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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on April 07, 2018, 11:35:49 AM
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It’s the same team and bench as midweek.
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Win please Villa.
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I can't believe it !!! He's admitted what we all thought previously in playing the same 11 in a short space of time was a mistake and needs to keep the squad fresh and its the same 11 !?
Tuesdays game is surely much tougher ? He could have tweaked a little without making that team weaker id have thought
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I can't believe it !!! He's admitted what we all thought previously in playing the same 11 in a short space of time was a mistake and needs to keep the squad fresh and its the same 11 !?
Tuesdays game is surely much tougher ? He could have tweaked a little without making that team weaker id have thought
I've given up listening to what the potato rambles on about. He is the master of making a rod for his own back. In his defence, the Reading match was far from strenuous, and Norwich are hardly worldbeaters.
Let's see what happens. I'm going for 2-1 to us.
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1-0 Villa.
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1-0 Villa.
Crikey, we have started fast.
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1-0 Villa.
Crikey, we have started fast.
haha
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No point in keeping anyone fresh for Cardiff game unless we win this. If we don’t we can play Micah and Gabby on Tuesday.
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I thought this was on AVTV but no. Bollocks!
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Minutes applause for Ray. Minutes silences are a thing of the past it seems.
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I thought this was on AVTV but no. Bollocks!
Crap isn't it. All these sky games from now until the end of the season, too.
If you have Android, try the Mobdro App. It's on there on sky sports.
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Pitch looks good
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It's on TalkShite 2 if folk don't have any other options.
Come on Villa, let's get to work!
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We've hardly touched the ball for the first 5 minutes.
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Need to wake up.
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Giving the ball away all too cheaply.
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Great travelling support.
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This start is very flat
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Their ground is very quiet isn't it.
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What position is Barni meant to be playing?
Whatever it is, he's not in it.
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I don't think our front 3 have touched the ball yet.
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What position is Barni meant to be playing?
Whatever it is, he's not in it.
God knows.
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Bjarny conceding a free kick 25 yards out...
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I've probably said this before, but Taylor is fucking woeful.
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I'll like to see us play it shorter, keep losing possession to long balls
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Very reminiscent of the way we started the qpr game
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I'm only listening to the commentary on radio wm , but bloody hell there must be better commentators than this one, makes me want to turn over and listen to the Archers.
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Barnsley 1-0 Sheffield united.
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I'll like to see us play it shorter, keep losing possession to long balls
All Elmo and Taylor have done so far is punt long balls that have gone absolutely nowhere near any of our forward players. I'm not sure Hogan is actually on the pitch, despite what the team sheet says.
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Sounds rubbish.
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Gary Gardner scored. He's still our player isn't he?
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Better attack there.
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Playing better now.
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We're warming up now, couple of corners.
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Good ball by Jack there
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Well apart from that breakaway.
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This is poor. A corner for us turned into them having a very good opportunity.
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What the fuck is Bjarnason playing at?
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We need to start showing some fucking urgency.
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We are having one of our bad days so far
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I can already here post match interview “I should have freshened it up again really but thought the 5 changes I made from previous games would mean they should have been ok”
Arrgghhhh
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Fulham didn't score until the 66th minute on this ground two weeks ago.
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Fucking hell Albert wake up!
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Terry’s fcuked after that challenge.
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Grealish is too deep.
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Jack doesnt seem to be finding space to receive the ball at the moment, he's usually our key to retaining possession in the attacking third
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Taylor, just pass the ball to a bloody Villa player instead of whacking every single ball to one of their defenders.
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How many more time are we going to give the ball away when under no pressure whatsoever?
This is fucking shocking so far
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OKish start and we have looked quite threatening going forward at times. They are causing us problems in the area between our midfield and defence though.
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OKish start and we have looked quite threatening going forward at times. They are causing us problems in the area between our midfield and defence though.
Are you watching the Merseyside derby by mistake?
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Quarter gone and not a single shot yet
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Is Hogan definitely on the pitch?
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Good move that Hogan chance.
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Good ball from Barney to set Elmo free there
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I agree re Taylor. Chance for a simple cross balloons it nearly out of play.
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Taylor is stealing a living.
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It sounds like we've finally woken up!
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The team needs to step it up a bit now.
Been very dull so far.
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TERRY INJURED.
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Terrys going off by the look of it.
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Naaarrich fans booing a back pass!
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Taylor is stealing a living.
Totally agree
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Terry looks crocked.
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Jedinak for Terry.
Oh Shit
Edit:Maybe not.
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Fuck. Let's hope it's not a season-ender.
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AVTV audio it is then. Can't get any streams to stop freezing.
Come on Villa!
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Please not Jedinak please not Jedinak please not Jedinak
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Taylor is stealing a living.
Totally agree
Disagree
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AVTV audio it is then. Can't get any streams to stop freezing.
