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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Toronto Villa on October 02, 2018, 06:46:14 PM
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Fucking hell. Is that AT at CB? Surely not...
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Mark Bunn in goal!!!
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That would be my starting 11. Not by game 11 of the season though.
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3 out of 4 defenders in the right position bloody hell!
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No wingers with full backs who don’t bomb on.
The madness continues.
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Oh shit, and then I just noticed Bunn is in goal.
Buy two keepers, drop both, send out on loan the one who played most of pre-season, play the 4th choice bloke. Yep, the Steve Bruce way. This wasn't on the Bingo card.
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Axel at centre half, he's definitely found the plot
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Yes! Clean sheet anyone? Is Jedinak injured?
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Still no wingers
The chance of Axel playing at centre back
Mark Bunn - WTF?
Hogan lives
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Two new goalies and wingers and none of them used
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We do have full backs who can bomb on......they just can't cross when they get there!
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Hogan on the bench
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Me likee...
How do PNE look?
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Barkhuizen needs to be marked out of the game
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Me likee...
How do PNE look?
Bruce said we need to watch out for Forestieri
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With a good start and savvy substitutions, we could chalk up a great home win here.
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What formation is that? 4-1-2-1-2?? No wingers at all so no width in that team unless he is playing 4-3-3?
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Couldn't get away from work tonight, but a least I have the joy of the wonderful "red button" coverage from Sky.
One camera.
No replays.
Coma inducing commentator.
Come on Villa FFS!!!!
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433 with Kodjia and Grealish wide. Pfft.
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He can't choose between McGinn, Barney and Conor while Jack is untouchable so four central midfielders being shoe-horned in is clearly the answer. Rest of the team actually looks OK but I can see us getting frustrated and it getting congested with no natural width.
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Jedinak completely dropped or just injured?
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Nyland and Jedi out.
Tuanzebe at CB and Elmo RB
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No idea what he's trying with that formation, I've given up trying to guess. No real quality in wide areas and two fingers up to Mendes is the only thing I can make out.
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Brings in 2 keepers and here we are playing a bloke that i'm not sure even has a proper contract with us.
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Blame the keeper. Brilliant Bruce, you tosspot.
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We'll be there or thereabouts tonight if we can keep the boy Finney quiet
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Bunn?
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I wonder if that is Bruce's team or in desperation he's turned round to Agnew and Calderwood, tears rolling down his eyes, blubbering out he's only got 2 games to turn it around and he doesn't know what to do.
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How on earth have we signed two keepers in the summer and ended up with Bunn starting?
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We'll be there or thereabouts tonight if we can keep the boy Finney quiet
Has he told his forwards how to get past Lawro?
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To be fair to Bruce Nyland looks shit. Although Bruce supposedly tracked him for 4 years so you'd think he would have spotted the flaws at some point.
Bunn is appalling mind, will always remember him tangled up in the net against someone, possibly, Southampton away, whilst the opposition scored and we got a drubbing under Eric Cack.
2 keeps signed, 1 long term back up and we end up with a 4th choice in goal who was out of contract, only Bruce.
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How on earth have we signed two keepers in the summer and ended up with Bunn starting?
The same reason we signed two wingers plus have a winger who was our top scorer and play narrrow.
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Bunn, tells you all you need to know about who we recruited. Mendes having fun at our expense?
Similary, Bolasie should be one of the top players in this division and yet we are persisting with shoe horning in players into the wrong positions...
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How do PNE look?
They look like Ordinary Boys
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Still no wingers.
Remember he could only add ElGhazi and Bolasie to Adomah and that’s not enough cover to start with any of them. If he can a couple more in January we’ll be flying.
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He'll bring on second half with 20 minutes to go all 3 wingers to replacing Kodja, Abraham and Jack.
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I am sitting in the car at whitehead road trying to gather enough will to walk into Villa park☹️
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Mark Bunn in goal?! I fucking missed that.
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So he has decided that two keepers he signed are shit🤔
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To be fair to Bruce Nyland looks shit. Although Bruce supposedly tracked him for 4 years so you'd think he would have spotted the flaws at some point.
Bunn is appalling mind, will always remember him tangled up in the net against someone, possibly, Southampton away, whilst the opposition scored and we got a drubbing under Eric Cack.
2 keeps signed, 1 long term back up and we end up with a 4th choice in goal who was out of contract, only Bruce.
I reckon any keeper would look shit behind our defence.
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So he has decided that two keepers he signed are shit🤔
The Barry Fry school of signings.
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What formation is he playing? Jack on the left or 4-1-3-2?
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Bunn?
Iced?
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So is Bruce admitting the two keepers he signed in the summer aren't any good? And for that matter the two wingers? Logic takes another shoeing. At least the defence is 3/4 round pegs in round holes.
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So he has decided that two keepers he signed are shit🤔
And the wingers.
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What formation is he playing? Jack on the left or 4-1-3-2?
As long as they put their boots on and roll up their sleeves it's doesn't matter about the formation.
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It’s going to be an imbalanced 4-4-2, with Jack wasted.
