KevinRichardsonsMoustache

6 minutes ago, Robtaylor200 said:

Villa fans fighting each other

How’s their defensive shape? Can we get them into the dressing room to instruct the players? 

He will not be able to gee the players up at HT. He’ll try to make a substitution or two to mix things up but it’ll just paper over the cracks. 

He can’t do anything with the defence in terms of substitutions. 

The players will be able to see that he has no options left. Some will be expecting him to be gone by Monday. 

Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself. Give a manager full backing of massively influential owners and he fails to Marshal his troops. He’s done

Bye

1 minute ago, foreveryoung said:

He would have upset some of the seniors from his comments after Burton, an players don't appreciate being played out position then slagged for it.

Well said. This is Bruce’s last line of defence - he’s attacking the players who he is relying on to get him out of the hole. 

1 minute ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

I hope Thierry brings a Renault Clio with him so Bruce can va va voom his arse out of here.

Like most Renault Clios, Steve has broken down. And I think this time it’s a write off.

Bruce post match: ‘Sheffield United are a big “clubbe” and their manager has done a good job. They outplayed us today. And we’ve got to be better. The good thing...about this division...is that you get another chanc very quickly. And you can guarantee that the team in the next game will be TOTALLY different.’

And what did you say to the players at HT and FT, Steve?

Bruce: ‘nothing’.

That’s  management for you. Same excuses. Hollow words. No clue. 

I wonder if he’s going to alienate some of these players by throwing them under the bus after this performance?

He has lost it

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Steve Bruce has told fans to judge his Aston Villa side after 12 games following the fall-out from their dismal Carabao Cup exit at Burton Albion.

Only a few more to go Steve. Hope he has the decency to resign and not expect a pay out. 

You dtaiised the ship but your lack of ideas are holding us back. You’re now ruining our chances. 

BANG AVERAGE MANAGER 

No culture. No strategy. No shape. No **** clue. 

Shambolic. 

Resign you **** clown. 

1 minute ago, jacketspuds said:

I don't care what anybody says, signing a soon to be 38-year-old John Terry will not solve this shit. It will help but it won't be enough to get us where we need to be to go up.

I don’t think this is about ‘going up’ now. This is about bringing in a leader  because we have a manager who has lost the dressing room. 

And thats 2.

Waiting for a bit of magic. We won’t play teams off the Park with Steve. We’ll rely on that little moment. 

No no let good enough for a team with as much quality as ours. 

So bring in a new keeper who you’ve eyed up for theses. Play him in the most experimental back four I’ve seen at Villa in my life. Way to mess up his confidence (even if he’s any good). 

BruceBall. 

An ad for ‘Blakely’ appears at the top of my screen on VT. perhaps we could get this chap to help us organise the defence...he looks like a cockend but he might help...

Jesus Christ 

 Come on lads. We’ve got easily enough to take it to this lot! 

Hope to see some nice exchanges between the four more offensive midfielders. 

Well, time to accept that Jedi is now a centre back. 

I’m sick of moaning about it. 

Confirm the signing. Get him in. Get Jedi out of defence (although I envisage Bruce keeping Jedi there so ‘the young lad can settle in’...meanwhile we’re like a sieve at the back).

24 minutes ago, avfcwills10 said:

Only video that seems to be online of Moukoudi, nothing on YouTube really. Looks very good to me, very calm.

 

 

Second and (?)fifth clips look suspiciously like he could play right back. Might as well try him out on the right first...

5 minutes ago, terrytini said:

 

You are basically trying to say I have to say what you’d rather I say, ludicrous.

 

 

The interview transcript reads very strangely indeed: 

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/i-take-full-responsibility-every-15084017

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It has given me food for thought of the people, as I say, who keep knocking on my door, insisting they should be in the team.

“Obviously I am right that they shouldn’t be. They've let me down and themselves and the supporters."

 

He mentions multiple times that he was giving these players ‘who knock down his door’ a chance. And then he says they’re not good enough. He assumed they’d bottle it.

We’re seeing his relationship with Elphick writ large with the entire squad here. Despite claims to the contrary, he is deflecting  criticism of his tactics and man management by blaming the players. Is it more likely that 11 players are at fault or one manager who is meant to instruct those players? 

What he’s saying is: ‘Kodj, Jack and my favourites have saved you lot in the past. Lansbury, Elphick, Adomah, RDL: you’re not good enough. Not only has he lost them, it will create a toxic resentment against those who are his favoured few. 

Last season son he hid behind the motivating abilities of Snodders and JT. With them around, he probably could just say ‘go play’ and those two would gee up their team mates. It’s the classic 90s player approach - the ‘senior pros’ getting ‘stuck in’ at half time. Steve now looks increasingly isolated and ineffectual. 

He gets a game or three more and then goes. 

Dead man walking. 

Back to the monastery. 

Villas Boas?