Fugazi Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Just gonna let everyone know I’m gonna refer to him as Steve Burst from now on. Don’t waste your time correcting me. Steve Blurst (of times) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Just gonna let everyone know I’m gonna refer to him as Steve Burst from now on. Don’t waste your time correcting me. I'm going to refer to him as Steve The Bruce, a nod to the famous leader of the Scots. Steve will be our Geordie version of the inspirational figurehead! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCK Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Steve Boostbarsforbreakfast Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Just had this from a very good mate who is in the last year of the 10 year deal: Discussed giving up the season ticket. I could quite easily, but the missus will want to go shopping on Saturday & I'll miss the day oot with the lads If everyone hated their missus less Mike would be fucked by now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest covmag Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You could have probably chose better when deciding to cheat on your dying wife with your daughters best pal 👍👍👍</p>— Jordan Lee (@GeordieJord) <a href=" 17, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzgerald Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Ha ha get in. Hairy handed Cunt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 This cunt resigned yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Hate this thread, hate this club now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Fuck. Off. Absolutely fucking STEALING a living, that motherfucker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzgerald Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 This c*** resigned yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Wouldn’t it be mint if we could force him to resign? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Lee Clark on radio Newcastle - fucking clueless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minto1959 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 William Hill was 7/2 for toon to be relegated then 11/4, then 9/4 and now 2/1 along with Aston Villa, Brighton and Burnley. After first game that will drop drastically Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzgerald Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 I've just burst out laughing, Rafa to steve Bruce :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsprillasShinPad Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Chuffed to bits we've got Brewce. Anything to lock that relegation in and take money out of the FCC's pocket is a winner for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzgerald Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 It's a good appointment in that sense but it just makes us look so tatty and small time to the rest of the country. I know that we are under Ashley but at least Benitez made us a credible club to be respected. Imagine klopp and guardiola etc rocking up to a the sports direct arena with Steve Bruce in the dugout man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Caulkin nailing it again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Whats this about Bruce being 11th choice?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Caulkin nailing it again. All while Bruce nails Luke Edwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiedean Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 3rd Relegation incoming under Ashley prior to Ashley we had only been relegated 3 times in our History Utter cunt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Caulkin nailing it again. twitter or in the times? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Caulkin nailing it again. twitter or in the times? Times. Can anyone post the article please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-421 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Heard some of Totalsport earlier, and Ando turning Bruce apologist already. Saying 'Head Coach' is just words, and no-one knows that he wont have any say in transfers and stuff. Also on Look North, talking to people in Wallsend, you know, where 'Boyhood NUFC fan' Bruce grew up, all saying he should be given a chance, and one bloke saying he's probably learned from past mistakes/experience. They are really pushing the 'local' lad angle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-421 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Caulkin nailing it again. twitter or in the times? Times. Can anyone post the article please? FOOTBALL | GEORGE CAULKIN Mike Ashley’s Newcastle regime chews good people up – I wish Steve Bruce hadn’t joined In February last year, I was asked to write a piece about Aston Villa. They were second in the Sky Bet Championship and so the time seemed right to appraise how they’d got there and their readiness or otherwise to return to the Premier League. Speak to people in and around the club, I was told, gauge the mood, reflect the atmosphere. Perhaps I could give Steve Bruce a ring; after all, I’d known him for a long time. That last bit, though, was not on the agenda. Joe, Bruce’s dad, had just died and Sheenagh, his mother, was in hospital with a serious illness (from which she never recovered), and Villa’s manager was reeling, juggling his work with thrice-weekly