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Fucking hell. Mark Bunn. Worst keeper I have ever seen. Surely the Morriera should have been given a shot for a few games to at least see if he can do it. If not, Sarkic surely?
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It’s going to be an imbalanced 4-4-2, with Jack wasted.
Lying in the middle of the road...
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I'm watching Better Call Saul. Bruce out!
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Bruce's penultimate game. Come on, Villa!
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He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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Mark Bunn in goal?! I fucking missed that.
It's likely he'll be missing stuff too tonight
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Fucking hell. Mark Bunn. Worst keeper I have ever seen. Surely the Morriera should have been given a shot for a few games to at least see if he can do it. If not, Sarkic surely?
Bunn will get the blame tonight. Gave him a chance and he'll let Bruce down will be the conclusion the twat will draw
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3 wingers all on the bench, enjoy your last game in charge potato head.
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Bruce's penultimate game. Come on, Villa!
FFS.
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Just taken 9/4on a villa win to nil.
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Bruce's penultimate game. Come on, Villa!
FFS.
You've lost me there, Mr T. Malandro.
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Bruce's penultimate game. Come on, Villa!
FFS.
You've lost me there, Mr T. Malandro.
This has got to be Bruce's last.
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really limits grealish playing him wide
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
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really limits grealish playing him wide
Crimes against football.
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
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Bunn is appalling mind, will always remember him tangled up in the net against someone, possibly, Southampton away, whilst the opposition scored and we got a drubbing under Eric Cack.
I remember this! Worst goal I’ve ever seen Villa concede. It was in a 2-1 away defeat at Stoke in the Armageddon season. There was a cross which Arnautovic headed straight in the air and then chested into the net. For some inexplicable reason, Lescott just stood there and didn’t jump for the ball. I’ve never quite figured out why. Then, to make things worse, Bunn actually jumped backwards into the net instead of towards the ball, and as you say ended up in a tangle. We’d lost 6-0 to Liverpool the previous week but this actually annoyed me more even though the score was only 2-1. It was such a shit goal it looked like a betting fix. Not saying it was, but just looked that way.
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THere you go play through the middle and Jack is alive
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Pass wide pass wide pass wide pass wide... Then hoof!
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I remember his first game against Forest pre season. The ref was still blowing his whistle for the start of the game as the ball whistled past Bunn into the net.
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How the flip didn't that go in?
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Unlucky for Kodjia. Keeper completely missed his cross
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How the flip didn't that go in?
It could be one of those nights... :-\
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The Sky commentator seems to have been given a script by Bruce. Taking about his promotion record and that some fans seem to want him out.
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Fucking hell. Mark Bunn. Worst keeper I have ever seen. Surely the Morriera should have been given a shot for a few games to at least see if he can do it. If not, Sarkic surely?
It's some indictment of our management of such a crucial position over the summer. Letting Steer go, bringing in two keepers both seem useless, back to Bunn 😒
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We almost did a goal.
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Boro winning 2-0
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Their No 7 looks useful 🤔
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There was a time when these two teams were the greatest in the whole wide world
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The Sky commentator seems to have been given a script by Bruce. Taking about his promotion record and that some fans seem to want him out.
And Callum Robinson used to play for Villa, about 20 fucking times already, say it one more time, I dare you, I double dare you!!!
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There was a time when these two teams were the greatest in the whole wide world
We still are.
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We look a little vulnerable to crosses in from wide positions
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On a positive note, the pitch looks great.
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Middlesbrough already 2-0 up
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Pretty bang average. Especially as we’re playing bottom of the table.
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On a positive note, the pitch looks great.
The amount of shit that gets put on there probably helps.
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GET IN!!!!
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Great header Kod.
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good ol' Kodjia, header at far post
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Splendid!
Will we hold on for dear life or press on. I think I know which one it will be.
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Middlesbrough already 2-0 up
Effin’ Pulis ....
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Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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We are bereft of confidence but that will help!
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Not really, I hope we dick these twats 6-0 and then sack Bruce in the middle of his post-match bullshit.
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Just about to say Elmo's crossing is shit (and it is) and he dutifully scoops over a looping cross and Kodjia scores.
I think the commentator is watching Bake-Off and mentioning the football when he looks up from that - and on the evidence so far, few would blame him. UTV.
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Just outside the play-offs as it stands.
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Not really, I hope we dick these twats 6-0 and then sack Bruce in the middle of is post-match bullshit.
You know if we win there will be plenty of digs being dished out by him to the fans.
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Not really, I hope we dick these twats 6-0 and then sack Bruce in the middle of his post-match bullshit.
That's the championship for you...
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Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
urns.
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We look a little vulnerable to crosses in from wide positions
Our keeper, centre backs and centre midfielders won't win much in the air. Preston should be going a lot more direct like Blackburn did.
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Lots of time left for Bruce to find a way to fuck this up. We still have to survive his inspirational HT team talk.
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get in Kodjia! Whatever happens Bruce has got to go so we might as well tonk these!
