{"id":13388,"date":"2017-05-27T02:51:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T02:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/2017\/05\/27\/photo-hull-city-defender-discovers-he-is-being-released-by-the-club-via-twitter\/"},"modified":"2017-05-27T02:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T02:51:03","slug":"photo-hull-city-defender-discovers-he-is-being-released-by-the-club-via-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=13388","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO: Hull City Defender Discovers He Is Being Released by the Club via Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63.5516506922\">\n<p>?Hull City defender Alex Bruce has discovered that he is to be released by the club after five years of service&#8230;via Twitter!<\/p>\n<p>Bruce, son of Aston Villa manager Steve, was signed by his father in 2012 when he was manager of the Tigers, and has gone on to make 104 appearances for the club, twice helping them reach the Premier League from the Championship.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container imageEmbedded\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-url=\"http:\/\/90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com\/production\/5925772d9f71818029000001.jpg\" data-large_url=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/father-and-son-alex-bruce-and-steve-bruce-manager-of-hull-city-with-picture-id534926332?b=1&#038;k=6&#038;m=534926332&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=OUOOKysAb1DaCwdeTxGRAp2rgoS0UFct2zfLVc0ENO4=\" data-title=\"Hull City v Sheffield Wednesday - Sky Bet Championship Play Off Final.\" data-description=\"LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 28:  Father and son Alex Bruce and Steve Bruce, manager of Hull City celebrate with the trophy after the Sky Bet Championship Play Off Final match between Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday at Wembley Stadium on May 28, 2016 in London, England.  (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)\" data-credit=\"Alex Livesey\/GettyImages\" data-date=\"2016-05-28\" data-ratio=\"16\/9\" data-crop=\"\"x\":0,\"y\":0.04857142857142857,\"w\":1,\"h\":0.8416870415647922\" data-getty_image=\"true\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\" data-is-animated=\"false\" data-width=\"undefined\" data-height=\"undefined\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.minutemediacdn.com\/process?url=http%3A%2F%2F90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fproduction%2F5925772d9f71818029000001.jpg&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bw%5D=1.0&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bh%5D=0.8416870415647922&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_x%5D=0.0&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_y%5D=0.04857142857142857&#038;filters%5Bquality%5D%5Btarget%5D=80&#038;type=.jpg&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bw%5D=578&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bh%5D=325\" alt=\"Hull City v Sheffield Wednesday - Sky Bet Championship Play Off Final.\" title=\"Alex Livesey\/GettyImages\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bruce didn&#8217;t make a single appearance for Hull this season after suffering with injury, and was loaned out to Championship side Wigan Athletic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">However, he only made two appearances for the side as they suffered relegation to League One after just one season in the country&#8217;s second division.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">With Hull suffering their second relegation from the Premier League in three seasons, they have announced a list of names who have been let go, and Bruce has been included on that list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">The only problem is that it seems Bruce wasn&#8217;t told of the decision beforehand, as he tweeted his apparent surprise at the news as you can see below.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">The &#8220;Thanks for letting me know!!&#8221; suggests that Bruce wasn&#8217;t told that he was being released by the club, which isn&#8217;t befitting of a player who offered five years of service to the club, helping them to two promotions in the process.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">And the banter continued when former QPR player Marc Bircham got involved:<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">Either way, good luck to Bruce, whatever he does next!<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZggHcqu3rZU\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"Youtube embed--Youtube embed--generic-iframe embeded-video-player\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>?Hull City defender Alex Bruce has discovered that he is to be released by the club after five years of service&#8230;via Twitter! Bruce, son of Aston Villa manager Steve, was signed by his father in 2012 when he was manager of the Tigers, and has gone on to make 104 appearances for the club, twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hull-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}