It's a pity we didn't have 11 subs available, the entire team deserved to be subbed after 50 minutes for being utter ****.
not exactly true - Macca was motm but was dropped for the next game at home to Tottenham, so he complained and Brucie put him on naughty steps for wanting to play
BUMPED THREAD as RH sportstalk enters yet another groundhog day programme. What has happened to fans having there say anymore ? Does anyone ever ring that show nowadays ? Judging on this week guess not.!!!!!
What are you complaining about, they read out your message tonight didn't they? It was nice to see your messages to RH are exactly the same as your posts on here.
"Burnley won't try and do that, instead they'll use players like Boyd, Arfield and Marney to kick lumps out of us and try and wind us up, win free kicks and score from set pieces." That's exactly what happened, we took them for granted and we lost. I was really hoping Huddlestone would step up, but sadly he didn't.
They didn't try to 'kick lumps out of us', City simply thought they'd won the game before a ball had been kicked, Burnley simply the better team, and better prepared team, on the day. Huddlestone was, as most thought he would be, and without hindsight, his usual lumbering self for the game, it was one of many mistakes throughout the season to select him for that most critical of games.
They certainly did their homework, like most of the other teams in that division they rightly assumed it'd be a 3-5-2 and knew exactly how to nullify it. Another of SB's annoying traits.
I think it was us who nullified our 3-5-2 by not playing the players and positions positively. We always played Huddlestone too deep and we thrived on missed chances, again. No goals is a sad signature to our critical games. Davies took an injury but stayed on, then the remarkable three subs, taking Chester off for HBA, weakening an already suffering back-three, only to then, predictably, have to take off Davies putting us down to ten men and our shape, tactics and impetus in bits - all of our own making. Steve Bruce made Burnley look a lot better than they were; he made us look like bloody amateurs - what should have concerned us was that this was just him practicing for the future.
Huddlestone should have been dropped before that game, so that was a Bruce mistake for sure, in fact playing him all season was a mistake, but without Diame and Snodgrass there was no other option
Even with formation changes he would have been stuck with Livermore and Huddlestone and some of the other motley crew, lack of players and players not stepping up killed us, could have had Mourinho in charge playing the golden formation of football and we'd still have ****ed it up
Hardly relevant for a start. I was talking about having callers on the show which is what it is all about..... or was ? Well you should know all about ^^^^^^^^ this. Your another in no position to have a go.
He told the presenters 'what they failed to understand, was that we didn't need to sell anyone'. He might also have mentioned 'tosh and drivel', I can't remember, though he definitely didn't mention a ku-de-ta. Whatever he said, I knew instantly it was him.
