Derby ran us ragged until Bruce put on Meyler, then it stopped..... oh hang on there`ll be calls for Meyler should have started, despite a number of posters demanding the same team before the game. Thinking some of the posters here suffer from a goldfish memory, Thudds form in our relegation year was terrible, Livermore unbeknown to us all was having a personal tragedy and stuck his nose in a bag of cocaine, Diame was lethargic, Snodgrass was injured in his first competitive game and out for the season, Dawson got injured as did Jelavic, but no doubt this was all down to Bruce. As i have said i`m sure in hindsight Bruce would have done certain things differently, but it was a combination of things that sent us down. And now he gets criticised for gaining promotion from probably the hardest domestic league to get out of in Europe, brilliant, pat yourselves on the back.
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull...15-16-season/story-29381446-detail/story.html Steve Bruce ...boo....rubbish...defensive...blah...
Theres some right ****y comments on here about our greatest ever manager. Wah we need someone to take us to the next level wah **** me we arent even at that level yet. We scraped through our first ever season in the Pl (well done Browny) Relegated the next. Going nowhere till Brucey came in. Relegated after another season in the PL. As was always quite likely (after an FA Cup Final no ****ing less) Even if we filled the ****ing ground it would still only be 25.000 and yet some ****s talk as if we should be mid table pushing on for honours. Unbefuckinglievable.
You always confuse what has been achieved, with what we actually have to watch every week. Personally, I think he's a very nice bloke, I'm just fed up of travelling up and down the country every other week to watch us play for a draw.
I dont confuse anything. I expect us to have to battle and scrap for everything. You come out with this bullshit line we have been **** for 2 years and its not ****ing true. Even though we got relegated we still had good games and played well at times, not enough though. But you keep saying we were **** every game. Its a lie.
I've never said it's every game, just that it's far too many games and it's not about how individual games pan out, it's the overall approach of the manager. Trying to draw all your away games in the Premier League is sure-fire way to get yourself relegated. Leicester, Watford and Bournemouth have shown the way, but I have no confidence that Brucey has learned this lesson.
Its not how its how many. We only needed to win one more game last time in the Pl and we would have stayed up.
Winning one more game would simply have kept us up, it wouldn't have changed the fact that watching us on the road was ****.
The point I was trying to make re. Derby running us ragged was that there was no need for it to be like that at all, one example of why people have some issues with Bruces management.
Away at QPR Arsenal Everton Sunderland Newcastle Palace and Man City would say otherwise but there you go.
We were ****e at QPR, it was a smash and grab, we went to Arsenal for a draw and got one, it was far from pretty. Ditto Everton. Newcastle we were 2-0 up and took both strikers off leading to a draw (which is exactly what I'm talking about), Man City we didn't have a single striker on the pitch until the 76th minute. I'll give you Palace and Sunderland, but you've pretty much proved my point.
The last 14 months in the top-flight under Bruce were fairly shocking, I think the play-off win is glossing over things to a certain extent. I can't believe that anybody who went to the match at the KC would think the Derby match at home and how Bruce set the team up was the right way to go about things, completely the wrong approach like you allude to there
How has he proved your point all he has done is show that what Bruce did was go get points would you rather you went and seen a game where we played them off the park and lost 3-0.
Jeez you're dim. You're far more likely to get a result attacking a team, then you are playing with no ****ing strikers, in the vain hope you might scrape a draw.
So if we give Steve Bruce another season and we go back down, people will be calling for him to take us back up again. Then if he does, it'll be "oh he deserves another chance in the Premier League". At some point the sentimentality has to give way to reality and that reality is that our Premier League performances were mostly awful and we don't want a repeat of the last time.
The way the season ended for me was that we were one goal away from not having this discussion thanks to Bruce and his ridiculously over defensive way of trying to defend leads instead of building on them. It's quite odd and alarming to me that some think he is beyond any criticism, maybe that's how it was 50 or 60 years ago before the media and analytical resources we have now.
