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steve bruce's take on titus "I had a look at him before the start of the season when I knew he was available because, basically, you are getting a player Sir Bobby Robson reckoned was worth £5million for nothing - and he's a decent judge." give it a few weeks spud face

This and Blackburn have been huge steps forward. giant leaps. hopefully the press are off our backs now and we can get on with it. great performance tonight, smith m.o.m for me

Source? was on sky sports earlier. its on thwe website as well, come from 'marca' apparently, who are hitty missy

deal done with chelsea apparently?

reminds me a lot of bellamy they both speak an awful lot of sense in interviews

http://www.nufc.com/ hats off. great piece on the sun' story. credit where credit is due on the blackburn article and response to the joey barton bit as well.

spot on.

its a disgrace if they sack allardyce so soon. it makes a luaghing stock of us once again, and i thought that was over when freddy left. allardyce deserves the season at least. as already said, we have 4 very winnable games coming up, and things will look a lot clearer after them. we've been ripped up from top to bottom, its going to take time.

This. It makes me think Sam has the players backing too, which is huge. Lets hope it's not back to normal soon. it certainly seemed as if he hs their backing when we scored, the celebrations were very passionate, from oba, smith, butt and barton especially. we worked our nuts off today

also, the fans werer absoloutely amazing today. best away support i have witnessed in a long time that

just got back from ythe game. we were very very unlucky today imo, we battled for eberything and it was a much better performance than we have given recently. even barton and smith played well

have to say i think he is right. again the kluivert and jenas think is toss though

They all try and play safe football defensive tactics Why are there no English managers who are more tactically adept? walking into a line of fire here but i honestly feel people like allardyce are getting that way. problem is, the paul jewels etc of this world will never get a chance at a 'big club', i.e the top 4. i guess its a knock on of having what has been the best leagueu in the world, all of teh best foriegners want to play here, so we sign them, same thing with the top gaffers. its another reason why we dont have many english playing abroad, they all want to play here.

one of the reasons i guess is because we have been a bit pre-historic over here in the past, using old methods and being stuck in our ways, and the continental approach was adopted, and succeeded, and we havnt caught up yet? if fergie had been born 100 miles south we wouldnt have this issue!

They all try and play safe football defensive tactics they have no choice realy, people want them out after 13 games so they are shit scared of losing! (i'll keep that for the other thread)

chicken or the egg?

we finished 13th, what do you expect exactly?

the most sensible post in here. a third example is hughes. give him some time for fucks sake, he'll get there. and if he gets there playing s**** football, i for one couldnt care. we've played s**** football for years, and lost. we might as well play s**** football and win. The thing is we are playing rubbish and losing hence the words IF HE GETS THERE.

You don't know that so why make assumptions? There is currently no evidence whatsoever to suggest he can turn things around. Comparing Allardyce to the likes of Moyes and Hughes is stupid as their expectations when they got appointed were not half as high as ours were this season. you don't know he wont, so are we going to have one of those arguments? surely not. and there surely is evidence, like our best start in 11 years. and also what he did at bolton, we hvant had a manager with a track record in a good while. yes we have had 4 very very poor games, but thats not grounds to sack him is it. if your expectations were higher than those of blackburn and everton then you're an idiot. then again, after your luque craic that pretty much adds up

faye, mckay, mandaric and storrie as well!

the most sensible post in here. a third example is hughes. give him some time for fucks sake, he'll get there. and if he gets there playing shite football, i for one couldnt care. we've played shite football for years, and lost. we might as well play shite football and win.

nee bother. ask your mates how deco's medical is going

'believe' interesting. he cant be comfortable, especially as they didnt install him as manager in the first place.

spudface

p.s its lovejoy, not love joy. just so you know mate