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Guess it's admirable how they always try to play it out from the back but it's clearly not working against this high press from Liverpool. They have to find the midfield quicker.

Fucking class Salah.

I've never laughed at it. I've been more like this: http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/NRXleEopnqL3a/giphy.gif

Good read

Cunt should shut the fuck up and focus on scoring against Celtic tonight. I guess your view on him must be a bit ambivalent?

Not sure a person who hates NUFC fans should be a football writer for the Chronicle. EDIT: He's not, he writes for the Telegraph. Whatever. He shouldn't write about NUFC anyway.

Hope writing that is good though, to face claims of the job being impossible rather than Bruce not being fit for purpose.

Craig Hope in the Daily Mail: It's only two defeats for Steve Bruce but already Newcastle are falling flat on their faces as manager insists he 'can't forgive a performance where basically you don't put your boots on' In one breath, Steve Bruce said he could not question the desire of his Newcastle players, in the next he was accusing them of not even putting their boots on. It is this scrambled thinking, the mixed messages and a sense of being overwhelmed by the job he has inherited which have accentuated a feeling of impending crisis, even at this early juncture. Forget Rafa Benitez, Mike Ashley, protests and boycotts, the cause for concern among supporters and observers is entirely the making of Bruce and his players. There is a myth that the new head coach has entered a toxic club where fans are willing him to fail. That isn't true, they are reacting to what they have seen on the pitch. Had they won at Norwich on Saturday, the team would have been cheered from the field, likewise if they'd beaten Arsenal on the opening weekend. But they did not, they lost both matches, the latest following a performance so abject that Bruce cancelled Sunday's day off and ordered his players to report for an inquest. 'I can't go onto the pitch with them,' said Bruce. 'But the one thing in management I've always tried to instil into my team is yes, we make mistakes, but I can't forgive a performance where basically you don't put your boots on. 'Unfortunately, it's happened already, which is the second game in, but I'll do all I can to make sure that changes.' Downing tools after two games of a new management regime, as Bruce suggests, is reason for alarm. The boss has attempted to protect himself by making reference of Benitez not winning any of his first 10 matches last season. And yes, he deserves - and will get - at least that amount of time to make his mark on a team he has only worked with for a month or so. But to ignore the warning signs would risk sleepwalking towards an irreversible position, much like the club did under Steve McClaren four years ago. First up, determining what it was that caused his players to not even match Norwich for effort. 'We've got to do the basics better,' said Bruce, whose side were beaten by a Teemu Pukki hat-trick, aided by defensive disarray. 'Whatever level you're at, the first thing you have to do is do more than the opposition. I didn't think we did that.' Then there is the formation, a 3-5-2 that has at least four players - two wing-backs and two advanced midfielders - in positions they, personally, would not regard as their strongest. It is also a system in which the £61million front pairing of Joelinton and Miguel Almiron appear isolated from each other and the team. As Alan Shearer observed on Match of the Day: 'Where do you start with Newcastle? Terrible defensively, no creativity at all. 'Time and time again Joelinton was on his own. They could have played for another three or four hours and I wouldn't have fancied those two (forwards) to combine. 'Scoring goals will be a big problem for Newcastle unless they change things.' Bruce has to make those changes and quick, otherwise talk of a far more drastic change will soon be in the offing.

"They won the FA Cup, and also qualified for the Community Shield"

He's never really tried IMO. But do you think it's "easier" to sell the club if we're in the Championship? I think there are two situations where he sells; someone offers him a deal too good to turn down while where in the PL or we actually start costing him money because we're in the Championship (or lower). The evidence we have so far is when we are in the PL, he runs us as a £100m business, but wants £350m+ for us, so think it's unlikely he'll sell us while we are in the PL. Outside of the PL, he "tried" to sell us the first time we went down, but not while Rafa was here. I think the most likely chance for us to get sold is to stay down, because not only is that the uncharted territory, but he's been proven to want ridiculous amounts compared to how he runs club while in the PL. I agree about the two situations, but I think the first one is more likely. He wants to get as much money as possible for the club. If we’re in the Championship there’s always the risk he wants to get back up before selling. When does the club start costing him money? After one season in the Champo? In a way I’ve resigned to him staying until he decides to sell, for whatever reason, regardless of which division we’re in. Without looking into it too much, I would guess it'll be around then aye. Saying all of this though, and enjoying Brucey losing and being so out of his depth, I'm still not entirely sure that I want us to get relegated. Loathe being in that shit hole division almost as much as I hate Ashley, and if he sells us while we're down there, it could easily be to a pair of chancers like the mackems got. Yeah, my thoughts are about the same regarding relegation. I want Ashley out as much as the next man. But Rafa showed me that it's actually possible to support this club/team, despite Ashley. Can't see us getting a manager like that again under Ashley though. Desperate times.

He's never really tried IMO. But do you think it's "easier" to sell the club if we're in the Championship? I think there are two situations where he sells; someone offers him a deal too good to turn down while where in the PL or we actually start costing him money because we're in the Championship (or lower). The evidence we have so far is when we are in the PL, he runs us as a £100m business, but wants £350m+ for us, so think it's unlikely he'll sell us while we are in the PL. Outside of the PL, he "tried" to sell us the first time we went down, but not while Rafa was here. I think the most likely chance for us to get sold is to stay down, because not only is that the uncharted territory, but he's been proven to want ridiculous amounts compared to how he runs club while in the PL. I agree about the two situations, but I think the first one is more likely. He wants to get as much money as possible for the club. If we’re in the Championship there’s always the risk he wants to get back up before selling. When does the club start costing him money? After one season in the Champo? In a way I’ve resigned to him staying until he decides to sell, for whatever reason, regardless of which division we’re in.

He's never really tried IMO. But do you think it's "easier" to sell the club if we're in the Championship?

Deportivo playing in hoops this season. Forza Depor.

He already rejected it. He's not that shit/desperate.

Not as bad a person, but probably a worse manager, I'd say.

It will be a trashing. We obviously won't score and they'll score 4 or 5.

Where is his Uefa Cup at Valencia? It's there. 2x Europa League

"Last season we didn't win until November"

Like a young brute smashing up a lego castle.

Be a good Geordie and resign now. Loser.

Rafa Rafael...would be ace As if the sheep who are at the stadium are going to admit they were wrong to sign up to Brewcie's revolution. Away though.

2-0?

It’s absolutely mental.

Rafa Rafael...would be ace