Steve Brute

[Tiotes Witch Doctor]

Do we reckon he does ANY analysis on the next opponent? You just can't vision it can you? 

Can just imagine him going on Youtube and watching highlight reels of their three best players.

[Armchair Pundit]

Do we reckon he does ANY analysis on the next opponent? You just can't vision it can you? 

 

He has the tactical brain of a cabbage

[Fitzgerald]

Do we reckon he does ANY analysis on the next opponent? You just can't vision it can you? 

Can just imagine him going on Youtube and watching highlight reels of their three best players.

 

"Wuh in big trouble" 

[Guest reefatoon]

It’s outstanding how fast the meltdown from him has started. 2 games in and he already looks beaten. Useless twat that he is and serves the fucker right for taking the job on.

[Guest chopey]

It's as though he has watched none of last seasons games to see how we were set up or even had a look at the squad he has and worked out the best formation and game plan.

[TRon]

He's so rattled. Two games.

 

it's hard to understand what his expectations were wrt the scrutiny thing as that's clearly getting to him very early, can only think he thought he could play the geordie true fan card for a period to give himself time to get a handle on the job but he's not been afforded it

 

well he has by some but not all/enough obvs

 

I'm not really sure why he's complaining, the press have given him an easy ride other than Craig Hope, and the Chopra article.

 

Obviously the bookies have quickly downgraded us to relegation favourites, but what does he want them to do? They call the odds as they see it.

[Sean]

Still convinced getting relegated is all part of Ashley's cover story for filtering cash out the club and dodging bad publicity for a while.

 

Step 1: Hire a goon to ensure relegation

 

Step 2: Let the club appear to spend a decent chunk of it's own cash and give an interview pretending to give a shit (offset by sales made earlier but the media and rest of the country will forget that)

 

Step 3: Get relegated

 

Step 4: Put more of the clubs own money back in as a 'loan' to look like a saint who bailed the club out and ensure we bounce straight back

 

Step 5: Sit back and filter out as much cash as possible in the way of loan repayments (in case anyone checks the accounts) while the club fumbles about in mid table for a few years, before the fan unrest and media focus intensifies and then start the cycle again.

 

Explains Kinnear, McClaren and Bruce.

 

i'd love to hear what our resident accountants think of this, the lads who go over the books in detail

 

i'd also like to hear how it makes him more money than simply hiring a competent manager, spending a decent fraction of the TV money, and trying to increase the clubs commercial revenue properly

 

Well step 4 isnt physically possible - how do you lend yourself money?

 

Relegation won't be part of a masterplan, but I don't think one relegation every 5 years is something he would worry about, sell some assets and start again without any significant investment.

 

Problem is that in 09 we had a good team, last time we had Rafa.

 

We will have neither this time and the Championship gets stronger each year. In short we ain't coming back up straight away without significant change and investment

 

Are the loan transactions listed in the company accounts properly? In terms of can the public see actual evidence he deposited £33 million etc into the clubs account, or is it just his word for it?

 

I'd assume the actual transactions are evidenced in there somewhere, just never really seen it, only newspapers stating the amounts.

[SweMag]

Remarkable that it's take just two games. He will be gone by the end of October.

 

I also agree with the earlier point about him being another human shield, for Ashley.

 

Why do people think this? At a normal club? Yes! At NUFC with Ashley and Charnley in charge? No.

[Big Geordie]

Because the media will only focus on Bruce for so long, before they turn their attention back to Ashley. Take the Chronicle - their current brown nosing of NUFC won't last forever, particularly as things have turned sour, really quickly.

[SweMag]

No I think they will force him to resign in February/Mars. Not sack him. They will never put their hands up in the air and say ”hey we where wrong, it was a shit appointment.”

[mrmojorisin75]

No I think they will force him to resign in February/Mars. Not sack him. They will never put their hands up in the air and say ”hey we where wrong, it was a shit appointment.”

 

would be something else for them to shell out compo to get him, then shell out to pay him off for being shit like

 

might see ashley off that

[Fitzgerald]

Imagine shelling out compo for steve roger Bruce man  :lol:

[mrmojorisin75]

liverpool are giving bruce his ready made excuse here i reckon

[RS]

Can see the temperature as one of his excuses tomorrow. Not used to it coming from the north etc

[Guest covmag]

Don’t wear fucking shorts tomorrow fat cunt

[relámpago blanco]

I was thinking about the "Where there is unity" flag today and it upset me. I want to do the same, similar theme but it will say on the left side "Where there was unity and belief" then on the right side "There is only misery". Same styling.  It wont make any difference but I imagine Caulkin would pick it up and do a piece on the comparison probably. Maybe a Picture of the squad celevrating on the left and a picture of Bruce in a tracksuit and despondancy after conceding on the right.

[Fitzgerald]

All the unity and wor flags were amazing. All undone now in the space of a few weeks due to Ashley and Bruce 

[huss9]

getting rattled by Michael Chopra, ffs.

a new low. where the fuck is his self respect?

this guy is not as thick skinned as pardew.

he'll resign or accept a pay off but publically they'll say he resigned.

