Time for change at West Brom amid lost dressing room – Adrian Goldberg
Steve Bruce is going to still be in the hot seat when West Brom host Luton Town on Saturday (8 October) but the pressure is mounting.
Avid Baggies fan and host of the Liquidator Podcast, Adrian Goldberg, is just one of the supporters who have lost faith in the manager and doesn’t see the Luton clash as something that will affect his stance at The Hawthorns.
The Hatters come into the game 10th in the Championship, where West Brom finished last season, and one just one point off the playoff while Albion sit in the relegation zone, only ahead of Huddersfield Town and Coventry City.
“Everybody knows that you don’t come back from where Steve Bruce is now… He’s irretrievably lost the fans – and evidently some of the players,” Goldberg said via his personal Twitter account.
“A win tomorrow won’t change things. West Brom supporters want to overturn whole rotten structure – manager, CEO, owner. Time for change.”
End the misery
It doesn’t take a body language expert to notice that the tough times at West Brom are massively taking their toll on Bruce at the moment.
It is getting to the point where Ron Gourlay has to just put his mate out of his misery and fire him before he regresses even further with the stress of being a football manager.
The Twenty20 Cricket World Cup is not far away and everyone knows how much Bruce loves a day at the cricket from after he was sacked by Newcastle United prior to arriving at The Hawthorns.
It would almost be the kind thing to do to axe him after the Luton match regardless of the result so he can get away from the game that has consumed his life for decades for a while.
It would also give whoever the new manager would be plenty of time to assess the current crop of players before the January window rolls around and he can get his players through the door.
In other West Brom news, perhaps the one player who could save Bruce’s job has hardly been given a sniff of football since he arrived.