Jareth

Yeah but I hear he's good at climbing gates.

Daily Mail linking us to Rhodes as well as Snodgrass. Don't trust that rag at all, but if we can move Mcoremack on and bring in Rhodes - that would be just swell. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4774726/Aston-Villa-eyeing-West-Ham-s-Robert-Snodgrass.html 29-year-old midfielder Robert Snodgrass only joined West Ham last season However, the Hammers are open to offers for the Scotland international Aston Villa would have to sign him on an initial loan with view to permanent deal Villa are also among the clubs to hold an interest in striker Jordan Rhodes

Second match of the season, didn't lose first one, but Bruce should go if we lose this one. Absolute hysteria.

Nah, easy win, followed by acusations that we won't be able to do it as easy against Cardiff oh and a Bruce out or 2 just cos.

Does an egg timer tick?

Yeah me too, I'm a filthy optimist and that's after the crap of the last 6 years. Most likely still wrong, which will be gutting, might have to give up and hand saturdays back to the wife..... NEVER!!!

I say this knowing that I've probably over assumed this but what's Bruce's approx net spend?

Just not true, we all expected Bruce to get 3 points on Saturday, we expect promotion. This ain't a bad thing, but expectation is crippling, we are a big club in a small league, but while the likes of huddersfield are all united and well behind their overachieving team, us lot are well narky and rarely giving unconditional support to our team because we expect to be a million miles from where we are.

Ha ha can't win em all!

If there was one guy who never got any backing who could have moved us on it was probably Remi.

Bruce hasn't forgotten, with the sale of Amavi he'll have made Tony 20 mill back. He hasn't assembled an expensive squad, he's done the opposite AND improved it, yet still gets flack.

So we really are getting freaky now. Not only do we want constant manager change, but we are also now looking back romantically at sheer failures of managers thinking what could have been had they had longer. This is messed up.

Tis all speculation my friend, I think it is likely. each to their own.

Ahh I'm boring myself. Just grinding the old axe. There was a lot of complaining about yesterday and it was mostly aimed at the manager, I do get that, I felt it too, but opinion aside I have to go on results as it's only fair and a lot of teams fecked up yesterday in their first competitive game so we are unchanged IMHO and we will have some serious options very soon with Kodjia, Adomah and Jedi back. I'm as impatient as the rest, cannot wait until next game. UTV.

We don't have winning football is a safe statement, because in our 1 game this season, we drew. And our fans do want it all, now, that is evident in the bruce thread. I'm not stating like a loon that we WILL be fine, purely hoping, but we are what we are which is a championship team and the level of dismissing of teams like Hull is ridiculous, and that is down to a historical superiority that we all feel, but which is currently not backed up. All I'm after is a bit of humility about our situation, slagging off manager after manager, 21 year old players, teams like Hull - is all complete folly. As a fan base we're pretty blumin bitter, and this constant dredging up the past and the season just gone is not going to help us in the here and now, it will trap us.

Just reliving the most immediate memory of this manager. Yes his name was sung, and yes he should have done better, yes also that Lerner screwed him. I still wouldn't want him in charge now, living off his champions league win at a german club etc etc etc etc.

We go again.

This won't play well on a fan forum, but I almost typed that the problem is the fans. The levels of expectation and impatience are off the scale. It sucks being sh*te, when Villa is used to better, but the divine right that we should be better is BS. We earn the right to be in the premier league and we earn the right to win the championship. If that means we play cr*p football and bludgeon our way up then so be it. Who wouldn't want sexy football and a 'philosophy' but right now we are absolute beggars and should humbly take with both hands any which way we can of getting promoted. F*ck ideals.

Put the fork down and come quietly.

Answering an Iraqi fan on a low level club question - Tony is a living ledge This Iraqi guy is awesome, cmon doctor lets get him sitting with Xia at the next home game, return flights paid for!

No good in the championship, he'd get constantly licked.

You describing an intoxicated wife?

Well it's that old chestnut, hopefully we will get promoted, and should that happen I imagine we'll all be pleased. Either way it goes I also hope there'll be none of this I told you so nonsense, we only have faith after all.

Bruce has actually made back 20 mill for Tony when Amavi goes.

But do you remember all those times a fit Jedi played and we tended to win? We now have cover. What value did we get last term from our squad? Not a lot. What do you think to having a straight fight for places between Elmo and Adomah? I don't think Bruce is a tactical mastermind, but he has gone and got us a squad that will in a blunt enough fashion, do what worked best last season. I suppose I have to agree, he ain't a great manager, but I do have faith in his tried and tested plan for promotion, and I think I am coming to realise that what Bruce does best is to go out and get those players that you need in order to do an old fashioned job.