Warburton would be good shout. Rangers are a big club with big expectations, and he pulled them back up to the top flight. Did really well in the championship too.Frank De Boer? Has the pedigree if we could get him to come to Villa.
Here's an idea, the owner comes out and says " I've given you the money you requested in January, since the turn of the year you've repaid me with one point, lose on Monday night and bye bye Steve"
Quote from: Chris Harte on February 15, 2017, 08:43:19 AMQuote from: Jimbo on February 15, 2017, 08:39:34 AMNew owner, new managers, new coaching staff, new players, and still shit. This is what makes me think there's more to it than Bruce.What have this season and last got in common (other than a shedload of losses)?Why is Bruce giving off the image of suddenly being a shit manager?I wonder what the new signings are making of things? Do they think they've walked into a basketcase, or do they feel they've arrived and don't have to do it anymore?I know what you mean, and I largely agree with you. It is staggering. We've changed manager several times (sometimes several times in the one season), we've changed owner, we've dropped a fucking division, we've bought some of the best players in that league and STILL there are about 15 or 16 teams above us in the table.We buy Ross McCormack, for example, who has several seasons of being fucking lethal in this division, and he turns up with bitch tits and a shit attitude and gets fobbed off on Nottingham Forest. We buy Hourihane, who looks brilliant for Barnsley, and he promptly disappears. We appoint a promotion specialist as manager, a man whose very name is a by-word for sensible stability, and he looks more and more like he's picking players and formations at random, like he's on speed or something.Brighton are flying high, so we nick one of their best coaches, and pretty much to the day, we turn into an uncoached fucking rabble who look like they've just turned out of the pub for a sunday morning kickabout, such is the lack of organisation.We have a distinctly butter fingered Italian goalkeeper prone to moments of indecision and lapses of concentration, so we get rid of him, and who do we replace him with? Some flappy handed fucking 12 year old on loan from Man United. What's the point in that?I honestly give up. I don't know what to suggest any more. I can't even get any drive or passion up about sacking Bruce. What's the point? We'll just end up where we are, regardless.We are absolutely fucked. I firmly believe we're looking at a Leeds-esque long stay outside the top flight, and by the looks of it, it'll start with a stint in the third division. That'll bring back memories for some, but this time around it's not going to result in the title and European Cup in a dozen or so years time.
Quote from: Jimbo on February 15, 2017, 08:39:34 AMNew owner, new managers, new coaching staff, new players, and still shit. This is what makes me think there's more to it than Bruce.What have this season and last got in common (other than a shedload of losses)?Why is Bruce giving off the image of suddenly being a shit manager?I wonder what the new signings are making of things? Do they think they've walked into a basketcase, or do they feel they've arrived and don't have to do it anymore?
New owner, new managers, new coaching staff, new players, and still shit.
If it were on football results alone I'd be up for binning him but I think the club is such a shambles from years of Lerner neglect that we need Bruce around to help sort everything else out. If we get another inexperienced manager in before the structure's sorted things will get worse rather than better.
Isn't Bruce on a rolling contract so it won't cost that much to bin him if they club decided to?For what it's worth I wouldn't sack Bruce at present, at the same time there's no way he's getting a free pass from me to potentially fuck up next season. It's up to him to prove he's the right man, he isn't currently doing that.
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on February 15, 2017, 11:51:25 AMIsn't Bruce on a rolling contract so it won't cost that much to bin him if they club decided to?For what it's worth I wouldn't sack Bruce at present, at the same time there's no way he's getting a free pass from me to potentially fuck up next season. It's up to him to prove he's the right man, he isn't currently doing that. That's my view as well. I wouldn't sack him yet, but things need to improve sharpish.