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So Far This Season; Are you happy?
Topic Started: Oct 2 2006, 02:38 PM (440 Views)
Blueming
Martin Grainger
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Your not happy because your expecting to much.

This is Blues remember.

LOwer your sights and youll be very happy at our position.
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brummie_carl
Martin Grainger
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I wont be happy until Bruce has gone. **thumbup
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Bookemdanno
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Alex Govan
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I forgot to mention i'm not happy either! :crying:





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Joe
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Happy in so much we are in an automatic promotion place and not second from bottom.
Happy in that the team does look more threatening and we are playing better football. Can't understand why people keep claiming we are 'playing the same old stuff' - we are not.
Unhappy that we cannot put it together for a 90 minutes.
Unahppy that we look defensively fallible. But that's the price you pay for becoming a Championship side and not having a settled defence, as yet.
Happy that Bendtner, McSheff, Larsson are here. All good players who had added something to the team.
Unhappy that there is so much negativity and angst.
Happy that Bruce has been more positive and attacking, on the whole.
For those who say he hasn't, are wrong.
Happy if we are where we are after 46 games. That's what counts. I think we will go up. As the season goes on we will get stronger.
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pa132435no2
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Going up isn't good enough Joe, I don't think supporters understand what is at stake if Bruce's team don't win the league. It's about 20m.

That money will secure us a future, and buy us 5-6 QUALITY players, like Darren Bent, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jagielka and Bridge. (Just to give you some scope).

If we don't get that money we'll go back down the year after. Dunn, Upson, Mcsheffrey, Jerome will all walk out and we'll become Nottingham Forest.

There was a time in the PL where we were a GENUINE front runner for a place in the Uefa Cup. But the year later Steve Bruce ruined that. Don't people remember how this goes yet? The media tip us for something special, Uefa Cup, running away with the league... and Bruce ruins it, puts a downer on it and says 'we can never be a good team'.

If you REALLY support this club you'll stand up and be counted before Bruce does it again.

He'll probably go on and do well for Newcastle. But we need a hands on manager, who doesn't stand by the side and say 'FFS Cameron, TRY HARDER'. Instead, realises our players have good work rate, and understand they need coaching.
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baron von bluenose
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i dont kow if im right but i think this is the boards way of getting rid of bruce on the cheap,how you may ask,

scenario no 1 well think of it this way the prices are high and the performance is poor and its anything but value for money and the fans are unhappy,and the manager under pressure

scenario 2 the price is cheap the ground sells out the place turns back to been intimmidating for our guests the football would surely improve and the manager safe.
if it was £20 adults and £8.00 kids and concessions the crowd would come back.whoever is responsible for the pr down there is doing a very very bad job,unless its been planned well.

season ticket holders arent affected by cup game prices,so at the wrexham game why was it not kids a quid, were they encourageing the crowd to stay away.

is this all to demotivate the fans ,the team ,the manager........or someones last chance to get the cream.

one more thing every fan who goes is also buying a programme ,bovril £1.30 ,t , coffee ,pie ,crisps, sweets, beer, pop £1.80 ......... so its not just about the ticket price.


just a thought :blahblah:
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proccysotv
Oct 2 2006, 04:49 PM
Bluediver
Oct 2 2006, 04:47 PM
Truthfully, first time in almost 50-years I've not looked forward to going to the Blues. And I've seen some cr@p in my time.

that's a mirror image of my situation - and it's very sad... :(

:( Same here.
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I am happy with the position we find ourselves in.

This seems to be a division where a great number of teams are capable of beating anyone and losing to anyone in any given week. 85 points or thereabouts should be enough to see us promoted.
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Joe
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pa132435no2
Oct 2 2006, 09:05 PM
Going up isn't good enough Joe, I don't think supporters understand what is at stake if Bruce's team don't win the league. It's about 20m.

That money will secure us a future, and buy us 5-6 QUALITY players, like Darren Bent, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jagielka and Bridge. (Just to give you some scope).

If we don't get that money we'll go back down the year after. Dunn, Upson, Mcsheffrey, Jerome will all walk out and we'll become Nottingham Forest.

There was a time in the PL where we were a GENUINE front runner for a place in the Uefa Cup. But the year later Steve Bruce ruined that. Don't people remember how this goes yet? The media tip us for something special, Uefa Cup, running away with the league... and Bruce ruins it, puts a downer on it and says 'we can never be a good team'.

