What is there to say? Oh dear. First point - Larsson. Why was he substituted? Especialy when he was - just as bruce does his usual desperation trick of "stick all the big lads on", ESPECIALLY jus as he was about to take a corner.. Did he pick up a knock? Didn't seem it from where I was sitting? Now Larsson wasn't having a great game but then no ****er was. And to be fair to him he spent half his time covering for Richo at LB who was DIRE again. I only saw him up close for the first half but what I saw was socking - the lad is not, and never will be, a left back. On a couple of occasions Seb was actually telling him what to do... he just is not a defender. Next point, Sess. He is NOT a striker. My god, just no. Next point, gardner. Was he playing? Next point, subs. Same as always then, chuck all our forwards on at 70 mins. There really is no plan B. And I couldn't believe he also took off the only player on the pitch who is likely to get a decent ball into them. Baffling. Gardner was anonymous, the whole team looked lacklustre, we're against poor, slow opposition.. Surely this would have been the perfect time to throw catts on and try to instill some ****ing urgency? Positives: Bendtner, Vaughan. Negatives: Everything else. In particular, elmo and Bramble. Hate to say it, but I'm rapidly coming round to the BOB mentality. He just doesn't seem to have any ideas, and the team didn't look interested at all today, other than the first and last 5 minutes. My team for WBA: Westwood O'shea Brown Turner/Laing? Colback Larsson Vaughan Sess Richo Bendtner Ji Colback at LB far from ideal but he's played there before and, based on tonight, anything is better than Richo. Hell, nothing would be better than richo. Still, going forward he does offer us something. Larsson needs to play in his preferred position, Bendtner needs a partner, and hopefully sess and vaughan can offer us some creativity in the middle. The best part about this team is that if things aren't working there are alot of options to mix things up, rather than just "get the big lads on and play hoofball". Meh, what do I know, hopefully Bruce shows some tactical nous next week and I might just stay on the fence for a little while longer. Tbf he can't be blamed for going 4-5-1 again after the stoke result, but after tonight's shower of ****e he simply HAS to go 4-4-2 at home against a struggling West Brom imo.
