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There’s a reason Steve Bruce is popular with some of the players & Id bet it’s largely because he lets them doss about.

If you watched the Liverpool match yesterday you will have seen just how important a good (exceptional in their case) manager is. They were without Van Dyke, Alexander Arnold, Gomez, Thiago, Henderson and Salah all of whom would probably be first choice for them as well as Oxlade Chamberlin who's there or there abouts and they absolutely wiped the floor with Leicester. That's Leicester who are in the top four, had won their last 6 in all competitions and have been talked about as champions league place contenders. Klopp has Liverpool drilled perfectly. Of course Bruce doesn't have anything like the quality of player at his disposal as Klopp but when they had so many top class players unavailable it barely made a difference to them at all despite starting with two midfielders in defence and a 19 year old in midfield who's only had a handful of cup games previously for experience. Anyone who thinks getting rid of Bruce would make no difference needs to have a word with themselves. The man is fucking useless as we all knew from the start. Admittedly we can't rely on Ashley to replace him with anyone of quality but it's becoming more and more difficult to see where he could find anyone worse than Bruce.

Imagine wanting to go Christmas shopping.

You could really do with a hobby mate.

Daniel Storey F365: The three Newcastle United myths “Well they are never happy, are they? They want to win the Champions League but they’re not in it unfortunately” – Mark Lawrenson, November 7. Well, yes and no. Of course Newcastle United fans would like to win the Champions League. Every supporter of every club wants their team to be as successful as it can be. But that’s not the point (and it’s not Lawrenson’s point either). He is insinuating (as many other pundits have) that there is an unhelpful entitlement amongst Newcastle United supporters, a lack of gratitude for their current situation. You’re 14th in the Premier League, guys – what’s the worry? The worry is that they support a football team that barely even tries to attack. After 84 minutes against Chelsea on Saturday, with their team 2-0 down but with a throw-in close to Chelsea’s goalline, Newcastle played the ball back down the line, then into central midfield and then to their goalkeeper. Karl Darlow launched the ball upfield and Chelsea won back possession. That’s the worry. Newcastle rank 20th in the league for shots per game. Newcastle rank 20th in the league for shots on target per game. Newcastle rank 20th in the league for touches in the opposition box per game. Newcastle rank 20th in the league for passes in the final third per game. Newcastle rank… 19th in the league for successful passes per game. Huzzah! “Newcastle don’t have the personnel to play any other way.” Nonsense. They have Callum Wilson, a proven No. 9 who will score when serviced effectively and probably still score a few when he isn’t. They have Miguel Almiron and Allan Saint-Maximin, two exciting wide attackers whose confidence has been shorn to the point of disillusionment (see the comments of Almiron’s agent this week for details). They have Ryan Fraser too, and a collection of capable midfield holders. They have Jamal Lewis, an excellent attacking left-back. It is true that Newcastle don’t have a squad capable of making a sustainable challenge for a top-six place or one suited to playing all-out-attack football, but then both of those are straw-man arguments. They do have a squad that might offer more if they didn’t sit 40 yards from their own goal and hope that their goalkeeper produces consistent brilliance to keep them in matches. “Erm, they played exactly like this under Rafael Benitez.” They did indeed play very deep under Benitez against Big Six opponents, particularly away from home. Benitez got plenty of stick for one defeat against Manchester City in which Newcastle also barely bothered to try and attack. But here’s the thing: They didn’t always play that way. Between January 1 and the end of 2018/19, when Benitez managed his last game, Newcastle ranked joint-sixth in the league for goals, seventh for chances created and ninth for shots and shots on target. Their five most regular attacking starters were Salomon Rondon, Ayoze Perez, Miguel Almiron, Christian Atsu and Matt Ritchie. Those options are not better than Bruce’s now, and were certainly less expensive. But really, none of this matters. Because you do not get to tell football supporters how they should support their club, particularly those who have ploughed thousands of pounds and hours into it. There’s nothing wrong with wanting more than this (and it would be great if Bruce recognised that and was more adventurous). There’s nothing wrong with wanting your team to attack or even wondering what might happen if they didn’t sit so deep. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be entertained by your football team. Anyone that tells you otherwise is wrong

Hi Tommy...its widely rumoured you spend all the housekeeping on pinball mate....

