He never does! Why are people still surprised by this? Funny how they were interested when we were in League 2.
I know you like to blame everything on Henrnadez but he's not the problem. The rest of the team is the problem, stuck very strictly in formation, no one breaks out of shape to offer a pass and create space, the only service our strikers get are long balls and crosses from the wings. Great if you've got Crouch up front but **** for all our strikers. People bang on about Andre Gray but he'd have been about as effective as Akpom under Steve Bruce. It's something when your most threatening player in a game was a defender (Dave). We desperately need a new manager in ASAP.
That was a nightmare. Wish I hadn't bothered now, apart from the crowd early on. By the end it was an embarrassment. Will it change anything? I'm hoping we can put a team together for next season, and start to play for each other again.
"City Man, post: 9104553, member: 1041114"]Seems like the season is going out with a Quimper[/QUOTE] It started fizzling out after the Birmingham game if we're honest
Depends who is in charge - even if Bruce stayed, I could see; Hernandez, Diame, Robertson, Huddlestone, Elmo, Taylor & Jakupovic all leaving, with Hayden and Akpom going back to Arsenal. I could see Bruce signing Powell, despite being injury-prone. He probably won't be here if it's a new manager though. There would probably be clubs looking at Snodgrass and Dawson possibly, too. That (at best) would leave us with: --------------Mcgregor----------- Odubajo--Dawson---Davies--ANother Snodgrass--Livermore--Meyler--Clucas ----------ANother--Powell---------- SUBS: Kuciak, Maguire, Bruce, Maloney, Another, ANother, ANother Reserves: Tymon, Lenihan, Diomande,
I don't disagree about Bruce bit Hernandez is a lazy bastard. I go on about him because it irritates me that he gets so much leeway while people like Huddlestone get criticised every week for putting in decent performances. Hernandez is everything wrong with modern football. He'll only turn up when it's warm and he's not played a game in midweek, he misses half a dozen games a season due to bloody tiredness, he throws a strop at being substituted when he's playing ****, or when someone doesn't pass the ball to him. He's just a big baby, which explains why he's got absolutely no bottle and actively seeks to get away from the ball when it's an aerial challenge. When we signed him, as our record signing at the absolute peak of our history to date, the club couldn't sell shirts with his name on for the first week or so because he needed time to think about whether he'd have 'Hernandez' or 'Abel H' on the back, the ****ing diva. When the rest of the team were preparing for a relegation battle, he, as someone who notoriously struggles with jetlag, was flying abroad to get ****ing hair extensions. Priorities Abel. He missed our first three games of this season because of a pathetic, cowardly and unprovoked punch in the stomach of a defender. He won't learn English despite living here 18 months now and he spent the entire summer begging for someone else to sign him, but wasn't prepared to take the paycut that could have made it happen and could have allowed us get someone in who gives a **** about the team. It's obvious when we play weaker sides and our defenders are having to smash balls into the stand under pressure from committed forwards, while the opposition are just picking everything up unchallenged whenever we play it forwards. I was going on about this after the Birmingham game but Kodjia was the same for Bristol City. Watch these average strikers who actually try to put themselves about a bit and it's abundantly obvious what we're missing. First thing Hernandez did off the bench on Saturday was fanny out of an aerial challenge right on the centre spot. And he talks about Hull like it's some little country backwater. Apart from that I like him though.
For a manager who constantly repeats a team is only good as its strikers , he doesn't like putting many in his ****ing squad! ... Baffling how we are among the top scorers in the division , at times we are painful to watch going forward .. Tonight was just bollocks , that's all I can be arsed to say about it
On the night tickets were only £27 & not the £28 advertised on the club's OWS. Car parking had gone up a quid to £6 since our last visit. Swings & roundabouts.
It's a poor enough division you can play half assed most of the games and still end up being near the top. Most of the goals have probably come in a relatively few number of games against sides that hardly bothered turning up. We certainly aren't a kind of goal scoring machine that can come from behind.
It seems incredible to me that we have such a good defence but yet have lost 10 games. Normally teams with a strong defence draw loads and don't lose so many. We seem to either win comfortably or lose comfortably. More worryingly there's no consistency in it. We hammer someone one week with ease and you never really feel confident that we'll turn up next game.
Parking immediately next to the ground was free, though I didn't realise they shut the road out of there for half an hour after the game. The game was a bag of ****. Robertson and Clucas were ****ing appalling. Bruce couldn't change a game if his life depended on it. Apart from the football, getting stuck in a car park for half an hour and getting stuck for an hour on the M1, it's been a great evening.
How many of our defeats have been by 1 goal? Too much pressure on the defence to keep clean sheets as we are impotent up front
