As long as the players realise this & don't go running around trying to win tackles & score goals like they stupidly did at Man City. We especially don't want to be like Burnley on Saturday & win the game against the odds!
I agree with we absolute no chance of winning on Saturday...Although if we play well on Sunday we may nick a result.
Funny you should mention Warninks because when I see Advocaat's name I think of an old TV commercial, "Eveninks and morninks I drink Warnink's ... Warnink's ad-vo-caat." I wonder if Advocaat will give Blunderland a "snowball" in hells chance of staying up.
This was always going to happen from HT in the Villa game. 0-4 down @ home in a vital game to a rival Aston Villa, players looking dis-interested and half the crowd already gone home. Home fans venting anger to the bench. Not all GP fault and who can save them now i wonder ? lol.
I dont see why this is necessarily a bad thing for us. We fired Brown at the same time in the season and we all see how that went for us. There is a decent chance that this hurts them.
The one positive thing for Sunday is we very rarely give up against the big sides, look at Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City away this year. It tends to be against teams around us (Leicester home, Burnley away) where we just seem to give up.
The big problem for City now will be how the players stay positive enough to win the games we can win in the midst of regular defeats. We have only lost once in the last six games, so morale and belief is high, but we will lose more frequently now and we will probably slip closer to the drop zone. That means Bruce and co. will have to work very hard to keep that self-belief bubbling so we can beat the likes of Burnley, Swansea and Palace. It's a huge job and if Bruce and Phelan achieve it they will deserve huge credit.
True, they would deserve credit, but numerous missed opportunities this season are the reason we're not midtable and safe already.
I would rather him have been in charge until the end of the season, the fans were getting on their backs where as now it will give them all a big lift and they will get behind the new man and the team. I think a lot will depend on how his first couple of games go. I think villa have turned the corner even though they are only on the same points as us. Yes we have got a very difficult run in and if the teams above us play to there best then most will beat us because they are better than us, how ever luck, injuries play a big part and on our day we are capable of beating anyone, We have wasted chances to have taken a lot more points, take Leicester for example 1 point from 6 when we should have taken all six. We should be safe now how ever we are not so we will have to do it the hard way.
If Sunderland start off with a positive result v Newcastle they'll gain momentum and stay up. It will all snowball from there.
