Steve Bruce Retrospective

I think it's time to give Steve Bruce the credit he deserves. Yes, Martin O'Neill has performed miracles but the squad he's had access to was assembled by Bruce. Although, maybe, tactics were not Bruce's strong point, i think we all need to be thankful for his signings: Sessegnon, Mclean, Cattermole, Gardner, Larsson etc. The man did a great job for the club, without spending multi millions. I,for one, will always be thankful Steve Bruce was our manager.

 

Ive always praised Bruce for his signings. The transfer market has always been his strong point!
6m for Sess is a bargain. However he left Gardner on the bench with Vaughan and McClean didnt get a sniff of first team action, so that goes to show how tactically poor he was!!

 

100% agree.
Many wont though. Bruce grew up a Newcastle fan you know..

 

Make him director of football or whatever that role is, he's useless with a tactics board though. Like I've always said, first 18 months were brilliant, last 12 were disgraceful though.

 

Retrospectively, I think Bruce should stick to playing football manager on his xbox games console.

Bruce can scout a decent player but hasn't got a clue what to do with them and that is why he is a poor manager and that is why we are damn lucky to have moved on to a real manager.

The average drinking man sitting in the workingmens club on a saturday night could assemble a good squad for Sunderland because we have a decent budget but the average man may not be able to coach or get those players to perform

100% of the credit goes to Martin O'Neill for what we are so lucky to be watching these days.

 

I heard it was Pop Robson that found Mclean and Bruce had no say in it which is why he never played him. Of course it was probably on here or SMB that I got this from so it's probably rubbish! But fair enough Bruce certainly could pick a player - although didn't he also sign Angeleri, Riveros, Da Silva, Elmo etc?

 

Two of todays starters, Richardson and Bardsley, were signed by Roy Keane as was David Meyler. Two of the other starters, Gardner and McClean were forced to sit on the bench under Bruce, if indeed they made it that far and Colback was already a youth at the club.

Anyway... moving on to the present... Martin O'Neill is here today and it is his exceptional managerial talent which has seen us progress through to the quarter finals of the FA cup. Today, Martin O'Neill's tactics were virtually perfect.

 

Thank you Brucey very sad it had to end the way it did

 

I'd much rather thank the scouts at the club. Bruce is a poor manger, much like mic mac but seems like a genuinely nice bloke. Not good enought though i'm afraid.

 

Even Margaret Byrne (quoted on here yesterday) said it was heartbreaking to sack such a nice bloke - but it was the right decision. His signings are the only thing I've never criticised. In every other respect, good riddance.

 

you can get all the lego bricks you want but still have to make them into something. Bruce could'nt manage that, especially this season

 

Everyone entitled to their opinion mate but, for me I'm glad he's gone. He didn't play McClean or Gardner and you seem to forget his useless signings, he was out of his depth in the PL in my opinion. I'll give him the good signings but, if he was still with us we would be bottom 3 and out of the cup today.