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Sitting bottom of the pile for goals, shots, shots converted, possession, shots faced, passes in final third, chances, and touches in opposition box is pretty embarrassing mind. Some good (lucky?) results seem to gloss over this.

Ok to summarise fairly...he's not a very good Premier League Manager. Players like him because he's a good 'people person'. He'll happily walk out on a club for a better opportunity regardless of local loyalties. Best thing I can say about him is that he has the self awareness to recognise that he's on the PFM gravy train, and is happy to stay on it as long as the pay goes in at the end of the month. If Gateshead suddenly became wealthy (ish) and offered him 5K more a week I'd fully expect to see him rocking up at the International Stadium claiming it was his 'boyhood club'

Facial expressions and irony are lost in a forum

Ya joking? Why would this possibly seen as a joke? Would you say Kinnear is behind the times? Bruce is only a few years after him and miles away from a truly modern progressive and successful manager

Now that's a whole other branch of quantum determinism where cats in boxes start to be dead and alive at the same time

An unfortunate paradox prevents this....if it happened, then there would be no reason in the future or present to go back in time to prevent it, thus no one would go back in time to prevent it so it wouldn't happen then it would, or wouldn't....ow my head hurts. Stupid time travel with its grandfather and novikov paradoxes For clarity ...lets say HTT goes back and stops Mike Ashley being born, there's no Mike Ashley running Newcastle now, so HTT decides not to go back in time to get rid of Mike Ashley, so he doesn't do it, and then all of a sudden there's a Mike Ashley again. Too much temporal physics for one day

An unfortunate paradox prevents this....if it happened, then there would be no reason in the future or present to go back in time to prevent it, thus no one would go back in time to prevent it so it wouldn't happen then it would, or wouldn't....ow my head hurts. Stupid time travel with its grandfather and novikov paradoxes

Imagine how much more we could get out of him if we had a recognised striker. Brooks certainly was last night, so much so that he didn't even need a trick to get past him. Simply stopped and went the other direction, while Brooks just stood and watched

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:lol: I almost wet myself laughing at that ?

An attempt.... Flowers Le saux Henry...don't remember...don't remember Wilcox batty Sherwood ripley shearer Sutton

Good managers make a team that is remembered regardless of who is in it....I'd be quite willing to bet more people remember the 4-3 team we put out than the one Blackburn won the title with

A lucky League cup against a dire Tottenham team

And there's the difference. KDB has a similar size and body shape to Colback. One clearly works massively hard in training on technique and in gym for strength and power, while the other get on with being a 'good lad' and runs about hard in 5 a-side training matches KDB is far more upright than Colback. Only because he doesn't spend half his time on the floor having tried and failed to put in a tackle where the other player has made him look like a total gimp and left him on his backside.

Reputations can sometimes be based on assumptions though. How much do we really know about his coaching methods? Kind of the point isn't it? If he had any decently effective methods, then surely players/pundits/colleagues would be highlighting lauding them? Rafa had a reputation for attention to detail and drilling methods into players Klopp likes high energy pressing... Guardiola likes his players to make a pass or two... Wilder goes for rigid team discipline with hard workers Wenger wanted players to pass the ball until two yards from goal Fergie just scared the hell out of everyone so his team won All i see from Bruce is let the other team have the ball, hope they make a mistake and let ASM/Almiron/Joelinton run 40/50 yards with the ball to see if they can beat the keeper. Most decent managers have at least one decent and memorable team through their career. I can't really think of any for Bruce. Birmingham with Dugarry maybe? Possibly that Wigan team that fluked their way to the final then got hammered by the first good team they played? Robson liked pace and directness Paul Jewell was manager of Wigan in that final. My bad, but shows how memorable Bruce's time was there

Reputations can sometimes be based on assumptions though. How much do we really know about his coaching methods? Kind of the point isn't it? If he had any decently effective methods, then surely players/pundits/colleagues would be highlighting lauding them? Rafa had a reputation for attention to detail and drilling methods into players Klopp likes high energy pressing... Guardiola likes his players to make a pass or two... Wilder goes for rigid team discipline with hard workers Wenger wanted players to pass the ball until two yards from goal Fergie just scared the hell out of everyone so his team won All i see from Bruce is let the other team have the ball, hope they make a mistake and let ASM/Almiron/Joelinton run 40/50 yards with the ball to see if they can beat the keeper. Most decent managers have at least one decent and memorable team through their career. I can't really think of any for Bruce. Birmingham with Dugarry maybe? Possibly that Wigan team that fluked their way to the final then got hammered by the first good team they played? Robson liked pace and directness

And there's the difference. KDB has a similar size and body shape to Colback. One clearly works massively hard in training on technique and in gym for strength and power, while the other get on with being a 'good lad' and runs about hard in 5 a-side training matches

Swap the black and the white around, then it's a winner....with the obligatory crap sponsor caveat

I didn't realise that in Portugal since the league formed in in the 1930s, that's there has only been 2 seasons where one of Sporting, Benfica or Porto havent won the league, that's insane Still more diversity than the SPL. And only slightly less than the EPL

You just knew this was going to happen though, same as our first relegation. All we needed to do was get promoted and it was a foregone conclusion that we'd be regularly above them in the table. but but but we're classier and have more football friends (RTGtastic) Aye but 6inarow marrs

Clearly not a single case of OCD amongst the Puma designers

Could probably get a million or two for Will Grigg from a championship team who need a catchy chant

Colback signed for these yet?

I’ve mentioned this before on here. It’s worst for dark skin African players. Even world class ones like Eto’o, Yaya Toure or even Pogba. There’s not a pass KDB or Silva can make that Pogba can’t but Pogba is oft labelled a ‘great athlete’ without true appreciation for his technical ability which is legitimately second to none. Nothing to do with race but it is a fundamental biological truth that people of certain descents can be more athletic than others. Slow/Fast muscle fibre ratios dictated by genetics etc. A lot of this can be overcome in terms of footballers to a degree, but there will always be differences however minor at the top end.

Not really since its Al Rumayyan that actually runs PIF