2 away losses and 2 home draws (Rhodes & Austin) come on have a reality check! Boro fans are jumping at the minute & they've not played a team in the top 7.
Yes true about many of the players. We are in his debt for that and what we have achieved over the past years. The same could be said about Phil Brown too. There comes a time when things have to change and it is either now or getting very close to it. So in your way of thinking he should never leave because of the players he can attract or past records?
I have paid £30 to watch both the last 2 home games and that's the last of my money going to Hull City whilst Bruce is in charge, because that is not value for money and not entertaining. We gave Corry Evans away for £600k and replaced him with Thudd for over £5m. Who was the best player on Saturday ? Why do we always take off strikers when leading to bring on defenders and then concede a goal ? I was at St James Park or whatever it is called now last season we were 2-0 up and the useless fat guy in charge took off Jelavic for a defender and guess what they scored 2. We had nobody upfront to pass the ball to we were playing with 5 defenders and 5 midfielders. If we had beaten Newcastle that day we would have stayed up. Why do we always play through the wingers and not through the middle ? Why did Maloney not start on Saturday ? Why did we play 4 4 2 again when we are so much better at 3 5 2 or 5 3 2 Blackburn's only threat was Rhodes and guess what he lost his marker and scored from a corner in added time. QPR's only threat was Austin and guess what he lost his marker and scored from a corner. How many goals have we conceeded in the last 10 minutes when leading ?
Injuries f'ked us up! We're not an established prem team so If we yo yo for a few years then so be it? There's a lot of bigger teams then us in our league who think they should be in the prem! Like I said reality check we've only played 9 games!
Have I stumbled onto the l##ds board by mistake? We've only played 9 F'king games and were joint 3rd! Get a grip!
Bruce's comments in the paper today are that too many players aren't doing their jobs. How long has he been saying that? When is he going to start making them do their jobs? Isn't that his job? He also says we played 4-3-3 against Swansea. Did we ****. He's counting Elmo and Maloney as strikers now. Same old Brucie.
Nine games equates to 20% of the season having been played yet we are still to see a 90 minute performance from the eleven on the pitch. Poor performances inevitably eventually turn into poor results. Open your eyes, the performances have been dire and there's no hint that Bruce has any idea of how to solve that problem, even to the extent of starting with Maloney on the bench for Saturday's game. Why did he do that, was it because it would:- a) weaken his perceived strong defensive set up, or b) make us look a stronger attacking force with more than the solitary creative tactic of crossing from the wings?
He did state before the game that we were trying a 4-3-3 formation, but we'd switched to 4-5-1 within about the first three minutes.
What kind of line up would we have if we didn't have SB? That's the question you need to answer? He maybe isn't the best tactician but as I've said before nearly all our team play for him not city! Why would a player like daws want to play for us?
He built up an enormous amount of goodwill after taking us up, keeping us there and getting us to an FA Cup final, but we've had eighteen months of crap football now and I'm afraid all that goodwill is used up for me. Everybody makes mistakes, but there's only so long you can take the same person making those same mistakes every bloody week.
Eh? We've just come off 2 seasons in the top tier. If this club declines again then you can say that until then you are talking nonsense.
You're talking out your Arse pal! Just look at the teams in our league! I'm all for having black & Amber glasses on but please?
4 wins 3 draws be careful what you wish for? Some people maybe have been spoiled? We're now one of the biggest teams in the championship now according to some!
With the most expensive squad in the league and possibly the highest wage bill in the league, you'd expect us to be getting decent results, but we're simply not getting the performances that such an expensive and talented squad should be achieving.
Assembling a good squad isn't good enough if they play poorly every week under your watch, especially if your only solution is to repeatedly state that they need to play better. If he isn't going to change anything and he can't get them to play well what are we paying him for? Anyone off this board could just say "Same again next week lads, dust waselves down but play a bit better next time."