You just know that when Steve Bruce says 'I make no excuses' that he's milliseconds away from trying to make an excuse.

Not sure that one made it out of Bernie Taupin’s notebook

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Mackems- permanently in tier 3.

Personally I think we should postpone Christmas 6 months. Imagine having Christmas in the garden with some cans, watching euro 2020! ”Socks? Awesome, thanks Nanna, i ran out in December”

Who told you?

The 70% is the average - they've devised a dosing regime that's 90% effective. Also nobody who got the vaccine and did still get it was seriously ill which is great.

I think the war/conflict blame game is the "minor" downside of religion for me as I accept the human nature angle - it's the insidious anti-reason and nonsensical bollocks that pollutes people's brains that bothers me. And thats before the fuckers pass laws to enshrine said bollocks and affect rational people with their nonsense.

It is British and not developed by some Turkish immigrants in the EU. Priti Patel likes it.

Listen you kiwi fuck, I don't know if you've read my recent posts but I hope you don't value your double glazing.

So how am I supposed to find the cunt then! I'm short tempered now BTW.

At least these lot keep throwing up a laugh....

I feel a deep sadness when I see everything associated with that desperate display. Like when you see those chained up bears on the telly

I have nothing funny to say

Well as a pinball wizard I have to be the best...

So @AlbertSmith50, how long have you worked on the BT online promotion team?

I'll be paying fuck all to watch that shite.

Leaving 5p for you to buy one of this forum's favourite things, an energy drink with a dubious promotional strategy

£20 for the Tyson fight

do it yourself like a real man

Which is what I said originally... KD is tight, it is semantics. But the point remains, people are cunts without religion. Blaming the majority of warfare on religion is a sweeping generalisation I just can’t get on with. The central tenets of all major religions on the planet are peace, love and understanding. Most of us know that’s fuckin bollocks. If you covet thy neighbour’s Ox you’ll take thy neighbour’s ox, murder him then move into his house and take all his land. Fuck all in the scriptures will stop that. There’s also tiny bits in the scriptures that are exploited by the aforementioned cunts to manipulate the easily lead, to take an entire herd, then the farm, murdering all the farm workers in the process. But you’ve still got to covet thy neighbours ox in the first place...

National pride. I’ll take my chances with 70% and my bulldog spirit will make up the other 30%

So ... wood?

No. War is caused by thr concept of difference or otherness. There will always be differences between nation states other than religion. Religion is a pretty strong source of difference though and furthermore religious texts can incite hatred and justification for war.

So if everyone was an atheist there’d be no wars?

This was the post that caused the mods to get medieval on his ass

George Bush junior literally called it a crusade. Anyone who thinks religion is dead in the west is bonkers. You would have a better chance of being elected in a position of political power as a convicted paedophole than as a declared atheist in the USA. Religion is toxic and pretending it isn't is part of the problem.

I didn’t bother watching as I knew it would be a complete and utter pathetic performance. I assume the issue here is still that we all expect to be winning the Champions League? Bruce is a fucking shambles of a manager, he was quite honestly clueless and the game had past him by 10 years ago, let alone nowadays. Big picture nothing fucking changes until Ashley fucks off since Bruce is only a symptom of having this owner, next man up will be some other dinosaur of the game, sadly it looks like we’re depending on the court proceedings in Ashley’s case against the PL or we’re stuck together.

Masterstroke by Ashley appointing Bruce. Everyone talking about how shite Bruce is, (unquestionably he is utterly mediocre), whereas under Rafa the focus was on him.

I wouldn’t go that far

It would be worth it just for Luke Edwards blob strop tbh. But, knowing our luck, it’ll be approved only for the Saudis to have lost interest.

Worse super hero duo ever.

Or by taking the piss out of missus.

From the neck down she looks like a medium Oak Furniture land Ltd chest of draws

RBP- Resting Bitch Personality

She wouldn’t even have to bend down