Raconteur

Can only reiterate - jump on YouTube! ASM or HBA is a legitimate debate

May I suggest we rename the thread “Steve Bruce - Dead Man Walking” until the axe inevitably falls? Just in case Alex is scouring the forums?

All set to buy an ASM 10 long sleeve on the back of the news - only to find long sleeved tops are hard to find. Do they even sell them?

Yesterday, there was talk of being in the same league next season. Tomorrow, they'll never win another derby again and they'll be entirely dwarfed by our shadow for all eternity. I'm not even local but the turnaround makes me giggle like a fucking idiot.

I’m surprised he’s been linked - he might well be a good manager one day, but beating a disintegrating Celtic does not make him the right man to lead our charge into the superclub group. My dream is Conte but would be equally surprised if we could get someone of his quality straight away. Hell, just two signings in January should mean even Bruce could keep us up, and look at in the summer. It’s not impossible he gets some time. Needless to say I fucking hope not, but Im steeling myself for it… EDIT: I just saw the tweet saying Bruce is to be sacked when the consortium takes over... So Conte (because Rafa ain't coming), maybe Martinez because of the Jones connection.

Pretty much my first thoughts after going through the 40-odd pages on the takeover is “thank fuck ASM is staying, and thank fuck I can now buy an ASM 10 long sleeve”

I don't think he could continue to live in Liverpool if he left Everton for us anytime soon.

I got word of Greaves in Australia thanks to his column in Shoot magazine in the early-mid 90s. A really special player from everything I've read.

Just said something similar in Freddy’s thread - nice career, son…

Safe to say this “kid’s” Toon career is over - four uncertain performances, a tossing under the bus and the returning number two looking measurably more solid. Bruce will never play him again, and best case he’ll get a loan in January. Another supposed great talent we’ve managed to clip the wings of…

I voted 0 last season and 1 this season but, after only four games, it’s clear that relegation is a real possibility. I didn’t expect Bruce and “the board” to have a public spat (at all), and two reports of player/staff conflict in the same week speak to genuine dissent in the ranks. I was also certain Ashley would stick with Bruce through thick and thin, but we’ve got all the ingredients for a truly toxic season. Ashley might well give the fat mess the flick, who fucking knows with him. All of which to say I’m changing my vote to 6 on the assumption we lose to Leeds and Bruce stays on. Probably a 3 if Bruce is fired before February.

I’ve read a couple of people pose the question about Hughton coming back here, but I can’t imagine any scenario where he’d accept the job. After all, he was the one Ashley fired and was replaced by a shite-talking casino debt. He’s also seen Ashley be an awful owner for every manager since him.

But then the world wouldn’t see the clash of the titans that is Ronaldo v Ritchie…?

Pretty sure the 30% refers to mid-table, but the point stands nonetheless.

I don't know why people are so surprised Bruce has no interest during "international fortnight" - he spent most of his playing career as the only non-international at Man U, and because the great Sir Alex let the dopey buffoon go on holidays half a dozen times a year, Bruce now thinks that's what good managers do.

It seems obvious Bruce is aiming for a point a game, and that Ashley endorses that approach. Going by that thinking, they're only two points behind where they want to be, and only need a single win to catch up after the upcoming Old Trafford massacre. They will be comfortable for a long time - chants or no chants

What makes it works is that he’s got a natural, PL standard right wingback in Manquillo, but persists with Murphy because he can sometimes whip in a good cross and occasionally strike a decent dead ball. Has Manquillo seen any action at all this season? Burnley, maybe? EDIT: noticed Manquillo played in the cup and we didn’t concede any shit goals down the right…

That was as much because we lost Wilson and ASM, and Gayle and Joelinton proved they couldn’t do split strikers. We got punished at least once and Bruce went to the safety zone of 8-1-1

You forgot having the midfielders running around and getting stuck in.

Doesn’t a PFM need to be British?

Harry Redknapp Gordon Strachan

Colour me shocked to learn penalties are a lottery in Bruce's world. As opposed to the reality that they are a skill that can be honed...

Cunningly hidden in the Reserves/Academy thread as “Clarke”

It is your opinion to say “it is not worth saying” - clearly a subjective perspective and entirely not fact. Your italicised gibberish translates as “we had news a month ago, and it’s the most current news, so any conversation about other news is unworthy” - again, a subjectve opinion about what is worthy of being considered “news”.

I understood it was Daddy Longstaff who leaked the Ritchie/Bruce bust up story?