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Conor looking good tonight
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Typical. I watch hours and hours of Villa being shit, Mrs RCF calls me to the kitchen to save her recipe and bloody Villa score.
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Just outside the play-offs as it stands.
Thereabouts
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
same here, WTF??!
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Typical. I watch hours and hours of Villa being shit, Mrs RCF calls me to the kitchen to save her recipe and bloody Villa score.
Well at least she knew better than to call Nyland.
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Not really, I hope we dick these twats 6-0 and then sack Bruce in the middle of his post-match bullshit.
*like*
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
same here, WTF??!
It's working well through the website.
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Arrrrghh fucking Sky red button has stopped working and now I’m forced to watch Pulisball
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easy
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
same here, WTF??!
It's working well through the website.
To be fair red button is ok tonight
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Arrrrghh fucking Sky red button has stopped working and now I’m forced to watch Pulisball
Sounds like it's still working.
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YESSSSSSSS 2-0 Tammy
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stand by your tammy
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2-0 Abraham
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Well I never. Great goal by Tammy.
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And we’re back to Villa Park again.
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Great finish Tammy.
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we even have replays...must be the Brucie Bonus.
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And we’re back to Villa Park again.
And I missed the goal. Twats.
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Amazing graft by McGinn chasing after that.
Preston are absolutely woeful.
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
same here, WTF??!
Working via the website for me if that is of any use
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McGinn did brilliantly then. He's a fighter.
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Great work by McGinn then Abraham.
C'mon Villa, fuck this lot by five or six.
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Screen freezes and Villa score. I'm having a great night here.
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good finish, Preston look fucking terrible. I can imagine the Preston fans being a bit pissed to not get a free kick there though.
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You can hear a pin drop, crowd very quiet...perfect time to sing there or thereabouts :)
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their player just hit the ball out ffs they are shit
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
same here, WTF??!
Working via the website for me if that is of any use
Thanks, but I just keep getting error messages through all devices. Best I've found is a dodgy periscope feed.
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They look pathetic. Bruce will be giving this the full Travolta strut at FT, tell his little bessie mates how he knows best and he has shut the idiots up. Again.
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mcginn is worth more money than jack
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They look pathetic. Bruce will be giving this the full Travolta strut at FT, tell his little bessie mates how he knows best and he has shut the idiots up. Again.
Another reason for him to go, now.
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half time
bruce team talk
bolaise get teh kebabs in
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They look pathetic. Bruce will be giving this the full Travolta strut at FT, tell his little bessie mates how he knows best and he has shut the idiots up. Again.
Another reason for him to go, now.
It will just put a sour taste on the high of actually winning. You know it is coming though. Even though the opposition look every bit the most devoid of confidence we have see this season.
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HT Good half. Stunningly both forwards scored. No doubt Bruce will be thinking he’s shut up us know nothing wankers
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Preston are terrible.
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
same here, WTF??!
Working via the website for me if that is of any use
Thanks, but I just keep getting error messages through all devices. Best I've found is a dodgy periscope feed.
Oh hilarious, it's started working at half time.
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They look pathetic. Bruce will be giving this the full Travolta strut at FT, tell his little bessie mates how he knows best and he has shut the idiots up. Again.
Well at least he cant use tonights game as "proof" how right he was to use Jedi as a CB....
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Ah AVTV you absolute bell ends. The iPad and phone app isn’t working tonight when trying to connect to the game. As usual top drawer
Likewise no access, absolutely pathetic.
same here, WTF??!
Working via the website for me if that is of any use
Thanks, but I just keep getting error messages through all devices. Best I've found is a dodgy periscope feed.
Oh hilarious, it's started working at half time.
Mines working on Android phone and tablet but not on the PC.
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Under massive pressure he's got very lucky that the next game is Preston at home. A shit side bottom of the league hit by a number of injuries.
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Well as long as we don't fuck this up it means we can lose at millwall and Bruce will still be safe.
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Under massive pressure he's got very lucky that the next game is Preston at home. A shit side bottom of the league hit by a number of injuries.
Don't worry he'll tell us any team can beat any other in the Championship and Preston were due a win, so he was ace in beating them. Also he'll bring Jedi back in at CB for the Millwall game.
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Under massive pressure he's got very lucky that the next game is Preston at home. A shit side bottom of the league hit by a number of injuries.
Indeed and they’ve been awful.
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Well as long as we don't fuck this up it means we can lose at millwall and Bruce will still be safe.
Why does it? We have to win some away games this season. They're in the bottom 2, we should be beating bottom two sides home and away.
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
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We should run a competition...
I'm guessing he'll go for :
negativity and nonsense
majority of team lost during summer
new owners breathed a bit of life in everyone
nucleus of a good team starting to gel
there or thereabouts (obviously)
and that Forestieri was Preston's best player
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Nice to see us winning.
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Lacklustre first 20 minutes.
Looked brighter after the first goal.
Preston look utter garbage.
Bruce to be giving it large in the post match like he's just outsmarted Guardiola.
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We’ve done well to keep Daniel Johnson quiet. He’s some player.
