Bruce out
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Well you have learnt what it took us a couple of years to learn.
Bruce can bring in a good group of players and on paper you have a good looking squad. However some thing happens, don't ask me what, then he looses the dressing room and he gives half time team talks which result in an even worse second half!
Difference is , that when you finally turn on him he can not say you are doing it because he is a from Newcastle.
But please don't sack him until after we take three points on Boxing Day.
Bruce can bring in a good group of players and on paper you have a good looking squad. However some thing happens, don't ask me what, then he looses the dressing room and he gives half time team talks which result in an even worse second half!
Difference is , that when you finally turn on him he can not say you are doing it because he is a from Newcastle.
But please don't sack him until after we take three points on Boxing Day.
This from the Guardian6) For how much longer will Bruce’s goodwill last?
The question of goodwill in football is an interesting one. Steve Bruce, having taken Hull into the Premier League, kept them there with some comfort and taken them also to the FA Cup final, has a good amount built up on Humberside, which is just as well because, if not, he would be in fairly serious trouble. Hull have gone 10 games without a win but perhaps more troublingly they have failed to score in seven and are kept off the bottom only by a Leicester side going through a similarly calamitous run. There are mitigating factors, of course, and Hull’s injury problems – which Bruce was at pains to highlight – are such that Manyor Figueroa, on loan at Wigan, and Tom Ince, currently lent out to Nottingham Forest’s bench, will both be recalled posthaste. Still Saturday’s team did contain players signed for north of £25m in the summer, plus Gaston RamÃrez, a pricy loan from Southampton. What Hull currently lack in numbers they should make up for in quality – or, perhaps more accurately, theoretical quality, identified as such and paid for accordingly by Bruce quite recently. “That frustration goes back to Stoke, West Ham, Newcastle, West Brom in the cup and Arsenal where we conceded last-minute goals,” said Bruce after the game, talking as if that run of five games was down to nothing but bad luck and not the responsibility of he or his players. “Unfortunately that erodes what could have been six points and we wouldn’t be in this situation.” Injuries, late goals, under-performing expensive players … sooner or later the excuses will run out for Bruce and the same goes for his cache of goodwill. Nick Miller
Good will lost and then what next. As Gaston and Abel would say "Yo solo estoy diciendo".
The question of goodwill in football is an interesting one. Steve Bruce, having taken Hull into the Premier League, kept them there with some comfort and taken them also to the FA Cup final, has a good amount built up on Humberside, which is just as well because, if not, he would be in fairly serious trouble. Hull have gone 10 games without a win but perhaps more troublingly they have failed to score in seven and are kept off the bottom only by a Leicester side going through a similarly calamitous run. There are mitigating factors, of course, and Hull’s injury problems – which Bruce was at pains to highlight – are such that Manyor Figueroa, on loan at Wigan, and Tom Ince, currently lent out to Nottingham Forest’s bench, will both be recalled posthaste. Still Saturday’s team did contain players signed for north of £25m in the summer, plus Gaston RamÃrez, a pricy loan from Southampton. What Hull currently lack in numbers they should make up for in quality – or, perhaps more accurately, theoretical quality, identified as such and paid for accordingly by Bruce quite recently. “That frustration goes back to Stoke, West Ham, Newcastle, West Brom in the cup and Arsenal where we conceded last-minute goals,” said Bruce after the game, talking as if that run of five games was down to nothing but bad luck and not the responsibility of he or his players. “Unfortunately that erodes what could have been six points and we wouldn’t be in this situation.” Injuries, late goals, under-performing expensive players … sooner or later the excuses will run out for Bruce and the same goes for his cache of goodwill. Nick Miller
Good will lost and then what next. As Gaston and Abel would say "Yo solo estoy diciendo".
Nick Miller - on a one-man mission to do HCAFC down for the past two years, after copping a load of flak on Twitter from City fans for an il-advised blog on Football365.
If we'd signed him for £2M, would it still have been a mistake?
What relevance is the amount of money spent to our current predicament?
Long would still have been sold. Blackburn wouldn't sell Rhodes.
Just for the record, both Stoke and West Ham games were not 'last minute' equalisers. 83rd and 67th minutes respectively.
If we'd signed him for £2m, we'd have £8m to go out and find someone to help fix our current predicament.
And if he'd spent that £10m a bit wiser, chances are we wouldn't be in this predicament anyway.
Brucey said it.
More lies from the big man to try and exaggerate his hardships.
If we'd signed him for £2m, we'd have £8m to go out and find someone to help fix our current predicament.
And if he'd spent that £10m a bit wiser, chances are we wouldn't be in this predicament anyway.
Laughable. Sack Bruce for not uncovering a new Suarez/Bale for £10M
If it was to play as a striker, then yes. As someone who watches a lot of Serie A i said at the time i dont think ive ever seen him play down the middle.
Was his (unproven) galvanising effect on the other players worth much when he started so few games last season?
You really seem to be missing the point. I never said anything about starting games.
The point is was it worth keeping Boyd just because he (you claim) encouraged the others to show a bit more enthusiasm, when he didn't get on the pitch much?
No, we established that poodles are the pissing, moaning and yapping sorts like yourself. Annoying, whiney little ****ers with no spine. Glad I could clear this up again
I didn't realise you actually knew him.
Are you really not even smart enough to read the countless occasions on which I've answered your sort by confirming that yes, I KNOW WE ARE PLAYING ****E?
