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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5670 on: September 09, 2017, 10:41:09 PM »
I just wish he'd clear his throat before speaking.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5671 on: September 09, 2017, 10:44:40 PM »
I like Dyche.  He's from my new neck of the woods, Kettering.

Hey Risso, I know it well. I live in Weedon.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5672 on: September 09, 2017, 10:48:52 PM »
I like Dyche.  He's from my new neck of the woods, Kettering.

Hey Risso, I know it well. I live in Weedon.

It's nice round there, we looked at a couple of houses in Flore.

Offline four fornicholl

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5673 on: September 09, 2017, 10:51:28 PM »
I just wish he'd clear his throat before speaking.
I just wish he'd fuck off.

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5674 on: September 09, 2017, 10:52:11 PM »
I just wish he'd clear his throat before speaking.
I just wish he'd fuck off.

Plus one.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5675 on: September 09, 2017, 10:55:35 PM »
I just wish he'd clear his throat before speaking.
I just wish he'd fuck off.

Plus one.

Ha ha, PWS was talking about Sean Dyche, but I think we all know what you mean!  I can't see a way back. The longer he's here, the more players he brings in, the worse we get under Bruce. I just hope we are sounding out manager's in the background.

Online Toronto Villa

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5676 on: September 09, 2017, 11:09:33 PM »
I just wish he'd clear his throat before speaking.

I'd take him right now even if hocked a massive throat goblin at screen every time he spoke as long he can do for us what he's done for Burnley.

Offline ciggiesnbeer

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5677 on: September 09, 2017, 11:14:04 PM »
I cant say Burnley's style of play has stuck in my mind. I know Dyche looks like a typical British manager but I maybe misjudging him, how do they play?

Online kippaxvilla2

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5678 on: September 09, 2017, 11:55:08 PM »
“It’s arguably the worst we’ve been since I’ve been here.

“I’ve been here for nine months now but we today we didn’t have any spark.

Hasn't he been here for 11 months? 

Offline andyh

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5679 on: September 10, 2017, 12:04:54 AM »
There seems to have been many 'worst since I have been here' moments.

When is the improvement starting ?

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5680 on: September 10, 2017, 12:07:30 AM »
He seems to say that every bad game. Which is often. He's lost.

Online Toronto Villa

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5681 on: September 10, 2017, 12:17:19 AM »
“It’s arguably the worst we’ve been since I’ve been here.

“I’ve been here for nine months now but we today we didn’t have any spark.

Hasn't he been here for 11 months? 

You would honestly think he's been here a month, had nothing to spend and the fans are being unduly impatient the way he goes on. The fucking moron.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5682 on: September 10, 2017, 12:23:01 AM »
Let it out, TV. Let it out. 3,850 miles to watch that shit? You're more mad than I thought.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5683 on: September 10, 2017, 12:30:21 AM »
Let it out, TV. Let it out. 3,850 miles to watch that shit? You're more mad than I thought.

Like I've always said, I can take defeats. It's sport. It happens. It's just when the performance is utterly abject and devoid of design or energy or passion that kills me. I'm not daft enough to think Bruce was going to ever give us "sexy football", but show me you have an idea, a clue about what you are doing. After 11 months, he hasn't got a fucking clue. And I think I'm more angry because the night before I did travel to Derby and watched a side put together at a fraction of the price dismantle Hull without breaking into a sweat. They played cohesive, organized football constructed by a manager who has been in the job for less time than Bruce has been with us.

Today was slow, tired, effortless, laboured and any number other not so positive descriptive terms you care to use. It was like the players simply couldn't give a shit which maybe the first critical indication that they've given up on the manager.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #5684 on: September 10, 2017, 01:04:34 AM »
I cant say Burnley's style of play has stuck in my mind. I know Dyche looks like a typical British manager but I maybe misjudging him, how do they play?

Generally for his first few years (championship and prem) 4-4-2 with two out and out touchline hugging wingers and big and little man upfront (Vokes + Danny Ings) then they signed Gray.

Morphed a little bit more in the last year to a 4-5-1.

Very rarely signs foreign players. Think Stefan Defour is the only one they signed since promotion although I could be wrong with that. Prefers battle hard brits like Jon Walters, Brady and erm Ashley Westwood.

Remind you of another manager?

 


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