Abra Dubravka

Can't stand BT sports bullshit jingle music when they come back from adverts.

First game in longer than I can remember I'm half looking forward too, probably since Chief Wiggam arrived really. Been 18 months of not being that arsed even when we score, just as long as we don't go down. Still don't give much of a toss until Ashley and Bruce have gone, but as not giving a toss can go I'm fairly excited. Been starved for so long dammit.

I mean how can you tell the difference?

Why do we always leave it to the last couple of days? Window opened weeks ago, and you can organise deals ahead of time to go through 1st of the month. Plenty of games played through January now we could have had signings involved in

What a melt, not allowed to poke fun of Brucie being a portly tub of lard

Maybe when he gets to 300lbs Mike can tell him he can work from home like Homer Simpson did

Cue Bruce frantically dusting pasty crumbs off his tracksuit, and wiping any gravy residue of his chin

Don't get the Rice hoo-ha whatsoever. Kalvin Phillips has been class above in comparing English midfielders. Would have McTominay over him everytime n all. Honestly Isaac Hayden or a Longstaff could have played for England in the games I've watched him and pass it sideways and backwards against likes of Iceland.

Shall look forward to seeing his mug pop up on Ben Foster's Youtube then

If they can save our season, and in turn save the takeover, but in the process save Bruce, then I'm all for it. The end goal is the takeover, however that gets done. The new owners will f*** him off sharpish. He's a glorified caretaker manager

Saviet has outstayed Schteve, Rafa and with all hope Bruce

I remember hearing years ago that it was a bet that Ashley could make money through owning a club. Makes sense. He then fell out with the fanbase and developed a hate/contempt for the whole region, so IMO he now has 2 aims, making money and keeping a cloud of misery over the club. Does he actually hate the club, fans, area - to the degree we always think? With the greatest respect I've always thought that's something our fanbase have kept on telling ourselves. Always thinking the worst of him, portraying him as some bond villain that's going out of his way to f*** us over at whatever financial/reputational cost. Obviously won't have any love for the club/fans, but whilst countless decisions have obviously f***ed us over to varying degrees, our suffering under him is a (un)happy coincidence. The decisions he makes, and his general ownership are born through incompetent/clueless rather than malevolence and hatred for the fans, and end of the day his financial standing/investment. I just can't buy that anybody could be that inept. Kinnear, McLaren, Bruce, relegating a team that was never in a relegation battle, joke training ground - for 13 solid years. Even if you were that inept after that amount of time you'd have learned. Its not inept that we've an embarrassing training ground and no board. Ashley benefits from those things to the same tune NUFC loses. No money for training ground - hurts the club, money for Ashley. No board - hurts the club, money for Ashley. Cheap lackey managers - hurts the club, money for Ashley. Sell land around the ground - hurts the club, money for Ashley. Its more like sabotage than ineptitude, maybe via sheer greed rather than as a plan from the start but sabotage is the ultimate outcome. I find the bloke a total enigma. Have always respected the fact he's become a billionaire from pretty much nothing, fair play for that. But totally detest him for presiding over the slow death of the football club I support. Don't disagree with anything you say, but I don't buy any decision he makes is first motivated by sabotage. His business methods and seemingly everything about him just don't lend to a successful football team. His actions in managerial appointments are through ineptitude, ignorance and naivety, and simply him being who he is. He'll admit he probably knows sod all about how to run a football club, but he's not the type of character to be hands-off in anything he does. He'll put in a Lee Charnley because he knows he can trust him, and has similar business viewpoint as him - not because he's the best in the field at. That attitude is then trickled down in bollocks like Llmbias' 'purples', and wanting the players to void bonus sheets because he thought they were just Sports Direct employees

Vividly recall being sat right down the line of him slowly stumbling over on the turn, and face planting the turf as their player ran through and scored. One of the best memories of going to the games I did that season - that and Thauvin crying from away fans booing him against Watford in the Cup then going off 'injured'.

I remember hearing years ago that it was a bet that Ashley could make money through owning a club. Makes sense. He then fell out with the fanbase and developed a hate/contempt for the whole region, so IMO he now has 2 aims, making money and keeping a cloud of misery over the club. Does he actually hate the club, fans, area - to the degree we always think? With the greatest respect I've always thought that's something our fanbase have kept on telling ourselves. Always thinking the worst of him, portraying him as some bond villain that's going out of his way to f*** us over at whatever financial/reputational cost. Obviously won't have any love for the club/fans, but whilst countless decisions have obviously f***ed us over to varying degrees, our suffering under him is a (un)happy coincidence. The decisions he makes, and his general ownership are born through incompetent/clueless rather than malevolence and hatred for the fans, and end of the day his financial standing/investment.

Max Aarons? Still there, but was linked with Bayern in summer. Ben Godfrey been playing LB for Everton, but always thought he was CB last season. Can never really remember watching Norwich, but remember pundits/media saying they played good stuff, but could never get a win. My perception of them was they were pants and worst team in the league by a mile, but Beundia was good and Cantwell seemed good but was a massive fanny.

