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Should steve Bruce be ****ed off?


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Bruce has one objective this season - to get us promoted and he is well on track for that so any talk of replacing him is just hot air. He has the opportunity in January to get rid of some of the non performers - Diame, Huddlestone and Aluko spring to mind - and to bring in some fresh blood if the finances permit. He could have gone at the end of last season when he failed to keep us up, but I, for one, am delighted that the owners kept faith with him and that he is repaying that faith by keeping us well up in the promotion race. To talk of being able to "run away" with the Championship is fanciful at best - this is the hardest league to get promoted from & at least we have a manager who has been there before & succeeded.

"The wheels are going to fall off Brighton promotion push,and we've not seen the best of city yet, when are both going to happen"
 
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Having narrowly been relegated from the Premier League with a squad valued at around £60m, can you think of any teams in the Championship that should be finishing above us?

Nobody is asking for Real Madrid style football and that's a cop out response, what we want is the same application we saw against Boro every week. We've proved we can do it, so why aren't we?

Remember when we were in the PL, being the **** team stopping the better team from winning? Well now the other teams are the **** teams stopping us playing!
 
Bruce has one objective this season - to get us promoted and he is well on track for that so any talk of replacing him is just hot air. He has the opportunity in January to get rid of some of the non performers - Diame, Huddlestone and Aluko spring to mind - and to bring in some fresh blood if the finances permit. He could have gone at the end of last season when he failed to keep us up, but I, for one, am delighted that the owners kept faith with him and that he is repaying that faith by keeping us well up in the promotion race. To talk of being able to "run away" with the Championship is fanciful at best - this is the hardest league to get promoted from & at least we have a manager who has been there before & succeeded.

We're on track to finish in the playoffs and fail to get promotion.
 
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I will continue going no matter what, city are in my blood there's nothing I can do about that, but it does make the 130 mile round trip at times seem twice as long at time's, my concern's with SB at the moment is why are we playing with one striker at home against the bottom of the table, why does it take SB so long to change thing's, when all around can see its not going to plan and why does he need a board meeting in the dug out lasting up to 10 minutes before putting a sub on, as a football club we do seam to be going backwards on the field, I know its only approaching halfway in a long season, but we need to upping our game, the way things are panning out its going to be Brighton and one other for automatic promotion and on the form of the last few games it might not be city.
You have to put Derby and Brighton ahead of us in the promotion race so logically that means play-offs. As i said before, the Middlesborough match aside, we are failing when it counts from the back of end last season to now, in key games like the Burnley/Derby/Leeds fixtures so anybody thinking we will get through the play-offs and go up needs a reality check in my opinion. I feel sorry for fellas like you with long trips to support us who can see whats going on and come regardless and the away support, the diehards deserve total respect
 
Having narrowly been relegated from the Premier League with a squad valued at around £60m, can you think of any teams in the Championship that should be finishing above us?

Nobody is asking for Real Madrid style football and that's a cop out response, what we want is the same application we saw against Boro every week. We've proved we can do it, so why aren't we?
You might get the same 'application' as we did against Middlesboro every week if we could field the same team who played against Boro every week and every team came to the KC, like they did, and tried to attack us instead of sticking ten men behind the ball.
 
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You might get the same 'application' as we did against Middlesboro every week if we could field the same team who played against Boro every week and every team came to the KC, like they did, and tried to attack us instead of sticking ten men behind the ball.

For all your bleating about being a superior veteran fan you don't really see the game do you <laugh>

Either that or age is catching up with you.

Middlesbrough treated the pitch at the KC like a bus park.
 
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For all your bleating about being a superior veteran fan you don't really see the game do you <laugh>

Either that or age is catching up with you.

Middlesbrough treated the pitch at the KC like a bus park.
'Superior veteran supporter' eh ? You making up your own stories again?
For the record, look back at the Middlesboro game, they came out guns a-blazing and could have been two up in the first ten minutes.
But you continue being Mister Negative if it makes you happy.
 
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You might get the same 'application' as we did against Middlesboro every week if we could field the same team who played against Boro every week and every team came to the KC, like they did, and tried to attack us instead of sticking ten men behind the ball.

It's not just the players in the team though, because the so called 'reserve players', like Thudd, Aluko and Bruce, we have were members of a squad that kept us in the Premier League at one point. So they should be good enough. There's no excuses for not getting the best out of this squad when it's played in the top flight and has tonnes of experience. I can guarantee you if a new manager came in, you wouldn't see midfielders playing as strikers, right backs at left back and wingers playing in the centre of midfield.

Injuries were inevitable, so it's up to the manager to look at his squad and decide whether or not to bring in players in the loan window; you cant get to mid November once the window is shut, see that the players we have are underperforming and then blame them, it's the managers job to make sure the squad is up to the task.

