richp999

Thor's doing well, if only he could pass.. Bruce has had a word with him about it... Let's see

The trouble is most of the wins he had if I remember rightly were pretty crap performances. We snuck a win here and there mostly by luck. That's fine,but I don't think he has ever had the team playing really 'well'. It should gradually be getting better and better, but it's not. The football was never going to be great under him, but who cares if he got us up. The biggest issue for me is every game we come out in the second half looking worse than the first. He just can't change tactics or inspire the players. Contrast this with MON, who had his faults, yes, but if we went in losing they would look like different team coming out second half. Ive seen some remarkable turnarounds from him, the opposite under bruce. What do we do? No idea.

A couple I can barely remember whilst standing at the back of the holte years ago, anytime Liverpool visited.. He's only a poor little scouser, His face is All tattered and torn, He made me feel sick, so I hit him with a brick, And now he don't sing anymore... Oh... Or .. Sign on, sign on, With a pen, in your hand, And you'll never get a job, Youll never get a job, Sign on, sign on More recently at leeds this did make me laugh.. Probably shouldn't have but... Jimmy Saville, he's one of your own..he's one of your owwwn.. Jimmy Saville he's one of your own...

Can we play without Hutton and just field 10 men from the off?

Ghosts past hutton

This is what worries me about Bruce.. Set us up well, we have a great start but the opposing coach works out what were doing and makes tactical changes to nullify us.. And it works.. Our response? Nothing....

Oh God...

Can someone tell me what the F*Ck is going on in the middle of the pitch..? I see players in claret and blue passing to each other.. I see through balls going forwards to our strikers... I think it may be a midfield but I'm not sure, I haven't seen one in such a long time...

If you like.... Have no idea what you are on about...

I think it was a great debut. He seemed very calm on the back and didn't panic, like our current midfield. Was always showing for the ball even with a Preston player right next to him.. Our other midfielders seem to need an acre of space to stand in before they are confident of receiving the ball without losing it. It was finally great to watch on the first half.. Crap in the second but I think he tired and when he went off what a difference.. Back to the same old shite.. Westwood and Gardner lumping aimless balls up to nobody.

Why is it utter crap? He said he's not fit and has been disciplined for missing a number of training sessions. Sounds like he's taking the piss and we need to get rid ASAP to me

I'm afraid we are just shit. Tactics seem to be just punt it long and hope one of our decrepit strikers get on the end of it. All hit and hope. Total bollocks.

Christ McCormack you tosser.. What a great cross..

Er dunno.. Hope he doesn't get bored? (thought not a serious question?)

If we get promoted I think the doc will go for it big time...

Close, but point slightly missed I think!

Far too easy that..

I like this, let's see what they can do...

Ah well, not embarassed

Christ I'm sure you have got these figures from a good source, im not saying you haven't, but seriously.. I could come on for villa in the last 15 minutes, run around and make 4 tackles, just 4, and now I'm the top ranking midfielder in the championship? Surely not? In fact im sure I've seen even Westwood make more than 2 tackles in most games, and he's usually hiding in the car park. Perhaps im missing the definition of a tackle? I'm with TRO, I'd expect 10+ proper tackles as a minimum..

Think you'll struggle for tickets now , I got 2 last sat morning around 1 hour after release and nearly everything had gone then, my seats are behind each other, not together... Good luck!

LOL.. Good post, but also for the record I haven't ever booed any player at villa park either, and don't understand those that do.

Ok Fair enough, but just one last question.. Where would you rate Westwood on this list? And how far down it do you need to be before you think a player isn't good enough to play for us ? For me this is or has been the whole problem with our club.. You are looking at all of our worst players and saying 'well its ok, he isn't as bad as they were.' I'd rather look at our best players and say 'he isn't quite good enough, let's try and get someone better.' I want the team to improve and have higher standards, not just be content with where they are.

I said we shouldn't boo any player. And don't. Like I was accused of, read the post.

A shit comparision list? I thought they were top players. I was making the point that over the past 5 or 6 years our expectations have been lowered so much that people obviously think this level of player is ok for Aston villa. You and others obviously love Westwood, so ill leave it at that. Its interesting how many premier league and come to think of it championship clubs were chasing his signature when we got relegated isn't it? Its OK to think a player isn't good enough. Can you honestly say you would have Westwood first on the team sheet in our midfield for the next 4 years? Or would you rather we sign a couple of new midfielders in the next window? If not that's fair enough, it's your opinion...