Abra Dubravka

Hopefully he kicks up a fuss about it and quits end of the season Has track record of walking if he doesn't get his own way on transfers/support from board

Will never understand what goes through that man's mind.. 5 goals in 27 for Brucie. Doesn't even use him anyway - didn't come off the bench (despite us needing to score!!) against Liverpool, Leicester or Sheff U, and only 15mins against Fulham

Think a free kick is my favourite type of goal

Brucie will only eat the crotons and chicken! Why eat the food your food eats.

I’ve probably posted before but he used to train the keepers at Gateshead occasionally when my mate was on the books, speaks extremely highly of him as a coach and a bloke. Goalkeepers have always been strong area in my years supporting, apart from the dark years Andy Woodman would have been responsible for. Given/Haper/early years Krul... hits a rocky patch of Elliot/later Krul/Alnwick/Darlow, now clearly picked up again with Dubravka/Darlow/Woodman Pards' goalkeepers at Palace were always shit when he took Woodman - Hennessey, McCarthy was rubbish there, Mandaanda turned shite

What always baffles and annoys me (except from a select handful or pundits/journos) is that like of Redknapp, Sutton, Savage etc. seem to think they know more about a certain club than the clubs' own fans! We've been watching this side for ages now, and know a damn sight more than a Chris Sutton! There all lazy idiots too, which is what annoys me the most. It's not hard to find from Twitter/Forums the general tone of what's going on at any club. You can easily identify the lunatics on Twitter and rule those out, but there is always a sensible consensus to find and interpret into a pundited viewpoint/sound bite/opinion for TV/Radio within 10-15mins of reading and research. Talksport are the worst at airing these morons. Troy Deeney is obviously an expert, and an accurate voice on what's going on at Watford/Villa, but no clue at what's going on with Newcastle/Burnley/Brighton. Agbonlahor = Villa, don't get him to talk about Newcastle. Worst of all is Andy Cole, they get him to talk about us because he played for us, but misses the point constantly - thick as mine anyway, and only knows Man United. Redknapp and Micah Richards are shocking standards for Sky when compared to Keane, Neville, Carra, Souness. Their both on all sorts of games, but have no understanding of the game than your average lad down the pub 5 pints in; and constantly give opinions on other clubs they've clearly ill-researched, or don't know.

It would be good if Woodman could come back next season and be able to compete for #1, and potentially be a class #1 like we've seen Dub and now Darlow show. Simon Smith is clearly the only coach at the club who's fit for the job, and fortunately is isolated from the Steve's footballing handbrake! Remarkably it would actually show some joined up thinking in regard to player development with a pathway back into the first team. Properly developing an academy player, getting game time at decent level in them etc. Looks like stuffed it with Shortstaff, forced into first team from Bruce from nowhere, now plodding along in the first team putting in stinking performances. Woodman could actually be the first real quality academy player since Carroll! In my years supporting the club, the record has been nothing short of tragic.

Whats most impressive for me is, as cliche as it is, they can win without being remarkable. Thought they were fairly average tonight against a decent Southampton side but won 2-0 still. Bodes well for them. Combined with the investment off the pitch they're clearly in it for the long run. Most games of theirs I’ve seen I’ve always been pretty underwhelmed aside from their win at Leeds but they get the job done more often that not. Almost they always play 7/10. Man City away they were brilliant. Against us they were pretty drab first half, but that was down to use being able to suck the life out of the game. Once they stepped it up second half and started trying we didn't stand a chance.

Quietly confident we'll stay up, but it won't be pretty. Lard arse will get us sucked in to it, Burnley and Fulham have got two games in hand on us. Can see plenty of other teams picking up form and shorting their shit out before we do. Maybe optimistic, but I see 11 games that we should be thinking we can get at least a point from. Bold defiantly games we should be winning if we want to stay up. 26 JAN - Leeds H 3 FEB - Palace H 6 FEB - Southampton H 27 FEB - Wolves H 6 MAR- WBA A 13 MAR - Villa H 20 MAR - Brighton A 10 APR - Burnleh A 17 APR - West Ham H 15 MAY - Sheff U H 23 MAY - Fulham A

He's not leaving the England job for Palace Contract is up after the Euros I thought?

