Quote from: WilliamStanding on October 06, 2020, 10:22:39 PMHe will go down a bottler with Lescott.what did he actually bottle? He had an injury he couldn't recover from. Is that bottling? And we gave him a stupidly long and lucrative contract. Is that his fault too?
He will go down a bottler with Lescott.
Quote from: Toronto Villa on October 21, 2020, 11:25:17 PMQuote from: WilliamStanding on October 06, 2020, 10:22:39 PMHe will go down a bottler with Lescott.what did he actually bottle? He had an injury he couldn't recover from. Is that bottling? And we gave him a stupidly long and lucrative contract. Is that his fault too?Take a trip down memory lane and have a butchers at the Micah thread.
I think a lot of it stems from that episode where he had a go back at the fans who were rightly having a pop at Guzan for pissing about spitting gum.
He comes across well, I just find he's a bit over-exposed by his regular presence both on BBC and Sky.
On the one hand he was given a contract and sat it out bleeding the club dry but you couldn’t blame him. On the other hand he and his fellow so called professionals showed a total disregard for the club for their lack of professionalism towards Garde in particular. The nadir being the FA cup game at Wycombe referred to above.
I agree on Bruce I understand the football wasn’t always great but he certainly made us a club to be taken seriously again. Never quite understand the level of vitriol towards him. The timing of his sacking was correct though.
Quote from: kippaxvilla2 on October 25, 2020, 12:04:02 PMI agree on Bruce I understand the football wasn’t always great but he certainly made us a club to be taken seriously again. Never quite understand the level of vitriol towards him. The timing of his sacking was correct though.I didn't hate Bruce. I just didn't think he was very good and in the end he was talking utter bollocks. But it's not personal. He went through immense personal challenges towards the end. He did stabilize the club, but if we stuck by him we may still be playing Bristol City or Cardiff this season and sitting in the top 6 of the Championship vs the PL.
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