Christian Purslow - Resigned

[ktvillan]

I think it's in arguable that we're better than we first came in and were very close to being a promotion winning side last season.

I'm surprised that distortion has met with universal approval.

I think you can acknowledge the above facts and still think his time is up.

Look at the match and post match threads of the Sheffield United game.  Quite a few comparisons to RDM's Preston game away, including from people who were there.  I don't call that progress or improvement, whatever may have happened in between. 

[ktvillan]

Any long term planning must start with the present. Firstly you define the periods for short, medium and long term. You then work on a sliding scale of how much of the long term starts now up to your full long term strategy at the end of the transition period. I have not seen one thing since Bruce came here that contributes to a long term sustainable and successful result .

We have to start now. You cannot put it off as you will never get to your ultimate aim.  The view of getting rid of Bruce when we get promoted is just fantasy. If we haven't got the b**** to get rid of him now, we have got no hope of somebody doing it after a successful promotion. It would only happen after a slide back down.

To be fair to the club the so-called Villa Engine was at least an attempt at such an approach, but it was in spite of Bruce not because of him.  The problem is they saw fit to place at the top of the pyramid a useless lump who wouldn't know what to do with any talented youngsters brought up to play good football via such a system. So it all seemed a little bit pointless. 

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I think it's in arguable that we're better than we first came in and were very close to being a promotion winning side last season.

I'm surprised that distortion has met with universal approval.

I think you can acknowledge the above facts and still think his time is up.

Look at the match and post match threads of the Sheffield United game.  Quite a few comparisons to RDM's Preston game away, including from people who were there.  I don't call that progress or improvement, whatever may have happened in between. 

I don't need to read them, I was there. It was very poor. I've seen a few very poor performances; Brentford away for example. I felt disconsolate after that such was the abject display and then we win 7 in a row.

We're certainly a much better side since October 2016.

[ktvillan]

I don't need to read them, I was there. It was very poor. I've seen a few very poor performances; Brentford away for example. I felt disconsolate after that such was the abject display and then we win 7 in a row.

We're certainly a much better side since October 2016.

The performance was just as abject as two years ago.  If it was unexpected, I'd maybe agree with you.  Bur every man and his blind dog could see it coming.  We may have been better last season, but that was last season when we had a defence and a lot of different players. 

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Norwich away in December 2016
Leeds away
Brentford away twice
Blackburn away
Wolves away
Derby away
Sheffield United away

There's been a number of incredibly insipid performances amidst some gems and some more routine work.

If only our away form was as breezy and relative straight forward as our home form, as invariably when we're mince, we're mince on our travels.

[ktvillan]

Don't you think that after almost two years and the best squad in the league to work with we should not be having displays like the one in Sheffield at all, or anything close to it?  We look to have gone backwards since last season.  Some of Bruce's bad runs aren't far off what got RDM sacked.  We're potentially in one now.  Where's the improvement?

[tomd2103]

Don't you think that after almost two years and the best squad in the league to work with we should not be having displays like the one in Sheffield at all, or anything close to it?  We look to have gone backwards since last season.  Some of Bruce's bad runs aren't far off what got RDM sacked.  We're potentially in one now.  Where's the improvement?

Have to agree.  No matter how well we are doing, you feel that a terrible performance and result is just round the corner.  I still think our good performances in the second half of last season were due to being relatively stable defensively and heavily reliant on the quality of Grealish and to some extent Snodgrass.  We aren't a as strong defensively as we were last season, Jack hasn't quite hit the heights of last season just yet and Snodgrass isn't here.   

[Risso]

Well, I hope that Purslow has had a good two weeks getting his feet under the table.  Time to start getting this club back where it belongs.

[eamonn]

He was at the U23's game against Stoke yesterday and said hello to a fan. Is that a start?

[The Moose]

Do your job, Christian - sack Bruce. Thank you.

[Sexual Ealing]

I think the fact that he's so new will buy Bruce some time. He might not want to appear to be a hatchet man so soon, particularly if he drinks from the river of Proper Football Men, who will have told him how much of a Proper Football Man Bruce is. Didn't he replace Benitez with Hodgson?

Edit: he did. And then replaced him with Dalglish. Hmmmn.

[Matt Collins]

He was at the U23's game against Stoke yesterday and said hello to a fan. Is that a start?

Christ he seems to be some kind of bad luck mascot

[HK Villan]

I've been thinking for a while that losing the playoff and the consequences of that, i.e. new ownership, will be a blessing in the medium to longer term, but it's surely as clear as day we need a new progressive manager.

[pauliewalnuts]

My concern is that we'd sack Bruce and then replace him with yet another manager who is just a continuation of the old school.

The Hodgson / Allardyce / Moyes style (I am not suggesting we'd get any of those, I am referring to their type).

I'm so sick of watching the inevitable result of that sort of appointment. We need to completely start again.

[john e]

My concern is that we'd sack Bruce and then replace him with yet another manager who is just a continuation of the old school.

The Hodgson / Allardyce / Moyes style (I am not suggesting we'd get any of those, I am referring to their type).

I'm so sick of watching the inevitable result of that sort of appointment. We need to completely start again.

this was my big fear when Wyness was here
I have more hope now with the new owners

Purslow's track record of replacing managers whilst at Liverpool doesn't fill me with great hope
but I hope he will have to carry out the wishes of the owners and i am making a big assumption that they will go the same way as player signings,
ie young with potential for the longer term