huss9 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 how the fuck is he going to investigate the mole? is he going to go round asking every individual at training? is he going to start planting stories as see which one gets leaked? stupid cunt. he's better off quitting and writing a detective story about how he rooted out the mole responsible for such treason, and saved the day. fuck off you useless embarrassing cunt.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 There's still plenty defending cabbage head on the club's official social media feeds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 how the fuck is he going to investigate the mole? is he going to go round asking every individual at training? is he going to start planting stories as see which one gets leaked? stupid cunt. he's better off quitting and writing a detective story about how he rooted out the mole responsible for such treason, and saved the day. fuck off you useless embarrassing cunt.. Steve, Steve, Steve and Steve. New crime drama coming soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pons Alias Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Based on the hit Comic Strip Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 What is this, tinker, tailor, soldier, cunt? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pons Alias Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 What is this, tinker, tailor, soldier, cunt? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Edwards is claiming he stuck up for Hope. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nattfare Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 The only thing I'd ever believe from Edwards is if he admitted that he is nothing but a miserable, bald cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 how the fuck is he going to investigate the mole? is he going to go round asking every individual at training? is he going to start planting stories as see which one gets leaked? stupid cunt. he's better off quitting and writing a detective story about how he rooted out the mole responsible for such treason, and saved the day. fuck off you useless embarrassing cunt.. Steve, Steve, Steve and Steve. New crime drama coming soon. Scruffier than Columbo, less mobile than Ironside, thiccer than Jessica Fletcher and drunker than McNulty he is Bruce. Can Bruce & and his screwball partner Jonjo clean up the mean streets? One loves bacon the other hates couscous. Hope is slipping away but Bruce & Jonjo are coming for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RS Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Is this a face turn from Luke? Gob open expecting Bruce jizz. Instead gets a massive smokey bacon based chunk of cacky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 What is this, tinker, tailor, soldier, cunt? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alexf Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 If Luke wanted to face turn, all he'd need to do is reveal it was in fact Bruce who leaked the Darlow dropping and then Steve would have to resign as he said himself. Except for he'd probably Trump his way out of even that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 If the mole really is undermining him then whys he got more important stuff to do? Complete and utter lack of leadership and accountability. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pons Alias Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Fans: Pardew, Kinnear, McClaren. FFS - can we have had any worse managers? Ashley: Hold my coat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I’m sure there probably is one crazy bastard who supports/loves Bruce. But let’s not try and hide the fact they are absolutely in the minority. Irritates me how the media wheel people out to give that impression. Even samptime29[/member] has seen the light this season. I doubt there are many left, and if they are it's just them refusing to admit they were wrong. Always said should been binned at end of last season. This season has been awful, obviously. I'm sick of him, and he has to go. He's always talked crap, but this season, it has been non-stop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelphish Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Simptime29. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Steve Bruce: invetigation in process Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 "It's not the most thing on me mind", he says, slowly garrotting the English language. "I am not getting embroiled in it", he says, having got himself embroiled in it already, and going on 30 seconds later to get even more so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Steve Bruce spoke to the press this morning and was questioned about this week's dramatic events that saw him become embroiled in a bust-up with Matt Ritchie. Bruce defended his conduct, and rounded on the Daily Mail journalist who had broken news of the incident, while bemoaning the fact that a 'mole' was leaking stories from within the club. Read the full transcript of Bruce's comments.... Can you tell us what has happened with Matt Ritchie? “Look, there's no denying that I've had a row with Matt Ritchie, but let me tell you that happens up and down training grounds every other week. “You're dealing with 25 men, emotions run high, fiercely competitive – these things happen unfortunately, and unfortunately for us with Newcastle, of course it gets blown to all sort of proportions. “Matty apologised, as far as we're concerned and me personally, it's over. As I said, it happens, unfortunately, on a regular basis, but ours leaks into the media, which obviously causes the frenzy. “Unfortunately at this particular time when we've got a big game coming up, we would do without it. As far as I'm concerned it's over and we get on with it. “I will have to say one thing, though: the story surrounding Karl Darlow, that I would go to a journalist and give them an exclusive that he wouldn't be playing at the weekend, I find totally disgusting. “If I