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Bruce: So that’s it, 999 games and just goodbye and good luck? Staveley: I don’t recall saying good luck

Oh good that tosser who said it would never happen

The contract could have any number of clauses in. The compensation might go up for every year he’s with us. It could be that the figures reported in March were wrong. Who cares? It’s a drop in the ocean now

It was everywhere in the summer when there were rumours of a new deal. Luke Edwards was one and we all know his source is impeccable

It’s been widely reported that it’s a rolling 3 year contract so it won’t be up at the end of the season.

All the record books thought the last game was 1000 but Bruce was at pains to point out his first game at Birmingham he wasn't quite in charge or something (much like his last 30 or so here). Blatantly wanted the big 1000 when the game was on Sky in the hope they'd make a big deal out of it. Hopefully he doesn't get that satisfaction.

I’ve often wondered what “whatabouterry” actually means but from Twitter today I can conclude it means “you have a fair point which sinks my argument but it doesn’t fit my agenda, so I’m going to dismiss it”

999 games and out

I actually can’t wait for all the SD tat to be removed, get our home looking nice again. So many easy PR wins to come in the next week. Please don’t be fucking arseholes after all of this

Oh my god I’m hours away from getting rid of the username @Wullie bestowed on me about 12 years ago

I find it quite promising that even naysayers like Edwards and Jordan feel like this is good news. They are usually quick enough to piss on any chips

Something quite soothing that he tagged fkn Skirge

I’ve noticed a few times he is absolutely hopeless at the cynical hack. It’s like he’s too nice, can’t even trip a man properly

Is Ranieri even any good? The Leicester thing was obviously remarkable but it unravelled quickly without Kante. Seems to go from job to job a lot

Farke took 4 points off Bruce of course

He was an excellent journalist before he joined The Athletic. When he wrote for a national I felt he tried really hard to portray the frustration of following this stupid club and it felt like he would go out to bat for us in the same way somebody like Daniel Storey does now. Now he’s at the Athletic though he knows the majority of his work is for Newcastle fans, he’s effectively sold out and needs to keep contacts onside or he won’t get anything. Chris Waugh is a good bloke and has started to overtake him despite being pegged as Sidekick Simon/Captain Waffles in the god awful podcast they do. I still think Douglas has got the most to offer but the Chronicle is, well, just try and read an article. A dead duck basically. What will be interesting is to see what happens IF we ever get taken over. I don’t blame some of them for being a bit shit right now, imagine having to cover this shitfest 6 days a week? Try to make a story about the club that barely exists. The only thing they’ve got to write about is the past and sadly a lot of online readership are of an age where they don’t give a shit about the 90s. So if there’s new life it might reinvigorate some of them, when the going is good you want to consume as much content about the club as possible but right now it’s a cesspit.

Nobody in the world (of Twitter) pays for that site but he tweeted this earlier:

Oh sure now you want to know

If you have Trent you can probably peddle him for someone £3m cheaper and get Lukaku with the change. West Ham are playing Antonio tonight so it’s only a matter of time before some part of his body falls off

I think it helps our argument to say they have stepped away - probably part of why they withdrew in the first place. Obviously Staveley and co have made noises that they will come back but nothing official from PIF

Weird that basically everyone is reporting today went fairly well for us except Luke Edwards. Almost as if he’s got an axe to grind

Other than when that lad talked bollocks for an eternity I’ve found this quite gripping

The usual naysayers have already written it off but in reality we’ve heard one side of the argument (repeatedly) so I guess we’ll see how our part goes

This is supposed to be what NDM is good at so I’m hoping for some sort of Jim Carrey in Liar Liar routine

I think we’ve got to just trust the court process. I’m not overly sure if this morning so far is positive or negative overall, if I was a judge and one side is desperate to go through in private I would be suspicious as to why