Bruce Sacked at last (now official)

[mike]

Having always thought that appointing Steve Bruce was an acceptance of mediocrity, I still thought he’d be safe for one more season if we made the playoffs and didn’t get promoted. The scale of this capitulation will finish him. The difficult decision for Tone is the massively unlikely scenario of us getting promoted via the play offs. How could anyone have any confidence of him a league up from here.

[mr underhill]

Cardiff are where they are because the table never lies.

[JUAN PABLO]

Having always thought that appointing Steve Bruce was an acceptance of mediocrity, I still thought he’d be safe for one more season if we made the playoffs and didn’t get promoted. The scale of this capitulation will finish him. The difficult decision for Tone is the massively unlikely scenario of us getting promoted via the play offs. How could anyone have any confidence of him a league up from here.

no chance . He wont be able sign Johnstone , snodgrass and have to sell any assets like kodja . I would not keep Bruce when we need to use more of a young players etc
he will be gone , thank mcgrath and wont do much good neither If he does make it

[nigel]

If we're honest we've blown automatic promotion.

I can't see us missing out on the play offs, but, the last thing we want is to go into our home and away games low on form.
At the moment, not counting Wolves,  Cardiff, Fulham are the two form teams in the top 6 and Millwall are on a great run and could be 'The' team come play off time.

[Three Spires Villa]

Glad we have got the “promotion expert” oh err, hang on!!!

[PeterWithesShin]

It doesn't lie and and it's still March and Cardiff are but a speck in the distance (or maybe they're just really small).

Which shouldn't be acceptable.

[Toronto Villa]

Having always thought that appointing Steve Bruce was an acceptance of mediocrity, I still thought he’d be safe for one more season if we made the playoffs and didn’t get promoted. The scale of this capitulation will finish him. The difficult decision for Tone is the massively unlikely scenario of us getting promoted via the play offs. How could anyone have any confidence of him a league up from here.

I don't think it was an appointment accepting mediocrity. It was made because he has a very good record of getting promoted with much lesser teams and resources. The fact is he has massively underperformed relative to the expectations the board had of him, and certainly, even if you didn't like him as manager, the fans had of him. We could all put up with miserable, grind it out football if we were now sitting first or second. But from the highs of Wolves we are getting worse by the week. The improvement was on Bruce and deserved the credit, what we are now is also on him. Right now I have serious doubts with Fulham being in a playoff spot that we will beat them and go up.

[LukeJames]

We'll probably limp over the line now to be honest. But I'm calling this now, we'll lose the first leg of the play offs 2-0. Get an early goal back at Villa Park before being frustrated for the rest of the first half, second half they'll equalise from a shite scrappy corner, He'll immediately sacrifice the midfield and throw 4 up front while wacking it repeatedly to the fuckers in desperation for 35 minutes, we won't look remotely like scoring.

[Smirker]

In.

Love Big Steve. He will get us to the PL.

[Mossie Hennebry]

What the fuck would we do in the PL anyway? We'd be like the dog chasing the car.

[mike]

Having always thought that appointing Steve Bruce was an acceptance of mediocrity, I still thought he’d be safe for one more season if we made the playoffs and didn’t get promoted. The scale of this capitulation will finish him. The difficult decision for Tone is the massively unlikely scenario of us getting promoted via the play offs. How could anyone have any confidence of him a league up from here.

I don't think it was an appointment accepting mediocrity. It was made because he has a very good record of getting promoted with much lesser teams and resources. The fact is he has massively underperformed relative to the expectations the board had of him, and certainly, even if you didn't like him as manager, the fans had of him. We could all put up with miserable, grind it out football if we were now sitting first or second. But from the highs of Wolves we are getting worse by the week. The improvement was on Bruce and deserved the credit, what we are now is also on him. Right now I have serious doubts with Fulham being in a playoff spot that we will beat them and go up.

The reason I say it was an acceptance of mediocrity is that Bruce has always been a mediocre Premier League manager and there is no way we were ever going to get promoted and then sack him. When we appointed Steve I had naively hoped for someone who would look like they could get us promoted and next year straight into a comfortable top half finish. I suppose I was hoping for another Graham Taylor and I got Steve Bruce. And no, I have no idea who that mythical manager might have been.

[four fornicholl]

Having always thought that appointing Steve Bruce was an acceptance of mediocrity, I still thought he’d be safe for one more season if we made the playoffs and didn’t get promoted. The scale of this capitulation will finish him. The difficult decision for Tone is the massively unlikely scenario of us getting promoted via the play offs. How could anyone have any confidence of him a league up from here.

I don't think it was an appointment accepting mediocrity. It was made because he has a very good record of getting promoted with much lesser teams and resources. The fact is he has massively underperformed relative to the expectations the board had of him, and certainly, even if you didn't like him as manager, the fans had of him. We could all put up with miserable, grind it out football if we were now sitting first or second. But from the highs of Wolves we are getting worse by the week. The improvement was on Bruce and deserved the credit, what we are now is also on him. Right now I have serious doubts with Fulham being in a playoff spot that we will beat them and go up.

The reason I say it was an acceptance of mediocrity is that Bruce has always been a mediocre Premier League manager and there is no way we were ever going to get promoted and then sack him. When we appointed Steve I had naively hoped for someone who would look like they could get us promoted and next year straight into a comfortable top half finish. I suppose I was hoping for another Graham Taylor and I got Steve Bruce. And no, I have no idea who that mythical manager might have been.

Ranieri?

[sickbeggar]

total madness - sacking Bruce now would be monumental folly, and that's from someone who fully expects him not to be here after May

So you don't expect him to be here after May, so presumably you don't think he's gonna get us promoted, and yet you think sacking him now would be folly!? Well that makes a lot of sense.............

[olaftab]

Anyone in favour of sacking him and placing Terry at the helm for play offs?

[sickbeggar]

well put it this way, after the last 3 games i wouldn't blame the club considering it, because play-off winners we aint.