thought I would do that, I would resign tomorrow. It's simply not true, it's unfair on Karl and arguably over the last 18 months that's been the most difficult decision I've had to make. “Yes, he's got the story right that I've had a row or an argument with a player; the rest of it is totally, utterly nonsense. We have to draw a line under it and move on. Why are things blown out of proportion at Newcastle? “It happens up and down the country, but it doesn't get out. Unfortunately, he has a source in and around the club which obviously feeds him - which is the most disappointing thing, I have to tell you – which we're all looking into to try to find the culprit because at other clubs, it simply doesn't happen. “I've been in it long enough to understand when you're dealing with 25 men day in and day out, highly competitive, highly on the edge, then of course you're going to get a row between them, a row between the staff. It happens up and down the country week in and week out. Fear the source is someone from within? “It has to be, unfortunately it has to be, so that is the biggest disappointment to us all, and unfortunately it happens a bit too often. We'll try our utmost to see who it is. How is Matt Ritchie? “The very following day, he trained, he trained well like you'd expect of Matt and he came and apologised to me in front of the staff and the players and as I said, from that point on, it's over and one with and we move on because it happens on a regular basis. These things happen. “From early last week, it's all forgotten about as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately, it's been regurgitated in a newspaper. Shouldn't have said what you said post-Wolves [about him not passing on formation switch and Wolves score] ? “You're asked after the game and I tried to be truthful and give the events the way I saw it. In hindsight, maybe not. But as I said, straight after a game when you've just conceded the way we did… Yes, I could have been better in the post-match interview, I'll accept that. There is an accusation in the same newspaper that players have had too many days off? “Now it is bordering on ridiculous. Look, we set the schedule last month with the doctors and sports scientists. The playing schedule this year has been totally ridiculous – we didn't have a day off for something like six weeks – so I don't even have to respond to that because I just find that an absolutely absurd and obscene suggestion.It's laughable, but it makes a national newspaper headline again. It's just ridiculous. Is the biggest issue you are dealing with the leaks? “That's the most disappointing thing. It's not the uppermost thing on my mind, the thing on my mind is now we're preparing for West Brom. “All the tittle-tattle and all the nonsense like that, I can't get myself embroiled with it. The so-called journalist has had his 24 hours, he's been live on the radio and given the air-time that he craves, so he's had his 24 hours. “For me, it's more important that we all – and I stress 'we', myself, the staff, the players – we all are on the same page, that we can get the number of points tat we need to make sure that we stay in the Premier League. How destabilising has the last 24 hours been? “It's not destabilising. We're disappointed because unfortunately around us, we have somebody leaking stuff to a national newspaper. That's the disappointing thing. “But we'll use it and I'll use it, and I'm absolutely 100% behind the players. I've seen that in the last few weeks. We've played very well over the last few weeks – it's gone unnoticed. “All I can focus on now is getting the best out of the team, the best out of the players and I'll continue to do so. Will you have a group meeting to talk about the events of the last few days? “Whatever happens here, I try to keep it under wraps. We'll have a conversation. Whether it's in the training ground or whatever, we'll have a conversation about it, of course." Can we talk about team news and how the squad is looking? “That’s quite refreshing. We’ve got one or two knocks, and then obviously the major ones with Allan and Almiron. We’ll see how Isaac Hayden is, he’s been carrying an ankle injury for the best part of a week or two. Emil Krafth has got a nasty shin injury, we’ll see how he is. We’ll see how they are today and tomorrow. On Miguel and Allan, I know we’ve talked so much about injuries, but how big a blow is that? Clearly, it’s a big one, but how do you respond to that as a group because it’s just so frustrating? “It’s really frustrating and disappointing. The first half of the Wolves game was arguably the best I’ve seen Newcastle play over the last 18 months. So, to be disrupted through injury is really frustrating and disappointing. The sports scientists and the doctors within the Premier League are all saying that the injury levels are unprecedented. They’re through the roof because of the schedule the players have had, no break in the summer, it’s been very difficult. Of course, when players are playing tired, they pick up injuries, especially muscle injuries. Unfortunately, we’ve had two of those to our big players. We have to accept it, and somebody else will have to grab the opportunity, hopefully they can. On Feddy Fernandez, might he be involved? “Feddy has trained all week, he might be involved. Just a quick one on Callum Wilson. I know we ask you every week, but how is his trajectory? “As far as Callum is concerned, it’s rest and recovery. We have to let nature take its course to start with. He’s working with the physios and lightly jogging, but unfortunately he’s still going to be a bit away. I know a lot of this on the pitch is focusing on what Newcastle need to do in terms of the relegation battle, but the results last night, Fulham and West Brom, that is clearly a boost for your chances? “I’ve said it many times, it’s the accumulation of points. Last year, we got to a certain area where we were probably safe with five games to go. I hope that’s the case this year, that we can pick up enough points believe me, but I still think it’s