naughtynose
Striker
I dont know what to think anymore, sensible post like. I'd just sack the **** anyway for his own good and we need refreshing
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What facts to back up Bruce are you talking about Riv?
There's a few facts against him. Not sure which ones support him..
Out of the side last season though we had 5 players on loan, all which neded replacing. Then given the number of injuries we got hit with AFTER January, it was obvious we needed more squad players in. We were fielding a bench at times with 4 or 5 youth players in. That is not a position any premiership club should be in.
I thikn it's safe to say also that he has brought in 3 quality players all from Champions League teams in Brown, O'Shea and Bendtner.
Some people need to get a grip like and realise just how far we've come in 5 years, do people want us to do a Leeds or something? F*cking hoenstly man, there some right clueless f*cks out there!
Out of the side last season though we had 5 players on loan, all which neded replacing. Then given the number of injuries we got hit with AFTER January, it was obvious we needed more squad players in. We were fielding a bench at times with 4 or 5 youth players in. That is not a position any premiership club should be in.
I thikn it's safe to say also that he has brought in 3 quality players all from Champions League teams in Brown, O'Shea and Bendtner.
Some people need to get a grip like and realise just how far we've come in 5 years, do people want us to do a Leeds or something? F*cking hoenstly man, there some right clueless f*cks out there!
Yet that dreadful squad survived twice in the Premier League, under apparently worse managers than Bruce. Bruce's starting position at Sunderland was alot better than alot seem to think. How many players has he brought since then?But when you look at the team he took over, it was a dreadful squad, we didn't have the best starting 11 and absolutely no cover at all.
last season when people criticised this, people supporting it were saying it was beneficial to test what the players are like, before we buy. It is amazing more clubs don't do it if thats the case.Who made that decision?
May I be the first to say: utter bollocks. Bruce is the luckiest manager in the premiership by far: great chairman, financially supportive owner, big crowds of passionate, knowledgeable supporters and - most importantly - at least 4 other teams in the division worse than his team.
Ok, some of the issues with playing staff have been unexpected and little Bruce could do about them, but there are two glaring issues which are difficult to defend. Squad balance and tactics.
It was clear last season (and infact since Keane took over) that we did not have enough defenders. We lost two, bought two and lost one. He has left us with a very small number of defenders and as injuries mount up we could be back to Elmo and Richardson as fullbacks. I fear this is really going to come back and haunt us.
Tactics. Who knows what Bruce will do next? 4-5-1 has not been working yet he persists with it. We had a couple of games at 4-4-2 and picked up points. Now we are back to defending deep and hoping to nick one. For some of that time, Sess was played up front on his own. It is clear to all around he is dangerous in midfield but anonymous as a lone 'striker'. Brighton was the worst, playing with no strikers at all.
So Bruce has poor tactics, can't change it when it is going wrong or waits until far too late in the game, has brought in many players yet we still have no depth in major parts of the squad. If he can't do the off-pitch properly and gets the on-pitch wrong, why is he still here?
We showed promise when he went 2 up front, looked like given a good run the team could gel and we had a bit of a goal threat. Whickham got injured and his bottle went and reverts back to his beloved 451. Ji could quite easily of came in and done a job until Whickham came back. But no 1st chance to build any momentum he changes things.
Bruce should have gone 31/10/10.....
He has overstayed his welcome.
Small time mentality.
Ji had just travelled half way round the world 2 or 3 days earlier, so would have been in no fit state to play. Look at what happened for his country when he played so soon after travelling, he got took off at half time.
I really think Bruce's hand was forced on sat to play 4-5-1 rather than playing it through choice.
We also were missing Seb on Saturday as he offers us alot more than Elmo does. I honeslty believe we'll turn the corner sooner rather than later and put a few good results together.
We were missing two players and that meant we had to change the system. Doesn't appear to be much planning gone into that.
My major problem with Bruce is there doesn't seem to be any method to his decisions, no master plan, just a collection of players.