Come on Villa!
Can you VPN Now TV? Can get a week pass for £13.
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Useless official as usual.
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Great ball from Jack, nobody on the end of it
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Ooh great ball in that
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AVTV audio it is then. Can't get any streams to stop freezing.
Come on Villa!
Use Reddit for streams mate.
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Terry sounds ok for now.
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Adomah and Snodgrass look like they've switched wings.
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Adomah and Snodgrass look like they've switched wings.
Revolutionary tactics!
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Snodgrass and Adomah are completely anonymous.
Neither has taken on a fullback yet
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Adohma needs to start playing
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AVTV audio it is then. Can't get any streams to stop freezing.
Come on Villa!
Can you VPN Now TV? Can get a week pass for £13.
I'll have a look mate. Cheers!
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Our corners are bloody awful. What the Hell do they do at BH all week? Presumably not practice corners by the sound of things...
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Terry going off is a disaster.
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This is a league game? Not a friendly?
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Adomah and Snodgrass look like they've switched wings.
Revolutionary tactics!
And now they've switched back again after all of 2 minutes.
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Terry going off is a disaster.
I missed something?
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Terry going off is a disaster.
He hasn't.
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Our corners are bloody awful. What the Hell do they do at BH all week? Presumably not practice corners by the sound of things...
Most teams are the same. Frustrates me watching it.
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Ah sorry misinterpreted!
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AVTV audio it is then. Can't get any streams to stop freezing.
Come on Villa!
Use Reddit for streams mate.
Cheers pal. I'll have a look on Reddit, too.
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How Neil Taylor is playing for Aston Villa will confound geniuses for centuries to come.
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Great defending by Terry
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Generally poor first half, a couple of changes to freshen it up at half time needed.....which is what he should have done with the bloody starting 11 😡
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Where’s Hutton? I thought he was fit. Taylor is so fucking average and a liability
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Phew, that looked a bit close.
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No bite at all.
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Midfield is shit at the mo.
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Where’s Hutton? I thought he was fit. Taylor is so fucking average and a liability
Hamstring issue
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Would put on Grabban and Kodj.
Liven us up a bit.
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Maddison is a cheating little shit isn’t he
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Sorry but we are playing like c***s.
No pace, no passion, no drive.
Norwich are playing at walking pace and we are bloody slower than that.
It’s a must win game, for fucks sake.
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Two teams that got battered by QPR recently looking just about the same quality. This hasn’t been good. Bruce and the players did get the news that Cardiff lost night didn’t they?
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Maddison is a cheating little shit isn’t he
Yes. They're a bit dirty this lot
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That was a good goal
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Serves us fucking right, playing like a bunch of wankers.
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Norwich score a worldy.
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Bollocks. That's one hell of a strike from Murphy.
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FFS.
Complacent first half and now we get that.
Desperately need some subs on.
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Magnificently shit. Well done Villa for appreciating the magnitude of the opportunity.
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Well we’ve got to wake up now. Fucking usual sloppiness allowed that.
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There we fucking go
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Feckin Taylor standing off
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Fuck sake.
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Awful time to concede
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That’s what happens
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I just don’t get the mentality at this club. Always so casual when something is at stake.
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When was the last time someone scored a wonder goal against Cardiff or Fulham?
c***.
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Fucking dismal from start to finish. Absolute rubbish.
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That’s a stunning goal to be fair. But shit defending by Taylor to give him so much space.
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Fuck. Worst time to concede as well
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The kind of goal Grealish should be scoring for us, but never has. Sigh.
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Our shit half.
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Oh FFS.
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Oh well I suppose "That's the Championship".
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Sorry but we are playing like c***s.
No pace, no passion, no drive.
Norwich are playing at walking pace and we are bloody slower than that.
It’s a must win game, for fucks sake.
It seems the term 'bottlers' is becoming all the more applicable, sadly. And Norwich go 1 up... ::)
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We're really going to struggle to break them down now
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Superb goal.
Wake the f**K up Villa!!
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Fuck me. Crap HT
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Don’t fret. Bruce will have a plan B up his sleeve.
I’ll get my coat.
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Disgusting and disgraceful.
I called it after 5 mins, we have approached this game with no fucking intent whatsoever.
Don’t we ever fucking learn?
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Terrible.
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'We just didn't turn up'. 'it's been a horrible one'.
Crap, uninspiring manager.
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Oh well I suppose "That's the Championship".
I want to smash the television every time he says that.
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Oh well I suppose "That's the Championship".
"I thought about changing it. I really did, thought long and hard. In the end I probably should have. I'll be kicking myself for that all week."
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That was a warm up. When does the real thing start?
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Fuck. Worst time to concede as well
Possibly not, if it serves as a wake-up call for a half time rollocking.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
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What a bag o' shite.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Taylor is fucking useless.
