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He was pretty poor yesterday and at fault for their goal. Look, we lavish praise on him when he has a good game so there is nothing wrong or negative in pointing out he was gash yesterday. Do you just want us to say "he was great" all the time? In my opinion I think he has been poor to average since he came back from injury.

Whatever. He just wouldn't come off his line which was so frustrating.

West Ham should be winning this.

He never claimed one ball from a corner and every one was delivered into the six yard box (keeper terrortory). Brighton's goalkeeper collected nearly all crosses into his six yard box (Schar goal aside). We need a new keeper and I will bet my last dollar Dubravka will be replaced fairly early.

Wrong!

Yip.

I just hope the scouting team have identified a decent goalkeeper.

This.

Jesus Christ!

But Bruce doesn't think he failed miserably. I honestly believe that Bruce thinks he did a good job here. There is no other explanation of him being so confrontational. He believed he was doing a good job and quite a few of him pundit pals thought the same. It's staggering really.

There was never a hope in hell that Man Utd were going to appoint Bruce. That was all media crap and his son trying to sound relevant.

That's the thing though, he's not a decent man. Quite the opposite in my opinion. Continually slagged the fans off, disgraceful comments aimed at Rafa and Howe and his appalling behaviour towards the press "have you had a slap from your bosses". I honestly have never hated a manager at Newcastle as much as Bruce.

FFS, calm down lad or should I say mackem?

Yip, Lejeune and Schar were brilliant before idiot came along.

Exactly this. How his mates praise his managerial ability just beggars belief.

Eh?

See my message above.

I'm sure what Optimistic Nut is saying is just let them continue to wrestle and then when the corner is taken just give the foul either way. What is the point of the referee approaching the wrestling team and saying "by the way I can see you both so be careful now"? It's nonsense.

Just watch when Leeds defend a corner. They all to a man are more concerned about hanging onto someone's neck or arm. How they don't concede more penalties is beyond me.

Eh?

Absolutely this.

I actually think it's a good time to play them. They have been a bit flakey just of late and we appear to be improving. I'm predicting at least a draw but we could easily come away with three points. Come on!

I asked my mackem colleague which team he thought had the "5 in a row title". He looked at me blankly. Yes it was Newcastle. Did we EVER mention it? No because it wasn't that important. 6 in a row is their entire life.

Got you sussed madras (smiley face).

Still getting your negative vibe in. Strange for a Newcastle supporter ..... mmmmm.