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He's literally been the difference between us going down and staying up this season. Bit of an exaggeration Not all all. Youve simply been blinded by this post lockdown run and forgotten everything that preceded it. I haven't. Judge is right. No he isn't. If Darlow had been in goal all season we'd have been in the bottom 3. We're 16 points clear of the relegation zone. And literally bottom of every meaningful stat, shots, possession, the lot. The one thing we are top of is the chart that says our goalkeeper has made far more saves than any other keeper in the league. Of course he's saved his us points, but clearly not fucking 16 points. Howay man. We would be in the relegation zone now if Darlow or Elliott had been our goalkeeper all season. People were shitting themselves when it looked like he could miss the rest of the season after the Southampton match. It's hard to disagree with this if you actually look back to the games earlier in the season. He was making 2-3 match winning saves every game.

What do you expect? Even Liverpool lost here man. WE'RE SAFE

We're safe man, why so ANGRY? We got beat here 6-1, and 5-0 a few seasons ago. Liverpool have just been beaten 4-0 here and they've lost 2 games all season. We have been terrible like, but let's not pretend 4-0 is some abysmal score that never happens to us here (or other better teams). It's weird though - when other teams lose here 4 or 5-0, they don't appear to be as bad as we've been tonight. We can't string 3 passes together. We all expected to get thrashed tonight, but why? Because that's our expectation these days under this owner and manager.

Good awareness that Gayle. I'd be surprised that Man City bother to close me down whilst I struggle to decide what to do with the ball too.

We're safe man, why so ANGRY?

We're absolutely shite. Glorious. Still, we're safe, that's all that matters. Excited about trying for safety next season too.

We can't cope with their press at all, look utterly clueless. They're not even playing that well.

I'm interested. What point are you trying to make? That we, as fans, should request the PL to fail the tests so that we don't have to be taken over by PIF?

Lucas Digne is class like. Would love him here.

A lot of the games this season at home have been pretty shit. Pretty boring. But clearly, we're hard to beat at home. I think 6 home wins is acceptable, considering we're on 26 points from 17 games. Last season we lost 10 home games, and ended up on 25 points. I think 6 home wins is acceptable for a side who are happy with mediocrity. Every team should be aiming to win most of their home games, and not less than half 6 wins with 0 draws isn't good enough. 6 wins with 8 draws is acceptable. Were you happier last season when we won 8 home games but had less home points than this season? Yes, because there looked to be a coherent plan and no where near as reliant on luck as this season has. The entertainment was also far higher which is kind of the point in the first place. Sitting watching a team that is scared to venture into the opposition half and even at home is no fun. Watching a team that can't keep possession for more than 1 minute at a time is no fun. Watching at team that gets a corner and instead of attacking passes back to their own goal keeper is embarrassing. Watching a team getting schooled by the far and away relegation favourites is nothing to be happy with. Relying on other teams not performing and getting the odd lucky result is not a sustainable method. Luck runs out, and what's that? oh, low and behold a team is sitting in the relegation zone hoping to pull off a result on the last day which might keep them up only for a duff deflection to welcome the cold embrace of the championship We lost our first 5 home games last season. Let's be honest we were shit the first 11 home games of the season. Won 2 Drew 1 Lost 8 games. We had scored 7 goals in 11 home games. I remember the Brighton 1-0 loss at home. We played shit. West Ham 3-0 loss at home. We played shit. Fulham 0-0 at home. We had zero shots on target. We were beyond shit. We were very good in last 8 home games of season, and the entertainment level was a lot higher than this season - but the first 11 home games was shit and not entertaining. Samptime29 is right here mind. We paint over it because it was Rafa, but the first half of our home form last season was fucking awful and the football was lifting. Rafa got plenty of stick from certain people on here mind. But there was always hope with Rafa; he was trying to build something. What's Bruce doing to improve us long term?

How exactly would that benefit us as a club?

Once I saw that Bruce was taking the job I fully expected relegation, so 13th is certainly acceptable. I think ASM deserves credit for achieving that for us.

Players wanted him gone.

Really? Based on what?

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I'd say creep isn't as bad as weirdo because if you're a weirdo you're an absolute freak as well. Depends though; do you hate Steve Bruce or do you hate the creeps who hate Steve Bruce? Creep to me implies some form of sexual deviancy. Whereas a weirdo can be more innocent, like left handed people, Warhammer nerds or people who have fish on pizza. Edit - people who do the milk before water for tea are both iyam I just creep around virgins. Don't know about you. I rest my case Does it make me a sexual deviant? Yeah, quite probably.

This needs an award.

I just creep around virgins. Don't know about you.

Sitting bottom of the pile for goals, shots, shots converted, possession, shots faced, passes in final third, chances, and touches in opposition box is pretty embarrassing mind. Some good (lucky?) results seem to gloss over this. Samptime's pure focus in football is the league table. He doesn't care about entertainment, ability etc, it's all about being safe from relegation. You're fighting a losing battle trying to convince the angry man otherwise.

Could be but could be also that he’s been garbage in training and to be honest I saw him live at Leicester away and didn’t look like a prem standard player Yet a certain Swedish right back continues to get minutes. Krafth looks fine last 2 games. One of our better players yesterday, in fact. Which is strange if you look over the match thread where everyone though the opposite of this (bar the assist). The amount of times Shelvey played it to him in space, he ran up the line, faced a West Ham player, turned back round and played it to a centre back. He's a poor Paul Dummett. Bar the assist that was one of the key reasons we didn't lose...yeah let's ignore that Well quite, but you're ignoring the other 92 minutes. Perhaps a better player might have not wasted the other 12 crossing opportunities he had, or broke our attacks up by spinning round and playing the ball backwards? Ifs and buts, but I think he's trash.

I don't hate him at all. I just don't want him as our manager. He shouldn't be anywhere near this football club. That's not his fault though. I'd be more than happy for him to get another job, preferably in the premier league so we can play him next season.

Could be but could be also that he’s been garbage in training and to be honest I saw him live at Leicester away and didn’t look like a prem standard player Yet a certain Swedish right back continues to get minutes. Krafth looks fine last 2 games. One of our better players yesterday, in fact. Which is strange if you look over the match thread where everyone though the opposite of this (bar the assist). The amount of times Shelvey played it to him in space, he ran up the line, faced a West Ham player, turned back round and played it to a centre back. He's a poor Paul Dummett.

I reckon PL silence will be the hold up.

Could be but could be also that he’s been garbage in training and to be honest I saw him live at Leicester away and didn’t look like a prem standard player Yet a certain Swedish right back continues to get minutes.