Steve Bruce tells his Hull City side to match their early standards
HULL City manager Steve Bruce says his side must match the standard set in their 3-1 victory over Bolton if they are to maintain their good start to the season.
Sitting in fifth place after four games, Bruce has been happy with his side's start to the new campaign, although he has stressed it is still early days.
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And he says a three-game period in eight days, in which a home clash with Millwall is followed by trips to Leeds United and then Leicester City, will give a good indication of where they stand in terms of the early front runners.
"It's a big week ahead, but it's typical of the Championship in that you get one tough game after another," Bruce told the Mail.
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"We have Millwall, then Leeds in midweek before heading to Leicester, and they are all difficult games.
"We have made a good start because, when you looked at our start to the season, it was always going to be tough.
"We have done okay, but we are not going to get carried away.
"Hopefully, we can produce to a similar standard of that against Bolton to keep the momentum building, because that is what will be needed."
Having seen a number of players return from international duty at the tail end of this week, Bruce will now closely monitor their fitness.
New boy Ahmed Elmohamady should be fit to play against Millwall after Egypt cancelled Tuesday's friendly visit of Cameroon because of safety fears.
Corry Evans played the full 90 minutes in Northern Ireland's 2-0 loss to Russia last week, but was an unused sub as they drew 1-1 against Luxembourg in their World Cup qualifier.
Keeper Ben Amos will return having kept a clean sheet for England in a 2-0 victory over Azerbaijan, before being an unused sub in the 1-0 win against Norway on Monday.
Paul McShane is doubtful because of sickness.
Comments
by Steve222
Friday, September 14 2012, 7:51AM
“P.s. DEEGEE13. ... More fans seemed to like my caption than pin *icks.. so get with populous and be with the ever in reasin crown that hates pin di*k
UTT”
by Steve222
Friday, September 14 2012, 7:49AM
“DEEGEE13. ...I take it that 13 is your age.. look sonny.. merlin has a boyfriend so im afraid that ya need to get out more and stop sucking up to the pin d*ck wizard who has no balls
UTT”
by DeeGee13
Thursday, September 13 2012, 7:13PM
“Here we go again with Steve222, someone's foolishly let the lunatic out of the asylum!”
by Steve222
Thursday, September 13 2012, 10:18AM
“Caption: Yeah your that back stabbing slanderous ker*** ed merlin hahahahahahaha”
by merlin_
Thursday, September 13 2012, 10:08AM
“I hope that the gate on Saturday is at least 18,000 or better. Clearly there will be some who view Millwall with trepidation following the notorious seat throwing match. However the last meeting at the KC was tepid with only a few away fans showing up - the bulk running scared of arrest.
In any event the police should have learned lessons from their inept performance not only during the game but after in arresting only the easy public order chains from Hull City fans. The performance against Bolton was stunning with better to come. There will be set-backs but I have seen enough to say that we have a genuine challenge here with some resilience needed and perhaps a sharper point up front. I am sure Proschwitz will come good in due course but we do need the depth and options. Bring on Connor or Fraizer and I think the gates will end up at capacity.”
by merlin_
Thursday, September 13 2012, 9:58AM
“CAPTION
Now let me get this right. Thats my lot in that dugout there?”
by cafesociety1
Thursday, September 13 2012, 8:47AM
“9 points and + 20,000 gates.Connor Wickham or FC.
SB do not let me down!”
by JH1311
Thursday, September 13 2012, 8:10AM
“I'll happily take 5 points from the next 3 games, as much as I'd like to see party Pearson face if we took all three points, a realistic target would be to take a win and two draws, I wouldn't mind gettin a wine over the white sh**es but we'll wait and see”
by beverleybeck
Thursday, September 13 2012, 8:06AM
“who writes the **** on here even the table has been wrong for over 2 weeks nearly”