Steve Bruce has never beaten Man United as a manager in something like 22 attempts.... That may seem like a negative but I'm one for believing in the law if averages... He has to beat them some time...

i hope man u beat hull..so that we stay up..i dnt even expect us to get any pts against whu

Correct. I was wrong though we have beaten them before, our last victory was a 2-0 win at Boothferry Park in the 74/75 season, when both clubs were in the old second division. Before that you have to go back to the 30's.

Pity about hull because they have a good squad of players, a much better team than ours on paper, i can only think of the europa league knocking their form.

They only played 2 games on the Europe league qualifiers before the season had started .sky sports modem day excuse let's blame the Europe league if you stop and work it out if you qualify automatically for the Europe league group stages it's 1 extra game .

Pity jelavic was out for a few games though, they could of done with him, would he play in the championship?

It was 4 games as the qualifiers were played over 2 legs but that's still not the reason. Some terrible luck with injuries, Snodgrass and Diame in particular, hasn't helped much and neither did selling Shane Long, who seemed to be striking up a good partnership with Jelavic. Abel Hernandez hasn't really lived up to expectations and it took until January to find an adequate replacement goalscorer in Dame N'Doye.

I don't think all the hoo-ha over the name change thing and the threats by the owner to sell the club if he doesn't get his way have helped them much either.

All excuses aside though and it pains my heart to say this but when a side loses twice to a team like fkn Burnley then they probably don't deserve to stay up. Also, strengthening one of our direct rivals by selling them George Boyd was plain stupid if you ask me.