"Well, wa huffed and puffed a bit for the first 10 mins and struggled to to come to terms with Barcel......I mean Wigan's international class football team today and I haf ta say, they are a very good team. I looked at Noble before the game and he was absolutely chomping at the bit and when I asked him was he up for it he almost knocked my head off with his roar..........so I thought I'll not play you today then. He needs a few games under his belt and to fill out a bit so I've got him on the Bruce plan for the next 6 months which relies heavily on a daily consumption of 10 mince pies from Greggs 24 pasties, 10 sausage rolls and a dozen cream cakes a day. I think by May 15th he will be ready for some first team action and a new kit from Jackamos. I've given him my catalogue. I thought our keeper today was excellent and how he kept out those dozen efforts on goal is beyond me .....well, everything is actually beyond me really but I thought Michael Turner was excellent at Left Wing as well, and we may have found England's answer to that problem. If that 35 yard speculative shot, our first one in the game to be fair, after 79 mins had gone in who knows, we may be standing here tonight having drawn the game instead of losing. However, our luck with injuries continues and it was a real blow when the hot dog seller went down with an onion burn only 10 mins into the game and we had to swap things round again to have a pie and lager combination instead. Its the story of wa season. Oh, and Sess will grow into the centre half roll we gave him today and we have to let him gel there and as for Larsson, he was magnificant at right back. He can gel too btw and while we are on the subject of gelling, I thought Craig Gardener had a blinder today, even though I didnt play him again. His warming up routine is one of the main reasons I brought him to the club and I think one or two other players will be looking over their shoulders tonight and wondering how they are ever going to get a chance to do their warm up routine and not play, while this lad is in such incredible.............well, warming up form. Well, thanks for your attendance today and it was really nice to hear my name chanted by the majority of the fans, although my fat head prevented me hearing what they were saying of course. I'm not entirely sure why they were throwing season tickets at my dug out but Eric thinks its just high jinx and that they were all just showing their affections. Well, we have taken a point from Fulham at home,which not many have done so far (most have taken 3 of course) and just narrowly been beaten by Real Mad........errm Wigan. We're slowly gelling month by month and by the summer of 2017, I can really see this team coming together. I mean, if we won all of our remaining games, home and away, we would be champions, so I just dont know why some fans are not happy. I know you're all behind me and we look forward to ****ing it up against Wolves and Blackburn for you in the next 2 weeks. Howay the Lads...... Ooops, force of habit, I mean Haway the Lads of course (cough cough )"
Took a while to read Cest but, well worth it funny as fook. However I think you won't be far off the mark with your version compared to Bruces.
Cest's post on Saturday evening: Ok so we won, but is 4-0 really convincing? What was Bruce doing? The fat git chose sessegnon, our most gifted attacking player in an attacking position, I'm going to one again harp on about our lack of strikers and iur overweight geordie manager AGAIN for another week in the innate hope that by constantly filling my days whining about it on an Internet board that will somehow make everything better
I'll bet you anything you want now that my complete load of made up ****e is a lot more close to the truth than that load of ill thought out cak Pat. If we win 4-0 on Saturday I'll be the happiest man on these boards. Unfortunately, we dont have the good fortune to be playing a team that has flown all around Europe this week before we play them and fatty Arbuckle Bruce will **** himself prior to the kick off and go for the point again. He cant help himself. All his supporters said he wouldnt do it v Fulham but he did. PS - if you think Sess is a striker as well then you're a foolish as the fat tube you are propping up.
Also, as if your signature is still a quote from when you beat us 3 seasons ago just makes you seem more desperate that you buzz over a derby victory that long ago...
It was intended as a piece of mirth but unfortunately, silly Pat has taken it too seriously. Oh dear.
This has become a rather to serious board lately... Roll om a few wins, and the fun and laughter will return, please.. But that was a good try to lift some of the gloom..
Aye thats sadly true but only the manager and the team can do that. I'm plum outta positives these days having given it my all. I've not really got a gripe with Bruce the man (he is a decent bloke to be honest) but just Bruce the SAFC manager which isn't working despite what some may want us to believe. I can see a busted flush when I see it having seen far too many in my time. That said, maybe in another 4 or 5 weeks we can start to have a laugh about life at the SOL again, but as I say, only the manager and the players can do that for us.
