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Taxi for Steve Bruce?

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  1. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Just watched the var decision for Newcastle’s handball goal
    What a load of bollocks that’s a goal
     
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  3. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    He certainly seems to have Liverpool's number.
     
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  4. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    And another fantastic result for our greatest ever manager
     
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  5. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    No shock Bruce knows what he's doing
    Remarkable, isn't it, that with their best players back Newcastle have been distanced from the threat of relegation?

    They have now lost one match in six, in a run many felt was sure to see them relegated - including fixtures against Tottenham, West Ham, Arsenal, Leicester and Liverpool.

    Steve Bruce is 11 games short of 1,000 as a manager and captained a greater Manchester United team than any Newcastle have produced in more than a century.

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    Steve Bruce (left) has Newcastle back in the right direction now his best players are fit again
    The idea he did not know football, or a player, was always ludicrous. It flatters egos to have a manager like Rafa Benitez on Tyneside, because he comes with a pedigree of Champions League and LaLiga success which it is thought befits a club of Newcastle's size.

    Bruce's career, spent bouncing between Birmingham and Hull, Sunderland and Wigan, sometimes up, sometimes down, does not have the same cache. But no one lasts this long in football unless those inside the game recognise a job well done.

    Newcastle have had some terrible luck this season with injuries and illness, but Bruce has resisted the brickbats and steered them through.

    Mike Ashley stuck by him, too. They deserve to stay up.
     
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  6. Barchullona

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    Another good article by Martin S.
     
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  7. City Man

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    Decent rag too - they don't have a paywall or a begging bowl like some failing papers do.
     
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  8. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Had a look on the Newcastle board and the level of hatred directed at sir Steve is appalling.
     
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    you're obsessed - why would you look on someone else's board just to see what they think about Cabbage Head - you should look back on Villa's, I suspect they're saying the same when he was **** there as well - I appreciate there's one or two on here that don't mind the nepotism, the anti fan / pro Allam ****, the no plan B, the Europe **** up. the ****ing up the £40 million war chest season and the ****ing off at the start of the season because the owners weren't prepared to give him any more money after he got us relegated after spending more in one season than every other Hull City Manager put together - however he left the club in a financial mess, having to sell of all our best players which ultimately resulted in us getting relegated to League One so we could get back to the same financial position we were in when he started
     
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  10. highpeak tiger

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    Don't hold back, tell us what you really think.
     
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    I deliberately left out the word '****' so I wouldn't upset any snowflakes
     
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  12. highpeak tiger

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    I'm not going to argue point by point but I think your position is rather extreme. I liked Bruce, thought he was a good manager and was distraught when he left. I suspect that getting rid of him lost the Allams a fortune, but everyone to his own.
     
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  13. Drew

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    According to figures collected here: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/hull-city/alletransfers/verein/3008 the club have made a circa £46m basic profit just on the transfer fees of players bought and sold from Bruce's time at the club.

    I appreciate that doesn't include wages, agents fees or signing on fees, but surely they'll be taken into account by that profit as well as the television rights from three seasons in the Premier League achieved by Steve Bruce.

    There's plenty on the pitch that you can criticise Steve Bruce (and he should have won the Championship in his last season), but it definitely doesn't feel like he alone left us in a poorer financial position.
     
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    I'm assuming this isn't on the well established ****show that is the Daily Mail then. If so, despite apparently having one decent columnist, that doesn't make it a decent rag, unless you are Barchullona. Agree about paywalls though.
     
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  15. Barchullona

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    Some people think the Guardian is a good paper. Though they don't sell many copies so have to get the begging bowl out.
     
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  16. highpeak tiger

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    Or the Grauniad to those who frequent Private Eye, renowned for **** spelling.
     
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  17. Barchullona

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    Yes, I used that spelling earlier. Someone said I had made a spelling mistake. I hope they were joking.<laugh>

    "Discussing Uganda..." was another Eye classic.
     
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  18. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    It is a good paper.
    as you well know they’re asking for subscriptions as they want to remain independent


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    If you believe in the Guardian’s mission - and the powerful impact our independent journalism can have - please consider
     
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  19. Barchullona

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    It was founded by people who made their money through the slave trade. Should be issuing apologies, surely? Has a tax avoiding set up as well.

    If it sold more than the handful the BBC employees bu6 they wouldn't have to bring out the begging bowl.
     
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  20. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    I’m not interested in any of that
    I read it and there’s some excellent articles on all manner of subjects and it’s a far better read than the mail overall imho

    you carry on beating your own particular drum
     
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