Phil Brown did that our best managers are Warren Joyce, Peter Taylor and Phil Brown - all who achieved significantly more relatively speaking compared to the **** we endured under Bruce - just read VillaTalk - they've never seen such **** being played - no sychophantic comments about the best manager they've ever had
Bruce took us into the PL twice, but with the money he had to spend and the squad at his disposal, he ****ing should have done. We were a few points clear at one point last season and we nearly bottled it, would it have been just as rosy if he had cocked that up? Getting into the Premier League with players like Wayne Brown and Caleb Folan in your team is pretty impressive, spunking vast sums of money, not staying up and then scraping 4th place in the Championship isn't quite as noteworthy.
I know how bad we were, I was there ! but Joyce was allowed to bring in virtually a new team. He did well in the circumstances but we were by the biggest club in the old div 4 at the time, the other clubs at the bottom with us like Scarboro with their 3,000 fanbase were not in a position to sign a new team like Joyce was. We were never the biggest club in both the leagues that Bruce managed us in.
No they can't due to the advertising hoardings, the club are still looking into making available a more suitable place for the Bruce banner, three years (?) and counting.
he certainly blew his reputation when he signed Junior - totally ****ing clueless - although being fair he hasn't picked him in two months so perhaps he's redeemed himself
Would that be the same Phil Brown who was/is ridiculed and reviled by many fans and posters? His name gets dragged up for ridicule when it suits and on other occasions revered when people are trying to make out SB was a ****. Peter Taylor= ****. Yeah 2 promotions, but so defensive, and he had a massive budget by L2 and L1 standards, plus everyone knows Molby found Ashbee, Elliott etc
I've supported the club since the 70's, just because I moved away in the 80's and wasn't regularly attending games doesn't mean I stopped supporting the club. And we were still in the bottom tier when I returned to the fold. Not that I need to justify myself to anyone, particularly an inarticulate muppet who used to fight for his fellow fan, before deciding to slag off those who took up that mantle.
I've no interest in Aston Villa or reading anything about them. In football terms comparing Villa with Hull City on their size, history and tradition it's like trying to compare City with North Ferriby. Which makes Bruce's achievements here all the more outstanding.
For the record, you moved away to London but have said you didn't watch us down there when we played. Correct me if I am wrong.
That season, I'd have said Cardiff, Rotherham, Swansea and Cambridge were bigger clubs than us at the time. We had no money and nearly no ground. I was there too, I remember it very well indeed. I certainly don't remember us being the 'biggest club in the division'. It's easy to say that in hindsight looking at how we've progressed since then, but at the time we certainly weren't the biggest fish in the pond.
Bollocks, it's either a large minority or even a majority. Big Sam's puppet, the pink jumper, Humber Bridge suicide, wanting to manage England etc etc Our new ****ish fans rubbished him, taking the cue from their armchair Top 4 mates.
and you're trying to push that as a characteristic for being our best manager? Steve Bruce not very defensive then?
You just accused me of not supporting Hull City on a Hull City forum. You think that's not insulting?
Also, did this bit not matter? The back to back promotions were one thing, but keeping that squad there was pretty impressive too. Molby might have found them, it didn't really do him much good did it, as it wasn't Molby who got us promoted.
We attracted over 20,000 ( although the official club line was less than that) for the vital home game with Scarboro that season. No other club in the same division at that time could have got anywhere near a crowd like that from the position we were in.
I'll spell it out: I was 'rubbishing' PT with the kind of mean, one-eyed, selective opinions dressed as semi-facts that turds on here use to judge SB. To sum up: all hail WJ, PT, PB and SB.
We have an amazing fan base, granted. It pulled together when we needed to. The attendance against Scarborough was very high (it was also a bit of a derby), but for the rest of that season, it was averaging between 4000 and 7000. The home game before that got an attendance of 6,294.
