Armchair Pundit

Pretty sure Bruce is going nowhere under Ashley, regardless of the result (and also relegation). Therefore, I'm hoping for a result, any points gained tbh, just to avoid relegation and not hamper the takeover which I'm pinning all my hopes on. ...do I think we'll get anything against Everton though? No chance. This club's driving me round the twist

Face like a beggar's ball bag

Huh, I just came downstairs from the office to watch the match... didn't realise it was a 6pm kick off ( ...doesn't look like I missed much, quelle surprise)

I saw someone suggesting the Cowley brothers at the weekend, again though I'm not sure anyone wanting to progress their careers would really look at coming here on a short term basis as appealing.

You say this but surely you don't wish ill-health on the bloke? I mean, he's clearly out of his depth, incapable of doing the job and in essence brought it all on himself, but the guy looks mentally shattered and maybe finds himself in a position where he feels stuck. On one hand he might feel he can't leave because he wants to do all he can to turn things around in the one chance he's going to ever get to manage this club... then again, on the other hand, perhaps he doesn't even see how bad he is, entrenched in his own routine. I'd like to think he's not just hanging around for a pay-off, maybe he is, but when all said and done, although I want him gone, I can't wish ill-health on him, not when the actual problem is the fat prick that hired him and the ongoing shite with the Prem stopping us from progressing under a new owner.

Hahaha, Chimp Mitts chipping in with his usual guff: https://richardajkeys.com/index.php/blog

No way will Bruce walk when there's all that compo at stake for being sacked

To be honest, the players are being made to look a lot worse than they could/should be by having zero effective leadership, zero effective training and zero tactical direction. There's players in our squad who looked adequate squad players under Rafa. Bruce's idea of football management is to throw a ball at the players and tell them to put it in the back of the net at the other end of the pitch, a 10yr old playing Football Manager would likely have a better grasp of what's needed.

You think he would? If Ashley appointed Jones as join head coach I still think Bruce would hold out until he's paid off.

The only thing Redknapp got right there was that we're in need of a takeover, hearing that more and more the last couple of weeks from the pundits, let's hope there's something in the pipeline.

Fuck off Redknapp, honestly, defending his mate Bruce yet again... what an absolute cock. Rafa did more with less, he could get more from the current squad hands down and yet Redknapp making out it's been like this for the past three years. Utter dog turd.

Poor me, poor me, what a dick sniffer!

Large parts of it he's been encouraged, he was pleased with??? What the actual feck??? ???

I'm still bewildered by why Ashley would spend money on bringing Bruce to the club and then Joelinton when he could have just given it to Rafa to persuade him to stay. £45m given to Rafa or Steve Bruce and Joelinton?... Hmmm, sure is a difficult one that. Mind you, £45m probably wasn't enough to keep Rafa with all the other shit he would have to have put up with, I don't blame him for leaving.

Always had to happen as soon as the tactics Rafa had drilled in to the team wore off and Bruce started making his own mark, you can only hide on someone else's work for so long before you get caught out.

Roll wor sleeves up, dust ourselves down and go again.

Guaranteed that his pundit mates will all be blaming the players for everything, none of it is Bruce's fault, the poor hard done by kunt.

Covid has hit us hard, clearly why Bruce has had such a difficult time to showcase his true abilities as head coach... what a fecking shambolic fraud of a football manager, purely carved out a living based solely on his previous playing career. If only we could all be as lucky to wing our ways through similarly paid jobs, utterly disgusting sham of a bloke.

5-0 win for Villa? The players have given up, they're not even there. Bruce has lost them and Ashley doesn't give a feck, at this point we're looking at a takeover happening quick or relegation if we can't grind out points from the easier teams.

On the up side, I've got a Villa win on my acca for today

Please elaborate? I hope that that wasn't a serious question. I love the circle of posts which goes on in this thread. 1. Someone pretends to be ITK 2. People react with hope 3. ITK gets called out 4. ITK proved to be talking bollocks 5. Someone else pretends to be ITK 6. People react with hope 7. etc etc That's just one page Yep, all the people pretending to be itk, while they think they are funny, it’s just not. Likewise, all these people who are believing them need to give their heads a shake. Slim’s s**** even made it into the Positive Optimism thread ffs Why have a go at people for wanting/hoping that some of the takeover info might just have a semblance of truth....most probably not, but many of us live in a world of hope and thrive on anything that might just cheer them up for a brief time, be it ITK/bullshit/twitter bollocks or anything else.......i put Slim’s stuff onto “positive Optimism” thread......it amused me for the rest of the evening and that’s what the thread is for.....you never know, law of averages says eventually one of these titbits may well be correct. I do agree with your first statement of people trying to wind others up with their obvious bating....i agree it’s not funny, but I’m very happy with people who put up possible takeover info, if they believe there might be some substance with the truth.....After all we all want the same result and a bit of optimism, however blind, hurts no one. Because it gets people’s hopes up man. I’m all for it if there is a credible source but Slim et al are just on the wind up and I don’t want folk getting disappointed. We’ve had enough of that and don’t need our own playing a part in that. If you encourage it then you are gonna get a load of copycats and you’ll lose any real info among all the noise. Agree entirely but i don’t know Slim or HTT enough (even though I’ve been on this board for 10 years) to gather that they are complete windup merchants...i have always enjoyed HTT’s ramblings and didn’t realise that he is capable of outright bullshit......that’s perhaps the problem, some of us, me in particular, can’t differentiate between the wind up merchants and those who are genuinely trying to relay info......Is there a bullshit emoji to help us poor suckers? I spout s****, but I don’t bullshit about stuff I have genuinely been told that I personally hold credence with. The 3.00pm stuff, #soon, Mexicans etc. is windup lifting patter, this stuff isn’t. I maintain I am 100% confident this deal goes through by the end of this month or February and my post about positive legal news forthcoming, all I will say is watch this space. I’m no ITK and think the whole moniker is bollocks anyway, but it’s not out of the ordinary someone like me has a source or two in business/sport... Glad you enjoyed my ramblings though, when this takeover happens and my interest in all things NUFC resumes, I’ll be back to my tl;dr great with tactical posts, player ratings, maybe who the f*** are... etc. Might even start my own main site back up... Good work HTT, you bring a bit of banter if nowt else. You're not wrong that it's not out of the ordinary for an average bod to know someone linked to the footy business, don't let em get you down.

It still bewilders me that the job of football manager lets the incumbent fail horrendously, be utterly incompetent, resulting in getting sacked and yet still get compensation at the end of it. Also, on the point of Rafa, I can't help but wonder why Fatty didn't just give Rafa the money he spent on bringing Bruce to the club, along with the transfer money that Bruce inevitably wasted, he must have know he'd be releasing the funds that ended up being spent. The mind boggles.

Surely anyone with animosity towards NCSL really needs to have a word with themselves? With all the other targets they could pick on that actually cause the club and fans grief, why be dicks and attack someone, a fellow fan, who's trying to do something good? It's just bizarre