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Offline ciggiesnbeer

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9675 on: December 30, 2017, 06:42:38 PM »
As an aside, I do wonder how Wyness and Xia will react to being called hysterical. Or whether Bruce even realised what he said could be taken as a pop at them.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9676 on: December 30, 2017, 06:43:19 PM »
I've just watched his comments.

I'm gonna pinch TV's summation. He's such a twat. Good result today. Can't wait to see the back of him.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9677 on: December 30, 2017, 06:45:03 PM »
Post match comments
Bruce: “We’ve got to stop this mass hysteria, otherwise we’re not going to get anywhere.” [av] #avfc

Bruce: “We’ve come up to Boro, kept a clean sheet, played very, very well (?) on the day so I’m delighted. And I hope it shuts a few people up again, because it becomes very, very annoying that we’re just a week from crisis again.” #avfc

And he's completely fucking oblivious to why fans who have much higher expectations than that get massively pissed off with him. He's such a twat. Happy we won today. Cannot wait to see the back of him.



why does he have to mention it like its the fans issue with hysteria ? he makes a rod for his own back

Wasn’t he the one who said we were a week away from crisis?

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9678 on: December 30, 2017, 06:45:21 PM »
I'm yet to get on Bruce's or the team's back, but those comments annoy me. There is no mass hysteria. However, some people aren't satisfied with being sat 7th in the Championship on our budget, knowing full well if we don't go up this season we could be stuck here for years. I don't blame them for that.

If you can't handle the heat get out the kitchen.

Spot on, he needs to fuck off with this shit.

Too right. It’s easy to be the gobshite when we’ve just won and you get the chance to ignore the previous three points from fifteen.

It’s like Gabby scoring his one goal a year and then doing the ear-cupping thing.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9679 on: December 30, 2017, 06:46:50 PM »
As an aside, I do wonder how Wyness and Xia will react to being called hysterical. Or whether Bruce even realised what he said could be taken as a pop at them.

He's a buffoon. Whether you agree with the owner or not in how he communicates and I agree sometimes he is far too revealing, only this week he described it as a "disaster month".

Dear Steve

Apparently Steve your boss, who spent a fortune buying the club wants to see it back in the PL. So, 1 win in 6, sitting 7th in the Championship in January isn't exactly where he wants to be, now is it? Twat.

Sincerely, Hysterical Villa fan

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9680 on: December 30, 2017, 06:46:51 PM »
Post match comments
Bruce: “We’ve got to stop this mass hysteria, otherwise we’re not going to get anywhere.” [av] #avfc

Bruce: “We’ve come up to Boro, kept a clean sheet, played very, very well (?) on the day so I’m delighted. And I hope it shuts a few people up again, because it becomes very, very annoying that we’re just a week from crisis again.” #avfc

And he's completely fucking oblivious to why fans who have much higher expectations than that get massively pissed off with him. He's such a twat. Happy we won today. Cannot wait to see the back of him.



why does he have to mention it like its the fans issue with hysteria ? he makes a rod for his own back

Because he knows hes doing a mediocre to shit job, and is trying to defend that.

Sadly when he admits in the same interview that Elphick, the MOM today, would not have played had the sickness bug not happened yesterday, he basically shows the result was in spite of him, and the hysteria was right, and he is actually a clueless pillock.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9681 on: December 30, 2017, 06:48:21 PM »
Post match comments
Bruce: “We’ve got to stop this mass hysteria, otherwise we’re not going to get anywhere.” [av] #avfc

Bruce: “We’ve come up to Boro, kept a clean sheet, played very, very well (?) on the day so I’m delighted. And I hope it shuts a few people up again, because it becomes very, very annoying that we’re just a week from crisis again.” #avfc

And he's completely fucking oblivious to why fans who have much higher expectations than that get massively pissed off with him. He's such a twat. Happy we won today. Cannot wait to see the back of him.



why does he have to mention it like its the fans issue with hysteria ? he makes a rod for his own back

Wasn’t he the one who said we were a week away from crisis?


but he implies it as a criticism of a club like Villa , then on the hand he then says its the biggest job of his life so surely it comes with the territory 

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9682 on: December 30, 2017, 06:48:51 PM »
Grade A tool, again having a pop at the long suffering support and taking no responsibility for his incredibly poor management.

He wont be manager next season, as if we don't go up he will be (rightly) fired, and if in the unlikely event under Bruce we do go up I can see Xia (rightly) replacing him with a bigger name.

I really hop he gets sacked and replaced before the window closes though. Any half competent manager would get more from this squad.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9683 on: December 30, 2017, 06:49:52 PM »
He’s a profoundly unlikeable bloke. As above, good result today, still can’t wait for him to get the sack.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9684 on: December 30, 2017, 06:50:23 PM »
I'm yet to get on Bruce's or the team's back, but those comments annoy me. There is no mass hysteria. However, some people aren't satisfied with being sat 7th in the Championship on our budget, knowing full well if we don't go up this season we could be stuck here for years. I don't blame them for that.

If you can't handle the heat get out the kitchen.

Spot on, he needs to fuck off with this shit.

Too right. It’s easy to be the gobshite when we’ve just won and you get the chance to ignore the previous three points from fifteen.

It’s like Gabby scoring his one goal a year and then doing the ear-cupping thing.
That was exactly the comparison i was going to go with.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9685 on: December 30, 2017, 06:56:05 PM »
Patronising bollocks. 1 win in 6 is not acceptable Bruce and you get a team playing like it looks like it can win consistently and the noise will go. We are not a team that looks like that at the moment.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9686 on: December 30, 2017, 07:04:56 PM »
On WM a little earlier:

"I'm not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but after 850 games I think I know what I'm doing."

His Eric Black moment.

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9687 on: December 30, 2017, 07:08:36 PM »
On WM a little earlier:

"I'm not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but after 850 games I think I know what I'm doing."

His Eric Black moment.


yes steve the football is great, what were we thinking carry on bundling your way through games and excuses

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9688 on: December 30, 2017, 07:09:19 PM »
After 850 games why aren’t you better?

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Re: Bruce out!
« Reply #9689 on: December 30, 2017, 07:09:25 PM »
I couldn’t give two shites if he has a pop at the fans. You dish it out, you’ve got to be able to take it. I hope he rubs our noses in it at the end of the season and takes us up.

 


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