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Bruce needs to change things or he may as well have not bothered showing up.
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Johnstone
Furlong Kipre Clarke Townsend
Fellows TGH Molumby Diangana
Carroll Cleary
Button, Bartley, O'Shea, Mowatt, Tulloch, Robinson, Grant
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(20-02-2022, 11:39)Blue Baggie Wrote: Johnstone
Furlong Kipre Clarke Townsend
Fellows TGH Molumby Diangana
Carroll Cleary I understand where you are coming from but IMO, I think that something that has been somewhat forgotten over the past 25 years, not just at the Shrine, but all over, is that it is not about fielding your all round best players, all the time. It is about fielding the best team, in the best formation to win the game. Of course your best goalkeeper is always going to be your best keeper regardless of your opposition, but from that point on it becomes horses for courses, i.e. your teams best CB who is particular good at defending aerial crosses, is not necessarily the best choice against a team who you know will almost always play on the ground. Your best player of a cross field ball from midfield, is not necessarily the best midfielder against a team who you know will probably sit back.
All this we play this formation or that formation are words that should never be heard, it should be we played that formation against that team because. I think this season has become a massive advertisement for what happens when your opposition knows in advance, exactly how you will line up and what your probable line up will be. I do understand that some consistency is needed for players to know what their colleagues will do and that only comes from playing together for a time, certainly not just the few weeks of pre-season.
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(20-02-2022, 11:39)Blue Baggie Wrote: Bruce needs to change things or he may as well have not bothered showing up.
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Johnstone
Furlong Kipre Clarke Townsend
Fellows TGH Molumby Diangana
Carroll Cleary
Button, Bartley, O'Shea, Mowatt, Tulloch, Robinson, Grant
I think you’re right that he needs to change it up. My only two changes to your suggested team is to replace Furlong with O’Shea, accepting it’s not O’Shea’s preferred position but he’s played there before and performed well, and Mowatt for Mulumby. I know Mowatt has been off the boil for a while after a blistering start but I feel he has more creativity and more goal scoring possibilities than Mulumby who doesn’t seem to offer either. I like the idea of playing Fellows and Cleary, particularly as we have Carroll up front
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We've scored in 4 of our last 15 League games. 
(Anyone remember the words to "BOING BOING" ?)
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(21-02-2022, 10:46)talkSAFT Wrote: We've scored in 4 of our last 15 League games.
(Anyone remember the words to "BOING BOING" ?)
Anyone remember the words to "if you score one it will be a miracle" ,
or have I got the words wrong. 
We have conceded eight in our last five and still have the joint second best defensive record in the league. With a decent striker and if we played football we would have walked this league with fulham.
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Tonight I will mostly be watching from behind my sofa!!!
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As it's 22.2.22 today, I'm forecasting a 2-0 Home win
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That's it for me, I f@#king give up!!!!
Same formation, Reach starting and still no TGH.
So much for shaking things up. This could prove to be the worst managerial appointment in the clubs history.
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Bruce'es going for three at the back, that's novel, we haven't tried that this season. Might work ....... Not.
Someone remind me the definition of madness, doing the same thing with the same staff, using the same tactics and expecting a different outcome ....... 33rd time lucky.
Are they supplying Carroll with some binoculars so he can see where our nearest player to him is.
Quick warning to Newcastle air traffic control .... WARNING of several football incursions into the mid stratosphere.
Premier league killed my interest in football generally .... Sh@@e club management, from board to bruce, damaging my interest in my beloved albion, struggle to summon enough interest to semi monitor the game / score.
Albion til I die.
Score Albion score, if you score one I'll collapse in shock. In the words of Cliff Richard "it's so funny, we don't score anymore"
What was that clattering noise? Me hitting the floor. Just waiting for var to disallow our goal, that's right our goal, we've scored .... Shock horror.
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