Ratings & Reactions: Brentford v Villa

[peterms]

9 minutes ago, Alakagom said:

Bruce is probably not the problem,

He may not be the entire problem, but he's front and centre in terms of responsibility for what happens on the pitch.

[squirdle]

1 minute ago, peterms said:

He may not be the entire problem, but he's front and centre in terms of responsibility for what happens on the pitch.

Yes he is.

[Darth Villa]

1 minute ago, Paul33 said:

I disagree, most managers would turn this team around overnight. The players don't buy into Bruce and his removal alone would lift them all !

 

I'm looking at the old, leggy players who dominate our first team - Whelan, Jedinak etc.. money wasted, overhaul needed and not much time to do it. Bruce has to go but he's not the only problem at our club as we've been like this for a while.

Respect that you see it differently and I hope you're right!

[Kingman]

**** buch of embarrassing clueless waste of space unless words removed. 

[The Fun Factory]

As soon as we threw 2 pointsaway on Saturday we all knew what would happen next. I would still hope that Bruce can turn this around (only 3 points from top 6) but I have to agree that the last 4 games have not been good enough at all. Have not bounced back well from the Derby game sadly.

[sheepyvillian]

De ja vu , anybody ?

[Lerner's Driver]

6 minutes ago, Ouchmefoot said:

So depressing. Villa ruin my Christmas once again

Mate, you need to let it go. It's standard. We are always shocking at Christmas, but in recent years shocking all year round, so best just to accept it and get on with your life until someone with a clue sorts it out. It ain't changing any time soon.

[PaulC]

Could have got a draw I guess. Grealish I thought was our best player but its not good enough.  

[7392craig]

8 minutes ago, decamoto said:

When he was getting results I could tolerate the poor performances. Now that we aren't I'm very close to turning against him. Unfortunately I don't think our next 2 games will be any better. Only thing that could (I hope) save Bruce is the Jan window. 

But that was desperate to watch. 

Completely agree, the shit football is tolerable if the points are coming. I know we were due a loss or two but it looks like a team on the slide to me. Since Bruce has proven he doesn't have a plan B, I don't see how he can turn it around.

[sheepyvillian]

5 minutes ago, peterms said:

He may not be the entire problem, but he's front and centre in terms of responsibility for what happens on the pitch.

If only the people who matter realised this .

[briny_ear]

December is turning into a complete **** nightmare. We are casting away a decent top 6 position with very little fight.

[sheepyvillian]

2 minutes ago, 7392craig said:

Completely agree, the shit football is tolerable if the points are coming. I know we were due a loss or two but it looks like a team on the slide to me. Since Bruce has proven he doesn't have a plan B, I don't see how he can turn it around.

It's never been tolerable to me . And how we look right now is why .

[7392craig]

1 minute ago, sheepyvillian said:

It's never been tolerable to me . And how we look right now is why .

I hated it, but when we were pressing the top 3 I thought that maybe it could work and we'd go up, I don't believe that now.

[RotaxMax125]

Not enough fight. These lads didn't want it enough tonight. If you are a goal down Fight for it!!!!

[Lerner's Driver]

8 minutes ago, 7392craig said:

Completely agree, the shit football is tolerable if the points are coming. I know we were due a loss or two but it looks like a team on the slide to me. Since Bruce has proven he doesn't have a plan B, I don't see how he can turn it around.

Exactly this. He's done.

[Basygh]

[Delphinho123]

21 minutes ago, Paul33 said:

We've played worse and we probably deserved a point but what you saw out there was a quality manager who has crafted a decent team out of average players versus a poor manager who has crafted a lousy team out of quality players. How any Villa fan can still claim that Bruce is either doing a good job at Villa or is the right manager for Villa is totally beyond me !!!
 

This gets said everytime we play and lose to Brentford. How’s about we just hire the bloke and get rid of the dinosaur we have running things.

[Alakagom]

Let's either wait for Bournemouth to sack Eddie Howe, or unsettle him with  tony's dream of CL win in 5 years, that ought to do it. 

Edited December 26, 2017 by Alakagom

[Genie]

It’s hard to believe a team made up of mainly the best players in the league struggle so much 

[AJ]

Because I am handicapped by living on the wrong side of the planet, I have to get up at stupid o'clock to watch the games. Since I am on my end of year break, I have more opportunity to watch my beloved Villa play.

However, each game I have watched so far has just been a nicely gift wrapped box of disappointment. It shouldn't, but it puts me in a pissy mood for the rest of the day. A common saying from my neck of the woods is " A bad day at home is still better than a good day at work". If anyone said that to me after watching a Villa game, then they can f### right off.

With the latest servings in mind, there are so many things I could think of that would be better than sacrificing a full cycle of sleep to watch Villa attempt to play football. Even shooting nails into my foot while chewing sandpaper and listening to Aqua at maximum volume seems like a better option.