OTF

At what stage will they bring out the curtain and put us down?

With no chance of parole.

It's hard to imagine 11 professional football players looking less cohesive. That said with Bruce at the helm we may not need to imagine. Something to look forward to....

Absolutely, we're terrible.

We'll all remember where we were and what we were doing on the night Andy Carroll made the bench at St James' against Brighton.

S. Taylor Love your posts Diego, I hope to visit St James one day, hopefully when Ashley is just a dark memory. Closest I've been is watching them play a pre-season game in NZ where I got to see Steven Taylor's pearly whites up close and personal. He must have liked it there.

Watford were terrible and yet we didn't win. No point in arguing over your interpretations of games under Rafa. You could cherry pick loads of games where the performances were subjectively worse but this would have been a match that Rafa targeted for 3 points. Bruce did as well, of course. I'd say in terms of personnel played it was fine, it was the players that didn't perform and win the game.

Perez was rubbish and Rafa's tactics too negative.

That Villa disallowed goal is ridiculous. To me it looked like Grealish was fouled, probably twice. He went down AFTER making the pass which was scored from.

They were there for the taking, even with their lucky goal. Discontent swelling, as it should be.

Muto had to pull the trigger earlier there. Good ball and run though.

Someone has to have a quiet word with Willems about that facial hair, it's bordering on cruelty otherwise.

Lascelles galloping down the wing, plays a perfectly weighted through ball for Atsu, who gets in behind and chooses his pass. Unfortunately Almiron's curse prevents him from scoring.

Almiron... oh dear.

Almost made 90 seconds.

Krafth and Willems both start. Also 9 other players.

The lows and lows of Jetro Willems. What a start he's had.

100% real. That's not all he said, but he was mostly more guarded than I expected.

Bruce: "I'm delighted for me staff firstly and more importantly the players who responded in the right way.... they were brave....we thoroughly deserved it" "I've managed 900 odd games over 20 years, you'd think there would be some sort of respect" "It will hopefully give the doubters a little shove"

Keeping Shelvey out of the side will help. Glad we have the VAR or else Dean would have given a penalty. It rightfully wasn't given by the VAR, Kane definitely played for the penalty, Lascelles daft to go down like that though, assuming he didn't just slip. At least he committed to the act and went off with an 'injury' afterwards.

Geeze, we'll still 19th with the 3 points, funny table at this stage of the season.

Completely unexpected, but completely deserved. If we're going to criticise Bruce on previous games we have to begrudgingly give him credit here. He's the managerial equivalent of Steven Taylor, so he's no doubt absolutely soaring on the inside.

Dummett has had a fantastic game. Dean finally found a reason to give Joelinton a yellow.

There's our Atsu

Kane moved away from the ball into Lascelles playing for the penalty.