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First time I've ever wanted Hughton to fail. I wish nothing but misery and pain on Forest

Easiest answer is it happens to be a minor coincidence. Would there be any conversation how he was doing something with Man Utd if it happened to be a couple of bottles of Boddingtons, and a bottle of red wine? If he posted the pic With blue pop, cheesy chips, some keys, a shit and a Chinese inbred, who do you think it would be referring to? His plan to have a heart attack before finishing the PIF case? Or that he's actually a crap lawyer and cant afford to make his own luxurious blue drink, furnished with blue cheese loaded triple cooked chips, a lack of a modern security system, and an inability to get some decent duck pancakes

Easiest answer is it happens to be a minor coincidence. Would there be any conversation how he was doing something with Man Utd if it happened to be a couple of bottles of Boddingtons, and a bottle of red wine?

From Football365....they seem to get it "Last week’s 1-1 draw at Tottenham illustrated one of the most fundamental yet still under-appreciated truths of human existence, which is this: Newcastle under Steve Bruce are totally just winging it, all the time. The Toon have scored with 100% of their shots on target in the Premier League this season. They somehow have four points from three matches. A nonsense of a team"

Didn't even realise Longstaff was playing tbh. Can't remember seeing him get the ball once

Not especially. Did ok for us before deciding moving was a better option

Good, good, already starting to break. Keep it up, give him hell, lads and lasses. Is that real? Shows a staggering lack of self awareness from him if it is.

Football is a very simple complicated game. Tactics are vital, but if you can't get the basics right then you look like a plum compared to anyone else... Consider a chess analogy...I know how all the pieces are supposed to move, but if i don't use them right i'll lose before starting. Then consider Bruceball...it doesn't appear that the players even know the basic moves. It looks like they're trying to play Draughts against Kasparov most of the time

They're only a point ahead of Morecambe, who we beat 7-0. Shouldn't even be contemplating a defeat to these. Welcome to the world of Bruce... Do expect to win this, but it won't be pretty. Thinking a very laboured 0-2 thanks to a couple of late goals after watching Newport school us on the arts passing and possession

He gets a massively smooth ride at the moment with no crowd and no real feeling for what the supporters think of the team. I somehow doubt he reads the comments in the Chronicle, or comes on here when he clearly doesn't even look at how the opposition will actually play. The only pressure he gets is a few half arsed journalist questions. Even with the current timidness of the home crowd, once they turn he's on a hiding to nothing. I reckon he'd go about 3 games before he was emulating the Pardew tears

Matt Taylor on Eduardo was the worst I ever saw live

One of the very few and small positives about Bruce is that he's got an almost respectable record in sourcing obscure South/Central American players..Valencia, Rodagella, Palacios However, i'm ignorant of how many he brought that never amounted to anything....guess there would have been a fair few. Never heard anything as bad as Milton Nunez on his part though. That was pure Sunderland...only topped by the guy they ended up having to pay for despite never owning or playing for them Not that i'm clutching at straws or anything

Kind of what I was getting at before. They must be complicit in the 'tactics' as I can't believe they spend hours training most days and still can't pass a ball to each other or move into space come match day

Plenty of occasions last season he claimed that the players weren't good enough and only knew one way to play football. And that was after he'd been in charge for months. Maybe so, but being able to control a ball and pass it to someone on your team is an absolute basic. Even 9 and 10 year olds can do it, I expect most of us could do it after a couple of 5 aside games too

It is truly embarrassing watching us surrender possession so consistently and easily no matter who the opposition is. Must be a deliberate tactic from Bruce, as I cannot comprehend how players can spend several hours per day 'training', and can still struggle to complete the basics of passing and moving. The players must be complicit, as you'd think they'd have some professional pride and would prefer not to look like a bunch of chickenhearts in every match

Alternatively...we are the most entertaining for everyone else to watch...we consistently make their teams look like prime Barcelona, or Brazil 70 and who doesn't want to see their own team destroying the opposition

On the pitch comfortably the least entertaing team. Off it got to be near the top...at least for fans of other teams...although West Ham run us close

Just threw up a little reading that. If you're feeling pressure to beat a league 2 team you have no business being charge of a premier League team

Clubs can't afford it. So we should pay for it? Theoretically...if we'd drawn Sunderland would anyone be up in arms if they asked us to.pay for their testing? I suspect there would.be a massive almost universal pisstake...and not a single voice saying we should Are we assuming the main reason other clubs are paying for their lower league opposition to be tested is as a gesture of goodwill, and not because they don't want their 50m striker to be quarantined for two weeks when they find out the lad who was man-marking him all game has started getting symptoms? Really think Charnley or Ashley have that kind of foresight? Plus I doubt anyone would be too bothered if our 40M striker had to be quarantined for 2 weeks

Clubs can't afford it. So we should pay for it? Theoretically...if we'd drawn Sunderland would anyone be up in arms if they asked us to.pay for their testing? I suspect there would.be a massive almost universal pisstake...and not a single voice saying we should

Fuck the poor, we're alright and that's all that matters. This is nothing to do with fuck the poor. This is about being able to competently host a match. Think Man City will be paying ours when we go there? Same kind of wealth difference. Surely they carry them out for normal league matches? I would have thought each team should be responsible for their own testing regardless of opposition? Yes it would be a nice goodwill gesture, but this club isn't exactly renowned for that And what if - like Orient this week - half the Morecambe team turn out to be infected? EFL clubs don't test their players regularly as they cant afford it. We are taking a massive risk here for the sake of a few thousand pounds. Image if the whole team have to quarantine for two weeks, would cause havoc to our schedule Well that's my ignorance I'll freely admit. I'd assumed that all league teams were routinely testing. Simple solution should be if no test, then no match

Fuck the poor, we're alright and that's all that matters. This is nothing to do with fuck the poor. This is about being able to competently host a match. Think Man City will be paying ours when we go there? Same kind of wealth difference. Surely they carry them out for normal league matches? I would have thought each team should be responsible for their own testing regardless of opposition? Yes it would be a nice goodwill gesture, but this club isn't exactly renowned for that I agree that it shouldn't be expected that Newcastle pays for their testing. However if Newcastle don't feel comfortable playing against a team that hasn't been tested, and don't want to pay for it, maybe Newcastle should forfeit instead? Would save the embarrassment of watching being outplayed by Morecambe...which is almost inevitable

Maybe not the most appropriate comparison, but I still fail to see why we should be looking after their costs just because we're playing them. Would there have been any debate at all if they'd been drawn against another league 2 team? No they'd have paid it without a word and noone would have heard a thing. Yes they're playing against a team that could afford to pay it for them, but why should they? A goodwill gesture would be to pay the Morecambe players for the week of the tie....I'd bet people would complain if somehow Mike grew a heart and decided it was the right thing to do

Fuck the poor, we're alright and that's all that matters. This is nothing to do with fuck the poor. This is about being able to competently host a match. Think Man City will be paying ours when we go there? Same kind of wealth difference. Surely they carry them out for normal league matches? I would have thought each team should be responsible for their own testing regardless of opposition? Yes it would be a nice goodwill gesture, but this club isn't exactly renowned for that

How is this controversial? Why should or would they expect Newcastle to pay for testing for a match their ground? If they were coming up here then it would be fair enough to expect Newcastle to pay. If they can't afford it then maybe they should forfeit... However that would deprive them of seeing their team passing and bossing a premier League team off the park