Steve Brute

[Mattoon]

Sorry if all this has already been posted:

 

"We simply weren't good enough - with it or without the ball - and certainly without the ball we didn't do enough, the basics to stop Norwich enjoying their afternoon and if you do that against a very, very decent football team like they are, then you are going to become unstuck like we were."

 

How could we possibly compete against the mighty Norwich?

 

"I think at times like today you need an inquest but certainly in the next 24 and 48 hours there will be an inquest and what we can do better," he added.

 

Inquests now too? Should have stuck with the back to basics and saved the inquest for next week's drubbing, halcyon days indeed.

[D. Yimentov]

I expect he'll have drowned his sorrows at The Diamond today, Sunday lunch with four gravy boats and fawa or five bottles of Newcastle Broon (what Geordies drink).

Or maybe he has taken time to reflect and think about a way to improve his performance. You know like most of us do when things aren't working.

 

Just saying, like

Luke

 

I much prefer sandpit hopping God-botherer Jonathan Edwards. Hell, even mackem Carlos Edwards is streets ahead.

He's seen the light and renounced religion about 5 years ago to be fair

who the f is Luke!

 

Luke Pritchard. He was the singer in The Kooks. They had a song about Steve Bruce back in the day.

[Pandamninator]

From the Chron today:

 

The players were back in for training on Sunday as Bruce drove home the importance of doing the basics right again.[/Quote]

 

Ok, who had "back to basics?" I'm sure that's a PFM house in just 2 matches, new record?

 

4-4-2 football played by proper patriots incoming.  Look forward to Bruce unleashing the Carroll/Gayle big man, small man partnership on those fancy forrins in the Premier League.

 

Brings a tear to the eye.

[toon25]

This cunt is certainly thicker than Pardew.

[Guest]

From the Chron today:

 

The players were back in for training on Sunday as Bruce drove home the importance of doing the basics right again.[/Quote]

 

Ok, who had "back to basics?" I'm sure that's a PFM house in just 2 matches, new record?

 

4-4-2 football played by proper patriots incoming.  Look forward to Bruce unleashing the Carroll/Gayle big man, small man partnership on those fancy forrins in the Premier League.

 

Brings a tear to the eye.

 

Ritchie left-wing, Hayden right-wing, Longstaff & Shelvey in the centre. Can’t wait.

[Guest covmag]

I expect he'll have drowned his sorrows at The Diamond today, Sunday lunch with four gravy boats and fawa or five bottles of Newcastle Broon (what Geordies drink).

 

He actually has them in for training, my mate had pics on FB

[Wilson]

Sorry if all this has already been posted:

 

"We simply weren't good enough - with it or without the ball - and certainly without the ball we didn't do enough, the basics to stop Norwich enjoying their afternoon and if you do that against a very, very decent football team like they are, then you are going to become unstuck like we were."

 

How could we possibly compete against the mighty Norwich?

 

"I think at times like today you need an inquest but certainly in the next 24 and 48 hours there will be an inquest and what we can do better," he added.

 

Inquests now too? Should have stuck with the back to basics and saved the inquest for next week's drubbing, halcyon days indeed.

 

As if this is real

 

He's literally undone the last 3 years in 2 games.

[Fitzgerald]

From the Chron today:

 

The players were back in for training on Sunday as Bruce drove home the importance of doing the basics right again.[/Quote]

 

Ok, who had "back to basics?" I'm sure that's a PFM house in just 2 matches, new record?

 

4-4-2 football played by proper patriots incoming.  Look forward to Bruce unleashing the Carroll/Gayle big man, small man partnership on those fancy forrins in the Premier League.

 

Brings a tear to the eye.

 

:lol:

 

I thought that was disco for a second  he's rubbing off on so many. It's glorious

[LV]

Surely these players can see that compared to Rafa this guy hasn’t got a clue. Do the basics right ffs.

 

No Steve, you do the basics right. Like, you know, putting a sub on in the right position and putting the right mix of positions on the bench. FML what an absolute shitshow.

[Hhtoon]

Craig Hopes article in the Daily Mail is brutal... Highlighting all Bruce's deficiencies!

SBs quotes sound like a manager on the brink of a sacking, not someone 2 games in 

[Fitzgerald]

[Fitzgerald]

Wuh need ta dust worselves down and get back to basics 

[steve_69]

Cancelled Sundays off, to get the players in for more running drills no doubt. Doing more of the same shit that has led to two abject performances isn't going to improve anything - the man is a fucking dinosaur.

[pinkeye]

The whole situation is perfect for me having thrown in my season ticket this year....  I would normally try like hell to find a stream and pay for Sky in order to watch as many Newcastle games as possible.

 

I watched a bit of the Arsenal game up until the substitution of Shelvey, that shitshow that followed was enough for me to not even bother with Norwich - I didn't even miss it.  Treated the result with a small shrug of the shoulders, ah well....

 

I know last season we had a terrible start but, Rafa had a huge amount of credit in his bank.....  Brucey baby must be feeling the pressure already having had all that money spent for him,  (well....  all of Ashley's profits).

 

We knew last season that we were a poor team but, being coached to produce the absolute best possible, we are not at all improved this season but, we have an absolute oaf of a man trying to tell these players how to play....  How the hell are they suppose to know what he wants them to do when he doesn't even know himself??

