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Time wasting sub to try and keep this big result. Right 100% has to be fired. We absolutely fucking needed to win that and should have, showed nothing at all, no interest nothing.

I’m going to guess that Bruce will mention there are positives to take away from this result.

It’s so fucking frustrating man. I’m desperate for us to win here but there’s this feeling of hoping WBA just fucking score as it’s exactly what this complete waste of space manager deserves. It’s a bloke that evidently doesn’t bother taking coaching sessions, picks absurd line ups and then either not bothers with subs or botches them, has fallen out with the players, argues with everyone, calls the fan base out despite no one being at games, has a record of 4 wins, 3 draws and 12 losses in last 19 games, yet the press is still fucking saying he’s doing a good job!

Glad he’s happy with this enough to not bother making changes.

Type of game Ritchies aggression and drive would help....

So we had Murphy and Ritchie available and on the bench and he started the game with Jeff Hendricks playing out of position? Yet these cunts in the media will still blame injuries regardless of who he has available the shambolic piss head can’t pick a team.

It’s a real talent we have that we simply refuse to step up in games. If they played like they did against wolves today we’d comfortably win, but because we are against weaker opposition we seem to play down. Not saying we are good but we simply never can ever show any fucking consistency.

There’s no fucking way there’s no one better than Bruce and Allardyce that these two dinosaurs can still keep getting PL jobs.

I genuinely think he’d struggle in league one.

3 on 1 and we can’t even manage a shot

You’d think playing Ritchie over playing a shite CM out of position would make sense. I’d say it’s clear Bruce is completely wrong that their bust up is over but it could just be a shit decision, as Bruce is genuinely that bad of a manager. Almost impressive he’s going to manage to take us down.

Aye, interesting and good unbiased information from Jacobs. Nice to see that wanker “Geordie Dentist” pitched in to act like he knows something and it’s all just speculation, despite Jacobs clearly saying numerous times he has gotten this from people involved , there’s a right group of wankers on NUFC twitter who fancy themselves as being involved in things that are fucking miles outside their remit and that fucking dentist that lives in the UAE is a prime one. I think it also makes the decision to stick with Bruce even more baffling too. Ashley and his team are trying to win this to clear the way for the consortium, a consortium that have likely told them (especially if they’ve really been open about it with Jacobs) that relegation would lead to a price drop in the £85m - £100m range, why wouldn’t they also try and do at least more than completely gamble on Bruce to keep the club in the league? Baffling.

Yeah it’s a weird one, his prior involvement with the law firm on the PL side as well as the messages to only that law firm are iffy too, especially as it was clearly enough for even the law firm on the PL side to become uncomfortable enough to say they should loop in NUFCs team. The process has been ropey from the start so I suppose it wasn’t going to get better. Like one of our points is even just simply make it more public and transparent, which the PL is fighting, what problem could that possibly even cause them if there’s no issue here? This is a big one for me, I’ve never understood this from the start. I know it’s how the deal was packaged but why was it ever structured in a way like this? It would be like giving Russia some type of control over broadcasting the NFL in the US, I wouldn’t say it’s unreasonable to expect the US wouldn’t tolerate that. I get the response to pirate it is a bit petty, as the correct approach was likely to just block it, but it’s a really odd position to put the countries in.

I find it interesting Bruce is now saying it’s all resolved after Ritchie apologized, so does this mean Ritchie received no apology (clearly got no public one) for Bruce throwing him under the bus like he did in the press? What a fucking dog shit manager Bruce is, there’s no way it’s resolved on Ritchies end of this is the case.

Aye, I think there’s no doubt Benitez was harsh but I think the difference is his criticism was coming from an angle of drive for improvement and kicking the club on, rather than throwing the team under the bus like Bruce is doing. I’ve little doubt Rafa had team members that disliked him, Shelvey being one, I also know that Ritchie used to basically bray down Rafas office door after every match as Rafa subbed him off nearly every game he played, but Rafa could always seem to manage that whereas Bruce seems to be squaring up to people.

Insanity. He’s also acting like this is the first time Bruce has tried to throw players under the bus. While perhaps this is the first time he’s called individuals out, he basically labeled the team as shit back in November and gave a “what am I supposed to do with this lot” type of response to questions. Sorry like, I find it extremely hard to believe the players wouldn’t be happy if this useless tosser got sacked.

Bruce has to be sacked now, he’s continually had digs at the players by blaming them for losses and I think it eroded at his authority but choosing to do this to Ritchie was a complete error (or master stroke if you think he’s just angling for a pay out at this point). Our form should have got him the sack but now losing the dressing room it’s surely over. Edwards is an absolute fuckwit btw, hopefully Newcastle fans remember this and it ends the losers career as a NE football journalist. Honestly don’t get what he’s getting out of kissing up to Bruce, not had a single interesting story and has lost whatever credibility he had.

You’re lucky I got the name right.

I’m not advocating their behavior but there are a portion of absolute fucking idiots on Twitter, and they’re part of a larger group Edwards regularly targets to wind up. He doesn’t have to constantly provoke them, but he does, again the people that do it are idiots but a fucking wanker like Steve Wraith pointing it out like this accomplishes nothing. If I went into a pub in Daisy Hill and go “everyone in here is a little cunt, and daisy hill is a hovel” I’d get a fucking hiding, does it excuse their behavior that I did that? No, but we know it’s going to happen, the same way that when Edwards constantly plays devils advocate to such a degree that it is just wummery he can’t be too shocked that wankers using anonymous accounts on the internet become threatening/ personal. I’d also say Wraith siding with him makes it all worse for the bloke. I really fucking wish Wraith would realize he’s not speaking on behalf of NUFC fans when he talks.

Aye this is the real reason. Relegation would probably suit the consortium, as the EFL would more than likely pass them without much contest and you’d assume they would get the club cheaper, the latter being exactly why Ashley wouldn’t sell and would gamble on us getting back up before trying to sell again. Utter fucking nightmare.

Aye think it was either the Russian WC or a European match he was covering over in Russia, the takeover bid caught him off guard and he had no clue what was going on with it so he just started being a monumental bellend instead of bothering to try and find out what was going on.

What a nob head he is. He’s ran around for the last two years with his fingers in his ears screaming about how Bruce is doing a good job, picking any obscure stat that he can bring up to back his point up and then going silent whenever a bad run happened. Then once it goes the way absolutely everyone with half a brain could see it eventually would go now everyone is being a big meanie to him. Maybe it’s time everyone just ignored the mouth breathing crony. He shouldn’t be covering north east football tbh.

Why the fuck did they ever see Bruce as a steady pair of hands who could keep the club in the Premier League? Did they just ignore his entire managerial career? As Alex said in another thread you’d really think relegation was the aim with the decisions they’ve made.

What an utter crock of shit. While I don’t think we are being sold, why would they pause any action currently going on because of this? There’s literally nothing anyone outside the playing and coaching staff can do at this point, they had opportunities to sack Bruce and get someone competent, as well as bring players in back in January. So now they’re just going to stand about and spending their time hoping something happens and just not bother doing any type of work so they can focus on hoping? What an utter fucking shambles or a club we are under this uninterested wanker, sadly a case where the fanbase doesn’t deserve this at all but relegation is something Ashley and Bruce really do deserve.

RIP, always came across as a nice bloke. I remember he had been having treatment for brain cancer shortly after being our manager?