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I'm going to watch this. I don't know why, but I'm going to.

I've got this on but only half watching. We had a shot yet?

He's not making excuses but Souness reckons the grass is too long.

Why do the commentators have to apologize for bad language? It's a game of football FFS.

You've clearly not watched Leeds play. They're way better than us. Bear in mind we barely scraped past a weakened WBA in the cup. That's our level.

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Well this is exciting isn't it?

Presumably the drinks break is because we're playing over the summer. Fair enough. But can they not just look at the temperature pre-match and if it's not 20+ sack it off?

As I posted in the match thread he fucked the first half, but second half did everything right imo. Gayle scores and he's done a great job imo. Credit where it's due. Credit where it's due? For doing exactly what? for the tactical change at the start of the second half that got us back in the game, saw us winning the ball higher up the pitch, got ASM on the ball more who created a gilt edged chance for gayle who fucked it should have been 1-1 then who knows it's kind of sad that +30 games into the season i felt compelled to write what i did because it's honestly the first time i can remember bruce making a clear tactical change that improved things for us The change in tactics did help us but I don't think you can play the "it should have been 1-1" card without acknowledging it could have easily been 3-0 by half time.

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Feel like they should be able to celebrate properly. There's enough contact going on as there is.

Ok fine. Bruce has done the bare minimum I would expect a manager to do in terms of keeping the players motivated. Well done. Otherwise he's shit. Next.

I answered this question. You didn't like the answer though despite the fact that I added more than the pure fact that just hate him. Did you think that Pardew 'did OK' to get us to 5th or do you put that down to things just going our way that season ? I think Pardew did fairly well that season. But he's a shit manager and it wasn't sustainable. You can think a manager has done okay or fairly well for a season, but also think they aren't a good manager. You can also think they've done a bad job and got lucky.

There's been some terrible "debating" against me this afternoon, but this takes the biscuit. Absolutely nonsensical and ludicrous analogy. :lol: It was intentionally ludicrous. The luck Bruce has had this season is ludicrous.

Let's say I went outside with a machine gun and shot at a crowd of children. Somehow, miraculously, I miss every single one of them by inches. No children are hurt. Would you say I've done an acceptable job of not killing children? Do I deserve credit for not slaughtering the children? Miracle after miracle has occurred in loads of our games this season. Quite how that brings you to the conclusion of the man running things is doing a good job I don't know. Let's say those miracles didn't happen and we were in the relegation zone. Would Bruce have done an acceptable job then? Deserve some credit? Bear in mind the job he has done would be no different to the one he has done now.

Bollocks. He’s had a massive amount of luck, we’ve been playing the shittest ‘football’ in 4 divisions and the entire thing is completely unsustainable. Are you going to tell us it was a plan to have our defenders go on an unprecedented scoring spree? Good management that rescued a point with 2 injury time goals? Managing to get past the mighty Rochdale and Oxford in a mere 360 minutes of dross was top class stuff? By rights we should have been bottom of the table and thanking our lucky stars for Covid-19. This. He's shit and has done shit. Don't let rolling double sixes however many times in a row fool you into thinking otherwise.

I feel the same, I'm surprised by the current poll results. I'm in the it's not really "going back" camp. More like picking up where he left off. He only (rightly) went because of Ashley. Now he's out of the picture time to pick it back up again. For all the talk of "deserving a chance" and how I hate the term if it applies to one man it applies to Rafa. And he's more than qualified.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/19/newcastle-united-seven-priorities-for-the-potential-new-owners It's such a lazy argument, never mind the fact he hasn't done a decent job. Simple question: Is Steve Bruce the man to lead the club going forward - can you see him re-inventing the team and challenging for titles etc. The answer is clearly no. So get rid. Don't "give him a chance". He's not "earned it". Just tell him to fuck off. Every second he remains in the job is time we spend regressing and not making the progress we require.

The fuck is this. Just turned on SSN and it has Sunak doing the coronavirus briefing. I'll put normal news if I want that.

I mean quite apart from being shit banter Cole played for us too.

Pathetic as it would have been lucky not to be off there.

Also this has to be a mistake. There is no way we are paying Shelvey £850,000 a week. 850*100 ≠ 850,000 Fucking hell I'm an idiot. Trained maths teacher too. No wonder the country is going to shit.

Also this has to be a mistake. There is no way we are paying Shelvey £850,000 a week.

It's nice to know you can earn more than a premier league footballer.

We have the second highest xGA in the league!