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Superb finish for their goal. Every time we need to step up and put on a performance you can guarantee they will always let you down.
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They’re playing like they’ve settled for the play offs. I just don’t get it.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
True,but the service and support has been woeful.I'm particular Ad ohma.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
And nobody has worked harder
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Good goal but a pretty shit performance so far. Any other team would be boosted by last nights result but as usual, we come bearing gifts for a poor side in poor form.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
But he scored against 10 men last week, so, you know... Well worth starting again and again.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
Hogan?
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We see too many of these performances, lack of energy, no cutting edge or focal point up front, no movement off the ball, passing slow and then a lack of ability by players like Taylor.
Nullify the 2 wide guys and foul Grealish.
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Well that was crap and I suspect it was down to tactics. We were standing off and not pressing them up the pitch. Our wingers didn’t do anything and we were vulnerable to the long ball down the middle. He needs to change tactics not necessarily the players. Big test for Bruce this as he really has no choice but to go for it now. Will he show any bottle?
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
And nobody has worked harder
He runs around like a puppy with a balloon. If that puppy never actually got near the balloon of course. He's a waste of a shirt.
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High balls to the smallest player on the pitch and wingers who have given us zilch, we don't deserve to be promoted playing this shit.
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They’re playing like they’ve settled for the play offs. I just don’t get it.
Can only be mismanagement. We've seen these players, most of them at least, turn up on their day.
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Lazy goal to give away. Wingers are anonymous, movement is crap, they look laboured and ready for the beach. Crap. Can't lose today.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
Norwich are playing very deep and are cutting off his preferred through ball. He's useless at this point. Need to throw on Grab or Kodjia now, someone who will at least come back for the ball and can play with it at their feet.
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‘I thought there was nothing in it until the first goal. You cannot legislate for strikes like that. You have to hold your hand up. But that’s the championship. There’ll be a lot of twists and turns yet. We’re into the tickly bit.’
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
Hogan?
There is a very very good player in there. Appparently.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
And nobody has worked harder
He runs around like a puppy with a balloon. If that puppy never actually got near the balloon of course. He's a waste of a shirt.
Agreed. He has to come off.
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Any player will look shit if they only 'receive' the ball two feet above their head with a massive defender breathing down their neck.
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Well that was crap and I suspect it was down to tactics. We were standing off and not pressing them up the pitch. Our wingers didn’t do anything and we were vulnerable to the long ball down the middle. He needs to change tactics not necessarily the players. Big test for Bruce this as he really has no choice but to go for it now. Will he show any bottle?
No. Next......
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I thought this was on AVTV but no. Bollocks!
Crap isn't it. All these sky games from now until the end of the season, too.
If you have Android, try the Mobdro App. It's on there on sky sports.
Mobdro finally worked for me!
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Lazy goal to give away. Wingers are anonymous, movement is crap, they look laboured and ready for the beach. Crap. Can't lose today.
Even a draw is no use. We absolutely positively have to win.
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why play high balls to a player that is his size ?
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Li’l Lee talks a lot of sense on Sky.
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Hogan is too isolated away from home with his style. And ours.
We need more energy on the pitch so Grabban and Kodjia are musts. Just hope SB dosen't leave the changes too late, I'd get both on straight away.
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I can't wait for Bruce to fuck off. Total clown.
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So painfully slow and predictable against another crap team. Bruce just will not send a team out to play on the front foot. Cardiff/Fulham must be amazed at our lack of desire and urgency. I just don't understand the tactics. Its like a pre season friendly. So I suppose its 4 forwards on in the second halfl!
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Any player will look shit if they only 'receive' the ball two feet above their head with a massive defender breathing down their neck.
Why play him then? He's either shit, or just not suited to the way we play. In almost every single game he plays he has far, far fewer touches than every other player on the pitch, for both teams. That can't be a coincidence. In Snodgrass, Grealish and Adomah we have 3 of the best creative players in the division.
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Hogan is too isolated away from home with his style. And ours.
We need more energy on the pitch so Grabban and Kodjia are musts. Just hope SB dosen't leave the changes too late, I'd get both on straight away.
I think we all know that he'll do nothing until we're 2 down in the 74th minute.
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Quick quiz. Guess, if you can, who is the only player on the pitch to have touched the ball less than 10 times.
I'll give you a clue, it's Scott fucking Hogan.
And nobody has worked harder
He runs around like a puppy with a balloon. If that puppy never actually got near the balloon of course. He's a waste of a shirt.
With respect, I disagree. Today, the same as Tuesday, he's making runs into spaces and demanding the ball, whilst our midfield and wide players never look up from the football and punt speculative passes into nowhere.
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Any player will look shit if they only 'receive' the ball two feet above their head with a massive defender breathing down their neck.