Southgate to replace Hogdosaurus would be my prediction.

Would be a good move, better move for him in the long term than taking a job in Prem like us. Could see Arsenal sacking Arteta if things go down hill again, but they won't go in for him. Other than us, not sure who's really going to be sacking anyone. You'd like to think he'd be top of the list here, but Celtic would be much better option for him.

Roll up wor sleeves

Parker hates us doesn’t he? Think he just loves London What happened with him here? Just a good player, but suffered from bad management in the post-Robson era? Remember being really excited as a kid when he signed, but was too young to know what was going on/how he was playing...

When was the last thorough hiding we got under him? We've been totally anonymous in nearly every game we've had under him since he came here, but rarely get the batterings we often deserve - only City in Cup last year and Leciester I recon Under Pardew, we we're regularly being hit for 3, 4 even 5 without reply. He's got an annoying skill of making us dire to watch, toothless going forward, unable to keep the ball, always be on the back foot but not actually receive the hidings our performances deserve. Whether that be through sheer luck defensively or opposition not turning up/having their shooting boots on. Man U 4-1 - 1-1 up until 86th minute, then lost the plot after that... Leeds 5-2 - we didn't lay a glove on them all game, but potentially still in it to last 20 mins, only going 4-2/5-2 in last 5mins. Chelsea 2-0 - as above, put they should have had plenty more that day City 2-0 rolled over from first minute, City took foot of gas after first half with game in 2 days Nothing jumps out this season, only two games conclusively last year; Man City FA Quarter Final 5-0 Leciester 5-0 Man U 4-1 - but even then seem to remember they could have had more second half (4-1 at HT)

I think for point 2, he has been very good at jumping ship just before he has had to face the music for his shitness. Yeah, don't get on board with the 'him resigning/quitting everywhere' thing going round Twitter. He's more coming across a disloyal shitbag tbh; he's been pretty calculated in choosing his times to jump to another ship. Resining from Sheff U after one season in charge seems pretty 'big time' from him. Left under a cloud at Palace to jump ship to Birmingham. Probably didn't get on with Simon Jordan, and could see writing was on the wall. Played for Birmingham/Dildo Bro #1, so threw his toys and pushed for a move. To be fair did a good job there from outside looking in, but after getting them promoted second time I get the impression he could foresee a season of struggle, and he thought he was better than that, and wanted to be managing mid-table rather than work and improve Birmingham. Exactly the same case with Hull years later, promoted again, but thought he could get a better job than another Hull City relegation battle. God knows what he was thinking with Sunderland, probably that case of it eventually turning shite at Wigan, and getting out when he could for a bumper contract n'all. Surely he'd have known that was never going to end well though

His career has shown two main things 1) If he's at a club long enough he'll relegate it if you don't sack him, or he doesn't jump ship first... 2) He'll jump ship at first opportunity for better opportunity/better money Between 2003 and 2005, then 2011 would have been when his stock was at its highest, and nobody 'big' or bigger opportunities were interested in him. He took Hull back up, and instead of staying for PL management, he either thought he stood a chance with England job or he could get a PL club. Nobody came calling, and he tanked it at Villa eventually. Spurs hired Santini, Jol, Ramos, Redknapp, AVB, Sherwood. Why no Brucie? Liverpool replaced Houllier with Rafa, an actual La Liga winner, then Hodgson. Man City didn't sack Mark Hughes, and think lets go for Brucie. Fergie went Moyes

