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Author Topic: Bruce Sacked at last (now official)  (Read 2600945 times)

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18375 on: September 01, 2018, 04:15:52 PM »
An actual potato couldn't do any worse.

Offline Three Spires Villa

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18376 on: September 01, 2018, 04:16:24 PM »
Don’t want to be argumentative but, go on defend him, all the pro Bruce, defend him??

Sorry that is argumentative, but I am so bloody 😡

Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18377 on: September 01, 2018, 04:16:55 PM »
An actual potato couldn't do any worse.

Right now an actual potato would be a big step up.

Offline AsTallAsLions

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18378 on: September 01, 2018, 04:21:45 PM »
Oh you have to fucking laugh at this. He farmed out two players on loan that he really shouldn't have because they wanted first team football. They're both sitting on the bench for their new clubs today

Far better there than on our bench, of course.

Online Monty

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18379 on: September 01, 2018, 04:23:38 PM »
Some would say you don't sack him after one defeat. However, this performance has been similar to others we've got away with, and is one which betrays so many Bruce trademarks. The question for anyone is 'how likely is this to sufficiently improve?', and I'm pretty sure of my answer.

Offline martin o`who??

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18380 on: September 01, 2018, 04:30:02 PM »
Has anyone got a ball park figure for how much we’ve payed out to shit managers to get shut of them since the MON debacle??.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18381 on: September 01, 2018, 04:33:30 PM »
Don’t want to be argumentative but, go on defend him, all the pro Bruce, defend him??

Sorry that is argumentative, but I am so bloody 😡

It is our first league defeat of the season.

Although I couldn't help wandering if his entire managerial career is going to end where it started, at Sheffield United.

Offline Bad English

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18382 on: September 01, 2018, 04:34:43 PM »
An actual potato couldn't do any worse.

Right now an actual potato would be a big step up.
We'd smash the Championship.

Online Toronto Villa

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18383 on: September 01, 2018, 04:35:50 PM »
Some would say you don't sack him after one defeat. However, this performance has been similar to others we've got away with, and is one which betrays so many Bruce trademarks. The question for anyone is 'how likely is this to sufficiently improve?', and I'm pretty sure of my answer.

It’s not just the defeat. It’s the fact that we all knew this was coming. The wins at the start were all deceptive to those who didn’t take notice. Those who defend Bruce from afar. His mates in the media for example. We all knew that the bubble such as it was came close to bursting even in those wins. Then came the draws. Now the defeats. It has all been so inevitable.

Online Toronto Villa

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18384 on: September 01, 2018, 04:36:10 PM »
An actual potato couldn't do any worse.

Right now an actual potato would be a big step up.
We'd smash the Championship.

Mash them even

Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18385 on: September 01, 2018, 04:39:15 PM »
An actual potato couldn't do any worse.

Right now an actual potato would be a big step up.
We'd smash the Championship.

We'd certainly chip away at the top 2.

Offline Axl Rose

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18386 on: September 01, 2018, 04:39:42 PM »
A potato would at least be cheap as chips to employ.

Online Monty

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18387 on: September 01, 2018, 04:41:27 PM »
Some would say you don't sack him after one defeat. However, this performance has been similar to others we've got away with, and is one which betrays so many Bruce trademarks. The question for anyone is 'how likely is this to sufficiently improve?', and I'm pretty sure of my answer.

It’s not just the defeat. It’s the fact that we all knew this was coming. The wins at the start were all deceptive to those who didn’t take notice. Those who defend Bruce from afar. His mates in the media for example. We all knew that the bubble such as it was came close to bursting even in those wins. Then came the draws. Now the defeats. It has all been so inevitable.

Yup, this is a performance that's been coming a long time.

Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18388 on: September 01, 2018, 04:42:59 PM »
A potato would at least be cheap as chips to employ.

And the football wouldn't be gratin' to watch.

Offline Axl Rose

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Re: Bruce out?
« Reply #18389 on: September 01, 2018, 04:44:16 PM »
A potato would at least be cheap as chips to employ.

And the football wouldn't be gratin' to watch.

That'd apeel to many.

 


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