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We should run a competition...
I'm guessing he'll go for :
negativity and nonsense
majority of team lost during summer
new owners breathed a bit of life in everyone
nucleus of a good team starting to gel
there or thereabouts (obviously)
and that Forestieri was Preston's best player
Even when we win, some fans don’t accept me here.
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I would say 4-0 is par against this side.
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Spurs. Leicester.
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They look pathetic. Bruce will be giving this the full Travolta strut at FT, tell his little bessie mates how he knows best and he has shut the idiots up. Again.
Well at least he cant use tonights game as "proof" how right he was to use Jedi as a CB....
to be fair Preston are that shit , you could play Ken McNaught at the back
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Spurs. Leicester.
Preston at home 2 seasons ago.
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We’ve done well to keep Daniel Johnson quiet. He’s some player.
We're going to have to now.
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Great stuff so far! Bruce out!
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Flown out in the second half....
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Appalling start to second half
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We're sitting far too deep.
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hutton my word
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pen to preston
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Wtf was that vfrom Hutton?
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Hutton unlucky with an absolute screamer
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Penalty for PNE
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Penalty to them.
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red for chester
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oh dear
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all from hutton fucking it up
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Bye bye James
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Chester sent off.
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If it wasn't us this would be funny
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That's what happens when you invite the opposition on to you.
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That’s what happens you start the second half dreadfully.
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You know we’re going to lose this now
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Mr Bruce will be getting very nervous now
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Standard.
With no discernable pattern of play and approach that they are coached in, we can have a reasonable period of play and cannot sustain it or replicate it if it is disrupted, by half-time for instance.
Fucking shambles. Chester straight red and now missing for a minimum of three games.
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I thought you couldn't get a red in those situations any more?
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Hmm. What happened to that rule change about denial of a goalscoring opportunity?
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2 - 1
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Will he bring Jedi on ?
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You could see it unravelling from the first whistle of this second half. Stand back and give them 6 mins almost total posession.
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Wow. Just, wow.
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Fucking dreadful start to second half.
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And why the fuck do people applaud a player for being such a dumbass he gets sent off.
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Wahey!
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2-1
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Standard.
With no discernable pattern of play and approach that they are coached in, we can have a reasonable period of play and cannot sustain it or replicate it if it is disrupted, by half-time for instance.
Fucking shambles. Chester straight red and no missing for a minimum of three games.
Not to worry. We've got 2 billion midfielders to cover for him.
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Fucking shambles. Chester straight red and no missing for a minimum of three games.
Why three games? It wasn't violent conduct.
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tammy off bree on
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On the plus side it means we have Jedi at CB for a few games...
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Spurs. Leicester.
OK I wish I never said it now
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Only we could turn round a game we were strolling like that.
Seriously, for fucks sake.
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What happened to the “no red” for genuine attempt to play the ball...
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That was never a red card, i'd be very surprised if the card isn't rescinded. Doesn't help us now as we're probably about to lose.
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Hutton fucks up at one end and we concede at the other.
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character tester now, our only senior centre half sent off...seemed harsh mind. great pass from Robinson
Has been all Preston since half time
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Was it a red? Not seen Replay.
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What the fuck does this fucking prick tell them at half time?
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What the fuck were the players told at half time??
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ive got another commentary on villas now wtf
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What the fuck were the players told at half time??
I told you , whos fetching the kebabs
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We have lost all composure, looking proper shit at the moment.
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Two free headers for PNE both nearly scored.
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That should have been an equaliser.
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Fucking shambles. Chester straight red and no missing for a minimum of three games.
Why three games? It wasn't violent conduct.
Might be wrong but I thought a straight red was a minimum of three with the possibility of extra if deemed 'bad'.
Will google it.
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Just like the game 2 seasons ago. We smashed them first half, half time they changed things and we couldn't cope for ages. We had the same dumb fuck in the dugout then as well.
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It’ll be rescinded because it wasn’t a red in a million years. Fact of matter is we came out for second half half asleep. What the fuck does he tell them?
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What a fucking shambles.
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Shambles.
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What the fuck does this fucking prick tell them at half time?
Tickle my balls.
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Looks like Chester is fetching the kebabs >:(
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Fuck off Bruce and take your sack of shit coaches with you, they couldn't coach a fart out of a flatulent arse.
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At least he can blame the ref again, rather than have to ask himself why we started this half so badly.
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Ta ra Steve.
This is your Big Ron v Wimbledon 94
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Genuinely baffled why Abraham was sacrificed because Kodjia is useless holding the ball up.
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2-1 up, down to 10 men and take off a striker to sure up the defence against bottom of the league...what’s the worst that could happen?
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Ok Bruce, this is the without Chester scenario.
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Damn it this has suddenly become like the last round of Joseph Parker v Dillian Whyte
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Looks like Chester is fetching the kebabs >:(
That made poper chuckle
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Hutton fucks up at one end and we concede at the other.
that was bloody awful . typical hutton . hes getting worse
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Just when I thought I could relax this evening. Would hate to be in the ground now. It’s exhausting watching Villa this season. And we are only in game 11..🤔
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Hopefully they'll be as shit against 10 men as we were at Ipswich.