[LoveItIfWeBeatU]

He never looks the healthiest. He'll probably keel over and the media will blame the Newcastle fans for driving him to it.

[nemtizz]

I'd love for that to happen to Mike  I'd take the week off work and smoke myself to another dimension in celebration.

 

Just imagine...

 

 

[Mattoon]

He's not got the brass neck to ride this one out, he'll quit sooner rather than later, he's no Pardew.

[ScottishMagpie]

From BBC website:

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder said he will not "applaud, credit or reward" his players for effort alone after their home defeat by Leicester.

 

Just know our fucknugget of a manager in his post match interview (after a severe butt fucking) will blurt something about "improved effort" compared to last week's horror show as if it's something he should be credited for.

[huss9]

stop feeling sorry for yourself, dude.

 

 

 

 

Stop acting like you're the victim: Steve Bruce needs to get Newcastle's house in order before he can demand an end to criticism

Steve Bruce already has big issues he needs to address on and off the pitch

Just two games into his reign there are already murmurings of player unrest

There was an alarming lack of effort in defeat by Norwich - Bruce must halt it

By CRAIG HOPE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

 

PUBLISHED: 21:37, 24 August 2019 | UPDATED: 22:54, 24 August 2019

 

   

It has been suggested that Steve Bruce is getting a rough ride for a manager just two games into a new job, the Newcastle head coach has repeatedly said so himself.

 

The fact it is just two games, however, is the aggravating factor - for how can so much appear to be in danger of unraveling so quickly? Two games is the cause for scrutiny, not a reason to ignore.

 

The level of effort - or rather, the lack of it - during last weekend's 3-1 defeat at Norwich was indicative of a group of players towards the very end of a manager's reign, not the very start. That is why it has caused alarm - two games.

 

Steve Bruce already has the air of a beaten man, just two games into his Newcastle tenure +5

Steve Bruce already has the air of a beaten man, just two games into his Newcastle tenure.

 

Newcastle were beaten 3-1 by Norwich City last weekend after a dismal performance

 

 

It is a myth, too, that supporters have already turned on Bruce. They have not. At no point has Bruce or his players been jeered or derided inside the stadium. If anything, the performances have provoked apathy, not anger.

 

Bruce says no other manager in the country is subject to the level of scrutiny he is under at Newcastle. Really? Perhaps he needs to ask himself why he feels there is so much attention at such an early juncture.

 

For remember this - if there is no confusion over the introduction of substitute Jetro Willems on the opening day against Arsenal, which played a part in the concession of the winning goal, it is not written or spoken about.

 

If the team does not then lose all semblance of shape and direction and if players are not exchanging quizzical looks between themselves, it is not written or spoken about.

 

If the team does not go to Norwich and perform so abjectly that Bruce accuses them of 'not putting their boots on', it is not written or spoken about.

 

If defender Paul Dummett does not come out and suggest he knew there was a problem among the players as early as the warm-up, it is not written or spoken about.

 

If Bruce does not call in the squad for training the following morning in response to the display, it is not written or spoken about.

 

If striker Yoshinori Muto does not reveal he felt isolated in the system at Norwich, it is not written or spoken about.

 

In short, get your own house in order and there is less reason for inspection.

 

Already it feels as if a narrative is emerging of this being an impossible job. It is not. Bruce needs to recognise that and shut out the noise which would appear to be distracting him from the task of organising and motivating a set of players who have proved they are more than capable of competing and surviving in the Premier League.

 

His pre-match press conference ahead of Sunday's trip to Spurs was dominated by talk of Michael Chopra, the ex Newcastle striker who claimed on radio this week that senior players had told him they did not know their jobs on the pitch.

 

Bruce, understandably, was angry and defended himself with some vigour. But why not simply brush it off and move on? For all of the mentions of Chopra, not once did he talk about Spurs striker Harry Kane.

 

He also failed to grasp that Dummett's comments - and the coverage of them - was not a direct criticism of the mechanics of the warm-up put on by his coaches, which again, he defended with gusto. Finally, after 10 questions on the subject, he conceded that a player insinuating there was a mentality issue before kick-off was a concern.

 

Bruce has not suddenly become a bad manager. There is ample time for him to succeed and win the trust of players, supporters and observers.

 

But he cannot feel like a victim, for the scrutiny he so dislikes has largely been self-inflicted. Win or draw on Sunday and there will be praise, even an improved performance in defeat would be well received.

 

For contrary to what Bruce may suspect, he is being judged in isolation of the job he is doing at Newcastle. To that end, only he and his players can make life more comfortable.

 

 

[Kanji]

Get in Craig.

[DJ_NUFC]

Craig Hope is my new hero.

 

Also, is Brucey the most lily-livered of all the managers we’ve had? Even Carver and JFK had an outsized ego that made them think they were superhuman and battled criticism with inherent narcissism. This dude is folding like a house of cards 2 games in and is talking about Michael Chopra ?