Dr Jinx

I’m totally sold on Fonseca but after watching a few interviews with him speaking English I can’t get it out of my head that he sounds like Borat ?

Right time, wrong day ?

Peak handsome at Newcastle was Cabaye.. and he could play! Probably the best midfielder in a similar role we’ve had since Rob Lee. Leaves a bad taste that he wasted the second half of his best years at Palace.

I have no doubt that to the people he knows in his private life, he’s probably an affable bloke. Like I said before, I had no ill feeling toward him before he took the job, I just knew he wasn’t going to work because of his track record. But the thing is, we’re not all millionaires who can go swanning off on holidays and playing golf most days a week, we work jobs we don’t really like so that our heads are above water and then on the weekends we have something to look forward to, for us it’s the club. And this man has been ruining this experience for far too long. Dont get me wrong, the run of games we had at the end of last season was fun, especially that late goal against Liverpool. It’s not all been doom and gloom but overall we can all see the teams regression, all good habits being forgotten and basically replaced by unorganised chaos, poor fitness and no plan whatsoever. It makes it so hard to look past a persons redeeming qualities when they are hurting something you love because of their total lack of ability. Its done now, let whoever praise him for how they saw him in their own personal relationship, it’s not how we see it but there’s a universe where we can both be right. I do think the comments about his weight are a bit beneath us, but again, when someone is hurting what you love, all reason goes out the window. Feeling such a relief that it’s all over and looking forward to the clubs next appointment.

I love how they’re basically going to sack Bruce and announce his replacement in the same sequence of moves. Not even giving him the satisfaction of being the headline story for a day or so.

What an absolute dinosaur Bruce is that he doesn’t know what to do with a ball playing centre back. I can’t even describe how relieved I am that he’s almost gone.

Regarding Howe, if he's that good, what the hell happened at Bournemouth then?

I’d say it was the other way around this time.

Some decisive action needs to happen soon. In fairness they did say they are conducting a complete and thorough review but some things that are more obvious need to be addressed sooner. AS shouldn’t be running the club day to day, it’s not her area of expertise and the likes of Lee Charnley who is staying on, you really don’t want someone like him having the chance to worm his way into their thinking. I’d even give Peter Kenyon a temporary role if he’s available. Someone with big club experience who can hit the ground running. He did this at Chelsea for about a season when Abramovich took over before they got their own people in.

There’s no way any of that sticks. It’s anti competitive and wouldn’t get through court. Like mentioned before, if they were really worried about it they wouldn’t have sent Charnley. The other clubs seem to be trying to act quickly before our new owners have a grasp of what’s going on. We need a beast of a CEO in quickly, someone who knows this lot and will put manners on them.

He'll go, either today or tomorrow. Am surprised it hasn't been announced yet to be honest. The only possible delay I can think of is down to them wanting something else in place so they can just make the announcements and not have to entertain the circus. Steve Bruce still officially being in the job gives them the breathing room to negotiate with at least some amount of privacy.

The problem is, who worth their salt is going to take a contract until end of season? If we stay up, the goalposts move considerably.

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He’s struggled to fit in at clubs and he’s fallen out with players. I think he did a good job with Man Utd, but was up against it with the likes of Pogba who has far too much influence there. I see these moves as just poorly timed, the wrong place at the wrong time perhaps. Both Man Utd and Spurs have had and still do have problems that run far deeper than a managers skill level. Ole will be sacked this season, at some point and then what? Rebuild again? Nuno was being talked up for the sack after those three losses, these are not stable clubs. Maybe he’s found it with Roma, they sit 4th and lost to Juve tonight. Will he be given the time there to do what he wants? He’s far from a busted flush, just need to find the right home.

I only see a handful of managers in the world capable of coming in and shaping that defence into something remotely workable until January. Rafa obviously but he ain’t coming, Conte, Mourinho and Poch but again, pie in the sky. Martinez wouldn’t leave Belgium right now either but also not convinced by him either, his last stint in the PL wasn’t so convincing. Has Conte ever had to work with such shite before? Even if he would come here there’s question marks there, working with good players no problem, but a bunch of unfit out of form players who don’t seem to have the heart for a struggle. You go back to Rafa, we know he’d do it and we also know the rest of what he’d bring. He’s the best option by a country mile. Same for Mourinho, he’d be able to do it but would he come?

I had to go all the way back to page 6 to find this bottle job’s thread. He’s developed a skill of being absolutely invisible when he plays for us, I expect more from a club captain, who’s job is to lead the players on the pitch by example. He does none of this. It’s the most disappointing one of the lot for me because he played the part of captain fantastic when he first came on the scene. He’s just going through the motions now.

I’m hearing he’s been saying goodbyes to some of the ground staff and SJP medical staff. Keep an eye on the training ground tonight, I’d say someone will be clearing out his office for him before the inevitable circus tomorrow when it’s announced.

I thought that too, definitely jaundice going on there.

The audacity to have a haircut like that when you’re a plodder of a footballer.

Lascelles has been a shadow of his former self for a long long time. A competent defender and midfielder are minimum requirements in January.

That was so easy

And here.. basically given 2 or 3 times what Benitez had to spend. The press never pick up on this point conveniently.

I can’t see him retiring after his press conference comments, he wants a crack at the job.. which obviously won’t happen but I think he’ll maybe get to announce after the game that he’s going to step down and let the club bring their own people in. (Which is code for, I’m being sacked but they let me manage the 1000th game) An odd situation for sure but one am comfortable with.

We’re on a slippery slope where the term “poo head” is about to be throw about and heads will roll.

See here’s the thing, we all love the club, we support it and want it to be the best it can possibly be. Steve Bruce claims to feel this way too, but the difference between say us if any of us got the chance to be a football manager, if we weren’t up to scratch it would hurt but we’d move aside because it needed to happen. Steve Bruce comes first and love for the club a far second (if even). His ego and settling scores with people for pointing out the obvious seems to be prioritised over actually doing his job, which he’s very limited at achieving success in. I didn’t have any personal animosity towards him when he first took over, I knew he was going to be a poor appointment, we all did, based on his track record. But this dislike, bordering on a hatred has grown steadily over the last 2 years for all the reasons mentioned above. He set his stall and then when it backfires on him he plays the victim card, it’s a detestable trait.