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Genuinely baffled why Abraham was sacrificed because Kodjia is useless holding the ball up.
It's part of the policy of playing the loan signings as little as possible. Axel off soon
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One way fucking traffic. Jesus this is Aston Villa at Villa park against the bottom of the league. Embarrassing
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2-1 up, down to 10 men and take off a striker to sure up the defence against bottom of the league...what’s the worst that could happen?
Steve Bruce is still in the dugout next weekend.
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Hutton fucks up at one end and we concede at the other.
that was bloody awful . typical hutton . hes getting worse
It was no worse than one of Jack's poor crosses.
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I reckon we're all dead and have spent the last 7 years in purgatory.
In the real world Villa are ace.
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Denying an obvious goal-scoring chance should be a one-match ban.
Whoever is best/quickest at lacing their boots starts at CB at Millwall ... and presumably will be in the lucky dip to be captain.
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Am wondering what minute they'll equalise: I reckon 71st.
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We've sort of got four right backs in the back four now.
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Genuinely baffled why Abraham was sacrificed because Kodjia is useless holding the ball up.
abraham is better at holding the fish n chips
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Even if we hold on for the win (which is far from a foregone conclusion), surely the owners will see this for what it really is...another Bruce cock-up.
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I reckon we're all dead and have spent the last 7 years in purgatory.
In the real world Villa are ace.
Like that program Lost
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I actually can't work out how a game that was so one sided in the first half sees us come out like this at the start of the 2nd half. We being dominated, at home, to the side that are bottom of the league and have almost an entire team missing.
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Hutton fucks up at one end and we concede at the other.
that was bloody awful . typical hutton . hes getting worse
It was no worse than one of Jack's poor crosses.
true but we were punished for it
gonna be 2 2 here
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Come on Preston. Get rid of this arse.
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Even if we hold on for the win (which is far from a foregone conclusion), surely the owners will see this for what it really is...another Bruce cock-up.
Nah...not Teflon steve
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We've sort of got four right backs in the back four now.
I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner in the season.
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Don’t know what to think. This could be the end if they score but do I really want it??
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'A foul on a running striker committed by the last man of the defence will no longer result in a direct red card and suspension, unless the foul is violent or consists in a hand-ball in the box. As long as the foul is judged to be an honest attempt at taking the ball, the defender will only be shown a yellow card'
mmmmmmmmmmmm
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Have we been in their half this half?
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I actually can't work out how a game that was so one sided in the first half sees us come out like this at the start of the 2nd half. We being dominated, at home, to the side that are bottom of the league and have almost an entire team missing.
Second half most of our team have gone missing so it's evened out.
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Kodjia has no presence at all up front, not sure Abraham is better mind, but we are effectively playing with 9 now
Bolasie's pace could be handy now, eh Steve...
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Christ, everything about this club is moribund.
Please, new owners, make it stop.
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Even if they score and we hold out for a draw then surely it has to be the end for Bruce.
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Anyway does anybody know if it was a penalty? No replays and all that?!?
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'A foul on a running striker committed by the last man of the defence will no longer result in a direct red card and suspension, unless the foul is violent or consists in a hand-ball in the box. As long as the foul is judged to be an honest attempt at taking the ball, the defender will only be shown a yellow card'
mmmmmmmmmmmm
I thought they'd stopped the straight red card to as otherwise it's a double punishment.
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They have now had more shots and possession than us (according to BBC)
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A reminder of the side that have dominated us this half.
"Preston are winless in their last nine league games, having lost each of their last four while conceding three goals."
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someone needs to tell them to stop twating up to kodja it doesn't work
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Jack hacked off by our total inadequacy, not a good sign
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Grealish getting another yellow card for petulance.
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I actually can't work out how a game that was so one sided in the first half sees us come out like this at the start of the 2nd half. We being dominated, at home, to the side that are bottom of the league and have almost an entire team missing.
Not being coached in a pattern of play/approach means it is like Groundhog Day, or going into work and trying to remember what you do for a living.
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how the fuck are we making Johnson look like bloody hazard
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The distinct lack of a playing style is massively on show here. Well drilled teams with an identity look pretty much the same with 10 men. Rabbles like us look completely lost. Just like Bannan little lad last week, another former villa midfielder in Johnson making our lot look like cloggers. But like Bannan, Johnson has 30 years of space to play in. Bruce has thrown on a defender but hasn't addressed the midfield. RUBBISH.
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I like our new formation
GK
See of many right backs
midfielders all out of position
Kodjia
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Whatever happened to "it's still 0 0 lads"?
We've bought this on ourselves, or rather the manager has. Swanning about like it's the 95th minute rather than the 46th.
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It’ll be rescinded because it wasn’t a red in a million years. Fact of matter is we came out for second half half asleep. What the fuck does he tell them?
