Bruce Sacked at last (now official)

[PaulWinch again]

Just fuck off, nowhere near good enough. He has El Ghazi, Bolasie, Abraham, Grealish, Kodjia and McGinn and he still can’t create a coherent attacking unit. He’s had more than enough opportunity and built nothing.

[PaulWinch again]

Who are the 6 players? Any players we lost were at the end of their contract or loanee’s, so you must have known you’d need to replace them. Just leave Steve.

[wittonwarrior]

If you were to grade Bruce  on performance then  it would be border line but nothing  more.  He came in at a difficult time after a number of players were recruited by De Matteo.  He organised us, along with the powers to be gambled on experienced players who proved just not enough to get us promoted (a number of reasons - but one of them lack of legs).  He has never been able to successfully sort out the full back positions - never mind the cult status  Hutton has achieved he is bang average even at Championship level.  In short has stablished us but nothing more. 

He has now made one or two glaring errors - namely the defence and lack of decent cover, bought in 2 good wide players but has no idea as to tactics to help nurture their ability and looks to have a squad which is not 100% motivated - definitely missing a leader.

We definitely need freshening up - I have no idea as to a good replacement  but we need to do  something.  The fact we are not moving forward is of concern.

[ez]

We don't look like promotion contenders. As it is we won't even be 'there or there abouts'.

[Three Spires Villa]

We huff and we puff but we never blow the house down. Today sums his management up, not good enough, I just wish he would leave

[eamonn]

The ''half me team are on-loan, it takes time to be cohesive but you don't get time'' argument falls down when you consider the fact that all our loans have come from premium clubs - those playing at a higher level who every other Championship club would love to have the resources to sign-up for a year.

Instead, those other teams instead have to shop around at Championship or lower-league level and try and improve those new players in a system that brings out the best in them(and It's not like the churn-rate at other clubs is much different to ours every summer especially when a new manager comes in and wants to bring in new players he's worked with before).
Bruce wouldn't have the first idea on how to try that approach because his main positive attribute is his motivational prowess yet judging by how many of our players are consistently under-performing, that seems very much on the wane too.

He's also loaned-out a similar amount of players - if he'd bothered his arse getting them used to a style of playing and coached them over the period of 23 months that he's been here instead of leaving them to rot and look to get a game elsewhere, maybe we'd look a bit more like a team now.

[PaulWinch again]

Can’t get a tune out of the best attacking squad in the league, for that alone he must go.

[Ian.]

He’s just got to go. Ridiculous comments week in week out. Shaming players, bemoaning the fact he has resources to actually build,  ever his fault. Come on Steve, your not up to it, admit it and fuck off.

[PeterWithesShin]

Strange how when he's complaining about the poor decision for the pen there's never any mention of the decision right before that that was just as bad and we benefited from.

Bruce Sky post-match

OS post match interview https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1041041252320456704

[Drummond]

Goodman providing more excuses.

Just fuck off Bruce. No more excuses. It's your fault and 6 without a win is shite for a club like us.

[frank black]

Bruce looked like a man on borrowed time.

[robleflaneur]

Returning from the beach in the Greek Islands,I was aghast at the negativity of his team selection.I still thought that they had enough to beat a moderate Blackburn.
If you look at the resources that are at his disposal in comparison to other Championships,it exceeds the excesses of early Chelski and latterday Citeh in relation to other PL clubs.
An England striker on loan,3 other £10m strikers as back up,a Dutch international winger,a £20m winger,another wide player being last season's leading scorer.A £25m rated midfielder,accompanied by  a Scottish international midfielder.Add to the mix 3 players who were at the WC.A £10m rated defender,an expensive international keeper,a £5m left back.A very experienced former Scottish international full back.An expensive young player with experience at this level.An England U20 centre back on loan.One of Forest's better players .A promising bunch of home grown talent.And our last minute rescuer was a player we had to beat off opposition from Leeds,who is only good enough for the bench.
How can you not get that lot promoted ?
Spelling mistakes due to Ouzo.

[Pete3206]

OUT!

[sickbeggar]

Noticed he really didn't want to talk about Axel playing centre half I suppose when you've had to make a reverse like that after insisting he was a right-back it can't be easy

[manic-road]

Bruce looked like a man on borrowed time.

He did he looked beaten.