It's not just high balls. Adomah has been trying to thread it through for him again and again, but he's not fast enough to get on the end of it. So here we have a player who is too small for high balls, too slow for through balls, and doesn't come deep to hold up play, leading the line by himself.
What exactly is he there for? You have to ask questions both of his ability and of the manager's tactics.
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why play high balls to a player that is his size ?
Norwich have Sussex us out by marking Snow and Albert out the game, so we are left with the punt.
If Bruce had any nous he would have changed it.
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lets see if Grabban can grab one
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Sort it the fuck out Villa.
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Utter fucking listless shite.
No fucking urgency. These are so deep, fucking push onto them. The full backs and wide men are abysmal. Hogan is so isolated, it's fucking pointless him being on the park.
Grealish fucking idle in closing down against Norwich who have been even more wank than us, and we have been fucking wank as we have been in months too.
Fucking sort it out Villa you shower of ******.
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Any player will look shit if they only 'receive' the ball two feet above their head with a massive defender breathing down their neck.
Why play him then? He's either shit, or just not suited to the way we play. In almost every single game he plays he has far, far fewer touches than every other player on the pitch, for both teams. That can't be a coincidence. In Snodgrass, Grealish and Adomah we have 3 of the best creative players in the division.
That's one view. Another is that the manager who picks all the players tells the ones at the back to play through our skilful and expensive midfield.
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So painfully slow and predictable against another crap team. Bruce just will not send a team out to play on the front foot. Cardiff/Fulham must be amazed at our lack of desire and urgency. I just don't understand the tactics. Its like a pre season friendly. So I suppose its 4 forwards on in the second halfl!
Agreed, look at Cardiff last night. Straining every sinew in the last five minutes, leading to the two penalties. You just don't get that urgency with a Bruce team. He'll be on afterwards saying it's OK because it was a world class goal and that's the Championship. Clown.
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Looks like another game where the opposition may only have to score once to beat us. Very frustrating as I think we have controlled the game without taking it by scruff of neck.
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Sort it the fuck out Villa.
Is what his team talk consisted of.
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Bring The Kodge on.
Yes our best player so put him on now.
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Phone rings on 43 minutes so I switch off my stream and answer. I switch back on and fucking this. Fucking believable!
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We see too many of these performances, lack of energy, no cutting edge or focal point up front, no movement off the ball, passing slow and then a lack of ability by players like Taylor.
Nullify the 2 wide guys and foul Grealish.
Yep. Thought we started off OK but have steadily regressed to the kind of performance that has happened a bit too often this season and is the reason why we aren’t in the automatic places.
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Any player will look shit if they only 'receive' the ball two feet above their head with a massive defender breathing down their neck.
Why play him then? He's either shit, or just not suited to the way we play. In almost every single game he plays he has far, far fewer touches than every other player on the pitch, for both teams. That can't be a coincidence. In Snodgrass, Grealish and Adomah we have 3 of the best creative players in the division.
That's one view. Another is that the manager who picks all the players tells the ones at the back to play through our skilful and expensive midfield.
His lack of touches isn't a 'view' it's a matter of fact.
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Annoying to say the least. Bruce or no Bruce, the players should realise that when the home fans start booing their own team, it's time to twist the knife in. But we dropped the intensity.
Hogan needs support, and although it would be tempting to take off Hourihane for a forwaed and push Bjarne at bit forward, we need at least two goals and Hourihane always has that in him.
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Sort it the fuck out Villa.
Is what his team talk consisted of.
It will be "I got you into this mess; I'm not going to get you out of it"
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No changes.
SB not being proactive enough again.
No good this going to 2-0 and then changing, we need to win ffs.
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Just show some fucking aggression villa
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Lazy goal to give away. Wingers are anonymous, movement is crap, they look laboured and ready for the beach. Crap. Can't lose today.
Even a draw is no use. We absolutely positively have to win.
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No changes because that first half worked so well.
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Colin Wanker having a much better day today.
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No changes.
SB not being proactive enough again.
No good this going to 2-0 and then changing, we need to win ffs.
Oh no. How irritating. Sort it out you fucking dreary bastard, Bruce.
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Looks like we are higher up the pitch already
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Alberts fast asleep. Time for Kodj I think
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Started brightly... Norwich obviously.
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He'll only bring Kodj on at the 60' mark as he said in his pre-match ramble. God knows what else he'll do, probably very little.
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wtf are they all on ?
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Norwich are just cheats, having 11 players on the pitch ;)
Seriously, the amount of corners we have and rarely anything comes of them.
Grabben has to replace Hogan, but why not at the start of the 2nd half?
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Bring on The Kodge ffs.
Stop waiting until twenty minutes have gone before we do something.
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When is Hutton back?
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He'll only bring Kodj on at the 60' mark as he said in his pre-match ramble. God knows what else he'll do, probably very little.
Great.
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Taylor is a fucking liability.
