No7
Winger
In 1 or more full season potential relegation battle.
Mannone
Jones
O'Shea
Larsson
Rodwell
Borini
Cattermole
Watmore
Defoe (In fairness of this exercise)
That's almost a full team that can be knocked out every Saturday. Some of the above are now in their 6th season at the club. That equals 6 relegation battles.
The main bulk of players at our disposal are generally not very good. That's plain to see. What I don't understand is why people believe the manager is solely to blame. Since Steve Bruce, we've had 6 managers (excluding caretakers). The only league positive from the past 6 was Sam Allardyce getting the players to believe they were better than they were.
Defoe is obviously on another level, but the rest of the other players are absolutely dire. We have players on 40 bags a week who cannot even manage a pass to one of our players. That's not the managers fault? As a collective group, why do the players never get a slagging off?
Mannone
Jones
O'Shea
Larsson
Rodwell
Borini
Cattermole
Watmore
Defoe (In fairness of this exercise)
That's almost a full team that can be knocked out every Saturday. Some of the above are now in their 6th season at the club. That equals 6 relegation battles.
The main bulk of players at our disposal are generally not very good. That's plain to see. What I don't understand is why people believe the manager is solely to blame. Since Steve Bruce, we've had 6 managers (excluding caretakers). The only league positive from the past 6 was Sam Allardyce getting the players to believe they were better than they were.
Defoe is obviously on another level, but the rest of the other players are absolutely dire. We have players on 40 bags a week who cannot even manage a pass to one of our players. That's not the managers fault? As a collective group, why do the players never get a slagging off?
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