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Barnes fouling Carroll there to stop him getting anywhere near that free kick. Ref has been poor.

Aye, classic dive then just staying down to act like he was actually clipped. I’m surprised at how much this lot dive, Barnes barely goes up for a header he just feels the pressure and falls over.

What the fuck were Schar and Dubravka doing there ffs?

Burnley whinging we didn’t kick it out after having about 3 opportunities to kick it out themselves Also there’s fucking nothing wrong with him.

There’s not much point in Atsu starting tbh, he’s okay coming on as a sub when the opposition are a bit tired and he’s able to use his speed, but his decision making etc are so poor that when everyone is just as fresh as he is he offers very little. That Ashley Barnes may actually go down easier than Salah and Mane do ffs.

Ashley Barnes first half flies into a header leading with the elbow clattering into Schar “no menace in it you can tell”. Carroll second half same thing “you can see he knows what he’s doing just flies in wrecklessly he knows Mee is there, could have easily been a red card” the odd bit is Barnes is way more of a cunt and far more likely to do something like that as well.

Should have probably been a foul but the ref gave a corner instead. Shite defending, bollocks.

Poor game overall by both sides this. Shame Almiron and ASM are out as I think they’d be running their full backs ragged.

So the rest of the kit will still be Puma? Jerseys ffs.

“Hope all those items are off the budget menu boys, the per diem on away days doesn’t cover the full menu, if you want that it’s coming out of your pay cheque.”

Bruce has done well, certainly a lot better than I thought he would. It hasn’t changed my mind on his ability level though. The thing is though I’ve seen it said from the mackems and the media etc along the lines of ‘what does Bruce have to do to win them around’ etc, but he wasn’t the problem. He’s never been the one I (and I would hazard to guess many other fans) were bothered about, nowt changes until Ashley fucks off, that’s why I’ve never been arsed about wanting rid of Bruce or getting on his back. Ashley persists as the rot in this football club. If Bruce maintains this sort of form until January, or until the summer his reward would be lack of investment, we will never capitalize on momentum. We have somehow managed to assemble the best centre back group the club has had in my lifetime, I’m pretty certain any of Lejuene, Lascelles, Schar, Fernandez, or Clark would get a starting spot (or at very worst be the main backup) in basically all the squads we’ve had in the PL era, will we build around that? No, that’s why Bruce doesn’t matter and that’s why I’ve never been arsed about him short of calling him a shit manager. Good for him though and I’m taking nothing away from him, even if the wheels fall off at some point he’s still likely on track for one of his best seasons in management. Again though the problem will persist.

That thread is class. They really have an issue with us liking Rafa, and they don’t get it as they talk about how shite he was despite the fact they all love Roy Keane who iirc never got them as high in the table as Rafa had us. It’s also bizarre that they’re trying to turn Bruce doing an ok job into a win for them since we all love Rafa and Bruce equalling his finishing position makes it hilarious.

Aye, think the atmosphere will take its usual poisonous turn the rest of this season which could set them up for a relegation scrap next season hopefully.

They’re mint to have as local rivals tbf to them. The maddest bit is they’ll have a close eye on our game tomorrow and will be full of it if we lose or draw.

They really are a fucking rabble. The rest of Europe should count themselves lucky the mackems never made it to a European competition. What an embarrassment.

Remember when they were all weirdly buzzing to have a bloke who worked in PR to have influence at the club. It’s amazing to me they still follow us and pay as much attention to us as they do at this point. While we aren’t good it’s pretty unlikely we are going down this year based on the nearly half season so far, and they won’t be going up. At this point we’re light years apart footballing wise, yet they’re still trying to get insults in when we lose to Villa or draw with Wolves or something. Fucking weirdos.

To be fair we’d have likely won anyway.

Bruce will be loving getting the better of the massively praised Wilder. I imagine he’ll be having his shite facing the back of the bog tonight so he can open a few bags of crisps onto the lid and have a right feast.

Loved the keeper berating the referee pointing at the linesman saying he’d stopped as he’d seen the flag, that’s not the rule you daft shite. Jonjo made him look a right mug

Class. Fucking brilliant example of playing to the whistle. Ridiculous from the Sheff Utd lot.

Some class saves from Dubravka that half, hopefully we don’t have to depend on him like that to stay ahead as other than the goal we were pretty poor.

Geeet in there

What a prick he is.

Was that seriously a wind up attempt? It’s not even a discussion between who the better player is ffs. Also, I know the computers at the pennywell community library run on coin slots with a timer but he could have at least found his way onto the right part of the forum.

The absolute state of Group F.