villa89

Indeed, so in that case, the figure that should have been chosen is the point total over the 16 games this season which is 26 from 48, or 6 shy of the 'two points per game' target.

Why did you pick the last 13 games as your sample size? Was it just the only number you could find that comes close to supporting your argument? Why didn't you chose the last five games (7 points from 15)? Or chose the last 14 games, where it's still 25 points, or the last 15 games where, guess what, it's still just 25 points or all the games this season where our total is just 26 points from 48 available. Which isn't anywhere near automatic promotion. There's no evidence to support the opinion that we can get automatic promotion this season. You can't rationally look at our manager, our performances, our points total, our form, our tactics (or lack thereof), our budget for January, etc. and come to the conclusion that we'll be one of the two automatic promotion teams. It might still happen, but realistically we need a huge turnaround that would be bordering on miraculous. It's the same chance Steve Bruce has of picking the lottery numbers out of the lucky bag he uses to pick our formation every week.

There's no evidence to support that opinion. In the last 12 months, and so far this season, we've seen nothing that indicates we can improve enough to get into the top two in the league.

A team with automatic promotion ambitions would have come out in the second half yesterday and really put in a performance and got a draw out of the game. As per usual the halftime teamtalk from Bruce did nothing useful and once we went 2-0 down the game was effectively over. This thread should be renamed the fight for the playoffs because that's the reality. Automatic promotion is a fantasy.

Got it horribly wrong today and it's not a surprise. You have to look very hard for any good performances in the ~year he's been in charge. Doesn't do tactics and must use dice or a roulette wheel to make his substitutions. I can't wait to see the back him to be honest.

He was never going to be fit enough to play 46 games this season so we were always going to have to turn to the backups at some stage. The problem is the quality of said backups is abysmal, at best.

Well it's either two losses in the last 13 games or 7 points out of the last fifteen possible. Whichever way you want to look at it. Either way... Bruce is shite and we are, at best, going to be in the playoffs. That is all.

It's what you do when you don't 'do tactics'. You panic and make a random change in the hope it will magically change the outcome.

Is this your first time watching us? We don't do passing.

With Bruce as manager it's all we can hope for.

This sounds way way too sensible to be the approach at villa. The options are give him so much money he loses all hunger for the game or let him go and watch him flourish at another club.

To be honest I'd sack him even if he gets us up. The best he could do is get us 40 points in the premier league, that's his maximum. Better off getting rid and getting a manager in who might be able to keep us up long term, not just scrap for 40 points and then inevitably fail.

Our POTS so far, shame he's a ....

Can't see it working out for him here and if possible we should probably tr to ship him out in January. The longer he stays the lower his value gets.

I agree but there aren't that many good teams in this league. Wolves gave us a schooling but not many other teams are good enough to do that.

Might aswell take keenan off before they get him sent off.

Get 1-0 up from a set piece and then sit back and hold out for 1-0, it's Steve Bruce 101.

Stonewall pen.

After a terrible performance this is his answer. What a sorry excuse for a manager he is.

The mind boggles.

He faces a fitness test tonight but it's recovered better than expected.

Considering how much they've spent on their squad that should be minimum expectation. £125m spent on full backs alone last summer.

This is the line up I think he'll go with as well. Did somebody say Hoof? The plan (if there is one) will be to let them have the ball, sit back, soak up the pressure and then try to hoof it to Davis and win some knock downs. How depressing.

Wouldn't surprise me if alot of that money went on "agents fees".