themanupstairs

Whoa!! Feels like a lifetime ago!

What happened on 15 July 2011 for this board to have the most users online ever? A quick google turns up nothing except some bollocks by al pards and something about Darlington.

Bruce is as culpable as Ashley make no mistake. I hate them both equally and anyone feeling sorry for Bruce can take their "he's just wanting to manage his boyhood club" malarky and fuck right off.

It happen?

FFS it's not that hard. It's pronounced Jo-elle-inton

Fuck me is this detestable Manc cunt still our manager? Hadn't realised

Where was VAR to give Matip a clear and obvious penalty?

As if there's any point dissecting a defeat like this. Liverpool never got out of second gear. We aren't a PL team and won't be for as long as the owner we've been saddled with decides to remain uncompetitive. Fuck knows there isn't even a point in this very post.

So glad he's enjoying training under the new manager though

What I don't get is how he gets randomly selected to captain the side from time to time. He has no leadership qualities whatsoever and isn't exactly the lead-by-example type. He's a fantastic passer of the ball and....English. That's all he has.

How useless is this knacker's mentality? Set-piece specialist captain my fucking arse

Hayden = Colback

Pardew levels of delusion on this useless knacker already. Can very well see myself hating him as much as Pardew.

I'm sure we can find a Steve for that somewhere

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He was a stupidly good striker for us back in the day but are people forgetting his fitness record? Men getting emotional over an irresponsible unprofessional sack of shit ffs. He'll not play more than a total of 3 matches.

Andy Carroll as a deadline day signing to replace Joselu in a well padded out, balanced squad is fine. Andy Carroll in the state our midfield and forward options is in is fucking moronic.

Where have you been the last ten years?

What a pathetic club we are

Will score the own goal that relegates us

Is it the Stoke fella? Etebo

Hi Thanks for the nice words In the early days, we were in the championship, we'd just emerged from a spell of - no exaggeration - 5 or 6 years of utterly horrifying bilge. Anything was an improvement. We were playing shit teams, so winning far more. For a while, the loan players he brought in started to click a little and things looked better. Bruce's problems really emerge when the team is up against it - he starts blaming all and sundry, everyone but himself - the fans, the players, pretty much anyone. He lost a lot of support when he started doing that. He also played the "some of them will never like me because I used to manage Blues" card, which is exactly what you're going to hear re Sunderland at some point. What you have to understand about him is that he doesn't really have a football ethos - he is from the MON brand of 'slap them on the back, get them pumped up and send them out there' management. That works to a certain degree, but no further. Beyond that, it really is up to the players to make things happen, because they'll get no tactical guidance from the manager. The best example of those limitations is what happened in the play off final against Fulham. The contrast between us (barely a shot on goal) and Fulham, a team set up to play in a certain, attacking style, was brutally clear. The other thing about Bruce is that he's a 'streaky' manager - he'll go on decent winning runs, then launch into a horrific run. I think that's partly because his 'gee the lads up' style tends to mean that his teams are confidence teams - when it is there, they'll do alright, when it's not, it's horrible viewing. There are worse managers out there, for sure, but he's very much one of the type where, if their team plays some nice stuff, it's mostly because they've stumbled across it themselves rather than through any way the manager has sent them out to play. Has he brought Steve Agnew with him? His arrival with us (he didn't join when Bruce did) coincided with a slight uplift in attacking menace. If he has come, that's a good sign, a positive. Color me shocked

gone vegan apparently

That's weird, someone else said the Krafth deal had fallen through in a previous post. I’ll be honest I didn’t know who he was or that we’d already been linked but I was told this only a few hours ago. I was also told that Nsoki should be successfully resolved as well. what for? just signed a left back