Agree with that, in fact the best thing Phelan has done was pick two strikers to play up front against Man City straight away.
I've always thought of Bruce has a old fashion type of manager. Who manages the club and oversees everything. With newer breed of 'head coaches' like Rodgers and Pochettino they are more coaches then managers.
You can bet it will be Brucey's fault when we lose. Not that we're going to lose again this season. Mainly cos of Phelan.
It's not that, we have clearly changed since phelan has taken over! you can see it in the way we play, he seems to of brought something that Bruce wasn't bringing. I think its fitness and confidence. lets imagine huddlestone didn't foul aguero and gift them a goal, we would be 1 win away from the number of wins we had for the entire season, that isn't just coincidence.
It might have been wise had she included credit to Steve Bruce for picking Mike Phelan from the list of candidates and for negotiating the deal for him to join.
Make no bones about it, Bruce brought Phelan in to save his job, same as Agnew was brushed aside. It's funny how so many players are/were underperforming and some people still seem to think it's not Bruce's fault, he was a few games away from the sack as far as I am concerned. I wouldn't sack Bruce even if we got relegated, I like him a lot, but he is responsible for a lot of our ****ey season, imo. I think Davies wil re-gain his form. I don't want him to leave. I think Phelan will work on him. Yes, Phelan is a big reason for our better approach over last couple of games. Robertson is definitely a Bale type of player as someone mentioned and I hope we see more of him over the next few games. I don't think his defending is as bad as some people are making out and I think he is much better than Brady going forward, especially his crossing.
So why didn't Steve fight to keep hold of him? I'm sure City could have matched his wages or even bettered them.
Aggers was having to get family credit cos those ****ing Allams wouldnt pay him a decent wage. Who could blame him for leaving.
Because a 5 year contract is a weird thing to give an assistant manager when the manager doesn't have one that long, unless you've also given the assistant some sort of future job role as part of the deal.
It will be interesting to see who is surplus to requirements at the end of the season. With Mcguire likely to be in contention next season, Chester, Dawson will be first choice, so it will remain to be seen out of Davies, Bruce and Macca who will be surplus to rquirements.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/hull-boss-steve-bruce-puts-4842256 it will be difficult to shift Junior - here's Brucies blood is thicker than water speech when he admits bias towards Junior - it really doesn't help when you have Davies on the bench and Macca on the naughty step at the time - no wonder players get pissed off
Robertson is pretty poor defensively At least twice on Sunday he slashed defensive clearances across the field to Chelsea players Can't fault him attacking wise though
I'm sure Robertson will only improve the defensive side office game, as he is still very young and a bonus for us on how he is playing. He does make mistakes but hopefully those are all part of the learning and getting experience in order to better himself. Im sure Steve the Bruce will be working with him in training on that side of his game. Look how the post sunday dinner kick around in the Bruce garden has brought junior on, you wouldn't have seen him dumping Costa on his backside of it wasn't for those kick arounds, and extra Yorkshire Puddings.
