His aim as he's pointed out far to often and much to our annoyance is to finish above Newcastle. Well Steve at 5pm next Saturday after a nice cushty home game against the hapless Wigan they will be sitting on 19 points from 9 games, where in all likelihood we will be sitting on 6 points from 9 games after defeat to a revitalized Bolton. That's over 3 times as many points. How many games will it take for Bruce to amass 19 points this season??? Every Sunderland fan would love to finish above them but im too concerned about our own plight tks think about them, they are flying and i take my hat off to them. Please Mr Bruce, I urge for you to resign. If not I expect our owner to act next Saturday.
I would rather we did as well as we could, whether that is better than any one else or not. Sure it would be a bonus, however you end up where you deserve to end up and if Newcastle maintain their excellent form, good for them.
If you had his track record would you resign? Your best bet is a mutual agreement to end his contract, even then he can dig his heels in and demand to be fired instead. Do you think he gives a toss about personal pride when Ellis Short gave him a 37 year contract only a few months ago? He'd be due a huge payoff with that contract. He wouldn't have signed it if it said "5 year extension but if we want to sack you, you get nothing". This could very well be Bruce's last crack at top-flight management for years, so my theory is, if he's going to leave your club it will be with a big chunk of change in his sky rocket.
It's not about finishing above the barcodes, we've done that 3 years in a row now, rather its about being the best you can be. If they won the league because they had a better team and we finished 3rd or 4th, when we expected top 10 at best, then I'd be ecstatic. However, we had high hopes for top 10 or maybe better this season and after almost a quarter of it gone, we look more like relegation candidates than top 10, whereas to their credit the mags have over achieved and sit in a top 5 place. Yes that hurts but because I am struggling to see us getting 40 points let alone a top 10 finish. We could and should be doing so much better with what we have got in our locker this season. The reason We are failing is firmly and squarely the fault of Bruce. 100 %.
I just had a cheese based epiphany. How can you make something much better with the same ingredients. You have bread and cheese. Bruce is a cheap and nasty cheese sandwich. Give Martin Oneil bread and cheese and have us firing and deliver a beautiful cheese toastie. I just really enjoyed the toastie i had.
Perhaps Mustard and Onions from Durham CCC can be drafted in. Cheese n Onion toastie with a touch of Mustard mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm x
This is Sunderland's main problem IMO, Steve Bruce is more obsessed with Newcastle than he is with Sunderland. If he forgets us and goes about Sunderland's business, they will start to creep up the table. But no, everything revolves around us. In answer to Ces, you've spent the last few weeks rather cockily stating that you "guarantee" Sunderland will finish above Newcastle as you will get a new manager and rocket past us. Don't change your tune now lad.
Cheick while i think you've done remarkably well i think your form will falter shortly and if we brought in a good manager our results would pick up and i think wed eventually meet in the middle. IF Bruce stays i cant see us getting 40 points
Cheick while i think you've done remarkably well i think your form will falter shortly and if we brought in a good manager our results would pick up and i think wed eventually meet in the middle. IF Bruce stays i cant see us getting 40 points
Who is changing their tune? With Martin O Neill in charge I would be very confident that we would finish higher than you come May but the longer we are stuck with Bruce, the less likely that is going to happen. We need it to happen in the next 2 or 3 weeks at the very most imo. I have been very consistent since February this year concerning Bruce and tried to convince myself in the Summer that he would get it right. He hasnt.
Martin O'Neil reminds me of someone, now who was it, oh yes Lawrie Mackemenemy, over hyped, over rated and over paid. Moyes or Mark Hughes for me.
Bruce is an OK man-manager, it's just that he's a hopeless tactician. 4th bottom with a terrible record in 2011? Time to go...
