Bruce did mention a few weeks back that if he was desperate diomande could play! But I don't think he's even had a run out?
I thought he might have played for the under-21 on Monday , when he didn't appear on the team sheet I thought he "must be another week away" although Phil Buckingham has tweeted that he's training with the 1st team squad.
Of course it was deserved. Every team misses chances. Do you think Leicester, Newcastle and Villa went all season without missing any easy chances? What a laughable argument that really is.
We had a lot of injuries. We missed some incredibly easy chances. We let in vital goals in the last minute. I'm sure other teams did the same. In some matches we hardly seemed to try, eg Burnley at home. Other clubs around the bottom played some great attacking football. We played the ball around the back endlessly. We deserved to go down.
We didn't "deserve" to go down Peter. We played the way we did with what we had and it wasn't much. We had NOTHING up front. The much vaunted Hernandez simply did not fire at top level. N'Doye came in late with 5 from 15 (and who is now with Trabzonspor where he is yet to score from 8 outings). Jelly played the "Lone Ranger" but got little or no support (has yet to score this season from 7 outings with West Ham). The rest weren't strikers arseholes. Sunlun got two undeserved results late on and got the 6 points needed to help banish us to the Championship. An unbelievable list of injuries to key players at the wrong time put us in a position where we could rarely play the same team twice in a row. forcing Bruce to play players out of position on a regular basis. No, we didn't 'deserve' to go down we simply didn't have the fire-power to keep us up.
[ You were right about Bruce last season, hate to admit it but looking back I can see it now as the same things are happening