Well that was interesting. Should I read the last 16 pages of this thread or not bother? Depressing moments today: The revelation that Sterling thinks Snodgrass is right-footed. Shows how long he's been out. The soulless performance until we went behind - epitomised by Huddlestone. The ability of Robertson to unerringly hit the first man every time (apart from the odd spoon out for a goal kick). The gut-wrenching nature of an Injury-time defeat after a valiant comeback. The fact that I'm so surprised that McGregor made it through a game without an obvious screw-up. Southeastern Trains.
we had the game in total control for the first 70 mins. if we didnt take all three points today it would have been a robbery. i had us down to lose today and would have taken a draw beforehand seeing as our best 3 players are out injured. with them out we've ended up using the youth players - one of our strikers today was 17, even our reserves are injured at the moment. but saying that, you played better than qpr and we battered them too.
We won't win all the games this season, but why on earth couldn't we get the draw? Humid warm weather is no excuse. Also, the sooner the transfer window ends we can move on, I hope!
Have you just crawled out of a cave? I've been saying it for months and the only thing that has changed is the league and the players - his players.
Half of last seasons squad has gone. Since then, this is our only real poor performance and yet we still nearly took a point. Let's not start calling for Bruce's head yet.
Dawson was totally at fault for the winner Why do we have a 15 metre gap between central defenders Its like having a right back and an inside right back and the same on the left
His team selections and tactics for most of last season were strange to say the least, he seems as though he is frightened to take the game to the opposition,and has the team playing with a negative frame of mind.
One of the ****ter City games I've seen.... First half was just horrible. It looks like Huddlestone struggles to run at times. So many unforced errors from the team in general. Second half was decent I guess. They finally started to wake up a bit after Charltons goal. I was quite impressed by their striker (tall blonde fella, Makienok (?)). He bossed literally everything in the air, scored their first and assisted the second. I think the subs came a bit late. The impact of Hayden and Hernandez was needed. I can't understand why Jelavic was left on the pitch instead of Akpom tho. I obeserved Jela a while and he had such a negative body language, didn't seem interested and seemed to want everything served on a silver platter. MOVE. Too many sideway passes. Aluko pisses me off at times. I've used the word for him before, "Bollkåt", ball horny/horny on the ball and makes a lot of poor decisions. He mixes that up with some brilliant bits of solo skills. Well well. Onwards and upwards!
More and more I'm thinking he simply talks a good game. He's totally likable in each and every media interview, unfortunately to be a top manager it takes a bit more than that.
I don't think he's based it on just today's performance, we've been lacking an effective central midfield for what seems like an eternity, Bruce seems to have done very little to address that, and it continues to cost us.
