of ****e that will also be relegation candidates along with us come May 2012. They were ****e and so were we. So, thanks Nikolas for your contribution and for saving the day but no thanks Mr Bruce, as that was not the performance or the result that tells me your time at the club is now anything other that well past its sell by date. BTW, Bendtner cant play in our next game so who the **** fancies Ji & Sessegnon as our strike-force v Arsenal at the Emirates? I dread to think what that scoreline will end up being. What a forgetful day of predictable, boring and ultimately embarrassing rubbish. No wonder the crowds are falling and trust me, they wont be getting any bigger on the back of that load of **** today. They will be down to season ticket holders only unless the £10 school tickets have a limited effect. Bruce and his BiB's can take all the positives they feel necessary to justify their mans existence but all I saw again today, Bendtner apart, was another load of negatives that confirm to me absolutely, that we have the wrong man, at the wrong time and in the wrong place now.
In answer to your question Cest, we will find out next game because he cant play, I may not like the answer.
Hello C'est. Didn't bother reading it all, but Bruce has to go BUT who comes in? Other than you're pet, M'On x
Syd I can guarantee you wont like it. Ji and Sessegnon? I dont think we will score, or even have a shot for that matter!!!!! Bobby - how dare you not read it all. Get back and read it your impudent bugger, that took me 3 mins of my time to type out Lol
Right. Av read it C'est. How long ago did I say Sir Niall Spin should go? Months. Got me tin hat on x
Sunderland really do look out of sorts... that Sessegnon in the hole tactic clearly isn't working I'm glad to be ahead of you but the way your going they won't be a derby next year.
Steve Bruce is the best thing since sliced bread and anyone who says different doesn't know anything about football. He took us to 10th last season and no one can argue with that! (How we ended up there doesn't matter, all you need to know is we were there.) He again showed today how clever he is, by achieving a magnificent draw against the clearly better footballing side of WBA! You all should realise that Bruce is the way forward for our great club, even if he takes us down to the championship you should thank your lucky stars he deigned to be our manager.
I think you will find there's a few of us rated him. And thought his style of play didn't suit the Arsenal way of trying to walk the ball into the net.
Have to admit I wasn't over the moon when we loaned Bendtner and what I had seen of him at Arsenal I wasn't overly impressed. Always had the opinion the man's ego was twice the size of him. However, I totally agree with this post, his performance today was top class, I can't remember him mis-controlling or mis-passing at any point in the game (Catts could learn a lot from him in that respect!). He's won me over and he's good to watch, a genuine forward who's all round ability is there for all to see.
The main thing that counted against him was being played on the right wing and Wenger being unwilling to play 2 natural strikers. If I always had faith that if he got more game time he would turn out well.
I think the ego thing is a load of bollocks. He just paid the price for publicly saying he had belief in himself.
He was everything a top, top target man should be today. He has a bit of pace, can pass, turn, hold up the ball, flick it on, link up the play and score a goal. It was a 10/10 virtuoso performance. Its just a shame that the rest of the team are a bunch of huffers and puffers that gifted WBA 2 goals in the first 4 mins (and they were truly awful) and then spent the next 90- huffing and puffing to get a draw............. at home!!!!! We are destined for a bottom 6 or 7 battle this year. Bendtner is destined for far, far better things imo. Great player. If you're looking for a kick start to get your season under way then you'll get it in 2 weeks time mate. Trust me we will roll over and play dead for you the second the ref blows for kick off.
Just because you don't suit one manager, doesn't mean you're a bad player - Kevin Phillips was playing in Watford reserves before he came here. It looks like Bendtner has, like Phillips, found a new lease of life here. The question now is will we be rid of Bruce before his one-up-front tactic flogs Bendtner to death and his head goes down? It happened to Bent and it happened to Gyan - well, you've noted Bendtner's tiredness in the last ten minutes, and it's still early in the season. So how tired do you think he's going to be in March? We're heading for a hat-trick of top class international strikers out the door inside three years unless we get rid of that manager. That's the bottom line.
