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He’s tried his best. He’s been through hell and back personally recently. I don’t think badly of him.

But Its time to go.

No idea who replaces him. I am so scared for our future in all honesty.

IVe been saying it all week. If nerves and inexperience effect Fulham we can win.

If they don’t then they will wipe the floor with us.

Turns out it’s the latter. We look the inexperienced ones.

Jedinak MOTM so far 

id rather it be grabban

i can only see us sitting deeper in the second half.

we ain’t all of a sudden gonna turn into Fulham. Looks like it’s protection of the lead and hope for a goal on the break.

Agree Conor and jedi have been superb

Not got Jack in the game at all.

this is more like the second half at boro

Unfairly penalised or not

did Kodjia run a marathon before kick off? Looks woefully off the pace.

Yeh snoddy has been poor. Making a habit of it recently. Seems to have lost that fire in his belly from a few games ago.

If we played with a bit more urgency and showed a little more composure we could be 3-0 up here. 

Need another or it could get nervy.

He really doesn’t rate Bree does he. I thought he was better against Cardiff than Taylor was in his last 3 games.

Look forward to seeing Onomahs lazy arrogant ass trot about the middle of the park. He’s got a perfect sloth in Whelan next to him.

Hoping for some Grealish or Kodjia magic.

Well I’ll be cheering on Fulham for the rest of the season.

Although Cardiff will still trounce us in the playoffs if we play like this.

Warnock can actually motivate his team

The lazy body language from some is unacceptable.

So many guilty of it today.

Grealish Hogan and Hourihane looking like the only ones that can be arsed

1 minute ago, mykeyb said:

Taylor should have been out quicker to close him down, poor

Make no mistake that goal was Taylor’s fault.

Great finish or not. He couldn’t be arsed to get tight when he should know Murphy had a good left peg.

It was lacklustre.

Just like the whole **** half

Can’t believe the Cardiff game on Tuesday is going to be pointless. 

The minimum we could have done is give Cardiff something to fight for.

They still will have.

Thanks to Fulham

FFS Taylor. Sums up our first half that. 

Stand completely off him giving him time to pick his spot 

Are we expecting to sleep walk to 2nd?

The lack of urgency is staggering.

Lansbury is dead on his feet.

Im not too arsed about the result. As soon as that Cardiff result came in yesterday it was the play offs for us.

in more disappointed by the performance. After the last two shocking results we haven’t seen a reaction from any one of them. 

We can not afford to sleep walk into the playoffs. But it appears that’s what we are doing.

7 hours ago, terrytini said:

And he leads by the example of his work rate, and not frightened to bawl the other forwards/ midfield out especially when he’s chasing and they don’t.

Hes instrumental to our success,

Incredible work rate yesterday. Was screaming at Hogan and grabban at times for not matching his pressing.

Absolute hero at the moment.

The thing that Conor has on his side apart from a goal out of nothing is his work rate.

He may not always play great but he never hides and always works hard.

He didn't have a great yesterday despite his goal. But on plenty of occasions he was pressing really hard and put in some great defensive challenges. He just didn't do much with the ball when he had it. He's in our best starting eleven for sure.

what a calamitous goal that was

make the changes now Bruce ffs whats the point in waiting?

grabban and Lansbury on for birkir and onomah

What.....a......goal

Didnt think he was poor before that goal. Was breaking things up and really pressing well.

So pleased for him.

Awful week and that win would have meant so much for him. He looked really emotional when that first goal went in.

Well done Steve and well done all the staff and players.

Superb!

Always defended Hogan.

Not having a dig for the sake of it but it was ridiculous the way people said he should be doing more and that he was shit.

Thought he was great when he came on. 

Hopefully between him and jedinak we will see less of whelan

Why oh why do we sit back so often after going ahead.

Press them, get in their faces and they will crumble.

The gap between the midfield and Hogan is once again epic

Genuine question: Do we think Jermaine Defoe played up front on his own would score goals in this villa team under Bruce? A couple of potshots from outside the area perhaps but certainly not as much as his talent and previous record should warrant.

My answer would be no. That wouldn't make me question if Defoe is good at scoring goals. We know he is. 

I don't mean to be insulting to Defoe, a player who is one of the top scorers of all time in the premier league, with Hogan who has only scored 20 goals at championship level but I also don't think it is wrong to say that they are a similar type of striker.

I am still refusing to believe Hogan is a poor player who now can't offer as much as RHM. Bare in mind RHM came into the game full of confidence with no previous frustrations. 

Im not saying Hogan is blameless. He needs to search within himself to turn his career around. But he will keep running into the brick wall that is Steve Bruce. He is the one who is the gate keeper of Hogans desperation to be a Holte hero at Villa.

Maybe we should email Dean Smith and ask him what he thinks of Hogan. A couple of sentences from him and we would be reassured I'm sure.

Im keeping my perspective on the Hogan situation until he no longer plays under Steve Bruce.