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He at least tried to play a decent style of football too, it was just brittle and poorly implemented. Bruce was turgid as fuck constantly.

Bruce is worse than Pardew like. Pards is at least an overt southern smarmy twat whereas Bruce tries to hide behind the local lad stuff. Both love making excuses, talking themselves up and blaming everything other than themselves but Pardew didn't actively try to antagonize the fans and the press in the way that Bruce did. We at least got the unsustainable 5th place year, patches of decent footy and a European jaunt out of Pards whereas Bruce spent more than him and the footy was consistently worse. Pardew is also a far better manager than Bruce (although still not good at all). It's comparing two really shitty characters but Brucey is by far the bottom of the barrel imo.

Starting a thread titled "This forum" is the most SMB/RTG style thing going, ironically.

He might be good but Burn's definitely taller.

The fourth official sticking the board up to give us marks out of ten there.

I'd like to see him start instead of Longstaff next time, he's definitely got more energy.

Doesn't look so bad

Is Eddie coaching them to never shoot? This is mental how many times we could have had a dig and chosen to keep trying to dribble our way through a wall of players.

Lascelles looks like he's wearing his boots on the wrong feet.

Longstaff subbed! Well I fucking never.

One of you fucking SHOOT man Pathetic shot shy bunch of tossers

Left side a bag of shit and a yawning chasm between the midfield and defence. Yes, City are much better and we're on a hiding to nothing, but it's the same bloody problems over and over again that we had vs Luton, Blackburn, Bournemouth, Forest, etc etc. The summer is going to be huge. I'm worried he's extended Lascelles (unless he's playing the Dummett role next year and plays like 2-3 cup games) because we need such massive surgery and he seems as though he's sentimental and overly loyal to players who aren't good enough. He needs to fix these glaring issues with the side because clearly opposition scouts are watching us and telling their lads to exploit it week after week. We're easy to play against and predictable. He said fewer games, some players back and more training time would improve things and we look as bad or worse most weeks. He pitches learning as one of his key strengths and we've had the exact same issues for about four months now. It's really concerning and I haven't a clue how much mitigation the powers that be will give him for the injuries as we're not improving now we're getting players and time back.

Another one against us from that cunt Hooper. Fucking cunt.

Good thing we extended Lascelles contract eh.

Got to score that Isak.

Oh good, another deflection. I think this is the angriest I've been watching us all season. Not because we've been that bad, just because of how nothing the goals have been, how every single little thing has gone against us - two deflections, the yellow on Schar, the fact we've had yet another balls hard away tie in the first place. The fact City have barely done anything at all and are easily two up. It's so so fucking depressing.

That wasn't out either. I hope Hooper goes home to find the neighbour shagging his wife the blind bald wanker.

If that's a yellow card I'm done with football. Fucking cancel the sport man.

Fuck off man. Deflection as well

Burnley 0-2 Brentford Luton 3-2 Forest Fulham 1-2 Spurs W Ham 0-0 Villa

Mid table Championship standard We finished 4th in the Premier League a year ago with him as a mainstay and every time he dropped out of the side we looked shite. Goals in a cup semi-final and one against PSG this season too. But, according to some, he's not good enough if you wanted to push for a playoff spot against Norwich and Coventry. He's in poor form and I want to see him sat down for a while as much as the next person, but some of these takes are mental. I don't mind people saying they'd cash in for FFP purposes, I would too if we got a good offer but I think the most likely outcome is he becomes a helpful squad player who will show his usefulness when he has better, fitter, more confident players around him and he isn't shouldering the entire burden of a shattered side all season long. Mid table Championship standard is the likes of Barlaser who we peddled for about 300 grand after a few cup games, not Longstaff with nearly 150 PL appearances under his belt FFS.

A sad day for Wearyside today as it's announced that Mackem Jeff is stepping down from Look North soon.

I don't necessarily think he needs to move away, he just needs to be used as a squad player. He can be effective and it's great keeping a local core, he just shouldn't be starting every match. This season's injuries and Tonali have dictated that he plays much more, next season he'll player a lesser role (touch wood) and I bet he looks all the better for it when he does feature.

7 months that's ridiculous.

He brought Miley on and then off again in the cup whilst Longstaff was made to toil on FFS then he didn't even take a pen! I understand starting him has been a necessity but we've had Miley, Anderson and White on the bench of late who could have given him a break later on in games. Christ even Ritchie could have come on for him in the final 10-15 mins of games like Arsenal where we're already way out of it. He could have started Miley tonight as well. He's got options back but I've no confidence that when Anderson is ready to play 60+ that he'll sit him down. Willock has replaced Miley and Sean's still left to flounder around in this rut, out of form, tired, getting loads of stick. It's just odd.