Bruce Dyer

Great post from Bruce Dyer on Facebook...




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Well said that man!

 

“It was an environment where hard work, respect, dedication, and commitment to the club were non-negotiable.”

Current Reds first teamers, coaching staff and management please take note.

 

From what I hear and see. Conor is trying to establish those requirements. I'll not go over the rights and wrongs of disclosing disciplinary failures. But he'll learn as he goes along.

Bruce has always come across as a respectful person. And possibly one of the most popular players to have ever played for us. His dedication is second to none to those he takes on board.

 

I'll definitely agree with this part. He ran his blood to water for BFC, no downing tools cos we hadn't sold him at Christmas etc. I can't think of anyone I know who didn't like him as a player, although he was a bit of a big fish in a small pond.

 

Brucey was always somebody who you thought you'd want to have a few beers with.
Although he's probably tee-total.

 

Spoke to him coming out of oakwell years ago I think it was the 1st game back in the championship under stendel. He's a nice bloke I was abit starstruck at 1st, great striker in his day would be way out of our price range now.

 

Young people now work 500 times harder than my generation (i'm 46) and it's the same for footballers.

 

Bruce is a star in so many ways. We are privileged to have him.

 

Not sure I agree with that and I'm a similar age.

 

Sadly this current crop don't know the meaning of these words. I've a mate who regularly goes swimming at the metrodome and went recently when some of the first team were in the pool meant to be working on fitness. He said the best way he could describe them was "thick". Acting about like kids and not taking things seriously and we wonder why we're in a mess. They don't care

 

Some of the maths the kids now do in primary school is more advanced than I ever did for O Level.

Footballers used to go out on the lash every night. A team from the 90s could not live with a team from the 2020s. They'd be dead on their feet after 15 minutes.

 

What's Bruce's current role with the club? Seems a good character and mentor to have around and a great bloke.

 

Yeah that’s certainly not my interpretation either.

The younger ones that work in and around my teams are all switched on to ‘work life balance’ a lot more - for several the balance is too far the other way; as well as being more mindful of fatigue and protecting mental health. Not necessarily a bad thing - it wasn’t a lifetime ago that paid holidays, sick pay, maternity/paternity leave weren’t a thing and looking after people with the long term in mind is no bad thing. We should embrace and protect these things.

However - and it isn’t all but a fair proportion - plenty have a negligible work ethic compared to what went before; an annoyingly underwhelming attitude towards work as a priority over other things (and I don’t mean family and health, I mean their social life and having days off because theyre ‘tired’). I do think it may have gone a little far the other way.

 

It's because the reward for flogging yourself at work just isn't there for them the way it was for previous generations. The unwritten social bargain that if you work hard in most jobs you will afford a decent house and standard of living has been eroded. I fully understand why some of them phone it in.

 

Things are different now, it's hard to
compare.

 

Bruce is an absolute legend in every sense of the word. I’m privileged to have watched him play, and met him in more recent years. He’s such an inspiration.

 

Not sure that's the case, company I used to work at few years back had god knows how many young apprentices aged 16/17 some a little older. In a spell of about 5 year not one finished many turned up late, had a shocking attitude I've never seen so many unable to turn up one day on time and repeat for the rest of the week. And these people are been paid to learn obviously I can't speak for all young people nowadays just the ones who I've come across recently.

 

I don’t think the pool is much of a serious session. I used to have a gym membership there for many years & through different managers, some successful, some not so, it always seemed like a bit of fun. I think it’s just a bit of stretching & a warm down normally the day after a game.

 

I don't think he has a role with the club, but he does a lot of community work through his church and the sports ground at Grimethorpe.

https://www.lovelifesportsground.co.uk/bruce-dyer/