LIKE GROUNDHOG DAY!!!

Bruce said: "We've got no excuses, we are disappointed after getting out of jail at the weekend. We certainly didn’t take part in the game. On days like today, you apologize to people who have traveled. It was pretty pathetic stuff.

"We didn’t do the basics. We never got hold of the ball and we kept giving it away."

"We cannot be any worse than that. In the 10 games I’ve been here, we haven’t put in a worse performance than that."

Bruce: " We've thrown that hand grenade in and I won't accept it.

"So they can either man up to it and say we've got to to do it his way or alternatively I'll find a team eventually that will play my game.

"Most people will tell you the way I've managed over the last 20 years.

"I want a team that epitomises what I stand for. I cant stand looking at the first half because we didn't do enough.

"The sheer lack of quality to do the basics right was simply not good enough. You apologise because, listen, it’s up to.

Bruce: "I thought there were shoots of recovery and then all of a sudden you go away from home and they throw the hand grenade in.

"Some of the stuff we did was just unacceptable. As I’ve said over the years I’m never ever going to criticise any individual.

"But as a group and as a team, what we’ve produced is not good enough to get a result in this division, let alone win a local derby."

Bruce: "That's three or four or five now away from home that I've come out and had to apologise.

"That's arguably the worst in my short tenure here and sometimes in your career you feel embarrassed.

"That ranks alongside them. We were totally abject. We were so easy to play against. I can only apologise.

"The new faces I'm convinced will make a difference, but they will be scratching their heads going back thinking 'dear oh dear what a debut that's been'."

Bruce: "Of course there is going to be a few chants and rightly so.

"That’s what playing for this club is all about. There have been accusations of myself that I’m not bothered, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

"I’m determined that I’ll turn it around, given time, but we have to question the team both individually and collectively.”

"I’ve been accused of not caring, my body language is supposed to be c***.

"It’s the best club and biggest club I’ve had for 20 years but it’s arguably the toughest to turn around.

"Given time I know for a fact I’ll get it right."

"I think we made more mistakes [in the game] than we did in the past two months.

"We’ve been punished. We’ve given really, really bad goals away.

"We had good opportunities ourselves but if you make the mistakes that we have then rightly so you are going to get punished.

"Especially when the spotlight is on at a big club like ours. We didn’t handle that.

"It was one of those awful afternoons when every mistake did get punished and you just want to get the hell out of there."

Bruce: "I’m not going to hide it. I didn’t enjoy it one little bit.

"I didn’t see us take part in the game. I didn’t see us create a chance, beat a man, win a challenge.

"I didn’t see us do anything. "We ****** around with it and got what we got which was a defeat.”

"I’m disappointed, angry, upset. It doesn’t really matter does it.

"What does matter is that they’re supposed to be my team and they’re supposed to mirror the manager a little bit.

"Certainly what I witnessed today isn’t good enough."

Bruce: Everything - apart from the first 20 minutes where I didn’t think there was anything in it.

The first goal, we made a poor mistake and after that it was, I have to say, on the edge of embarrassment, if I being brutally honest.

So it is a rude awakening to us, very, very early again.

That’s the biggest ‘doing’ I think I can remember having in the Championship.

We simply didn’t do enough of the basics.

Once Elmohamady went off we looked fragile every time they broke on us.

I don’t know how many times my goalkeeper pulled us out of mire.

It was a wake-up call to everyone concerned, especially away from home.

It was a difficult afternoon.

“The centre-half bullied us all day long and unfortunately the longer it went on the worse we got and the more we unravelled,”

“We have to address that if we are going to try and succeed.

“It’s still our Achilles heel since I arrived, and I have to be brutally honest with myself too, I haven’t been able to address it in the six months I have been here.

“But we have to be honest with each other and, collectively and individually, we are nowhere near it.”

Bruce: “I was conscious of the fact that almost the whole team had been away on international duty.

“I don’t want to make excuses but in hindsight it wasn’t ideal with them all being away.

“The young ones have all had to come off.

“Keinan was sore yesterday and complained of a hip problem.

“Greeny and Josh have picked up muscle injuries and all three had been away with England.

“I blame myself.

“They’ve been away for 10 days and with my experience I should have done better.

“I take a bit of responsibility because there was no real freshness.

“We were as flat as we could have been,”

“It’s arguably the worst we’ve been since I’ve been here.

“I’ve been here for nine months now but we today we didn’t have any spark.

“We didn’t do anything with the ball or without it.

“We look jaded.

big ming wrote:Don't worry. When Traore (with something to prove) rips us a new one on Tuesday, it will be the end for Bruce and you won't have to listen to his crap again.