IWEDFM Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Collymore is a lunatic. I would take everything he says with a pinch of salt The guy is a wife beater and offers zero input in football. Decent striker back in his day but that was about 25 years ago The only opinions I value are of those who have played under Bruce, such as Clinton Morrison & Chris Kirkland 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hullite Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Lawrie’s Left Peg said: What do we really know about Steve Bruce? Achieved great success as a player with Man Utd winning 3 Prem Leagues, 3 FA Cups, 1 League Cup and the Eu Cup Winners' Cup therefore a proven winner. Trusted to captain Norwich, England B, Man Utd & Birmingham therefore a capable leader. Resigned at Pigs citing turmoil in the boardroom and a lack of funds. Quit Wigan for Palace, Palace for Birmingham. Birmingham for Wigan. Wigan for Sunderland. Quit Hull for Villa. Therefore questionable loyalty Sacked by Huddersfield, Sunderland & Villa. Therefore has struggled to turn round sinking ships. Promoted to Premier League with Birmingham (twice), Hull, (twice). Reached FA Cup final with Hull. Therefore capable of gaining promotion from the Championship. Pl. 886, W341 (38%) D219, L326. Therefore not exactly Guardiola, Ferguson or Shankly. However, probably the best available option given our current position. So, let’s forget opinion, anecdote and rumour. Let’s give the new manager 100% support and hope it’s the Birmingham / Hull Bruce that eventually turns up in Feb didn't quit hull for villa quit hull despite winning promotion to the premier league due to not being able to work with our owners was out of work for 3 months before taking villa job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrie’s Left Peg Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 16 minutes ago, hullite said: didn't quit hull for villa quit hull despite winning promotion to the premier league due to not being able to work with our owners was out of work for 3 months before taking villa job Never let facts get in the way of a good story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Starling Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Well lets hope that Bruce can sign us some players with same quality as Andy Robertson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Tibbs Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 8 hours ago, Castleford Owl said: Couldn't help reading that in Collymore's awful, whiny voice. How that bloke is still involved in the game, on a national platform, is beyond me. Horrible little woman-beating cretin. Doesn't say much for society when the like of Collymore & Carragher get jobs on the public eye. There are enough pundits around , who really needs them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archieswfc Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Who is collymore working for now? Wasn't he at talk sport a few years ago? I'm not sure he works there now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIGHERSTATE Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 17 hours ago, hawksmore said: I hope we scrape in to the play off's on the last day of the season, we play Derby in the semi's and smash them over both legs being the limp bottle boys they are, whilst Villa play the grunters in the other semi, who draw their last game of the season to drop out of the top 2. The pigs having bottled automatic, crumble against Villa, who are heavy favourites heading in to the final against us. We smash the Villains harder than Collymore bounced Ulrika's head about and Bruce helicopter's his chombie from the side of the pitch to a crying collymore sat n the stands Collymore can do one You have to read that in Danny Dyers voice after a busy lunchtime at the Queen Vic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Claw Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 needs to keep his head down after that https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/539485/heres-brutal-truth-about-night-stan-hit-ulrika-i-saw-it-all/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cognacbarnowl Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 21 hours ago, prowl said: There are 2 ways the Steve Bruce appointment will end either he will get a better offer from another club at some stage in the future or he will pass his sell by date with us and the clamour for his sacking will eventually force him out. Until that time I'm going to enjoy the ride and hope it takes us to the Premier League. OR, ( in my own wonderfully utopian optimistic world anyway, ), he stays in charge for the next ten years, turning us into and attractive footballing top six team with regular European football and a few trophies to brighten up our trophy cabinet. Finally riding off happily into the sunset with Mr Chansiri and leaving us in the capable hands of the best new manager and chairman/owner IN THE WORLD. And don't come back and pi ss on my parade please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hullite Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 not only Andy Robertson (just flick through the names if ya don't wanna get bored, but these are the players he signed that worked and im sure you lot will see signings of this calibre as long as the ffp dosent hamper you too much) Not many young up and coming apart from Robertson Maguire and Clucas Odubajo Harry Maguire - englands hero after being our hero but mainly after brucie left cos he always picked his son alex ahead of harry Abel Hernandez - blew hot and cold but knew where the net was at championship level tom Huddlestone fantastic signing for a tin pot club like ours Michael Dawson great signing Mo Diame you lot wont remember him shane long, good signing always gonna be too good to stay at little old hull Jake Livermore - again a great signing Robert Snodgrass one game then injured for 14 months but helped us get promoted and then west ham nicked him - another good signing eventually Robbie brady who was a good buy for us and left for Norwich and is now at burnley Ahmed Elmohamady was one of our stars and best buys Gaston Ramirez never rreally worked out Ben Arfa same as above sone aluko who did ok with us then had a good season with Fulham before fading at reading Stephen quinn who was dependable and did ok at reading before again fading David meyler dependable no frills midfielder who was again ok Moses Odubajo loads of potential