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It should wash. You should bathe in it. It's not rubbish from 5 yrs ago, its facts from last season, the season before and so on. Its a deep seeded problem. It also shows a pattern of decline. A pattern of constant change. A pattern of a new manager every season trying to implement their way. How is any club supposed to recover from that? I did back bruce. I thought he'd get us up last yr. I wanted him to have a preseason. The first half at hull I thought justified that. Then the second half and the two following games I had my head in my hands. However what I actually did see was a response, two good performances, goals and team that finally seems to be clicking. Friday night I thought was another sign of resilience, stopping the rot away. We could have nicked it. We had a bit of fight about us to not lose. The facts are we've been one of the poorest teams in the country for a long time. I feel with the group we have, we're very much on the right track to rectifying that. I dont see anyone who could come in and change it. Anyone that would guarantee promotion, and anyone who isnt going to want more time and more players.

Indeed. Bruce has been here 10 months and it continues. Its weird

Spin this.....Aston Villa the least amount of away wins in all 4 leagues over the past 5yrs. 25 away wins in 5 yrs. Blame bruce though. Spin this at the same time. Steve Bruce has the highest win ratio of any villa manger since John gregory. It's a funny old game.

If he was a left sided player it would be the icing on the cake. Would no doubt add quality but we seem stacked.

So you want to judge him on his interim role in the first team, and "rumours" instead of the facts of several cracking academy prospects coming into tne first team set up in for all to see. Dinosaur?? Dinosaur opinnion more like.

Shown again he's got it in his locker.

Apart from the bolded part I agree with you completely. It's where I'm at. But the bolded part has always bothered me about the Bruce out camp. Whilst we are where we are we're never going to get a top end of the prem manager. We're shopping in the lower end prem league slogger bin, or talented foreign manager with no experience bin. We are in the championship and any thoughts about the premier league should be shelved until we're there. If Bruce gets us up I think he knows full well he'll get a golden handshake and we begin the next phase. 4 promotions from the league we're in shouldn't be sniffed at. Any of Bruce's premier league time means nothing to the here and now of where we're at. I want Bruce to get us OUT. I don't care how he performed in the league above. It's not important. However if we get rid. I don't think the next guy will have enough time to get us up. Which leaves us looking for a guy who could potentially manage in the prem and get us promoted which if we're honest is going to take two seasons minimum.

Nar you're way off fella with that shout. He is part of my cousins circle of friends, all footballers but he's the one that "made" it. Hear bits from time to time and he is way off being a starter for us. Suffered with injuries and has been told to drop down to league 1 on loan and get games. Defo has the ability but needs to build himself back up. But what a performance from davis. Hope we don't bring anyone in and put our faith in him.

Lol amazing how good baker has become since he left. A complete donkey but with the heart of a lion. Loved his bravey and wish him well but come on. A mistake to replace him with terry??? Baffling suggestion. Terry yesterday mopped up a lot of the balls baker would put into his own net or head straight to the opposition. Majority of the goals conceded so far have been down to hutton being in no mans land. Still a great bit of business for me on so many levels. We will not miss baker at all.

I dont get the bashing he is getting from some. He is a goal scorer. The problem is today proved exactly what type of striker this team is set up for and it isn't a hogan type. So spending 9 mill on him is a bit of a head scratcher.

I wasn't disagreeing with him. I was more asking about the 'football people' tag. Which are now being targeted. Is the list i provided our football people? Is there anyone else? On paper you'd say its a decent selection. Especially tayls and little when it comes to villa decisions. Are they being listened to? Is one of them having a final say. If we're pointing the finger as some are, do they have reason for it. Or as it looks people just getting angry and blaming everyone

No. Was interested to see your insight into our football people that you're calling shambolic. But you've just confirmed it was a meaningless rant.

The 'football people' always get it. Yet lets look at the people you're labelling shambolic idiots. Advisors to big Tone. As far as im aware our football people are.... Steve Round Ian taylor Sir Brian Mr Wyness 3 of those have played more football than you've had hot dinners. The other has worked pretty much exclusively in football. 2 of them are our own. Just to clarify. Its these people you're pointing your pitch fork at??

When there are more than enough rumours flying around the game of marital and alcohol issues, pointing the finger at bruce is lazy.

He isn't training. He goes there for his recovery which is for 3 days. Its in the link with quotes. Maybe thats ok as it's where he lives. But kind of feels like a lack of squad unity. Im sure we have ice baths.

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Not sure how I feel about him spending 3 days a week recovering back at Stamford Bridge with the Chelsea players. At get that's where he lives and it's probably closer but as captain shouldn't it be all or nothing?? Be with our troops all the time. Seems a bit half hearted.

When fit??? Which is never. Be a terrible signing and would sum up the state of our recruitment

Yeah defo. I meant it only worked on your pc/laptop browser. Any other device with a browser failed for me. You'll have no problems.

Yep there is commentary and in match replays. To be fair it was a decent job. My only complaint is it didn't seem to work on anything but a desktop pc. Nothing on the xbox browser / or the android kodi box.

I think we'll really struggle to bring someone of "note" in to the club that has the nous and experience to drag us up as winners. We'll need to get lucky with the next wagner or the like. An absolute massive appointment for us.

The end product of his pass sums up everything that is wrong with our current bunch of so called professionals. It was a good pass to Landsbury who took a touch and carried on like an 80yrd old man. Why he didn't take a touch, muscle his man out the way and absolutely leather it into the top corner, with drive and aggression is why we aren't getting anywhere near the top two.

It's a baffling signing really. If you're not set up to use him why sign him?

It's a good point. We need his replacement to be better. But are our hands already tied. Its a massive appointment.

You can say that about any manager we would be in for. Maybe he doesn't want to go down the classic german manager route. Maybe he fancies the challenge of going for the league this yr then he is in the prem with a club owner he can progress with. This is the level we need to aim for or we fade away into leeds territory