Match Day Thread Arsenal Away

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From Henry Winter (being kind):

Bruce was more adventurous, going 4-4-2. He picked two aerial threats in Carroll and Wilson but then chose two wide players who either pause before crossing, Almiron, working the ball on to his left, or prefers to play through the middle, Joelinton. Perplexing
 
Karen Carney

Former England and Chelsea winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

It should have been a lot more for Arsenal tonight. Once the second goal went in Newcastle's confidence just disappeared.

Newcastle have got no mobility in the midfield, they can't press and haven't got the pace. But it would be difficult for any manager at the moment, their confidence is shattered and it's a really challenging time because Newcastle need players.

But when Bruce gets the players, he has to put them in the right positions because for me tonight, playing Joelinton on the left, didn't work.


As I said before it even kicked off - no wingers, no midfielders. But most of all, we lack basic motivation, fitness and team ethics.
We ain’t getting the players and we have a ****ing Mong in charge. It’s a shambles.

The sky sports pundits are trying their hardest NOT to slag Bruce.

And Gary said. Newcastle need new owners. Basically they are dead otherwise.
 
No:

Karen Carney

Former England and Chelsea winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

Steve Bruce needs players. You are only as good as your players and I feel harsh for saying that about the Newcastle players but he can only work with what he has got.

Bruce has tried tonight; he has tried something different, different shapes but he needs players and investment - and he hasn't had that.

Oh god she's another one... Ffs he's a crap manager
 
Players have tuned Bruce out haven’t they. It’s just a job they don’t really give a **** about now.

They’re getting paid and relegation probably holds no fear anymore - once something feels like a foregone conclusion, and there’s a loss of your control over it (because you give up trying and your leader puts up with it), you usually end up spiralling downwards at an ever faster rate. A contract will be picked up somewhere - “**** NUFC, they put a ****e manager in charge of me and I want out”

Joelinton getting played game after game just because, well, i suspect SB thoughts go something like “it was 40mill after all wasn’t it, be a bit rude to big Mike if I dropped him... and I might lose favour, so I’ll pretend I can see something that nobody else in the universe bar me & Mikey can see - and I’ll keep him in the shop window and hope that someone more stupid than us will be fooled into thinking he must be performing” - which means that no other ****er at NUFC is brave enough to point out the obvious. A foundation stone of a failing organisation.

Steve Bruce, I mean ****ing hell, why does he not possess enough self awareness or self respect to just walk? It’s because he does not understand his own limitations and he knows he’s landed a gig he’ll never see the like of again - he’s got to go, be escorted out; but does Ashley have the brains to do it now, or wait until it’s irrecoverable

The media support of Bruce - solely down to their understanding that a manager of that lack of calibre keeps NUFC where they belong; fodder for the bigger boys, ok if we snatch bare minimum points, but a Bruce helps maintain the status quo

it’s all so ****ing vomit inducing. I hate this era. But it will pass.
It won’t. We are down: at the moment without change we are down. Nice guy Bruce is giving us his final legacy as he won’t get a gig after this.

The only thing that MA can do for his asset is to sack him. If he doesn’t he’s losing a fortune and he will have a shell of a club with no value at all.
 
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He has but players like Lascelles and Joelinton should be nowhere near a professional football team


Almiron left Joelinton if anything is just a broken man.. I refuse to believe he's this ****.. I think he's just lost his soul
 
From Henry Winter (being kind):

Bruce was more adventurous, going 4-4-2. He picked two aerial threats in Carroll and Wilson but then chose two wide players who either pause before crossing, Almiron, working the ball on to his left, or prefers to play through the middle, Joelinton. Perplexing
Do you remember a cross into the box in the whole 90 minutes?
 
Honestly the Bruce shielding on TV is unbearable... They might aswel just say I love newcastle being ****, so long may Bruce stay in the job..

That's the heart of it
But he can’t lose every game and get relegated and the pundits **** him off can they. At some point the truth comes out.
 
Ashley will surely be starting to consider sacking bruce... I mean I doubt it'll be now but after villa and Everton I think if he loses both that'll be that.., but we're going to get someone ****e in anyway