Mark Douglas of the Chronicle has tweeted confirmation of earlier reports from the Telegraph that Steve Bruce’s appointment is very close and barring an unexpected turn, very likely.
This is what Mark Douglas has tweeted:
Steve Bruce appointment now imminent at #nufc. Details to be worked out with #swfc but he's heading to SJP.
Could even be in before trip to China. Walking into a firestorm at #NUFC, which he surely knows.
— Mark Douglas (@MsiDouglas) July 11, 2019
Keith Downie has also reported that colleague Richard Graves has seen Steve Bruce leaving Hillsborough this morning. Sheffield Wednesday staff and players reportedly have the day off today.
Our reporter @RichardGraves1 has spotted Steve Bruce leaving Hillsborough in a chauffeur-driven car, as Newcastle get set to offer him their manager’s job #NUFC #SWFC
— Keith Downie (@SkySports_Keith) July 11, 2019
It is looking very much like Steve Bruce will be the next manager at Newcastle United. While this is extremely raw right now, we will put out a poll on this potential appointment.
We expect the response to be very much in the negative as this is quite a shock at the moment. We have gone with the question of supporting Steve Bruce rather than being happy with him as the choice.
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249 comments so far
ChicoUSA
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:27 PM
Comment #1Support as in be happy? Nope!
twotonearmy
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:27 PM
Comment #2People talking about supporting the team not the regime are like battered wives and husbands. We aren’t going to make it better, we aren’t going to see them change and suddenly not abuse us. We need to unite and give them no hope of our boycotts every stopping.
ChicoUSA
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:27 PM
Comment #3Hell no!
toon22
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:29 PM
Comment #4Just what we need
A manager who celebrated a mackem goal against us
He will be given 0 games before the crowd will be on his back
Jabba thinks were just going to forget everything and let him go on asset stripping the club regardless
MarkBro
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:29 PM
Comment #5Difficult one. Ill support the team for the good of the club.
I never supported McLaren or kinnear, bruce will get the same treatment.
Ive never been a booer
hibbit the armchair fan
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:30 PM
Comment #6NO JIB I DON’T, I MEAN EVERY WORD THE MANS A TRAITOR
hibbit the armchair fan
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:21 PM
Comment #46
well Stevie boy your making a big big mistake that will only end in tears,
with this one act of pure stupidity you betrayed the whole Geordie nation for few pieces of of Ashely’s silver,
this day will be a day you regret for the rest of your life from the minute you enter st jame’s you feel the utter contempt and animosity aimed at you,
we will never be forgiven TRAITOR
ToonRich
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:31 PM
Comment #7Taken from twitter!!
Why do people keep harping on about boyhood club?
The guy managed Sunderland. If Newcastle meant that much to him he’d never have gone there.
Can you imagine Wilder managing #swfc or @BullenFootball the blades? Wouldn’t happen.
He’s just following ???
MacToon
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:31 PM
Comment #8Twotonearmy, you are right, it is like Stockholm Syndrome for some.
ToonRich
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:31 PM
Comment #9*Following the £££
toon kk
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:31 PM
Comment #10Bruce is doomed before he starts, MA will not strengthen sufficiently, the team will struggle, as it would under any manager.
Then the sack Bruce flags will be on show.
We can’t move forward under Ashley, impossible.
Captain AmeriMag
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:33 PM
Comment #11Chopper Watch is our last hope!!
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-maol#213d6a99
Left Luton 2 hours after N9895 landed and seems to be taking in the sights.
It’s over the Cairngorms now and has been for half an hour. Not sure if it might lose signal (as it did this over the last National Park) or if it’s landed.
If it loops back and lands in Newcastle it’s Boom Sheikh the Toon time!!
Bobbybee
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM
Comment #12Ashley to Sky reporters ” I don’t get them. I might have made mistakes in the past, but I listened to their complaints about a cockney mafia and employed a Geordie. What more can I do”?
Sky reporters nod wisely and shrug their shoulders. ” I know Mike, you’re right of course. Ungrateful Geordie basta*ds. How dare they not know their place”?
RobLeenio
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM
Comment #13I’ll say it again, the choice of manager is irrelevant.
The only thing that matters to the future of this club is bringing down the regime which hires the manager.
Until Ashley is gone we could bring in Pep and he wouldn’t get my support. He would still be a sop from the regime to placate the fans.
