flashingqwerty

Great to win but the performances aren't improving at all. Ill take the win but we cant afford to be playing such poor football against good sides - we'll get found out

I'll eat my words and swallow my pride and admit that Bruce has turned our fortunes when i didnt feel he had it in him - well done SB. However, though our fortunes are on the up i still dont see any real improvement to the quality of football we are playing, and this concerns me a great deal. I hope SB continues to prove me wrong and turns us into the passing team i believe we can be. But i dont see it happening and i still dont think he is the man to take us up. But as he has proved me wrong once i will back him til this time next year.

Bfuce has had a window where we replaced the majority of the starting 11. Hes has a number of montha at the club to engrain his tacyics and methods. Come the end of the season if we still look clueless on the pitch, are still making silly errors, are still playing poor football and still making questionable subs there he should not keep the job because it should not be taking that long to drill players into a particular system. I fully believe that one of our biggest issues is poor coaching. Especially given how our cms suddenly cant pick a pass when they could at previous clubs. You dont just lose the ability to make a 10 yard pass to a team mate - this is down to coaching and tactics. Both of which i believe Bruce to be relatively poor at.

How can it be bad luck that in the majority of games we fluff our chances and our opponents do not? If it was the case a few times a year i could understand but this is game 6 or 7 out of 10 where weve had as many or more chances than our opponent and failed to get a result.

Same old story with mossed chances. If it happens now and again its bad look but for us its happening consistently and for me thats bad coaching. Cant see us ever getting out of this league with this setup. Dont think any of them are any good.

Ive watched each of our last 9 games, not live but after the fact and many times over. Other than Bruce messing with the formation i see very little change in individual performance (i.e. the things they are trying to do) the only marked difference i see is the quality of the opposition allowed us to complete more of the movements than better opposition would have. I hope im wrong, but i fear when we meet hiddesgield we will see something closer to 9 games ago than the last 3. I honestly cant see anything on the pitch has really changed and i think thats ultimately down to coaching as opposed to some all encompassing curse as some are suggesting.

3 wins and 3 cleans sheets is a great achievement the manager and players deserve credit for that accomplishment. Howver, for me our performances havent really changed. Weve just come up against lesser opponents and had less bad luck. Ive still seen nothing to suggest Bruce has a plan or is the man to take us forward. I remain firmly unconvinced.

I believe its because he flocked the ball away from goal and from what ive seen im not convinced he would have been able to keep it in.

Honestly? I dont recall it being said about a squad as good as ours that has performed as badly as ours. But maybe im delusional...

3 point, though very much needed, only papers over the cracks. For me the yeam selection and tactics were poor and did little to make use of the talent we have in the squad. Though i understand the purpose of the subs made i dont understand why he would make that decision. Derby werent creating anything so i dont see the need to drop deeper and invite them on even more. Poor decision for me. So happy for the last to have the win under their belts. But still see nothing from SB that gives me the feintest impression that he knows what hes doing or has a plan. Comes across as though hes randomly selecting players half the time. Im still concerned about relegation and still feel SB is not the man to lead us through this.

Last high scoring mid i can recall is platt...

Tro, you can say that he underestimated the job etc, but that doesnt explain things like taking off 2 strikers and putting a right midfielder up front or going 2 goals down before half time and not changing anything until the 80th minute. These are the decisions of a man who is floundering because he doesnt know what to do - and its his obvious signs of being overwhelmed that tell me we need to move on. No amount of time is going to fix SB

Pure madness. League 1 here we come

Which to me points to poor coaching and management as opposed to the players being shite

What does 2 fit forwards have to do with changing defence from 4 to 3? The number of fit forwards we have could affect midfield but baffles me why you want 3 cbs when you have 2 forwards but 2 cbs when you have 1 forward. In fact it seems counter intuitive

Cant see anything other than another defeat here. I actually am struggling to see where our next point will come from so bad has the team been. With the individuals we have, the blame has to go on SB. Cant help but think that a more open manager would do better with this squad.

Thats just how much i want bruce out. I have no faith that he can improve us an wholeheartedly believe we need to move on before we wake up in league 1

Im hoping for a hammering by 4 or 5 to get brucey the sack. Maybe next time we could bring in a manager who knows how to use creative player and not leave us open at the back.

All over for me. While Bruce remains at the club i want nothing to do with it. Clearly hasnt a clue what his best system or his best 11 is and has no ideas on how to change a game. Incompetent is the only word for what he has shown us

In fairness weve had 13 shots and theyve had 3 so its not like we havent been the better team. But for a rush of blood from amavi and a useless idiot in goal wed be comfotable.

Cant recall any manager signing the 2 best midfielders in the league and playing them in unnatural positions effectively nullifying their ability...

Were he not employing poor tactics, making questionable formation and starting xi choices and nonsensical and baffling substitutions id agree. But these things point to a man out of his depth and/or completely clueless. He needs trimming with the rest of the dead wood.

3 games. Lose them all or even fail to win any then bruce should be sacked.

The complete disparity between the managers chosen tactics and the players we signed in jan tells me Bruce didnt choose the signings. Our tactics appear to be to defend, lump it forward and hope one of our forwards does it all on his own. Then why go and sign two of the best ball players in the division if your tactics are to bypass midfield? It just doesnt add up to me and i think if villa are to improve it needs to be under a different manager.

Expect bjarnasson to continue at lwb. Gardner in for grealish. Same shit formation and tactics. Forwards taken off with 10 mins left to be replaced by bunn and sarkic. Heavy 4-1 defeat