[BaggieSteve]

Josh, our track record of appointing managers is dire.

Having held onto Tony P for far too long (although we could defend under him, as I recall), we now seem to have adopted an approach of short termism (Bilic and Ismael), each followed by the unsuccessful appointment of a dinosaur (Allardyce and Bruce) to get us out of the holes that the previous two managers had allegedly dug.

I have absolutely no faith that, should we dismiss Bruce (and I think we should because, irrespective of individual errors on the pitch, he’s clearly not motivating these players) we will make a sensible appointment; and in the unlikely event that we do appoint a young, ambitious manager as you suggest, we’ll sack him and replace him with a past-it old fart (I think the only one of the usual suspects we’ve not had yet is Mark Hughes, currently at Bradford).

Regardless of what you think of Simon Jordan, he made the valid point that Steve Bruce was appointed to get West Brom promoted from the Championship, not keep them in it