We had a vacuum at managerial level which the club had to fill. It looks like they have, but that means nothing.
We’ll likely go on and sign done players, done of whom will be good. It means nothing.
We may even break our transfer record, but again it means nothing.
The only thing which means anything is getting Ashley out.
magscar
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:36 PM
Comment #14Repost
after 2-3 thread intervened and only just come back in
NY Mag
I can’t help trying to make sense of our situation beyond the most basic as I don’t believe it is straightforward. I have a brain and use it beyond chanting on here.
There can’t be a poster or reader of this Blog who is a NUFC fan who doesn’t want Ashley gone
I put forward a notion as the Blog intends which not unexpectedly the cretin who preens himself (as others say “right all along”) can’t get his a head around or try to reason with a genuine poster – another badge of honour to join the others in the bin.
I await answers from him as to who the shills are and the evidence for his claims and what apart from spouting off ad nauseum heactually is doing to change the ownership.
I know the answer of course – NOTHING
MarkBro
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:36 PM
Comment #15Im sure the sheikh can check out Scotlands shooting sites another time.
there more urgent issues to deal with
Oldgit1
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:37 PM
Comment #16Ok we have Bruce as our manager, that in it self, should help to reduce the gate against Arsenal.
The big test is if the club brings in some fantastic players, will that spur the supporters back to the ground.
Big test for the supporters of our great club.
toon22
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:37 PM
Comment #17Steve Bruce
Two home wins since New Year’s Day have tried Wearsiders’ patience but, contrary to Bruce’s theories, many would have taken the odd defeat to Newcastle in their stride had there been signs of progress or a discernible playing pattern emerging. Maybe the core problem was that Bruce never accepted that, sometimes, the devil really is in the detail. Soon after Ahmed Elmohamady arrived from Egypt, Sunderland’s manager was asked if the winger would be observing Ramadan and if so, how the daylight fasting might affect his game.
The question was met with a blank look. “Is Elmohamady a Coptic Christian rather than a Muslim then?” the questioner persisted. It was an important distinction and the answer should have tripped off Bruce’s tongue, but he clearly did not have a clue.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/nov/30/steve-bruce-sunderland-sacked
Yorkgeordie
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:38 PM
Comment #18Very interesting,read down to where Sam said one of the reasons he refused the job was that he had to accept Kevin Nolan as his assistant https://www.nufc.com/.
danishmag
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:38 PM
Comment #19Repost:
Dont care who we buy..
We are an absolute joke, going from Rafa to Bruce..
The two monkeys are sitting jerking one another, talking about who they can get in as managers:
Ashlie: “Donald Duck?.. damn he is cartoon character”..
Charnlie: “Goofy?.. damn he is also a cartoon character”..
Ashlie: “How about Daisy Duck?”
Charnlie: “No, also Cartoon character”.. “but someone called Steve Bruce maybe?”..
Ashlie: “give it try, as soon a have busted my nut all over you, Lee”
And so begins the tale of Steve Bruce in the north
Bobbybee
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:38 PM
Comment #20Captain, love the optimism, but the only person being shown around SJP will be Bruce matey. No one in long Arab attire, just a SMB having a laugh with Mikey Boy about ungrateful Toon supporters. God help us, nobody else gives a toss. We’re doomed laddy, dooooomed I say. 🙁
GeordieinOhio
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:39 PM
Comment #21Here we have the NUFC faithful gathering to welcome their NEW manager , Robert the Bruce Traitor of Scotland….wait whoops sorry Steve Bruce Traitor Of Newcastle.
https://nouwcdn.com/14/1475000/1460000/1459894/pics/201802111459512622_sbig.jpg
Lovem or Hatem
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:40 PM
Comment #22I am with Hibbit on this. Bruce knows what is happening at NUFC and if he takes the job he is ignoring it.
He is a fool to believe anything Ashley has said to him. He may get money to spend but that will only happen once and then he will find out what Ashley’s word is worth
danishmag
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:40 PM
Comment #23Captain AmeriMag..
Your hope is gone!
