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What’s the point in VAR? Wood shoves our defender clean over, they check it because he fell into Mee who whinged and rather than our free kick it remains a Burnley corner.

Hayden has been fucking dreadful today

The commentator mentioning Joelinton doing a decent job in a position he probably doesn’t favor, despite it being the type of position he played all of last season.

70 mins in, games pretty balanced with both teams fairly poor, going to bother doing anything to change things and maybe nick a win Bruce? Nah

throw in directly to a Burnley player, I thought the misplaced 5 yard passes were bad ffs.

Rodriguez What the fuck was Rose doing mind.

I really don’t think the commentators are watching the game. He just questioned playing Joelinton wide, while he’s having one of his better games for us, and keeps saying Bruce should try him through the middle. He then pondered if Southgate should pick Pope, Mee and Tarkowski together for England as they have a great understanding, in a game where they’re not looking great against Almiron and Gayle, but at the same time saying Almiron and Gayle aren’t working as a pairing.

Aye, I think Joelinton is clearly a wide player as he looks more comfortable there. As you say though there’s not really a natural fit, especially as ASM is better and Ritchies set pieces are sometimes pretty good.

Hayden has been shite today imo. Seems to have given the ball away nearly every time he gets it.

65% and 63% passing accuracy for us and Burnley respectively, poor that for PL sides.

Aye, Joelinton having a better game by his standards out wide and Almiron looking better centrally. We still have no final ball, think I’d like to see ASM come on.

Has this ref just decided fouls on Joelinton don’t count? Pulled back by Westwood and then the striker climbed over the back of him there to get the header.

You’re not missing much, the commentator I have just said all the takeover talk is making Steve Bruce’s job even more difficult.

Good ball through by Shelvey, Gayle fucks the first touch up, maybe if he’d got some proper game time this season it’d have been 1-0 there instead it’s took fucking 24 goalless games for the bloke ahead of him before he’s been given a chance.

Our lot can barely string 3 passes together before someone’s wayward pass goes right to a Burnley player.

So he has dropped ASM to play Joelinton on the left? It made slightly more sense when I thought he was dropping ASM to play Ritchie, as AH pointed out he was going with the grafters approach, but dropping probably our best player to favor one of our worst performers is really odd.

While I don’t think he’s very good he managed 7 in the Bundesliga last year, and his confidence by this point is shot to shit. The bigger problem iyam is the formation isn’t working yet Bruce keeps persisting with it and with the same players in the same positions. Like I say I don’t think he’s that good but I also don’t think he’s as bad as he looks at the minute, which applies to basically the whole squad really.

He’s said he was happy with the first half against Arsenal, that’s why he put the same side out today .

We also did nothing at all against Norwich, and he can’t try and pretend that’s a tough game. He apparently said we’d switch things up for this match and changed nothing, so I’d expect the same front 3 next match.

Aye, there’s just nothing at all about us. We are painfully disjointed when on the attack so offer nothing, and despite playing a similar formation as prior years we don’t look capable in defence anymore. We always look like we are scrambling, we don’t control sides like last year without the ball and blunt their attack, the opposition just basically attack how they want and we depend on bad finishing. Luke Edwards best enjoy his wankfest over having more points than we did at this stage last season as it won’t last much longer.

That’s staggering. Is Bruce trying to get fired? I genuinely don’t understand how he is making the decisions he is making if he isn’t.

The only reason we will stay up now is that we have a 6/7 point gap on sides like Villa, Watford and West Ham who also can’t buy a win. It’s going to be a very low bar to stop up points wise. Our performances are actually getting worse tbh, today was absolutely pathetic.

That was a fucking appalling performance. 1 win out of 9 now and no signs whatsoever that it’ll turn around. Expect the same formation and largely the same lineup next match.

How fucking thick is Lazaro? We’ve lost the game man just let him go.

Two like for like subs by master tactician Bruce