Dodgyknees Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 1 minute ago, blunther said: Like I say, just reflecting what I read in the Mail about him missing preparation for three matches. We did start to play some football in a couple of those matches which isn’t typical of Bruce’s... style We also started playing some good football today, once he stopped the caution and took off Onomah. We can do it, he just has to believe we can without Grealish. Moving Hourihane forward was a positive, Davis helped as he is good on the ball. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blunther Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Just now, Dick said: We also started playing some good football today, once he stopped the caution and took off Onomah. We can do it, he just has to believe we can without Grealish. Moving Hourihane forward was a positive, Davis helped as he is good on the ball. Well here’s hoping Bruce learned a lesson or two. He just seems too stubborn and stuck in his ways for me. If anything’s gonna teach you something though it’s days like today. Guess we’ll find out an hour before the next match. If Onomah’s on the teamsheet then Bruce can **** right off as far as I’m concerned. If he’s learned a lesson then great stuff, let’s crack on and get second. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 I think he messed up again midfield selection but we got there in the end - onwards and upwards . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blunther Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 While I’m always ready to spout off when zbruce gets it wrong, it was great that he made some effective substitutions today. And hats a couple of games in a row he’s made changes without waiting till there’s only 15 minutes left. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastie Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 9 minutes ago, tinker said: Made a change and it worked, Davies should start the next game ahead of Onnoma Think Grealish will be fit for next week 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 He got starting team wrong today imo but we got lucky. 442 doesn't work well for us. Credit to him for the changes in second half. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Time for a positive weekend. Let’s celebrate the win. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2018 God he makes it hard to support him. Seems to pick the wrong players over and over again. How can he drop Bjarnason from central midfield after a 7 match winning run where he played there? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Fair play, sorted it out at HT after a poor opening 45 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Well I’ll say this for Bruce, he has created a Team with character. Other than that, though........... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Great comeback after an awful start, there was a sense that we were bottling it, this was basically a Wednesday reserve side and they have won what, 1 in 9? Some awful defending saw us 2-1 down, and we were looking disjointed going forward. However our quality shone through in the end, Bruce made the right subs to change the game. We really do need to learn some lessons though, Onomah should not be starting a football match again, he offers absolutely nothing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vreitti Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Well he told us beforehand it's all about the result. He was right. Didn't see the game, but from the sounds off it, he got the selection horribly wrong today. I'm not exactly surprised Onomah had another shocker. There has to be some sort of agreement regarding playing time there, not even Bruce can be that blind. Credit to him for making positive changes, once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Should've got into Sheff Wednesday much earlier. They were there for the taking. Their defending for the Villa goals was atrocious. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, blunther said: Am I right in thinking that for half our good spell Bruce wasn’t in charge day to day because of his family issues? If so maybe that’s the answer. Seems a nice bloke and I’m sorry for his current troubles but he just doesn’t seem to be doing the job well. Sounds like complete conjecture to me. Edited February 24, 2018 by Stevo985 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 1 minute ago, Heretic said: Should've got into Sheff Wednesday much earlier. They were there for the taking. Their defending for the Villa goals was atrocious. Totally. Hopefully Bruce stops being so cautious, we have the players to take the game to teams and should be doing that - even without Grealish and Adomah. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 4 minutes ago, sidcow said: God he makes it hard to support him. Seems to pick the wrong players over and over again. How can he drop Bjarnason from central midfield after a 7 match winning run where he played there? It really did make zero sense. A lot of the things he does leaves me scratching my head. I am not here to trash him after a win, thanks Steve and I pray you get us promoted but I feel he really has just fallen on an 11 that works. Anything different from this is going to be a struggle because he is not a tactician by any stretch. Infact, forget tactics, he makes basic line up choices that would leave an 11 year old scratching their heads. Not counting the immediate reaction to today's first half shambles..moving Thor to lw last game when countless times he has played there and done nothing. Onomah as a No 10 where he never has an impact. Then on to today, he plays 2 in the middle with the one guy in the team less mobile than Jedi. Truly bizarre stuff. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post terrytini Posted February 24, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2018 Appalling selection again. Tactics - as in people getting forwardrather than us sitting back - were ok ( it’d have been ludicrous had we sat back against a mid table reserve team) but wrong personnel, just wrong, wrong, wrong. Not just my view.... the ironic cheers when Onomah was subbed were universal. Ladt season, by his own admission, Bruce had Kodja out and went ultra cautious even by his standards. It May, or may not, have cost us a play off place. Now he’s done the same since Jack went. Evidence ? Just like last year, losing, second half, go positive, we play a bit of football and - with a better squad than then - win. Stick your/ our collective chest out, trust our squad, play the aggressive crestive players, not the steady ( unsteady) eddies. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2018 Can we stop with the he got it right in the end, fair play for improving it comments. We got very lucky, simple as that. Until we got a couple of goals out of literally nothing there was going to be only one winner and even after the changes the Sheffield Wednesday reserves should have gone further ahead. We totally fluked it today, nothing more than that. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2018 9 minutes ago, sidcow said: God he makes it hard to support him. Seems to pick the wrong players over and over again. How can he drop Bjarnason from central midfield after a 7 match winning run where he played there? But he didn’t play there for 7 matches did he? He played for like 2 and a half. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted February 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2018 In the prematch thread there are lots of different permutations of teams for today games. I wasn’t sure what the best XI was. We had selection problems, and quite a few high profile injures... I’m so pleased with the win, and to be honest we didn’t deserve it. But I don’t think it’s a huge surprise that we’re having to grind things out when we have some of our best players injured. And our best run of form coincided with most of our players coming back from injury (not Kodj though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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