Harry

We all love it Trent, that's why we come on here! The Villa rollercoaster exists VT or not!

I'm sorry they won't mate. One bad game and the knives are out on VT. Sad but true but we all still love the debate.

I would agree with that. Bournemouth did concede loads of goals and that was masked by the fact they scored loads too. I really had high hopes of Elphick and in the first couple of games I thought we had bagged a good player, as I think we all did. Now he just seems like an accident waiting to happen. We need to move him and Richards on and buy a decent CB which plus one of the kids will give us four with Jedinak as further cover.

I think he has improved as the season has gone on. He definitely has no future at Man U so I would not be surprised if we sign him. I would prefer more experience but I think there is a decent keeper in there somewhere.

By some amazing twist of fate I have not seen Villa lose this season. I missed all the home games we lost. So on that basis miles better than last season and all the gallows humour. Still not good enough though.

Petulant child IMO. OK as a squad player but nothing more.

Should have scored today but let down by his inexperience. But overall well impressed.

Totally agree with that.

Definitely should have won that and bizarrely we looked better with ten men. Midfield looked excellent today with Hourihane the stand out player for me. The refereeing was worse than park football with clear bias to Brighton. How Brighton got promoted is beyond me based on seeing them today, they will struggle big time in the PL I could not see what Baker did to get a straight red as all I could see from the Holte was an excellent save by Johnstone. For once Bruce played players in their right positions and boy did it show.

Why did I know you would say that

Do we get to parade the trophy round the ground after the Brighton game?

By the way that's not a dig at anyone, just funny. I think the word we are searching for is polarised.

Its good to see that if you don't look at this thread for a few days and come back you find precisely the same debate is going on involving basically the same posters.

Still some wayward passing but rock solid IMO and much better than Westwood.

And we have just not missed him.

Can agree with everything you have said but the way I see it he has earned the summer and the start of next season to show he can sort things out. He has already stated that there still need to be a big clear out of players in the summer and certainly we need 3-4 key signings coming in. Like or loath Bruce he has earned the right. As I said earlier in this thread it was ugly from both sides today and we sorely missed Kodja but it was three points and it being against Blues and pushing them closer to the drop it was a sweet victory.

Just got back. Put bluntly we were dreadful and Blues were worse. But a win is a win and against Blues it sure is sweet.

That must be a euphemism for something

Old Chinese proverb…'quitters are never winners and winners are never quitters"

Hang on a second. Have you not realised the best manager we will ever have is the next one we will appoint and then give it 10-15 games and we will all be calling for his head. Sorry just a reality check.

Still agree with this (just). I think he needs the summer to continue the sort out of the squad and fill the obvious gaps and impose some sort of playing style. Once next season starts there will be absolutely no place to hide and if we don't hit the ground running he will be gone very quickly as I doubt Dr Tony will want to countenance a third season in the Championship. The trouble is we now have a reputation as a club of chopping and changing managers way too frequently. OK those changes may have been fully justified but that's not how the media see it with the likes of the BBC and their overtly anti Villa stance. In reality we have made some poor managerial appointments but also good ones on paper that have been destroyed by the club. Unfortunately we as fans do not help either as we see Villa as being a much bigger club than we actually are these days and I am as guilty as the next man. Following years of mismanagement both on and off the field we are at the level we deserve, a bang average Championship side. Sad but true. All in all not a great draw for any manager with Dr Tony needing to have his sunshine gun on its highest setting with an extra battery pack to attract the next and a decent manager.

Both good managers but I doubt either would come. As I said earlier in this thread I don't think we are that attractive a club to manage.

Not sure who the new faces will be as our squad is a little thin in some key areas so IMO not may options.

Ok got you, too late and too much gin!

I literally have no idea what this means......sorry.