your accumulation of points and certainly 25 or 26 points is nowhere near. We just have to concentrate on what we do. We’ve got to win so many matches, so we have to focus on that, which is hugely important. And a big opportunity at the weekend. Looking ahead to West Brom, you and Sam Allardyce have been in this a long time, almost 1,000 Premier League matches managed between you. How well do you know him as a manger and a person? “We’ve been in it a long, long time. We seem to have started together. I have the hugest respect for what he has done throughout his career, the longevity he’s got. He seems to come back to do this fire-fighting job, which he has been brought in to do. He’s a football man, and very, very good at what he does. He’s been talking last night saying it’s a massive disadvantage for them to play on the Thursday. You’ve had a week to prepare, is that a fair point? “It’s a fair point, of course. But we’ve all had this, where we’ve had such a hectic schedule. Our schedule a couple of weeks ago was bordering on being ridiculous also. We knew by looking at it, it was going to be a tough call for everybody, and the most difficult thing for the players in particular is that there has been no break. When you look at the injuries that most teams have got, then that’s the consequence of it. With Miguel Almiron and Allan being injured now, do you have to reassess your targets for the season? “We don’t have to reassess the targets – we have to reassess the team and how it looks and shapes up. It’s hugely disappointing, and it seems to be when injuries strike with us, we’re either all in on defenders – a couple of months ago, we didn’t have a defender in sight and were playing everybody out of position – or we get them back and unfortunately we’ve now been struck down with the forwards. We have to find a way. I’ve been very pleased with the way we’ve gone about our work in the last few weeks, and it’s now an opportunity for somebody else. So it’s not a case that given the injuries, survival is good enough now? “Yes, we understand that we’re one of six or seven teams that are always looking over their shoulder, but we still have to try to get as many points as we possibly can, and the quicker you get them, the better. It’s been a bit of a difficult week, and with everything that’s gone on over the season, with the fans criticising and Covid, do you ever feel that you’ve had enough of this and want to walk away? “Do I feel like walking away? Definitely not. Not at all. More than ever, I’m 100 per cent committed to trying to get us out of the trouble we’re in. I think the players are too. I’ve got 100 per cent faith in them, and I think that remains vital to us. So, no, just because things get tough (I won’t walk away). I always knew things would be tough. Maybe it’s tougher than I thought, but I always knew it was going to be tough. It’s a tough gig this one, there’s no disputing that. But I’ll try my best, like I always do, to make sure that we’re okay. On Almiron, there was a post the other day saying he’s keen to get back with the international I guess with you saying he’s injured, there’s no chance of him going on international duty, either for injury and also Paraguay are a red-list country as well? “I think the whole of the Premier League and EFL are looking at this situation. Whether you’re injured or not, it seems pretty ludicrous to me, but we’ll have to look at it and see what we’re going to do. We’re going to be led by other people on that, and not just with Miggy because he’s injured, but also what they’re going to do across the board around the international players. With a pandemic going on, I wouldn’t have thought we’d want players playing halfway around the world. It’s something we’ll have to look at.” Do you think you will be here next year? “I sincerely hope so, but that’s for others to decide. What’s gone at the football club, let me tell you, and it’s vitally important you all understand it: Look, a bust-up unfortunately makes huge, huge headlines in Newcastle. The disappointing thing for me personally, and the club, is that unfortunately the so-called journalist has got a source. Fair enough, but to try and derail us and cause all this noise before a big game, we could do without it. These things happen in football clubs. Up and down the country people have fall-outs - you’re dealing with 25 men who are highly competitive, full of testosterone. Like I said, we had an apology from Matt. As far as I’m concerned, it’s finished. Unfortunately, it gets regurgutated in a national newspaper, which is not good for anybody. But I am determined to crack on and stay with it. I’m never going to walk away from it and accept the challenge of how difficult it is to manage Newcastle. Is the West Brom game a must win? “Is it a must win? We would like to win. I don’t think you can put it as a must win. You know, talking about a tough week and all the rest of it and I’ve had a row with a player, as far as I’m concerned that happens up and down the land at every training ground up and down the country every couple of days in my experience. It’s nothing new but of course being Newcastle it gets national headline news. “Look, we have to remain focused and getting on with the job in hand which is now West Brom on Sunday, can we go there and get result? Yes it would be great if we can and we will do our best and I will make sure we do.” Where are the goals going to come from in these next few games? “We have to try and find a way. We found a way last year very comfortably where we got to 44 points and our top goalscorer Jonjo Shelvey was on six goals so we’ve got to find a way and I’m quietly confident that we will. I have every confidence in the players that are going to fill the roles of them three. It’s not going to be easy, don’t get me wrong, but we’ve certainly got enough in the squad, hopefully, to cope.” Can I ask you about the number of times you’ve trained this week? “That sort of fall out from the story is the nonsense. Look, the days off were done two and a half weeks ago with sports