jackyboy

Whatever Ashley does it is guaranteed that it won't have been done for the benefit of NUFC. No need to try and look deeper into reasons why

1-1 but in reality it's a win because they are good lads and happy

Saturday was the second sitter he's missed and not even close. Would much prefer Yedlin when fit or Manquillo

Ineos were never interested. They were asked if they would be interested but they said no

His performances for Leicester so far have been described as underwhelming

Be Bolton next. You would have hope that Big Sam would have stepped in to help his own managerless club as it was them who launched his career as a player and manager

Brucie said he will play his strongest team and go for it. Surely he wouldn't contradict himself?????

Respect is earned not demanded. He seems to miss the point that the negativity among the fans has little to do with his first games in charge it's because of his record as a premiership manager

In the set up we played yesterday Shelvey just doesn't fit. Will go to a Champo club in January

Got to give credit to the players, I reckon Almiron must have covered 20 miles. I think that during the week the players had a meeting with Bruce and said 'Look, your systems don't work, they are 20 years out of date, you don't know what your doing...........But you are a really nice bloke and a Geordie so let us go out and play the Rafa way using his trusted formation'

Europe here we come. What a difference it makes to have Geordie manager

Can't believe Erikson is on the bench, he is by far their best player

Looks like it. Hayden and Longstaff to dominate the midfield. It's the front 3 that will make or break it. See if they can link up

Rock bottom at the moment

If Norwich beat Chelsea today, and they might, Bruce will be telling us what a strong team Norwich are and it's no disgrace to lose against them etc etc etc

He might surprise Ponch and outsmart him tactically and we come away with 3 points after hammering them

I think Dubs is seriously pissed off. Doesn't look to me like he's enjoying it anymore

Winning automatic promotion from the championship becomes more difficult each year. Each year you could pick the promotion candidates fairly easy, any 2 from 5. Now it's any 2 from 10 . The quality of the relegated teams is so much higher and they come down with money to spare. The crap managers like Fat Sam, Hughes, Pardew , Pullis etc are being overlooked more and more in favour of younger coaches. I doubt Bruce could do it now against the managerial opposition out there which was proved at Villa where he had the most expensive team in the championship. I'm sure he is a nice guy but sadly he's thick and has no tactical nous whatsover and todays players soon see through that

Jack Charlton was driven out by the fans and he is a geordie so Bruce will not be protected

Mark Hughes turned it down before Bruce. It would have to be Pardew or some complete unknown from Outer Mongolia or somewhere

Ashley does all of the things he does purely to spite the fans. As long as it doesn't cost him money, and it doesn't, and he can get his free advertising, which he does, he will continue the way he is. Relegation won't hurt him either because we'll still have 50k attending games and be up there with the most televised teams. He is an evil spiteful man who's only interest is money. He has no interest in building respected successful companies, he doesn't care what anyone thinks of him, he has no respect for anything or anyone. The only way we will be rid of him will be if he has a heart attack or something. Even if his SD went to the wall he can still have a very nice living from NUFC. He'd be able to sell the advertising for £10 million plus so he is in a win win situation. The only way he will sell is if it's for a ridiculous high price because he could then feel he'd ripped somebody off and that would appeal to him

At the moment I think I'd prefer Muto upfront. At least he's got some movement. I think we'll get hammered football wise but lose by a couple of goals allowing Bruce to tell us how well the lads played and what a good bunch they are

The players will be pissed off when they don't get any win bonuses this year

Company for Andy in the treatment room

I noticed from very early on that Dubs was rarely passing the ball out from goal, he was just hoofing it. We used to play the ball out of defence well, like top teams do but that type of thing seems to have been binned