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Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17460 on: August 18, 2018, 11:02:30 PM »
If we're that rich, wait till the summer, give Howe a blank cheque to come to us. He's in a dead end at Bournemouth however well he does to keep them in the premier. He's already shown he can work on limited funds if FPP is the problem and if he gets us up, bobs yer uncle - A chance to manage a big club with big backers.

Offline b23

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17461 on: August 18, 2018, 11:07:47 PM »
Come into the big boy's playground and I will show you what a betting touch is.  Bearing in mind I am a pants wetter.


Maybe you'd like Remi Garde back again ??

Yes please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Garde#Montreal_Impact



Thanks for the wiki link.


You're very welcome. Garde currently managing in Quebec, Canada.

I'm sure he'll be odds on to replace Bruce.


Offline TheMalandro

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17462 on: August 18, 2018, 11:10:49 PM »
Come into the big boy's playground and I will show you what a betting touch is.  Bearing in mind I am a pants wetter.


Maybe you'd like Remi Garde back again ??

Yes please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Garde#Montreal_Impact



Thanks for the wiki link.


You're very welcome. Garde currently managing in Quebec, Canada.

I'm sure he'll be odds on to replace Bruce.



Quebec is a nice place to live.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17463 on: August 18, 2018, 11:38:10 PM »
the pressure is on now to win the next two games, both at home. 

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17464 on: August 18, 2018, 11:39:47 PM »
I can see Rodgers here soon. 

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17465 on: August 18, 2018, 11:43:17 PM »
We've got 7 points from 9. I doubt Bruce is on the verge of the sack

Offline ktvillan

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17466 on: August 18, 2018, 11:44:40 PM »
We may have made a better start points wise but the problem is we're playing the same as we did the last two seasons, if not worse. We had good runs in both the last two seasons, but we also had  bad runs which cost us.  It wasn't good enough to get us promoted then, and  there's little to suggest it will be good enough this year.  Play-offs, maybe, but I can't see much chance of automatic promotion playing like we are.  It's not a consistently reliable approach, it depends too much on a flash of individual brilliance or invention, which sometimes doesn't happen for a few games at a time.  It also depends on not making many mistakes,  but playing players out of position and signing what appear to be two dodgy keepers is only increasing the errors. There's still very little in terms of tempo, movement, front foot approach or tactics.    Given all that I can't help thinking it's only a matter of time before we hit one or more winless runs.   It does seem odd when we have 7 out of 9 points to be feeling that way, but I do.  And I don't think it matters too much who we sign, the bumbling muddling-through approach will be the same.   Nothing to do with hysteria, it's an opinion based on watching Bruce fail for almost two full seasons.

Offline OzVilla

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17467 on: August 19, 2018, 12:00:59 AM »
I can see Rodgers here soon. 

That would be brilliant.

Online Sexual Ealing

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17468 on: August 19, 2018, 12:05:29 AM »

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17469 on: August 19, 2018, 12:06:01 AM »
I can see Rodgers here soon. 

That would be brilliant.

I'll always associate him with getting absolutely tactically owned at Anfield by Paul Lambert - twice - and then just when you thought it could get no worse, he got his tactical arse handed to him by Tim Sherwood at Wembley.

Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17470 on: August 19, 2018, 12:06:57 AM »
I can see Rodgers here soon. 

That would be brilliant.

I'll always associate him with getting absolutely tactically owned at Anfield by Paul Lambert - twice - and then just when you thought it could get no worse, he got his tactical arse handed to him by Tim Sherwood at Wembley.

hah, yeah. think we've done the old firm manager bit.

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17471 on: August 19, 2018, 12:08:34 AM »
I can see Rodgers here soon. 

That would be brilliant.

I'll always associate him with getting absolutely tactically owned at Anfield by Paul Lambert - twice - and then just when you thought it could get no worse, he got his tactical arse handed to him by Tim Sherwood at Wembley.

hah, yeah. think we've done the old firm manager bit.

I'm being a bit harsh on Brendan, it's just that i wouldn't trust Paul Lambert to figure out the tactics of a game of Connect 4, let alone football, which is why said events stick in the mind.

I wouldn't bet on Sherwood being able to get said Connect 4 game out of the box properly.

Offline sickbeggar

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17472 on: August 19, 2018, 12:16:55 AM »
I personally think Sherwood would get it out the box, although assembling it would probably require some adult supervision


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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17473 on: August 19, 2018, 12:23:31 AM »
I personally think Sherwood would get it out the box, although assembling it would probably require some adult supervision



About 10 minutes in he'd be complaining that he hadn't picked connect4 anyway.

Offline OCD

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #17474 on: August 19, 2018, 12:25:15 AM »
Another interesting poll question would be ‘Do you think Bruce will still be the manager at the end of the season?’. My guess would be no as I think a CEO will put an infrastructure in place, which is needed before changing the manager and then I think they will want their own man.

 


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