Bruce is safe...say's ES.

Best win some games to make sure of it then..



THE first job Ellis Short undertook in his new role as chairman of Sunderland Football Club last week was to make a private phone call to Steve Bruce, assuring the manager his job was safe.


 The U.S. owner had already made it clear behind closed doors earlier this season that he was happy with the manager’s work – if not recent results – as Bruce moved into his third year at the club.

But after seeing a welter of unsettling headlines last week speculating on the manager’s future after Niall Quinn stepped down as chairman and Short took over the role, the owner rang Bruce again to tell him to ignore the claims.

The Black Cats’ disappointing start to the season has led several national newspapers to suggest Bruce’s job is in jeopardy.

But reports suggesting he is in danger of being sacked – and claims ex-Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill is being lined up to replace him – are not true.

Bruce has revealed he spoke to Short last week in the wake of Sunderland’s 2-2 draw with West Brom and the American billionaire reiterated his support.

“The owner rang me last week to tell me my job is safe,” he said.

“He rang up to say he’d been reading about how ruthless he was supposed to be, but he told me he knows what I have done over the last couple of years in terms of turning the club round and he appreciates it.

“He told me not to take any notice of what people are saying, just to get my head down and just win a few games.”

The fact that Short rang Bruce personally, rather than publicly giving the manager the dreaded vote of confidence, says a lot about the belief in what Bruce has done and is trying to do at the Stadium of Light.

And Bruce himself knows that though he is convinced he is on the right track in the long-term, he could do with a couple of good results in the short-term to settle nerves.

The Black Cats go into tomorrow’s game at Arsenal having picked up just six points from their first seven games, but Bruce said: “I’m more and more certain I have the nucleus of a very good team here now.

“It will only need the addition of a top quality player here and a top quality player there over the course of time to keep it improving and going forwrd.

“Results have not been great for us so far, but it remains early days and we need to stick at it and keep developing and improving the squad we’ve got because it has the potential to do well for us this season

 

Ooooh, the dreaded vote of confidence?

 

Im not reading anything into that. it won't affect Bruces fate. only results will do that and the next two could seal his fate

 

He'll live and die by his own sword,,and his parting shot will be.


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No matter who says what we will still hear the same old stories on here. May be best all round if they all shut up and just played football, win and start climbing and we will all be happy, lose and drop and we wont, not rocket science.

 

Ultimately, results will dictate his fate. Regardless of how highly Short may rate him, lose the next 3 or 4 games and we will be in **** straights. The home crowd have remained mainly loyal so far but they are voting with their feet now. Imagine the scenario where we lose heavily to arsenal, then away to Bolton. Our home crowd v villa may collapse and a Darren Bent winning goal too much to stomach. Then its Man Utd away. A cricket score there and its goodnight and give over Bruce.

Of course, there is the chance we will win the next 3 and draw at old trafford?

Don't hold your breath too long on the latter mind. It may not be healthy.

 

I'm genuinely sorry, but I disagree with everyone who thinks results will decide Bruce's fate. The last nine months of results would have sufficed if that was true. This curse of a manager will be with Sunderland even if they drop into the Conference. I don't know what Bruce has over Quinn and Short, but I am perfectly sure he will be in the Sunderland job until death do us part. Which is why I'm preparing myself for never ever attending another game at the SoL.

I've recently been up to Palmerston, in Dumfries, for a Queen of the South game. Was quite good, and I'd recommend it for anyone who has lost faith in the Bruce, Quinn, Short trilogy of corruption. Try it. Of course, I'll never be able to commit to Queens like I did to the club I was born and bred to support. But "Short is happy with recent results"? - Do you really, in your hearts, believe that sh*t? Three home wins in nine months, and he's happy with it? - Let's face it, a comment like that can only mean they've nothing but contempt for us. Try Queens or Hartlepool - you might be pleasantly surprised.

 

I now support Queens Park.

What an amazing atmosphere playing in front of 250 in a 55,000 seater stadium.

Get yerselves up.

 

Some good pubs in Dumfries like.

Isn't that where the hole in the wall is?

 

Wow, what a club that is! And what a benefit to Sunderland their inaugural tactics would be. The meeting at No.3 Eglington Terrace, Glasgow, in 1869, decided that its players would not be paid ; adopting the motto: “Ludere causa Ludendi” - to play for the sake of playing.

If only the likes of Bruce could play "for the sake of playing", instead of for roughly £40,000 a week, i.e. play as though you wanted to win instead of to hold onto a job, what an improvement that would be! I honour your choice of club, mate.

Or to put it simply, Billy, don't take the p*ss till you're able, o.k.?

 

if we lose the next 2 and fail to beat villa, he'll be gone

 

I wish - but I seriously doubt it. If results mattered a damn, he would have gone by now. I don't believe a single word that comes out of SoL. Ellis Short is happy with recent results? - If that isn't god-damned corruption I'll eat my hat.

 

Go **** yourself numb ****.

I was being light hearted but you obviously don't know me or my past or my past of following OUR club.

So **** right off.

 

And by the way, Queens Park is a well run club that Hampden belongs to.

So **** off again.

****.