Armchair Pundit

Krafth knees sliced?

Joe off for Carroll at this point, can't do any worse

Arrrrggghh, those pass rate stats

Gods, this is dog turd

I wish we still had players that stuck shots through nets instead of wanky sidefoots

Or the difference between a shit team and an average team managed by a shit coach?

The possession stats will be doing for WBA's season totals

Who does Bruce even talk to on the touchline? He literally looks like a fat supporter chatting shite to himself

Unfair that League One at best

About bloody time Gayle came on for Hendrick, his speed alone should perk things up - good to see Jones giving him the instructions too, a glimmer of hope?

It's not the manager/coach's fault by the way, the players should know what to do, tactics shmactics

"Mr Bruce sir is a... a... smeeeeg... smeeeeeeeeeegheeeeeeed"

Surely Hendrick off and Gayle on?

Same except the match appears to be around 30 years before everything else. Our football in 1991 was better than this

Same except the match appears to be around 30 years before everything else. Our football in 1991 was better than this

A crafty brown envelope to Fat Sam prior to this match would have got us three points, allegedly

Can’t wait until he’s stood there telling us how positive the performance was when we lose 1-0. No longer about the accumulation of points, I reckon. Probably start coming out with the positives of the team in any promotion charge if they're relegated.

That's fine, but then there's no need to come and post what you deem as a 'realistic outlook' in this thread either if all you have is negativity. Literally zero point for you to even be in here reading the posts unless you feel in some way compelled to wind people up for the sake of it. Nobody wants you explaining why you think the positivity is wrong or anything else for that matter, if you don't agree with the thread or the people posting in it just don't go in the thread, it's really quite simple.

Doesn’t matter what they want it’s what is legally correct. We will just have to wait and see as none of us know, however I will say if they were so sure on their legal stand why didn’t they just reject it initially. The thing is, legally or not, if there's enough corruption at the top it won't matter, who's going to stop them from doing whatever they want? Grease the palm of the right person and the PL can do whatever they want.

It's funny, the only time this thread takes a dive is when a negative w*nk comes in from the other thread and purposefully attempts to derail it.

The whole process has just reeked of corruption from the start, it just fills me with a feeling of complete injustice and destroys any dreams towards supporting our club. What's the point of the game any more if it's a closed shop? F*cking old boys club b*stards.

If PIF have registered an interest to a minority share in Inter Milan, do we think that's a possible set up for a link across several clubs? Or the end of their interest in buying us?

What I don't get is why anyone would even enter this thread if they didn't have any belief in that optimism or interest in propagating it, is it just to be contrary f*ckers or what? I mean, it strikes me that some people are just those bellend types who think that just because they're able do something it's then their right to do it, whether it's the right or wrong thing to do. The whole premise of this thread is easy enough, post in it if you've got something positive to say, otherwise use the other takeover thread... pretty sure the clue's in the thread title to be honest, some of us don't want to see a bunch of whinge-arsing w*nkers trying to bring everyone else down with their attempts at trying to win the prize for the best doom-mongering, miserable c*nt award. I don't come in here to read a load of negative b*llocks and people giving reasons why the takeover won't happen, I come in here to see if there's a glimmer of hope still, however slim.

Bruce is doing nothing just damage now. Hasn't brought anything to the party but is now also stirring up trouble by blaming the players for everything, why would they do anything to avoid relegation? If they get any points he grabs the plaudits and his media pals claim it's down to him turning things around. Having him around is just causing problems, the only reason Ashley won't cut him loose is the compo Bruce would get, but that ridiculous compared to the money Ashley will lose if we're relegated, some business genius Fat Mike is!