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Oh dear blaming the players again. You think he might try and give them a brave heart style speech before the game, or at least ask them to try. The excerpts I read of Bruce's interview sounds like he knows he's up against it now. I wonder if he's lost the dressing room without his mates snoddy and JT to control the bantz, (the last few performances would certainly suggest so) and whether the board have discussed how long he has to turn it around

Evolution occurs at such a slow rate, you can't actually see it happening with the naked eye

I hope this means Dr Xia's Villa movie will get green lit now

Flicking through Twitter and I stumbled upon this historic tweet

I wonder how much of that could the club write off if we all pledge to buy 2 balti pies each per game next season

As painful as the football is to watch, Bruce has to stay and finish the job I feel. It's not beyond him to keep us in the PL for a year neither; then we could look to make a positive change in that respect.

Clearly goal machine Gabby should be first name on the team sheet then

A very nice and convincing win against a good side Let's not get hysterical en masse about it though, We know how much Mr Bruce hates that

Bona fide 4th and good reason to look up the table, This feeling of positivity is weird and unfamiliar

Commentator against blues described him as a 'Renaissance man' All these years and it turns out we've been playing him out of position!

...You OK hun?

Todays formation is already well known

Latest from Dr X ahead of todays game...

It's not the winning Its the taking part that counts

I have sympathy for the Doc. He didnt want Bruce initially, but was clearly talked into it by supposed 'football men' (4 promotions and all that), and as it turns out just employing an EFL or CL winning manager isnt a guaranteed solution

Did we really have a good 45 minutes against hull, was it some kind of optical illusion, or were they actually just worse than us for 45mins?! We spend too much of the game reacting to what our opposition is doing and dont stamp any authority as we can't keep possession long enough. So the team loses its shape with players get pulled out of position. This makes everyone look below average. We cant hold onto possession because we dont keep the ball on the ground enough, and hit too many speculative long balls. The players need to show more vision and composure - the break isnt instantly on EVERYTIME you win the ball back for Christ sake! Also when we do attack, support is thin; expecting our wingers to beat 3 or 4 men before delivering a perfect ball, rather than sending two other players to exchange with. Everyone can see this apart from the staff, but it doesn't matter because 'hopefully' we'll win on Saturday

SB: "So what are we going to do? Hopefully we'll get a response, we'll get up and running on Saturday and keep trying and working hard at it." If all we're doing is 'hoping' that our deficiencies get corrected, then it really is hopeless for us. but even the word 'hopeless' has 'hope' in it, aye Steve?

Don't worry, only three more years to go until we're bigger than Real Madrid

5 at the back tonight I reckon - that's defenders I mean, not goals - although that'd wouldn't surprise me neither after Saturday Obviously Bruce is up against it, and I'd expect that to translate into an even more cautious approach, rather than an open, gung-ho performance that many dream of

If he does thrive on being 'the man', as I believe some have suggested, now might be a good opportunity for him to show what he's got to offer Is it a case that he doesn't want to be here, or is he being forced out in regards to ffp with the aim of getting a target man?

Is there anything to be said for saying another mass?

Courtesy of the beeb gossip column, it seems he's going to Marseille on a season long loan? French article https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Jordan-amavi-s-est-envole-pour-marseille/824415

I've got a bad feeling about this.

Short memory!

RDL won't be getting straight back into the starting lineup, that much seems clear Bree is hopefully our long term replacement for this position, but Hutton isnt the reason we didnt get 3 points against hull