Stratvillan

Can he play tomorrow?

Give me 5 minutes and I'll read all of the respectful comments in the bruce out thread. The language may not be appropriate but the sentiment s no different.

How? saying he's being poorly treated but loves the club and will stay and fight if he's needed. Seems like a valid response for someone who is asked to play full back and winger.

Got to love Adomahs bro!????

Think our season may fall apart f we don't sign a forward and centre half. Having said that we should only sign the right players, we've had years of short term last minute deals which have caused more damage than not signing anyone would have done.

Perhaps, but he can only play well if he's selected, he can't choose who that's against. If we use your argument no young players would ever get a chance. He's only played 13 league games for us over 2 years not sure how many were starts. This means he isn't very good or he might be good, but the manager prefers experience. I'll leave that to you to decide! (This isn't the Bruce thread). Wether it's bree or someone else. We can only really judge them after a period of regular action, not a game every 8 weeks. This is why these players move on and are successful at this level and higher elsewhere.

Big Sam cleared (sort of) and available. Not the manager we want, but an upgrade on Bruce.

Central defender and centre forward for me. Without a central defender I think we'll struggle to reach the playoffs. Jedi is fine as a Samba style (no pun intended) back up. But no team would be promoted with 2 slow centre halfs, one of which can't pass the ball. Imagine if Chester got injured and our centre backs were Jedi and Elphick think centre forward is essential. Not just for the goals, but more for the hold up play. Would allow Grealish, mcginn to get the ball in dangerous areas.

I think he could be very good, but needs to play regularly. It's a bit pointless if he's motm midweek and not rewarded. What message does that send out?

Motm according to Bruce. I rate him personally, but needs to play.

Who would bite your hand off for Chester and kodjia? I think Bruce needs to go, but let's not pretend we have a raft of premier league players. Chester is too slow for the prem. kodjia is either premier league or league 1 depending on his mood. There's a reason why they're in the championship. What I do blame the management for is the ridiculous decision Not to target a centre forward or centre half.

Has the ability, when he gives 100% looks amazing. Has whole sections of games where he zones out.

Thought he played well when he came on. Surprised he's been dropped.

Happy to be proven wrong tonight.? Hopefully I'm proven wrong on Saturday!

Interestingly the arguments you use for Kodjia are the exact arguments which are used against Bruce. I never said he was was shit. I think if he actually tried for 90 minutes he'd be better, I don't think he's helped by the set up of the team, but he's not helped by his inability to play as part of a team. I thought his actions at the end of the Ipswich game said it all. I've done my team for Wednesday, and he's leading the line, because he's the best we've got, not necessarily the best we can get.

If Saturday was him inform, dread to think what he'll look like on a bad day. Don't let the fact he scored detract from a really poor performance.

Drop adomah, pack the midfield with energy, and get in amongst them. Nyland RDL. AXEL. CHESTER. HUTTON THOR Hourihane Green GREALISH. MCGINN KODJIA

Thought Villa played patches of good football on Saturday. (Sit backs and awaits condemnation). The issue I had with Bruce is that even my 9 year old knew he wouldn't make subs until a prearranged point in the game, and even then, not really change the system. We've 2 or 3 players who are hideously out of form and yet still get picked, and these are all forward / attacking players. So even when we play out from the back as Nyland wants to do in fairness, when we have a collection of forwards who can't control / make a simple pass the ball comes straight back. Do I blame Bruce -yes do i blame the players -yes.

Amazed at how little criticism Kodjia gets. I appreciate that he has had bad injuries but he had game time (probably unwisely) at the tail end of last season, and a full preseason. I appreciate he got an assist midweek and a goal yesterday. The issue is that his general hold up play and work rate is appalling. We often discuss why we don't put teams to bed. When we play with hogan, kodjia or adomah, who can't actually hold a ball up it means that Grealish, McGinn etc end up receiving the ball 30 yards closer to our goal than they should do. If we had a lump of a cf (Matt smith etc) who could hold the ball up (given our tactics), we'd probably score more goals as a team. ( I'm not saying he's a technically better player), In terms of kodjia he may be being played slightly out of position but if he actually learned how to shield a ball, and make himself consistently available it might help. ......and relax.

Don't like the position of cdm, but if we are going to play it Whelan does it much better than Jedi.

Thought Bruce played it right . Blooded youngsters (which we all want) and rotated the squad ( which we all want). It does show that unless kodjia begins to show up we're in trouble. A lot of the problem is that the ball doesn't stick to the front 1 (3 if you include wingers) is this Bruce's fault or the players, surely it's common sense to play the ball to RHM feet. thought axel played well, and dh did enough. RHM doesn't look big enough to play as a cf imo. I actually was impressed with whelan, compare his performance to Jedi on sat.

I thought the subs today were positive and had a massive impact on the game. There were few people who thought Elphick played well against Hull, so assuming he should be dropped who comes in. I'm surprised that he chose jedinak instead of axel. Up front we have no options. RHM is being blooded (slowly and correctly imo) no matter how poor kodjia is, he's our best option at the moment. Davis and hogan aren't fit.

Some good individual performances McGinn, Grealish Hutton, Elmo. But a very disjointed team performance. The defence looks suspect, but should be strengthened with RDL. A central defender and a centre forward on loan s essential. Thought the keeper was suspect, but time will tell. Kodjia can't play as a lone striker. Thought McGinn was really impressive, with and without the ball.

With a more energetic midfield we shouldn't need a cdm. But with Elphick as a defender, we probably need to protect the defence. I think this will be a hard game. They're newly promoted and positive. Would rather had played them than n October.

Happy with the permanent signings. Disappointed we missed out on Bryan, but at least we missed out on the right type of player. The loans will be the key issue now. We need a defender and a centre forward.