| Steve Bruce out on his arse 16:28 - Oct 3 with 9514 views | Jigsore |
that's unfortunate, quite fancied our chances against his ragtag bunch again this season. |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:30 - Oct 3 with 6947 views | Lblock |
They said a cabbage was thrown at him last night - I think it may actually have been an exact copy of his head |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:31 - Oct 3 with 6942 views | DannyPaddox |
Another chapter begins ... [Post edited 3 Oct 2018 16:37]
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:35 - Oct 3 with 6918 views | Jigsore |
which begs the question... is sacking Bruce this far into the season after backing him in the summer merely stupidity from Villa's board or is it an indication of brassica balls | |
| “The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.†|
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:41 - Oct 3 with 6864 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:35 - Oct 3 by Jigsore |
which begs the question... is sacking Bruce this far into the season after backing him in the summer merely stupidity from Villa's board or is it an indication of brassica balls |
Was he the Italian full back they signed? |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:43 - Oct 3 with 6850 views | Harbour |
The money they spent the players he signed he has not done very well...just 2 points ahead of us. No wonder he has gone. Really hope we do them at LR |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:47 - Oct 3 with 6824 views | WrightUp5hit___ |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:35 - Oct 3 by Jigsore |
which begs the question... is sacking Bruce this far into the season after backing him in the summer merely stupidity from Villa's board or is it an indication of brassica balls |
Ouch.
Nonetheless, if they don't get out of the Championship this season, they are well and truly fooked in FFP terms. Had their chance to claw their way out by selling Grealish this summer, but signed even more and rolled the dice. |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 17:04 - Oct 3 with 6737 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Perfect job for Steve McClaren
PLEASE!!! |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 17:27 - Oct 3 with 6607 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Don't normally enjoy people losing their jobs but I find it hard to feel sorry for any manager, or indeed any club, who sign a proven racist and make him captain. |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 17:28 - Oct 3 with 6594 views | Phildo |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:30 - Oct 3 by Lblock |
They said a cabbage was thrown at him last night - I think it may actually have been an exact copy of his head |
No one knows what it was as he quickly picked it up and ate it |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 17:31 - Oct 3 with 6576 views | hopphoops |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 16:31 - Oct 3 by DannyPaddox |
Another chapter begins ... [Post edited 3 Oct 2018 16:37]
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... of his "Striker" saga please god.
Creative writing by Mytch_QPR 20 Aug 2015 9:44In celebration of our comeback (my prediction of a 4-1 win wasn't quite right but was in the right spirit) and inspired by Steve Bruce's talents as a literary genius, I thought we could combine heads to start a story - written in the same style as the Bard Bruce. Everyone can contribute, say 300 words (3,000 if you're Neil) and we'll see how the plot develops:
Chris Ramsbottom, manager of struggling Kings Park Rovers, reversed neatly into his parking bay at Leftus Avenue and admired the impressive stadium from the windows of his Mercedes CLS. He pushed the button to engage the electro-retractable roof, which was fitted as standard to this model, and let the all alloy 3 litre engine rest to a halt. It was a desirable motor, no doubt about that - but it would all mean nothing if the Rs failed to beat Botherham in this Saturday's 6 pointer.
He had a fit body and sprinted up the steps into the bowels of the stadium. In his plush office, he reclined into his Simon Barker Knoll chair and asked Julie, his attractive blonde secretary to brew him a Lapsang Suchong tea. He'd fought many battles from the touchlines, but today this battle was going to be taking place in the boardroom as he prepared to try to hold on to his star striker, Charlie Boston. It was going to mean some hard talking with his Director of Football, Des Birdinhand and the tough-talking tycoon from Malaysia who owned KPR - Terry Fir-Nandos.
Julie leaned across the desk, giving Chris a revealing view as she served his tea.
"Are you alright", she asked - sensing the tension in the room.
"I'm fine", Chris lied - "just got a busy day ahead, that's all".
He could feel the beads of sweat already forming on his forehead.
"Well, let me know of there is anything I can do for you" Julie purred, seductively.
He sensed an emphasis on the word 'anything' and for a few moments his mind wandered.
Then, suddenly, his Apricot 9 mobile phone sprung into life - playing the theme of TVs Steptoe and Son. Chris was expecting this call...
To be continued...
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 17:54 - Oct 3 with 6492 views | Boston |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 17:28 - Oct 3 by Phildo |
No one knows what it was as he quickly picked it up and ate it |
Let's just say he won't have the money to stay at the Savoy anymore. | |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 18:09 - Oct 3 with 6440 views | Dorse |
Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Almighty Atheismo - please let them go for Redknapp... |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 19:27 - Oct 3 with 6299 views | NoDiddley |
There wage bill must be as much as the national debt.
