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Not outside his house again!!

 

Whose hands is it in, then? Maybe his missus won't let him sign it?

 

Only sh!t teams so far buddy. That's been part of the complaints. We whould have beaten Watford (still not sure how we weren't way ahead at half time) but that aside we've set up to try and scrape draws against Leeds, Wolves, Southampton and West Ham. It's been pathetic (bare in mind we finished 12th last season, sold no players and brought in our number one transfer target).

Just to clarify here. We're 19th and looked nailed on for relegation as we were playing terribly, we've mostly played lower half of the table teams but... it's unfair to "hound out" our manager?

The hypocrisy of other fans it off the scale at the moment. Really is just an illogical "mud at a wall" approach to NUFC comments.

 

I've never had a problem with you lot not wanting Bruce in the first place, nor wanting him out.
He's a rather uninspiring choice as manager, to say the least.
I'm sure that some people crossed the line, but that's not exclusive to Newcastle fans, by any means.

 

It's complete bullshit.
And if one more ****** tries to pull out the "Rafa had the same win percentage" stat, im gonna kick them in the teeth.
Rafa inherited a team that was nailed on for relegation with like 10 games left, his squad was dog ****.
Bruce inherited a solid mid table squad, has had over £100m spent on the squad since then, and hasnt got a single win in the first 8 games, but because he has a ton of mates in the media, they are all crying and pushing this narrative that he has been treated unfairly
**** off

 

Spot on mate.

 

I don’t think it warranted the abuse Bruce put up with compared to Benitez’ hero status. Ashley deserves everything he gets but not Bruce. Just my opinion.

 

I'm pretty sure Rafa had a massive negative spend, too.
I think if you asked neutrals to pick between them to manage their clubs, then it'd be quite one-sided.

 

Fair play but you'd have to be blind not to have noticed the media backlash which many fans have latched on to. There are many, many things which NUFC can rightly be criticised for at the moment but the "unfair" treatment of Steve Bruce is nonsense.

 

It was less than, or comparable to the abuse he got at Sunderland ("f*ck off you geordie bastard") and Villa (where he had things thrown at his head from the stands, which he had to duck out of the way of). That doesn't make it right but it does feel very pointed that such a deal is being made of it now.

It's a problem within all sets of fans and isn't right. Just most of the time it's not worth commenting on.

 

Burn an effigy of him hanging from the Tyne Bridge for all I care. Just felt a bit OTT considering the mediocre rather than dire performances. Probably made to seem worse than it was.

 

The money Bruce was given was always baffling to be honest. Rafa was given almost nothing and had to build a team with pennies (when we drew with Liverpool in our first season back up our entire team cost less than 2 of their players on the pitch had cost them individually) and build a solid defence. We still have that defence at the moment (same players) and they've gradually looked worse and worse with each year Bruce has had them.

Rafa had pretty much the same team we have now but without Saint-Maximan, Joe Willock or Callum Wilson...

 

I'd argue 22 points in the last 28 games is worse than mediocre tbph.

 

It was made a point of when they did it too, to be fair. Made all the papers.
The Villa cabbage got it's own twitter account!

 

3 cracking games potentially today ... just hope the United / Pool fixture doesn't turn out to be an anti-climax

 

Again not saying he deserves it but he doesn't help himself. He cultivates a "nice guy" image but incessantly has a go at the fans. He called out Sunderland fans when there, then Villa fans, then Newcastle fans. There's a theme and only one thing in common.

In all honesty, once a manager starts calling out the fans (and with us it was over a year ago) it's only going to go one way, and possibly get rather ugly.

 

There's always gonna be twats that give abuse.
But I dont think Bruce helped himself with his stupid flash card, autocue interviews.
You could almost play excuse bingo every time they put a mic in front of his face
"Well, this is the premier league....we were unlucky, at this level you get punished, we look to the next game, etc etc"

He didnt deserve death threats, but he certainly deserved to be **** canned.

 

I wonder who scheduled Man Utd v Liverpool and El Clasico to overlap?
Seems rather silly for those targeting an international audience.

 

Probably enough for mid-table now with all the absolute dross of this league incapable of even beating each other. Take your point though.