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No, I'd rather get players and managers in their prime, not way past their sell by date.

Villa's lack of foresight just amazes me. We have bet our chance of getting out of this division last year and now this year on PROVEN experience. I call it short sighted. We have an OLD manager who is a one trick pony relying on yesterdays tactics and no idea on how to change things when they go wrong. We have now over paid for an over the hill center half. The guy is 37 in a few months and we're expecting him to play every week in the championship? It's not going to happen, he couldn't play every week in the Premier League and we play more games. The old you get, the slower you get. Period. The Villa board have put all their eggs in the Old Farts basket. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

Terry and Whelan - Why are we looking at two guys at the end if their careers? Steve Bruce all over, tried and tested players. I'm sorry, but this is short sighted and narrow minded. If you're old in the premier league, you're old in the championship.

Any chance Sunderland will offer Bruce his old job back? Probably not. Damn it.

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Honestly, If you ask me today, I want Steve Bruce gone. Why? because I have seen nothing in our teams performances that gives me any encouragement that it will be any better next season. Bruce fanatics convince me otherwise, and don;t start with he has a track record of getting teams out of this league. Football in the championship has moved. Go on convince me Bruce is the the guy. h

I wish our only problem was requiring a big shake up to stay in the premiership. We are a poor team that are not very well organized and badly managed.

I know I'm repeating myself again, but here's what I'm struggling with and why I believe Bruce needs to go: We have scored 46 goals in 45 games. Not good enough Thank goodness we have Kodija, otherwise I'd hate to think what the goal total would be We are a really bad team playing really bad football. Although, when was the last time you heard someone say they want to play like a Steve Bruce team Does anyone remember our form in January and February? We had one of the longest losing streaks in the clubs history We have four wins on the trot and we forget about everything else. Don't look at the whole picture. It's not pretty The fact that he is nowhere to be seen on the training field is very worrying. How much money did he spend? We are paying Scott Hogan four times what he earned at Brentford in the same division. Dean Smith had him scoring goals, why not you Steve? Lack of confidence - My lack of confidence that given further time he can turn this around. Show me something that I can hang my hat on here. Please don't say he's done it before, and look at his track record. Times have changed, Bruce hasn't, and likely never will. We are likely to finish 12th. Bruce said his target was top 10. Well Stevie, you failed. You gave yourself the heady target of finishing on the top 10, and you couldn't even do that. Would you give this guy another $20m to $30m of your own money to spend? I wouldn't looking at what he did with it in January. Bruce and Villa are wearing me down. I'm tired of watching crap, and listening to the same excuses every week Please pull this guy in to the office on Sunday afternoon and fire him and all his backroom staff as between them they have delivered nothing. We need fresh ideas. I want to watch attractive football. I want to love my club again.

Villa have scored 46 goals in 45 games, Brentford have scored 74 and we bought their best striker. They will most likely finish top 10 and we won't. They have a fraction of our budget and play much better football week in and week out, plus they battered us 3-0. Can we please give Dean Smith a call next Sunday?

So it's official we will not finish in the Top Ten. Disgraceful. Brentford, with a fraction of our budget, will finish above us, and this is after we bought their top striker. They have scored 74 goals, we may just finish averaging one per game. Tony, please do not go in to next season with Bruce in charge, he has outdated ideas, we play poorly as a team, and it's painful to watch. Call Dean Smith and let's start playing some decent football and scoring goals. If he can get Brentford playing like they do, there has to be a good chance he can improve on the garbage we watch each week.

I'm struggling to see how you think the promotion core is here. We scored 45 goals, the lowest of any team in the top 18.

Everyone that wanted Steve Bruce signed up this. You all signed up for ugly football. Forget how we play, we just want the results. We signed Brentford's striker for a huge sum of money. Brentford have scored 70 goals, we have scored 46, just about 1 per game. It's not about buying the best and letting them do their thing, it's about buying the right player, integrating them in to the team, and making sure everyone knows their roles and responsibilities. I'm afraid Mr. Bruce is a 1-trick very old pony with outdated ideas.

How much slack and time do we have to give this guy? Just remember a few weeks ago we were being beaten by Forest, Brentford, plus Ipswich and Barnsley at home, and all this after we have spent the most money in the division. We weren't losing to Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea. We were playing crap and losing to crappier teams. When was the last time you sat back in your chair and said well done Steve, they played great football and we deserved the win today? I don't think I've said it once since he's been here. We've either been crap, scraped a win or draw, or managed to pull together a win against one of the bottom six teams. Can someone please explain why we have suddenly settled for mediocrity, and where you are seeing the signs that this will get any better any time soon?

Let's be honest with ourselves. We are NOT finishing in the top 10 this season.

Mork calling Orsen ...... Come in Orsen. Different Planet.

We are what we are. We've spent millions and managed to get a decent result or two against crap teams. However, when we come up against anyone decent we can't score and invariably lose. BTW, Brentford are winning 3-0 away at Forest. No need to say any more.

Leicester are 2-0 up against Liverpool. Who said a change of manager never works?

We may all want him to succeed but how many have the confidence that it will actually happen. I for one don't.

Every dog has it's day and by the sound of it Steve was very lucky as Derby played us off the park. Let's get a few points straight: When Bruce was appointed we were 19th in the league. We're now 17th. Hardly setting the division on fire. Other than Wigan, we are the lowest scorers in the Division. That really doesn't look like changing does it? When was the last time you watched the Villa and thought they played well. I can't remember I will settle for 17th at the end of the season and then hope and pray we bring in another manager.

Really, we had two shots on goal against Newcastle and scored a grand total of one goal in three games. Scintillating form.

Let me get this straight ....... DLLLDLLLLL ........... and no matter how we finish for the rest of the year we are keeping Steve Bruce. what am I missing?

What are teh chances of the chances of the Mail writing something like this any time soon about our Manager and Team? http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/sheffield-wednesday-1-2-brentford-12638318 Give Smith a call.

BTW. Brentford are 2-0 up away to Sheffield Wednesday. Stop messing around and give Dean Smith a call.

As he's currently one of the top 10 English managers, I'd probably say Yes.

Why did they just extend his contract until the summer of 2019 then?