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nufcjb

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People often forget but the main reason I personally hate Bruce is his whining about getting 'abused' by our fans when most of the time he was being abused was in empty stadiums during the Covid years.

 

and also, Bruce does like to bring his family into any story of abuse. Not only with us but everywhere he went. Don't get me started on his mistake of a son, Alex. Going on talkshows defending his da against non-existent abuse.

 

Horrible kebab--fed family.

 

 

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Jonas

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On 21/03/2024 at 23:10, Getsgoodfromthegetgo said:

Jose Fonte disagrees.

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1 hour ago, Alan Pardew said:

YEEEEEESSSS LADS!

 

I only really rate two of those, well one really and one's okay....

bit like your seasons here gaffer

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Groundhog63

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9 hours ago, toon25 said:

What a pic this is [emoji38]

I can't look at it or comment on it. My lad's on here and I don't want him thinking his dad's a letch. 

Same reason I can't go on the "Lush Lasses" thread or that "MILF" one and have simply no idea who Sydney Sweeney is, on no. 

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14 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Ps, for the record, 50+ years supporting Newcastle and Bruce is, without a doubt, the biggest cunt ever to sit in the dug out 


This is the kind of content I love reading early on a Saturday morning! 

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On 20/03/2024 at 15:56, Pilko said:

 

Bruce and Pardew come up a lot on Undr the Cosh interviews.

 

Most say Pardew fancied himself ("chocolate, if he could eat himself he would do") etc but generally there's fairly positive comments although nobody absolutely raving about him being brilliant etc.

 

Can remember a fair few who don't like Bruce. Themes are that he won't pull players and explain why they're not playing and that he relies on his assistants to do everything, most say Eric Black or Clemence etc are good and Bruce doesn't do much. 

 

Theres quite a funny story on the Rowan Vine one where Bruce gives Phil Brown at Hull Vine's number and tells him to call him and see if he wants to go on loan there, without discussing the prospect of a loan move with Vine at all first. So Vine, being a bit of a dick and not very happy, gives his mate who's a plumber Bruce's number and tells him to call Bruce and see if he wants any plumbing done on the basis of "give my number out, I'll give yours out". Apparently Bruce was raging that this guy was ringing and texting constantly seeing if he wanted a new downstairs toilet or whatever :lol:

Tbf I bet his soil stack is absolutely horrific.

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St. Maximin

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On 20/03/2024 at 16:07, gjohnson said:

Bruce was abysmal plain and simple purely from a results perspective. Dalglish was dire but at least brought in the majority of Bobby's foundation, Souness who everyone knew was a walking disaster was at least brought in for a legitimate reason, despite it ending badly for us. Pardew was brought in as yes man, and did actually achieve something for a season at least despite his obvious limitations and obnoxiousness, MacLaren was a decent bloke but lacked the ability to do what he was trying. Benitez was an anomaly which either indicated a tempory respark of Ashleys interest or Charnleys incompetence at finding someone who wasnt put in his lap. Bruce didn't get results, wound everyone up and was clearly just FMA final insult cos he thought he would be able to beat the fans over the Keegan debacle and failed miserably

I know I’m not towing the party line here and of course results don’t tell us the bigger picture, but Bruce was not a disaster from a results perspective until the start of his final season. I think 13th and 12th was reasonable on paper given the squad he had and I’ve yet to see anyone suggest otherwise. 
 

His tactics were dreadful (or non-existent) but I think the main cause of hostility was he was a classless and lazy idiot. 

 

 

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Cf

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9 hours ago, St. Maximin said:

I know I’m not towing the party line here and of course results don’t tell us the bigger picture, but Bruce was not a disaster from a results perspective until the start of his final season. I think 13th and 12th was reasonable on paper given the squad he had and I’ve yet to see anyone suggest otherwise. 
 

His tactics were dreadful (or non-existent) but I think the main cause of hostility was he was a classless and lazy idiot. 

 

 

 

 

In terms of xPts from understat we "should" have finished 15th and 16th. The football was obviously shit but we over performed which was pretty clear via eye test. The 16th was only a couple of points from relegation so a couple of key things falling the other way could have seen that as a relegation season quite easily. So no it wasn't great on paper. 

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St. Maximin

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1 hour ago, Cf said:

 

In terms of xPts from understat we "should" have finished 15th and 16th. The football was obviously shit but we over performed which was pretty clear via eye test. The 16th was only a couple of points from relegation so a couple of key things falling the other way could have seen that as a relegation season quite easily. So no it wasn't great on paper. 

Yeah the football was horrendous without doubt, though my point was based on results he wasn’t a disaster and ultimately on paper we’re looking at eventual outcomes. 
 

I would say 15/16th didn’t seem terrible anyway with that squad and injuries we had. Bruce had a mare with Schar and Joelinton (even Howe didn’t initially think he was a centre mid though), but our star players were arguably Dubravka (a good midtable keeper then), Wilson (a great striker but often injured) and ASM (at times brilliant, but also regularly frustrates and was often injured). 
 

I seem to remember us finishing above Brighton, who weren’t far from relegation, yet their manager got a lot of praise and quite a few players were rated highly. 

 

 

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gbandit

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10 minutes ago, DahnSahf said:

Just seen this cunt is one of the panel on Soccer Special tonight. Another fucking payday! ?

“I’m not saying I’ve got all the answers but 1000 games managed suggests maybe I know a thing or two. That’s not for me to say, all I want is a fair crack at giving my opinion”

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