WalthamOwl Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Hope this comes off, compared to when we appointed Carlos and Jos someone like Bruce who knows the championship inside out, has a very good promotion record, is English and is a name everyone knows is everything the majority of the fanbase wanted. Also I think players will want to play for Bruce and we may be able to attract some decent loan signings because of his name. I still have doubts if he will agree to come here but personally I hope he does and it is announced ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owls-Fan Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Let’s not forget that Bruce always seems to attract top players too. Dugarry to Birmingham, Terry to Villa, the Hull team was full of good players. I think he may get better out of Fernando too. He’s not afraid to have Mavericks in his teams. Let’s hope he has some money to spend I January and then it could be a good 5 months to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scilly owl Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 21 hours ago, torres said: Ask the fans of all his previous clubs He gets pelters from all of them. Scouring past reports on all his tenures he doesn’t get great press from any of them. Which is alarming to say he has promotions on his CV. For me he wouldn’t be the right appointment for the following reasons, Never thought he’s done a good job, all been par for the course or worse Feel he’s in the Mark Hughes, Bryan Robson, Paul Ince bracket - good contacts, well known but not going to ever push a team on Does he have the fire, ambition, desire to take us on? (Fact he’s having a holiday first doesn’t fill me with confidence on his desire) A lot of money to entice him. “Never thought he’s done a good job” ? Were you thinking that at Wembley when his team outmuscled us in the playoff final ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie snerklebox Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 22 hours ago, torres said: Ask the fans of all his previous clubs He gets pelters from all of them. Scouring past reports on all his tenures he doesn’t get great press from any of them. Which is alarming to say he has promotions on his CV. For me he wouldn’t be the right appointment for the following reasons, Never thought he’s done a good job, all been par for the course or worse Feel he’s in the Mark Hughes, Bryan Robson, Paul Ince bracket - good contacts, well known but not going to ever push a team on Does he have the fire, ambition, desire to take us on? (Fact he’s having a holiday first doesn’t fill me with confidence on his desire) A lot of money to entice him. You do realize he's lost BOTH his parents this year and understandably wants to spend this Christmas with his family? Hardly a hanging offense that is it pal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouncing Owl Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Just now, stevie snerklebox said: You do realize he's lost BOTH his parents this year and understandably wants to spend this Christmas with his family? Hardly a hanging offense that is it pal? Completely agree. He’s a good guy is Bruce as well. Very straight talking and decent bloke. We should all get behind him when he comes in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilnil Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 1 minute ago, stevie snerklebox said: You do realize he's lost BOTH his parents this year and understandably wants to spend this Christmas with his family? Hardly a hanging offense that is it pal? Yep, I think some forget managers/ players etc are human beings too! Have a lovely Christmas Owlstalk :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theowlsman Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I don’teven know what the bloody question is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plonk Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Well we need a british manager with experience and promotions from this league according to the owlstalk massive. He ticks that box. As as for his “ failing “ at Villa. Weren’t they in a relegation battle when he took over. Took them to the play off final and left with a 45pc win rate. A ration only bettered by three Wednesday managers. as For him being a cheque book manager I believe he made a net profit at villa and spent a relatively small amount to take hull up. He will I’ll do for me. With yesterday’s team, FF bannan winall hooper and fingers crossed KL to come back I would say we are two full backs short of being a decent side. For once we will have a manager that will see where the problems are and address them. I think we will also see a settled side and formation within a few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakefieldowl Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 His track record is great...... all this about villa, but he got them to the play off final last year ! I think we'd all be pretty happy with that after the last few months. I'm quite excited by it now. We still have a bloody good squad and it will be interesting to see how he gets the best out of westy, hutch, FF, fletch, onomah, hector, Lee's, reach, Brannon etc Plus the thought of Hooper and Lee being added and developing a good crop of youngsters would be brilliant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wilyfox Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 If Steve Bruce is the answer, then we should probably go and get Steve Bruce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torres Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 1 hour ago, scilly owl said: “Never thought he’s done a good job” ? Were you thinking that at Wembley when his team outmuscled us in the playoff final ? They had the one of If not the best team in the league, having come down. I felt the same when Newcastle went up. Benitez did what was par for the course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyblack Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 22 minutes ago, Bouncing Owl said: Completely agree. He’s a good guy is Bruce as well. Very straight talking and decent bloke. We should all get behind him when he comes in. Like we did with Jos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torres Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 23 minutes ago, stevie snerklebox said: You do realize he's lost BOTH his parents this year and understandably wants to spend this Christmas with his family? Hardly a hanging offense that is it pal? *Realise *Offence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyblack Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, Plonk said: Well we need a british manager with experience and promotions from this league according to the owlstalk massive. He ticks that box. As as for his “ failing “ at Villa. Weren’t they in a relegation battle when he took over. Took them to the play off final and left with a 45pc win rate. A ration only bettered by three Wednesday managers. as For him being a cheque book manager I believe he made a net profit at villa and spent a relatively small amount to take hull up. He will I’ll do for me. With yesterday’s team, FF bannan winall hooper and fingers crossed KL to come back I would say we are two full backs short of being a decent side. For once we will have a manager that will see where the problems are and address them. I think we will also see a settled side and formation within a few months. Net profit at villa, are you sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyblack Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, wakefieldowl said: His track record is great...... all this about villa, but he got them to the play off final last year ! I think we'd all be pretty happy with that after the last few months. I'm quite excited by it now. We still have a bloody good squad and it will be interesting to see how he gets the best out of westy, hutch, FF, fletch, onomah, hector, Lee's, reach, Brannon etc Plus the thought of Hooper and Lee being added and developing a good crop of youngsters would be brilliant We dont have a good squad. We have an unbalanced injury riddled squad with aboutb dozen of those leaving post season, some maybe sooner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie snerklebox Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, torres said: *Realise *Offence Blimey, no downtime for the Grammar Police.... not even at Christmas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torres Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 1 minute ago, stevie snerklebox said: Blimey, no downtime for the Grammar Police.... not even at Christmas. English is a wonderful language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quist Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 He is certainly more of an answer than the previous two managers we have had. He knows people and always managers to get top players on loan. He had a difficult time at Villa probably due to Birmingham stint and he had difficult personal issues as well to contend with. The owner was crackers and clearly did not help and Villa had been in sharp decline and looked to be heading for league 1. He did manage to reach play off final last year which stopped the rot. Think we all have someone we would have liked in post (for me I thought Gary Monk would do a job doing marvellous job at Birmingham with limited resources) but Bruce is definitely acceptable to me and will support his tenure 100% Time to give grumbles a rest and get on board with new man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Like all managers it'll come down to timing. Will he be the right man at the right time. Proof will be in the pudding. He's certainly got experience of this division though and a rounded knowledge of the league so that means he's not starting behind from the off. Suspect he's going to have some very big decisions to make. With our financial situation I suspect some of them won't be popular. He'll just have to win games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beholder Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I wanted to see an attack minded manager but if its gonna be Bruce then fine. He has got a brilliant track record in this league and villa were so close to going up. I think we have the players for him to turn things around this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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