Fair play. The schools are back, he'll get a cheap B&B
Can't stand him. Used to think he was a decent bloke who'd be good to have a pint with but not since he went to them lot. He'll take any job offered these days. His loyalty was questionable in the early days when he jumped between sheff u, Huddersfield, Wigan and palace in a short space of time, only when he came to us he showed a bit of loyalty. I know it's a job but to manage both Sheffield clubs, both Birmingham clubs as well as Newcastle and Sunderland proves he's a bit of a knob. Also a so called Newcastle fan wouldn't manage Sunderland would they! It's about time he jacked it in. He doesn't need the money.
What the hell are Blackpool thinking 🤔😀
Dinosaurs are extinct
RibeyeCan't stand him. Used to think he was a decent bloke who'd be good to have a pint with but not since he went to them lot. He'll take any job offered these days. His loyalty was questionable in the early days when he jumped between sheff u, Huddersfield, Wigan and palace in a short space of time, only when he came to us he showed a bit of loyalty. I know it's a job but to manage both Sheffield clubs, both Birmingham clubs as well as Newcastle and Sunderland proves he's a bit of a knob. Also a so called Newcastle fan wouldn't manage Sunderland would they! It's about time he jacked it in. He doesn't need the money.
He didn't show loyalty. He signed a contract that f*cked him out of the Newcastle job in our first couple of years up. He couldn't wait to go there.
Showed a bit of loyalty to Blues?
He left us in the shit to take the Wigan job halfway through a season, after we’d let him keep his job post relegation when 99% of clubs would have sacked him.
I meant about turning Newcastle down. He went to Wigan because it suited us and him.
He turned Newcastle down because he got offered more by us than they even would have offered.
And it didn’t suit us for him to go at the time, especially not to a club we were fighting to avoid the drop with.
The Bruce-Wigan thing is interesting. I don't think that that was necessarily a lack of loyalty on his part (although loyalty and Steve Bruce appear to be strangers).
I think that it was more to do with Gold and Sullivan playing a blinder by unsettling him (even publicly) by saying that Yeungs potential arrival might mean the end for him and opening the door for someone to come and make an approach to a bloke that they'd have to sack, and pay compensation to, soon. His sell by date had come and gone.
In the event, I think that Blues got in excess of £3 million compensation for him, rather than shelling out to pay his compensation. For all of the issues surrounding G & S, I thought that that was a stroke of genius.
It wasn’t Gold and Sullivan telling Bruce that, Bruce met Yeung himself and Yeung told him he’d have to earn a new contract (which seems fair enough).
But by the time Bruce left Yeung’s takeover bid was evidently floundering anyway. Bruce went because Whelan offered him a fat pay rise - that is his wont, but it left us in the shit.
Sishi RunakIt wasn’t Gold and Sullivan telling Bruce that, Bruce met Yeung himself and Yeung told him he’d have to earn a new contract (which seems fair enough).
But by the time Bruce left Yeung’s takeover bid was evidently floundering anyway. Bruce went because Whelan offered him a fat pay rise - that is his wont, but it left us in the shit.
I think that both might be true in that case. It was a publicly stated view by Gold and Sullivan which I think was designed to open the doors for potential suitors. He'd have been sacked otherwise, I'm sure, because we were in the shit anyway. I thought that they played that one very well. The bid had definitely floundered, but the process of getting shot of Bruce had made headway and the wheels kept turning thankfully. It was time for him to go, and the opportunity presented itself.
TamSishi RunakIt wasn’t Gold and Sullivan telling Bruce that, Bruce met Yeung himself and Yeung told him he’d have to earn a new contract (which seems fair enough).
But by the time Bruce left Yeung’s takeover bid was evidently floundering anyway. Bruce went because Whelan offered him a fat pay rise - that is his wont, but it left us in the shit.
I think that both might be true in that case. It was a publicly stated view by Gold and Sullivan which I think was designed to open the doors for potential suitors. He'd have been sacked otherwise, I'm sure, because we were in the shit anyway. I thought that they played that one very well. The bid had definitely floundered, but the process of getting shot of Bruce had made headway and the wheels kept turning thankfully. It was time for him to go, and the opportunity presented itself.
I get your point tbf, he possibly had stayed long enough.
But the timing was pretty atrocious, and he always blames everybody else for the fact he left Blues when it suited him down to the ground.
Worst thing that happened in the immediate aftermath was that Eric Black (who knew he was going to Wigan as well) was allowed to manage/chuck the Portsmouth game.