Bruce Sacked at last (now official)

[mike]

The minimum I'd expect from this manager and his sidekick Calderwood is a solid defence, and it's shocking and unacceptable that they cannot coach a team in their care to defend (given their playing credentials). We've leaked a bucketload of goals already this season.
Furthermore, the volte-face about a leftback after Bryan's backword is bizarre in the extreme.
Playing 3 of the back 4 out of position is strange; not having a left-footer in that back 4 is stupid; playing an 'alien' back 4 in front of a keeper trying to acclimatise to the division is madness.

For these factors alone, I'd expect him to get the bullet, pronto.

Only QPR have let more in, and half of them were in one game.

[clash city rocker]

At least Lambert only bombed them as far as Star City.  McCormack got deported to Botany Bay.

Good one

[auntiesledd]

Good call The Edge.  Bruce's treatment of Ross McCormack was every bit as bad as any piece of bomb squaddery by Lambert.

Bravo!

[mallo]

He's got to go - it's getting worse and it won't get any better. We're not going to suddenly spring a great defence so that's the end of it. Last season at least we could see matches out with Terry organising things.

[The Edge]

can managers be nice and effective?

Sir Graham Taylor.

[mr underhill]

well reminded thank you

[ChicagoLion]

It's about time we had a journalist do his job and ask Bruce some questions to explain his thinking, instead of being fed bullshit and going along with his stories.

1. What made you persist with Mile Jedinak at center back despite examples during the previous season that he wasn't up to it?
2. After trailing a left back for most of the window why did you decide to do without one and instead play a right back there?
3. What is the thinking behind loaning a younger player and then shunting him out to a position where we already have 4 players that can cover that spot?
4. Do you think going in to the season with a solitary center back in the entire squad is wise? If so why?

I don't want to hear anymore excuses about turmoil in the summer, players at the world cup, players not pulling their boots on, refs, individual errors, luck, losing players from the play off final, John Terry, leaders, anything. I want to hear the fat c*** explain why the defense is a mish mash fuck up of the highest order and looks like conceding every time the opposition step foot in our half and what the reasoning behind those decisions are because to the outsider it looks like he has lost his grip on reality and constructed the most lopsided squad I've ever seen down the Villa.

He's failed massively and deserves the sack.

Well done, I think you might have a point, he has either lost the plot or he has deliberately sabotaged the club.
I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
Ie he has lost the plot.

[brontebilly]

Can’t be long before he ‘loses the dressing room’.

With the pace he is throwing his players under the proverbial bus, it can't be more than a week or two.

[Clampy]

Good call The Edge.  Bruce's treatment of Ross McCormack was every bit as bad as any piece of bomb squaddery by Lambert.

In fairness, no-one really knows what has gone on there and no other team has taken him even on loan over here apart from Forest a while back.

[The Edge]

Can’t be long before he ‘loses the dressing room’.

With the pace he is throwing his players under the proverbial bus, it can't be more than a week or two.

It started with his comments after the Yeovil match where he singled out the young players with his "proper football " twaddle. The man's a twunt.

[Clampy]

can managers be nice and effective?

Sir Graham Taylor.

Brian Little is a nice guy as well and did well for a while.

[Toronto Villa]

can managers be nice and effective?

Sir Graham Taylor.

Brian Little is a nice guy as well and did well for a while.

A bet both were bastards when they needed to be

[sickbeggar]

I never had SGT down as a "nice" manager. Obviously a pleasant good natured character, but i would imagine you wouldn't want to piss him off if you were a player

[Legion]

Tony Barton?

[Diablo]

Can’t be long before he ‘loses the dressing room’.

With the pace he is throwing his players under the proverbial bus, it can't be more than a week or two.

It started with his comments after the Yeovil match where he singled out the young players with his "proper football " twaddle. The man's a twunt.

Since he's been here he's often used that line when talking individually about players from the academy (normally when he loans them out). It could be possible he hasn't the skill set to nurture, develop and manage the younger players breaking into the first team (although Davis, Green and Jack have all come through during his reign - that's a debate right there?). It's a real shame for us he didn't learn more from Alex Ferguson on that front.