I’m seeing lots of fans on Twitter saying that we should be thankful that we’re in the current situation. Over the summer, we could’ve gone into administration and gone bust, we could’ve lost our best players like Grealish, Chester and Kodjia, Bruce could have even resigned and left us in the shit.
That’s all well and good. I am thankful that the new owners have come in and saved us and we still have a team that can be competitive in the division.
But, now that all the off-field stuff has been sorted, we have to judge the manager on the recent performances given the squad we have now.
Not much has changed since last season, really. Yes, we’ve lost Terry, but if you look at the rest of the team I think we have a squad that is even better than last year.
We have a much stronger midfield with McGinn. We have Bolasie and El Ghazi offering pace and quality in wide areas. Barring any serious injury, we have Kodjia back to his best on the evidence of his Brentford performance.
Given this, promotion has to be the target and it really ought to be through the automatic spots.
If we don’t see significant improvement in performances and with it convincing victories over the next month, Bruce has to be sacked as we can’t let Leeds and Boro open up a big margin at the top of the table.
Before we know it, we’ll be settling for a playoff spot again and we all know what the outcome of that will be.