scientists, me doctors, medical department to say how we can get time to rest and recover. “The schedule with injuries is ridiculously tough. It was always scheduled that this week in particular gives us a chance to get a little rest into the players who have had an unbelievably tough session. “For that to be even questioned is what I’m talking about, the ludicrous of that article in particular which is totally and utterly nonsense. Look you have to be very careful and you have to prepare them as best you can and I’m very pleased with the preparation that we have put in for this particular game. We have two training session and we’ve already trained twice this week. “We had to get some recovery into the player who have had a gruelling season.” Can you circle the wagons, use it and draw positives from this? “I hope so. You do it by trying to keep everything on the training grounds and circle the wagons. The disappointment in all of that is somewhere around the training ground there is a leak to a certain journalist which is totally disappointing go course and we’ll top our utmost as a club to find that source. “When you’re up against that you always believe you can circle the wagons and I’ve got complete faith in the squad of players Ive got and I’m sure they have in me and we will do our utmost to get out of the trouble unfortunately we’re in. “We have a big game coming up at the weekend and let’s concentrate on hat and make sure that we can get a result.” As a journalist who has been banned before, a colleague of mine has been banned by the club. It seems to me that the story he wrote about Matt Ritchie was correct. So, has he banned for writing a story that was correct? “There is no denying I have had a row, an argument, whatever you want to call it, with Matt Ritchie. In my experience, 20 years of doing this job and 20 years as a player, it happens up and down the country in various training grounds. We’ve got 25 men, full of testosterone, highly competitive, who want to be in the team and disappointed they haven’t been in the team. We have a row. It’s normal when you work with a group of men. So that part of the story, yes, if that’s wonderful journalism, then fair enough. The point for us is, amongst us we have a source or a leak which deeply upsets me. The reason he is banned, i think he has certainly got something personal against myself and that has been from day one [first game]. [it started] against Arsenal with the first substitution I ever made. [He] went to Norwich and he said I couldn't even take a warm up. If I take you back 12 months, he tried to derail us ahead of a big game at West Brom inventing a story about Allan Saint Maximin that I'd had a row with him. Do you remember? “We had to fight that one until after midnight and he still wouldn’t accept he was wrong [about that story]. That was before a big game. “He gave away the team before we played Manchester United, when Matty Longstaff scored the winner. He gave the team to the opposition and he is supposed to be a fan. Then, of course, this one and the fallout from it. “Look, you [Luke] wrote the story and you know full well that I did not tip you off, in any way shape or form that I was going to take my goalkeeper out. That is the most disappointing thing, that i would come to you with that. In the 18 months I have been here, that is the most difficult decision I have ever had to make. “To think i would go to a national newspaper with that, and no disrespect to you Luke, but to go to you and tell you before I told Karl is obscene and it’s not right. “Same with this daft one this morning, saying they’ve got too many days off, it borders on ridiculous. “Now he has been banned, he has told us that he is going to “come for us all.” So, he’s had his bit [of fame] yesterday. He’s gone on national radio which he adores. “We have to draw a line under it but I think it is personal and when he says he is going to come for the club too, that’s not balanced and it’s not right, It’s [the ban] not because he got a story, I have to tell you. Going back to Jamie Carragher’s analysis the other night, what did you think about his analysis and why the message to Jacob Murphy [switch to right back] did not go out a bit quicker? “I didn’t see Jamie’s analysis and i think the consequences of those events have been played out before and I don’t really want to comment. I made a comment at the time that upset Matt and the well publicised row and bust up. He apologised to me, my staff and he did it in front of all the players. As far as I’m concerned, Lee, it’s done and it’s dusted. We move on. I have 100% faith in the players and I am convinced they have the same for me and my staff. I’m convinced with the group of players we have we will get out of the trouble we are in. So, let’s go and do that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 FFS. Two sentences in and he's already making that claim that NUFC is some sort of special entity where the treatment is different to anywhere else. I fucking hate him for that. If a PL manager has a barny with a player, it's big news. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 “I’ve said it many times it’s the accumulation of points” this guy is something else. Pathetic questions too Aye, and the number of times he repeats the same fucking answer to completely different questions is also an indictment of how much the cunt is squirming Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Win some fucking games Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 “I’ve said it many times it’s the accumulation of points” this guy is something else. Pathetic questions too Aye, and the number of times he repeats the same fucking answer to completely different questions is also an indictment of how much the cunt is squirming Also goes on as if this has been the case for the whole season and nothing has changed. Making it clear all the stuff about progress and taking us forward was a complete lie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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