Ratings & Reactions: Bristol City v Villa

[TRO]

So,so depressing to watch.

[Harry]

11 minutes ago, TheStagMan said:

26 pages of match thread. 20 of which were ABBA puns. Says it all really.

Bruce has to go as the winner takes it all.

And we have to take a chance on someone else.

The owners have the money (money, money) to hire a better manager.....its a rich man’s world.

[A'Villan]

3 minutes ago, VillanousOne said:

we managed at least 12 mins of actual football this time

That is probably the amount of time we spent actually creating any sequences that were effective in exposing Bristol.

The quality of football, even in those 12 minutes, is indicative of the chances we create. None were good enough to score from open play.

Not good enough.

[Mark Albrighton]

10 minutes ago, briny_ear said:

Would 3 wins in 10 make you feel any better?

 

[Paul33]

Thought Jedi did okay and "To be Added Later" was decent in the second half ...... rest were pants !

Edited September 28, 2018 by Paul33

[villabromsgrove]

Bristol City weren't as good as us man for man, but they were better organised and were a hell of a lot fitter than we were. Players working their collective arses off for each other .... I'm sure we used to do that back in the day.

[El Zen]

Just a long, long way from being good enough. This can’t continue. The issues have always been there, the lack of any kind of plan, the lack of coaching, but now he’s obviously lost the players’ confidence as well. We look timid, and not up for it. The players must know the manager is under pressure, and they’re certainly not running through walls for him. 

In a flood of ABBA puns in the match thread, very much the highlight of the evening by the way, it was suggested several times that this might be Bruce’s Waterloo. The Napoleon parallell is not just a little bit flattering for Bruce - tactical genius and hubris are hardly the qualities that define him. If military history is our metaphor, then surely Bruce is 20th century France? Ill prepared and surrenders without a fight. 

Edited September 28, 2018 by Michelsen

[flashingqwerty]

13 minutes ago, briny_ear said:

Would 3 wins in 10 make you feel any better?

#campaignagainstselectivestats

3 in 10 is still sh1t

[macandally]

Can we get rid of Bruce now...........please?

[villakram]

Standard.

[briny_ear]

1 minute ago, jim said:

Doesn’t make it look any better though does it?

Is that good enough given the squad and resources we have and the opposition we have faced thus far?

It makes it better in the sense that it is a factually correct statement rather than one deliberately skewed to make things look as bad as  possible. 

Things could and should have been better but it’s hardly the disaster some are making it out to be.

[bojong]

Next game I'd play:

Moreira

Hutton, Tuanzebe, Chester, Taylor

Hourihane, McGinn

El-Ghazi, Grealish, Bolasie

Kodjia 

[Junxs]

1 minute ago, Michelsen said:

they’re certainly not running through walla for him. 

Bjarnason would run through Valhallla though

[BigAl]

Awful display and Bristol were there for the taking to take off our biggest goal threat in Abraham tells you all you need to know about Bruce it’s going to be another year wasted in the champ  ,same story as last 100 games with Bruce no plan and for a man that knows the champ so well he has no idea his to snap a losing steal this is the 3rd season on a row that we have gone through patches of 7/8 matches without winning not good enough just simply not good enough .

[foreveryoung]

1 minute ago, bojong said:

Next game I'd play:

Moreira

Hutton, Tuanzebe, Chester, Taylor

Hourihane, McGinn

El-Ghazi, Grealish, Bolasie

Kodjia 

Your joking with that squad yeah? We might win, an that would be terrible.

[Rugeley Villa]

Absolute dog shit. Bruce is running on fumes. Nothing more to say. 

[terrytini]

I am 100% certain that was dreadful.

[GodsBarkeep]

We have the makings of a very good team

With someone else in charge

[vreitti]

Endless blabber again about what we "deserve" by Bruce. What we really deserve is a proper football manager. Get rid. Now!

[jim]

7 minutes ago, briny_ear said:

It makes it better in the sense that it is a factually correct statement rather than one deliberately skewed to make things look as bad as  possible. 

Things could and should have been better but it’s hardly the disaster some are making it out to be.

How is it skewed?

Our current form is, out of our last 9 fixtures we have won one game. That’s a fact.

That one win was against the mighty Rotherham! Which makes it even worse!