currently lunch hour at work ... but also post from my phone .. which tend to be shorter and subject to the odd predictive text error
I imagine that he's still in denial after last night's 'minor setback' against Derby. Must have been 3 offside goals and a wicked deflection. And as for the ref.......
I haven't even looked at the Championship table all season. But, seeing as Hull beat us in the League Cup, thus being the much better side... And seeing as we are top of the Premier League, one can only assume that Hull are running away with the Championship title...?
Either way we won't be playing you next season. It'll be 3 years before we get up. Rather like you guys did, we will perennially reach the play offs and fail until we somehow burst onto the scene and storm to the title.
I haven't even started on your posts yet Sterling Oh come onnnnn, it's a football forum... It's all part of the fun!
... didn't say otherwise ... although I might have waited until the season is over and hopefully we have carried on winning
I think a bit of fun can already be justified. Regardless of what happens in the last 6 games we can't fInish any lower than 7th so we're guaranteed our highest ever Premier League finish.
I cite Leeds and Rotherham away in defence of last night. Dave getting sent off didn't really help but we'd already lost the game well before that. We now have to win our remaining games to have any chance of automatic promotion and, big hint, it isn't going to happen. This was our best chance to get straight back up given the quality in the side but I fear we've blown it. Our squad will be dismantled, Bruce will leave (not a great loss) and we will miss out on the money available. Then of course, Newcastle, Villa and whichever other team will come down and probably dominate the top two, making it even harder next season. It'd be interesting to know, how often do you change your tactics to suit the task at hand? There's a debate on our board at the minute that we are just blindly playing the same team over and over because it features big names and we sit and hope it does the job. There doesn't seem to be any tactical nous behind it, so the same team that panned a poor Bristol side then went out against Derby, who are a very different prospect indeed. I only ask because you seem to have a settled side and your tactic seems to work against everybody, but do you set up to hit bigger teams like Chelsea and Arsenal on the break away from home or do you just play the same team and just say "same as last week"? Many users are saying it was wrong of Bruce to keep the same side (in fact in his post match he said he probably should've changed it) while others think he shouldn't have changed a side that won 4-0.
... Ranieri has made several tactical changes throughout the season but more from the bench than to actually start games (certainly over the second half of the season) ... but that is probably because we have hit on a formula that is very effective ... one of the key's to our success has been that we have a very settled starting XI, subject to injuries / suspensions (and we haven't had many of those) .. but we have had to adapt no doubt ... teams are now setting up to try and negate our threats first and foremost ... Ranieri seems to be very astute at recognising what needs tweaking / shuffling during games and then having the players exercise his instructions ...
As opposed to Bruce who chucks on all his attacking players and takes off his full backs. Bit of a contrast. You look at the difference between the two managers and it's startling. I really hope we can pull it round for these last few games, if only to give us a bit of momentum in the playoffs, but I just can't see it.
