Bruce who, “ultimately needed to go. People were saying ‘why didn’t you act quicker’, but we had to take stock of everything and find out what the issues were”.
“We had to get the building blocks in place before we hit the transfer window,” Staveley says. “In my opinion, we weren’t fit enough. They just hadn’t had intense training. They were disjointed, not working together. We had to get that sense of oneness, of belonging, of being united.”