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I’m beginning to think Hogan is a shit Darren Bent
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Taylor is a fucking liability.
A compliment. What’s he done to deserve that?
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Taylor looks like he’s come straight from The Carrow Arms. Fcukin woeful.
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If I didn't know Taylor was so fucking crap I'd think he was on the payroll at Norwich.
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No one in this villa team want to take any responsibility going forward.
That’s why it all half hearted tippy tappy shit with no conviction.
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Is Taylor a footballer?
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Taylor wtf did he head that?
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The most infuriating thing for me under Bruce is our lack of intention.
Cardiff give us a glimpse of a chance and how do we approach the game, we basically let Norwich ease themselves into it!
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Although I'm only listening to the game, Taylor seems to be having a nightmare.
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go 3 at the back and just take Taylor off
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Taylor is not looking great
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Fucking hell Taylor exceeded his own crapness there
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Grabban and Kodjia coming on.
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Taylor is a fucking liability.
A compliment. What’s he done to deserve that?
😀
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Cack
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While midfield coming off.
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Although I'm only listening to the game, Taylor seems to be having a nightmare.
The commentators are almost certainly being generous!
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Great no midfield.
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I’m beginning to think Hogan is a shit Darren Bent
That is exactly what he is.
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Kodjia and Grabban coming on
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Taylor is fucking awful
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Here we go - start throwing strikers on with no plan to use them.
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Shambles.
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Fucking bunch of fucking wankers.
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Ah well play offs it is.
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Bollocks handed that to them on a plate
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All over
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Play offs here we come
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Double cack
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Oh well.
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That ****** hasn’t scored since he signed in January...you just knew
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No changes.
SB not being proactive enough again.
No good this going to 2-0 and then changing, we need to win ffs.
Said this 10 minutes ago!!!!!
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We need a new right and left back
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Shit villa. Shit.
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Utter garbage.
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Deary me.
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Terry tried to play him offside. Thats a negative. Ffs
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Absolutely disgraceful.
Shocking, disappointing and unacceptable.
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Even the commentator is at it now ‘isn’t this just the championship’
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Goodnight, sweet Villa. We've been fucked by Steve fucking Bruce.
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Hogan is too isolated away from home with his style. And ours.
We need more energy on the pitch so Grabban and Kodjia are musts. Just hope SB dosen't leave the changes too late, I'd get both on straight away.
I think we all know that he'll do nothing until we're 2 down in the 74th minute.
I got the minute wrong.
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Should have made the changes 53 minutes earlier. Getting what we've deserved
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Fuck off Bruce, we don't deserve anything.
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He’s taken both wingers off?!!
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This is down to Steve I don’t do tactics Bruce
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Lots of strikers with no one to give them the ball. Yeah, that's going to work.
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We will be worse now with Snoddy and Albert off, we will struggle to get service to the front now.
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Turned it off! The team has absolutely flapped it since beating the dogheads. Same old Villa - never, ever capitalise on anything.
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Supply line off. Twat Bruce.
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Taking off our two providers. I hate having this man as our manager.
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Bruce doing his best 'clueless Paul Lambert' impression at pitchside.
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Bruce - what a clueless chancer he is.
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Imagine this was a critical away leg of a playoff game. Bruce is in charge. You can guess the rest. Utter shit.
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Absolute shit. New manager in the summer, methinks.
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He’s out Lamberted himself.
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Bottling tossers the lot of 'em.
Pathetic.
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Unacceptable.
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Ole...
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We have sh#t the bed yet again. Gutless.
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This could be a thrashing.
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Grealish and Hourihane have been virtually anonymous so where the fuck will the supply come from? Good lord.
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Goodnight, sweet Villa. We've been fucked by Steve fucking Bruce.
As much as I agree, this bunch of ****** didn’t need a pep talk or tactics or anything from Bruce going onto this game.
Just individual pride, and passion should have got them going.
At the end of the day, this team has bottled it. Bottled it big fucking style.
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Happy fucking birthday to JPA and me from Aston fucking Villa. Useless fuckers!
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Bruce has to go in May.
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Bruce has to go. Why take off two wingers to bring on players who thrive on crosses. It didn't work against QPR. It didn't work against Hull. It won't fucking work now.
Twat.
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There is no way this lot is going up via the play offs they will just bottle it. Bruce is a complete moron take off the two players who are actually going to create anything. Fed up of this rubbish.
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uhh.. what is going on.
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Bottling tossers the lot of 'em.
Pathetic.
Disagree there. Bruce is the problem. He’s done exactly what he said he wouldn’t do with his selection and for the umpteenth time failed to respond tactically in the 90 minutes. What must it be like playing for someone that exudes incompetence.
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The Management of Bruce in one game, it worked against 10 man Reading at home so do it again.
Then passively watch us get tactically out done until the opposition score.
Then start again with exactly the same failing set up.
