Captain Steak Bakes (now managing Blackpool/revising history)

[Elma]

1 hour ago, Groundhog63 said:

Tbf it's not beyond possible that we might have stayed up if we just did the latter. Depending on who came in like 😂😂😂

I maintain Eddie would have kept us up without investment, but it would have been tight. 

[Skeletor]

Similarly you could have given Steve Bruce £200m in January and we'd have still not won a game all season.

[NG32]

The thing that winds me up the most is how much he never gets called out for being a average or below average manager for most of his career and now well below that standard. 

 

He himself states that he has managed over 1K games but Ive never seen any style of play in that time or how he has improved or developed his style and "brand" (hate that word). 

 

The bloke is made of 100% Teflon. 

 

[geordie_b]

1 minute ago, NG32 said:

The bloke is made of 100% Teflon. 

 

Not suprising when hes made up of 99% bacon grease

[Decky]

1 hour ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

That clip where Jones and Bruce were on the touchline chatting and Bruce muttered something like "be careful son", man it was so obvious what was going on yet we had journo after journo gaslighting us daily

 

[Lush Vlad]

11 hours ago, Jewel said:

Agbonlahor is up there with Paul Merson as the thickest pundit around. Both stealing a living.

 

Harsh on Merson, IMO.  

 

I know he sounds dense and can't pronounce players names.  But at times, he actually makes some really valid points and isn't in it purely to annoy people into calling up a premium phone line. 

 

Agbonlahor is the worst out there of the more mainstream lot.  The worst of the worst is that Rory bloke.  Amazed he gets air time.  But probably does for the soundbites and the segments they can clip up to drive debate, based on his shit takes and stupid comments. 

[geordie_b]

1 hour ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

That clip where Jones and Bruce were on the touchline chatting and Bruce muttered something like "be careful son", man it was so obvious what was going on yet we had journo after journo gaslighting us daily

 

You saw in the Wembley Match Cam what the club meant to someone who actually loved it rather than someone who pretended for a paycheck

 

[Decky]

1 minute ago, Lush Vlad said:

 

Harsh on Merson, IMO.  

 

I know he sounds dense and can't pronounce players names.  But at times, he actually makes some really valid points and isn't in it purely to annoy people into calling up a premium phone line. 

 

Agbonlahor is the worst out there of the more mainstream lot.  The worst of the worst is that Rory bloke.  Amazed he gets air time.  But probably does for the soundbites and the segments they can clip up to drive debate, based on his shit takes and stupid comments. 

 

I see that Rory fella everywhere and I still don't get why he's on TalkSport and things like the Overlap. Who is he and what has he done in football? 

[Lush Vlad]

Just now, Decky said:

 

I see that Rory fella everywhere and I still don't get why he's on TalkSport and things like the Overlap. Who is he and what has he done in football? 

 

As far as I can tell.  One of the youtube personality types and used to be on whatever that wank show/podcast was that True Geordie was on.  

 

A cacophony of cunts. 

[Skeletor]

Steve Bruce and Graeme Jones

 

One helped end Newcastle's 70 year trophy drought, the other is a fat cabbage head who is managing Blackpool.

[joeyt]

22 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

Similarly you could have given Steve Bruce £200m in January and we'd have still not won a game all season.

 

 

 

[The College Dropout]

No bigger indictment of a coach than what ex-players say.

 

I listened to what Dwight said about Bruce, Pardew, Jones, Howe, Rafa etc. He was candid but tried to be respectful. If a coach doesn't coach, discuss tactics and can barely motivate players... there's not much to say.

[Nucasol]

33 minutes ago, Decky said:

 

I see that Rory fella everywhere and I still don't get why he's on TalkSport and things like the Overlap. Who is he and what has he done in football? 

Ebola in human skin that bloke. Needs eradicating.

[The College Dropout]

Agreed that the one skill he seems to have is befriending people in the media. Which is why he goes apeshit when the media turn against him.

 

Bruce got an extremely easy ride in the media with us.

 

Funnily enough, neither Rafa nor Howe have invested much energy into that. Both care more about managing players (obviously) and the fans.

[Decky]

I love how Bruce uses his over 1000 games as a manager like its a trophy, yet despite all those games he hasn't won a single trophy and has won manager of the month just twice, one of them being this season in League One. That in itself tells you everything. He has also managed 13 clubs which gives him an average of lasting for about 83 games per club.  

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Decky

[B-more Mag]

Manager! by Steve Bruce. Brilliant master tactician Stan Bryce investigates brutal verbal smackdown at hands of lower league striker Dwayne Giles. 50p 

[alexf]

Christ, he's at it again today with his personal pr machine talksport. 

 

"Half the stuff he's said is exaggerated and the other half is lies"

 

Why would Dwight Gayle lie. He's making out like he's set out on some sort of hit piece dedicated to Steve Bruce. 

Wasn't this just a tiny clip of a question he was asked amongst a long podcast about many other topics. 

 

I bet Dwight Gayle doesn't give two fucks about Steve Bruce and just answered a question honestly and now he's being laid into by Bruce's buddies. Bet he wishes he'd just passed on the question now. 

 

Nothing screams the truth more than when a guy bites back as heavily as Bruce is over this. 

 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by alexf

[Robbo2]

1 hour ago, B-more Mag said:

Manager! by Steve Bruce. Brilliant master tactician Stan Bryce investigates brutal verbal smackdown at hands of lower league striker Dwayne Giles. 50p 

Steve Barnes. Currently listening to all the Quickly Kevin episodes dissecting the books, absolutely must-listen stuff 

[B-more Mag]

27 minutes ago, Robbo2 said:

Steve Barnes. Currently listening to all the Quickly Kevin episodes dissecting the books, absolutely must-listen stuff 

That’s right. I knew it was an St B name but couldn’t remember it. I like how he couldn’t even be bothered to change his first name. 

[Groundhog63]

https://thesetpieces.com/latest-posts/sweeper-steve-bruce-review/

 

 

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[TaylorJ_01]

17 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

https://thesetpieces.com/latest-posts/sweeper-steve-bruce-review/

 

 

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

Good grief, I have heard about this but never sat down to read this review. It is unhinged madness

[Stal]

23 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

https://thesetpieces.com/latest-posts/sweeper-steve-bruce-review/

 

 

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

Sat laughing at this. It reminds me of Empress Theresa, what with the book cover and the literary ability

 

The book and author, not the reviewer.

 

[Tiresias]

He is unfortunately a better novelist than football manager

[Dancing Brave]

16 hours ago, Jewel said:

Agbonlahor is up there with Paul Merson as the thickest pundit around. Both stealing a living.

I agree.

Merson especially gets on my nerves constantly repeating himself like Jimmy Two Times from Goodfellows and why the hell can he not eat his crisps and sweets before he's actually on the TV. The amount of times he's caught eating his snacks and having to listen to him quicky chewing while reporting on the game he's well paid to comment on is cringeworthy. God knows why he's still in a job, he's absolutely crap at it.

[Sean]

1 hour ago, Groundhog63 said:

https://thesetpieces.com/latest-posts/sweeper-steve-bruce-review/

 

 

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

TLDR but holy shit the front cover 

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Sean