Judge Holden was blatantly invicta toon he’s been doing this for years since his permaban, appears out of nowhere, posts quite a lot to raise a profile and gets slightly more of a wum over time. Once he starts thinking like he’s about to be found out he will delete his account and emerge again at some point in the future as another initial innocuous but frequent posting new member. Too early to say but that new poster Abra Dubravka fits this pattern I had a profile years ago, but just ended up tailing off in posting regularly. Couldn't get signed back into it when I was back looking at forum more regularly last year, and after a lurking around for a while before finally signing up with a new account.

Yeah, I heard that. Didn't think much into it. Probably one of those pub/ladish type bets, rather than Ashley going out of his way to win a bet by buying us. Probably waged in between throwing up in a fire place and pouring a pint over Chris Mort. Think he brought us because he liked football, and thought it could be a play thing, and didn't realise he was so far in over his head. Football landscape changed very quickly on him with how much it costs to compete at the top, and he's just used the club to maximise advertising SD and ran it as any other of his businesses (surgically stem financial losses, and wait for up turn to sell on) rather than a competitive sporting venture.

Exactly how high was he rated by Norwich fans? Was a mainstay in a back four that shipped goals for fun and finished bottom without a whimper. Aye, fair enough - must be hard to look good playing for Bruce, but he's being asked mainly to defend within his own half, and he looks positionally lost, weak as piss and no courage to do anything with the ball, taking a man on, or overlapping. Playing for Bruce has surely got to be easier on him than for Norwich last season, where he's left open defensively by his side being so open and/or he's expected to be getting forward more. Seems like we've been done over again by Norwich, another Jacob Murphy over again. We always thought there was a player in Murphy in his first season despite being totally dreadful; years on, and he's still looking no better.

Calls out the Simon Jordan and other cretins on the station (Agbonlahor, Bent, Cascarino) for being biased towards Bruce because he's a mate, or they think he's a good bloke Was listening to them Tuesday before our KO, Darren Gough bated one supporter who called in and was sensible and rounded in his critism of everything. Asked him if he wanted us to lose if it meant Bruce was sacked. The poor guy responded with a reluctant yes, because he could see the trap that was obviously set, and permanently no supporter wants their side to lose - and he explained that. 'Goughie' laughed his head off, and just undermined everything he said that both himself and Durham actually agreed on. So frustrating.

Should fun to see what that is then. We've no midfield that you can shape in any which way. Shelvey featuring is a non-negotiable when it comes to Bruce, and that pretty much limits any approach you try to do. Reckon there could be something moulded out of the Longstaffs, with Hayden holding, maybe Anderson featuring a bit more, and Hendrick where needed. But unless your playing walking football, or against Morecambe Shelvey is walking, out of breath, stroppy, egotistical ballbag.

Didn't he have that stormer against West Ham away? Never to be seen since Yeah, that was Rafa though. December 17, over 3 years ago!! Never to be seen again after he whipped in that lovely free-kick. Signing makes no sense, wouldn't surprise me if it was some dodge agent deal, money laundering or human trafficking something Had his loan spell away in Turkey season we were in Championship, but can't fathom why we haven't been able to offload him at all - even if we'd end up paying something stupid like 70% his wages. Baffling. Fair play if he's turned down deals and wants his money, but club most have had chances to offload some money tied up in him. That or Henri just bloody loves the North East!

Is he even playing for reserve sides? Never played under Bruce has he Must be monumentally bad, or Brucey is under instruction not to feature him for whatever reason.

Don't know what all you lads are making such a fuss over... Edwards is right, strange enough. '...better to stick with a good manager...' Bruce isn't good

I don't really buy this whole point, that it's some power move instigated above and beyond Bruce. Bruce is obviously a hands-off coach. He won't be taking sessions, so his way of improving things will be to get a new coach to do the 'improving'. That's his way of doing it 'his way'. He'd have obviously consulted Agnew and Clemence as to what their doing (that he's doing) as to why we're turd, probably replaced whatever Steve had more influence - i.e Now lets try Agnew. removes whistle from Clemence - Clemence, it's your turn to layout the cones. Now that hasn't been working, Bruce's answer is to beg the club for months to bring in a new coach. Coincides with statement 'doing it his way' and us not having any money to spend on players or even loans that he stated. Can understand that it lines up nicely, that Jones is brought in to work behind Bruce's back etc, be a third party and eventually step in once Steve's get booted. I think it's a bit of a stretch, and overthinking it all and giving the plonkers that are running the footballing side at board level far too much credit to believe a scenario akin to Bruce is too expensive to sack, he won't quit, so this is cheaper/better way of removing his influence or get him to walk.

Never thought buying players deemed not up to scratch at teams we aspire to be/competing with is ever the answer. Added to always aspiring to build a squad top-bottom, continually add better players that push down current first teamers down. Leicester didn't kick on by buying players that couldn't get into Leicester's (whatever team Leicester at the time) side. They went and brought Tielemans. We should be in the market for Tielemans type players. Below the obvious elite, but with improvement/progression a player the elite end up purchasing. Not some dosser deemed no good by a top 10 team. Jeff Hendrick is never going to push on and become any better, or become a £30M+ player that likes of top 4 sniff around (i.e Cabaye). We're just wasting our time and money continually buying these twats like Hendrick, Shelvey We still live with the 'purple' mentality, and will never push on as a club until that attitude is banished. We've got Shelvey, paying him 80k, the purplest 'purple' of the squad. So we'll never go and buy another midfielder better than him, thus improving our side, and demoting him to rotation/squad.