 

In the words of the mackem loft whisperer - "Pathetic!"

 

 

[Fitzgerald]

Cancelled Sundays off, to get the players in for more running drills no doubt. Doing more of the same s*** that has led to two abject performances isn't going to improve anything - the man is a f***ing dinosaur.

 

They must be sick of him by now surely. I can't stop laughing at his face in my photo  :lol:

[Chris_R]

Do the basics right. FFS.

 

One thing you could absolutely guarantee a Rafa team doing is to do the basics right. If they're not anymore, it's on Bruce, 100%

[Collage]

Craig Hope in the Daily Mail:

 

It's only two defeats for Steve Bruce but already Newcastle are falling flat on their faces as manager insists he 'can't forgive a performance where basically you don't put your boots on'

 

In one breath, Steve Bruce said he could not question the desire of his Newcastle players, in the next he was accusing them of not even putting their boots on. It is this scrambled thinking, the mixed messages and a sense of being overwhelmed by the job he has inherited which have accentuated a feeling of impending crisis, even at this early juncture.

 

Forget Rafa Benitez, Mike Ashley, protests and boycotts, the cause for concern among supporters and observers is entirely the making of Bruce and his players. There is a myth that the new head coach has entered a toxic club where fans are willing him to fail. That isn't true, they are reacting to what they have seen on the pitch. Had they won at Norwich on Saturday, the team would have been cheered from the field, likewise if they'd beaten Arsenal on the opening weekend. But they did not, they lost both matches, the latest following a performance so abject that Bruce cancelled Sunday's day off and ordered his players to report for an inquest.

 

'I can't go onto the pitch with them,' said Bruce. 'But the one thing in management I've always tried to instil into my team is yes, we make mistakes, but I can't forgive a performance where basically you don't put your boots on.

 

'Unfortunately, it's happened already, which is the second game in, but I'll do all I can to make sure that changes.'

 

Downing tools after two games of a new management regime, as Bruce suggests, is reason for alarm. The boss has attempted to protect himself by making reference of Benitez not winning any of his first 10 matches last season. And yes, he deserves - and will get - at least that amount of time to make his mark on a team he has only worked with for a month or so. But to ignore the warning signs would risk sleepwalking towards an irreversible position, much like the club did under Steve McClaren four years ago. First up, determining what it was that caused his players to not even match Norwich for effort.

 

'We've got to do the basics better,' said Bruce, whose side were beaten by a Teemu Pukki hat-trick, aided by defensive disarray.

 

'Whatever level you're at, the first thing you have to do is do more than the opposition. I didn't think we did that.'

 

Then there is the formation, a 3-5-2 that has at least four players - two wing-backs and two advanced midfielders - in positions they, personally, would not regard as their strongest. It is also a system in which the £61million front pairing of Joelinton and Miguel Almiron appear isolated from each other and the team.

 

As Alan Shearer observed on Match of the Day: 'Where do you start with Newcastle? Terrible defensively, no creativity at all.

 

'Time and time again Joelinton was on his own. They could have played for another three or four hours and I wouldn't have fancied those two (forwards) to combine.

 

'Scoring goals will be a big problem for Newcastle unless they change things.'

 

Bruce has to make those changes and quick, otherwise talk of a far more drastic change will soon be in the offing.

 

[Conjo]

I know last season we had a terrible start but, Rafa had a huge amount of credit in his bank.....  Brucey baby must be feeling the pressure already having had all that money spent for him,  (well....  all of Ashley's profits).

 

Difference also being that Rafa wasn't happy with the transfer activity, and the deals we did get came in too late for him, which he stated publicly.

Bruce on the other hand praised the regime for the excellent work they've done this summer and was happy with the state of things, implying that there shouldn't be any excuses for a poor start against sides we should theoretically get something from.

[Fitzgerald]

"There is a myth that the new head coach has entered a toxic club where fans are willing him to fail. That isn't true"

 

It is like

[Collage]

"There is a myth that the new head coach has entered a toxic club where fans are willing him to fail. That isn't true"

 

It is like

 

Hope writing that is good though, to face claims of the job being impossible rather than Bruce not being fit for purpose.

[steve_69]

Cancelled Sundays off, to get the players in for more running drills no doubt. Doing more of the same s*** that has led to two abject performances isn't going to improve anything - the man is a f***ing dinosaur.

 

They must be sick of him by now surely. I can't stop laughing at his face in my photo  :lol:

 

I just can't see what he can possibly achieve by spending more time with the players. It's his work with the players that is causing them to be so shit.

 

The thing that baffles me most about how shit we are is that Bruce was a CB, and we have a good group of talented CBs. At the very least you would expect us to be solid at the back and hard to break down. 

 

[Fitzgerald]

Aye true

[mrmojorisin75]

Fair play to Craig Hope even if he writes for the Mail. Critical of Bruce but balanced and not an attack.

 

Puts other so called journalists to shame.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Its both isn’t it? The job is toxic, a lot of fans want him to fail, and he’s shit. All are true.

[Guest poor]

that article is spot on aside from the myth line. i was laughing my head off when i saw it was 1-0 at halftime then 3-0 near the end. fuck them