Mat Kendrick's Dentist

Last 8 years of competitive games: Argentina average points per game with Messi 2.3 Argentina average points per game without Messi 1.04

Why? 4 promotions from 4 seasons in the Championship. Not too many quality managers are going to want to take the reins at a club at the bottom of the 2nd tier, which has proven time and again to be a managerial graveyard. If you backed McLeish, Lambert, Sherwood et al, surely Bruce isn't a step too far.

Maybe a case of innocent til proven guilty?

Rampant today. 3 assists already.

Cut above everyone on the pitch first half. Worth mentioning that England have rested many of their first-teamers, but great to see Jack playing so well.

Nope

Playing very well for England u21s so far. 2-0 up and he has an assist.

Plus he spoke well of a number of our players recently on The Football League Show. Seemed a particularly big fan of Westy.

Totally agree! It does sound bonkers

And to think I used to continuously accuse Tony of not knowing how to plug a gap at the back. That video has put me well and truly in my place

Come on mate, there could be kids reading this. Nobody wants to hear about your genitalia and the nicknames you give it.

Tbf he took over an Inter side that hadn't won a domestic trophy since the 80's and took them to 3 Serie As and 2 Coppa Italias in 4 seasons, after previously doing a great job with a Lazio side stripped of their star talents. Either way, there's no way he'd even return our call atm! Guidolin, Bruce or Wagner of those mentioned for me!

Because he did an outstanding job at both Palermo (promotion to Serie A and then highest ever finish) and Udinese (Champ League places twice on a shoestring budget). He also did very well to halt Swansea's slide last season and has paid for some tough fixtures/bad luck this campaign imo.

For me Worth Enquiring About Marcelo Bielsa Rudi Garcia Marcelino Ralf Rangnick Fatih Terim Paulo Bento Attainable Thomas Schaaf Francesco Guidolin Steve Bruce Peter Stoger David Wagner Martin Jol

Sounds like my kind of show tbh.

Tony Moon played very well for Eibar at the Bernabeu today! Bale wasn't tracking him and I haven't seen Tony bomb forward this much since the Emirates 2013!

Bunn 4: Terrible keeper was terrible. Mutton 5: Poor right-back was poor. Cissokho 6: Average left-back, etc, etc. Elphick 5: Judgment is poor. Baker deserves a run imo. Chester 6: Has improved in the last few games but still gets dragged out of position too often, at the cost of our shape at the back. Westwood 4: Poor performance compounded by an awful mistake. Jedinak 4: Poor performance compounded by an even worse mistake for the first goal. Having someone with no legs as our only midfielder for 45 mins is bordering on the insane. Jack 6: Not his best day at the office. Still have faith in his quality, but our offensive organisation and transitions from defense to attack need to improve sharpish. Adomah 6: Works hard off the ball and is a willing runner. See him more as a good option from the bench though. Ayew 7: Only player committing/beating defenders and opening up space in the Preston half. Class above anyone else in the squad/league and I feel sorry for him. Worked very hard. Kodjia 6: Good talent who needs quicker service. Kept taking too long to find him by which time he was bottled up. Goal questionably ruled out and won the pen. Subs Gestede 6: Tried hard and won a few headers in the Preston area. McCormack 6: Needs to start. Missed the pen but brings more to the table creatively than some of our other attacking options. Amavi 6: Only got 10-15 minutes. Should be starting for me. First half we only ever had 1/2 players ahead of the ball and Amavi is one who is capable of joining in. Suspect defensively, but this could be levelled at Cissokho recently too. Officials 2: Gave a number of crazy decisions between them, and as awful as we played, we were hard done by on a number of occasions. Di Matteo 2: Recurring theme of leaving a chasm of space in front of our back four to be attacked. No organisation going forward either and never enough players in attacking areas. 4-1-5 with the "1" being filled by Jedinak and his zimmerframe was bizarre and left us open to counter after counter.

We can all see through your act mate. You're just upset he doesn't have Westy in his 3-man midfield

It's a dilemma. On the one hand we could use 3 in the middle. On the other hand, however, Westwood, Jedinak and Gardner have all been cack so it's tough to play 2 of those at the expense of a Grealish/McCormack.

Steer Amavi Chester Baker Cissokho Tshibola Westwood Ayew McCormack Grealish Kodjia Gollini, Elphick, Richards, Jedinak, Gardner, Adomah, Gestede

Mbappe, Augustin and particularly Ousmane Dembele are massive talents also!

There's a joke in there about rimjobs and creampies but I'm above such gags

??? We're being bossed from what I'm listening to.

Tbf he wasn't raised by his biological father, and feels no connection towards the family name. Seems a decent lad from what I've seen.