I was typing on my phone but the context you gave was about the summer, when RDM was the manager not Bruce and yet after 10 games you were posting that RDM needed to be sacked. So I ask again why didn't he get to use the excuse that you are now using to Bruce?On this you're contradicting yourself almost as much as you do on the match threads where post Barnesley, Ipswich and Forest we'd created loads of chances and deserved something but when we win it doesn't matter how shit we are.What I don't understand is why you think Bruce deserves this commitment from you. Clampy has been very supportive of him as well but he will at least offer criticism where it's warranted without qualification, you can't say anything bad about him without having a excuse ready to go and it's just odd.
The win has bought him the rest of this season.Unless he can get this team playing in a way that suggests he can get promotion next season then he should be gone.
Quote from: paul_e on February 26, 2017, 12:42:28 PMI was typing on my phone but the context you gave was about the summer, when RDM was the manager not Bruce and yet after 10 games you were posting that RDM needed to be sacked. So I ask again why didn't he get to use the excuse that you are now using to Bruce?On this you're contradicting yourself almost as much as you do on the match threads where post Barnesley, Ipswich and Forest we'd created loads of chances and deserved something but when we win it doesn't matter how shit we are.What I don't understand is why you think Bruce deserves this commitment from you. Clampy has been very supportive of him as well but he will at least offer criticism where it's warranted without qualification, you can't say anything bad about him without having a excuse ready to go and it's just odd.Sacking two managers in a season still with a dozen games left to play smacks of a club in total disarray. We just do not need yet another massive upheaval. Every opportunity should be afforded to Bruce to do what he had demonstrated previously that he is good at. Perhaps RDM might have been allowed more time, although I am unconvinced by the arguments, but it has gone now so is not particularly relevant.
You only stick with somebody if you're confident they'll turn it around. I am with Bruce, I wasn't with RDM. It's simple.As to worst candidate, McLiesh was easily the stupidest decision ever taken in the clubs history.
Quote from: ChicagoLion on February 26, 2017, 12:40:32 PMThe win has bought him the rest of this season.Unless he can get this team playing in a way that suggests he can get promotion next season then he should be gone.We are hardly out of danger just yet?Beat Bristol I guess and we should be ok.Agreed on your second point, doubt we have put two consistent performances (good ones!) under Bruce as of yet.
so the choice is do we continue with the policy that's seen us have seven permenant (and several caretakers)managers in seven years and end up in the second tier of English football or do we try something we haven't tried for a while? A touch of stability. I'm not sure how many transfer windows each manager has had since MON left however getting a team doesn't take one window, instead two or three no matter who you are. Who is bought may not settle in on day one. That doesn't make them a bad buy however a good way of unsettling them and almost guarantee us not seeing them realise their potential is to change the manager who bought them. Changing managers also allows the likes of gabby and Grealish to get away with what they want ... wait six months and a new manager will give them their chance again. I wonder if the attitude change of gabby is that he's been informed by the new regime above Bruce this is it, he's stayed me for at least a couple of years. I'm no real fan of Bruce, his football is turgid and functional from what I've seen. However we are where we are, hopefully the good Dr has got his back room staff right. To change Bruce before he's had the real opportunity to prove he can change the team seems wrong to me at this stage. Quick fixes haven't worked in the recent past and are unlikely to work in the future as far as I see...we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them ... I'm with Einstein on that one What is clear that we have been a basket case since Learner got bored with us and I am hopeful the new regime can get us going forward and back to where we should be.