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He'll just blame the scheduling of games.
Was whining last week about we have too many games in a short space of time, so does everyone else.
And in the play offs we'll have to play both legs of the semi within 72 hours.
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Where the fuck have Aston Villa gone ?
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Shove
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In fact I’m struggling to think of a clearer example of a decent squad getting held back by a thick as shit manager.
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Decent spell of possession. For a change. Come on lads get something out of this.
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Absolute shit. New manager in the summer, methinks.
It can't come quickly enough for me. Just fuck the clueless dinosaur off asap. Premier League? Not a hope in Hell with this moron in charge.
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Decent spell of possession. For a change. Come on lads get something out of this.
Draw makes little difference.
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Grealish and Hourihane have been virtually anonymous so where the fuck will the supply come from? Good lord.
Agreed especially Jack. Not his best game today.
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We'll be trapped in this fucking league for ever at this rate.
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The players just don't look up for it.
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All shit and no fart.
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The players just don't look up for it.
We knew that after 5 minutes
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Decent spell of possession. For a change. Come on lads get something out of this.
Draw makes little difference.
Shows they have a spirit to bring into the playoffs. Straight 2-0 isnt great as it stands. Fighting spirit is needed.
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Terry doesn't look fit to me.
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One win in ten but we make this lot look like Barcelona.
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Every time we get given a glimmer like last night result we offer up shite, Norwich are shit for McGraths sake.
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Imagine having to set off at 6.30am to watch this shit.
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I don’t think we have actually had a shot have we?
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Grealish has continually made himself available for the ball, Hourihane is a midfield version of Scott Hogan.
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Decent spell of possession. For a change. Come on lads get something out of this.
Draw makes little difference.
Shows they have a spirit to bring into the playoffs. Straight 2-0 isnt great as it stands. Fighting spirit is needed.
A manager with a clue is needed.
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This is beyond shit.
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That shite ball from Hourihane to Grealish sums up our whole approach.
Underhit and lacklustre.
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Totally clueless in a must win game.
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Come on Villa for fuck sake! Get one and they will fold
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Hogan still on pitch. Fuck off Bruce.
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Yes Jack!!
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Too little too late I think
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One back from Jack
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Bang
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Yes!!!
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Yessss
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Get in jack
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You’ve waited 20 years for this opportunity Steve apparently. And you’ve fucking blown it. I’ll be happy to see the back of him whether by some miracle we go up, or not.
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Super Jack!!!
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Well done Jack.
Now we score again.
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YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS. Grealish
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I don’t think we have actually had a shot have we?
Think that was the first.
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Great play from the Kodj.
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Don’t you just love Jack!!
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Blimey!
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Ref is shit
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Ref that was shit
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come on Villa
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What on earth ref?
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There were three of our players offside but I’ll take it.
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Elmo struggles against good wingers doesn’t he
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Hourihane booked for nothing. This ref is dire.
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Finally! I've said my piece about Jack before, but more of those please. He's well capable.
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Any player hitting a long ball to Hogan should be fined.
Bruce, I should have changed after QPR... did not learn from it did he??
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Norwich are making errors.
They are scared.
This is there for the taking.
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Use your head Hogan
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Oh for fucks sake
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Fuck me Hogan has to do better. Great cross from Jack
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Ffs
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Fuck off
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Hogan, you are dire.
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Right bunch of thickos in our team.
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Fuck off wankers
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You’ve waited 20 years for this opportunity Steve apparently. And you’ve fucking blown it. I’ll be happy to see the back of him whether by some miracle we go up, or not.
Quite agree
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Piss off
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Shambolic :'(
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I think we're all now agreed that he's been appalling?
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Bollocks
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Fuck off Bruce.
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All over
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And there's the fucking sucker punch
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Head it FFS Hogan!
3-1
Fucking shambolic.
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Damaging the goal difference, confidence everything.
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Our defending today, fuck me.
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FFS. Again!
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Norwich are making errors.
They are scared.
This is there for the taking.
R u watching the same game ?
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I’m off to make breakfast for the kids. Something that takes my mind of this and yet another wasted opportunity.
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Murphy and Middison won't be in this division next season thankfully.
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Our form towards the end of the season has been a disgrace.
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Defence has been rubbish today
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Shit.
The refs a cock.
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I'm with Neil Warnock on this:
(http://thumb.ibb.co/iD79Rc/neil.jpg) (http://ibb.co/iD79Rc)
FUCK OFF!
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Infuriating. The effort, the tactics, the timing. Just terrible.
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My 4-3 is still on.
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Bruce takes the flack for this, surely. Defence awful, midfield anonymous and then sacrificed, Hogan absolutely shocking, Grealish strike the only positive.
What are you doing Steve? You have the resources. The experience. You've fucked it all up mate, time and again.
