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Author Topic: Bruce Sacked at last (now official)  (Read 2411867 times)

Offline john e

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9330 on: December 26, 2017, 10:50:36 PM »
I don't want Dean Smith he's done a good job but he's not for me

I want foriegn because I don't really rate British type managers in general, and ones who at least want to play a passing game (hence the foriegn)

I know we had Garde but he came at the wrong time etc it shouldn't put us of having a go with another
Koeman would do and is available I think

Put the whisky down - we haven’t got a cat in hells chance of getting Koeman

funnily enough I have been drinking Whisky tonight
been round the mother in laws it's the only thing that's gets me through

Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9331 on: December 26, 2017, 10:58:00 PM »
i've been on the whisky for 2 hours and even i'm not pissed enough to think Koeman is gonna come.

Offline The_ads

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9332 on: December 26, 2017, 10:58:40 PM »
I don't want Dean Smith he's done a good job but he's not for me

I want foriegn because I don't really rate British type managers in general, and ones who at least want to play a passing game (hence the foriegn)

I know we had Garde but he came at the wrong time etc it shouldn't put us of having a go with another
Koeman would do and is available I think

Put the whisky down - we haven’t got a cat in hells chance of getting Koeman

Newcastle got Rafa. You never know.

They were also in the Premier League and we are absolutely fucking way off

Offline Chinchilla Bathhouse

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9333 on: December 26, 2017, 11:00:25 PM »
I don't want Dean Smith he's done a good job but he's not for me

I want foriegn because I don't really rate British type managers in general, and ones who at least want to play a passing game (hence the foriegn)

I know we had Garde but he came at the wrong time etc it shouldn't put us of having a go with another
Koeman would do and is available I think

Put the whisky down - we haven’t got a cat in hells chance of getting Koeman

Newcastle got Rafa. You never know.

They were still in the Premier when they got Rafa. He'd never have joined them in the Champo. But when he stayed on there was no doubt at all he'd get them back up. He was always, always going to do that. We need someone of that stature, someone who just isn't going to fail. No fucking idea who that is.

Offline The_ads

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9334 on: December 26, 2017, 11:00:47 PM »
Bet Koeman is sitting in Amsterdam staring at the phone wondering if Aston Villa will ring. Especially after seeing a 2-1 away defeat at Brentford.

Offline john e

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9335 on: December 26, 2017, 11:01:24 PM »
i've been on the whisky for 2 hours and even i'm not pissed enough to think Koeman is gonna come.

What sort (whisky)

Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9336 on: December 26, 2017, 11:02:31 PM »
i've been on the whisky for 2 hours and even i'm not pissed enough to think Koeman is gonna come.

What sort (whisky)

cheap nasty stuff. not wasting good stuff on this

Offline KevinGage

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9337 on: December 26, 2017, 11:02:55 PM »
I’ve been wanting Dean Smith pre Bruce. Get him in now and we have a chance

Is Dean Smith really all that?

I have been impressed with Brentford any time I have seen them (which is usually against us).

But then Shane Long looks world class against us.  Clayton Donaldson looks like Dennis Bergkamp against us.   We are no barometer of quality.

Offline Simon Page

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9338 on: December 26, 2017, 11:05:42 PM »
Terry is in the process of getting his badges, but hasn't got them yet. He posted a picture of himself studying for them a couple of months back.

I think with the right coaches he could do a job. If he manages like he plays he'd not only have some tactical awareness but he'd send the team out believing in themselves. One of my problems with Bruce is in this division we are the biggest fish and Steve Bruce seemingly isn't a big fish manager. Oddly, he'd probably have kept us up when we were heading towards the trap door and an increasingly tiny sprat in the top flight. He'd also probably get us promoted in five years when we are just another faded memory.

Offline Hookeysmith

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9339 on: December 26, 2017, 11:08:55 PM »
I really don't care who just sack this useless bag of bollocks. And do it now


I am sick of being so shit. He has not got a fucking clue

Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9340 on: December 26, 2017, 11:10:32 PM »
You need a strong chairman to bring in real changes. If the club said right, we're giving a guy 3 years to turn it round, and it might not be pretty for this season and next, the majority of us would get behind it i think. Rather than the promotion or bust thing with Bruce. That in turn gets you better choices because managers are more willing to join if they think they have time. Chopping Bruce and getting some new specialist at promotion well...just glad pulis is signed up

Offline Phil from the upper holte

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9341 on: December 26, 2017, 11:12:54 PM »
Why would / should JT be manager ?

Offline john e

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9342 on: December 26, 2017, 11:13:40 PM »
the other good thing for me at the moment is if we do go for a change sometime soon most of the other Bruce clones have already got themselves fixed up

Pulis, Moyes, Alardyce, Warnock, Coleman, so no fears we could be lumbered with more of the same from one of them lookalikes

Offline The_ads

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9343 on: December 26, 2017, 11:14:01 PM »
I really don't care who just sack this useless bag of bollocks. And do it now


I am sick of being so shit. He has not got a fucking clue

Correct

Offline Zouch Villa

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9344 on: December 26, 2017, 11:14:52 PM »
Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce.  Fuck off Bruce. 

....that’s all I have to say on this matter.

 


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