Dokko

If you keep with Bruce then it’ll just be like a double lottery rollover. Whatever damage from one season with him will roll in to two season and become harder to recover from. Any doubts, see Sunderland. For years they fluked staying up and now the damage is comical.

Exactly, the sale price will go up and more likely to be sold if we are doing well, e.g. mid-table. This result is via good luck but we must be in a position to sell to be better in the future. Going down won't change one iota imo. Not sure on that. Given up trying to figure out what condition the club needs to be in for Ashley to sell. But should the unlikely happen, there’s some good players in there, at least half a mid table prem team.

Whole season has been like that. However...if...big IF know, something happens and Bruce leaves, Ashley fucks off etc...a good manager with a couple of quality signings (Robert, Bellamy under Bobby springs to mind) could spark the club back in to action.

Good game for him. He did well with what he got given to him.

Probably not since no one cares any more whether he stays or goes and it seems most are happy with what the squad has achieved so far. There is no pressure at all on him right now, he's won, in fact he's the most comfortable he's been since downing pints in the stands with fans. In all honesty it's more likely the media have fuck all else to do than see an owner selling a club and thinking they'd want to buy another. Doesn't matter that the thought hasn't entered his head, no one can prove otherwise and a few more hits on the web pages means they are getting their bonuses this month.

Big goal for him. Can’t see him going on a run but it does end the misery for him.

Would make for a cracking episode of Vera.

Aptly named Regen Thompson.

What is a deep completion? Balls deep?

Best performance for us so far?

19 games without a goal is shocking. Needs dropping, loaned out or sold. Take the hit, move on. Whatever talent he has it won't come out in this environment, not after that shite start, there's no way back for him. Feel sorry for him but Ashley must be gutted, so not all bad.

Well thry couldn't have 12 months of our defenders celebrating goals, so yes Bruce's fault for that.

prefer the bruce out scenario - just piles more embarrassment on charnley and the FCB, even if it makes no difference to them it further highlights the shitshow that is nufc. Yep, see if it’s possible to scrape the barrel further. Even if Ashley wanted a decent manager, one won’t come the way they treated Rafa. Nobody half decent wanted the job in the summer and why they ended up with 13tg choice Bruce. 12 other managers said no. This is the best Ashley can attract and the summer will have been the best position the club will have been in for years to come as it’ll be decline from shit manager to even shitter manager. The club will follow very closely to the path travelled by Sunderland. Free tickets pathing the way to look like all is good when the reality is the club is in terminal decline.

So the club pay £40m for this lad in hope he turns a profit later down the line and he’s been such a failure they’re now looking at 45 year old Glen Murray to plug the goal void his selection creates. Brilliant bit of business by Ashley. It’s almost like Rafa knew what he was on about.

Do the VAR assistants also get a winners medal this season? Liverpool have bought this title, in 20 years it'll come out how the whole thing was setup by a team of crack programmers from the University of Liverpool.

VAR has absolutely ruined football. It's also handed Liverpool the title on several occasions this season.

I feel absolutely nothing when we lose, a tad bit of emotion when we win, and that’s working for me. I understand people wanting us to lose, I started out like that but in the end couldn’t even be bothered to invest that time. What I don’t understand is coming on the match day thread relentlessly celebrating goals against and almost warring with those still wanting the team to win. I think MDTs should be for those still invested in the results, they’ve enough misery to contend with.

The loan was to simply 'keep them at the table' after the board either blew it in negotiations or the investors took a good look and realised it's too much work for them. SD didn't want to lose face after stating it was a 'done deal' and that they were 'loaded' knowing the fans would turn against him, and he was right. If they wanted or needed just a loan they could have arranged one through usual channels or leaned on Satori, instead they chose to mortgage the clubs only tangible assets for a measly £10m to keep them in touching distance with these potential owner/investor/asset stripper. As stated many a time, an investment vehicle that large, if remotely interested in a football club would have bought them there and then and sent the chancers packing. By all accounts Salmon pants brought them to the table in hope he was going to flip his share and walk off in to the sunset to pastures new. That hasn't happened and he's mask has gone from slipping, to crashing on the floor and being stood on, so SD has told him to fuck off or risk losing it all. For a PR man, he simply hasn't got a clue. He treat the fans with huge amounts of contempt, more so than Ashley with us, thinking they were nothing more than northern monkeys who he'd have eating out of his hand while lining his pockets. To be honest, it's a pretty fair assessment, they are dying to have something good, something positive after years of misery, but his lack of respect for the fans shone through every statement and in the end even the most hardened believer had seen through him and probably felt like the fools they'd been taken for. So this leaves 'The Don' (god bet that feels like a lifetime ago for them) stuck with a club he thought he'd also flip and cash out on by now, bleeding to death from a thousand financial cuts, that he doesn't want, can't afford and doesn't want him. He knows as much about football as the next man, and that is being very kind. He goes from one bad decision to another, alienating the fans with each step whilst moving further away from ever seeing his full investment back. He's a penny version of Mike Ashley, it's almost word for word on the playbook of misery we endured but on a quicker timescale. Unlike Mike's team they aren't financially stable and in league 3 where one bad mistake can ruin a club, and in all honesty i can pin point that mistake and it was selling Maja. Even letting him go for nowt in the summer would have easily seen them win the division and no doubt The Don would have seen his buyer come through. Instead he fucked around, pissed the agent off and when was in the weaker position went public to try and force the player Vs club to keep the fans onside. It all failed and in the end their desperation saw them part daft money on Grigg as his replacement. Snowballing from there every footballing decision can be linked back to that moment. I knew at the time it was a mistake, i didn't see it as (at least) a 2 season killer. One of my mates said to me last week 'the only good thing he's done for us since coming in is getting the seats replaced' i replied 'mate, even you lot did that and for free' that really sums up his tenure. The Don may not have put them in to their worst position in their history, but what he's done is make sure they've got very little chance of turning it around and seeing Premiership football again in a generation. It's honestly that bad and it can get a lot worse, depending on whether the loaners look at the club and decide they don't want it, would rather sell the training and academy for property development and rent back the stadium to whoever they sell the club to for a quid because that's all they'll be worth once they default on the loan.

Reet well, I’m off, best of luck guys, see you on the other side.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/792253/Newcastle-next-manager-Bruno-Genesio-Steve-Bruce-Rafa-Benitez?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daily-star-football+%28Daily+Star+%3A%3A+Football+Feed%29 Rehash of the French source, but its out there now.

What penalty miss?? When he played against us in 2008 for the Mackems, he botched a penalty on purpose. Thought it was just a clear chance on goal?

Not that I believe it but wouldn't it be glorious if Bruce was fucked over in all of this, although I do feel for the Sheff Wed fans! I'd crease my tits off. Please let it happen.

Well that's that cursed.

Daily star running with 12k still to be sold.

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