Very true mate, iv'e nicked this from another board for you to have a read off.. It's a bit long winded, so apologies for that, but you may enjoy it.. Michael Graham explains why outsiders may be surprised to hear Steve Bruce is far from a popular man among the Sunderland support. Given the global nature of the Premier League, it has often been a curiosity of mine how perceptions can be so varied depending on your vantage point. Nowhere is that perhaps better illustrated than with Sunderland and Steve Bruce. Ask someone with no connection to the club or the region, and the chances are they will consider Bruce to have done a good, solid job at Sunderland, pointing to exclusively progressive league finishes during his tenure and, following the sales of Jordan Henderson and Darren Bent, a negative net transfer outlay. It may well be a surprise for many to discover, therefore, that Bruce is one of the most unpopular Sunderland managers of recent times amongst the clubâs own fans. The more sceptical amongst you may be wondering how big a role his Newcastle roots have in this popular consensus. A fair question. After all, when Bruce was linked with the club in 2008 following Roy Keaneâs resignation, the then Wigan manager distanced himself from reports linking him with the job by telling the press âif you cut me open Iâd be black and white to the coreâ. So when within a year he was paraded as the new Sunderland manager adorned with a red and white tie, fans were hardly laying out the welcome mat for him. That isnât to say that there were not enough open minds on Wearside to give him a fair crack at the whip, of course. We must also credit the quick-witted PR man who ensured that Bruce was photographed stood in front of the statue of 1973 club legend Bob Stokoe that stands outside the Stadium of Light, who was himself raised within spitting distance of the Tyne and gave 10 years service as a player at St Jamesâ Park before leading Sunderland to one of the most famously heroic FA Cup triumphs ever recorded. The opportunity was offered. And, to give him his due, Bruce has been instrumental in seeing the club shed the âyo-yoâ stigma that had dogged it for half a century. You have to give him credit and say that. He has channelled Ellis Shortâs financial backing much more astutely than Roy Keane ever managed. But it is the sense of disenchantment and disconnection with the club itself that Bruce inspires amongst the fans which is at the heart of his unpopularity. During his time on Wearside Bruce has offered more excuses than he has solutions. In the last year he has produced more condescending lectures to Sunderland fans on the correct way to support his team than he has produced home wins for them to cheer. To explain the consistently atrocious form this calender year (Stadium of Light regulars have witnessed justtwo home wins since beating Blackburn on New Yearâs Day), he and his apologists point to a convergence of highly disruptive factors of which Bruce was the victim, not the creator, with the sudden abdications of Darren Bent and Asamoah Gyan and the crippling injury list the club endured last season chiefly amongst them. That is, of course, a perfectly reasonable argument. After hailing the Sunderland strike force of Bent, Gyan, Danny Welbeck, and Fraizer Campbell at the start of last season as âSunderlandâs best everâ, by the end of the season circumstances had robbed him of all of them and reduced him to playing a midfielder as a lone striker. That trend has continued this season with Connor Wickham suffering injury. The fact that Bruce inspires such disdain from his own clubâs supporters despite the existence of perfectly valid extenuating circumstances is probably, if anything, testament to his unique ability to alienate the Sunderland fans. The consistent message from the Black Catsâ manager to supporters has been one of âdonât want us to win enough to care when we loseâ. Describing it as âexpectationâ doesnât alter the central thesis of his message. In essence, Sunderland fans are being asked by their own manager to stop loving their club because it has become a hindrance. It is understandably proving a difficult pill to swallow. Bruce has not been helped by histransferpolicy either. His tendency to treat the transfer window in the same way that the fat kid treated his golden ticket visit to Willy Wonkaâs chocolate factory is only serving to alienate fans further. Last season he spent all winter preaching the importance of continuity and warning against mass changes, yet as soon as that window opened he happily gorged himself on transfer treats and sacrificed a home-grown product to fund his addiction. The result of the annual prolific turnover of players has been a fanbase who struggle to relate to, or identify with, their own team, and who see little point in becoming too attached to individuals. Is Bruce the unfortunate and convenient scapegoat of a vociferous fanbase with unreasonably lofty expectations and unfair preconceived personal bias against him?Does he deservemore patience and gratitude from a club who are unquestionably seen as a more credible Premier League force under his stewardship than at any other point in the last decade? The answer would appear to depend entirely on your own individual perspective and motivations, but it is fair to say that he is fast running out of allies at Sunderland. This weekend, the north east footballing focus will undoubtedly be on Newcastleâs surprise top-of-the-table clash with Manchester United. Thatâs fair enough. The Magpies have earned that. In fact, very few football fans at all will glance this weekâs fixtures and consider Sunderland v Wigan Athletic especially noteworthy. But make no mistake about it, this weekâs game at the Stadium of Light is of massive importance to Sunderland and Steve Bruce. Anything but a home win and it will be difficult for Bruce to convince anyone, his chairman included, that he has managed to refashion his side into anything but genuine relegation contenders and may just mean that the Premier Leagueâs long wait for a managerial sacking this season will be over.
