Steve Brute

[STM]

you'd be suprised. there are plenty out their that prefer Bruce to Rafa and reckon he's doing a good job. we werent expected to get anything at city apparently so it was ok. there are plenty on twitter and facebook who are season ticket holders and hold this view.

bonkers.

 

Even if we had Rafa and say Spurs squad of players, I wouldnt have expected much from City, results wise.

 

It was the lack of everything resembling a football side that was embarrassing. This idea that we had a reserve side out is nauseating. Even the reserves can be motivated to work hard, and have team shape. It was pathetic.

 

Funny enough, I wasnt surprised or bothered. Its takeover or bust for me.

[Collage]

There are quite a few clowns on Twitter who like Bruce and want him to stay.

[LV]

We shouldn’t mock the afflicted

[samptime29]

its not a one off though is it.......whilst the point tally looks good in the circumstances, its the only stat that shows a good light.  Everything else we are in the bottom 3 for.

 

Apart from the bottom 3 that matters. Brewcie has kept us ticking over until the new owners & manager comes in. Simple as dat.

  Oh my god, do you not get sick of your own shite patter?

 

"We need to strike back against the media"

 

Hahahaha amazing.

  "All I said was he's doing an ok job".  Priceless, ya pair of knackers!

 

Any plans yet on how to strike back against the media? You've had a night to sleep on it.

  It's being done as we speak.  We spread the word on boards such as these, phone ins etc.  I also subscribe to The Athletic and those proper journalists don't fall for the shite spouted by "experts" and "pundits" that crawl up Bruce's ring piece.  Unlike you two spineless two faced gob shites. 

 

That's not very nice.

[Thomson Mouse]

 

 

[Guest chopey]

Really hate that bloke, I even hate the way he has done his Twitter photo

[Robster]

More WUM than journalist.

[Rich]

Judge Holden just likes a wind-up, he’s def not one of the Brucey fan boys (all two of them)

 

I recognise Judge Holden's posting style but can't work out which poster he used to be....

 

County Durham Mag on his 20th account.

[wormy]

Really hate that bloke, I even hate the way he has done his Twitter photo

 

Definitely. Proper fiddler vibes.

[Wolfcastle]

Really hate that bloke, I even hate the way he has done his Twitter photo

 

I feel like I'd go for him. Not even sure I could say that about Ashley.

He's either so s**t, thick and scamming a living that he compels me to drum some sense into him, or a very good wum, which compels me to drum him for the w*nkyness of being like that at his age.

Either way its a public service really

[Big Geordie]

More WUM than journalist.

 

This

[Interpolic]

"The supporters are now hopelessly divided on the manager, minds closed, views entrenched. Much like the political world. Nobody can admit they were wrong, two tribes blinded by own desire to be “right”"

 

Which part of this is not Edwards himself? Except his view seems to be shaped mainly by who he's pal-y with.

[huss9]

did forget the inability to beat villa or west ham at home?

[AyeDubbleYoo]

"The supporters are now hopelessly divided on the manager, minds closed, views entrenched. Much like the political world. Nobody can admit they were wrong, two tribes blinded by own desire to be “right”"

 

Which part of this is not Edwards himself? Except his view seems to be shaped mainly by who he's pal-y with.

 

Steve Bruce is nowhere near important enough to write stuff like this about, it's ludicrous from Edwards.

[Guest awaymag]

"The supporters are now hopelessly divided on the manager, minds closed, views entrenched. Much like the political world. Nobody can admit they were wrong, two tribes blinded by own desire to be “right”"

 

Which part of this is not Edwards himself? Except his view seems to be shaped mainly by who he's pal-y with.

 

Steve Bruce is nowhere near important enough to write stuff like this about, it's ludicrous from Edwards.

 

Only way to unite the fan base.........FIGHT!.........  or get a new manager

[Rod]

"The supporters are now hopelessly divided on the manager, minds closed, views entrenched. Much like the political world. Nobody can admit they were wrong, two tribes blinded by own desire to be “right”"

 

Which part of this is not Edwards himself? Except his view seems to be shaped mainly by who he's pal-y with.

 

Steve Bruce is nowhere near important enough to write stuff like this about, it's ludicrous from Edwards.

 

Only way to unite the fan base.........FIGHT!.........  or get a new manager

Careful, the Judge and Samp will be on here ridiculing your brave ideas.

[ScottishMagpie]

Was listening to one of the Gallowgate Shits podcasts (I know, I know!) and they were trotting out a similar line....  The fans that are anti-bruce are so fixed in their mindsets there's no shifting them etc.  Just because some thought we'd be cut adrift at the bottom of the league, not into double-figures, but we're not and neither are we getting relegated somehow makes him a miracle worker etc.  Away and no talk a steaming pile of shite!  :gm's patter:

 

I'm more than happy for my mind to be changed if someone can come at me with sound reasons.  There is not one single thing this bastard has done since he came in to the job that makes me think, "oh, hang on a sec, I may be doing him a disservice here".

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Nobody ever points to something he’s actually done.

[Rod]

Nobody ever points to something he’s actually done.

  Samptime?

[LV]

He’ll say he’s done an ‘ok job’ but that’s about it. But then relentlessly continue to defend him. I find that disconnect a bit strange and would love to know the real story behind his impassioned, relentless and baffling defence of Bruce in the teeth of overwhelming opposing opinion and facts.