Abraham, Bolasie et al............................ |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 19:44 - Oct 3 with 6244 views | loftboy |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 17:27 - Oct 3 by BrianMcCarthy |
Don't normally enjoy people losing their jobs but I find it hard to feel sorry for any manager, or indeed any club, who sign a proven racist and make him captain. |
Don’t think he will need to be signing on any time soon Brian. |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 19:58 - Oct 3 with 6215 views | bosh67 |
The guy turned up for work after losing both parents in rapid succession. Just got on and did his best. Take my hat off to him. Villa and the board are a bunch of w*nkers. |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 20:09 - Oct 3 with 6186 views | aston_hoop |
boyhood Villa fan Dean Smith the favourite.... |  |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 20:42 - Oct 3 with 6098 views | Lblock |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 18:09 - Oct 3 by Dorse |
Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Almighty Atheismo - please let them go for Redknapp... |
Whheeeellll...yer know..... fentestic club, top, top, top owners..... pwopa football peeple
Yer know..... I fink they’re just 5 or 6 players away from being up there
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 20:51 - Oct 3 with 6076 views | PeterHucker |
Apparently the cabbage thing was just the latest incident.
Previously someone threw the upper part of a lettuce at him.
That was just the tip of the iceberg. |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 21:00 - Oct 3 with 6054 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
I always get nervous when Steve Bruce is unemployed and we are halfway through a season with the same manager.
This scenario crops up quite frequently |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 21:27 - Oct 3 with 6001 views | Hunterhoop |
Why is there no link to a snippet from one of his Striker series?!
That’s the only reason I click on Steve Bruce threads. I thought it was a rule of this board someone with a link or in possession of a book from the series would regale us with a snippet. |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 21:30 - Oct 3 with 5993 views | aston_hoop |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 21:27 - Oct 3 by Hunterhoop |
Why is there no link to a snippet from one of his Striker series?!
That’s the only reason I click on Steve Bruce threads. I thought it was a rule of this board someone with a link or in possession of a book from the series would regale us with a snippet. |
Go on then...
https://www.balls.ie/football/steve-bruce-novel-293169 | |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 21:31 - Oct 3 with 5990 views | Northernr |
Bosh makes a point worthy of attention, about how he handled that horrible situation last year where he lost both his parents at the same time. That's an evil thing to happen to a person. I lost my dad 20 years ago and I'm still not over it, to lose both parents at once is unimaginable. In my experience they made me go straight back to school, preached how important it was to "get back to normality", kept going on about how important my fcking GCSEs were, when in actual fact I needed some time off and it just built bitterness and resentment making me go and sit in a sht school with sht people while feeling sht. Carrying on with a stressful job like football manager while dealing with that must be near impossible, and he was very dignified through the whole thing. Probably, in a way, good that he's been sacked, he can go and have a proper break and a rest.
However...
If you actually assess the job he's done there from a football point of view, it's on a Redknapp level of appalling. He's been allowed to spend £12m on a striker three times - Scott Hogan can't get fit and is stuck to the bench, Ross McCormack can't get out of his own garden, and Jonathan Kodija is in and out. £36m later they're still reliant on loaning in Lewis Grabban last year and Tammy Abraham this. And he's allowed to do that, despite wasting all that money. We spunked one £2m load on Connor Washington and that was it, money gambled, no more strikers for you.
He let's Nathan Baker, good Championship centre back out of their youth team, go to Bristol City for nothing moaning about FFP. He does it to create room for Big Racist John, who spends half the week at Chelsea, and Chris Samba, who's fcking rubbish. When they're both clearly done and released at the end of the season he starts moaning about not having enough centre backs, while Baker gets into the League Cup semi-final at Bristol City.
He has Albert Adomah as his POTY, tries to bomb him out on deadline day, fails, and benches him. He's allowed to sign Yannick Bolasie, a winger Everton paid £25m for, and he doesn't know what to do with him, so he's on the bench. He bankrupts the club once, misses promotion doing it, gets kept on by another rich owner who lets him spend a whole load more money, and they're still crap.
He's got Grealish, Bolasie, Adomah, Kodija, Hogan, Abraham, Hourihane, Lansbury and Green to pick from - all bar Grealish he's signed - and he can't win games at Championship level, against teams like us, Rotherham, Preston, Reading and so on. All the while keeps trotting out nonsense about how hard his job is, how nobody else would want it, how badly done to he's been, how few options he's got.
He's taken the absolute pis there. |  | | |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 21:57 - Oct 3 with 5912 views | BerkoRanger |
| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 20:51 - Oct 3 by PeterHucker |
Apparently the cabbage thing was just the latest incident.
Previously someone threw the upper part of a lettuce at him.
That was just the tip of the iceberg. |
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| Steve Bruce out on his arse on 22:06 - Oct 3 with 5868 views | WrightUp5hit___ |
Actually, he is a Harry Redknapp for the next generation.
He has achieved certain success but everywhere he has been he has left after doing the clubs money big time.
Birmingham
Wigan
Sunderland
Hull
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