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1 win in 4 at the business end of the season is just unacceptable. Especially given how crap we've been in terms of actual playing style. We haven't even played anybody half decent.
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Shot ourselves in foot so many times this campaign there can't be much foot left to aim at.
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Needed Bruce to step up today and he hasn't.
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QPR, Bolton and now this. What a fuck up when promotion was there for the taking.
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What's with them boing Grabban?
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I'm with Neil Warnock on this:
(http://thumb.ibb.co/iD79Rc/neil.jpg) (http://ibb.co/iD79Rc)
FUCK OFF!
;D
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Warnock will have no problem shaking Bruce's hand on Tuesday.
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This lot are shit. We started fast and got a goal up in either of the last 3 away games they would have been a walk in the park. Ponderous, 2nd to every ball. Awful.
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I really don’t know how we are losing this 3-1. We are camped in their half
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We'll be in this league for a long time.
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I'm with Neil Warnock on this:
(http://thumb.ibb.co/iD79Rc/neil.jpg) (http://ibb.co/iD79Rc)
FUCK OFF!
👌👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks that’s the best comment of this thread 😂😂
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Shot ourselves in foot so many times this campaign there can't be much foot left to aim at.
It's Ok we've got two feet to make sure there's plenty to go at yet.
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Second time i've seen Bjarnason holding his arms out with nobody to pass to.
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I really don’t know how we are losing this 3-1. We are camped in their half
I do We’ve veen woeful.
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Come on ffs.
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Thank you & good-fucking-night.
'Can't wait to hear Bruce's post-match 'assessment' of this latest debacle. He needs to be as ashamed of himself as the players should be.
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Grealish is head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. Can see us cash in if we don’t go up I’m afraid.
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On the beach.
Norwich are terrible, which says all you need to know about us.
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As ever though, we are being killed by a bit of pace. We are the slowest team I can ever remember. This summer if we don nothing else, it needs to be getting a couple of genuinely fast players into the squad.
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Thank you & good-fucking-night.
'Can't wait to hear Bruce's post-match 'assessment' of this latest debacle. He needs to be as ashamed of himself as the players should be.
"This is what the championship is like, there are no easy games".
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Do they practice crossing during the week?
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Two shots on target all game.
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1 win in 4 at the business end of the season is just unacceptable. Especially given how crap we've been in terms of actual playing style. We haven't even played anybody half decent.
* 1 in 5
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Hogan still in. Snodgrass off says all you need to know about potatoe.
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Seems Villa settled for the play-offs after Bolton...
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We only start attacking when the game is beyond us. We then loose our shape and concede the third. Its just the Bruce way
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At least with the later kickoffs you can enjoy most of Saturday before Villa ruin your weekend.
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We've been shite again, honestly when you look at the football we've played this season it's been cack.
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Grealish is head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. Can see us cash in if we don’t go up I’m afraid.
We'll find it tough to hold off the premiership giants like Bournemouth, Burnley and Watford.
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I really don’t know how we are losing this 3-1. We are camped in their half
Scott Hogan couldn't find the ball for 60 minutes. Now there's 2 more forwards on to do his job for him at the expense of an actual shape.
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1 win in 4 at the business end of the season is just unacceptable. Especially given how crap we've been in terms of actual playing style. We haven't even played anybody half decent.
* 1 in 5
Yes, you're right, ta.
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I think the Villa engine needs a total rebuild.
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I really don’t know how we are losing this 3-1. We are camped in their half
Absolutely. And to be fair to Bruce, he was about to make the two substitutions immediately before they scored their second. Which was really bad luck for us.
I like playing this. Anyone else want to join in?
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we still need points for the playoffs you fuckwits FFS Villa. cnuts.
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Cardiff will want this a lot more than us next week. I can see us fucking that game up too.
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I can hear them pissing themselves laughing in Cardiff from here.
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A slow start, alright in the middle and hopeless at the end. I’m not holding out a lot of hope for the play offs and if this form was at the front end of the season Bruce would be getting his cards.
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Who next when Bruce gets the bullet after failing to get us up? Alan Pardew?
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The only positive I can see is that maybe Fulham will be out of the playoff picture by this time next week. Without them in the playoffs we still might have half a chance.
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we still need points for the playoffs you fuckwits FFS Villa. cnuts.
We don't need to worry about 7th downwards - they're bottling it as badly as we are.
We'll get embarrassed in the playoff semi final though playing like this.
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Should have been 4
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Last 5 = Relegation form. Not good going into the playoffs.
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I really don’t know how we are losing this 3-1. We are camped in their half
Scott Hogan couldn't find the ball for 60 minutes. Now there's 2 more forwards on to do his job for him at the expense of an actual shape.
Absolutely this. Grabban and Kodjia should have come on but at the expense of Hogan. It looked desperate at Bolton and Hull and it looks desperate today.
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I can hear them pissing themselves laughing in Cardiff from here.
