themanupstairs

What a pathetic club we are

Will score the own goal that relegates us

Is it the Stoke fella? Etebo

Hi Thanks for the nice words In the early days, we were in the championship, we'd just emerged from a spell of - no exaggeration - 5 or 6 years of utterly horrifying bilge. Anything was an improvement. We were playing shit teams, so winning far more. For a while, the loan players he brought in started to click a little and things looked better. Bruce's problems really emerge when the team is up against it - he starts blaming all and sundry, everyone but himself - the fans, the players, pretty much anyone. He lost a lot of support when he started doing that. He also played the "some of them will never like me because I used to manage Blues" card, which is exactly what you're going to hear re Sunderland at some point. What you have to understand about him is that he doesn't really have a football ethos - he is from the MON brand of 'slap them on the back, get them pumped up and send them out there' management. That works to a certain degree, but no further. Beyond that, it really is up to the players to make things happen, because they'll get no tactical guidance from the manager. The best example of those limitations is what happened in the play off final against Fulham. The contrast between us (barely a shot on goal) and Fulham, a team set up to play in a certain, attacking style, was brutally clear. The other thing about Bruce is that he's a 'streaky' manager - he'll go on decent winning runs, then launch into a horrific run. I think that's partly because his 'gee the lads up' style tends to mean that his teams are confidence teams - when it is there, they'll do alright, when it's not, it's horrible viewing. There are worse managers out there, for sure, but he's very much one of the type where, if their team plays some nice stuff, it's mostly because they've stumbled across it themselves rather than through any way the manager has sent them out to play. Has he brought Steve Agnew with him? His arrival with us (he didn't join when Bruce did) coincided with a slight uplift in attacking menace. If he has come, that's a good sign, a positive. Color me shocked

gone vegan apparently

That's weird, someone else said the Krafth deal had fallen through in a previous post. I’ll be honest I didn’t know who he was or that we’d already been linked but I was told this only a few hours ago. I was also told that Nsoki should be successfully resolved as well. what for? just signed a left back

20M worth every penny for Wilson, IMO.

Wish we had Wolves' money

Love to know if there any whoppers like Damon Days on here. Would love to know their handles to make sure I block them.

He's a fraud who's just remembered he's a Geordie. Wanker.

He's already an insufferable dickhead. Not sure how people kept saying "it's not his fault". Oh aye he didn't employ himself, but you knew that he was so desperate for a gig back in the big time, he'd promise to lick Ashley's arse at every turn. So many fools hoping he would somehow click being a "Geordie" are going to see, and very quickly, that he's very much the disaster appointment as first feared.

We'll get Joelinton and ASM, plus A.N.Other and then sell Longstaff on deadline day without replacing him. Relegated by a midfield of Shelvey and Colback. Reach FA Cup final and lose to Liverpool. Written in the stars.

So Jarrod Bowen is basically a nouveau Ritchie?

Afiriye transfer you say? Typical Ashley signing.

I hope people will at least pronounce his name right. It's Jo-Elinton not Joe Lipton.

There's no better football writer than George Caulkin

Not that I give a shit, but this guy reminded a bit of Josh King when I looked him up a few months ago. Was a great prospect seeing what Rafa could do with him.

I mean, you can probably just add it to the swear filter. Suggested this a few years ago when he renamed the stadium, and was told to fuck off so..

Minging. If anyone ever typified a Sports Direct player it's this cunt

This is true actually. Bruce is drab as fuck. Rafa is on the quiet side but speaks with such intelligence, honesty and wit.

Yes. Until the Brice is right at least.

Fucking hell. Didn't expect it to hurt seeing him score wearing someone else's colours, but it did.

It would still be scant consolation for all that's gone on this summer but I'll laugh my fucking cock off if this happened

Joselinton

Give ower you utter idiot. How many covers of the official NUFC match day program have you been on you prick?