Villa Park Redevelopment

[Hopadop]

so off potato head for a minute,  is the Trinity capacity increasing next season ?

You mean The Steve Bruce Stand?

[PeterWithesShin]

Cabbage Stand

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

Remember how eyeball-bleedingly shit the football was to watch?

It was absolutely as bad as McLeish days, utter garbage. Bruce - like McLeish - both came across as decent types, but their idea of 'tactics' was to slap the lads on the back and egg them on as they ran out, then hope for the best.

I remember having had enough of the football after about 6 months. I turned to a mate and said 'I have no idea what we're trying to do'. I probably shouldn't have thought about it too much, I don't think he did.

[eamonn]

Di Matteo's win rate was 8% or something daft. Extrapolate that over a season and you're going down.

We kept conceding late equalisers. That would have turned round. Robbie won the CL as a manager, Arsenal have never done that.

[Toronto Villa]

What Bruce said on TS was fine until he put David Moyes in the same managerial category as Unai. Twat.

[TonyD]

Let’s keep the topic on thread.
Bruce was less of a chancer than carpet head. 

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

I mean, that's just whataboutery. I doubt anyone would argue otherwise.

[Rory]

I don't care what anybody says, Bruce did stabilise us.

Yes, only as a Playoff-chasing Championship team, but that's better than what went before!

As others have said, we were in freefall.

Nobody knew how well Deano would do. Nobody knew that within a decade we'd be winning a major trophy and qualifying for the Champions League.

But a modicum of respect is owed, because another appointment like Lambert, Garde, Di Matteo and we wouldn't be where we are now.

[cdbearsfan]

Yes.

[FatSam]

Bruce was certainly a better appointment for where we were than Di Matteo. I’d be surprised if anyone who was at Reading away would think he should be disrespected with a cabbage statue. His signings were predominantly positive, not scattergun. He was dealing with the mess created by Di Matteo and Xia.