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If everyone ignores him he might go away one day.

Tbf he didn't have any interest in us whatsoever until July this year.

Similar to what I was saying, as far as I know this has never happened. It's such a novel excuse that there is no known example of a manager using it in over 150 years of professional football being played.

"Quickly worked out"

Hang on, does anyone else ever remember hearing this bollocks? A new manager saying he's finding it impossible to change things after his predecessor? Take a step back and look at the state of that for a second. This utter chancer is trying to convince us he's a football manager. For absolute fucks sake man

Massive try-hards. Embarrassing.

Pahahahaha look at them mugs trying to better themselves at unnecessary expense.

‘We were very disappointing and got our backsides kicked. You have to show pride about yourself and make sure you put it right.’ Waheyyyyyyy!

Be amazed if he's not on record somewhere talking about managing the expectations etc n all. Bloke is floundering even worse than I thought he would. You'd think it was his first job the way he's carrying on. In one of his first interviews as NUFC manager he said “I had to grasp it, I knew it was going to be difficult. I just hope that people show the respect which you obviously only get by getting a few results and doing the job, but hopefully that’ll go hand in hand" So he's slightly changed tack in that actually he now wants people to show respect while he's getting shit results and we look a total shambles on the pitch. Cheeky cunt.

All managers are self centred. If someone offered you £2m a year to do a job you knew were totally incapable of doing, with the guarantee of a huge payout when you inevitably fail, would you take it? It's a total no-brainer. Steve Bruce either knew, when he took the job, just how out of how depth he was going to be in the PL this season and didn't care, or he genuinely and foolishly thought his outdated football management could see us compete this season. Either way you can't blame the fat pudding for accepting the job. Yeah I can. Maybe in different circumstances I couldn't, but when he came into the job 1) completely fucking over a club that had been good to him through hard times and 2) cynically playing upto this geordie homecoming bullshit rhetoric that had never been heard about in his 30+ years in football before this, then yeah I can.

Bruce really shouldn't have taken the job knowing he was going to be this f***ing s*** at it and unable to deal with the mildest criticism. It's as if he took the job for entirely self centred reasons but that can't be right since he's such a nice bloke and a massive toon fan.

"look at how crap the alternatives are, remember how I'm doing you all a favour by owning the club. LEEDS". Everything related to Ashley is PR bullshit.

Nah, not when previously die-hard fans have very good reasons for staying away. He's either fucking stupid or a prick, take your pick.

^ this mess is trying to tell professional athletes to have some pride, presumably with a straight face or as straight a face as he can manage.

“Hopefully we can get a sold out stadium [against Manchester United} because at the moment we haven’t had the sell-outs that we would like." Fuck off you plank.

Blaming the players publicly is pure self preservation. Wonder if he's all "I did this" when we win and "we/they did this" when we lose, haven't noticed.

Aye, he's not a fan. Absolutely no chance. He's a Man U fan. It's weird. He's obviously not a fan like the people on here - he can't be, given what he's said and what he's done; but he must have an amount of affection or he wouldn't have wriggled out of Sheff Wed to get here. Not sure I agree with that like, he's jumped up a division to manage the biggest club he's ever managed through pure opportunism. He might have thought his birthplace might offset the toxicity but honestly I think that's where it begins and ends re his connection to the area.

Always forget about Bruce's glorious managerial spell at Norwich.

He's made snide comments about Newcastle fans every chance he's had so far as well. Never shown any affinity towards Newcastle until it helped him get a better job. Nice guy Steve is a total wanker.

There are also the countless transfers where players come here and never end up playing - Xisco, Saivet, Ferreyra, Nacho etc. Dodgy AF.

finally seems to have started to turn. (short thread)

Shot through the heart And you're to blame You give Wallsend a bad name (bad name)