Grasshopper

it‘s called „eternal hope for the improbable“

I‘m actually going to go with Bruce on this line up. IF............ Back 4 = check Jedi in at CB is a no brainer. Elmo as a RB with licence to push on will give Snod the oppertunity to play a little more in from the right. MF - Whelan holding - as expected. Onomah Hourihane getting up and down through the middle Snod - Grealish - Adomah as players trying to make something happen in the final third. Having no focal point up front may give Snod Onomah Grealish Hourihane & Adomah the chance to work the ball, run, carry and pass through at CB‘s who end up just waiting for someone running in on them. We could see a number of free-kicks around their box and Hourihane getting a goal or 2. However if its just a ploy to sit-back and grind out a 0-0 then Bruce has well and truly lost all sense of perspective as a manager

Not comparing him to BJ or DS But that said „player of movement“ (and scores goals) would be the description of a certain performer at Brentford last season. Hogan The irony of Bruce‘s greatest ever „protector of the faith“ stating that we need a player he indeed bought but couldnt get anything out of him. I predict a bad defeat v Derby and the confidence of DrT being severely disrupted.

Nuno just said „Enjoy - play football - and win“ Top o‘t leeeeeague

Derby 4-7 AVFC it is then 1 og and the other 6 from Gaby in the last 15mins

Re Bruce Derby Presser: How can it be „good“ to have played all of the top 8 away (by new year), when Bruce will have us playing like the „away team“ when we play them at home?

I apologize if reality puts you to sleep Siesta is good - just ask the foreigners

it was the EFL show Praising Rowett over Pep The irony is I can see Rowett „out-Bruce-Balling“ Bruce as his own game

Instead of „keeping it simple“ lets just 1 put our top assister in the stand for the first few games so we lose 2 lets play our hattrick scoring MFer 20yrds deeper so that he cant do it again 3 lets also play all of our „goal-scoring-for-previous-clubs-who-we-paid-a-lot-of-money-for-in-either-transfer-or-wages“ signings in a „not their natural“ position so as to comply with „s’Hit & hope Bruce-ball“

I really dont get the motto “lets be shit so we can be successful“ Being shit doesnt automatically mean you‘re successful I just saw on sky Ex-players (british) agreeing that the „pragmatic“ approach is better than Pep‘s WTF? when was the last time that a British Team (international or club), a british manager, a british player won ANYTHING of note? Who are the current PL Champs? World champs? Euro champs? CL champs? Ch champs? Who leads the PL? Ch? Who are the Major contributors to these successes? All British? British style in football is both shit and unsuccessful Bruce-Ball is shit

Too much intelligent logic there In the wonderful world of Bruceland there is a complete absence of conventional thinking

I‘ll take a wild guess that AS play more entertaining football than Bruce-Ball

Bree, Hogan, Lansbury, Whelan, Elmo If not transfer money, wages. Bree because he doesnt use him, if he insists on playing Hutton then both Bree and Elmo were wastes of money and Elmo who was bought to replace Adomah (top assister last season - top scorer this season) who he replaced with snod (Snod = good loan) Hogan because he thinks he can be Andy Lochhead Lansbury because he doesnt play him in his natural role (heaven forbid he scores) Whelan - replacing an „old injury prone Jedi“ with another oldie who cant contribute positive/progressive play Elmo - see above But you knew that already ***note Why buy a „squad“ when you use the same 11 till they all drop or get injured?

But Bruce has us playing like SunderBirmingHull Utd

should be in the Hutton thread

Yeah but they‘re wrong

over what range are you mark(ing) him? A B C or A B C D E F G ?

see the sensible replies from @srsmithusa & @JAMAICAN-VILLAN But I do get the irony even if the 3 „Like, Thanks & Haha“ didnt

I‘d give Bruce an F (for fail) since Jan 17 If he gets us to the Play Offs I‘d give him a P Off If he gets us Automatic promotion then I‘d still give him a P 45

Tro are you being serious?

The ONLY problem that is certain if and when we sack Bruce and appoint a new manager is: It‘ll take longer and longer to un-install the Shit programming that Bruce installed in our play and players the longer he is here.

...... to name a few From 40+ games You are joking are you not?

You raise the concer over a point which now is a „past point“ When the cycle started of: Promotion asap = RDM was appointed - invest in new players (selling as much of the old as possible) Didn‘t work so we: Sack appoint Bruce - invest in new players (selling old players) There was a clear intention of: appoint & invest for promotion. It didnt work last season so the board stay true to their original concept of „promotion asap“ for this season which may or may not work. The board chose a method and are sticking to it. It may work eventually or not at all ————————————— The alternative was to attempt to build on a continuum that would (ideally) get us promoted with foundations to continue building on albeit at a higher level As the now, we have no choice but to follow our leaders whether we agree with it or not. So promotion this season with Bruce then sack him is an option. *****note This current rolling contract thing is not right in my eyes Because When SB took over it was in the hope that his 4 promotions record would become 5 Had that have happened I guess noone would even suggest not keeping Bruce for the „further year of that rolling one year“ What I dont get is Bruce was kept on (me not agreeing with it doesnt change the fact) If the „rolling“ is still in his contract and not a „1 year contract with an option to extend“ then he effectively gets a full years compensation for failing (if we indeed dont go up) WTF? With a 1yr contract (extention possible) If we dont go up, the 1yr contract runs out, we dont have to sack him then fair‘s fair. He had his chance - failed - now he‘s free to go. If the „rolling“ meant He got us up - was sacked - 1yr compensation - I could live with that If he got us up - was kept on - but couldnt hack it - he would be sacked (we would have to compensate - not that I would agree with that as a reward for failure goes against my logic) There is also the possibility of Bruce taking us up - keeping us up - getting us into Europe - winning a cup - getting us into CL - winning the PL - winning the CL However, I‘ll leave that theory out there for someone else to explain

My Fit for a king Shit like a king Shit at the villa was taking an example to the extreme But point taken. How can Citeh justify £400mill for stadium sponsorship then? at what point is it justifyable to Sell Villa park to Recon for £500mill (with a conditional re-buy clause for £1 in the event of Recon selling up - rent-free) (Yes we‘d have a profit and a taxbill which we could offset by spending the 500mill) Hell we could re-buy & re-sell VP as often as we deem neccessary

No not cheap other posters have also comment on you evading the arguements against some of your points You related it directly to hogan I didnt see above comment So far this season, we have fielded at least one striker - Bruce has chosen to leave CF‘s of varying levels in the stands It‘s not ridiculous It is actually happenening I can not for the life of me understand why you say rubbish when it is exactly what he did Yes because IF you loan out a 20goal per season player, Bench or abuse another 20gps striker and have your very own 19gps out injured THE MANAGER ADJUSTS Especially when you have the likes of Adomah, Hourihane, Snod, Onomah, Grealish, Chester & Terry who you ca PLAY TO thats your opinion and perigative but I think you are wrong Absolutely So you defend him because people critisize him which you believe is in principle wrong, so you defend him anyway - ignoring the possibility that the critisism may have both merit & credibility? Maybe you could consider, reconsidering to avoid defending him en masse over everything