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Well the difference was that it happened without anyone having the slightest clue it was going on and it also happened some weeks into the season ahead of our take over... I completely agree that there seems to be no reason to keep Bruce in his job and his record is absolutely disgraceful... I am just not letting that detail get in the way of what is going to be a glorious future which starts on Sunday at 4:30pm....

Remember Sheikh Mansour and the Abu Dhabi group inherited Mark Hughes as sitting manager at Man City when they took over and the truth of the matter is surely that Steve Bruce is just a fat Mark Hughes...... Hughes lasted from September - December before he was peddled out. I know that Bruce represents a lot of what we hated about what will be referred to in the future as "the Ashley years" but, we know he will be gone at some point in the future. Our owners have already stated that they have ambitious plans and that is enough for me to be more relaxed over who is running the current team. The relegation fears should be behind us soon - even if by January we are still hovering around the bottom a couple of decent signings to plug some gaps in the squad will see us OK until the end of the season, this year is about stabilisation... next year we should see real progress and advancement! I don't really care who is in the dugout on Sunday, I am going to have a day to remember regardless!!

I really hope that if there is a new stadium built in the future that it remains in the City, Exhibition Park or the site of the Arena seem to be mentioned as possibilities... The central location has always made our stadium special, not only to us but, also to visiting fans... It would be a disaster to move out of town to some former industrial repurposed site, I dunno.... like the mackems soulless hell hole!

Local rivals 100% Does anyone think that Rangers and Celtic forgot about each other when Rangers were reset to the bottom of the lowest Scottish League?

He has changed his tone about us lately... I recon he wants a job...

Someone threw a bottle of piss from the back of the Gallowgate and it landed in the hood of my blue snorkel jacket, it was so packed that I could not get my arms up to take it out. Probably late 70's or maybe very early 80"s... I know I was still a school kid at the time and snorkels were the quality coat of the time.

I do not want to sound smug but, I bought season tickets this season (x3 for me, my son and my dad) after several seasons away from SJP. Like most people I was completely sickened by the club and the way it was being ran. For this season I felt something that maybe something could happen in our favour, nothing more than a niggle of a hunch at the back of my mind, so I bought the seats. I guess if nothing happened this season I could easily give them up again at the end but, if something did happen at least I was back! I attended all throughout the late 80's when we were awful, into the 90's when we were not much better until Keegan came along... what a ride that was!! I loved the Sir Bobby times and felt more love for the club while he was our manager than ever before but, since his departure we have had mostly a succession of absolute horror shows! The really strange thing about this season is that I went to look at possibly buying 3 season tickets and looked at where I used to sit, the same seat was available and two seats next to it were as well.... that was a sign so I was back in! It looks very likely that our dreams are about to come true with a new ownership with plenty of money to invest in the team and also the area, this is potentially one of the biggest things to happen to the North East for many years!! So, I now feel like a genius for buying season tickets and not being stuck in the position that many of you find yourselves in thinking and worrying about whether you will be able to get seats to watch the latest revival of our incredible club. All I can say is good luck to you all - especially those that have been long term supporters (like me) but, who currently do not have season tickets. I hope the club can find a way to get our most loyal fans back into the ground!!

Saw Dwight Gayle yesterday, he was in the car park at Newburn Leisure Centre when I arrived late morning for my sons match. I asked him if it was OK to get a photo of my son and him together and he was more than happy to. He was really quite nice, he gave two young kids who were hanging around some boots and shin pads out of his boot and stayed around for ages chatting to people. Not at all in a hurry to get away or avoid people. He must be pretty pissed off that even with Wilson injured that he is not getting anywhere near to playing.... don't get me wrong, I know he is limited but, he is a striker and definitely puts in more effort that Joelinton when given the chance. Although I am equally sure that his salary cheque each week helps to ease that pain.....

At least it is not on teevee for the viewing world to witness the absolute reaming Newcastle will receive on Saturday......

Just came up like this with no image but, I assume you may have been posting a link from .com which says that travel is free on the Metro etc as long as you produce a match ticket and a season ticket if requested to. Magpie Movers are expected to be posted out in time for the match at the weekend.

Bit "off piste" as it were to be going to this match but, I am - with my dad. For the first home game of the season Nexus allowed season ticket holders to travel free on the Metro.... nice... Since then I have ordered a Magpie mover ticket but, it has not arrived yet. Has anything been said about the Metro for tonight or will I need to pay? Does anyone know?

100% agree, everything I have seen about Ronaldo suggests that he is just 100% committed to living the healthiest possible lifestyle, eating the correct foods and absolutely avoiding anything processed or sugary... He is something of a one off, not many people with the potential lifestyle he has with the wealth and opportunities would be so committed to their own wellbeing. Unique and incredible human being.

Didn't Steve Bruce complain that we had been training all week in dry weather and playing against Aston Villa last weekend in the rain spoiled our preparations, made it difficult for us??

This was what I spent time discussing with my mate yesterday.... Krafth is bearly a Championship level defender and never a Centre Back in 100 years! Having Schar and Lascelles on the bench seemed to be a crazy decision by Bruce, then playing Richie as a wing back when he has been shown over and over again to be short in pace was ludicrous... Clark is just terrible, his indecision and nerves will have made the job that Woodman was asked to do close to impossible (bear in mind how nervous Woodman would have been to begin with anyway!).... The sooner we get Lascelles, Schar and Fernandez as our regular starting centre backs the better, although that is far from perfect I believe it is the best option we have... Bruce should feel incredibly ashamed of his decisions - both in starting 11 and then his substitutions.

41 point deduction surely???

I remember that from the TV show, was called The Superstars or something. Keegan was awesome in it. You just cannot imagine footballers, or really any prominent sportsmen / women of today being involved in that sort of competition. Unbelievable...

Longstaff was incredibly poor. Is there something wrong with him?

Pretty catchy tune though....

That would make Sun'lun just that little bit too classy, I can see why the planners turned it down.

Two automatically up/down. 16th goes in to a playoff with 3rd-5th. Ashleys target of 17th every year will look fucked.....

Couple or three games in - a win (by a really dodgy late penalty) and a draw (from a late equaliser) does not make them contenders in my book. Barring a couple of teams The League One is absolutely dreadful, and Sunderland fit perfectly into it. ;D

Bruce's tactics will be the same team and approach to the game last night. In his mind he will now believe he has found the winning formula, just like he did after the West Ham match.... Normal service resumed, no planning, no preparation, no understanding of how our opposition will set up against us, no clue, heavy defeat, blame players, rinse and repeat.

I doubt we will see him for a while anyway now after the injury. Looked really nasty and I heard he has an abrasion to the eyeball. That will be a painful one and quite slow to heal.

What is the point of VAR?

Surely it is pronounced Michael Kerry.