05-10-2022, 23:13
That has to be it for Bruce, surely.
We did have a decent go for 20 minutes, but I do hope that doesn't save him. Surely we can't play the "unlucky" card again.
There was just no strategy to break Preston down. They were eating up everything in the air and we persisted with hoofball and crosses. Every time we had a corner or set piece, you just knew it was going to be collected by their keeper or gobbled up by the defence. Yet we persisted with just slinging the ball in, over and over again.
I just feel like we've got a team of individuals this season. Fair enough, we haven't had any transfer funds but we're paying big money for the likes of Rogic, Swift and Wallace. But clearly there was no thought about how to mould these into a team. Wallace would've really complimented Andy Carroll, but Bruce made the decision that the latter was surplus to requirements.
Yet he endorsed paying big wages for Rogic and Swift, 2 players who play in exactly the same role, while we don't have a proper centre forward at the club...
We've lost to a dreadful side tonight, but a side with a game plan. Something we clearly lack.
As others have pointed out, we have some real dreadful players at the club as a result of terrible acquisition (Grant, Townsend, Mulumby) or the aging process (Phillips). But Bruce does have alternatives and decides to pick them. The decision to pick Grant tonight, after what happened at the weekend, was ridiculous. Asante doesn't look like a forward, but at least he can put his foot on the ball. Grant up top is like playing with 10 men...
Just give us a manager who can pick the best XI and motivate the lads. Season is gone. But lets try and stay in this division at least.
We did have a decent go for 20 minutes, but I do hope that doesn't save him. Surely we can't play the "unlucky" card again.
There was just no strategy to break Preston down. They were eating up everything in the air and we persisted with hoofball and crosses. Every time we had a corner or set piece, you just knew it was going to be collected by their keeper or gobbled up by the defence. Yet we persisted with just slinging the ball in, over and over again.
I just feel like we've got a team of individuals this season. Fair enough, we haven't had any transfer funds but we're paying big money for the likes of Rogic, Swift and Wallace. But clearly there was no thought about how to mould these into a team. Wallace would've really complimented Andy Carroll, but Bruce made the decision that the latter was surplus to requirements.
Yet he endorsed paying big wages for Rogic and Swift, 2 players who play in exactly the same role, while we don't have a proper centre forward at the club...
We've lost to a dreadful side tonight, but a side with a game plan. Something we clearly lack.
As others have pointed out, we have some real dreadful players at the club as a result of terrible acquisition (Grant, Townsend, Mulumby) or the aging process (Phillips). But Bruce does have alternatives and decides to pick them. The decision to pick Grant tonight, after what happened at the weekend, was ridiculous. Asante doesn't look like a forward, but at least he can put his foot on the ball. Grant up top is like playing with 10 men...
Just give us a manager who can pick the best XI and motivate the lads. Season is gone. But lets try and stay in this division at least.
