The last two years spring to mind.
Typical, some fans get disgruntled with the manager and somebody pops up with the "remember how **** we were" bollocks. History is history, it doesn't help us one jote right now. There's only one bloke who's culpable for the success of the team and that's the manager and if what he's doing isn't working, then people are going to be pissed off. Other teams are far more ruthless with their managers and it works, our fans seem to have this daft air of sentimentality that makes our manager look a lot better than he actually is. Look at our team, look at the quality across that squad and then ask yourself why they aren't playing like they should be doing. Are the players going out onto the field and ignoring their boss, or are they being told the wrong thing?
It's funny, when players aren't doing well it's "Huddlestone's ****" or "Akpom can't score for toffee", but when a Hull City manager makes mistakes it's "oh remember the FA Cup final and the promotion, leave him alone".
If we aren't looking like strong contenders for automatic promotion in a few weeks time, Brucey should be gone, simple as. He's got a quality squad at his disposal, we should be playing miles better than we are at the moment. We saw our best against Boro, so how hard should it be to maintain that sort of quality? Because the likes of Brighton and Burnley are managing it with far worse squads than we have.
'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 0ver 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.