He says defend deep and hoof for the next 45 mins and you can afford to spill two goals and I still gets us a point.
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"Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offending player is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball"
So we've won a referee who doesn't know the laws. Smashing.
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bolaise on for kod
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But Bruce said it was much harder to play against ten men when we drew with Ipswich.
...and now we have no strikers at all.
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No strikers on the pitch at home to the side bottom of the league. We're fools for doubting him.
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Look how deep we are FFS.
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"Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offending player is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball"
So we've won a referee who doesn't know the laws. Smashing.
I did wonder about that.
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We have had no outlet since we took Abraham off. Bruce's solution? Take another forward off...
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17 minutes with no strikers, fuxck off you anti-football jurassic twat.
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preston hit post
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bunn saves from hazard
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This has 2-2 written all over it. We're defending the edge of the area.
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Ref could always have decided it was cynical and not an attempt to play the ball?
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They have been all over us for 20 minutes and have enough chances to be be comfortably winning this now.
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under tut kosh
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Now being battered by the team at the bottom.
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And now they've hit the post.
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No strikers on the pitch at home to the side bottom of the league. We're fools for doubting him.
And they are all over us like a rash. Even if we win this will they think it’s not good enough?!?
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Sounds like we'll be lucky to escape with a draw
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Great save Bunn. Just inviting them on.
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I actually can't work out how a game that was so one sided in the first half sees us come out like this at the start of the 2nd half. We being dominated, at home, to the side that are bottom of the league and have almost an entire team missing.
Not being coached in a pattern of play/approach means it is like Groundhog Day, or going into work and trying to remember what you do for a living.
Ha! Nailed it Russ.
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Our 3rd season in division 2 and here we are, mid-table and desperately trying to hold on against the side bottom of the table. It makes yer proud.
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And there it is, Bruceball in a nutshell, no forwards at home to the bottom of the league side.
No wingers from the start and 15 minutes of sleepwalking in the second half. Just fuck him off.
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Recently 4th choice keeper; with four RBs in front of him (as per Bruce); with four CMs in front of them; with a winger playing the lone striker.
A fucking disgrace.
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Whelan getting ready to come on.
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2 2
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2-2. We will lose this game now. He needs to resign tonight.
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Here we go this has an equaliser written all over it.
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bye kebab face
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Grealish off for when an just to piss us off
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Bruce out!
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Whelan getting ready to come on.
Why are we bringing on another CB?
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Hooray he’s a gonna!!!
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blow up ref
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You're getting sacked in the morning...
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2-2. Mark fucking cunting twatting Bunn.
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Goodbye Fist Face.
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That was the worst wall I've ever seen. It was obvious he was going to strike it around. Pathetic.
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And there we go. Well done Bunn.
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Go fuck yourself you useless fat wanker. I dislike the ****** more than I ever did Mr Fickle. Just fuck off Bruce.
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Hooray! That's got to be the end of the bitter Geordie cuunt
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I want to hear Bruce Out at VP now!!!
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Mark Bunn...
richly deserved equaliser in truth
Hourihane and McGinn have been anonymous since half time
Hourihane only offering token resistance in stopping that striker for the shot that hit the post, he is soft as shit
McGinn giving away the petulant free kick for the goal just there
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they are gonna win this
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Well this is a load of old dog wank.
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78th minute. Wasn't that far off...
On the plus side, at least I've got my fleece on!
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Where do we go from here if they don't sack him?
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Whether the players want him to be sacked is debatable. If not, they deserve an awful lot of criticism too. The wages these boys are on, and they play like this. Pathetic
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Where do we go from here if they don't sack him?
Division 3 the way it's going.
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Garbage. Absolute dross.
We'll be lucky to hang on. At least we've a striker on the bench when we need to equalise.
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Where do we go from here if they don't sack him?
there or thereabouts I'd imagine.
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Here we are, desperately holding on for dear life against the bottom club in this league.
Please make this stop.
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Surely he must go after this.
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Fuck off Bruce. And when you've fucked off, just fuck off again. You fucking waste of fucking space.
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Right now I will take a draw so the damage is limited as long as he’s a gonna
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on the plus side Bree can play centre half and I have chicken for tea
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10 men, referee not knowing the rules or not, this second half has been a fucking disgrace.
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That was the worst wall I've ever seen. It was obvious he was going to strike it around. Pathetic.
Picture post carded that side of the goal , unbelievable
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He's surely got to go now.
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Is there no other Aston Villa player aside from James Chester who can head a fucking football? Jesus. Every corner is a free header.
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that preston player has missed 3 good chances ... thank fuck hes shit
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We want Bruce out say we want Bruce out.
Peel the potato, get him gone, no more fannying around. This season has been a debacle. Absolutely atrocious management from start to hopefully finish. The team out there right now is set up abysmally. Keepers are fucked up, the defence all over the place, the wingers all on the bench, the centre mids all over the shop and the forwards all sitting on the sidelines.
What the fuck is going on?
Can the CEO do what he is paid to do and make a call based on the performances and results in front of him. Simply not good enough and insulting to suggest it's anywhere near so or that there is any grand plan.There isn't he couldn't even sort out the centre back situation.
