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Author Topic: Bruce Sacked at last (now official)  (Read 2400837 times)

Offline adrenachrome

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18480 on: September 01, 2018, 07:26:03 PM »
He is the epitome of the proverbial dead man walking. A Zombie manager.

Offline dl9

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18481 on: September 01, 2018, 07:38:51 PM »
Early days as they are, looking at the foot of the table shows Ipswich and Reading both on 2 points, 50 per cent of their tallies earned against us. If he is still with us when we are live on Sky at home to Blackburn in a couple of weeks time and there’s no improvement then that will have to be time to pull the trigger.

Offline curiousorange

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18482 on: September 01, 2018, 07:40:34 PM »
If that man is not gone by Monday evening then he never will be.

Offline themossman

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18483 on: September 01, 2018, 07:40:45 PM »
It’s all very 2016/17. 13th place here we come.

Online PaulWinch again

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18484 on: September 01, 2018, 07:41:47 PM »
If that man is not gone by Monday evening then he never will be.

Well he will, but he should be gone by Monday.

Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18485 on: September 01, 2018, 07:46:51 PM »
Like in the old days I’d like to hear that an emergency board meeting has been called.

Offline JUAN PABLO

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18486 on: September 01, 2018, 07:48:38 PM »
"One of them horror days".  Fat fucking fraud.  Moaning now about no game for two weeks, a few days after moaning how we've had two games a week.  Get this chancer out of our club.

good point

Offline hilts_coolerking

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18487 on: September 01, 2018, 07:50:38 PM »
I don't think our squad is that great, personally, but I do believe a better manager than Bruce could get a lot more out of them.  So let's get him the fuck in before we leave ourselves too much to do.

Offline QuintonVilla

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18488 on: September 01, 2018, 07:51:01 PM »
"Is there anybody better?" from a bloke who finished below Neil Warnock who had a fraction of his budget.

Offline dl9

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18489 on: September 01, 2018, 07:51:24 PM »
Time to call in our man at Brentford

Offline Brassneck

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18490 on: September 01, 2018, 07:51:51 PM »
Like in the old days I’d like to hear that an emergency board meeting has been called.

Id just like to hear that he's been sacked.

Terry, Henry, anyone is better than Bruce.

The season is salvageable but the longer we stick with Bruce, the more likely it is that we won't have a chance of top 2.  Stick with Bruce and we may be given a stab at the play offs.  Give anyone else a chance and  it is possible to get top 2 with the games remaining.  If they fail then we re-assess next summer.  I can't understand what the "gamble" is?

Offline dicedlam

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18491 on: September 01, 2018, 07:52:38 PM »
I really don't think he has a clue what he's doing. Whether he's lost 'it', knows he's a dead man walking or what, he seems absolutely clueless on how to manage this squad of players and his interviews are just full of utter bullshit designed to hide his own incompetence and failures.

He's spinning bullshit that is solely aimed towards the next poor bastards who may consider employing him.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18492 on: September 01, 2018, 07:52:58 PM »
I don't think our squad is that great, personally, but I do believe a better manager than Bruce could get a lot more out of them.  So let's get him the fuck in before we leave ourselves too much to do.

The defence is iffy thanks to pie boy and his scattergun approach to bringing in players, but the rest of it has far more quality than most of this league. We are, as always under Bruce, less than the sum of our parts.

Offline aj2k77

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18493 on: September 01, 2018, 07:54:36 PM »
Can you just imagine what a total cluster fuck he's going to make of trying to fit in Abraham,Kodjia, McGinn, Grealish, El Ghazi and Bolasie? I dread to think who's going to be crammed in to where just to get his expensive signings game time.

He's an embarassment.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18494 on: September 01, 2018, 07:55:52 PM »
Can any of them play rush goalie?

 


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