Players will always be fairly friendly to their manager, they're going to see him everyday.
We all have to do it in our own lives, they're are some right absolute arrogant arsehole at my work but you bite your tongue. It's that or have a daily row which does no one any favours, and by all accounts Bruce always seems popular with his players.
I might add I'm dead against him as he's purely here because Ashley thinks he's a 17th place shoe in, but that's where the fat cunt wants us until he sells/dies, prefer the latter like.
Don't go, buy nothing and starve him of his thing he loves.