Did we sack Bruce too early?


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It was pretty shocking though. I'm not saying the fans were wrong, we pay our hard-earned, so we buy the right to criticise in which ever way we choose, but it's not something I'd ever do.
Me either. I had a season ticket for over 25 years and the only time I ever booed was last time Kevin Ball was manager,at full time after a notorious defeat.I was about the only fucker left around me mind.

They way people talk it's like Bruce was geordially abused for months on end.
 
he had his moments, both good and bad, sadly his bad moments were far longer.

you could argue if not for the sale of bent things would still be rosy, that seemed to pull the carpet from under us

I won't be popular for saying it but if we'd been paying him more than £35k a week, he might have stayed longer. He is after all a greedy, greedy get.
 
It's probably already been said but the way he began to criticise the fans for his own shortcomings was pretty unbeleivable. Nearly conceding from a corner because the fans egged the players forward too much / the new players now knowing about the pressure from the fans expectations blah blah.
I would welcome 99% of most ex players and managers back and give them a good reception but not this waster.
 
Sacked in November.

There was no certainty that we would go down, considering he still had a January window to sort things.
 
Should have been sacked earlier if anything.
This is how I remember it, the Wigan game was the final nail in the coffin. We got rid on my 21st birthday and got MON in on me best mates 21st felt like we had both had cracking birthday presents from the club at the time.

I do think that if first bent and then gyan hadn't shafted us things could have been different for Bruce he seemed to be laying the foundations for something but we waited too long to get rid IMHO
 
This is how I remember it, the Wigan game was the final nail in the coffin. We got rid on my 21st birthday and got MON in on me best mates 21st felt like we had both had cracking birthday presents from the club at the time.

I do think that if first bent and then gyan hadn't shafted us things could have been different for Bruce he seemed to be laying the foundations for something but we waited too long to get rid IMHO
Bruce's problem was that he laid the foundations for absolutely nothing imo, everything was quick short term hits and it caught up with him eventually
 
Bruce's problem was that he laid the foundations for absolutely nothing imo, everything was quick short term hits and it caught up with him eventually
At the time though we needed quick short fixes. A little bit like now (admittedly because of Bruces last summer here) he came in at a time when we had shite like Healy McCartney ect left over in massive wages from the last regime which meant we needed short term fixes until we could get rid of the drain on wages. When he brought the likes of Gardiner and Larsson ect in they were seemingly better than what we had at the time. It's all speculation and conjecture however and as I said before I think we waited too long to get rid of him I just wonder what might have been if bent and gyan hadn't sold us up the river.
 
At the time though we needed quick short fixes. A little bit like now (admittedly because of Bruces last summer here) he came in at a time when we had shite like Healy McCartney ect left over in massive wages from the last regime which meant we needed short term fixes until we could get rid of the drain on wages. When he brought the likes of Gardiner and Larsson ect in they were seemingly better than what we had at the time. It's all speculation and conjecture however and as I said before I think we waited too long to get rid of him I just wonder what might have been if bent and gyan hadn't sold us up the river.
We didn't though, really. We certainly didn't need to fill the squad with loan players in 2010 - it summed him up when he bemoaned the loan players returning to their clubs as reasons why we were struggling the following season, as if it was totally unexpected. You could say he was unlucky that Bent decided to leave, but you could also argue that he was lucky that Bent stayed injury free and in form throughout his first season as we'd have been relegated without him, the whole team was built around him which isn't healthy. The reason he signed so many players in the first place was because he signed player after player without having any clue of their best position or how they'd fit in the squad.

Gardner, Vaughan (and to a lesser extent at the time, Larsson) were shite signings at the time - replacing quality in Henderson and Malbranque with dross. He was like a kid on Football Manager throughout his tenure. Credit to him for his first 18 months, but I always felt it was built on sand
 
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