Wallsendmag

If it's still deadlocked after 17 weeks surely it's failed now.

Topic title needs to be changed to; Steve Bruce - The Shithouse

He's a cunt. A group of my mates bumped into him in the lift of the hotel they were staying in before the 1999 Cup Final. Tried to have a bit banter with him, inevitably about the match and he made it clear in no uncertain terms that he hoped Man Utd thrashed us. I also still remember his miserable face when he was sat in the Sky Sports studios when we thrashed them 5-0. He wasn't a die hard, cut me open I bleed black and white, NUFC has always been my club blah blah blah sort of bloke back then. Nor was he when he managed that lot down the road when he didn't miss the opportunity to have a sly dig at us whenever he could. He's a snide, he's disloyal. He's also a shit manager. In fact he's a shithouse of a human being.

We played with only 10 men from the 47th minute onwards against Leicester at home. No we did not. I was there (admittedly I left at half time) but I'm fairly certain we'd used all 3 subs by half time and then Schar got injured right at the start of the 2nd half and had to go off.

Seriously how do you know that? A crazy comment from a crazy guy. Go post another 50,000 messages on RTG you sad sack. Anybody that posts on RTG like you do, has no respect from me. I imagine this will absolutely devastate him.

We played with only 10 men from the 47th minute onwards against Leicester at home.

Thank God that's all over. Takeover or bust now for me.

There's not much else happening in case you hadn't noticed.

Aye as anyone at Stoke away in league cup 96 will confirm, Wednesday night we took 6500 down absolute hell on all night. Took a snide blow on way into ground and had to use the gear lock to fend off some big baldy cnut after the match. Can laugh about it now but in all my years home and away never seen anything like it, running battles all over after match. We were at that one. Won 4-0 I remember. Atmosphere was hostile from the moment we arrived. We were driving around looking for the ground (it was the old Victoria Ground not the one they have now) and wound the window down to ask a couple of lasses where the ground was. "Fuck off you Geordie bastards" came the response and we knew from then on it was going to be one of those nights. Finally found somewhere to park and went for a drink. No Newcastle fans allowed anywhere. Headed to a burger van instead. My mate bought a burger and didn't even get to take a bite of it when a Stoke fan walked up to him and knocked it straight out of his hands. Headed to the ground after that. Remember being funneled down an alleyway separated by a mesh fence. Stoke fans on the other side trying to climb over it to get to us. Finally got into the ground and it was the most intimidating atmosphere I've experience in over 35 years of watching NUFC. Came out the ground afterwards and you knew what was coming. We got chatting to a QPR fan who had travelled up from London especially to watch Les Ferdinand. Next thing we knew about 50 Stoke fans came charging over and started laying into the 5 of us. Somehow we managed to fight them off and ran back down towards the direction we'd came from. This meant trying to dodge punches and kicks from oncoming home fans though. Finally got to relative safety and witnessed a Newcastle minibus being turned over onto its side. We were then given our own personal police escort back to Stoke covered in blood and ripped clothes. Not a very pleasant journey home! Never been back to Stoke since.

Wallsendmag will be fuming even more since he insists Leeds have never been a big club. They aren't. Shit history, shit crowds historically, and a shithole of a stadium! Yeah, you just need to convince the rest of the country now, we've had a week of stories and tv debates about how great it is to have Leeds back in the big time. But keep at it, your one man campaign to declare Leeds a historically small club might snowball into something bigger. Didn't say they were small, they're just not that big. Crowd wise, trophy wise, stadium wise, all bang average really. They've spent more of their history outside of the top division than in it ffs. There's literally nothing there that can define them as a big club. Are we still talking about English football? Maybe your idea of a big football club is one which is a worldwide CL giant? A big club wouldn't have spent more than half their history outslde of the top league. A big club would have, at some time in over 100 years managed to average over 40k fans in a season. A big club would have won more than 5 Domestic trophies in their history. Simple as that.

Wallsendmag will be fuming even more since he insists Leeds have never been a big club. They aren't. Shit history, shit crowds historically, and a shithole of a stadium! Yeah, you just need to convince the rest of the country now, we've had a week of stories and tv debates about how great it is to have Leeds back in the big time. But keep at it, your one man campaign to declare Leeds a historically small club might snowball into something bigger. Didn't say they were small, they're just not that big. Crowd wise, trophy wise, stadium wise, all bang average really. They've spent more of their history outside of the top division than in it ffs. There's literally nothing there that can define them as a big club.

Wallsendmag will be fuming even more since he insists Leeds have never been a big club. They aren't. Shit history, shit crowds historically, and a shithole of a stadium!

Must admit I took extra satisfaction from Udinese v Juventus last night on BEIN 1 on my IPTV.

There won't be really though. We know that. There will be this time They won’t lose 50 more fans do you want to put money on that if it doesn't go through? No , I don’t need or think to bet on such things, especially with strangers on the internet. My theory is based on my 52 years supporting this club and how our fan base just can’t give it up. What’s yours based on ? A guess based on a few strangers on the net? You'll remember the late 70s and early 90s when many crowds were sub 15k because of the fans unrest then? Yes , I was among them, in the west stand paddock, dark days , but our crowd was different , they are like fucking robots now , we will get 42k minimum when it’s all ok to go. We've been down to less than that in the PL era. Down to less than 40k for some Championship games in 09/10. It'll drop to below 40k for many games next season even when up to full capacity. Even NUFC.com are predicting a huge drop off in crowds and they've got 50+ years of going to almost every game and can gauge the fanbase better than anyone.

There won't be really though. We know that. There will be this time They won’t lose 50 more fans do you want to put money on that if it doesn't go through? No , I don’t need or think to bet on such things, especially with strangers on the internet. My theory is based on my 52 years supporting this club and how our fan base just can’t give it up. What’s yours based on ? A guess based on a few strangers on the net? You'll remember the late 70s and early 90s when many crowds were sub 15k because of the fans unrest then?

It it doesn't go ahead (we still don't know either) then I think you will be struggling for 20,000 crowds next year as I honestly belive this will be the final step too far for most It'll only be as low as 20,000 if that's enforced due to coronavirus safety reasons lol. Fans move on very quickly and the matchday goers now are reasonably content with Bruce anyway. They had to give 10k season tickets away this season to get anywhere near to capacity. It'll be worse next season.

No everyone will just switch off and do something else. That's my plan!

Doubt he remembers where Ashington is.

Saudis or bust for me. No interest in this Yank chancer.

Nah Bruce will be gutted he won't be able to beat Rafas points total or equal his league position.

I'd say this was boring but that doesn't quite do it justice.

Been saying this for ages too. She doesn't inspire confidence at all to date sadly. I don't really know enough about her to form an opinion yet.

This is my view as well pretty much And mine. I've never thought it was going to go through from the off. Can see it fizzling out now over the coming weeks.

Wouldn't listen to anyone from that shit rag, none of them know fuck all Same as every other journalist then.

It's been a strange old season in Division 3. Bolton fielded their Under 19 team for the first 2 months, Bury got thrown out and Wycombe got promoted by finishing 8th.