Ratings & Reactions: Reading v Villa

[The Fun Factory]

Oh gawd. Avoided looking at the result all evening but I knew what to expect. At least we scored a goal eh? Its worse than last season's start- at least RDM drew some matches. 

[Stockport_Villain]

8 minutes ago, Phumfeinz said:

Why did we only decide to start playing in the last 5 minutes?

 

 

Professional pride.

[thunderball]

As said by others: nice man, but his time has long gone. We need something new while we stand a chance. We still have a very good squad, especially if we get McCormack's gates fixed.

[The Fun Factory]

14 minutes ago, turvontour said:

Aston Villa; ruining Saturdays and Tuesdays since 2012.

Sadly very very true. 

[tinker]

10 minutes ago, thunderball said:

Bruce is finished

wyness is finished 

[thunderball]

We even started our relegation season better than this.

[The_Rev]

10 minutes ago, thunderball said:

Who voted very good managers performance?

Steve Bruce himself probably. 

[thunderball]

Only The mighty Burton Albion are below us in the table, and there's only 1 point in it.

[Larscapaldi]

Are we the new Leeds, or the new Portsmouth...?

[flashingqwerty]

We're the new aston villa and we're free fallin

[stegzy]

7 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

Oh gawd. Avoided looking at the result all evening but I knew what to expect. At least we scored a goal eh? Its worse than last season's start- at least RDM drew some matches. 

At least under RDM we went for it and were  actually unfortunate in most of our early matches but now we are getting dominated and not even trying to play football.

Edited August 15, 2017 by stegzy

[thunderball]

1 minute ago, Larscapaldi said:

Are we the new Leeds, or the new Portsmouth...?

They had the exscuse of Financial misappropriation, our is purely Managerial negligence.

[One For The Road]

2 minutes ago, The_Rev said:

Steve Bruce himself probably. 

That would be tactical voting. I doubt he is capable of such a thing.

[flashingqwerty]

For me the last 5 mins show that bruce is the problem.  When the shackles came off and the players took ot upon themselves to do it alone we looked half decent. Imagine what a manager who isnt a buffoon could do!

[Demitri_C]

**** resign Bruce do the decent thing

[Harry]

It is very difficult to see a way back for Bruce now.

Unless we win convincingly on Saturday (unlikely) I think he is finished, if not before. I fully expect a loss in the next game and I think that  will be that.

Our recent outgoing managers have alluded to problems at the club or even openly criticised the club Much of that was, in the past, well justified but I think now it would be hard for Bruce to do that. The media love to knock Villa but the simple facts are he has had plenty of investment in players, full control, experienced football people running the club, a very supportive owner and until this season supportive fans.

The media will spin it as Villa chopping and changing again and how fickle the fans are but when you watch these dreadful performances and then listen to a manager who seems to have a complete inability to even begin to explain what has gone wrong and then admits he 'does not really do tactics' what is the club supposed to do?

[Davkaus]

19 minutes ago, stegzy said:

At least under RDM we went for it and were  actually unfortunate in most of our early matches but now we are getting dominated and not even trying to play football.

We'd be in a much better position if we'd given him until January imo

[terrytini]

32 minutes ago, flashingqwerty said:

For me the last 5 mins show that bruce is the problem.  When the shackles came off and the players took ot upon themselves to do it alone we looked half decent. Imagine what a manager who isnt a buffoon could do!

Yup.

As soon as they just played we were in a game.

He suffocates  them.

[Kiwivillan]

Hourihane finally plays LCM and scores a goal. What are the chances

[AstonMartyn88]

Was there tonight. Very very poor but fans as usual were very good  

Reading bastardising our McGrath chant was blasphemy in the extreme. 

Bruce needs to be gone ASAP.