but was out with an injury for yonks Sam Clucas from chesterfield grew into a fine player for us George Boyd a great signing who went on to play for 2 seasons in the prem for burnley and now with you lot but past his best. Allan McGregor decent goalie player of the year one season Curtis davies - good solid player who was again a great buy those 23 plusses were balanced with 23 poor signings but luckily for us hardly any of those were expensive flops we went up to the prem twice and got relegated once under brucie so he was a massive plus for us yet still some idiots feel they can slag him off cos he couldn't keep us up. apologies for boring (to you lot) post but I couldn't help drooling looking at some of those players and thinking what we'd give to have a few of those in their prime again at hull I didn't take too much notice of what was happening at villa but noticed even when their side was on a good run he was still taking loads of stick from their fans for not playing expansive flowing football maybe because you've been out of the prem a lot longer than villa you might be willing to forgive him of this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowl Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 3 hours ago, cognacbarnowl said: OR, ( in my own wonderfully utopian optimistic world anyway, ), he stays in charge for the next ten years, turning us into and attractive footballing top six team with regular European football and a few trophies to brighten up our trophy cabinet. Finally riding off happily into the sunset with Mr Chansiri and leaving us in the capable hands of the best new manager and chairman/owner IN THE WORLD. And don't come back and pi ss on my parade please Nurse, Nurse, I think you've given him too many happy pills. He's gone all funny. Seriously I hope you are right. It's about time we had a bit of success at Hillsborough 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owls-Fan Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) 16 hours ago, hullite said: not only Andy Robertson (just flick through the names if ya don't wanna get bored, but these are the players he signed that worked and im sure you lot will see signings of this calibre as long as the ffp dosent hamper you too much) Not many young up and coming apart from Robertson Maguire and Clucas Odubajo Harry Maguire - englands hero after being our hero but mainly after brucie left cos he always picked his son alex ahead of harry Abel Hernandez - blew hot and cold but knew where the net was at championship level tom Huddlestone fantastic signing for a tin pot club like ours Michael Dawson great signing Mo Diame you lot wont remember him shane long, good signing always gonna be too good to stay at little old hull Jake Livermore - again a great signing Robert Snodgrass one game then injured for 14 months but helped us get promoted and then west ham nicked him - another good signing eventually Robbie brady who was a good buy for us and left for Norwich and is now at burnley Ahmed Elmohamady was one of our stars and best buys Gaston Ramirez never rreally worked out Ben Arfa same as above sone aluko who did ok with us then had a good season with Fulham before fading at reading Stephen quinn who was dependable and did ok at reading before again fading David meyler dependable no frills midfielder who was again ok Moses Odubajo loads of potential but was out with an injury for yonks Sam Clucas from chesterfield grew into a fine player for us George Boyd a great signing who went on to play for 2 seasons in the prem for burnley and now with you lot but past his best. Allan McGregor decent goalie player of the year one season Curtis davies - good solid player who was again a great buy those 23 plusses were balanced with 23 poor signings but luckily for us hardly any of those were expensive flops we went up to the prem twice and got relegated once under brucie so he was a massive plus for us yet still some idiots feel they can slag him off cos he couldn't keep us up. apologies for boring (to you lot) post but I couldn't help drooling looking at some of those players and thinking what we'd give to have a few of those in their prime again at hull I didn't take too much notice of what was happening at villa but noticed even when their side was on a good run he was still taking loads of stick from their fans for not playing expansive flowing football maybe because you've been out of the prem a lot longer than villa you might be willing to forgive him of this Good post, thanks. Personally I feel Villa is a case of careful what you wish for. As you say, Bruce is able to attract very good players to football clubs. Smith did a great job at Walsall and Brentford at finding obscure players and making a good team. Will that work at a big club like Villa? Look at Jota, he’s gone to a bigger club and doesn’t look that special now. The style at Villa may improve, but give me Hughton’s methodical Brighton side over Smith’s free flowing Brentford team - if you get my meaning. As for Collymore, the guy was lucky to be born with a talent of playing football, otherwise he would be doing a 9-5 career where a brain cell isn’t required Edited January 5, 2019 by Owls-Fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helmut_rooster Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 On 03/01/2019 at 14:28, Mardy Bum said: Didn't stan collymore smack his Mrs about?? Apparently he speaks with an awful accent too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm an Essex Owl Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Who knows how it will work out. There are no guarantees but seems a better bet than an unknown Euro who doesn't know the league so I think progress on what we have had recently. My bigger fear is that if it isnt going great and Bruce is getting stick then he may decide just to walk. Let's be patient and give it time. He inherits a decent but unbalanced squad. We are not suddenly going to start tearing up the league re the Villa experience - as said overall win ratio 45% saved them from a headlong plummet into League 1 and got them to a play off final they narrowly lost. History says that the losing play off finalist usually struggles the following season - average finish is 11th - we bucked the trend under Carlos... Villa fans are delusional about this division still and think they have the right to wee wee the league... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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