Bolton didn't stick ten men behind the ball, they were just terrible, worse than the Fulham side that we beat 6-0. Had that Bolton game been a loss, people would have been asking the same questions I and a few others are now.
 
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'Two years ago' ? This time last year we were in the Premier League which isn't the Championship and the year before we were not in the top four from August until the second week in December ( and seven or is it more points now) in front of the other clubs scrapping to be in the Play Off places, which is my point. None of you have ever witnessed it before, at this level, for this length of time, no matter who was manager and so on.
'We should be playing ,miles better' ???? So your not only not content with our current position you want us to be playing like Real Madrid as well ?
I couldn't care less if we scrapped a 1-0 every home game and drew every away game 0-0 if it meant we got promoted.
Because as a Hull City supporter for a long, long time, and one who didn't throw the towel in when we were abysmal, as many thousands did, I know that this club has no devine right to be at the top of any league. We are not a Leeds United and we are not even a Sheffield Wednesday, we are a medium size club who up to ten years ago had won nothing. We have no fabulous tradition and we have no massive fanbase. Like it or not our supporters ditched this club when we were on the slide in massive numbers, and sometimes the public get the football club (and owners) they deserve.
If Hull City had never reached the PL under Brown and Duffen who both got lambasted on fans forums for doing so, despite no other manager/owners/chairman in 0vers 100 years ever managing to do it, we would have never attracted a manager like Steve Bruce.
Gary Megson maybe? Brian Laws? that moaning twat at Scunthorpe and so on, lower league managers who themselves had never won anything as managers.
Because that was our level. It doesn't matter what a couple of hundred people posting on a fans forum think, those were the facts.
As much as I don't agree with a lot of things currently happening at the club, I don't see many people banging on the chairmans door with offers they cannot refuse.
Someone has to guarantee the pay cheques, and I'm glad it's not me, because one glance at these boards would put you off for life.
Also to take for granted three recent Wembley appearances and two visits to the Premier League shows how shallow some people are. It was a minor miracle, make no mistake about that. Steve Bruce could hand his notice in this afternoon and retire to his villa in Portugal earn a good living out of being a football pundit with no pressure on him what so ever.
Be careful what you wish for.
I could have a field day with this post but I can't be arsed, however the highlighted part above is one of the most ridiculous statements that I've ever read on this forum, so much so that I'm still undecided as to whether it's simply bait. Brown and Duffen never got lambasted for getting us promoted at all, and you surely know that, they got lambasted for turning into total supercunts after getting us promoted.
 
I could have a field day with this post but I can't be arsed, however the highlighted part above is one of the most ridiculous statements that I've ever read on this forum, so much so that I'm still undecided as to whether it's simply bait. Brown and Duffen never got lambasted for getting us promoted at all, and you surely know that, they got lambasted for turning into total supercunts after getting us promoted.
By doing what oh wise one ?
 
Well if you really don't know you must have been in a long deep hibernation.

Look it up, it's very well documented <ok>

Oh and there should be no space between the end of a sentence and a question mark. Thank me later.
I could have a field day with that reply but I cannot be arsed.
Just one question,
Who was the manager of Hull City the first time we got relegated from the Premier League and who recruited that manager ?
 
I could have a field day with that reply but I cannot be arsed.
Just one question,
Who was the manager of Hull City the first time we got relegated from the Premier League and who recruited that manager ?
See Lambo's reply. You probably won't understand it though as it makes total sense.
 
Having narrowly been relegated from the Premier League with a squad valued at around £60m, can you think of any teams in the Championship that should be finishing above us?

Nobody is asking for Real Madrid style football and that's a cop out response, what we want is the same application we saw against Boro every week. We've proved we can do it, so why aren't we?
Well the Bookies have Middlesbrough, Derby and Brighton all finishing above us. At least 5 of the squad you refer to left us in the summer and Huddlestone, Diame and Aluko have so far proved themselves unable or unwilling to perform at Championship level. Having said all that, we are very well placed to push on and secure an automatic promotion place - although this is Hull City so it will not be until the last match of the season.
 
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What - you mean like last time we finished in the play-offs?

75% of teams who make the playoffs fail to get promotion.

That seems obvious but people seem strangely relaxed about finishing in the playoffs as if we'll just easily win them. I wonder if people realise it isn't a nice little fairytale every time like 2008 was.

Also unlike 2008, we aren't a small club punching above our weight in this division. We're a PL yo-yo club whose sole aim is promotion. If we finish in the playoffs and don't go up it'll be a total failure. With our squad and budget there's no excuse if that happens.

By all means have blind faith in Bruce, but to say we're on track for promotion when we're outside the top 2 is just daft.
 
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