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There are at least 6 squads and managers that id pick over ours as they either won promotion or a playoff place. Stats and reputation mean nothing if you dont get results and 11 squads and managers have amassed better results than us this season.

5th nest defence because we are a horribly negative team that sits deep and put most of our plyers behind the ball not because our defenders are good. 5th top scorer who is a very talented guy who has scored the lions share of the teams goals on his own 9th top scorer : how many are for villa? 1 i believe 1st and 2nd top assists: again vast majority of those assists were nit for aston villa. You know bruce has got 4 protions from this division that must mean we got promoted... oh wait, we didnt... Just because players get goals and assists at other club doesnt nevessarily mean they are good players and can do it somewhere else. Particularly in the case of hourihane and lansbury : the clubs they came from played very differently to the way we play and the players themselves played very different roles in those teams compared to the roles they fill in ours. Based on how they perform in their current roles in their current team they are far from good enough.

Dont know why you think we controlled the game... We had less posession We had less time in the attacking 3rd We had less shots overall We had less shots on target We created less chances We had a lower pass success rate We lost more 50/50 and one on ones We had a lower tackle success rate So i really dont see how we controlled anything...

On a seperate note delighted with the win today and i sincerely hope SB contines to rub my face in it ( as i said we needed to savk him to move forward and start winning) Happy to be proven wrong and made a fool of for many more games! That said, i really hope he can improves performances as we look like a terrible football team...

Cant disagree enough with this post. Norwich had more shots than us today and only thanks to some smart work from Sam (never thought od say that) they would have scored a few. Thats ehat 69% posession got them They also spent 3 times as long in our box as we did in theres and but for jerome not being as good as kodjia should have made more of what they created. Similarly we didnt only create two chances, we missed a couple of sitters ourselves ( houihans header against the bar comes to mind) so to make out like we scored our only 2 chances is way off for me as is making out norwich did nothing with their posession. Both asserions are pure fantasy. You also mention that johnstone didnt have much to do yet i believe he made more saves in this game than any other since he joined us. So another assertion that just simply isnt true. The 'hobbits in the middle' as you call them were all absent for much of the hame and had amoungst the poorest passes attempted and passes completed stats of any on the pitch today. Bar lansburys tackling back the midfield by in large were poor today and were rightly bypassed for most of the second half.

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.