trips up the motorway from his home in Cheshire back to Tyneside, where he was born and his parents still lived. In those circumstances, pushing for an interview would not have felt appropriate. So I talked to a couple of fans, arranged a chat with a member of Villa’s coaching staff and decided to drive to Birmingham, to stroll around Villa Park and to pop in to Bruce’s regular pre-match conference. I sent him a text as a courtesy, just to let him know I’d be there. Within 30 seconds, he rang. “Why are you coming all the way down here, son?” he asked, even though he was in the middle of the same journey. “Save yourself the bother. What do you need?” By the time the article appeared in the paper, it was no longer about Aston Villa. Bruce spoke searingly about “the horrible pain in the stomach that grief gives you,” his sense of “powerlessness.” Towards the end, Joe would often ask his son why he still put himself through the wringer of management. “It was his way of saying, ‘What are you doing, Steve? Are you mad?’” Bruce said. “We all ask that question of ourselves sometimes.” Perhaps this is not much of an anecdote but, in my experience, it is a small illustration of the kind of man Bruce is; considerate, helpful and fundamentally decent. None of which are qualifications to manage Newcastle United, although that is precisely the point. The people who say that Bruce is not good enough for Newcastle have got it all wrong; he is too good. Way too good for Mike Ashley’s works team. There are two reasons why Bruce, who has signed a three-year contract as head coach, should not be within a million miles of the job at St James’ Park. The first is that if Newcastle had even a modicum of ambition then Rafa Benítez would still be in the role, but after having the wit to appoint a manager who could still see the club in terms of potential and stature, they failed to understand what it entailed. That to improve means investment, imagination, speed of thought. After Benítez, almost any manager would represent a step down, but he was the exception at Newcastle not the rule. Take the Spaniard out of it and Bruce is following Alan Pardew and Steve McClaren, all English, all experienced, all greeted with either bemusement or hostility. In both emotional and footballing terms, Benítez held the club together, keeping them in the Premier League and giving supporters a reason to believe. That glue has dissolved. And so the second reason is more personal. Ashley’s Newcastle chews good people up; Benitez, Chris Hughton, Alan Shearer, Kevin Keegan. If anyone thinks it will be different with Bruce ... well, the last 12 years provides compelling, distressing precedent. At best, the club is unconventional and at worst it is dysfunctional, incapable of putting two good decisions together. Something always lurks around the corner. The mood is noxious. Newcastle have lost Benítez, Ayoze Pérez has been sold to Leicester City for £30 million, Salomón Rondón, so impressive on loan from West Bromwich Albion last season, is not returning and they are yet to sign a player. Plenty of supporters are jettisoning season tickets, others are campaigning for a boycott of Newcastle’s first home match of the season. This is not fertile territory for optimism. It will be said that Bruce knows what he is getting into, that by working for Ashley he is complicit with the regime, but nobody knows; not really. Benítez believed he was joining a club with designs on Europe, but is now working in China. McClaren believed he could change things; within months of his appointment, he and Paul Simpson, were given written warnings after the first-team coach spoke about transfers in public. Bruce will back himself and so he should. “This is my boyhood club and it was my dad’s club, so this is a very special moment for me and my family,” he said today. Sheffield Wednesday and their supporters have a right to feel bruised, particularly regarding the timing of Bruce’s arrival and departure, but the 58-year-old has a chance to go home, into the Premier League. Like all managers, he will look at the peril and reckon he can wrestle with it. New additions will arrive, belatedly. Newcastle have long been fixated on Joelinton, Hoffenheim’s Brazilian forward, who will cost around £36 million. They pressed the 22-year-old on Benítez, who demurred; he liked the player, but not at anything like that price and, if there was that much money available, why not let him spent it on his own choices? Who makes the recruitment decisions will be interesting. And what about the club’s ‘takeover?’ Where does that now stand? At this mute club that shuns responsibility, everything Bruce says will be dissected and thrown back at him. He will be a very different figurehead to Benítez and, initially at least, the atmosphere will be toxic. As nufc.com, the independent fans website, put it, “this is the very opposite of ambition, but an appointment that nicely mirrors our grubby, unloved, derided shell of a football club”. I wish Bruce luck and victories. And I wish he wasn’t there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hithere Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Used to use this on Tapatalk when it went tits up I just deleted it and haven’t posted for a while unless I get a few minutes at work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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