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  1. Stratvillan
    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.
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    Hope he plays him and hourihane, and destroys him to the same number of goals as hourihane got last season.
  3. Stratvillan
    Signed a goalie, an attacking uptempo mid. And kept jack. I'll take that.
  4. Stratvillan
    What a transfer window. A day to go, I think it really will be a day tomorrow. Disappointed to miss out on unsworth mark 2. got a really good (imo) midfielder. If we keep JG - brilliant. I think well see 2 or 3 tomorrow.
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    Sky saying that grealish wants to move. We could do we a statement from the man himself.
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    What's the record for a championship player? think he's gone tbh. We need to get as much cash and a sell on percentage. Spurs don't let anyone go cheap. This time a couple of weeks ago, we may have been looking at 15m amazing what having an owner (s) with experience in business can do without even speaking. Hope it works out well for him, but will annoy me when he's in the next England squad.
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    My criticism (well 1 of them) of Bruce last year, was the reluctance to give game time to youngsters. Really good to see Green and RHM get game time. Personally I'd start Green. If RHM, COH (when available) etc get 15-20 minutes regularly, at least we can can judge wether they can step up. The big issue is the defence - we have to hope that we get Bryan, (Taylor offers little) and a settled central defence (Elphick is a 6/7 games a year reserve a la Samba).
  8. Stratvillan
    Thought whelan did well ( I hate myself for saying that). Thought kodjia and elphick were really really poor. thought we looked really disjointed.
  9. Stratvillan
    Glad we haven't signed someone for the sake of it, we've done too many short term signings. We now need to keep grealish and Chester and get 2-3 quality loans in. Def. mid. Cf.
  10. Stratvillan
    As I said could we have a link to a defender.
  11. Stratvillan
    I like the link to a defender. Could we have a real one?
  12. Stratvillan
    Central defender please. (not samba!)
  13. Stratvillan
    Losing Grealish is one thing, not being able to replace him and the effect it will have on the fans attitudes is another. He is the one who sets us apart from other teams.
  14. Stratvillan
    I'd love to see woods replace a dm at home, which will avoid the issues we have when grealish has to drop deep to actually get on the ball. Imagine having a mf who recycles the ball. Gets it too grealish in the opponents half. The youth can replace woods and grealish as games / injuries allow.
  15. Stratvillan
    Common sense not itk. No one surely would give a novice a job without a) an experienced coach or dof, b) there's no way he's going to challenge without 2 or 3. Proper loan signings.
  16. Stratvillan
    Don't know. We are getting rid of a manager who got us the the play off final - but lost. The question is would we go one step further with potentially a weaker team under Bruce? Probably not. but, can we guarantee Henry would do better. Brilliant footballer but no real management experience, but can't believe the owners haven't got a dof, and loans lined up. I dont know, there's too many unknowns, all I do know is I'll give whoever gets the job my support for a season before I make a judgement. There almost was no villa last week - that's more worrying.
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    IMO, this isn't the time for a novice. So do we get rid of Bruce just to get rid of him. I can't agree with that, he has to be replaced by someone better who is available. He failed last year but that doesn't mean every other manager is automatically better. The problem is who is available? wenger as DoF would be amazing It's the only way we should appoint a novice like Henry.
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    Think the question needs to change. It's no longer should Bruce have got us promoted. The new question should be, given the fact we have no money should we change manager? A top manager is not coming to us.
  19. Stratvillan
    We need to keep and play him. We can't have international players who don't start.
  20. Stratvillan
    Think bree is quality. Think he could play anywhere in defence. Let's face it he may have to.
  21. Stratvillan
    Not fussed if he stays or goes to be honest. The thing that'll annoy me is that every shortcoming of the new manager for the next 18 months will be blamed on Bruce. If we don't play football, it'll be because Bruce wasted money etc. I want a coach, not a manager we won't be signing loads of players, we need to get the best of those we have.
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    I just worry that when he doesn't control our long punts, he'll lose his confidence. What should have come out of last season should have been more starts andmore sub appearances ( not so much RHM as he was injured) but for ohare etc. We would be a lot clearer about their potential.
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    I agree re RHM , think it'll fine it easier to play wide, until he's used to the league.
  24. Stratvillan
    Fit and fast beat us at Wembley. Like the idea of Davis / Adomah green. Grealish. RHM
  25. Stratvillan
    We need an immediate statement re the manager, the position we are in re having to sell players, and plans for next season. Otherwise we will have everyone touting our players, and it'll be impossible to sign anyone.
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