Steve Bruce - officially confirmed (as Sheffield Wednesday boss)

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Dr Tony effectively tweeted this season is WIP for next season

Really Dr Xia? If so what was the point of sacking RDM!

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As he was a buffoon that would have relegated us.

[brian green]

A lazy buffoon.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Bruce needs to decide on his formation and team and keep it the same for a long succession of games. Don't keep messing with it.

(But if it's 5-3-2, that means playing Amavi, Hourihane is left-footed so play him left-sided and by playing 5-3-2 it means you probably won't start with Adomah, who, after Kodjia, looks about the best player we've had going forward (also does his fair share of getting back)).

[Risso]

Bruce needs to decide on his formation and team and keep it the same for a long succession of games. Don't keep messing with it.

(But if it's 5-3-2, that means playing Amavi, Hourihane is left-footed so play him left-sided and by playing 5-3-2 it means you probably won't start with Adomah, who, after Kodjia, looks about the best player we've had going forward (also does his fair share of getting back)).

His comments about 5-3-2 suggest he hasn't got much of a plan and that's he's making it up as he goes along.

What happens to the 5-3-2 the first time that Baker gets one of his many and regular knocks?  It would either have to be abandoned as we don't have any other central defenders, or you have to stick Jedinak there, and his lack of mobility in central defence would be terrifying.

[aj2k77]

He didn't buy any of the players with the idea of playing them as 5-3-2, that has come on after a major panic attack when we got completely fucking destroyed by Brentford. It's ridiculous, another manager shitting himself with no philosophy of how he wanted the team to play and signing a bunch of players then playing them in different positions.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

He didn't buy any of the players with the idea of playing them as 5-3-2, that has come on after a major panic attack when we got completely fucking destroyed by Brentford. It's ridiculous, another manager shitting himself with no philosophy of how he wanted the team to play and signing a bunch of players then playing them in different positions.

Totally agree

he has had plenty of time to assess what we have and the new signings should have been signed with a formation in mind

then stick to that formation and actually coach the players so everyone knows their roles

3 5 2 is nonsense as elphick is shit and baker is due a boot in the face soon so then its back to another formation

bruce needs to start earning his wages and quickly

[Clampy]

He tried something different which didn't come off result wise but we played reasonably well I thought. I hope he tries it again away from home at some point.

[JJ-AV]

I think he probably has had 352 in his mind for a while. He's played it everywhere he's been since Wigan and has just signed 2 wing backs in January.

[Ad@m]

He tried something different which didn't come off result wise but we played reasonably well I thought. I hope he tries it again away from home at some point.

Did you? I thought for the most part it looked like what it was, a bunch of strangers on completely different wavelengths to one another. Epitomised when Grealish dummied a ball during a promising counter attack only to see it roll out of play.

Bruce royally fucked yesterday up. His many errors included playing wing backs but dropping Amavi, playing a right footed central midfielder at left wing back, taking all our strikers off when we were drawing against a pretty shit Forest side, telling the team to sit back - again - and invite pressure on ourselves, etc, etc.

He's got no excuses now as he's spent a fortune. How hard can it be to get a manager in who looks like he's made more of the players at his disposal rather than looking like he creates a team which is less than the sum of its parts.

[Clampy]

He tried something different which didn't come off result wise but we played reasonably well I thought. I hope he tries it again away from home at some point.

Did you? I thought for the most part it looked like what it was, a bunch of strangers on completely different wavelengths to one another. Epitomised when Grealish dummied a ball during a promising counter attack only to see it roll out of play.

Bruce royally fucked yesterday up. His many errors included playing wing backs but dropping Amavi, playing a right footed central midfielder at left wing back, taking all our strikers off when we were drawing against a pretty shit Forest side, telling the team to sit back - again - and invite pressure on ourselves, etc, etc.

He's got no excuses now as he's spent a fortune. How hard can it be to get a manager in who looks like he's made more of the players at his disposal rather than looking like he creates a team which is less than the sum of its parts.

I won't argue about the subs he made, I've no idea what he was thinking but yes, I thought we played pretty well overall.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

How hard can it be to get a manager in who looks like he's made more of the players at his disposal rather than looking like he creates a team which is less than the sum of its parts.

The last time we did it was November 1994.

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I thought we played alright too

There was nothing wrong with the system.

[Virgil Caine]

He tried something different which didn't come off result wise but we played reasonably well I thought. I hope he tries it again away from home at some point.

Did you? I thought for the most part it looked like what it was, a bunch of strangers on completely different wavelengths to one another. Epitomised when Grealish dummied a ball during a promising counter attack only to see it roll out of play.

Bruce royally fucked yesterday up. His many errors included playing wing backs but dropping Amavi, playing a right footed central midfielder at left wing back, taking all our strikers off when we were drawing against a pretty shit Forest side, telling the team to sit back - again - and invite pressure on ourselves, etc, etc.

He's got no excuses now as he's spent a fortune. How hard can it be to get a manager in who looks like he's made more of the players at his disposal rather than looking like he creates a team which is less than the sum of its parts.

I had suggested a 3-5-2 formation in the pre match thread as a cure to being overrun in midfield as we had against Brentford. There is nothing at all wrong with the system as it seems to work ok for Chelsea. However it is your comment regarding a 'bunch of strangers' which is surely meant in irony as the team included 6 new signings. I am confident that the game against Ipswich will show marked improvement.

[frank black]

TONY just tweeted in response to someone saying that there were Bruce out banners at forest. "No more Sh*t rumors "