Well Com, I could have written that piece myself and I find myself in full agreement with it. Its interesting because a helluva lot of his supporters on these boards, not all mind, are lads who dont actually go to the match and are looking at SAFC purely from the outside as it were and like this piece eludes too, they have also just looked at league positions, transfer net spending and such like and come to the conclusion all must be well. Those that are actually going to the games can see how absolutely awful the football is, the flat atmosphere there is now and above all, the horrendous results especially at home. Its those fans that are more vociferous against him as manager and the ones who see it regularly who want a change. That may well seem preposterous to outsiders but for the suffering fans in the ground, its the only way forward. One thing is absolutely guaranteed though. If we dont win (not draw) on Saturday, Bruce will feel the full force of supporters disillusionment with both barrels. There will be no doubts as to what the fans will want if we lose or draw. The term must win game has never been more relevant than it is tomorrow for the chairman, the players, the fans and especially the manager.
Bruce getting his excuses in early.... Could you ever imagine a top class manager in the mould of Sir Alex Ferguson coming out with a pile of crap like this before a home encounter against bottom of the league Wigan? Consistently punching above their weight at the bottom of the league having lost 8 out of the last 9 games? This reveals once again how negative and fearful Bruce is. http://www.safc.com/news/20111124/bruce-wigan-are-resilient_2256213_2526190 Steve Bruce says former club Wigan will retain their trademark resilience after Blackburn's 99th-minute equaliser last week. Sunderland boss Steve Bruce expects a disappointed but resilient Wigan to arrive on Wearside this weekend. The Latics conceded a remarkable 99th-minute equaliser against Lancashire rivals Blackburn after looking odds on to win at 3-2 up with time ticking away. However, manager Roberto Martinez says spirits remain high despite a difficult start to the season and Bruce expects Athletic to be dangerous opponents this weekend. The Black Cats boss said: "They would have needed that victory to get them up and running and to get that close and then concede in the last minute would have been tough to take. "But they are a resilient bunch who consistently punch above their weight. We will have to be at our best to beat them; we know that."
Couldnt agree more Cest, but the thing that upsets me, is that yet again Im gonna be making a round 340 mile trip to watch me team, and if we dont win, there absolutley nowt our board are gonna do about the Manager. The echos of support they came out with for him last month, pissed me off no end and it begs the question marra, how long is this gonna go on for before its too chuffin late. I like everyone else will be delighted if we get the win, but mate ive got a bad bloody feelin about this, especially if he continues with his bloody choppin and changin of team selections. last week I was working the Everton v Wolves game and I had no idea about what team selection he 'd put out against Fulham...what I was convinced of was the fact he'd remain with 4-4-2 (irresspective of the Wickam injury) well did he go with...did he ****e !!!!...That selection and formationalike many others this season gives me no confidence whatsoever...feelin very down and forlorn at the mo folks
Well done Cest Best thread on here for a long time & cheered me up no end Even my lollie had a giggle when I read it out to her so you've cheered us both up mate
"But they are a resilient bunch who consistently punch above their weight. We will have to be at our best to beat them; we know that." I bet he's never given such a motivational speech to his own players who have the same amount of goals scored in the last couple of games (Nil) as he has given to the opposing side. All we need now is him to walk into the press conference after a fantastic 0-0 draw doing his namesakes striking pose please log in to view this image That would just top it off for me.