BRUCE OUT NOW.
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Is there no other Aston Villa player aside from James Chester who can head a fucking football? Jesus. Every corner is a free header.
Tommy Elphick
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fans singing you dont know what youre doing
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Return of the Cack...Whelan on for Hourihane
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The fat ****** is playing for the draw.
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Don't know what you doing. Loving it. Fuck off.
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Drawing at home with a team in 24th place? Better get Glen Whelan on.
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well if preston score in the next 7 mins and bruce is sacked in morning
let it be ,,,
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Wahey!
sorry,
I take full responsibility for being a massive twat I should have known better
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Something very sinister here totally unnatural, had to steal myself not to comment on such a dominant 1st half, this second half is like the Princess Di car crash, it just don't feel right.
This is Preston bottom of the league, what happened at half time, what did Bruce do, one almighty argument with the players, the only explanation is either a complete and total lack of respect, players v Bruce or SB has lost the dressing room totally, just said now Preston are going for it......WHAT.
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A team plays in the image of it's manager.
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Fuck stability, I want someone who looks and sounds like they know what they’re doing in charge.
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We've somehow made the worst side in the division look like Real Madrid. It's a rare talent to look this bad against a side this shit.
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Wahey!
sorry,
I take full responsibility for being a massive twat I should have known better
Love you for. It.
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Fair play to Ian Danter - he's doing a blinding job of hiding his glee on the TalkSport commentary. I'm not sure many of us would be able to do so in the reverse situation.
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2 3
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And now it turns nasty as fuck. 2-3
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That’s it!!
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No surprise that was inevitable.
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What an embarrassment.
Fucking unbeliable.
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FUCK HIM OFF NOW !!!
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I think we've been in their half just the once this second half.
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Get that ****** out of this fucking club tonight.
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A team plays in the image of it's manager.
It's not usually meant in the physical sense.
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Karma
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And the inevitable. 3-2 free header from a corner.
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Cool, new manager it is then.
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Bruce out!
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That's the Championship for ya !
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You beauty. Fuck off you fist face ******
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Ref could always have decided it was cynical and not an attempt to play the ball?
I suspect this is the case, I start typing something similar and then got distracted by how shit we were.
On topic this is the worst half we've seen under Bruce, we've been shit a bunch of times, but this is pathetic, they could have had 4-5 already, if he last long enough to deliver a post-match interview then it's too long to wait. He's clearly lost the dressing room and the fans, any longer and he'll have lost us any chance of the play offs as well.
Oh and special mention for Bunn, his wall was fucking dire and he barely seemed to be paying attention.
and there's the winner for them, with yet more pathetic goalkeeping.
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What the actual fuck? Last time I looked it was 2-0.
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Right now I will take a draw so the damage is limited as long as he’s a gonna
I'd take a loss now if it means we rid the club of the useless, toxic, Jardee Shithead. That's what it's come to. Just get him gone FFS!!!
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words fail me
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Come on Villa, Win the F'kin game.
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Fuck me. The sad thing is I'm not at all surprised.
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Just as you think it can’t get any worse.
I have no faith in the new owners. This is going to get a lot lot shitter. Div 3.
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I’m going to get drunk
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For those who may be interested, Rochdale have been down to ten since half time and not conceded. Sunderland went down to ten and scored. It doesn't have to result in throwing the match away. Unless you've got a useless pillock for a manager.
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I honestly believe they have no idea who to replace him with
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Tell you what words can't describe the total friggin shock i'm feeling, the fans should be screaming Bruce out right in his face.
Bruce, don't turn up for work tomorrow under any circumstance.
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Quelle surprise.
Just fuck this twat off.
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Do the decent thing fist face, resign.
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Quick, somebody call Tammy...forget the kebabs and get a case of Newcy Brown instead
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Laughing Stock. There is no coming back for Bruce. Villa Park must be a very unpleasant place to be this evening. Unless your from Preston.
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Even Teflon Steve can't survive this surely.
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When we played Ipswich and mustered 3 chances he said how difficult it was to play against 10 men.
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I honestly believe they have no idea who to replace him with
Give them a chance, I think they've just been decent.
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If Bruce is still in charge this time tomorrow the whole lot of can fuck off. New owners. New chief exec. And every single one of the players. This is a new low.
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Right now I will take a draw so the damage is limited as long as he’s a gonna
I'd take a loss now if it means we rid the club of the useless, toxic, Jardee Shithead. That's what it's come to. Just get him gone FFS!!!
I dot want one point I want him gone
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A defence with the 4th choice keeper in goal and 4 right backs in front him are all over the shop and get slaughtered, who would have thought eh?
He can't see out the next 48 hours, this is a mess of his own making.
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That's the Championship for ya !
I don't even think the championship is that shit
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Do the decent thing fist face, resign.
Not likely. He’ll leave with the season in flames and his pockets full of bank notes.
