Consortium of one

Rafa wanted to improve the academy and youth coaching. Such a silly boy.

Ashley will keep Bruce and spunk for Charlie Austin, Tom Cleverley and Craig Dawson

Fuckin nailed it.

There's no hope while Ashley is the owner. No one with any reputation or potential will come to the hot, steaming mess that is Sports Direct FC. The deck chairs have been rearranged, all the lifeboats are in the water and the band is playing. All that is left is the slow descent to the bottom.

Didn't watch after 2-0 so I missed the collapse. First, I'm not convinced that Hayden deserved red. Praet had a heavy touch and it was a 50/50 ball, IMO, which Hayden got to first. During the halftime show on NBCSN one of the Robbie's called it "cowardly" which is BS. I'm about to stop watching altogether as it's too depressing.

"Please Daddy, read us another Peter Kenyon fakeover story, plllleeeeaaasseee."

Front foot? When have we been on the front foot? Bruce is an absolute embarrassment. He is so far over his head it's ludicrous. An article in the Mag today destroys him and whatever offensive prowess he might possess. what is acceptable possession 10%, 5%? "We played hard today and performed admirably but we didn't take our chances. Twice we we lumped it up to Joe in the box but we couldn't get a shot away. On this day 0-0 was a good result!"

Point a game lads, we'll scrape by.

Nobody was pressing until the ball was in our final third.

Shelvey should be sent to the glue factory. Bruce played passive to cover up Shelvey's deficiencies, IMO, to the detriment of the team. It's kind of hard for any midfielder to shine when paired with such a dullard.

There was no high press. None. Whatsoever. It was pathetic. It gifted possession to Brighton and allowed them to get into the game. I watched and I was stunned that we would so easily give all the momentum to Brighton. Had we pressed from the start that was a game that coulda, woulda, shoulda been ours.

3 attackers like Joelinton, Almiron and St Maximin would have been fun to watch under Rafa's tutelage.

That was the vilest form of football I have ever witnessed. I sat stunned as the game started and we played off the ball, allowing Brighton to grow into the game. To play a relegation game, at home, as if you were playing Citeh away is completely and utterly daft. What was Bruce thinking? With that strategy, the games was not won before the ball was even kicked. Even Pards wasn't this gormless. It starts with his selection of Shelvey. Not only slow of foot, Shelvey is slow of wit as well. If I had any goodwill towards the club I might feel sorry for him. Watching him stand, slump shouldered with his head down, I was reminded of a fading star finally realizing that the game has passed him by. But Shelvey is not any of that. He's a petulant 27 year old with limited athleticism and absolutely zero desire to make up for his physical failings with an active mind and any attempt at reading the game. So did Bruce decide to play soft to protect his gutless quarterback or did he play soft because it was safer to play to not lose? Probably both. The fact that the listless squad showed some spark after Shelvey was removed has to have registered with even the dim Bruce and the fact that there may have been an argument (?) about his removal speaks volumes. Bearing in mind that those volumes are either populated with, at best, empty pages or the childish passive aggressive pictures of a psuedo footballer and his vapid head coach. Bruce's post game quotes were farcical. The only truth he spoke was when he said the team stole one. And even that wouldn't have happened if not for the brilliant effort of Fabian Schar. The same Schar who blasted the team's effort as "shit". I'd like to get into his here. Did the team play passive against Bruce's wishes? I doubt it. Cabbage head looked calm on the sideline, indicating that the plan was, indeed, to play soft against a toothless Brighton squad. so the fact that the squad played like "shit" was more of a veiled criticism of the plan and by direct association their fearful leader, Bruce. So when Shelvey comes off (with Almiron) for Ki (and St Maximin) what changed? With Shelvey off did the plan change to a more aggressive pressing defense, leading to a brighter offense flow? Or, did the players shrug off Bruce's passive desires? Enquiring minds want to know. What we do know is that Shelvey should not see the pitch from anything other than a seat in the stands. What we do know is that Bruce is on the verge of mutiny. He's well in over his head and even the happy clappers will be consumed by apathy as Newcastle, under Bruce's leadership, sleepwalk through the foreseeable future.

Bruce looks like a head of cabbage on a bean bag chair.

Has he been hurt yet?

hour lunch at noon plus two 15 minutes breaks. grueling training schedule

Another Nolan quote: “I think Steve is a bit different to Rafa, who is more of a technical…and sort of talking about squads and talking about eleven v elevens, whereas Steve (Bruce) is more…this is now his biggest job in football, the biggest club. Here we see another opinion about Bruce where there is no opinion of Bruce other than this is Bruce's biggest job. Nobody defending Bruce, to my knowledge, has said anything in defense of him other than "it's his dream job" or "the lads are smiling" We know what Bruce is. Nolan is nothing more than a shameless Ashley ass licker.

Money laundering? VAT? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Just read his article in The Athletic about The Great North Run. What a wonderful writer.

The only reason Perez ran so much was because he knew if he stopped some big English bloke would splatter his runty little ass all over the pitch. Purely self preservation.

IMO, this could all be part of an Ashley ploy to drive the price of the stock down, then buy up existing shares and go private with SD.

Any mediocre manager can have a good day every now and then. The key is consistency. Can we take 15-18 points from a 10 game run? I doubt it.

That's a very easy ride you're giving him, bearing in mind where Rafa got the team without the same financial backing. He's a poor manager. What should I expect?

I'm hoping he can keep the club up. If the club were to be sold he would be the first one I want gone. We all know that he's a mediocre Champo manager so yeah, if he keeps the club up he's done his job.