To use the old banking adage, "past performance is not a guarantee of future results" - that being said, Steve Bruce has taken teams out of this division before, Like @Stevo985 I don't expect Bruce to guarantee a promotion, guarantees in football are worth less than a ticket to a win a date auction with MacLeish and Lambert as the main attractions. I expect the club to hire somebody with a record of promotion (which he has) and give them long enough to turn this failing mentality around (which I think would be to give him a preseason in the summer and see where we are by Christmas)
I don't need us to play like barcelona
i don't need us to win every game
I do expect us to show promotion form next year and if we don't ? Then the Bruce out people will get what they want and I'll concede I was wrong.