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Jonjo has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @

🎵 It's time to play the music It's time to light the lights It's time to get things started for the Muppet show tonight! Parrrrrrrrrp! 🎶

“Whyyy carrrnt nice things happan to ower club?” *collapses/dies* 🎶on the river where they used to builllllddd the boats 🎶

60 seconds in and Wraith's said he was the victim of "far left trolling"

They'll be fucked for the match

That’s a better interview than Bruce gave in his entire time here. Probably because Jones isn’t a feckless snake.

fucking hell, just been catching up a bit on reaction to bruce being fucked off and arteta really has taken it badly! playmobil headed cunt.

Seems to take lots of holidays during the season for a football correspondent. It’s almost like he’s absolutely full of shit

I’ll bet Edwards nipped people in play fights as a kid.

The reaction to Bruce getting sacked has been fucking insane. I’ve honestly seen nowt like it in my whole time following footy, you can see exactly why a bloke as fucking hopeless at management has hit 1,000 games. This is a bloke who had a police escort and had coins thrown at him at Sunderland, Villa fans pelted him with cabbages, all the other fan bases gave him abuse yet we’re the ones singled out as if he’s had it miles worse than any manager ever?

This is a new era

Tbh not his fault he was playing two teams at once

Aye my mate was there last night. Reckons Keegan said he's had a couple of calls with the new lot. 👍

He would also make vegans eating hyenas.

Nothing would make me happier about this whole takeover than to see him given some sort of ambassadorial role at the club. The man could talk Hyenas in to becoming vegan.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo We have loadsa games and lodsa points to get. What's wrong with you pissy pants

You’ll not be getting one tonight- it’s Fosters Night at the Raby, £10 for a 4pint jug and the Knight has £40 burning a hole in his pocket. Chicken Fried Rice, Chips and Curry Sauce on the stagger home.

Trained 3 days in a row as well

Bootiful

The mackems are so fucking weird, that ‘claiming’ of anyone that is in any way connected or supports NUFC as being undercover MLF’s is weird even for them. As MF says they’re welcome to him, who the fuck would want to claim Wraith as a fan . Its just so fucking weird though, imagine seeing a mackem and going “I bet you were a Newcastle fan growing up weren’t you?”. I’d say it’s childish but tbh it’d be embarrassing for a child to be going on like that, let alone grown orks.

You just knew this fucking talkshite thing would be a pudding magnet.

Aye,they’re both shite

Imagine how annoyed Luke Edwards will be if the lads play a blinder

Inoffensive thread title guarantees a loss

KK https://t.co/LnVTPLjrh5

He's gonna do the same as he's done every time before. Wait until it's way out of control then hold a bumbling press conference to announce plan b. Of course if there'd been a public inquiry, he might not find it so easy to keep doing the same stupid shit over and over again.

Lads, no one wants to listen to their kid learn guitar at high volume.

Good post.

In the Gallowgate next to Jackie Milburn, Blair and CT.

Steady.

It is actually pretty good I still can't believe how successful he's been. He started as a drunk fat guy yelling about Pardew and Ashley, and he's become some sort of swole indie boxing promoter with a million subs and Alan Shearer's phone number. I do respect the guy, I just can't get away from that

“That Gravesey fucka drove everyone mad with his 👀 tweet, ah cannit have him outdo the knight Ryder”

Chicken? with wine, naturally

Sat next to me

Aye, I was in Amsterdam last week and just like NI it was pretty much masks everywhere but what really liked was the covid passport needed for most things. Going into a bar, restaurant or attraction it was a quick check and off you go. Of course I have an EU covid passport so it was a piece of piss but I dunno if it recognises your blue QR codes.

I forgot my mask today when I went to the shop. I felt like a proper daft tramp walking around without it on. Rare treat for the ladies though.