 

Edit: I think he might have said Bruce had improved set-pieces

[Judge Holden]

"The supporters are now hopelessly divided on the manager, minds closed, views entrenched. Much like the political world. Nobody can admit they were wrong, two tribes blinded by own desire to be “right”"

 

Which part of this is not Edwards himself? Except his view seems to be shaped mainly by who he's pal-y with.

 

Steve Bruce is nowhere near important enough to write stuff like this about, it's ludicrous from Edwards.

 

Only way to unite the fan base.........FIGHT!.........  or get a new manager

Careful, the Judge and Samp will be on here ridiculing your brave ideas.

 

Not really given I want rid of Bruce.

[Rod]

"The supporters are now hopelessly divided on the manager, minds closed, views entrenched. Much like the political world. Nobody can admit they were wrong, two tribes blinded by own desire to be “right”"

 

Which part of this is not Edwards himself? Except his view seems to be shaped mainly by who he's pal-y with.

 

Steve Bruce is nowhere near important enough to write stuff like this about, it's ludicrous from Edwards.

 

Only way to unite the fan base.........FIGHT!.........  or get a new manager

Careful, the Judge and Samp will be on here ridiculing your brave ideas.

 

Not really given I want rid of Bruce.

  Sorry forgot, yes it's Thursday.  Tomorrow Bruce for Manager of the year?

[Yorkie]

Thing that gets me is how the rhetoric is that he steadied some kind of wobbling, sinking ship, and therefore whatever plaudits he gets are justified by default. But from where I was sitting, between the end of January and May, the team was very much in the ascendency; then we changed managers, spent something like £60m and - at best - have stood still. How is that a good job? If Rafa was always leaving, he couldn't have left the team in a better shape for the next guy. Yet it's now comfortably a less balanced, less dynamic and generally less effective outfit. We've clearly regressed, regardless of whether or not we finish on similar points: that doesn't represent a good job and it certainly isn't a fantastic season, or whatever wet McManaman came out with.

 

Pointing to the switch from Rondon to Joelinton is no counter, by the by; because he was entirely complicit in that bag of shite becoming his only option for the majority of the season. He's just as accountable for that footballing choice as he is sticking Krafth at CB, or whatever happened last night.

[Rod]

Thing that gets me is how the rhetoric is that he steadied some kind of wobbling, sinking ship, and therefore whatever plaudits he gets are justified by default. But from where I was sitting, between the end of January and May, the team was very much in the ascendency; then we changed managers, spent something like £60m and - at best - have stood still. How is that a good job? If Rafa was always leaving, he couldn't have left the team in a better shape for the next guy. Yet it's now comfortably a less balanced, less dynamic and generally less effective outfit. We've clearly regressed, regardless of whether or not we finish on similar points: that doesn't represent a good job and it certainly isn't a fantastic season, or whatever wet McManaman came out with.

 

Pointing to the switch from Rondon to Joelinton is no counter, by the by; because he was entirely complicit in that bag of shite becoming his only option for the majority of the season. He's just as accountable for that footballing choice as he is sticking Krafth at CB, or whatever happened last night.

  I just wish I could be so eloquent.  How come at least two posters on here can't or wont see it for what it is.

[HaydnNUFC]

Thing that gets me is how the rhetoric is that he steadied some kind of wobbling, sinking ship, and therefore whatever plaudits he gets are justified by default. But from where I was sitting, between the end of January and May, the team was very much in the ascendency; then we changed managers, spent something like £60m and - at best - have stood still. How is that a good job? If Rafa was always leaving, he couldn't have left the team in a better shape for the next guy. Yet it's now comfortably a less balanced, less dynamic and generally less effective outfit. We've clearly regressed, regardless of whether or not we finish on similar points: that doesn't represent a good job and it certainly isn't a fantastic season, or whatever wet McManaman came out with.

 

Pointing to the switch from Rondon to Joelinton is no counter, by the by; because he was entirely complicit in that bag of shite becoming his only option for the majority of the season. He's just as accountable for that footballing choice as he is sticking Krafth at CB, or whatever happened last night.

 

It won't be seen as strictly in a footballing sense as you've put there. The atmosphere around the club after the announcement of Rafa not renewing his contract was deservedly toxic and the bloke who replaced the symbol of hope that Rafa was always going to be some PFM Ashley man which is what Bruce is. I expected us to go down as a result of that atmosphere which I thought would never be dissipated and the quality of manager that Bruce is in addition to losing Perez and Rondon. But we haven't. Yay. I suppose that counts as success to the shadow of Newcastle United that Ashley has reduced us to. And better than expected to those such as myself who thought we were fucked before a (long) ball was kicked. Should Bruce receive credit for that? Perhaps, but it's how you interpret what credit is. "You deserve credit for not causing the clusterfuck we all thought you would cause," aye. Mint credit that.

 

Like I said before, the fanbase had this symbol of hope that the club could be better in spite of Ashley in Benitez. That was taken away and replaced with a symbol of no hope in Bruce. Really disliking Bruce was always going to happen amongst a section of supporters as a result of that; it's Hegelian dialectics, not personal animosity.