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Offline Rudy65

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17670 on: August 25, 2018, 12:53:09 PM »


Great bit of info. Thanks

If you think back to all the ‘great / good’ managers we have had, they all have win ratios in the mid 40’s.  Bruce has similar albeit with great resources in a lower league than most

Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17671 on: August 25, 2018, 01:23:23 PM »
well that's the problem with stats. If nearly everyone else you're comparing him with was managing at a much higher level it doesn't prove anything except its easier in the Championship

Offline GarTomas

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17672 on: August 25, 2018, 01:30:26 PM »
He compares well against MON in terms of money invested relative to the level.  That’s about it.

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17673 on: August 25, 2018, 03:50:28 PM »
With huge resources in a lower division.
The Bruce stats prove fuck all.

Offline GarTomas

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17674 on: August 25, 2018, 04:01:38 PM »
With huge resources in a lower division.
The Bruce stats prove fuck all.

That was kind of my point!!

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17675 on: August 25, 2018, 04:05:29 PM »
With huge resources in a lower division.
The Bruce stats prove fuck all.

That was kind of my point!!
I know mate, just backing you up ;)

Offline gpbarr

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17676 on: August 25, 2018, 04:54:19 PM »
The new owners need to get a grip and fast, else their investment will end in yet another season in the Championship. Today was just another classic Bruce tutorial - absolute shit.

We are going to get lit up by SUFC next week.

Online PaulWinch again

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17677 on: August 25, 2018, 04:55:01 PM »
Fuck off Steve.

Online PaulWinch again

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17678 on: August 25, 2018, 04:56:48 PM »
We’re already dropping too many points through draws. Reading are dire.

Offline Ad@m

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17679 on: August 25, 2018, 04:58:39 PM »
Bottom of the league at home and we finish the game without a striker on the pitch.

Fuck off Bruce.

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17680 on: August 25, 2018, 05:00:37 PM »
Nothing has changed, the performances are random, they may win lose or draw.
There is no pattern of play, no style no evidence of coaching or strategy, no idea who to play or often where to play them.
The bloke is out of his depth and we will tread water until he has gone.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17681 on: August 25, 2018, 05:00:52 PM »
2 points against bottom and second bottom, a million miles away from acceptable.

Offline Boz

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17682 on: August 25, 2018, 05:01:35 PM »
Once again, one decent performance followed by a return to Bruce's usual rubbish. He's got to go, draws at home against teams like Reading say it all about Bruce's football philosophy.

New owners, pull the trigger before we drift down the table.

Offline Axl Rose

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17683 on: August 25, 2018, 05:01:58 PM »
There isn't enough intensity in a Bruce team.

It's as if the players are bored to death of him.

Oh wait...

Still an out vote from me, as it always has been and always will be.

Not the man for the job.

Thankfully we aren't owned by people like Bruce reading from the Sumerian Cuneiform script, anymore.

He'll be gone if he carries on.

Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17684 on: August 25, 2018, 05:02:45 PM »
3 points from 9. The new owners dropped a massive bollock keeping him on. Now we're stuck with him. >:(

 


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