The idea of a person in place who comes up with, then executes long term plans is sound. You can get the wrong person in place, of course, but if you get it right it can reduce the missteps below them. For example, if your DoF thinks that, for the next 5 years you need to be playing pragmatic football he'll guide the scouts to find organised, defensive players and efficient attackers, he'll guide recruitment of managers who play that style and coaches who understand that system. He won't flit from a cavalier attacking manager like Keegan, to a patient possession based manager like Dalglish, back to Sexy football Gullit. He won't sign Joelinton with no idea who the manager will be, let lone how that player would fit into the system. He won't sell Cabaye without a suitable replacement in mind. Look at Lange at Villa. They knew they were selling Grealish, so they replaced him in the aggregate with Bailey, Buendia and Danny Ings.

Long post, quite ranty, ignore if you like. The job of the manager is to organise the players, keep them as fit as possible, manage their personalities, manage up, manage the press, manage the fans. Bruce did little of any of that and whatever he did do, he didn’t do well. There’s been 2 years of pundits pointing out the huge gaps between defence and midfield, midfield and attack. Two years of criticism of the players, the on field organisation, the system. Yet hardly any of Bruce. He’s done a good job, we’ve been told. That performance against Spurs could have been dumped in the first season under Bruce and you’d not tell the difference, so little has changed. Not one of the players has improved under Bruce and the attacking, midfield and defensive units have regressed dramatically. We went from having a top-half defensive record, to bottom in almost every metric. We went from organised if a little too pragmatic, to clueless and so easy to play against. The players look knackered every game, with loads of days off surely not helping. He's brought players back too soon after injury. He's had a bust up with Ritchie, blamed him for not passing messages, he's let Darlow find out he's not playing through the press, there've been more reports of training ground bust-ups and confrontation than under any other manager I can think of. The only part of his job he’s done fairly well is managing up. He convinced Ashley to alter the approach and spend money on proven Premier League players like Wilson, Fraser, Hendricks and also on Lewis. But of those, only Wilson has been a real success, the others might be good, but haven't featured regularly. And Ashley sharp went back to parsimony. Bruce says we had no money despite over £90m net transfer spend in 5 windows. Benitez had about £-5m net spend over 6. Bruce said in Edwards' piece that there wasn't the money for an overhaul. That squad didn't need an overhaul, it was a midtable squad that needed refining. He’d insist he could take the criticism, but would react angrily to journalists asking about yet another holiday in the Algarve. He said he’d maintain his dignity, then have pops at Howe, or Benitez. He’d talk about fans expectations, and trot out talksport cliches like signing Alan Shearer level players. He blamed the press for fan negativity. Dismissed criticism as keyboard warriors and histrionics, but then said those fans he spoke to were supportive. All the while his chums in the media were defending Steve Bruce the man, while damning the team he's responsible for managing. Now, apparently, our defenders are Championship standard, despite spending more time in the Premier League than they did in the 2nd tier. Apparently our midfielders aren't up to it, despite being linked with Man Utd, or England previously. Some of them will point to the league positions or points tally and demand to know what the issue was. But long stretches of terrible form (2 wins in 22?), patently obvious problems in the team selection, shape, system. Terrible performances were pretty commonplace like Norwich (3-1) two games after his first full preseason in 2019, or Leicester 5 games later, twice against Brighton (20/21 3-0), the 1-0 loss to a Sheffield side that hadn’t won a game or kept a clean sheet all season, all the way through to the last 8 games. Football fans aren’t blind to these things. The bloke was outdated a decade ago, the criticisms levelled at him by Sunderland, Villa, Hull fans still ring true to this day. Bright start to the games, gradually retreat, disorganised system, no leadership on or off the pitch. That’s why they were supportive of Hughton, of Benitez. You might not get as excited by their system, but at least there fucking is one. Through it all he was saying things like 'dust wuhselves down', 'roll up wuh sleeves', because that's all he knows to do, or that he’s going to do it 'his way' despite having been in the job for 18 months. Even now, after 97 games, I couldn't begin to tell you what 'way' he's trying to have them play. Newcastle paid £4m to Shef Wed so they could appoint Steve Bruce, and paid Steve Bruce £8m to get shot of him. There’ve been bigger wastes of money by Newcastle United, but not many.