Quote from: ClaretAndBlueBlood on February 20, 2017, 11:04:40 AMI worry about us for next season. My impression, and I haven't researched stats to back this up so it may be wrong, is that teams seem to get worse the longer that Bruce remains with them. I worry about his recruitment so I'm not that confident that he will be able to turn it round and get us in the mix for promotion next season.A glaring hole for me is that he has just gone out and bought to strengthen the midfield but has left us light up front. And amongst the midfielders he has bought, he didn't get anyone as backup for the Jedi when he had already been struggling with fitness and there must be doubts about his ability to play 3 games a weekI wasn't keen on him being appointed our manager in the first place because he is very much more of the same and I thought it was a good opportunity to go for a new approach. But once he was appointed then I thought maybe as a short term fix to get us back up. Now I am doubting that I thought it was STEVE round and scouting team identifying and recruiting with Keith wyness with lesser involvement from Bruce ?
I worry about us for next season. My impression, and I haven't researched stats to back this up so it may be wrong, is that teams seem to get worse the longer that Bruce remains with them. I worry about his recruitment so I'm not that confident that he will be able to turn it round and get us in the mix for promotion next season.A glaring hole for me is that he has just gone out and bought to strengthen the midfield but has left us light up front. And amongst the midfielders he has bought, he didn't get anyone as backup for the Jedi when he had already been struggling with fitness and there must be doubts about his ability to play 3 games a weekI wasn't keen on him being appointed our manager in the first place because he is very much more of the same and I thought it was a good opportunity to go for a new approach. But once he was appointed then I thought maybe as a short term fix to get us back up. Now I am doubting that
I'm still holding my nerve in the Bruce stays camp but he is making it so hard to do it...the scenario that we lose the next 2 home games would pretty much make it untenable for me...he desperately needs to find 4 points as a minimum then follow it up with 3pts at Rotherham to release that pressure that is building.Putting the calamitous errors to one side for a minute I think last night showed the extent of the task quite openly...we were playing ok, getting a decent pressure on the opposition when they had the ball but the moment we wanted to go forward with a bit of pace we looked like strangers who had to pause before identifying an option to pass to. Hopefully that will improve with time but we are scarily pedestrian with the ball which makes us easy to play against. Would sacking Bruce improve this overnight? I can't see it would. Can see why some would see it as a fair roll of the dice with the current run though.Will Bruce be able to put together a fit & dynamic, attacking team for the start of next season? I hoped that would be the case when he took over, every defeat is sapping at that hope.i still really, really hope he succeeds but the next 10 days are huge.
Bruce needs time to work it through with this squad and another transfer window and pre-season, I hope he gets it.
Quote from: OzVilla on February 21, 2017, 11:57:21 AMBruce needs time to work it through with this squad and another transfer window and pre-season, I hope he gets it. An absolute horrible thought, what have you seen that makes you want to see more of this?
Quote from: Dazvillain on February 20, 2017, 10:43:03 PMQuote from: ClaretAndBlueBlood on February 20, 2017, 11:04:40 AMI worry about us for next season. My impression, and I haven't researched stats to back this up so it may be wrong, is that teams seem to get worse the longer that Bruce remains with them. I worry about his recruitment so I'm not that confident that he will be able to turn it round and get us in the mix for promotion next season.A glaring hole for me is that he has just gone out and bought to strengthen the midfield but has left us light up front. And amongst the midfielders he has bought, he didn't get anyone as backup for the Jedi when he had already been struggling with fitness and there must be doubts about his ability to play 3 games a weekI wasn't keen on him being appointed our manager in the first place because he is very much more of the same and I thought it was a good opportunity to go for a new approach. But once he was appointed then I thought maybe as a short term fix to get us back up. Now I am doubting that I thought it was STEVE round and scouting team identifying and recruiting with Keith wyness with lesser involvement from Bruce ?which brings me back to a point I made on the Steve Round thread when he was appointed. Why do people think he is qualified to be a director of football when up to now, the most important job he has done is been Moyes' assistant