HaydnNUFC

To not have the personal terms at least agreed in principal prior to a bid is fucking ridiculous.

Kamara would be a very good addition. He and Willock would compliment each other very well in midfield if Shelvey becomes droppable in Bruce's mind ever.

West Ham at home first game, shame its not on a Monday night a la 2002. Yeah we'll probably avoid defeat. 1-1 or 2-1 us.

It's taken Chelsea 2+ days to have Lukaku confirmed after the bid was accepted by Inter, tbf.

Bruce will have a similar season to 2019-20 in terms of results this season coming up imo, just with a strong defence traded in for a leaky one and near non existent front line in for a competent striker. In spite of how shit some of the performances and couple of the results were we were tough to beat at home pre COVID, only 3 defeats and only 1 of those 3 being by more than 1 goal. The odd win away topped off with a bottom 8 finish. Happy days. The fans being back will have a massive part, he was so lucky that they weren't there. Last season many performances at home were ones to turn crowds: Brighton, Man Utd, Chelsea, Fulham, Leeds, Arsenal just from the top of my head. Away was just as bad, Sheff Utd, Leeds, West Brom, Brighton, Villa, Southampton. It almost seems like I'm naming all of our defeats last season here but the displays were truly shocking. Yet he didn't have the fans in, if they were there I'd be convinced he'd have gone after Brighton away or even before that.

Rafa probably will get more out of him but Sean's been largely shit since his injury in March '19. Given that was over 2 years ago now I've became more and more convinced that the good run of form he had from January to that March was a purple patch. If we can get a decent price for him I'd think about cashing in tbh. Would keep Matty but Bruce's management of him has been absolutely rancid.

Aye. Last season Wilson's goals, Willock's goals and ASM's performances kept us up. 2019-20 our defence more or less kept us up due to the goals they scored ( ) plus some defensive tendencies instilled by Benitez were yet to wear off, hence why shocking performances mainly at home tended to be ground out to 0-0 draws particularly against the dross. We've stood still with Willock coming in but at least that gaping hole in the midfield has been filled. Plus I love the lad and its nice to actually feel something when watching us.

He'll have probably told journalists off the record what the craic is so whatever is happening will come out soon. Unless he hates journalists.

QPR, Ipswich, Oxford, Rotherham.

The way he dresses will get yi fatha absolutely livid.

Hope its true. Love the lad and actually want to feel a modicum of whatever whenever we play.

We'll probably sign a loan player but it'll be probably after the first 1 or 2 games of the season. Not so certain about Willock; Southampton, Villa, Palace are clubs around us who have been spending. If we don't stump up funds I think there's a good chance he'll go elsewhere.

Aye, that account used to be called Newcastle Goals (hence EnGee) and posted goal compilations while also being a WUM. Now he's a full time dedicated WUM. Ignore whatever he says.

https://theathletic.com/2146802/2021/08/03/jamal-lewis-turned-back-on-athletics-to-make-it-as-a-footballer-newcastle-challenge-wont-faze-him?source=user-shared-article Really good article in the Athletic about Jamal Lewis, this paragraph from it I found rather indicative of Bruce's coaching attention. Shocking. "The problem was that, having been given the freedom to attack at Norwich, Lewis found himself in a Newcastle team who averaged the second-lowest possession in the Premier League. One source suggests Lewis would have benefitted from greater one-on-one attention during training, to aid his transition, but instead his education came during matches." State of that.

He has 1 decent game in like, 10. If that. It's why he's still here and why he even stayed in the Championship with us in 2016/17, just the standard in the league that season was shocking so he only needed to put in a 6/10 performance to look like he was running the midfield. Plus he had Rafa. Can't remember a good performance he's had since Benitez left, I know he was our top scorer in 2019-20 ( ) but I genuinely can't. Last time I remember him being any around decent or above was in the last few home games of 2017/18.

Wasn't ASM one of the players, like Joelinton, that the club put to Rafa and he didn't want him? Also pretty sure the last time a 'reasonable source' told TF something it was that the takeover was happening.

The PL has gotten better I think. Last season was the first time the league was won with fewer than 90 points since 2015-16. Plus Villa finishing bottom half with 55 points as you say. I think Willock's preferred destination is here tbh. Whether we'll take the piss in regards to getting him is another thing.

The venn diagram of people who end their shite opinions with "fact", "end of" or the "?‍♂️" emoji and absolute bell ends is just a circle.

Aye. Which nullifies the style of play argument, even then it wasn't even that bad. Critics just tend to think Man City at home in 2017-18 (0-1 defeat) and Chelsea at home in 2018-19 (1-2 defeat) was the norm which just wasn't the case. Bruce has the best squad we've had since 2013-14; bit more patchwork than that team with the Willock shaped hole in midfield atm but still the best side since then imo. Yet it's still serving up dross you'd expect from a newly promoted side with the stuffing of Leicester in May, performance at Everton in January or the battering of Bournemouth last season isolated exceptions to the rule even though that it was what these players are capable of. He can fuck off. Edwards' patronisation and winding up of the fans is why he's such a cunt. The sucking of Bruce's cock he does is fucking embarrassing.

"exact same points as his predecessor" as if that's an achievement. Matching the points total of a manager with a negative net spend over 3 seasons and having a spend of £100m yourself, all the while seeing style of play and various players largely regress and at worse stagnate. Fuck sake man.

Hahaha, he's absolutely seething, the bald cunt. Please do get off the ride. Hope it runs you owa.

Tbf, I don't think Bruce is that bad at identifying players. Robertson and Maguire at Hull, Wilson, Willock, Lewis still has time to come good here, Fraser perhaps too, Lazaro wasn't too bad although the fecker never played him. He just hasn't got a clue how to use or nurture them the majority of the time.

If Woodman doesn't start against West Ham then that's his Newcastle career over. Have a feeling Bruce will start Gillespie, because he's a clueless mong.

Not claiming to speak for him but I think it's because it's getting on 17 months since fans were in grounds and people miss it. Some may see that as one of many different excuses to attend matches but I can see why people will still go. I've even toyed with the idea of a match before coming to sense about how largely pointless it all is. I just miss going to support my team, until Ashley sells I don't think I'll ever get the feeling of 2016-19 again despite even that's occasional shitness.