http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/430581/Hull-Steve-Bruce-considered-QUITTING Just been released on the twitter account: please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Sounds like his new contract was not quite as straight forward as it might seem.
Also does it grate with anyone else whenever he goes on about how we'll always be a small club? Stoke, Swansea, and others have all finished in the top half of the PL, played in Europe, and made cup finals. I'd hardly call them 'small' clubs, and you look at clubs like West Ham and Southampton as pushing even further up the table despite not being giants of the game.
To me it says I am working for owners I get on fantastically well with, yes I get stressed on match days and the wife knows that but overall I am at a place where the fans welcome me and after the last few months at Sunderland its fantastic and I has a manager know its a challenge to keep us in the premier league but I because of the backing I have receive here plus the success am determined to enjoy and keep it going and make this club a proper established bigger premier league club.
The Official Club quotes are hardly going to include statements where the manager confesses he has been close to quitting. As for the size of a Club, there are some HUGE clubs outside of the Premier League and there are some SMALL clubs in the Premier League. We aren't and will never be as big a club as Leeds United. We aren't and will never be as big a club as Sheffield Wednesday. We aren't and will never be as big a club as Nottingham Forest. These Clubs are not being run very well at the moment but on a level playing field with us, they would win simply because they can attract better than we can. BUT being a BIG CLUB is not the be all and end all, especially now there's the financial chasm between the Prem and the rest. There is no reason why we cannot emulate a Stoke City or a West Bromwich and cut our cloth for long-term success by staying in the top flight.
'Never' is a long time. If we stay in the PL for the next ten years and made Europa League knock outs in that time it's hard to say we're 'smaller' than some of those clubs.
I hate this history thing. We're better equipped in almost every way than those clubs, but they were good in the 70s/80s which seems to be more important than being good now in determining what a big club is for a lot of people. Teams like Palace, although I hate to admit it, show how you can become a big club overnight by getting into the PL.
You can't call yourself a "big club" if you've never won a trophy. In that regard Bruce is right to call us small- compared to his other clubs we are small. With Allam acting the way he is, and all this name change cobblers i'd call us ****in small time and all. We had "fans" vote in favour of the name change ffs. That would never happen at other clubs in this country.
I'm not taking issue with currently saying we're a small club, I take issue with people saying we'll never be a bigger club.
Personally I think Bruce is a twat. He has owners who knows **** all about football so wouldn't question his crazy team selections, he is on a bloody good salary (according to AA), which is a massive help in his contentment and he totally ignored the name-change farce. We would not be scratting around for another 8 points if he had got it right when he could and should of done. This love affair between him and the owners - the old man - is now beyond laughable. I once liked Bruce, but yet again, when discussing his new contract, he could not resist digging up the Sunderland bollocks again. Let it go ffs!!!
I didn't say we would never become a bigger club. I said we would never be as BIG as certain other Clubs.
Miles out Sterling: please log in to view this image And in earlier years with baby Alex: please log in to view this image
she has that Stiflers Mam look about her !!!! as for the quote , we are a small premier league club but financially we have so much more omph than historically bigger clubs outside the prem. There is room for 20 clubs at a time and there is no reason to not consider ourselves firmly in the bottom half of that group - even if we never make the top 6. . . . or 10
The only manager to ever get us automatically promoted to the top division and the first manager to get us to a FA Cup Final and European qualification. Yet he is ripped to shreds by some on sites like this. As was Phil Brown, another one who achieved firsts at Hull City. I've read recently on here that not only was Phil Brown 'lucky' to get us to a Championship Play-Off Final, and win it, at Wembley but now Steve Bruce is a lucky manager to have done what he has done so far with City. Having followed this club for over 50 years, and by follow I mean actually going to the games, I was brought up in Hull listening to people tell me that Hull City don't want first division football and will never get there.......etc.......etc ........etc. Which was rubbish and had now been proved to be so. If I were Steve Bruce at his age and with his pedigree in the game and no doubt decent Bank balance I would have considered chucking it at times, especially after reading and listening to some of the ****e that is posted on sites like this. He could make a decent living appearing on MOTD or working on SKY with no pressure, less hours, and probably more money. You don't know what you have got til it's gone.............
Steve Bruce will have absolutely no idea what's posted on here, the only thing he'll know about not606, is that they made a big In Bruce We Trust banner.
