Bruce Previews The Season & QPR

Ahead of tomorrow’s Premier League opener against freshly promoted Queens Park Rangers, manager Steve Bruce has spoken of his aims for the year ahead.

With Hull having already kicked off the season properly with our Europa League qualifiers, arguably we go into the campaign that touch sharper than QPR and hopefully that will play to our benefit.

Having reached our highest ever football league pyramid finish last season – 16 – the aim for Bruce as he spoke to the Official Site is simply to consolidate on that and hopefully improve further again.

‘I don’t think anything changes. I sat here this time last year and said that we have to stay in the Premier League. We’re now going into the second season and we’ve never lasted for longer than that so that is the challenge now. Can we have a cup run on top of that? We’ve got the extra thing with Europe – we play again next Thursday and that’s new to us all. But the main thing for our club is to stay in the Premier League.’

Bruce goes on to say that with survival the name of the game and then just enjoying anything else we can in terms of bettering last season’s finish and going as far as we can in the Cups and Europe, obviously the other aim is to continue to show the improvement that we have made over the last 24 months and do all we can to keep that going and keep moving forward as a club.

‘There is a bit more expectation on us now. People expect us to be better than we were last season and that has to be our aim.’

Bruce goes on to say that in his experience the second season is always more difficult because you are no longer riding high on the promotion wave and more importantly you are no longer an unknown quantity, so expectations rise, but equally sides who may have underestimated us last season won’t make the same mistake again.

With survival the aim though, that’s not something that Bruce is overly worried about achieving as he’s obviously confident in his own ability and the ability within the team.

with the unexpected transfer of Shane Long to Southampton, the gaffer also confirmed that the money will be reinvested into the squad and he already has some ‘irons in the fire’ when it came to a replacement.

But ideally he’d like another three players in at least before the window closes.

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