TheStagMan

So I am definitely in the out camp. Bruce for me is not adventurous enough for a club like Villa and is a lower end of the premier league slogger. There is a reason he has 4 promotions - he has ended up in the Championship A LOT, premier league clubs have not exactly fallen over themselves to hire him - that should say a lot. He also has two relegations from the prem lets not forget. He is good at getting the best out of a skillfully poor but hardworking team. He has never shown flair in his teams and has never managed at the top end of the prem. He also apparently stays awake all night worrying about losing. Not something that instills confidence is it! He has not, over 40+ games consistently demonstrated a game plan, a playing style, a first choice team or a plan B. He has not shown an ability to change a game when it is going against us or even try until it is too late. What I want to see from Bruce, if he is to stay, a period of 10+ wins where it looks like we deserved to win where we looked convincing and didn't only play for 1 half of the game. Not like the winning run last season where the wins were not convincing and there was a fair degree of luck, and you just felt that we could not sustain it - and we didn't. Norwich was a good start. 10 more performances like that and I will have been brought onside. I would even accept a couple of draws in some circumstances (i.e. not if we throw away a 3-0 lead and draw 3-3) . Each win or decent performance that he gets (like Norwich) buys him until the next game in my eyes.

OK, how about: Hourihane scored more goals in 1 game than Gabby Agbonlahor in the whole of last season

I am a little concerned by this. Everyone knows that the DEVIL is in the details. Is the Devil Tony's god????? Oh my word, he is a devil worshiper, that is how we scored 4 goals yesterday. Gabby's soul has been sold. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Yesterday we played well, but the nerves are still very apparent. 10 months it has taken to put in a decent performance over 90 minutes. Steve now needs to stick with this team and let it gel and grow in confidence. I was watching Davis control the ball and take people on at the edge of the Norwich penalty area and was thinking to myself "I cant imagine Gabby doing anything like that" just as Davis flicked the ball on to Green who scored a sizzler. I actually clapped at my laptop! To my mind Bruce lucked into a formation yesterday. Let's see if he changes it for the next game. His comments like "they showed flashes" imply that he probably will. If he does, he is a ******* idiot. And stop with the bitching against the fans Steve. The one thing you have going for you is that you are supposed to be a nice bloke. Comments like you have been making, blaming the fans expectations for your ineptitude just make you look like a classless clearing in the woods. Shut your mouth, put in a decent run of performances like that and I will start to believe. Until then you are still on borrowed time.

Wow, what happened. We actually looked good in that half. Very happy. Green's goal was fantastic.

WTF was that Terry>??????

Thing is JV (I know that was a joke) but I would love this to happen. But nothing over the last 10 months gives me even a glimmer of hope this will happen.

And frankly speaking, since he has been here he didn't do well

And yet I can't help but notice that we are BOTTOM of the CHAMPIONSHIP. What has to happen for discontent to be justified????????

Only if it can play at RB

No, sorry, there shouldn't be any hyphens or spaces in it.

it certainly looks like he doesn't at the moment.

Don't be silly JV - we cannot possibly judge a manager until he has had at least one transfer window and a pre-season with HIS players.

More worryingly - that our MANAGER might think this was the best option!

Jesus we are screwed

Reading fans?.

Agreed absolute garbage. There is no backslapping nor merriment here. The overriding emotion is dissapoinment. Not one of us wants Villa to do badly. Some of us saw early on that Bruce was not the man for us, that does not mean we are happy to see Villa in this predicament. When Bruce leaves (when, not if) there will be relief, but not Joy as we have failed again. And maybe some renewed optimism.

Ah, I see. Nothing to do with him being shit then?

Well, they got him nailed (apart from the muppets who say he is not given a chance because of his Birmingham City connections)

Sorry. I forgot.

an honest bunch of lads

lost for words..... Actually, no I'm not Bruce Out.

Well, he has got this season's goal already so he deserves to relax now.

At the moment, we have no chance under Bruce. None. He has had 40 games to show some glimmer of hope. That IS being patient. No good being patient if things will not improve. How will much longer do you propose we give him? 10 games, 50, 100? Because if we do, we will not get out of this league (unless we get relegated). Fat lot of good being patient will have done us.

Eats kebabs? *Edit* damn beaten to it.