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Blues Are Favourites To Survive; Says Bruce
Topic Started: Apr 22 2006, 11:31 AM (353 Views)
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Bruce: We're favourites to beat drop


Steve Bruce today taunted Pompey: We're the favourites to stay up.


The Birmingham boss turned up the heat in the relegation war by insisting his team are the most likely to keep their Premiership place.

But fired-up Milan Mandaric blasted back: We're not going down.

Pompey were today boosted by the news Lomana Lualua, Gary O'Neil, Dejan Stefanovic and Pedro Mendes had recovered from injury and were set to face Sunderland.

But cocky Bruce believed his team were in the box seat in the battle for survival.

He said: 'We are out of the bottom three and need to keep our noses in front.

'But we are the team in form. We have hit our best form of the season at the right time.

'Portsmouth were in championship form before they lost to Charlton, quite incredible stuff.

'But we are the favourites. The challenge now is to win two out of the last three games.

'Now we have to see if we can get the wins we need.'

Bruce's words have provided even more ammunition to get Pompey fired up over the season's finale.

Bullish Mandaric retaliated by vowing his club will be celebrating in two weeks.

He said: 'We're not listening to what Steve Bruce has to say.

'This is no picnic. We are the team with the better quality and the better characters.

'We respect our opponents but we are the team playing the most consistent football.'




A new approach to motivation ?

:lol:
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:lol: Lets hope it works, I was hoping Lualua wouldn't be back...
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Malcom Page
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Pff... that cocky Steve Bruce thinks he knows everything <_<
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this is all we need, Brucie does a mellberg :unsure:
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blooboy
Apr 22 2006, 11:35 AM
this is all we need, Brucie does a mellberg :unsure:

spot on well it loks like his words motavited the team , pity it was'nt ours. :angry:
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They sounded motivated to me. It seemed like a battling performance against a team who we haven't beaten on their ground for almost 50 years.
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Apr 22 2006, 04:03 PM
They sounded motivated to me. It seemed like a battling performance against a team who we haven't beaten on their ground for almost 50 years.

yup but coments like this can make the other team try harder .

i dont know how he could make such an outlandish comment anyway.

one simple fact is they can score and we cant.
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dr.nick
Apr 22 2006, 05:05 PM
Blacksmith
Apr 22 2006, 04:03 PM
They sounded motivated to me. It seemed like a battling performance against a team who we haven't beaten on their ground for almost 50 years.

yup but coments like this can make the other team try harder .

i dont know how he could make such an outlandish comment anyway.

one simple fact is they can score and we cant.

yup, it's been like that for a long long time..... until Steve gets some coaching in this area, we'll do nothing. I'll never know why.... i mean we have Keith Bertshin at the club as well as Bob latchford still i think, why those two haven't done some coaching with the forwards.
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Apr 22 2006, 11:35 AM
this is all we need, Brucie does a mellberg :unsure:

lol i agree why did he say that
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because we are stauying up!!!!!!
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God you lot look for any excuses to be miserable not very nice person don't you? Bruce stated fact. That article posted here was written by a PORTSMOUTH fan on a PORTSMOUTH weblog. Read Brucey's quotes and you'll see that he said nothing wrong.

3 games to go and we were outside of the relegation zone and Portsmouth were in it. We're in the best form of the season so far and Portsmouth can't keep a clean sheet against a full-strength team for love nor money. The very fact that Pompey fans feel the need to attack us and try and 'motivate' their team whilst we concentrate on ourselves and ignore them should speak volumes.

I tell ya, I'm sick of death of being around such a miserable bunch of not very nice person. Vile Park II.
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God you lot look for any excuses to be miserable not very nice person don't you? Bruce stated fact. That article posted here was written by a PORTSMOUTH fan on a PORTSMOUTH weblog. Read Brucey's quotes and you'll see that he said nothing wrong.


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'But we are the favourites. The challenge now is to win two out of the last three games.



Read it Aff.
What point were you making?
They're straight quotes, it doesn't matter where they were printed, or whoever re-printed them on a blog. They're quotes.

As other people are saying, it seems odd that Steve is suddenly so gung-ho, instead of his usual excuse-ridden self. And when he is upbeat for once, it blows up in his face. Which is about par for the course regarding his perception.

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Yes but attach those quotes to an article saying that it's firing Pompey up and that Bruce is 'taunting' them and it adds a different complexion since people are just happy to read what's there and not explore the facts. The fact of the matter is whoever is outside the relegation zone are the favourites and when Bruce said that, we were outside of the dreaded 'r' zone.

I still don't think he's said anything wrong but hey, some people enjoy witch-hunts so I'll just let them get on with it.
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Apr 22 2006, 10:52 PM
Yes but attach those quotes to an article saying that it's firing Pompey up and that Bruce is 'taunting' them and it adds a different complexion since people are just happy to read what's there and not explore the facts. The fact of the matter is whoever is outside the relegation zone are the favourites and when Bruce said that, we were outside of the dreaded 'r' zone.

I still don't think he's said anything wrong but hey, some people enjoy witch-hunts so I'll just let them get on with it.

i'm sorry to say this mate but thats nonsence, these are quots and can be seen by the oposition as a dig.

we cant by a goal for toffie but pompy score froe the plesure of it .

SB should be consentraiting on us and not spending time winding the oposition up.

we lose next saturday and we are gone , out of the biggest league in the world .

all because he aint got a clue.

this is the action of a desperate man trying to get the fans on his side in a bid to show he has some passion.

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