I didn't comment on the starting eleven because it was a list and I think that is how Bruce sees it, just a list. I really can't understand what goes through his head anymore; it's really quite sad. But Not to worry, he'll probably be on TalkShite in the week giving them his wisdom on ManU.
Everyone is bottling it apart from Burnley. We need to change it. 3.5.2. Push the wing backs right up. Its easier not watching, Brighton, Sheff and Birmingham aged me. Frustration levels a lot lower today. If we go up. IF. We cant keep Bruce. No mattter how much Iike that guy its shocking we have not walked this league or been away with another team. Pathetic. Forrest is a must win and I think Boro. We have too many more opportunities to mess up
How many games have you been to this season Mr Hat…?… because supporting your team home and away isn't covered under miserly… I just can't stand our manager…. thats all… !!!
I bet you could when he got us promoted and when he got us to our first ever FA cup final and kept us up.
Measuring people's support based on how many games they've been to is ****ing idiotic and a rather pathetic argument. I guess expats and people who live in other parts of the country are **** supporters then? What about those who are too old to go, or have health issues of the sort? Must be **** too. Those ****ers who are financially unable to come are ****ing rubbish supporters too, eh? (Before you ask, I've been to every home game bar one and several away.)
Freely admit, I was a fan at what he did for the club initially, but as with many people in many professions, they have skill limits, you do, I do, some have the ability to learn, change and improve, some stand still and get overtaken. Even with huge assets at his disposal (squandered) he is in danger of consigning us to multiple years in the championship when this year of all years a place 'with the big boys' is/was there for the taking. I personally believe that at the end of last season if we had appointed a new manager, we would have been clear at the top of this division now. Its about opinion Mr Hat. I love Hull City, not the management. A win or loss dictates how good a week is quite often.
We were out-thought, out-fought and out-played by MK Dons today. They earned their point and could so easily have walked off with all three.
I don't think we'll win the league. Even with two games in hand Burnley have put solid performances in and got results when we haven't. It's between us, Boro and Brighton for second and summat tells me we'll finish fourth.
There is nothing wrong with the squad,which is full of ex Prem players & internationals, the issue is & has been for a long time the manager, his team selection & his whole style of play. Will someone please ask Bruce what he thought would happen playing Clucas in midfield & Diame as a left winger?. Please explain the logic behind playing people out of position ? We have scored 2 goals in 7 games. What are Bruce & Phelan doing in training everyday to rectify this ? Extra shooting practise, practicing set pieces, practising corners. They are doing *uck all to rectify it as they are both as clueless as each other. How do you expect 2 defenders to teach players the art of striking ??? It's not rocket science, get a striker coach in (what's Teddy Sheringham up to ?). Burnley play 4-4-2, they get the ball to the strikers (plural) who stick it away & thats why they are going up. We piss about with 4-4-1-1 & then don't give the striker (singular) any decent service either from the wings or on the floor. Can't Bruce see this!!!!!! Come on, FFS its so damn obvious. Whatever happens, if we stay in The Championship or manage to get promoted to The Prem, Bruce , Phelan & the 1st team coach have to go. They are all as cluless as each other about playing attacking football & we need someone in the building who does & can instill an attacking mentality into the players.
Yes the thing is, people like you give people like me a bad name. I'm one of the genuine Bruce outers, who disliked him since the start and never rated him. It's hard to be taken seriously when there are bi polar people who's opinion swings on the back of 2 or 3 results.
One of our poorest displays of the season. Very disappointing and on par with what we produced away from home in December. We looked good in flashes but it simply isn't enough. We harried and pushed MK Dons just after we scored and they looked panicked and were making mistakes. We didn't maintain this and this gave them the incentive to return to sitting back and frustrating us. A 2nd goal then would have seen us go on to victory but we need that resilience to keep going and maintain pressure on the opposition. We made it far too easy for them to sit back and contain us and the game felt like it just petered out in the end. We are fortunate to have one of the best squads in the league but it counts for **** all if we aren't taking the game to the opposition. I would say that 6 points is now necessary from the next 2 games. Automatic promotion is not a lost cause by any means but a poor return points wise from these next 2 games will make things all that bit more difficult in the final month.
To answer the above. Clucas has played Cm before and for us at times. Diame isnt disciplined enough for CM. He's played wide left or wide right plenty of times. He was ****. Clucas was **** first half. Hayden was ****ing dogshit first half apart from a great run and cross. Which Mo ****ed up. Elmo was the only midfielder first half that looked to do out. Hernandez was pretty much invisible first half, Akpom strolls about first and second half .Thats put to bed all the calls for him to play. his attitude is appalling. I'd love to have played against him, wind him up to ****. Diomande should have come on a lot earlier just to see if he could do out. Aluko,,, so ****ing what. We know you can twist and turn. Try doing it near their ****ing box not on the halfway line. Their CF had a bigger beer gut than me but battled for every ball. We had 4 forwards on the pitch at the end but when it broke down 3 of them threw their hands up in the air and sulked. Only one of them realised or wanted to chase back to help out- Dio. ****ing weak as piss ponces with no moral courage.
Agree our strikers are all to similar, weak as piss as you say. Has anyone ever suggested we should sign a big bastard? Diame has always been primarily a centre mid and was at his best there for us but Bruce seems to gradually lose the courage to play certain players in certain positions. He won't play Aluko on the wing cos he's not defensive enough. Last season he played inferior players ahead of Robertson, who had been our best player early on, because he wasn't defensive enough and now it seems Diame isn't defensive enough to play in midfield. We're not shipping goals but we're not scoring ourselves, surely now is the time to focus more on attack. All that said, I don't particularly mind Clucas and Diame being that way around and as I said before, Diame created our only clear cut chance with a brilliant bit of play. Last point. These missed headers are becoming a theme. In the rare occasions that delivery is good the header always goes spinning off someone's head and wide. No one in our attack is even a competent header of the ball. Hernandez can head pretty well when under no pressure but you don't get that space in this country. Diame used to be a brilliant header of the ball but he's **** at it now.
Nothing is working up top. I suggested it a while back, and I genuinely think it's time to throw Clucas in as a striker. He has played there before and done very well. The issue then though is we have no fit left wingers.
I'm not here to argue with you Hat… or give you a bad name… its about opinion. I'm a genuine Bruce outer too Hat. I lost patience halfway through last season if not before and if you read my posts here and on AN Other site you would know I have been effusive about Bruce and his inabilities and have been called from a pig to a dog for doing so….
We all know first half was the worst for a long time and after a display like that changes have to be made I expect Snodgrass, Powell and Livermore wont be available again, do you give the midfield another chance or bring in Myler and Huddlestone and move Clucas back wide, teams seem to be restricting our wide play and then nothing is created through the middle, up front lack of movement doesn't help. I'm scratching my head thinking what's SB going to do next because we have gone from a team who looked a very good side to one which points wise over the last few games would be nearer the bottom. At this moment in time apart from the defence who is really earning a starting place because not many are standing out. Snodgrass and Livermore are big losses but with this squad players coming in should be desperate to do well something I didn't see today. The Forest game is massive as they all are now but getting that winning feeling again is needed urgently. There is options in the squad, tactics can be changed its up to the manager to get it right because at the moment it isn't working. Over the season I have seen enough to know we have got it in us but lately its been frustrating I would forget all this promotion talk back the team and hope the players respond and if so hopefully results will follow then you can think about promotion but at this moment in time getting back to winning ways is priority.
