FFS my mates late. I dont like disturbances in my match day routine. I've ditched the lucky underpants cos well they werent. It may be Commando boys, got try every permutation
It's shredding my nerves already. Let's all give it our best. Players know what's at stake as we all do. C'mon City! Oh and I'll say for probably the first time ever - come on you Hammers.
Should sign Gedo for one game only... has a hell of a lot more chance of scoring then Hernandez does! Will be watching the game with fingers and toes crossed that we can beat Glory Support FC today - but unfortunately, I can see Newcastle winning as West Ham have been piss poor over the last few weeks. Fingers crossed Man Utd. will make more errors at the back and we can capitalise on them! Keep believing. Come on City! P.S. I'd have started Alex Bruce... need a crunching tackle on ol' Potato Face in the first 30 seconds to get the crowd going!
The team is Harper Elmo Chester Dawson McShane Brady Meyler Huddlestone Quinn Jelavic N'Doye Unchanged. I'm going home.
Man U are full strength with Valdes in goal. Rooney starts up front. West game have fielded a full strength side not that I think it'll matter.
I've gone and put a bet on 3-2 and 4-3. I'd be surprised if this was a nervy 1-0 unless we took the lead.
As long as we give it an actual good go, that's all we can ask for. Another Burnley performance will **** many off.
Changing a team last minute isn't sensible. I called for it and wanted four at the back. But you have to think sensibly and an overhaul could lead to more problems then it solves. Let's face it, it is what it is and the team will be heros or we will all be blaming the formation. It's a won or lose whatever, and just like sacking PB we will never know what would have been best. And if we win we won't care
Good luck today, but I'm afraid the Burnley has already decided your future. Newcastle have been the poorest team by a mile since Pards left, and their owner deserves relegation more than anyone.
This is a good summing up of the reasons for our poor season: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Manchester-United-survive-Premier-League.html Steve Bruce owns up to Hull's failings but believes Tigers can beat Manchester United to survive in the Premier League Hull must beat Manchester United to stand a chance of survival The Tigers are two points adrift of Newcastle going into the final day Steve Bruce's side started the season in Europe but could be relegated By Craig Hope for The Mail on Sunday It was back in August that Steve Bruce allowed himself to dream of Hull City in the San Siro. He was sitting inside Sporting Lokeren’s Daknamstadion in north-west Belgium. The mood was optimistic, relaxed, the hosts had even laid on a case of Jupiler beer. Supporters were drunk on the prospect of the adventure which lay ahead, toasting their brilliant boss. Bruce, having the previous season masterminded survival and an FA Cup final appearance, talked of taking the club to another level. Nine months on, he is on the verge of doing just that – only Bruce never imagined that level would be the Championship. The San Siro did not work out – they were eliminated from the Europa League by the Belgian minnows in what was Hull’s first foray into continental competition. Failure to beat Manchester United on Sunday will mean the Football League, again. But how did it come to this? When Hull signed Mo Diame, Abel Hernandez, Gaston Ramirez and Hatem Ben Arfa on a frenzied deadline day last summer, they were touted as this season’s surprise package. ‘Surprised’ is one way to describe midfielder David Meyler’s assessment of the season. ‘I am in shock, to be honest,’ he said. ‘Last year, we probably did exceed expectations. We knew it was going to be tough but it is our own fault because it was in our own hands. Losing at home to Burnley (earlier this month) just was not good enough. We can only try to put that right now and hope other things go our way.’ Bruce, too, returns an equally damning appraisal. ‘At the moment, me and my staff have not been good enough – that’s the brutal fact of it,’ he said. Hull were leading 2-1 entering stoppage-time at Arsenal in October. Victory would have had them fifth in the table. Instead, Danny Welbeck stole an equaliser and so began a winless stretch of 10 matches. Then came the injuries. ‘We were sitting pretty at the end of October,’ reflected Bruce. ‘We had been 2-1 up at Arsenal with a minute to go, we had drawn at Liverpool, we had beaten Crystal Palace here, and we were sitting very nicely. ‘Then Nikica Jelavic gets injured at Arsenal, Diame gets injured, Michael Dawson gets injured, Curtis Davies gets injured. We’d already lost Robert Snodgrass. I could go on and on. ‘The truth is we haven’t been able to cope since then. We haven’t been able to get a settled team together. ‘Last week at Tottenham (2-0 defeat), there were seven or eight of the team who got me out of the Championship. I always know what I’m going to get from them. ‘They have a terrific appetite for the game and they are great lads, but they need a hand. The big players we brought in, unfortunately, have fallen by the wayside for one reason or another.’ Hernandez – at £10million – has scored just four times. Diame was sidelined for four months. Ramirez has struggled for form and fitness. While Ben Arfa was a disaster and was jettisoned in December. Then, earlier this month, there was the distraction of £8m midfielder Jake Livermore testing positive for cocaine. It has been a bruising campaign for Bruce and one which he admits he is looking forward to seeing the back of. But analysis of it will be influenced entirely by events of this afternoon. In 17 attempts Bruce has never beaten Manchester United, the club where he won three Premier League titles. ‘When I was manager of Wigan, they came and won the league twice at our place,’ laughed Bruce when considering the identity of Sunday’s opponents. ‘I know for a fact that we could have picked an easier opponent - we will have to be at our maximum to get something. ‘We understand the enormity of it but as we have just seen, who would have thought that West Brom would beat Chelsea 3-0? ‘It can happen and we can produce that shock, I know we are capable.’ Should Bruce’s players prove incapable, Milton Keynes will feel like a long way from Milan next season.
