Steve Bruce - officially confirmed (as Sheffield Wednesday boss)

[ChicagoLion]

I don’t wish him well Idont wish him anything, I just wish he had not fucked our club up.

Our club was fucked up long before Steve Bruce came along. I'm far from his biggest fan but he was a decent guy who was massively out of his depth.

Sorry I don’t buy the decent guy stuff.

[kippaxvilla2]

Just hilarious if true.

Ian Baker
@ianbakersport
 It appears as if Steve Bruce’s arrival as new #swfc boss has been delayed as he wants to tick off an item on his bucket list: seeing an England cricket test in West Indies (they play in Barbados starting on January 23)

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6:46 AM - Jan 3, 2019

[Damo70]

I would say he is a decent enough guy who, like a lot of managers who have lost their way at a club sounded like a twat in his latter stages at Villa by blaming everyone else and everything else apart from himself for the poor performances and results.

[Ads]

I think his short comings were exposed at the end of the season from March onwards. Our record was very poor in the latter games and whatever the outcome I felt he ought to have been sacked in the summer.

He certainly steadied the ship though.

[ChicagoLion]

Just hilarious if true.

Ian Baker
@ianbakersport
 It appears as if Steve Bruce’s arrival as new #swfc boss has been delayed as he wants to tick off an item on his bucket list: seeing an England cricket test in West Indies (they play in Barbados starting on January 23)

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6:46 AM - Jan 3, 2019

Is that the same bucket he gets his KFC in?

[paul_e]

I don't buy the decent guy thing, never have, he's always been too quick to blame other people for his own failings.

[Mortimer's Bear]

I don’t wish him well Idont wish him anything, I just wish he had not fucked our club up.

Our club was fucked up long before Steve Bruce came along. I'm far from his biggest fan but he was a decent guy who was massively out of his depth.

Sorry I don’t buy the decent guy stuff.

Good for you.

[ChicagoLion]

The idiots here are the Shef Weds board for sanctioning such a thing.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I don't buy the decent guy thing, never have, he's always been too quick to blame other people for his own failings.

Agreed. Add to that being a Man Utd 'legend' and all the self-righteousness bollocks that go with that, I'd rather have a pint with all previous Villa managers, including Lambert than with Bodger Bruce with the possible exception of O'Leary. Bruce by a broken nose wins it.

[ChicagoLion]

I don’t wish him well Idont wish him anything, I just wish he had not fucked our club up.

Our club was fucked up long before Steve Bruce came along. I'm far from his biggest fan but he was a decent guy who was massively out of his depth.

Sorry I don’t buy the decent guy stuff.

Good for you.

Maybe if you dug a bit deeper you would work out why.

[Risso]

I don't buy the decent guy thing, never have, he's always been too quick to blame other people for his own failings.

Nor do I.  Nor the stability thing.  The bloke was an arse who left us on the brink of ruin, with a hugely disjointed squad.

[john e]

that he bought stability is the biggest delusion ever imo

[Mortimer's Bear]

I don’t wish him well Idont wish him anything, I just wish he had not fucked our club up.

Our club was fucked up long before Steve Bruce came along. I'm far from his biggest fan but he was a decent guy who was massively out of his depth.

Sorry I don’t buy the decent guy stuff.

Good for you.

Maybe if you dug a bit deeper you would work out why.

I don't need to. I speak as I find and having had various interactions with him (including a few occasions where my young boy wanted to meet him) I found him to be a decent bloke who made a fuss of my lad and always made time to chat to him about football, school etc.

Crap manager but a decent bloke.

[pooligan]

I have always thought of Bruce as a decent bloke but a manager who has failed to move with the changes the game has made .I  will remember him more than anything  for the awful mess he left our goalkeeping and defence in and for paying a fortune for Hogan,who he had no idea of how to use

[in exile]

Can't we move this thread now?