thomas

Just took a peek in the other thread and they’re posting webcam footage of a boat docking in the Bahamas. "They", huh? You know, sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion. edit: safety

I hope he does. >

redcafe is the worst

Did some furious googling and poor translating around DeGrosa's GACP purchase of Bordeaux - which I think now makes me an expert on the matter - and he sounds like more of a chancer than Mauriss with arguably shittier business practices and similarly shallow pockets. Should instantly disqualify them btw. F&P Owners Test should absolutely include a question about this.

Thread Title being 2 years out of date is on brand

we responded well to going down 1-2 by not equalizing and I couldn't be happier

local cabbage unhappy about being undermined lmao

Would have loved for them to have done followups about the formation until he walked away in anger. Just the simplest things "what are the tactical ideas behind this. What's Almiron's real role in this formation? How are the fullbacks involved?" and watch him flounder, unable to answer.

infinitely more satisfying too because it'll rankle him something fierce.

No we haven't. Not since Keegan's version with Owen playing behind Viduka and Martins It's blatantly something Jones has identified as suiting the players we have, and why he was giving so much instruction, while the Steves were all looking dumbfounded Compare and contrast in that gif and our previous games :lol: Graeme, identifying something not going right - steps up to touchline and gestures, shouting instructions with meaning behind them Bruce, identifying something not going right - sulks with hands in pocket, begins mentally prepping for sheepishly acknowledging in post-match interview that our sleeves weren't rolled up enough.

I remember hearing years ago that it was a bet that Ashley could make money through owning a club. Makes sense. He then fell out with the fanbase and developed a hate/contempt for the whole region, so IMO he now has 2 aims, making money and keeping a cloud of misery over the club. Does he actually hate the club, fans, area - to the degree we always think? With the greatest respect I've always thought that's something our fanbase have kept on telling ourselves. Always thinking the worst of him, portraying him as some bond villain that's going out of his way to f*** us over at whatever financial/reputational cost. Obviously won't have any love for the club/fans, but whilst countless decisions have obviously f***ed us over to varying degrees, our suffering under him is a (un)happy coincidence. The decisions he makes, and his general ownership are born through incompetent/clueless rather than malevolence and hatred for the fans, and end of the day his financial standing/investment. I don't think it matters much to quibble over the degree of like/dislike he has. Whether the contempt is real or just a story we tell ourselves, at the end of the day the product is the same; a club run as ineptly, un-ambitiously and cheaply as possible, happy to just make up the numbers. Sure, In some cosmic, metaphysical sense there's an injustice being done by thinking of him as evil: malice misattributed to an orc with poor taste in jeans. But it changes nothing so I don't care.

I'd suffer eating a whole raw chicken if I had the chance to power vom it on Edwards later

Christ That is fucking hilarious. Actually allergic to scoring :lol:

kind of funny that sometimes when a manager is resigned to their fate they have an extra skip in their step and become a little more adventurous; the inevitability of their end lifting a weight off their shoulders. Bruce, unfortunately, is too goddamn stupid to do that at least and has doubled down with this completely toothless roman tortoise formation football.

deciding to be a toon supporter in '02 is going to be my Joker origin story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq2CMoTsp5Y

Couldn't sell Palace, gets it sent into administration, is somehow still regarded as a man who knows things about clubs being purchased or indeed football at all.

If he was waiting for the Newcastle job he'd have probably seen out his final year at Dalian. Or at least said he was taking a break for a while rather than intimating he's looking for a quick return to management. I think people are putting two and two together here, but his departure from China has probably got nothing to do with us. Balague's said he's taking a break, but I haven't seen that confirmed/denied by Rafa himself.

Eh? I'm not familiar with this idiom.

he does have a knack for getting clubs promoted, you'll see. We just needed to get relegated first for his qualities to really shine. All part of the plan.

I feel like that's a really good point. Basically none of our own sticking up for the bloke, just other clubs' supporters regurgitating the Sky Sports Approved Opinion To Have About Steve Bruce that they heard on the tele.

And Bruce straight to Harry Ramsden's. Who says Bruce can't be decisive?! He did it his way. With the Coke freestyle machine aye.

You know why

a little late, but bbc live text pleading with bruce for a sub [Cut to Bruce, frozen in fear, staring at his team's lights blink out one-by-one like Lt Gorman in Aliens]