NottingVilla Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I believe I'm the founder or at very least the co-founder of the Bruce out camp on here. Where do I collect my medal? I also tipped Wolves to win the league under Nuno. But seriously we have bigger problems than Bruce, the gray men in charge of hiring and firing players and the managers are from the same *BF era! At least we don't have to read any more cringy "I believe Bruce is the man for the job, he has X amount of promotions" type posts anymore. He seems to have now zero support on here which as we know only means one thing - bye bye Mr Bruce. *Before football 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Quote Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce said: "It was on the edge of embarrassment if I'm being brutally honest. "It's a rude awakening for us, very early again. Arguably that's the biggest doing I can remember having in the Championship. "We didn't do enough of the basics. We looked fragile every time they broke on us." no edge, just absolute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 14 minutes ago, SuffolkVillan said: As Theresa May said recently....enough is enough. Pull the trigger Dr X No manager is better than a bad manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Doesn't have a clue. Time for another new manager thread JT to the rescue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 12, 2017 Author Share Posted August 12, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, bradarmstrong_ said: No shit Sherlock forget 10 games if your like that against reading you are out Edited August 12, 2017 by Demitri_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 He doesn't need to be sacked now- there is a natural break coming after the Bristol game. Thats the time he should go....unless things have dramatically improved - by which I dont just mean Kodja scoring or us scraping a couple of wins, I mean some football, some goals, some performances, Thing is in all honesty can anyone see that happening ? I can't. As such I have a lot of sympathy with the view he might as well go now. The only real reason against it is the turmoil it causes. As such I think he has a little longer.... but I personally wouldn't be the least bothered if Tony sacked him tonight. Im already not looking forward to going to Reading- he is sucking the life out of us already. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan501 Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Bruce will not get 10 games hed be lucky to get 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 "I've tried desperately to put it right" Sounded like he's out of ideas. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markavfc40 Posted August 12, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2017 Just watched his interview and it is very worrying. He looks lost and unable to explain what the hell is going on and why we can't react and fightback from adversity. If he doesn't know why, and more importantly how to put it right, after 9 months here then you have to wonder if he ever will. Also concerning is him saying that we may not be ready to play with two strikers. If we are to get out of this division then we need goals and going into our shells now trying to grind out draws or scrap one nil wins isn't going to achieve that. Like Bruce I don't know what to say to be honest with you. Changing manager every few months has been shown to get us nowhere but stability for stability sake is also going to take us nowhere. He is in last chance saloon and needs a huge reaction and turnaround over the next two weeks/4 games otherwise we need to look elsewhere. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 (edited) I have seen the problems on the pitch all fans have seen.....but I genuinely believed that with a pre-season and a change of personnel things would get better. I now have a serious doubt all is well at BMH and that is manifesting itself on to the match day pitch. We all know that when you go down the level of technical ability from players drops too.....my worry is the competitive streak has disappeared too. I have disturbing doubts about BMH....something for me is not right. I am not in favour as you know of changing managers too often.....but something is seriously awry here and i feel action is not far away. Edited August 12, 2017 by TRO 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Considering the only thing he really talked about was 'playing with your boots on' and we totally failed to do that, he should be considering both his approach and his position. He has put great store by his 'stiffening of resolve' argument. It's been used to - effectively - justify month after month of poor quality football. Yet we haven't even got that 'resolve'. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I do kind of feel like we will be shit no matter what happens next 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I can't fault him for the starting XI, or the subs for that matter. Our tactics are so bad though. We play it out wide to Hutton or Taylor, they can't cross it in properly, then we are caught on the counter. It was rinse and repeat all day. We need to play centrally more, but the problem was Lansbury was misplacing every pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 yeah, huge in built pessimism about us. Nothing will go right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I said before the start of the season I would try not to be negative regarding Steve Bruce and do my best to see the positives in every game. This is proving to be more difficult than I thought, but I will try my best. Sack him now Tony please!!!! That was the best I could come up with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 12, 2017 Author Share Posted August 12, 2017 Just now, coda said: "I've tried desperately to put it right" Sounded like he's out of ideas. Have you? Hoofing the ball to hogan when he needs the ball at his feet? Playing a pile of shit in Hutton at eb. Playing Lansbury in a familiar position which has made him woeful. signing a 33 year old who looks completely unfit and incapable of anchoring the midfield? stop talking shit Bruce just admit you tried and failed. Do the decent thing and resign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyvilla Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Some people at the club are getting off very lightly here , the Managerial appointments have been a disaster , player recruitment has been a disaster , season ticket renewals , the ticket office , the club shop , the disabled section in the north stand , the new advertising boards , AVTV .... No need to carry on , the problems here are way deeper than Steve Bruce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reivax_Villa Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Steve Bruce saying that he has only been at the club for the best part of 6 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottingVilla Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Watford sack their manager every 6 months hasn't done them any harm...they've gone through loads getting out the Championship and stay in the top half of the Prem. This stability thing is another myth to protect media favoured manager. If you have a manager who is shit or to be kind isn't right for you, then you get rid. Don't hang about when it's painfully obvious. Bruce hasn't gave us ANYTHING. Defence crap, midfield crap, attack crap w/o Kodija. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midfielder Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I am loyal and believe in giving managers time and all that. I hate the transition phases we always seem to be in. I want stability. I was happy with Bruce appointment. I could see the logic, well the theory of the logic. There were many alarm bells last year. So many overlapping issues that are elementary and obvious and well referenced by others in this thread. He has had two transfer windows. A full pre season. Has had money to spend. Wages to play with. Had the opportunity to sweep a broom through this club. To advance us. We are not advancing. We are stale already , two matches in, five points dropped. There can be no excuse for this crap. Lessons not learned and even more issues emerging about our ways of playing that sound more alarm bells. This is going to go one of two ways. 1- suddenly by our third game we magically resolve all of the issues that are plain obvious to everybody on here and we start playing like champions, gain consistency and some identity, stability of how we play and act as top-two favourites a la Brighton or Newcastle. Or 2- we continue as seen. 1 point in every six or the occasional guillotene-sparing win until we realise the playoffs are all what's left. Ours will not be a Huddersfield story. Mid table at best. There's more chance of me winning the lottery tonight and Emma Watson delivering my pizza than there is of scenario 1 happening. Heart says give him three games but head knows those three games would just be the same old same old. It's like Groundhog Day. Hurts to be a Villa fan. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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