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Bruce Close to Quitting?

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  1. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Abso ****ing lutely.

    With the comments on this thread and the 3g one its like a load of ****ing PC crying whinging tarts who spend their days texting/twittering about Towie or Big Brother.

    Thats so mean (sad smile). Think of the children. We should be working ethically and consulting who ****ing ever.

    Nothing gets done by committee.

    Reading that Steve Bruce has the best job in football. Other managers will be jealous as ****.
     
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  2. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Few more quotes here.

    http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/BRUCE-COULDN-T-JUST-LEAVE/story-26170270-detail/story.html

    STEVE Bruce has revealed how he contemplated walking away from Hull City at the end of this season before eventually agreeing terms on a new three-year contract at the KC Stadium.

    In a season that has seen Bruce strongly linked with vacancies at Newcastle and Fulham, any lingering uncertainty over his future was dispelled when striking a fresh deal on Wednesday that will run until at least 2018.

    Bruce's extended stay was well received by City supporters after a two-and-a-half-year period of unrivalled success, but the City boss has admitted he once weighed up ending his time in East Yorkshire this summer.

    A sense of unfinished business soon put paid to those thoughts and Bruce will lead his side to Leicester City this afternoon hungry to map out sustained success in the Premier League.
    The day you stop enjoying it is the day when you say 'That's it'. And I think I'll know that," said Bruce.

    "There hasn't been a time when I have even been close to that here at Hull. Not close.

    "There was, though, a bit of me that said 'Steve, you've had a wonderful three years. Do you keep the club up and say thanks very much'? But then I thought 'I haven't finished yet'. I have put something in place with the Academy, the scouting and the training ground. I want to see it through to fruition."

    Despite arriving in management with Sheffield United 17 years ago, Bruce insists he has no retirement plans in place.

    He added: "I spoke to my wife and she asked if I needed a break. I've always said I wanted to go the Cricket World Cup, a week at Cheltenham or go to the US Masters.

    "But at the end of the day this is what I do. I still enjoy it and the day I stop enjoying it is the day I stop."

    "You know you'll lose more than you win in this league and that's always hard.

    "The big thing is do you still have the energy, and I'm only 54."

    The greatest source of Bruce's contentment, though, is the enduring bond with owners Assem and Ehab Allam.

    Since first coming together in July 2012, the trio have enjoyed a journey that has included promotion out of the Championship, an FA Cup final and the first steps into European football.

    "In this world of madness that we're in now, it's a hard enough job," he added. "He lets me get on with it and that's the biggest compliment I can give him.

    "Peter Chapman also works tirelessly alongside me. He's an honorary president and works for the love of the club. He's played his part.

    "We've made great strides and I want to see a young player from Hull come into the team.

    "There's got to be an infrastructure put in place that can make us an established Premier League club. That's my aim."
     
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  3. Cortez91

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    He's hardly going to come out and say "we're going to be a big club" as that's just throwing pressure on himself when it doesn't happened. He said we're a small club so Allam's expectations of him don't change.
     
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  4. Ernie Shackleton

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    omg im so cross rite now. what bout made in chelsee n housewives ov chesshire. ffs chazz keep up lol u grandad. or do u inclde jordy shor to? rolf xx.










    Bruce out.
     
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  5. Happy Tiger

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    I heart you man!
     
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  6. PattyNchips2

    PattyNchips2 Well-Known Member

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    dont you mean before he got his hair cut?
     
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  7. onlyme

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    i,d chuck one up janet
     
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  8. roseniorhisgranisfromhull

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    Really?

    Well, I guess we'll see if Mourinho & Guardiola apply once Steve does go.
     
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  9. hcafc-anon

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    When will people be satisfied? At this moment in time, there are fans of clubs in lower leagues all over the country who would sell their grandmothers to be in our shoes. We are in the Premier League, we have a manager who actually wants to stay here, despite offers from bigger clubs; we are developing an infrastructure that will help us to consolidate and expand and we have bundles of cash oming in from the TV companies; in short, we are in the best situation ever in our history. I prefer these days to wet Wednesdays nights, years ago, at BP watching us get beaten by Crewe Alexanndra or Halifax Town.

