Bruce is working to get the balance right, but seems to be dithering a bit. We've brought in a load of flair players to give us an attacking verve. That approach has fizzled out - Snodders getting crocked on day 1, Ben Arfa not showing much, and Gaston being a typical petulant Uruguayan. That - combined with Davies going off the boil - has unbalanced the side. We were leaking goals as a result, and drawing games we should have won, but only because we had goals in the side then. Let's face it, the side we had last season did alright initially because we hadn't been sussed out with our formation. Second seasons are tougher because you have to innovate, and that's risky. Now - the game against Man U aside - we're defensively better but can't score for ****. So to my mind Bruce should now be at the point where we can build from a reasonable defensive situation, put Jelavic and Hernandez on the pitch together. But we all need to calm the **** down.
We've heard all your bullshit for over a year now, it's tedious, repetitive, ill educated & ignorant of any football knowledge. For one time only, any chance of a little honesty. Have you ever been to a game? I mean ever? You ****.
Why can't we play a full game like we played the second halves against Everton and today, the first half against Spurs, and the last 15 minutes (with 10 men) at Burnley. It must have something to do with Bruce's game plans/tactics??? Leaving Jelavic out for 70 minutes was a huge mistake as we had no one to get on the end of some really good low balls from Meyler early on and Elmo's crosses later. 3 points today would have taken us up to 14th...now we're back in the relegation zone. Games like todays are the ones we have to win! Austin scored again for QPR. Who was the doctor who said we should pass on him???
Aluko wasted his chance today, didn't take a man on all game. Hernandez was £10m worth of nothing once again. Take Jelavic out of our team and we've simply got no attacking threat. We weren't terrible but yet again we didn't create anything all game. Midfielders were alright but all made mistakes in good positions at some point. Elmo was thwarted quite easily. This game just wasn't the time to pick a nicey-nice lineup based on loyalty while leaving better players on the bench, I said it before the game.
Been at work all day so didn't know anything about the game until I saw the disapointing result. Then I looked at the line up and it all made sense. Need to knock this loyalty thing on the head. It's not like we put in an outstanding performance against Everton that made people undroppable. I just want to see our best players playing in their best positions.
I'm afraid Brucey ****ed up again today, a blind man could see it wasn't working in the first half, Brady/Robertson for Meyler after half an hour and we might have given them a game, but as it was, we left it far too late. When the substitutions finally did happen they were the wrong one's, it was a seriously frustrating afternoon.
To be fair nothing he said in that post is far from the truth and by far didn't need that typical 13 year old hysterical reply. You might not like the poster but don't turn your apparent frustrations elsewhere.
I like the cut of your jib Ben but ............. I think you missed out the words ''complete and utter non-game attending'' between the words You and **** ............. hope this helps ?
I know where you're coming from but, I was trying to be as polite as I could be so as not to offend the complete and utter non-game attending **** too much.
Women are pretty much all the same, regardless of nationality or race. Men are very different. And male spics are workshy, hubristic twats.
No doubt Brucey is at fault for most of the season - we have players that are good enough, and there are rarely occasions you can have a go at particular players, they all seem to do a broadly competent individual job, or at least put in an acceptable amount of effort. You suggested Meyler for Brady/Rob - which would probably have helped, giving Quinn a central role so we actually have someone in the centre who can do something with the ball other than passing it to the wing (or shooting wide). But i'd rather Huddlestone or Livermore go off - because at least Meyler does things you expect of a midfielder e.g. running forward with the ball, putting in a hard tackle. Hudd/Liv are probably better players, but they don't do enough, and we certainly don't need two of them in the same team.
