Bruce Sacked at last (now official)

[sickbeggar]

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.

Even if we go up i hope that's a no. It's about building for the future and you're not going to permanently secure premiership football on Bruceball however much money you throw at it

[robleflaneur]

If we don't think Bruce is the answer ,why persevere with him ?
At least make the first step by appointing a caretaker,Agnew or Calderwood,who might improve us with more freedom for tactics and team selection .
How much longer do we have to suffer this clueless man who talks of it being more difficult to play against 10 than 11 ? If only we had been playing against 12 .

[adrenachrome]

...we might be top proper, depending on how Leeds fair

The season is going to be a right merry-go-round, that's for sure.

Ok?

Fun fair metaphor would be my guess. In which case BE might have chosen one of those demented rides in Las Vegas.

What goes in Vegas stays in Vegas.

[tomd2103]

I like the guy and naturally want him and everyone at the club to do well, but like some of his predecessors, he just doesn't help himself sometimes with his comments after blatantly poor performances.  The pearl of wisdom today was that "it was always going to be hard coming here with a new manager and ten new players coming in".  You just know if the shoe was on the foot he would be saying "well it's tough as I've only just come in and we've brought ten new players to the club"!!

[ozzjim]

If a decent CEO comes in that knows football there is no way Bruce makes May. We have good players for this division, but no style, playing many out of position and he seems oblivious to the actual issues and just wants to loan a couple of big name forwards to paper over the cracks. He's into his 3rd season and it is still a horribly slow, unbalanced team.

[brian green]

Agree with that oz.  Would add "disfunctional" to your last sentence.  There is something wilful about the way the players make the same mistakes over and over again.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes ultimately Bruce appears unable to break out beyond his limitations and that will be his downfall. He is a manager whose first thought is one of fear, he constantly has a tactical handbrake on the team.

[Dante Lavelli]

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.

I hope you're right (in a way).

My biggest gripe with Bruce is that his only plus point is his experience at getting clubs promoted.  Beyond that there's no definable footballing style, he is not known for building a youth structure, developing youngsters, improving players and/or scouting networks.  Even if he does get us promoted he is widely considered to be out of his depth in the Premier League. 

It's a house of cards and if he fails at his one 'skill' then the whole club will more backwards far more than if a manager was in place who works on more than one facet of the club. 

[GarTomas]

He is just not up to the task, it's his third season and we still do not have any discernible way of playing. He has taken all the pace out of the team and moans he has to re-build this season because last years loan players have left ... no shit Sherlock try building something in the first place rather than rely on using other clubs players. His constant playing players out of position is just inexcusable. Yes he may get us promoted with grinding out results but I would not trust him to keep us up.

Wednesday will be the first test against a decent side, watch how Dean Smith has them playing on a fraction of our budget. Front foot, attacking football with nice passing and movement off the ball so the player with the ball has options..... its called coaching. I would take him as our manager in a heartbeat. We have the players to be a very good footballing side, lets get someone in who can unlock that.

No it’s not Dean Smith it’s the boffins signing the right players for him.  Nothing to do with actual coaching and strategy....

[The_ads]

Rodgers all day long

[Ads]

If we sack Bruce today, get Smith in tomorrow, I can start the Smith out thread before I hit the Snake Pass.

[ez]

Yes he's got off to the good start he needed. As per last season I expect Bruce will do enough to not get the sack in which case he'll be here for the season.

[Matt Collins]

We've got a horrible looking run in mid season. If we go into that spell with this squad and playing like this, Bruce will be in trouble

But there's obviously a good chance to bring in 2-3 and get us playing better

We're far from the only team that isn't motoring and leeds' motor is likely to blow up in around January

[clash city rocker]

The tactics of Bruce are the same as a lot of premiership managers in that it's all about not loosing. The trouble with that is you then miss so many golden opportunities to win games. However the premiership managers of that ilk do have one thing going for them that Bruce doesn't. Few of them try to hammer square pegs into round holes.

[tomd2103]

The tactics of Bruce are the same as a lot of premiership managers in that it's all about not loosing. The trouble with that is you then miss so many golden opportunities to win games. However the premiership managers of that ilk do have one thing going for them that Bruce doesn't. Few of them try to hammer square pegs into round holes.

Those tactics are understandable if the sole aim is to simply survive in a division.  Our aim is to win or come very close to winning the division we are in, meaning that we are going to have to win a lot of games to achieve that.  It's a totally different mindset.