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DaveH said:
Not sure what it has been like at the Mags but his failings have always had a similar pattern.

I do think he is good at coming into a struggling club, building confidence and atmosphere around a club, giving that lift and just generally upping things in the team. If that is a built team with players in natural positions and just not clicking, he gets it to click. But then that starts to wear off and worse than that, he starts recruiting. Some of it was ownership issues with us, but it has been the same everywhere. He buys who is available and not what is needed. That is one reason why we ended up with loads of slow, short, lacking creativity midfielders at the club. Players are then shoved out on the pitch without any real game plan and then subs are like for like.

I seem to remember that we often had 5-6 people playing out of position and then when we did buy, the signings looked like they might be good on paper but half the comments on here said "well they might be good player at the price, but not what we needed. We are desperate for a left winger" etc.

Apart from his time at Birmingham, where he spent a lot of money and struggled, he generally moves on after 3 years. It would not surprise me to see him gone by the end of November and as you say, for reasons that are not his fault. Probably the fans turned on him for his time at Sunderland.
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Kenny Cunningham was interviewed about Bruce and the article could have been written about his time with us.
 
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Tim Sherwood & Mark Hughes will probably take up offers at bigger Clubs like Burnley & Leyton Orient on hearing this news
 
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6inarow said:
He hasn't got the very apt moniker 'Steve Bruce - Mr Excuse' for nothing you know :D
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Spot on.
When he was here I posted summet like “When your name rhymes with excuse waddya gonna do?”.
I remember I was watching a lot of US mafia type fillums at the time and he was looking more n more like a failing mob leader every week so it seemed like summet the made men getting ready to whack him would say. See it’s all coming back to me now: going on the blankets etc

Edit: mattress ffs.
 
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Coeus said:
On a similar note and while I don't speak of the mags often, did anyone hear Shearer the other night on Motd? Saying that it was a husk of the club and that they have no ambition and he is sick of it etc..... who are on earth do they think they're?
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Shearer has a short memory, when he was a boy (pre-1992) they were a similar husk of a club with less ambition...
 
turnthetide3 said:
Shearer has a short memory, when he was a boy (pre-1992) they were a similar husk of a club with less ambition...
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Then SAFC knocking Hall back came back to haunt us big time.
Each of the NE Big3 cartel had happily spent next to nowt of the money coming through the cash turnstiles since the 50s in the knowledge that the other two weren’t gonna jump first. Enter stage left a scorned John Hall……
 
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Shearer has a short memory, when he was a boy (pre-1992) they were a similar husk of a club with less ambition...
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Im just not sure at what point of their history shows they should have divine right to be a contender for anything?

Can't stand this saying of "lack of ambition", it's ghastly, what it actually means is the owner isn't lumping debt on the club or he isn't personally bankrolling it to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds.
 
Coeus said:
On a similar note and while I don't speak of the mags often, did anyone hear Shearer the other night on Motd? Saying that it was a husk of the club and that they have no ambition and he is sick of it etc..... who are on earth do they think they're?
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This is the crux of the problem. Steve Bruce was a dead man walking from day one. They want an Arab or oligarch owner and a charismatic foreign manager who wears expensive suits. They'll settle for nothing less than buying their way to the top, like they did 25 years ago.

But what they fail to grasp, is that could just as easy happen at any club. And I dare say their case for preference is diminished by their conduct.

They hate me saying this but it's absolutely true. Newcastle are roughly where they should be in the hierarchy, and both Steve Bruce and Mike Ashley are doing reasonably OK.
 
TexasMackem said:
This is the crux of the problem. Steve Bruce was a dead man walking from day one. They want an Arab or oligarch owner and a charismatic foreign manager who wears expensive suits. They'll settle for nothing less than buying their way to the top, like they did 25 years ago.

But what they fail to grasp, is that could just as easy happen at any club. And I dare say their case for preference is diminished by their conduct.

They hate me saying this but it's absolutely true. Newcastle are roughly where they should be in the hierarchy, and both Steve Bruce and Mike Ashley are doing reasonably OK.
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Think Ashley has done a really good job to be honest, come unstuck a bit when he has spent big money.
 
Sabre Mag said:
Aye, think I read 8th on the list. We then offer him a 2 year rolling contract with a massive pay off if he's replaced. Some top decision making right there.

Who is he, I have genuinely not heard of him until I read this morning he could be in line for the Southampton job.
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I'd never heard of him either like
 
Talk on social media that Wilson is injured (again) and that he'll be out for while.

They are going to struggle massively to get out the bottom 3 this season without their usual decent start. ASM will have no doubt thrown his toys out the pram, and put in a transfer request by January to force a move.

Perhaps the funniest thing of all is Fat Mike still won't sack Bruce and its looking likely that we will meet them next season.
 
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