Stephen_Evans Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 34 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said: I mean, we were 19th when he took over. So not really the relegation zone. I guess we were there or thereabouts. Steve Bruce himself used to trot out this nonsense. We must have slipped into the bottom 3 without anybody noticing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-R Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 SO for all the time Bruce was with us I'd say yeah he got us to a play off final, which failed. I would say Bruce made our players come together more, not that it should of been a hard task to complete. I would only thank him for John Mcginn, but don't know if he had anything to do with that signing, I would say Mcginn was his accomplishment at villa. Despite certain signings it's clear that bruce wasted an awful lot of money which in turn put us in a dreadful place of our club nearly going into administration, wasn't just xia's fault. Spending over 80 million on a team yet failing promotion tells me he's not the promotion specialist everyone says him to be. Apart from the above, bruce alienated players, didn't train players, had a go at fans on occasions, left our team in disarray, played players in wrong positions, gave boring interviews, played boring football, couldn't make results work. I think that's about it but feel free to add to that second paragraph, surely I've left something out. All in all bruce was a massive disappointment while in charge at our club and I hope he joins the championship So our team can rip his to shreds with his dinoball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Also the low net spend argument is so bullshit. We were paying crazy wages. Hogan is on more than 90% of the championship for example. We signed John Terry. It was free, but he was on 70k/week. He's got some balls defending his dad when he's getting absolutely embarrassed by Dean Smith right now though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skruff Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Glad we got Mr.Dean instead. However I wish him luck if he ends up in a new job. Maybe he'll find motivation and succeed. Might be a far better match with another club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 7 hours ago, lapal_fan said: He's right. But I'd argue against the squad being good. It's severely unbalanced because of the summer. But we are in a better place than when he came. He just lost his momentum after losing against Fulham. But in the grand scheme of things - a play off final means nothing. He failed in his objectives in successive seasons, I'd shut up banging on about reaching a play off final if I were Bruce jnr it's really not a big deal. And if the squad they left us with is so good - who is the reason they were under performing at that point in time. Bruce and his cronies did not leave VP with their heads held high. If I were them i'd keep my shout and just be thankful a good club looks like they are giving them work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 it's just a kid defending his dad. At least he's not being HYSTERICAL!!! like us fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Dave J said: But in the grand scheme of things - a play off final means nothing. He failed in his objectives in successive seasons, I'd shut up banging on about reaching a play off final if I were Bruce jnr it's really not a big deal. And if the squad they left us with is so good - who is the reason they were under performing at that point in time. Bruce and his cronies did not leave VP with their heads held high. If I were them i'd keep my shout and just be thankful a good club looks like they are giving them work. Bang on. - Both as deluded as each other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Good to see Alex still trawls twitter for criticism of his Dad he can run back and report. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) https://twitter.com/AlexBruce84/status/1076592818402021376 Alex Bruce gets the PR campaign started again. Bruce and his cronies were still working their PR machine to highlight what a 'great' job he did at Sunderland up until recently. it will begin with Villa, like it did with them. Constant slagging off of the club and our fans will soon come, I guarantee it. The sooner these words removed **** off and retire the better. Parasites. Edited December 23, 2018 by rodders0223 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 23 hours ago, Zatman said: Sheffield Wednesday have a tough Christmas period. Might be relegation battle Him taking the job when he gets off holiday starting to make sense teflon that bloke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 Parasite has ruined us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Today just highlights the mess he left us in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Please get a new club asap, we need to get rid of Hutton, Elmo, Whelan, Jedi and Nyland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Elmo to Wednesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 With resources he got was easily worst manager in Villa history 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2018 7 hours ago, Zatman said: With resources he got was easily worst manager in Villa history Nonsense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 8 hours ago, Zatman said: With resources he got was easily worst manager in Villa history In this division absolutely. He is up there with the likes of Sherwood and McLeish in modern times, definately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Having followed us since 1975 - I can say that McLeish and Bruce are the two managers who left me feeling completely and utterly underwhelmed on their appointment and I can say with hindsight I actually prefer McCleish the man. Billy McNeil will probably go down as my worst manager - although he was at least in the top flight - not like Bruce fudging around in the second tier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I gave McLeish a lot of shit when he was here but in hindsight he did a better job than Bruce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 I pray to god that Bruce gets the Wednesday job. He’ll take a few of our deadweight off us straightaway and that will help to give Smith the headroom he needs to bring in some proper players. Hopefully he can start by taking some of his aging right backs and Jedinak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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