morpeth mag Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 He just can't speak English very well. Last season there were a group of teams fighting for CL, a group battling relegation and a group in the middle. We finished top of the relegation league when a realistic target for this season (and last) is to compete with the middle group of teams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Where do people think a good manager could get this group of players vs. Bruce with the same fitness/injury record out of interest, what's the ceiling? Gotta be honest, we finished 10 behind Villa, 14 behind Leeds/Everton...I don't think a good manager catches them considering they've all strengthened more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 we're down this year imo. The Willock stuff was freak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 1 minute ago, mrmojorisin75 said: Where do people think a good manager could get this group of players vs. Bruce with the same fitness/injury record out of interest, what's the ceiling? Gotta be honest, we finished 10 behind Villa, 14 behind Leeds/Everton...I don't think a good manager catches them considering they've all strengthened more With a fair wind and barring major injuries, between 9-11th. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 So the top 6 are uncatchable Villa, Everton, Leeds and Leicester are above our league there are teams in the premiership that have pedigree and have been here for a few seasons so really success is 17th Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 2 minutes ago, toon25 said: With a fair wind and barring major injuries, between 9-11th. Basically aye :/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 “I think it's fair to say the club has gone beyond what I thought they could already. We have a full quota of 25 players.” He wasn’t even expecting Willock and was still happy. Get to fuck you fat cuckold Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Even when you manage to muster up an iota of excitement for the new season and a pinch of interest in watching the team to see how they get on, this guy just opens his mouth and spouts the most ridiculously offensive stuff you could ever imagine. Top of our league? This man is not right in the head. And still talking about how we can't change over night over two years into the job. Hope we get battered and continue to do so until he is sacked off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Such a fucking defeatist isn't he. Perfect manager for Ashley. He's here until he dies the fat fucking cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishops Finger Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 45 minutes ago, Scoot said: Such a fucking defeatist isn't he. Perfect manager for Ashley. He's here until he dies the fat fucking cunt. He just lowers our expectations that much that anything higher than 17th is acceptable. Can't wait for the day he's not our manager anymore. What a bellend of a man. And we're going to have all his chummy pundit mates telling us we expect too much. Can't wait! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Nobody said: Newly promoted Leeds were out of our league This useless fat lump has no standards to speak of, and certainly no pride in the club or he would never dream of talking in such humiliating terms. Then he wonders why we miss the Mighty Rafa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 On 09/08/2021 at 04:46, HTT II said: I’ll wager he won’t make it to January. Smart not to include a year in this prediction. He's here until he retires. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DahnSahf Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 When he was talking about Arsenal being unwilling to loan Willock he said, "So we had to go and buy 'im." Sounded like some cunt moaning that he wasn't able to repair his old subwoofer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Pardew kicking himself he never thought if that "our league" shite. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbthree3 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 I wonder what our biggest problem is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbthree3 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 https://statsbomb.com/2021/08/newcastle-united-season-preview-2021-22/ is a good piece focusing on what's changed last season "A run of W2-D0-L8 at the start of 2021 was Newcastle’s worst spell of the season, but it was then followed by their best. From the start of February to the end of the season, Newcastle picked up 20 points, winning five of their last eight to power them up the league table. The team switched shape to either a 4-4-2 diamond or a 4-3-3 and were comparatively more front-footed than earlier in the season. The change seemed to coincide with the arrival of first-team coach Graeme Jones, who you may recognise as a member of Gareth Southgate’s coaching staff during the EURO 2020 tournament this summer. The changes provided Callum Wilson with support up front and allowed Miguel Almirón to have more of an influence on the game, getting on the ball in more central areas. More importantly, it allowed their wide players to thrive and be more direct. Allan Saint-Maximin returned from injury to finish the season up front, alongside Wilson but allowed to roam across the front and dribble or carry the ball over distance. This is apparent when comparing the plots of his carries: in Newcastle’s more reactive system he’d start his carries around the halfway line, thus with more players to beat and more distance to cover. After the system change, he started receiving possession in the channels in the opposition half and was isolating 1v1 vs his defender more often than previously. This is a beneficial situation for any player to work with, let alone an exciting wide player like Saint-Maximin." "It was mostly their attacking metrics that improved. While they became more proactive without the ball than they had been previously, they still ranked as one of the lowest-block teams in the league. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; there are plenty of examples of teams (Wolves in 2019/20 for one) who have played counter-attacking football to great success. However, going on last season, it’s not clear that Newcastle have the capabilities to do that: allowing the opposition to monopolise the ball under little duress moves defenders deeper… and then you have the same issues we saw from August to January. Newcastle need to find ways to better taper off their periods of high pressure with lower block defending." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Hope we manage to retain our league title this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 8 minutes ago, reefatoon said: Hope we manage to retain our league title this season. When you can choose after 38 games what league you were actually in, I'm sure we will. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Love how he's accepted that Aston Villa & Leeds are out of our league. Before this useless fucking cunt took over they literally were. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Reading this thread it brings back some pretty bad memories. I remember us celebrating Glen Whelan missing a 90th minute pen to get something against Sheffield Wednesday as it basically meant Bruce was toast. Have you thought about getting someone to throw a cabbage at him? Worked for us. BTW - we used to get all the exact same talking-down shit from him too, except we got it in the Championship FFS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Optimistic Nut said: Love how he's accepted that Aston Villa & Leeds are out of our league. Before this useless fucking cunt took over they literally were. This is exactly it, the acceptance that the top half is ruled out totally because they're all out of our league. Forget hope and having a go it's 'no chance lads, we can't compete with that lot', defeatist shite but let's not kid ourselves it comes from the very top. Ashley and Bruce are a match made in heaven, Ashley's lack of any kind of ambition matches the lack of Bruce's ability to deliver anything other than dogshit, defensive and disorganised football. An awful owner has deliberately hired an awful manager to oversee the policy - survival at all costs, zero ambition, minimal (club) cash outlay, zero investment and a cunt who'll spew the PR, on demand, to his mates in the media who refuse to criticise. It's the tacit endorsement of 'know your place, it's impossible to compete, don't hope for more, don't ask for more, not our fault, we're doing as well as we possibly can' when every fucker older than 25 knows what could be achieved by this club, given the investment and change in mentality. We're owned and run by small-time, cowardly, backward, incompetent, subservient, thick little cunts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbthree3 Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 But Bruce has done just as well as Rafa So tiring the comparisons, it's season 3 for Bruce in the PL. Very much his team now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 (edited) Howay lads , he’s trying now man, walking into work, meeting the fans, helping the food banks . Hes one of our own. Edited August 13, 2021 by GWN Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Lets be patient, he won the Steve Bruce imaginary league last year despite the fact you can't change things overnight, thats some achievement. Needs more respect from you fucking urchins imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Linton Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Assume Brentford are in "our league" this season, so this is a decent start. Or do they get promoted straight to the "elite league" like Leeds? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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