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Jim the Tiger said:
Had my eyes opened to his methods at Bishop Burton when City were forced to train there for a short while. I was watching a session which was being taken by Phelan and Bruce spent the whole session in the dugout on the phone, only holding his call to sometimes stand up and shout something, generally quite aggressivley, at a player and then would sit down and carry on with his call.

My father in law was coaching at Hull FC at the time sharing the facility and he said every session was the same. A member of Bruce's staff said 'it's just his way, it's apparently a Fergie thing and many of his former players rely heavily on their assistants to actually coach the team.'

As much as I am grateful for what he did for us here I think his time has been and gone, as with many managers of his age, and the Graham Potter generation will be the way forward now given the importance of modern methods to get the edge, 'one percenters' if you like.

Brucie also used to insist on parking in the disabled spot, something that really pissed off the College but I guess when you're the best player never to win an England cap you can park where you want?
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There I think lies the difference between a coach and a manager Bruce was a manager in the old fashioned sense did the wheeling and dealing and left the coaching to others unlike some of the coaches today like Arteta who are on the training ground everyday actually coaching and leave the wheeling and dealing and other stuff to the technical director or similar. Back in the day a Cliff Britton compared to a Terry Neal. We need now an Arteta/Terry Neal not a Brucie/Cliff Britton
 
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WSTiger said:
There I think lies the difference between a coach and a manager Bruce was a manager in the old fashioned sense did the wheeling and dealing and left the coaching to others unlike some of the coaches today like Arteta who are on the training ground everyday actually coaching and leave the wheeling and dealing and other stuff to the technical director or similar. Back in the day a Cliff Britton compared to a Terry Neal. We need now an Arteta/Terry Neal not a Brucie/Cliff Britton
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Bruce could coach, all our successful managers have been ex defenders or midfielders, Carter, Horton, Brown, Bruce, I'm never convinced ex Strikers like Shota can coach defences, was that the problem?
 
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originalminority said:
Bruce could coach, all our successful managers have been ex defenders or midfielders, Carter, Horton, Brown, Bruce, I'm never convinced ex Strikers like Shota can coach defences, was that the problem?
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I woudn't think so.
More like horrendous luck with injuries, scatter gun recruitment, no strong spine recruited, lack of real leaders on the pitch, over-estimation of the quality of last years defence, severe lack of real pace (only partly due to injuries). And problems with communicating.
 
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I know it is only aurally seductive sound bites to ameliorate the reality of dispensing with the manager but what exactly is Acun's preferred type of football that didn't align with Shota's? And if you know what it is, what potential candidates have a track record of this style of play, whatever it may be?
 
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Ullofaman said:
I know it is only aurally seductive sound bites to ameliorate the reality of dispensing with the manager but what exactly is Acun's preferred type of football that didn't align with Shota's? And if you know what it is, what potential candidates have a track record of this style of play, whatever it may be?
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And how the **** did it take him so long to realise given they were apparently BFFs and had been discussing City for some time before the take over was official. WTF were they actually talking about.

Smacks of naivety. What a Cluster ****.
 
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Who ever gets it have a very difficult job, he not only as to improve the defence, he also as to make the midfield more competitive, the wide men have got start producing decent crosses into the box and he’s got to find a way of releasing Oscar by getting others around him to cause more havoc in the box. Not only this but he as to get the team to defend from corners better and start doing something at the other end from our set pieces. In other words it’s not just one area he as to improve it’s more or less the lot. Not easy with the same players so he’s going to have to be good.
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
I woudn't think so.
More like horrendous luck with injuries, scatter gun recruitment, no strong spine recruited, lack of real leaders on the pitch, over-estimation of the quality of last years defence, severe lack of real pace (only partly due to injuries). And problems with communicating.
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Oh is that all? <laugh>
 
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I think Carvalhal would be a sound appointment. He’s got relevant experience and done a decent job at this level (and higher…I think he made a decent fist of it at Swansea). He comes across as having a bit of personality and passion. Possibly everything Arveladze wasn’t.
 
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johnbo said:
Who ever gets it have a very difficult job, he not only as to improve the defence, he also as to make the midfield more competitive, the wide men have got start producing decent crosses into the box and he’s got to find a way of releasing Oscar by getting others around him to cause more havoc in the box. Not only this but he as to get the team to defend from corners better and start doing something at the other end from our set pieces. In other words it’s not just one area he as to improve it’s more or less the lot. Not easy with the same players so he’s going to have to be good.
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In the short term stop conceding and take it from there maybe.
 
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