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.
Bruce didn’t stabilize us at
We spent more money than anyone has ever done in the championship and he turned us into the archetypal championship team
Absolutely shocking Football shocking manager where did we finish 13th or something and you call that stabilization I call it the most abysmal time to be a Villa fan watching that shit every week
Don’t think I enjoyed one second of his tenure because I knew where it was going and where it was ending in total and abject failure
I don’t think I’ve ever been more depressed as a Villa fan than when Bruce was in charge because in my mind there was never any hope while he was there
Stabilized us my arse
Don't know winning 4 in 51 before he came in was pretty depressing tbh.
As has been said he did stabilise us, nothing he did was ground breaking but after the young and hungry experiments, and the skater gun approach to throwing money at players like McCormack we just needed someone to come in and do something simple. For me he came in at the right time and had we not been in complete financial turmoil he'd have left after the Fulham playoff final.
