Kuwabatake Sanjuro
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The only homegrown player of note that he has brought through that I can think of is Jordan Henderson, I thought he may have played a part in developing Andy Johnson years ago but he sold him fairly quickly after taking over to sign Clinton Morrison instead. Andrew Robertson was a good signing who got his chance when young.
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I'd really much rather see Easah Suliman get a chance towards the end of the season to be honest. I don't think Steve Bruce has any sort of record when it comes to bringing through and developing home grown players so over the hill mercenaries get priority.
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Anything less than 4 points from Bristol and Rotherham and League 1 is on the horizon. I'd expect defeats in the other 2 games.
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Stam and Wagner are non runners and if they were interested now I wouldn't be interested. Both look like very good managers doing excellent jobs but if they were the type to leave their teams in the lurch while in the hunt for promotion to go to a relegation struggler for more money it wouldn't reflect well on their personalities. In the summer sure if circumstances are right.
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And that isn't going to change under the current manager.
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It won't take a lot to stay up, just an average manager with balls. The only problem with that is that we would have to sack an average manager again next season when under performing and start again. No half measures, get the right man in now and build from there.
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Only 32 but injuries lost him his contract at Panathinaikos according to wikipedia. Could probably do a job still if we are defending deep and playing for draws and he is a mercenary so he should fit in well.
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Not a terrible night, still a cushion to Wigan, Venky's might shoot themselves in the foot but they could do well with their next appointment. Burton picked up a decent away point but Brentford and QPR are both safe enough now. Everyone from ourselves and below still in danger, SHA will scrape a few points up somewhere even if they are every bit as much in freefall.
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Why are Dean Smith, Rowett and Warburton the most mentioned managers still. They'd all keep Villa up but have fans lost all sense of ambition at all that they will settle for bog standard championship managers. This is meant to be a big club with a supposedly wealthy owner who wants to go places, no more half measures for me.
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A QPR win would be good as it keeps Wigan a bit back.
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Consistently hiring bad managers and overpaying for average players (fees and wages), it will take a long time to turn things around as the current regime has continued to make bad mistakes. Getting a capable manager in would be a start.
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Both reasonable and acceptable appointments for a championship club but hopefully the club will have greater ambition. Smith would be an arsehole if he left Brentford at this stage of the season when they aren't yet safe and I don't think he would. Rowett obviously is a good manager but he is not the sort I'd be pinning the future of the club on. The main thing is that Bruce is replaced as soon as possible though.
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I wonder who the other 9 candidates other than Bruce was on the short-list when he got the job? There is plenty in that interview with OBE that is sensible but the people being hired have been underwhelming, Ian Atkins in particular did not inspire confidence. He needs to be brave now and even if he gets on well with Bruce needs to have the balls to go to Tony and tell him it won't be working out.
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How do the likes of Huddersfield, Fulham, Reading etc manage it? Squandering vast sums on Championship level players in transfer fees and wages when the money would be far better spent on a proper talented manager who would know how to set up a team and develop players.
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Who would have thought last September that we would have no strikers left available by February with the numbers we had.
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Not that I'm happy about it but I got attacked for mentioning the possibility of it a month ago. I wrongly thought that getting Hourihane and Lansbury in might help avoid getting sucked in though. I wouldn't worry too much about the result tonight, it changes little but it will be important to have a replacement for Bruce lined up withtin the next 2 weeks. Hogan being out is obviously a big blow too but if we do manage to scrape a couple of wins somewhere at least some youngsters might get a chance to be blooded.
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Tony Xia (no longer involved with AVFC)
Kuwabatake Sanjuro replied to Vancvillan's topic in Other Football
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73rd minute
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Bruce rarely makes any changes before the 73rd minute.
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Was unlucky at Leeds too but he did well there.
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Ah well they put up a good performance and worked hard for 40mins. Not a hope of getting an equalizer though.
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Yeah faith healers are the future of football. It is nearly 20 years since he was a good manager and he is a weirdo. No thanks to Hoddle.
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I'd like to be somewhat positive but between the confidence Newcastle have, their extra quality in attack, their organisation without the ball, their fired up fans and electric atmosphere I can really see a hammering on the cards. One positive from this it would help quicken the sacking of Bruce. Another positive is that I'm usually wrong about football so we might have a chance.
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Apologies if posted before but is very relevant. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/nov/30/steve-bruce-sunderland-sacked Over 5 years later and he hasn't improved. Mike Phelan was the main reason Hull got promoted last season in my view.
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If the club do manage a couple of wins and pull away from the relegation zone then there is no reason why he shouldn't be given a chance. The likes of Elphick are never going to amount to much so he should be put in ahead of him in the pecking order anyway. Would he be better suited to partnering Chester or Baker? Chester might be a more balanced set up but Baker would make up for the lack of robustness.
