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the team is already broken due to poor coaching and incompetent management

Bruce is a clown. how many times has he thrown all the strikers on? 10? 12? how many times has it worked? 0! doesnt learn from his mistakes. joke of a manager!

BRUCE OUT!!!

our biggest issue is that there is zero pace in our team. all fulham have to do is give the ball to sessegnon or fredricks to run with and they leave our entire team for dist. they literally only need to run with the ball to create chances.

unfortunately Terry is half the problem today. making too many school boy errors. letting platers pull him out of position too easily.

manager out thought players out fought theres no roar in these lions, more like a kittens whimper - pathetic

will you be there for this one?

Pick them off on the break with what? Theres more pace in a corpse than in our 11. He could easily have swapped a number of players in that 11 to keep things fresh and maintain a side capable of doing the same in the first half. The 2nd half will see a number of our players fade and if tired legs cost us bruce sjould be sacked on the spot. Failure to rotate has cost us all season.

Thats the problem. Villa havent been set up to win this game they have been sent out to defend for 90 minutes and we just dont have the legs for it.

Same 11 bar bree for elmo when playing 2 in 3 dsys again. He has admitted before its a bad idea ydt he keeps making the same mistakes game after game. Old dog new tricks etc...

i see where you are coming from with the vassell comparison, but i think he is more gifted than Vassell (i never really rated Vassell tbh) But im not sure about the kodjia comparison as kodjia can play as a lone striker as he has ( or perhaps had - we shall see) great strength and is pretty good in the air without being a beast. Im not sure rhm has that yet, not to say he wont, but i dont see him as good in the air personally and dont think he could play as a lone striker at the moment. Yes he has more skill than hogan, but the reason i compare them is because i dont see either as good hold up players or good in the air which is what our brand of football at the moment needs - hence why Grabban is doing well.

your making wild leaps about the motives behind my post without offering any evidence to support your claim. you also continue to assert your opinion as fact - which it isnt. the basis of my post is that when you look at hogan at his previous clyb, his success came from the way the midfield moved the defence around, harried them and by playing balls in behind - note i am not saying this is where his goals came from. By and large we do not play that style of football and the few games where we have hogan has scored. im not claing he is world class - he's a limited striker not worth what we payed for him. However, he is far from 'shit' and the way we play means that his involvement and impact is far less than it could be. You mention Grabban - yes, he is a better all round player than Hogan and suits our style better. but if we were playing passes in behind the back 4 as often as brentford did when hogan was there, i would back hogan to perform better in that scenario than grabban. horses for courses and all that. the short version is- hogan should never have been signed as other than he scored goals he isnt the player we needed.

stating something as fact without anything to back it up... what a valuable insight and swaying argument... However, i can show you how the first teams focus is getting the ball out of defence quickly either going to a central striker to hold it up or to the wing to cross it - neither of these things play to rhms strengths. We can also see from the u23 teams that we have a much higher emphasis on passing and creating space along with much higher instances of playing the ball in behind the defence as well as a greater focus on keeping the ball on the ground. its no surprise that rhm stands out in the u23s and struggles to get involved in the first team.

Scott Hogan plays on the shoulder of the last man to get in behind - this is not how Villa play - we are a lump it into the box side which doesnt play to his strngths

the first team doesnt play the type of football required to make use of a player like rhm. same reason why hogan looks lost in our team. we do not play to their strengths.

have you seen much of any of them playing regularly? Have you seen them regularly against the physical sides we face 2/3 times a week? If they were good enough to step up we would have seen more of them this season than we have done. And i have watched them in the u23s quite a lot, and whilst they show promise, i doubt very much that any of them are capable of more than 10 games next season at a decent level. They arent ready to be regulars, and we need morethan squad players.

well perhaps not half as good is an exaggeration. But we dont have a great record of bringing quality in at low cost, and unless something unexpected happens financially the current facts are that the wage bill needs to be halved to keep us away from FFP. So to say that the squad will be weaker next season is pretty much guaranteed should we still be in the championship. And with the funds the relegated teams will have, competeing will be even more difficult.

its not the number of bodies that is the issue its the wages. for the most part, Gabby, McGatemack and Richards aside, our better players earn the most money. To make up the defecit between revenue this season and revenue next season the wage bill needs to half. HALF! And thats without thinking about a few of our better players wanting to leave to futher their careers. i truely hope we get promoted as i fear for the next 3 to 5 years if we dont...

they believe his future rests on the playoffs much like the rest of us. i'm sure you can appreciate i cannot name names but one senior member has stated he believes SB will walk if we fail to go up.

thats like saying tomorrow is speculation because it has happened yet. Its a fact that our incoming revenue will be drastically reduced next season. Dont believe me? There are literally dozens of credable quotes, interviews and articles detailing in some depth. I speak regularly to people at the club who look at club turnover, and not getting promoted would mean SEVERE cutbacks across the club not least with regards players and wage budgets. Anyone who thinks we can keep this squad in tact for another season in the championship is kidding themselves as the club simply cannot afford to do it.

He always seems to have a big mistake in him - and i am not sure we can risk that in the playoffs. He has had far more woeful games than good for us, so bench him when the important games come please

defensively still a good player but as soon as he crosses the half way line his effectiveness drops massively. Remember, those wondering why we dont keep him, he is one of the highest earners at the club and is pushing 35. Bree has potential to be a much better player than hutton, and wont reach that potential sitting on the bench. its the right time for all concerned for him to leave.

its sad really, he had such great potential and poor application and no small amount as mismanagement robbed us of the player he might have been. As it is, i say get out, stay out, and dont come back.

unfair on de laet, agree with the rest

some of us still do