Steve Brute

[KaKa]

"They still play better football than us and create better chances."  :idiot2:

 

Well that's obviously his opinion, but just because you don't agree with it it doesn't make it wrong. He's still allowed to have that opinion. I mean, we have the worst xG in the league so using stats alone he's probably right.

 

Everybody can have their own opinion. But this is a crazy opinion. The rest of our team excluding Wilson has scored 9 goals. 4 more than Sheffield United. But Sheffield United play better football and create better chances???

 

It's madness, absolute madness.

 

 

 

 

I thin it's been explained more than enough times on here, so I won't bother.

 

Long way left to go this season. We'll see how it all plays out.

[Guest]

We're really not

 

Like Ben said switch our strikers and we switch positions easily.

 

We just generally have more players capable of bailing us out.

 

We didn’t have Wilson last year and we were miles better than them in the two head to heads, like.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Loved the way Bruce criticized the defending for the glut of goals at the end of the game, as if it had nothing to do with him

 

Does he know he is culpable for that at all? We never saw these border line unprofessional performances under the previous manager in comparison.

 

Can you imagine that 5 v2 happening under Rafa lol? And then to concede basically they same way like a minute later. No chance

 

Of course not.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I personally think that last night was worse than anything under pardew, just the actual amount we were dominated was frightening, they even gifted us a route back into the game and we still lost by three. Most shots by a premier league team in a half, it was insane. It was like City playing a champ team, and Leeds have just been promoted

 

Tend to agree, I guess with the caveat that Pardew had access to much better players.

 

I think our really slow, pedestrian midfield, poor fullbacks and Steve Bruce are a perfect storm of shitness. Especially against teams like Leeds. Also we've lost the pressure high up that Rondon and Perez used to apply.

 

Luckily (if you care) there seem to be enough equally slow, toothless and generally bad teams for us to squeeze out the points to stay up.

[Yorkie]

Can't believe people still think we might get relegated. I doubt we'll be any fewer than five points clear of the relegation zone at any point tbh. Loads of individual quality in the side, will always mean we pick up points. We're a terrible team though so will periodically have episodes like last night. There's a very clear pattern at this point, fail to see why we're likely to deviate from it.

[Paully]

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Can't believe people still think we might get relegated. I doubt we'll be any fewer than five points clear of the relegation zone at any point tbh. Loads of individual quality in the side, will always mean we pick up points. We're a terrible team though so will periodically have episodes like last night. There's a very clear pattern at this point, fail to see why we're likely to deviate from it.

 

Yep, seems about right. Wouldn't be surprised at finishing 15th or 16th mind.

[KaKa]

Can't believe people still think we might get relegated. I doubt we'll be any fewer than five points clear of the relegation zone at any point tbh. Loads of individual quality in the side, will always mean we pick up points. We're a terrible team though so will periodically have episodes like last night. There's a very clear pattern at this point, fail to see why we're likely to deviate from it.

 

The bottom three are Burnley, West Brom and Sheffield United.

 

Sheffield United and Burnley finished 9th and 10th respectively just last season, so there's still a chance there are improvements to come from them despite their really poor starts.

 

West Brom have now brought in Allardyce who specializes in getting teams out of the mire.

 

I'm not so certain we are beyond getting relegated at all.

[Happinesstan]

He needs to go simple

 

Cunt was born simple.

[Happinesstan]

He’s just said we were fine until 75th minute and Leeds were ‘perhaps’ the better side lying to yourself is a bad sign you sick pig.

 

Did anybody question him on it? Did anyone in the studio raise doubts about what he said. I'll guess No.

 

Just attentive nodding iirc.

 

‘Bruce mused’

 

How's the amuse bouche did you say?

[BlueStar]

[Bizza]

[Bishops Finger]

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[marki]

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Horrific resemblance ffs

[Big Geordie]

Those last  two tweets on stats are entirely damning. I hope one of the journalists pulls Cabbageheed up on it, at the next press conference.

[Nobody]

Those last  two tweets on stats are entirely damning. I hope one of the journalists pulls Cabbageheed up on it, at the next press conference.

He'd just dismiss it as "statistics can say anything".

