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    Lee Charnley

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    "The Club admitted to the Tribunal that it repeatedly and intentionally misled the press, public and the fans of Newcastle United."

     

    Never forget.

    Martin Samuel seems to have.

    Video Assistant Referees (VAR)

    in Football

    Posted

    You pay god knows what to actually turn up to an experience that now only makes any sense to anyone on television.

    So true - one thing I love about football over other sports is the speed of the game.  VAR just kills it - stop/start without a clue what's going on.  And for what? We'll still get wrong decisions - that offside today - ridiculous.

    Steve Brute

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    Do you think it's even vaguely possible, even a 1% chance, that the players are saying they like the new manager and that he's better than the last one because every footballer says that about the new manager in every interview ever?

     

    Or is it all genuine and 100% true this time, that the players believe Steve Bruce is a step up from Rafa Benitez?

     

    Rafa's training is incredibly intense and to a certain extent repetitive and boring. He will make players repeat drills, positions till they are 100% perfect. It is a lot of information for folks to process. And he is incredibly cold and brutal apparently during training. His attitude was "you train 4 hours per day for 4 days, get paid millions of dollars, why are you complaining, this is nothing compared to what the rest of society do, if you cant take this get out of here". It takes players of a certain mentality to appreciate Rafa - Torres, Reina, Baraja, Mascherano, Garcia. I think there is a big cultural mentality difference in how players from some of these countries approach training - they are ok with it being hard, repetitive, and boring.

     

    At LFC too, when Rafa left, there was a lot of statements from players like Gerrard, Carra on how training was "more fun" now. Even Bellamy, who played for LFC under Rafa and King Kenny said how training was more fun under King Kenny. However, at the end of their career, almost all of them acknowledged that Rafa was the best manager they trained under. I think pretty much all of them realized it once we started dropping down the table.

     

    So I don't think the NUFC players are being disingenuous or anything. I think they are genuinely enjoying freedom. They don't have a person walking up to them shouting at corners, when the opposition is making 32 degree runs in front of you using zonal marking, you should stand 26 inches from the goal line at 48 degrees. You were at 24 inches and standing at 41 degrees. Let us repeat this 37 more times till you get it right.

    Well it worked - end of last season our form was excellent.  Tactically the players knew what they had to do.

    Steve Brute

    in Football

    Posted

    Laughable him playing the Geordie card - Rafa was more a Geordie and he's from Spain.  Bruce couldn't give a monkeys about Newcastle - he's just followed the cash.

    Match tickets

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    I'm gutted at having to flush £300 that I've already lined Ashley's pocket with but I refuse to give that man 1p more of my hard earned cash.  I'm done.

     

    IMO the only thing that will get rid of him is when there is nothing left of the club to fleece.  That means League 1 - TV money is gone, gates massively down and no vehicle to push his horrible SD brand.  As painful as it would be to see the club demise in that way it'd be worth it to get rid of the man.

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