the toon are just crap.. there's been about 4 games this season under Bruce when they've looked reasonable... I can't recall too many shots never mind penalty claims... why give pens away to a side that doesn't threaten or gave the ball much
I agree. It’s been proper turgid from an entertainment angle. It is why we need the takeover to go through. I don’t know how much more crap boring defensive football I can take.
Bruce needs to go to because he'll waste the money on players on their way out of the club that know they're done like rose for example... I keep hearing about the likes of mginn and I've watched him alot since and my feeling was that he's turd
Same. Not seen anything of McGinn that makes me think he’s a good player. Bowen was the one I wanted and he played well against us the other day.
I couldn't comment and I'm not sure anyone can accurately. The only way would be to do the work and drill down into all the information. If you don't do that, then all they are presenting is what has happened. Obviously papers jump on this kind of stuff because it invariably provokes a reaction. I'd expect a lot of the top teams to be up there due to having more of the ball, more time dribbling in oppo box. Then you have to look at the profile of players. Man U for instance have loads of rapid, skilful types in their attacking areas. Rashford, James, Greenwood, Martial - I'd expect those to get a lot of penalties. I think the reasons can be genuine.
Or it could be because we are absolutely carp at going forward. I appreciate that ALL stats can be manipulated but it does make for poor reading for us. We watch arguably the most boring football over the last 3 years and we don’t even have penalties to give us a bit of excitement. ha ha
the problem is you can't win... on our budget a manager has two choices ...pretty football or stay up... either way the fans will want the other and twist ...
it is and it's hilarious for years under managers trying to have ago the fans were all saying "all I want is to see a side that give their all and is hard to beat "" rafa provided that and they said " Its just not what I want to see" basically the fans are full of ****
Pardew had the best season under Ashley’s tenure and we have gone backwards on all fronts since that season when we finished 5th. The issue is Ashley pure and simple for Lack of investment. He’s ran a right ship. Yes. Took huge gambles. Relegated us twice. He never speculated to accumulate in comparison with other similar size clubs when he took over. The gulf is now absolutely huge from a financial side of things. If we don’t get a takeover then overtime under Ashley we simply will not be able to complete with the other teams as they will just generate significantly more money. To quote a famous persons favourite phrase. “We will get relegated and sell our best players”.
If this thread had stayed on topic, we'd have had three posts. 1 - There's docs on Companies House. 2 - Oh yeah. Anything else? 3 - Nope.
No that is correct also. Rafa and Bruce to a lesser extent haven't really played much attacking football.
Here's a new one that i've heard. The deal has been with the Government as part of their mission to get the Saudi's to address piracy and human rights related sanctions imposed on them by the Government. Now that the Saudi's have taken the appropriate steps, sanctions have been lifted and the Government has given the PL the green light to pass the deal. The delay has been the Government rather than PL.
Jesus Christ is there any straw left other than ... it's with the premier league and it's taken ages because it's a very complicated situation ?
Couldn’t give a **** who’s responsible, they’re ****ing incompetent. It’s only complicated by the PL. The deal itself is straightforward. It took Mansour 4 weeks. I maintain there’s something wrong at the PL and they don’t know where to turn.