Have we seen him up front with Wilson yet? Didn't he play off Wilson for end of Palace game, and actually resembled a PL footballer. In a side that isn't totally filled with cloggers (mainly Shelvey and Hendrick playing wide) our best option would be him playing off Wilson surely in 442. Should never play out wide again, just a fish up a tree, and can't play up top on his own. Stick him in behind Wilson, with a couple of players that can control and pass nearby it might be best of a bad situation. Darlow don't care - Fed - Schar - Lewis Almiron - Hayden - Matty - Ritchie/ASM when fit Joe Wilson

7th 1999/00. He's legitimately only ever achieved one record season in a club's history. Finished heady heights of 16th with Hull, which was clubs record highest league finish (albeit 3rd ever season in top flight) Finished 10th with Birmingham in PL, but they'd finished 6th before when it was Div 1. Paul Jewell at Wigan finished 10th, Bruce 11th.

Made the mistake of listening to a full episode of Football Ramble again today. Used to love the show, now it's unbearable. Last few months only been skipping ahead the Friday shows for Luke's Game, but listened to the whole thing earlier. Spent two minutes on some bollocks joke about Louis Theraux I didn't understand the point of, another few minutes of unimportance about Arsenal's new ceo, what with all the ads at the start and middle, skip the cleverly disguised Betway ad section, Pete's horrible jingles - Luke's Game is the only thing holding that Franchise together now. Used to enjoy the old show, Going for GLOLd!

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His career took a pretty quick nose dive. He's only 32 now, and you've got free agent Danny Simpson saying he can still play in PL! Was always decent enough I thought, just relied on being strong and fast. Pellegrini must have seen he was thick as mince, and it was a downward spiral. Had a year in Fiorentina where couldn't get a game, was shite at Villa and had injuries

I remember that, think it was after the Leicester game. He said something about how we have to set up to defend etc. and how well we counter. Totally oblivious to our failures, highlighting he's never actually watched us. Just another pundit who only watches the top 6 and games he has too when he's in the studio before the big game. Came across as just talking nonsense. Was surprised at the time, because at Man City he played under some pretty decent coaches/managers who had decent pedigree of being able to defend yet still attack - Sven, even Hughes back then wasn't such a car crash, Mancini, Pellegrini. Bruce by far would have been the worst coach he would have played under. Obviously likes him because he's a good bloke. Bet he's another one of the English players that hated Cappello despite him being a top level manager/coach.

Watched his zoom conference, and thought he was spouting same cliches bollocks as usual, but reading it on .com he seems to be showing to have a bit of bollocks about him. Owning up to the horror show it's becoming Far, far too late, and at the wrong time, but for the most part he's telling it how it is finally. Would have rather he said stuff like We were absolutely frigging hopeless the other night. Absolute shite. straight after the game instead of him usual deflective bullshit, blaming VAR, dust etc.

Quite funny how much stick Tiote got following his barnstorming first season. He did start believing the playmaker hype, which he never was, but you could never say you weren't sure if he was on the pitch like Mr Invisible Hendrick. The "Essien" role was given to him by Pardew (I think he even spoke to the media about it, using Essien specifically as an example of what he saw in Tiote). While I don't think Tiote minded the freedom of playing further ahead and more creatively, it is Pardew that gave him that opportunity and tried to incorporate it into the tactics. If Pardew had told him to stay further behind, keep it simple, break up play, distribute ball quickly, basically the job he had his first two seasons, I've no doubt he would have stuck with it and done well. He always needed someone who could pick a pass, control a game next to him. That wasn't his bag at all, he wasn't a bad footballer, could spray the odd pass, but not control passages of games or create anything. Remember sitting in Southampton home end in 13/14 season, lost 4-0, Cabaye out injured, probably the lowest it got under Pardew - was relying on Tiote filling the void. Add in wider failings across the side, but he'd just drop so deep to the defence and launch it aimlessly forward to Cisse who was bullied all game. That game was right in the middle of a disaster of a second half of season where he should have been sacked. (Sunderland 3-0, Chelsea 3-0, Spurs 4-0 back to back... Everton 3-0, S'ton 4-0, MU 4-0, Stoke 1-0, Swansea 2-1, Arsenal 3-0 all back to back)