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Krafth and Lewis fullbacks, gonna get absolutely battered

As soon as Bruce made those comments about us not being in a relegation battle it became pretty clear to me we were going down.

Clemence doesn't have a clue what Jones is talking about :lol:

Bruce lol you stupid cunt

The degree of invisibility/defensive liability of the Shelvey-Hendrick duo is honestly not far off being as bad as Smith-Butt 2009 era.

Darlow is shit. Imagine potentially losing Dubravka just to pacify him

Absolutely none of the back four can actually defend which is a bit of a problem.

My prediction is he'll try to blame the loss somehow on Jones and the new formation (being too open, etc), especially after being visibly riled up by press questions about it the other day.

He was brilliant in his last season for them. Would be an absolutely enormous upgrade on Hendrick.

Funniest thing about that clip is Steve Agnew doing some vague pointing to try to imitate what Jones is doing

When you see teams in such obvious disarray like this (akin to Souness' last game but worse!) it's usually a sure-fire sign the manager's done - but the Jones appointment suggests to me Bruce is here no matter what. Absolutely shocking that any top level club could be wilfully mismanaged in such a way.

His job is safe as houses imo, Charnley and Nickson clearly really like him. He'll be here even if/when we go down.

Can't see Rafa doing another Championship season willingly. He's said he knows he has finite time left in management and doesn't want to be spending another season of it in the second division.

He likes managing but wants to be near home. Makes sense tbh and he'll give the CL a go next year. Definitely underwhelming but what job will he get in the PL? Palace? Can't see it.

At least we did it Bruce's Way.

Highly unlikely if Jones has been given permission today to join his coaching team.

Think the argument that Charnley has sold Ashley is going to be that Bruce is great at managing defence but we need an offensive coach. Another I suppose without any of us seeing the ins and outs of the training ground could be that Clemence is still not yet fully over the death of his father and that an extra assistant is therefore needed to share the workload. Regardless it was always ridiculous that any manager was only allowed two coaches - it will be why the majority of the first ten candidates approached turned us down last time. I'm sure even Charnley accepts Bruce is not good at coaching any side of football particularly. They just like him because he's really low maintenance and would rather not have to deal with someone like Rafa again, hence hoping they can bring in coaches to basically do Bruce's work for him.

I'm sure he'd consider Celtic. Back in the UK, Liverpool connection, the chance of giving it a go in the Champions League next year etc.

Could that be an attempt at a diamond lol

"My way"

Unless they can take over imminently and spend money I don't see how this goes through given the very real threat of relegation.

Charnley thinks everything's fine tho

Lascelles trying to run lol

Shelvey is indefensible. He's finished.

ball hit big man head