Mattoon

Called them into training yesterday to work on pulling up their socks first Whoah, Whoah, Whoah! Slow your horses mate, they've got to put their boots on first, if they don't he'll not forgive them!

Sorry if all this has already been posted: How could we possibly compete against the mighty Norwich? Inquests now too? Should have stuck with the back to basics and saved the inquest for next week's drubbing, halcyon days indeed.

Mike Ehrmantraut?

From the Chron today:

We will keep losing and we'll all see what's happening, the players already look like they've given up and Ashley and Charnley will continue to stand by their man (see McClaren) until it's far too late, eventually he'll get canned and the next manager will be someone we could actually get behind but he'll be blamed for the inevitable relegation. This will be a spanking and the next 2 we might completely fluke a draw somewhere but I'm expecting us to keep losing without much of a whimper. There is literally no positives you can take from the first 2 games, at all.

The it wasn't just Almiron, yes he's supposed to be supporting Jolinton as the second forward, but no one was getting forward for attacks and no one was tracking back in defence, not just off the pace, there was no desire to be involved. Loving the laid back training sessions though, such a laugh and Geordie Brewcie is a great guy so that should get us to 40 points, easy

Every single attack and our players are ambling back watching the Norwich players run past them, it's beyond embarrassing, not one of them cares except Dubravka.

Hardly a scathing attack, that was one of the worst performances I've ever witnessed and barely a peep.

Partly think this was half the reason he was hired, they knew he was no good and would probably take the heat off Ashley for a while. Turn the concentration on to Bruce and away from the real issue. Probably why Charnley has got a lot more vocal recently too because he knows he's inciting hatred and again that takes focus away from Ashley and on to another of his patsy shoe lickers. This is so true. Every move Ashley makes and all the sound bites that come out come through Bishop. There's a reason behind these mad choices. Bruce will have been bought in for the Geordie angle and to take some focus off Ashley no doubt about it. Bishop is running this shitshow and he has 45k brainwashed zombies hanging off his every word Ashley Bishop Charnley Bruce They are all complict in this and all as big a Cunt as each other Absolutely but the cancer needs cut out at the source, he knows that watering down the anger will ease the pressure. He's just skulked off into the background again and left Brewcie and Charnley to take the hits. Look at the Pardew era, everyone left him alone, everyone hated Pardew, he just wants a repeat of that, supporters paying him a fat wedge to moan at the manager and leave him to swim in the money like scrooge mcduck

MOAR RUNNING!!

It would take a multitudinous set of lucky/clever decisions/circumstances to get us anywhere near the solid foundations Rafa had us built upon. 3 years work dismantled in 2 months and it's a long road back and one that won't be taken by choice. Ashley is pig headed enough to believe NUFC in its current guise is still worth North of £350m though, we need it to cost him money to run before he jacks it in to the highest bidder. Totally agree. Even the basic stuff like squad value. Rafa had Longstaff worth £35m, Schar worth north of £20m, Lascelles north of £20m, Perez north of £30m. There's £100m of assets right there. After a month of Bruce Longstaff would be lucky to fetch £12m, Schar £6m and Lascelles £10m. Good job they sold Perez when they did . He's honestly completely fucked it this time. Utter utter clown. How the fuck he ever became a Billionaire is beyond me. Rafa was worth his weight in gold, but he was a pesky medler and we can't have none of that. Ashley will happily cut off his nose to spite his face because any "mistakes" can be fixed with a "short term loan". We'll go down, he'll look to bounce back up, everyone will declare he's turned a new leaf and learned from his mistakes (Except NO). Trouble is, this model is unsustainable, we're already being overtaken regularly by newly promoted teams, the upper half of the Championship are showing more ambition that us, spending more than us, sooner rather than later we'll go down and we won't bounce back up and then we'll slowly sink into the mire we made.

Partly think this was half the reason he was hired, they knew he was no good and would probably take the heat off Ashley for a while. Turn the concentration on to Bruce and away from the real issue. Probably why Charnley has got a lot more vocal recently too because he knows he's inciting hatred and again that takes focus away from Ashley and on to another of his patsy shoe lickers.

