Dr Jinx

Something really weird with that deal. Like many of the clubs recent signings... He certainly looks like a player who should be competing for a place here? Maybe he was a naughty boy and was doping or something. We signed him as a favour to some agent and agreed to hide him away for a few years?

I think it’s probably 1) ? As I said before, he probably lives a very mundane life. This sort of attention will be doing all sorts of things to his ego in relation to his private life. Just can’t imagine his sourdough and Miles Davis parties are the stuff of legend.. He should stick to the lawyering when it comes to social media

Has a manager ever been sacked mid match?

“How do we make it die?”

He is overdue an enormous slice of luck He’s not though, he had more than his fair share of it last year. Luck runs out. What we’re seeing now is a core of Rafa’s squad who’ve had his good habits “coached” out of them and some additions who have had whatever good coaching from their previous clubs also coached out of them. It takes roughly a season and a bit for this to happen. This is the reason he’s rarely been at a club longer than 2 years. This is his getting found out phase. Getting found out? Crystal Palace, Huddersfield, Sunderland, Birmingham, Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Hull, already found him out.... Got to wonder if Charnley pays any attention to football news in any way shape or form Yes, I mean the 2 year point in the majority of his jobs. Only Birmingham and Hull has he stayed longer.

He is overdue an enormous slice of luck He’s not though, he had more than his fair share of it last year. Luck runs out. What we’re seeing now is a core of Rafa’s squad who’ve had his good habits “coached” out of them and some additions who have had whatever good coaching from their previous clubs also coached out of them. It takes roughly a season and a bit for this to happen. This is the reason he’s rarely been at a club longer than 2 years. This is his getting found out phase.

I reckon it’s a total stand off between him and the club. He wants to get sacked, couldn’t be bothered even trying to repair the mess he’s been allowed to create. But the club refuse to pay his compensation. They have no idea how to get around it. And in fairness, he’s in the driving seat in that dispute. He’ll be getting paid either way.

I hate this chap more than Pardew, Carver and McClaren combined. Didn’t think it was possible but here we are.

The thing is he never would have been given the job in the first place if they weren’t banned from the transfer market. He’s certainly not finished as a manager but he’s probably a little too green at the moment. He could have done with another 2/3 years before getting a job like that. Chelsea hung him out to dry, not quite as bad as what this club did to Shearer but definitely used him to keep fans on side while they were regrouping

The opening paragraph of that article made me burst out laughing. How.. I mean fucking how does this chap keep landing jobs? It’s beyond me

Could be significant if sportswashing their way into raising the nations profile isn’t as much of a priority anymore?

Apart from players who were already here before Bruce who had shown their colours (Shelvey..) I refuse to overly criticise any new signing whilst under the management of aforementioned silage heap. Yes he’s been poor but aside from Wilson who’s still playing on muscle memory, every single player has gone backwards.

This cunt earns 80 grand a week

What will we get tonight from the silage heap? “We didn’t lose the second half” is my bet

They literally can’t do anything right, even the basics as Bruce keeps mentioning every week. I think a solid 3-0 should see him sacked within a few days. It’s a humiliation we’re going to have to take for the greater good

My hunch is it’ll be Sven-Göran Eriksson who will eventually take over in a similar way to how Roy Evans was usurped by Gerard Houllier

Aside from being thrown to the wolves when we went down, Shearer has shown zero desire to be a football manager. Has no coaching experience and to be honest, his recent punditry has raised serious questions about his thought process when it comes to the club, or more specifically his mate managing the club. No thanks. I’d rather look back with fondness as his goal scoring clips than grow a hatred for him through managerial failures.

I think he likes the attention. Not a dig by the way, I’d say his existence is a wealthy but mundane one.

This chap goes into more detail of what the Turks knew about what happened. They say the only time where they weren’t able to listen in to what was happening was when they went into the video conferencing room. Which was a direct line to Riyhad, so did they behead the guy and then show it to MBS?

We lost 3-1 to Bournemouth on a Saturday, it took them until Friday to finally sack McClaren so just because it hasn’t happened yet this week doesn’t mean it won’t. That was 11th March by the way.

I don’t think so. Hughes, Pulis, Pardew etc, they’ve all had very iffy spells when appointed to teams who were struggling. There’s almost no sure thing type appointment who would be guaranteed to keep us up, with British managers I mean. Apart from Allardyce who isn’t available anyway and probably wouldn’t come back anyway. There will be little or no business done this month in terms of players coming in. Honestly I think our only hope of staying up is if the takeover happens and they hire a competent manager on a short term deal with an option to stay if things go well.

Makes sure Almiron is even more wasted than normal too. Possibly because he’s been utter dogshit since he joined and even those who gave him minutiae of a chance are sick of him lumbering about doing f*** all and wasting a shirt. Yep I wanted him to do well. Made excuses for his poor form but it’s clear to see now that he’ll never be a good player, not in this league. He doesn’t have the pace or the mentality to worry any team.

I still can’t get my head around his transfer fee. He’s about as lethargic as the rest of the team (Almiron aside) now and going through the motions. Can really say it about almost all of Bruce’s signings.. they’ve looked ok in the first game and then once the coaching sets in, it’s a sharp decline.

Dust ourselves down ✅ We’ve defended well, in the first half at least ✅ Missing our best player ✅ It’s just finding that balance ✅

Here comes the silage heap now in a moment!