The take over is off!
toon22
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:40 PM
Comment #24I seemed impossible but we might have just gotten someone worse than Pardue
Well done
toon22
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:42 PM
Comment #25Wasnt good enough for the mackems..check
Has slated us many times in the past… check
Is a Jabba apologist.. check
Will be hated before he even starts..check
Wont be able to attract players..check
Its all looking ticketyboo
toon22
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:44 PM
Comment #26Aston Villa’s fan frustration took on the unorthodox form of vegetable hurling on Tuesday night, as a supporter launched a cabbage at Villans boss Steve Bruce.
https://www.90min.com/posts/6186871-photo-twitter-reacts-after-disgruntled-aston-villa-fan-launches-cabbage-at-steve-bruce
Chancel My MBembaship
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:44 PM
Comment #27I have to say, I never understood how someone who claimed to be a Newcastle supporter could ever manage the Mackems. I know he’s a manager and a job is a job, but of all the clubs to work for that would be the very single one that you’d have to say no to. It just doesn’t make any sense to me at all. That said, I’d back him and give the bloke a chance.
It’s going to be awful for him getting what is likely his dream job with an owner who is going to tie his hands behind his back and a section of supporters who won’t let him forget he managed the SMBs.
dexter53
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:46 PM
Comment #2821% say they would support blood pressure heed. God help us. No wonder the fat man is laughing at us.
RobLeenio
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:48 PM
Comment #29TBF, how can we support him if the ground is empty?
Oh, wait….
Scholesy
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:49 PM
Comment #30Abusing Bruce is not the answer all it does is gives fuel to the tw@s like Keys to say what a load of delusional fans we are. We need to focus on action against the real problem.
Pitch invasion is a great idea but we need more to do it at a set time and there needs to be more fans than stewards. Attack the disease not a side effect!
Dubs Left Glove
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:49 PM
Comment #31@geordiedentist
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Look it’s been at the same position for around 5 weeks as far as I know. All MA had to do was sign off. There was always a time where it would not be viable. 4 weeks makes sense. That said I believe MA painted himself in a corner by playing games. All on him 100%
willing buyers, not a willing seller!
toon22
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:49 PM
Comment #32“People know that I am from Newcastle, I was a Newcastle supporter as a boy and it has been regurgitated since I was a 22-year-old playing for Norwich and Gillingham,” said Bruce . “For that obvious reason every time I am linked with them. It’s very flattering as I’m a Geordie but that’s it.
So when he celebrated the mackems scoring goals agaisnt us it was just him showing us how he was a toon fan ?
SwissSte
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:51 PM
Comment #33Nobody packing it in is walking away, it’s just that the club is dead and is now Ashley FC, where nothing matters except the advertising. We had something good, a united fan base, a good spine and work ethic in the team built around a local lad, we needed to push on, but alas, none of it matters. This isn’t a sporting institution it’s an advertising tool for a rubbish sports shop.
See you all later, I’m off to pay some much needed attention to the other things in life.
toon22
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:52 PM
Comment #34For all of the hostility directed at him, even his players were shocked by its fury, Bruce is a Geordie. He would, despite the abuse he receives on his return to the ground where he grew up watching football, still love to manage the club he supported as a boy.
“He got a lot of stick when he came off the bus,” Hull’s match winner Sone Aluko said. “It was quite funny, I was coming off behind him, but I didn’t want to laugh too much.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/hull-city/10326704/Hull-City-dancing-to-manager-Steve-Bruces-tune-following-Premier-League-victory-at-Newcastle-United.html
Bobbybee
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:53 PM
Comment #35He’s left Sheffield and on his way here. No turning back now, he’s burnt his bridges and will accept whatever he’s offered. Nowt to do with him being a mackem manager, although it doesn’t help, it’s about him being a Geordie and dissing so many other Geordies. We get round to showing solidarity and a Geordie gets Ashley out of a hole. Not good enough. Back him or not, it won’t matter. We’ll go down anyway. Bruce is simply not good enough.
Belfast
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:53 PM
Comment #36Howdy Mactoon! 🙂
toon kk
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:54 PM
Comment #37Bruce is a championship manager, no more.
Trouble is MA and charnless obviously had no plan b, desperation has stepped in.
ChicoUSA
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:54 PM
Comment #38Bruce hired by Ashley? This is what selling your soul to the devil would look like…
optimistic prime
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:55 PM
Comment #39In honour of our potential new manager I’ve changed my pic, enjoy
optimistic prime
Jul 11, 2019 at 2:55 PM
Comment #40Didn’t work