    Yet still we have the moaners and the nit pickers and the whingers who think that, given the chance, they could run the club better with their vast experience - gained from years of watching from their armchairs. Yes, we have the name change issue but, even without that, there would still be a 'we know better' brigade.

    Fair comment and criticism are totally acceptable but quite often the comments go way beyond this and get too personal.
     
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  10. The Omega Man

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    When Steve Bruce came to the club, I felt for the first time that we had a chance to establish ourselves in the PL.

    I like his open interviews. Sometimes watching him pace the sideline is as engaging as the play on the pitch. He is for me the ideal manager of our club. I trust him and at the same time find his selections baffling.

    The big problem is that like Hull City, Steve Bruce is not fashionable, just as the Champions League seems out of reach for our team, I do not see him leading us into a top six place. What he will do and do very well, is put the foundations in place to build the club.

    He must have looked at the club, took a deep breath and questioned his sanity.

    The question I have for his detractors, who else would have done what he has done for us and stayed?
     
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  11. ImperialTiger

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    I understand that Alex gets nervous about having his picture taken and threw up just before that pic was taken.
     
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  12. Polly13

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    In Premier League terms, we are not a Big Club, and never will be. Our support simply isn't good enough, and the city isn't really big enough to provide that support.

    However, I don't care. I'm perfectly happy to be a "small" Premier League club. Just being in the PL is a big enough deal. It's one of the world's wealthiest and most watched domestic sporting competitions, and - for all its undoubted faults - having a global association with it is great for this city of ours. If we can have the odd season where we trouble the Europa League places, or have a good cup run, that'll do me, and Steve Bruce is still the perfect man for the job, in my opinion.
     
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  13. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    Stoke have got a massive history. They were a big club doing ****e for years, it's a different animal to us.
     
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  14. Newland Tiger

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    Steve Bruce doesn't visit the site and read the comments for tactical tips from the likes of Mr Hat ? I'm shocked
     
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    Phil Brown.
     
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  16. Stockholm Tiger

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    He says "Hull will always be a small cub in the Premier League"

    I think that's very different to saying we will always be a small club. I can't personally envisage a realistic scenario where Hull City would be considered a BIG club in the premier league. Even if we were bought by Sheikh Ali Al-Bagsamoney any trip to the upper reaches would likely be transient like the success of Blackburn in the 90s.

    If we could establish ourselves in the PL we might improve our relative position among the smaller clubs in the PL and certainly relative to the clubs outside but that's different to the big 6 or 7 IMHO.

    We're still a long way from being an established club in the PL small or otherwise and I just hope Brucey achieves what we couldn't last time around and we survive to face another season.
     
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  17. PLT

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    Chazz right, you keep going on about how silly we are for thinking the Airco thing is wrong. Can you explain at all? Given that it's not our site and we all know it was always meant for the clubs being evicted and not Hull City, on what basis are we wrong to think it's a bit ****? Do you think it's completely OK? Or is It just a case of anything he does is OK with you, and the more people he upsets and the less ****s he gives about doing it, the better?
     
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  18. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    The daughter does gymnastics there, she also shock horror does it somewhere else as well!!!! St Marys actually. Same club but use a different venue on different days.
    Oh my god is it ethical has it been properly consulted. Were the FA informed. Did hcst give their approval. Who knows who ****ing cares.

    The mrs to the gymnastics teacher- whats happening?
    Gym teacher. We;ll sort something out, we've moved a few times over the years.

    Phew

    Lets hope the football family will sleep safely in their bed tonight
     
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  19. PLT

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    That's like an Allam rant.

    Obviously there are people who are affected by it even if your daughter isn't. That's why a load of the clubs have got together to campaign against it.

    I don't get it. Do you think it doesn't really affect anyone or just not care? It's practically theft for Hull City to take this away from the community by force and without buying it. Don't you see how bad it looks on Hull City doing this? As City fans we know it's Allam, but in the future many of those affected will just remember Hull City evicting them, not Allam.

    Seems more and more like you just have to support whatever he does.
     
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