It would take a multitudinous set of lucky/clever decisions/circumstances to get us anywhere near the solid foundations Rafa had us built upon. 3 years work dismantled in 2 months and it's a long road back and one that won't be taken by choice. Ashley is pig headed enough to believe NUFC in its current guise is still worth North of £350m though, we need it to cost him money to run before he jacks it in to the highest bidder.

Cry-eating a kebab?

f***ing hell. 2 games in and already publicly saying that we're just trying to stay up. What a time to be alive. the standards have been reduced to the levels of no hopers,incredible turnaround from the latter end of last season It gets harder and harder every season because other clubs buy the players that are needed to improve their team rather than who might make a profit in a year or 2 you doylem (Shelvey). Ashley's recipe for profit is unsustainable, we'll be lucky to remain a yo-yo club when so many teams in the Championship have greater vision and desire to be better.

6-0 2 more injuries, need to run more

Just another way to "balance" the books and take more money out the club no doubt.

0-1 HT 4-1 FT

What he fails to mention is that in 2018 Ashley chose to take £33m out of the club to repay some short term loans instead of allowing Rafa some needed transfer funds. What was the priority for club funds again baldy??

Totally agree on this, once Brewcie gets his feet firmly under the table and he's binned the fancy dan foreign muck for English blood and thunder and we're still getting whacked at the bottom of the table opinions will change. However that will just lead the press to confirm we're deluded and fickle like they've always said, double edged sword I'm afraid. No offense lads but that stuff is just pathetic horseshit, aye he's crap but his signing in his past jobs are from all over the world, he's many things but not what you're inferring there like. Exactly. He doesn't care if you're black, brown, yellow (orientals make very good workers). And he's signed El-Mohammady seven times. Ffs guys I wasn't suggesting he was racist or anything like that, I was having a dig at his dinosaur "tactics" and inability to deal with flair much like most other PFMs who prefer good old blood and thunder, sliding tackles and big lumping strikers to punt it to, give me some credit. Hell no boy, this is the internet

Not sure if this has been mentioned at any time: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bruce-never-dreamed-managing-newcastle-1455506.amp?__twitter_impression=true BY JAMES HUNTER12:00, 5 JUN 2009UPDATED13:23, 27 FEB 2013 NEW Sunderland boss Steve Bruce insists it was never his dream to manage his boyhood idols Newcastle. Bruce left his post at Wigan to sign a three-year contract on Wearside this week, admitting that this was the chance he had been waiting his whole managerial career for.

Totally agree on this, once Brewcie gets his feet firmly under the table and he's binned the fancy dan foreign muck for English blood and thunder and we're still getting whacked at the bottom of the table opinions will change. However that will just lead the press to confirm we're deluded and fickle like they've always said, double edged sword I'm afraid. No offense lads but that stuff is just pathetic horseshit, aye he's crap but his signing in his past jobs are from all over the world, he's many things but not what you're inferring there like. Exactly. He doesn't care if you're black, brown, yellow (orientals make very good workers). And he's signed El-Mohammady seven times. Ffs guys I wasn't suggesting he was racist or anything like that, I was having a dig at his dinosaur "tactics" and inability to deal with flair much like most other PFMs who prefer good old blood and thunder, sliding tackles and big lumping strikers to punt it to, give me some credit.

Totally agree on this, once Brewcie gets his feet firmly under the table and he's binned the fancy dan foreign muck for English blood and thunder and we're still getting whacked at the bottom of the table opinions will change. However that will just lead the press to confirm we're deluded and fickle like they've always said, double edged sword I'm afraid.

That’s just a lazy comment. Bruce can be criticised of a lot of things but he knows what is good or bad defending. Stop hoping the worst of the players; we’ve some decent ones, when they don’t improve as a team then Bruce will get everything he deserves.

I genuinely don't care, honestly. But when people are writing off players as duds 5 mins into their debut, and the likes it is just so bloody stupid. They're just on here to spew their hate man. Why bother watching then? This club is so utterly revolting at the minute. Every single thing about it. I don't think we'll ever see the best of the players we've bought with Bruce in charge, can't really judge them when they've got no clear instruction on tactics or even position it would seem today. Like buying a brand new Ferrari and putting a blind man in the drivers seat.