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He's our only reliable goal scorer so far this season.

That would be one of the worst decisions in the history of football.

He doesn't look like one alright from the little I've seen of him. Not a natural finisher at all.

He already has a new two year deal in his pocket.

Pretty much every team play better football than Ireland. MON has made us the west Brom of international football. Deserve to be behind and Ireland need a miracle to qualify now.

Or someone at Arsenal might know him. Alot of those type of jobs are based on who you know and who your contacts are.

Ireland are a product of their manager. Don't expect anything different Tuesday night.

You don't need support or coaching to run around, he can't be arsed to even do that so we can be fairly confident he'll never make it.

Might as well just payoff his contract now to be rid of him. Nobody will take him after two failed loan spells.

The unwashed are probably saying the same about Micah Richards. The difference is of course that 1. We can afford it 2. We aren't going to be relegated to League 1.

I think that's called the Harry Redknapp effect. 'Triffic.

It's working out as €300 delivered for Xbone S 1Tb, Assassins Creed Origins, Fifa 18, Dishonoured 2, Evil within 2, Doom and Fallout 4. Delivered to my door in 2 days. My interest is piqued...

I don't think he does, his reputation/record isn't good.

It might be a good time to buy the Xbox One S if you could get a deal. I can't imagine the difference in picture quality would be noticeable between the two and the S is a lot cheaper.

I hope they go down.

Indeed. Gibraltar, Monaco, Cayman islands, liechtenstein etc. all have the tax policies that they have for a reason.

What I don't understand is that apparently there was a 'good guy with a gun' nearby who chased and shot the "mental health" affected citizen. I thought that's how you stop mass shootings, has the NRA been lying to me?

So the same as the first one then...

Indeed, so in that case, the figure that should have been chosen is the point total over the 16 games this season which is 26 from 48, or 6 shy of the 'two points per game' target.

Why did you pick the last 13 games as your sample size? Was it just the only number you could find that comes close to supporting your argument? Why didn't you chose the last five games (7 points from 15)? Or chose the last 14 games, where it's still 25 points, or the last 15 games where, guess what, it's still just 25 points or all the games this season where our total is just 26 points from 48 available. Which isn't anywhere near automatic promotion. There's no evidence to support the opinion that we can get automatic promotion this season. You can't rationally look at our manager, our performances, our points total, our form, our tactics (or lack thereof), our budget for January, etc. and come to the conclusion that we'll be one of the two automatic promotion teams. It might still happen, but realistically we need a huge turnaround that would be bordering on miraculous. It's the same chance Steve Bruce has of picking the lottery numbers out of the lucky bag he uses to pick our formation every week.

There's no evidence to support that opinion. In the last 12 months, and so far this season, we've seen nothing that indicates we can improve enough to get into the top two in the league.

A team with automatic promotion ambitions would have come out in the second half yesterday and really put in a performance and got a draw out of the game. As per usual the halftime teamtalk from Bruce did nothing useful and once we went 2-0 down the game was effectively over. This thread should be renamed the fight for the playoffs because that's the reality. Automatic promotion is a fantasy.

Got it horribly wrong today and it's not a surprise. You have to look very hard for any good performances in the ~year he's been in charge. Doesn't do tactics and must use dice or a roulette wheel to make his substitutions. I can't wait to see the back him to be honest.

He was never going to be fit enough to play 46 games this season so we were always going to have to turn to the backups at some stage. The problem is the quality of said backups is abysmal, at best.

Well it's either two losses in the last 13 games or 7 points out of the last fifteen possible. Whichever way you want to look at it. Either way... Bruce is shite and we are, at best, going to be in the playoffs. That is all.