If you REALLY support this club you'll stand up and be counted before Bruce does it again.

He'll probably go on and do well for Newcastle. But we need a hands on manager, who doesn't stand by the side and say 'FFS Cameron, TRY HARDER'. Instead, realises our players have good work rate, and understand they need coaching.

When have our board ever agreed to spending £5 million £6 million on players like Wright-Phillips, Jagielka, Bridge etc etc?
We spent £6 mill on Heskey - and got it all back - £5.5 million on Dunn and that's it. We get the odd one or two 'big signing' (all based on adds-on mind) but there's no way the board would let the manager - whether it's Bruce or not - spend £20 million in four losts of £5 mill for example.
If we go up, we will take the usual assortment of season long loans and the odd £3 million player here or there. We'll get all the stuff about 'going the extra mile' and scrap like 15 other clubs to stay up.
That's just to give you a bit of scope.
The board are more interested in profit and just doing enough each season to stay in the PL.
When Bruce brought in Melchiot, Izzet, Gronkjaer etc the season after we had our best finish in 31 years, nobody complained.
Yes, he messed it up the year after - last season - and the board played their part in refusing to sack him because of cost and norsing up transfers for Milner, Scharner, Euell and opting for Sutton and DJ rather than a proven performer like Lovenkrands.
Bruce doesn't 'ruin it' and put a downer on it. We found our level I'm afraid. We over achieved in 2004, under achieved in 2005.
Maybe Bruce's time has gone but in this obession to blame him for everything a lot of people ignore the bigger picture and the board's input.

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For the first time in 10 yrs I have not been chomping at the bit for match day.

I am glad I cancel my Season Ticket TBH.

The Kids for £2 against Norwich is the only thing that will see gates top 20,000 again this season until the Dingle & West Brom Show up.

I thought about going on Saturday & spending £29, then I thought, the hall needs decorating & watching paint dry is more fun than going the blues at the moment.

Seems like 10,000 other think so too, It will only get worse whilst we are drawing & losing.

The sorry fact is, the board of over priced the tickets thinking there are 28,000 people in the city willing to pay £29 to watch Leicester!! THEY ARE WRONG.

The board believed 20,000 would buy season tickets at premiership prices to watch the likes of Hull, Colchester & Southend. THEY WERE WRONG.

The Board know that blues have a loyal core of fans but it seems that enough is enough & that core is shrinking,

Go to the Hawthorns & check out the facilities in there stadium & then ask why Blues are charging the prices they are for what is in effect the same product. A relegated team playing championship football. I Believe the baggies have a better offering, there stadium is better (not bigger, but better) Facilities are better, Oh hang on they have a team that can bang four goals in with 10 men!! They are managerless & only 1 pt below us. There ticket prices are slightly cheaper than ours too.

It is a major case of supply & demand I Suppose.

Just seems that only a few thousand are demanding to pay £29 for Fizzy Pop football (other than ST Holders) with a manager that has ran out of ideas. All compounded by the sacking of Robson & the appointment & success of Martin O'Neill with an unchanged team up the road.

I am not anti Bruce but am tired of throwing my money away, so have took positive action along with a lot of other & voted with my feet. Some people won't go back until bruce has gone & while the support for him is 50-50 then I am sure we can't get full houses, I am not sure if there is anyway back for Bruce other than winning & winning well consistantly.

We have spluttered along & are in 2nd place by default that teams below us are as inconsistent as us, we have 2 points in 3 games, Brilliant!! The teams we have beaten at home are poor with the exception of Palace I suppose.

I will go along to some games this season, but can't justify to myself let alone the pregnant missus why I should pay £29 to sit in the cold & leave either frustrated or upset. Which in the truth of it, is what the Blues does to you with Bruce in charge.

It's all just a little bit boring & repetative for me at the moment.

Anyway if I get stuck in traffic, I miss the start of X-Factor :whistle:
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Frank Worthington
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I'll be happy when Bruce goes. Simple as that. :drink:
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Bookemdanno
Oct 2 2006, 02:38 PM


Personally we're higher in the league than i expected, but haven't really dominated games.

We are closer to 11th place than first if you look at the table... :(
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