HaydnNUFC

Sort of off topic but he outed himself as a bald tory cunt with that Rashford article he penned. Arsehole.

Nah. Dunno who I'd take tbh but definitely not him.

13 years ago today we lost 6-0 at Old Trafford. Just had a read of the .com report. Heh, similarities galore. Particularly the bold.

Needs to go or there's a huge chance we'll go down. Don't think Howe is the answer, spent a lot of money at Bournemouth and went down. Silva? Dunno. Of course you'd take Alan Barnes in the dugout at this point but none of these names would make anyone jump out of their seat and I expect that under Ashley. Also there being no funds in January would put a few managers off if Bruce is sacked this month. Problem is, if this takeover patter has any substance by some miracle we have new owners we'll want the manager replaced again. The club's a fucking mess.

That's a red.

Sending off will be his excuse for this painful fucking shit. Great.

They've scored 8 goals in 17 games and we've won 2 of our last 23 games playing a back 5. Guarantee though that Bruce knows neither of these two facts, the fucking cunt.

5 at the back against the worst team in the league and that midfield. Fucking hell. Hope Bruce gets COVID the rancid mess.

Aye. McClaren should've gone after we lost 5-1 to Chelsea in mid February, we had 3 weeks without a game before a double header v Stoke and Bournemouth which we ended up losing after sticking with McClaren. Benitez would've came in in those 3 weeks and we almost certainly would've picked up more points than in the 10 games he had and stayed up. And we may well have kicked on, I'll die on the hill that going down in 2015/16 set us back years and probably was the beginning of the end for Benitez here in spite of him staying and the optimism of those first 6 months in the Championship. The will they won't they of binning McClaren after the home Bournemouth defeat filled me with dread, fear out of who they'd replace him with. By the following Friday we confirmed Benitez and we all couldn't fucking believe it. I remember being so giddy at seeing photos of him on SSN on adverts for his first game at Leicester and even more so seeing him being interviewed with the crest on his lapel. Reason I'm reiterating this is because no one ever thought we'd ever appoint a manager of the calibre of Rafa under Ashley, will we again? 99.99% sure that managers of that calibre that are out of work that I would get super giddy about being here; Allegri for example (Tuchel maybe too? Don't particularly rate him as anywhere near that calibre) wouldn't touch an Ashley NUFC with a ten mile pole due to saga after saga when Rafa was here regarding transfers. Surely? God I'm depressed now. Sad thing is they didn't even approach Rafa. He got in touch with the club himself to say he was interested. Every other time Mike Ashley and his "advisors" have picked the manager and it's been a disaster every single time. I know that, but the fact that he came here in the first place had us all gobsmacked. Ashley, Charnley, Bishop, Barnes, whoever the fuck is in deciding shit at the club, each manager has been an English PFM and/or a disaster. Its embarrassing and we're all just sick of it. Was that Remi Garde link real? Back after Pardew left? Who knows. He was a disaster at Villa anyway.

We were in the bottom three for basically the entire season, man. Didn't win until the ninth game then got battered at the Mackems in the following game anyway. The squad mostly couldn't give a shite and we had no strengths at all, beyond Wijnaldum when he was playing at home and an unlikely performer in Perez. We're nowhere near the McClaren season. Do also agree but I see why people are starting to feel similarities due to the feeling that we'll get rid far too late like we did with McClaren: the longer Bruce lingers on the worse we'll get and like I posted just above, if we don't go this season we will next if he's still here. I just can't see it. McClaren was abysmal of course but the recruitment was terrible too, back then. We had the 2010/11/12 peak with all those fantastic signings; Ba, Cisse, Cabaye, Ben Arfa, Tiote, solid lads like Perch, even Obertan did his bit... but then the windows just got worse and worse and worse - leaving us with a broken squad by the time Schteve came along. Then we added £80m-worth of even more badly thought-out signings. Mitrovic, Thauvin, Saivet, Mbemba, even Shelvey to some extent - collectively it was just a bit of a disaster and didn't work, when we were desperate for real rejuvenation. Yawning gaps in quality in every area, older players on the wane, and lads who didn't want to be here. Throw in your shite manager, toxicity in the crowds and competent relegation rivals (there was only the Mackems who were gonna help us out, and of course that wasn't gonna happen) - and that's you fucked, sunshine. We're nowhere near a situation like that now; the recruitment has, at worst, been inoffensive filler (notwithstanding value for money) and there's lots of properly wank sides in the league. We'd have to have a really bad summer to not just rinse and repeat the exact season over and over again, imo. Even still that 2015/16 side had more than enough quality; Perez, Wijnaldum, Sissoko, Townsend, the form in the run in under Rafa showed that. So do this side, I'd argue that its the best squad we've had since 2013/14. But the shit manager they have in common and Bruce's track record shows that the longer he's at clubs the worse the teams he's in charge of perform.

