I think some people really need to find some other focus in their lives. Some of the garbage and obsessive posts on here is quite sad. We lose its the end of the world, we win we are going to qualify for europe. Hope we go down and play in a proper league instead of listen to the crap that comes out of some people's mouths.
Your OP was the first time in ages you've said something that wasn't complete bollocks. This one is back to form.
Sorry fellers but it is not the formation but the simple fact that our players aren't performing at this level and in my humble opinion are not capable of performing at this level. With Snodgrass, Dawson, Robertson and Diame injured we are without (arguably) our four best players. Chester, Livermore, Huddlestone, Jelly and Elmo are all 'off the boil'! Brady, like Aluko was great in the Championship but both are a noodle short of a stir-fry for Premier League Football. Ince and Maguire are showing great promise but lack experience at this level. Hernandez, despite the hype and the price tag, would be lucky to score in a Pearson Park kick about (the Hull City striker curse strikes again). The least said about Sagbo the better. McShane, Bruce and Rosenior all put in a commendable shift but, again, are short of the quality required. We laid out some good money for some good players but injuries have decimated the side since day one preventing us from fielding our best team over and over again coupled with the fact that some have proven to be not as good as we expected. We are in deep poo-poo fellers and it is no good denying it. We now have nobody to score goals so where are we. There has to be some drastic action take place this week and I still have a 'gut-feeling' that something is wrong internally with the Club. Meanwhile, whilst I cheer my team on from miles away, I feel that this season has deteriorated to the extent that . . . please log in to view this image . . . we are doomed!
.. and then he ****s up with the baggies. it was a chance to establish some daylight between us and the bottom lot.
As much as a manger is responsible for his teams performance and we should hold him responsible he doesnt in fact take the field. I fail to see how he is the sole person to blame for us not getting a win today. Perhaps we could say that the team ****ed up against the baggies rather than simply blaming Bruce.
I thought it looked like we were playing 3-5-2, as Chester was always central and why the hell would Elmo be back to make the error if he wasn't playing RWB. Whenever we use the 3-5-2 against the smaller teams, we are going to lose! FACT!
We started playing 4-4-2 and we finished playing 4-4-2, after the strikers went off, Elmo was generally our furthest player forward. Though in reality, once the strikers went off, we were playing 4-6-0.
don,t really understand how you can say that we equal to a lot of the teams in the bottom 3. We have so far this season lost to Burnley, Leicester, West Brom, Aston Villa who currently make up 4 of the bottom 8. We have performed poorly or very poorly in 80% of the games that we have played this season. Yes injuries have hampered us but we should still be able to put out a team every week that can put in a decent performance and at least create some chances. I think that the Steve Bruce book of excuses must be starting to run dry now, he should be able to get better performances out of the players that we have even with the injury situation, because at the end of the day he picks the team and the system and players are following his instructions. It's ok people burying their heads in the sand hoping that our fortunes turn around but there is no evidence of this happening. Don't let one decent performance against a poor Everton team mask the problems that we currently have. We have competed against QPR, stoke, west ham, Newcastle, Man city, Palace Arsenal, Liverpool , Spurs, Everton {H and A) Sunderland, Leicester and West Brom (h and A). Admittedly we have not taken enough points and the period between playing Burnley up to Swansea was awful but the point i am making is when you spend around 25 million pounds on 3 strikers , Snodgrass, Hernandez and Jelevic and for one reason or another they have not played it makes a MASSIVE difference, we have coped OK with injuries to defenders and midfield although losing Diame was a big loss but losing the forwards has made a enormous difference properly half a dozen points at least. SB does pick the team , system tactics ect but if you have not got the forwards available your not going to score the goals. One thing i will agree with you is that if forwards don't come back quickly or he fails to bring decent forwards in then their is no chance of our fortunes turning around
I dont think we have played poorly for 80% of the time at all! I think Luck & indvidual errors has gone against us far too much this season! there are many games this season that we have drawn that I felt we should of won and some games we've lost where I think we could of got a point.....some individuals have performed poorly this season, McGregor, Huddlestone,Davies,Aluko and Sagbo are the only ones I can think of right now, maybe Livermore but I think Huddlestone affects his game!
Spot on ^^^^^^ this. Well said. Many of the hissy fitters and neg heads were at it again leaving Wba. FFS, but for the McGregor howler Hull City would have gained a point and been in 14th place with Wba in 18th. WBA are a poor team and the fact that we have now let both games @ the Hawthorns go south is down to us and not Wba. Leicester - Wba and Dqpr are the 3 worst teams we have faced this season. As you say we just need some fit bodies back.
So you've written him off already? Just half a season, 14 appearances and 3 goals and you think he isn't good enough. I know you consider yourself a striker connisseur, but that's a ridiculous statement. As is the claim that Snodgrass is one of our best players after two European performances and a few minutes of PL action.
Yes, sorry Sterling, but if this bloke is worth 10 million quid Rooney must be worth a Billion. He's scored 2 from 14 by the way, the other was a penalty. There's still chance for him to 'come good' but he'd better pull his finger out quick.
I dont see how you can blame our strikers when at times our midfielders are stuggling to create chances from crosses,free kicks or through balls. non of these have been evident and I think that starts on the training pitch! Jelavic and Hernandez, are quality strikers. The fact they are both injured shows how much effort they have had to put in just to get a touch of the ball! ...it doesn't help the fact that all our creative midfielders are injured!
Penalties are still goals and apparently, he's never missed one, which is handy. There's no doubt that he needs someone alongside him, he looked completely lost trying to play as a lone striker and I don't think he'll ever live up to his £10m price tag. That said, alongside Jelavic, he actually looks fairly dangerous, so he's far from being a disaster. If we can get the pair of them back on the pitch together, then we'll see them scoring, it's what we do between now and then that's the problem.