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Wahey!
sorry,
I take full responsibility for being a massive twat I should have known better
Don’t worry about it. It’s fuck all compared to voting for Brexit.
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fuck 3 3
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Come on Villa!
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3-3. So what though? Garbage
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still not good enough
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Another season in the championship with FFP hanging over our heads. Fuckin great
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Haha. Doesn't hide the utter incompetence of the fat man.
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Bolasie!
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I actually muttered “fuck” when we scored, just by the thought of Steve Bruce one more game.
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Brilliant.. Let's have another and then sack the fucker anyway.
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Strangely sanguine. If this is what it takes for a new era then I will take it. Can’t even get excited about us scoring a goal
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Another season in the championship with FFP hanging over our heads. Fuckin great
That's a best case
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Bolasie...
No matter, Bruce simply has to go
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First time I can remember us scoring and not being sure whether I'm happy about it or not.
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3-3 is just not the point, bruce has to go.
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Don't care! Bruce out!
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Stop celebrating and get the bloody ball!
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Is there a jammier fucker than Bruce. How many last second goals is that now?
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Just seen the score - are you fkng shitting me?!?!
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there is no way in a million years we can fuck this one up now
Wahey!
sorry,
I take full responsibility for being a massive twat I should have known better
The thing is John you should have been on safe ground - with anyone but Bruce in charge.
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Well at least Sky will be happy
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Pretty sure that was our first attack since that Hutton shot.
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first time ive never shouted get in
hes sucked the life out of me
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If we hadn't score some last minute goals this season Bruce would be gone already. You useless bunch of c*nts.
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pen villa
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2-0 and cruising to 2-3 down and all over the place. Let’s not let that equaliser colour anyone’s view on how shit this dinosaur is.
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Commentator trying to make it sound like we are excited for the comeback
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Fuck off bruce
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Fuck me! A pen!
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Penalty
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Penalty for us
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I just woke up....almost missed the whole thing.
Seems to have been an eventful one. Jesus Christ
Bunn in goal.
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Penalty!
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Penalty!
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Looks like Whelan is taking it? Huh?
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Madness
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Fuck me, pen to Villa
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Penalty
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Whelan?!
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I hope the damage to Steve Bruce is done no matter what
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Miss miss miss
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Whelan?!?
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Preston have shown a Villaesque ability to throw a game away.
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saved
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Glen Whelan?
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why the fuck whelan
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Whelan????
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Saved. You fucking ******. FUCK OFF BRUCE. FUCK OFF VILLA. FUCK. OFF.
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Glenn Whelan you fucking numpty!!!!!
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Yes!!!!
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Least camuflaged run up ever - SB last greetings to the fans
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Why didn't Barry take the penalty?
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Ha so funny
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There can't be many more pointless signings we've made than Glenn Whelan.
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You ****** Whelan.
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shit penalty
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Ha ha ha ha ha missed. Fuck off grandad. Scored one in 7 years and he takes penalty
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Bizarre
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"What can you say? That's the Championship for you. You'd think at 2-0 it were all over. And then again at 3-2. In the end we've nearly won it. Nobody can hold this against us today. I'll have a quiet word with James, he'll be fine. It is what it is."
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Well Brucie your old mate Whelan just put the final nail in
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Whelan has scored twice in his last 200 odd league games, why the fuck was he even taking it?
And Bruce, just go. No one wants you here.
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that penalty was there or thereabouts..... thats for sure.... utter wank!
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End days. Snakes eating their own tails. Up is down. Bruce drinking a kale smoothie.
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I'd have preferred it if we had scored to make it 4-3. The writing is still on the wall for Bruce.
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Surely Whelan passing the penalty back to the keeper having made it clear as fucking day where he was putting it is the most obvious sign that the players want rid of him.
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Well Brucie your old mate Whelan just put the final nail in
I sincerely hope so.
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F-ck off Bruce and take your useless pile of sh-t coaches with you!
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Surely Whelan passing the penalty back to the keeper having made it clear as fucking day where he was putting it is the most obvious sign that the players want rid of him.
We all want Bruce gone, but are you really suggesting Whelan missed a penalty on purpose? Really.
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Surely Whelan passing the penalty back to the keeper having made it clear as fucking day where he was putting it is the most obvious sign that the players want rid of him.
I thought it was more of a sign that (a) Whelan is shit and (b) Whelan was one of the last people who should have been taking that penalty.
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worr the lads put their boots on and dug in
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Why didn't Grealish take the pen?
Oh well, a win would have been good but undeserved.
So lets see what happens in the morning, if not before..
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Unthanable.
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Surely Whelan passing the penalty back to the keeper having made it clear as fucking day where he was putting it is the most obvious sign that the players want rid of him.
We all want Bruce gone, but are you really suggesting Whelan missed a penalty on purpose? Really.
Not really, It's just that before he took it I expected a tame effort that the keeper would deal with easily and he did exactly that. I think it was just a really shit penalty, but it was so poor and the reaction both to getting the penalty and to it being missed was so muted that it felt, at the time, like something odd was going on and I just couldn't put my finger on what it was.