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He was never big-time enough for that fan base and he was given a poor hand to work with. I doubt anyone could do much with that squad.
 
The Wallsend One sounds very hurt

Steve Bruce to
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: “I think it might be my last job. It has been very, very tough. To never really be wanted, to feel that people wanted me to fail & saying I would fail, that I was useless, a fat waste of space, a tactically inept cabbage head”.
 
Boo said:
He was never big-time enough for that fan base and he was given a poor hand to work with. I doubt anyone could do much with that squad.
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Spot on. The thing is with Bruce, he had us playing some really good stuff when Bent was banging in the goals. Unfortunately an inability to replace outgoings with equally better players and an over reliance on loan players helped lead to his downfall. His interviews didn't help him, regularly playing the pity card and talking about the fans as if we were clueless. The fans turning on him had nothing to do with where he was from.
 
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The Wallsend One sounds very hurt

Steve Bruce to
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: “I think it might be my last job. It has been very, very tough. To never really be wanted, to feel that people wanted me to fail & saying I would fail, that I was useless, a fat waste of space, a tactically inept cabbage head”.
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Sounds awful that mind.
 
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The Wallsend One sounds very hurt

Steve Bruce to
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: “I think it might be my last job. It has been very, very tough. To never really be wanted, to feel that people wanted me to fail & saying I would fail, that I was useless, a fat waste of space, a tactically inept cabbage head”.
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Absolutely bizarre that Geordies bang on about how amazing Geordies are, get one as manager and treat him that way.
 
They will encounter the same issues we used to have when we were managed by people like Jack Ross, Simon Grayson and Chris Coleman - guilty by association.

Just as good managers were put off by being contracted to a club ran by bad owners, and in our case of course it was Stewart Donald or Ellis Short, good managers will be put off I think by their new owner Mohammed bin Salman. In our case Short and Donald were just inept, in their case it is the link to a state known for human rights abuses.

Eddie Howe is the favourite along with Fonseca. Would either really be happy working alongside someone whose closely linked to the ruling family in a country we know Saudi Arabia to be?
 
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We didn’t treat him much better.
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Gave him a fair shake of the stick from the start, irrespective of his North East background. Football’s a results based business and we had relegation form prior to him leaving Sunderland. They didn’t give him a chance from the start and he was never high profile enough for their fragile egos. Plus he managed us, so that was never going to go down well.
 
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