The Fish

2 different things there. Bruce should be binned off asap. Bruce being in charge for the Spurs game doesn't affect our chances of survival imo

To be fair, whoever picked the team, it's going to lose on Saturday. No Wilson = No win.

Wykiki is pissing his pants. "Do we have enough time?", "Is that not too late?", "Don't PANIC!!" The rest of you lot should be more like me. Zen motherfuckers, zen.

You've gone from 2 weeks to 10 weeks.

What? No, not my point at all. It was that we've plenty of time and there's no need to be wetting the bed or owt. We've 31 games to get those points and we've managed to get to c45pts after a shocking start before under Steve Bruce and Benitez with worse squads than we'll likely have by the end of the January window this season. I 100% think we should bin off Bruce, but more and more reports seem to be suggesting he won't be binned before the Spurs game, which I think is a huge misstep.

November is 2 weeks away and if, say, we have the type of Sporting Director we've been linked with, I'd expect an uptick in performance even without a permanent manger in place. These aren't bean counters, these are coaches who've stepped back to take a broader view of the development of players and the club. Rangnick, for example, is perfectly capable of overseeing coaching while helping the club find the right man. I repeat, we had 2 runs of 7+ games without a win, under Steve Bruce, and we still ended up on 45pts which is more than enough to survive. We'll be fine.

Yes. We've played 7 games. We're 6pts off 12th. This squad, without any additions is good enough under a decent manager to get to 45pts from the remaining games (1.35PpG) which would get you around c13th. Last year we went on two runs similar to our current one. A 9 game winless streak that only returned 2pts and a 7 game winless streak that returned 4pts. We ended the season on 45pts in 12th Better manager + defensive, midfield and attacking options added in January, we could definitely get 10-12th.

Definitely caught on the hop. The way Ashley ran the club was threadbare, so if the new owners want a modern, fully rounded operation they're going to need to; Decide what structure they want Headhunt candidates for things like Sporting Director, Technical Director, Director of Football or whatever Approach them and interview the interested ones Then decide which managers fit that model. That'd take time if there were staff already in those roles, but the new owners are starting from scratch.

Is that an apology?

One of them went to the trouble of counting how many posts I made in that thread, claimed I was responsible for 5 pages, and that there'd be about 20 because of my posts. The thread is 2 months old and has 900 pages. This thread is 9 YEARS old and has fewer. But, honestly there are some on there who can listen to a reasoned point, the rest are just frothing mackems who must hate Newcastle and it's fans as part of supporting Sunderland. Anyway, I can do that, and this, and listen to a podcast while working, so why not? I'm not getting upset at all the pathetic insults or owt.

Aye, he didn't do amazing with Derby and did nowt with Chelsea either. I don't think Rangnick would look at the young English managers and choose Lampard over someone like Potter, or maybe even Wilder. They at least have shown invention and a deeper understanding of football beyond the "Jokey answer, no but seriously answer" approach in interviews.

Of course you do, if Joe Kinnear was rumoured, your miserable arse would twitch.

Imagine at some point in the near future there's going to be genuinely talented footballers like Coutinho sitting beside Hendrick and Krafth.

14 goals with Wilson? That's fucking pitiful. Callum regularly gets 20+. One of my saves he got over a goal a game.

No, he rang Nick, and he's interested.

Playing tonight at the Cluny

"SuperComputer Predicts!" My pc is fucking ancient and can run football manager lads, it's not a super computer.

We're going to be linked with every footballer on the fucking planet.

Saturday, Oct 16 2021 12:30 Watford vs Liverpool 15:00 Norwich vs Brighton 15:00 Southampton vs Leeds 15:00 Aston Villa vs Wolverhampton Wanderers 15:00 Leicester vs Manchester United 15:00 Manchester City vs Burnley 17:30 Brentford vs Chelsea Sunday, Oct 17 2021 14:00 Everton vs West Ham 16:30 Newcastle United vs Tottenham I can't see the bottom end of the table changing much, at all. Liverpool will likely beat Watford, Brighton will likely beat Norwich, Southampton and Leeds could go either way, but only 1 of them can get 3pts, and Burnley will likely lose at Man City. Palace might beat Arsenal on Monday night.

Even if we lose and we're bottom of the league by Monday night, we're nowhere near 'cut adrift'. Fucking hell, Norwich have 1pt and they're not cut adrift. You're a big Pansy Pissypants and you need to give your head a shake.

Jones in the interim, new manager in the stadium for Chelsea at least.

Cut adrift? We've only played 7 games man. We're only 6pts off 10th. Cut Adrift... Fucking hell. You need to go and have a nap.

I'll no doubt get this, play a couple of seasons with the silly wealth and then turn attention to a beleaguered side in the Northern Premier.

Given him time to say his goodbyes and empty every drawer of crisp packets before he does. Might be here until the end of the week.

Like I said on twitter, there's a fucking reason he's experienced with relegation battles.