Bruce Sacked at last (now official)

[SheffieldVillain]

I think under the current circumstances, Wyness suspended and financial uncertainty around the club as a whole,  we are going to find it difficult to attract the type of manager we hope for. I think those wider issues need to be dealt with before decisions are made on the manager.

Look at it another way though. Perhaps in the current circumstances it will force us to be a bit more creative in the type of manager we hope for and to look a bit further afield.

I can't accept that there's no good candidate out there who even in our current state wouldn't fancy a go at turning it around. They might not be a household name, so what?

[ktvillan]

I reckon Dean Smith would give it a try.  He could always go back to making smaller clubs punch above their weight if it didn't work out. 

Why people link Bruce with stability is beyond me.  He is at least in part responsible for the financial instability we face,  not to mention squad instability with many of our first team regulars from last season being expensive loanees who will have to leave, players out of contract who won't be renewed, and other the more talented players who will probably need to be  sold.   How on earth does Bruce's shit or bust MO lend itself to stability?  Continuity does not equal stability.  If it did then we may as well have kept Lambert as well as Lerner and the other American idiot in charge.

[Clampy]

I think under the current circumstances, Wyness suspended and financial uncertainty around the club as a whole,  we are going to find it difficult to attract the type of manager we hope for. I think those wider issues need to be dealt with before decisions are made on the manager.

That's my view too. After the final, I was happy to see him go and let someone else have a crack at it but in the current circumstances, I think it's best we stick with him for now.

[PeterWithe]

I’d imagine Bruce is one of the highest earners at the club and for that reason alone I’d guess he’ll be out.

[SheffieldVillain]

I’d imagine Bruce is one of the highest earners at the club and for that reason alone I’d guess he’ll be out.

Even if he stays, they'll surely tell him he has to reduce his staff. Does he really need Agnew, Calderwood and Clemence?

As an aside, I saw yesterday the fitness coach - Marchese(?) and Tony Coton (Head of Domestic Scouting) have both left so the clearout has obviously started.

[PeterWithe]

That’s good news, we’ve tried having the players fit and it didn’t work, we used to win stuff when the players had 10 pints of Mild and a packet of woodbines before the game.

[sickbeggar]

Seems strange that if Bruce doesn't know what's happening. You don't stop chopping his staff unless its on his say-so or he's not going to be there to use them...............

[john e]

Bruce has been with us for nearly two seasons and we are less stable now than we have been in my lifetime supporting Villa
and people want to keep him in because he will bring stability

you couldn't make this shit up

[Chris Smith]

Bruce has been with us for nearly two seasons and we are less stable now than we have been in my lifetime supporting Villa
and people want to keep him in because he will bring stability

you couldn't make this shit up

In that case you can only be 2 years old.

[Steve67]

I reckon Dean Smith would give it a try.  He could always go back to making smaller clubs punch above their weight if it didn't work out. 

Why people link Bruce with stability is beyond me.  He is at least in part responsible for the financial instability we face,  not to mention squad instability with many of our first team regulars from last season being expensive loanees who will have to leave, players out of contract who won't be renewed, and other the more talented players who will probably need to be  sold.   How on earth does Bruce's shit or bust MO lend itself to stability?  Continuity does not equal stability.  If it did then we may as well have kept Lambert as well as Lerner and the other American idiot in charge.

I think you may be right about the 'stability' word.  It's the wrong word to use.  Continuity is probably a better word to use.  Bruce has made us unstable, or certainly helped to.

[JUAN PABLO]

Bruce's "stability" has played its part in the dire circumstances we now find ourselves in.

He went all MON as well with the bloody right backs

[JUAN PABLO]

Do you mean by offering players lucrative contracts?  That's not his fault - Every manager would do that.  It's for others to determine whether the wages suggested are sustainable or even affordable.

Is wasting £12m on Hogan and Lansbury his fault? Buying more right backs when we already had a squad of them?  Or it for others to determine which players we buy as well?

Logically, no need to argue on this. You’re absolutely right. Hogan and Lansbury are poor judgement by the manager, and the other poster is right that the contract issue isn’t.

Taylor was a wank signing too and the times SB played players out of their best position .  I couldnt understand the Lambert subs neither , bring on all your strikers but nobody to feed them the ball . SB was a massive failure  with the money and squad he had.

[Steve67]

I presume that Bruce will be back off his jollies next week and things might start to happen.  This wall of silence is very frustrating.  One shit tweet and a poxy, half arsed statement is all we've had over the last couple of weeks. 

[Clampy]

I reckon Dean Smith would give it a try.  He could always go back to making smaller clubs punch above their weight if it didn't work out. 

That's would be all well and good for him but where would that leave us again?

[SheffieldVillain]

I presume that Bruce will be back off his jollies next week and things might start to happen.  This wall of silence is very frustrating.  One shit tweet and a poxy, half arsed statement is all we've had over the last couple of weeks. 

Didn't I read somewhere he was meeting the board on Monday or have I imagined that?