We were in the bottom three for basically the entire season, man. Didn't win until the ninth game then got battered at the Mackems in the following game anyway. The squad mostly couldn't give a shite and we had no strengths at all, beyond Wijnaldum when he was playing at home and an unlikely performer in Perez. We're nowhere near the McClaren season. Do also agree but I see why people are starting to feel similarities due to the feeling that we'll get rid far too late like we did with McClaren: the longer Bruce lingers on the worse we'll get and like I posted just above, if we don't go this season we will next if he's still here.

Fair points. Him patronising the fans makes him an even bigger cunt too. Should we not go down this season, if Bruce is still manager and Ashley is still here next season we will certainly drop then. Also, your twitter account been suspended?

Aye. McClaren should've gone after we lost 5-1 to Chelsea in mid February, we had 3 weeks without a game before a double header v Stoke and Bournemouth which we ended up losing after sticking with McClaren. Benitez would've came in in those 3 weeks and we almost certainly would've picked up more points than in the 10 games he had and stayed up. And we may well have kicked on, I'll die on the hill that going down in 2015/16 set us back years and probably was the beginning of the end for Benitez here in spite of him staying and the optimism of those first 6 months in the Championship. The will they won't they of binning McClaren after the home Bournemouth defeat filled me with dread, fear out of who they'd replace him with. By the following Friday we confirmed Benitez and we all couldn't fucking believe it. I remember being so giddy at seeing photos of him on SSN on adverts for his first game at Leicester and even more so seeing him being interviewed with the crest on his lapel. Reason I'm reiterating this is because no one ever thought we'd ever appoint a manager of the calibre of Rafa under Ashley, will we again? 99.99% sure that managers of that calibre that are out of work that I would get super giddy about being here; Allegri for example (Tuchel maybe too? Don't particularly rate him as anywhere near that calibre) wouldn't touch an Ashley NUFC with a ten mile pole due to saga after saga when Rafa was here regarding transfers. Surely? God I'm depressed now. Sad thing is they didn't even approach Rafa. He got in touch with the club himself to say he was interested. Every other time Mike Ashley and his "advisors" have picked the manager and it's been a disaster every single time. I know that, but the fact that he came here in the first place had us all gobsmacked. Ashley, Charnley, Bishop, Barnes, whoever the fuck is in deciding shit at the club, each manager has been an English PFM and/or a disaster. Its embarrassing and we're all just sick of it.

Not sure I agree with this. Personally I wouldn’t get rid of Bruce until we know one way or the other. Pointless bringing in someone like Mark Hughes or Pulis on a three year deal and then getting rid of them for someone like Rafa or Allegri a couple of months later. Maybe if we can get someone in on a six month deal but then we’d still only be looking at managers of the Calibre of the aforementioned Pulis and Hughes. Agree.

Faintest hope I have is that they'll have assurances that Ashley won't be in charge for too much longer, but how the hell can assurances be made regarding a takeover after what happened in the summer? Posted in the Bruce thread that I never expected Benitez to come in under Ashley but after the many sagas and tussles they had no top manager worth their salt would touch us with a barge pole. I think.

Just not despising the manager and being able to see a clear, coached plan during matches would be nice. Takeover stuff in the background may change stuff (doubt it like). It's a pipe dream either way.

We were 3-0 up at the time of the photo tbf.

Aye. McClaren should've gone after we lost 5-1 to Chelsea in mid February, we had 3 weeks without a game before a double header v Stoke and Bournemouth which we ended up losing after sticking with McClaren. Benitez would've came in in those 3 weeks and we almost certainly would've picked up more points than in the 10 games he had and stayed up. And we may well have kicked on, I'll die on the hill that going down in 2015/16 set us back years and probably was the beginning of the end for Benitez here in spite of him staying and the optimism of those first 6 months in the Championship. The will they won't they of binning McClaren after the home Bournemouth defeat filled me with dread, fear out of who they'd replace him with. By the following Friday we confirmed Benitez and we all couldn't fucking believe it. I remember being so giddy at seeing photos of him on SSN on adverts for his first game at Leicester and even more so seeing him being interviewed with the crest on his lapel. Reason I'm reiterating this is because no one ever thought we'd ever appoint a manager of the calibre of Rafa under Ashley, will we again? 99.99% sure that managers of that calibre that are out of work that I would get super giddy about being here; Allegri for example (Tuchel maybe too? Don't particularly rate him as anywhere near that calibre) wouldn't touch an Ashley NUFC with a ten mile pole due to saga after saga when Rafa was here regarding transfers. Surely? God I'm depressed now.

My thoughts also.

Aye, today was the final nail in the coffin for me in regards to giving him chances. There's times when I'm thinking he's being alright in games and he may be better under a competent manager, but when I have thought the former he was actually just not being so bad as we're used to seeing; when you're starving you become grateful for just the fucking crumbs. He was outran, outfought and outplayed by Andy Carroll man. Should be a sackable offence to start the bloke.

Either a Sheffield United win or an absolute borefest of a 0-0.

Didn't look out of place at all.

Should've won in 90 minutes, could and should have won 0-2.

That is fucking awful. YANITED.

Personally tested negative for FA Cup fever.