[TRon]

tbf bruce did say leeds are capable off blowing teams away, must have done his homework the useless blob

 

What's funny is that every team we come up against seems to have some sort of superpower according to Bruce. If he thinks Leeds are such a a powerhouse team - and he was effusively wanking off about their physical magnificence before the game - why doesn't he try to build a side that plays the same way? He's been here for a year and a half ffs.

[TRC]

Honestly fucking hate this bloke. I know he has restrictions to work with, I know Ashley is the 'main problem' but he spouts utter bullshit and Ashley has given him a team that should be pushing for 10th and at least outplaying shit teams like West Brom and Brighton.

[Yorkie]

Honestly fucking hate this bloke. I know he has restrictions to work with, I know Ashley is the 'main problem' but he spouts utter bullshit and Ashley has given him a team that should be pushing for 10th and at least outplaying shit teams like West Brom and Brighton.

 

Nah. Can't use that for this chump. It's an absolute gift of a job, he walked into a settled, talented squad and system and has been handsomely backed thereafter. Additionally gets no heat whatsoever from any crowds and has a network of pals all over the media. Of all the managers we've had in the Ashley years, this pillock comfortably has the easiest ride. And we're still absolute wank.

[TRC]

Honestly fucking hate this bloke. I know he has restrictions to work with, I know Ashley is the 'main problem' but he spouts utter bullshit and Ashley has given him a team that should be pushing for 10th and at least outplaying shit teams like West Brom and Brighton.

 

Nah.

 

Nah?

[TRon]

Obviously there’s not much in it, we’re both shit.

 

Our "front four" cost around £110m. We're having to be compared to Sheff United. The Bruce impact.

 

It's so humiliating man

 

The way Leeds rocked up having just come up and decked us 5-2.

 

Genuinely can't believe what's going on at this club.

 

They aren't even that good, just have a manager who believes in battering the opposition regardless of how good they are, whereas we have a manager who thinks every other team is a massive threat and we must first respect and fear them, then hope we get the breaks. He's the antithesis of Keegan.

[Big Geordie]

From 365's Winners and Losers;

Steve Bruce

The next time Mark Lawrenson claims Newcastle fans are “never happy” because “they want to win the Champions League”, show him the last quarter of an hour against Leeds on Wednesday.

 

Steve Bruce said it himself: it was “something you see on a park on a Sunday” an “embarrassing” and “unacceptable” collapse under more pressure than his system is designed to cope with. But he quite neatly summed up the argument against his tenure after a match that encapsulated the fans’ frustrations.

 

“Up until 75 minutes I was comfortable,” he said, at which point Newcastle had eight shots to Leeds’ 20 and 28.6% possession. And therein lies the problem: Bruce is “comfortable” with ceding the ball, the chances and the authority to a newly promoted team so long as the scoreline is close towards full-time.

 

Newcastle supporters justifiably crave more, particularly when they watch a Leeds side that dominated the Championship on a modest wage budget and has continued to imprint its own style on teams in a higher division. That comes with the possibility of heavy defeats to Leicester and Crystal Palace but also the promise of evenings like this.

 

Newcastle might well finish higher but what memory will they have of this season? Leeds, even leaving aside the emotional nature of their long-awaited return, have created more enduring moments than in Bruce’s entire St James’ Park reign.

 

They exist to entertain, to excite. Newcastle just exist. They won’t go down. They won’t finish in the top half. The same can be said of Leeds but at least they are building towards something meaningful, an intangible connection between the manager, the players and the fans.

 

Bruce is performing perfectly to his remit. It’s just that said remit is wrong. When supporters are given overwhelming reason to glance enviously at a club with whom they are level on points with a game in hand, there is a deep-rooted problem.

[Yorkie]

Honestly fucking hate this bloke. I know he has restrictions to work with, I know Ashley is the 'main problem' but he spouts utter bullshit and Ashley has given him a team that should be pushing for 10th and at least outplaying shit teams like West Brom and Brighton.

 

Nah.

 

Nah?

 

Yeah I edited and expanded. Certainly don't disagree with your overall point.

[TRC]

Fair point.

[Robster]

Newcastle might well finish higher but what memory will they have of this season? Leeds, even leaving aside the emotional nature of their long-awaited return, have created more enduring moments than in Bruce’s entire St James’ Park reign.

They exist to entertain, to excite. Newcastle just exist.

 

What a poignant statement. Summed up beautifully.