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Gibbs-White has had a solid match.

It would be a better point for Forest IMO, but you'd then have to question where the wins are going to come from. Hopefully they at least hang on.

Time for J-Lingz to earn some of his huge wages.

I do think Villa look most likely. I think they'll get a bit better in the second half, and it'll be one of those matches where you hope the other side hold out for as long as they can, but the breakthrough will come at some point. Forest have already lost at home to Bmouth and Fulham, so given Villa's away record, there's not many better chances for 3 points, but I get the impression they'll see a draw as a point gained.

Can't not see Villa scoring again, Forest do look very vulnerable at the back.

Shite. That didn't last long . Good hit

Good stuff, big goal. Not massively threatening, but Villa did look the more likely in the first 15 mins. Something for Forest to hang on to / build on.

RK says he doesn't score enough goals. 7 in 23 (not all of them starts) is pretty good going IMO (obviously boosted yesterday, but still).

Forest vs Villa tonight on MNF. Interesting match. You'd think Forest would need around 25 points at home if they are to have any chance of staying up, and tonight would certainly be one where they would realistically be targeting 3, however, Villa are the even money favourites and they'll certainly be thinking it's as good a time as ever to get their first away league win. it does feel like a match where the first goal is crucial.

Just had a quick look at his posting history and of the 5 pages of 40 posts that you can easily see, literally 197 of 200 stretching back to Aug 28 have been on the NUFC thread, which is pretty astonishing. Only 3 in 6 weeks about Sunderland for an active poster (and they probably had a link to Newcastle in some way). Mind, saying that, I also have had a quick look at my own history and 12 of my last 16 posts have been on the Bruce thread, so I may need to reign that in

I do like a good fan vlog when I'm particularly invested in something - watched a lot of Bristol Rovers ones last season (Anderson), and finding myself watching a fair few WBA ones at the moment. A lot of 'don't know what you're doing', and 'stand up if you want Bruce out' chants here from 11 mins onwards

FFS. Just saw the 'no UK TV'. Automatically assumed it would be the 2pm Sky Sports match, but it's obviously just because Man Utd are playing on Thursday and would have been on 3pm Sat otherwise. Crazy decision. This fixture is pretty much always on TV, and the moment we're as short as 12/5 to win, MU barely odds on, a real good battle in prospect, it's not on TV. May try and find a pub to watch it.

This from a Baggies forum, and it's spot on I've just written Bruce's final speach. We played well today, we were solid and dominated the game. We kept a clean sheet which is always nice. I'm pleased for the lads they worked hard. Luton are a good side and on another day we could have scored a few goals. We will keep bashing away and hopefully we have now turned a corner. The powers that be will decide if I'm to carry on, but I'm still convinced we will climb the table.

That's definitely the best of those type of videos that I have come across.

QPR vs Reading in the Championship tomorrow on Sky. At first I was thinking another meh Sky Friday night pick, but it's actually quite intriguing - you kind of think of Reading as poor with Ince, their negative goal difference (despite 3 more wins than losses), and struggling a lot last year, and QPR have barely finished in the top half in their 7 seasons since PL relegation, but it is 4th vs 3rd and the winner will go top, or joint top in QPR's case, unless they do a Liverpool-Bournemouth. QRP unbeaten in 4, Reading unbeaten in 3. Jeff Hendrik on loan for Reading against the team he was at for the latter half of last season, as well as big Carroll. Quite looking forward to it.

This won't go down well on here because he's still generally very disliked, and understandably so, but I think one of the most damning things for Bruce with me is that I don't actually mind Pardew, and that's almost certainly escalated from my pure disdain of Bruce. Now obviously there's a lot to be angry with Pards, but he is what he is, and doesn't pretend otherwise, and he did at least provide anyone between the ages of 17-25 with their best / most successful ever season following NUFC, and I do remember listening to some phone in, probably BBC Newcastle, in 2012 just after finishing 5th and around the same time of him picking up his LMA MOTY award, and it was a really good listen, he spoke a lot of sense, and I was looking forward to it, and his stock was generally pretty high at the time. It obviously massively went downhill shortly after and there was a lot of anger around, but at least there were some good moments looking back. I also remember him playing 'good guy' vs Souness not too long ago in the build up to a Sky Super Sunday match. It will clearly be recency bias and my contempt for Bruce playing a massive part, and the fact it's almost 8 years ago will help, but I don't wish failure on him and if he does well at Aris or AEK, or whichever Greek club it is, then I'd be fine with that, but it's a completely different story with Bruce. I was honestly watching the closing stages of that Preston match the other day as if it actually was a Newcastle match

Speaking of teary-eyed, this tweet got me (and many others) on the Friday night of that week.

Never gets old

"Ah'll get the Albion out of this league"

This really is like watching a Newcastle match . There hasn't been too much urgency from WBA especially from the 80th minute onwards. Got to go, surely!

There may have been statistically worse managers for us than Bruce since the Premier League began (my time frame), but he has 100% left the worst impression on me out of all of them, by some distance as well. Awful.

Tynedale lad Brad Potts coming on for Preston.

Really good save from Woodman. Just saw last 10 mins or so, but would be surprised if PNE kept ANOTHER clean sheet here. I'd be happy if this one ended a draw, so it would be one win in 12. They're definitely turning the screw here, but then again they should - they'll have one of the better squads / teams in the league and should be right up there really (if they had a more competent manager).

I was watching the Chelsea match, but far more invested in this one as I was constantly checking score updates, so will tune in for the last 40 mins or so. They'll probably turn it around now.

I'm the opposite. I want him gone ASAP. I don't mind WBA at all, but my obsession with them at the moment is a bit concerning, haha. I'm also wary that he may somehow 'string 2 or 3 results together' to 'shut a few folk up', so I want him gone sharp and then the next guy to come in and do well, and we never see wor Steve again in the dugout.