I doubt they even see us as challengers these days.
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Taylor ball watching, lucky that Hoolahan ballooned it over the bar
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The only positive I can see is that maybe Fulham will be out of the playoff picture by this time next week. Without them in the playoffs we still might have half a chance.
It’s not about who we play, it’s about the way we play.
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We have to hope Fulham go up automatically. They’ll destroy us in the play offs.
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Poor as we’ve been I still think you the worst performance of the afternoon has been this ref. It’s not why we’ve lost but man he’s been shit.
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We have to hope Fulham go up automatically. They’ll destroy us in the play offs.
Warnock will have too much for Bruce. I don’t fancy us against anyone right now.
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Listless. Casual. Hopeless.
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4 points from 5 games. 3 of those gifted to us by a Reading player getting himself sent off.
Bruce can fuck off at the end of the season regardless of whether we go up or not
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Hourihane is winding me up. Terrible today
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We are dog shit
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We'll be in this league for a long time.
Judging by the crap performances & wasted millions since we were relegated, the club's hierarchy will have to have a massive rethink about the new approach clearly necessary to move this club forward. We don't deserve to go up this year & Bruce would be a disaster in the highly-unlikely event we sneak the Play Off's. He's toast: and justifiably so.
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Can't win a point, can't score a goal. When do we play Villa?
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It's one of those games, and we've had a few this season, where not one thing we do seems to have conviction. We lack conviction passing, shooting, defending, crossing and at set pieces.
These types of games have often followed good results. Perhaps complacency is an issue at some level.
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Norwich have been miles better than us all over the pitch.
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Some players showing frustration with their teammates out there.
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We are bad now. What will we be like with no money? Slow defence, so many players on loan.
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what a total waste of a season - after thrashing Wolves we should have kicked on and really given Cardiff a run for their money. Instead we implode.
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all of them should be ashamed of their performances
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At least you can see why the 'Early Bird' date for season tickets was yesterday.
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Hourihane is winding me up. Terrible today
Him and 12 others.
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This reminds me of the Fulham game away last season. No heart, desire or quality.
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What a dreadful performance.
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Their Murphy is impressive.
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We are bad now. What will we be like with no money? Slow defence, so many players on loan.
Probably better with the kids in there...
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And that's that
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Makes the game against Cardiff meaningless for us now.
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It's one of those games, and we've had a few this season, where not one thing we do seems to have conviction. We lack conviction passing, shooting, defending, crossing and at set pieces.
These types of games have often followed good results. Perhaps complacency is an issue at some level.
Although the players have to take responsibility for this collective clusterf*ck, it's the bloody Manager who needs to cop the flack for his pathetic inadequacies. He's an absolute disgrace.
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Hogan has the easiest job in the world. Turns up, jogs/slightly runs a little, touches the ball 8-15 times a match, picks up salary, repeat.
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Look at that gormless spud-faced goon.
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Their Murphy is impressive.
He was when we beat them 4-2 at hq. Sign him up
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And the villa engine rattles on
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This isn't about complacency, or attitude or anything else like that. The problem is that teams have realised that if you press us we play safe and simple and are completely toothless and then when you have the ball just pick 2-3 players with pace and we'll get caught out again and again.
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Rubbish from both manager and players. I think Bruce should have been more proactive and made changes when the game was still close at 0-0, or maybe when it was just the 1 goal. It's always going to be a up hill struggle chasing a team like Norwich when its 2-0 on their own patch. I'm not going to knock Connor because he's been brilliant all season and everyone has bad days. But as a whole the players and management have dropped the ball.
My hope now is that Fulham overtake Cardiff and sneak into second. I'd fancy playing the Bluebirds more in the play-offs than Fulham right now.
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Makes the game against Cardiff meaningless for us now.
Yep. Just knocked 10,000 off the gate. Well done fucking spud head.
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Look at that gormless spud-faced goon.
We have been looking at that face too long.
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Makes the game against Cardiff meaningless for us now.
Yep. Just knocked 10,000 off the gate. Well done fucking spud head.
Yes I am really embarrassed about turning up on Tuesday.
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This isn't about complacency, or attitude or anything else like that. The problem is that teams have realised that if you press us we play safe and simple and are completely toothless and then when you have the ball just pick 2-3 players with pace and we'll get caught out again and again.
You don't even need to press us across the pitch. Just pressure Snodgrass, Adomah and Grealish into going backwards = job done.
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Could have been 4 or 5 at the end, on this form we've absolutely no chance in the play offs.
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This isn't about complacency, or attitude or anything else like that. The problem is that teams have realised that if you press us we play safe and simple and are completely toothless and then when you have the ball just pick 2-3 players with pace and we'll get caught out again and again.
You don't even need to press us across the pitch. Just pressure Snodgrass, Adomah and Grealish into going backwards = job done.
Well yeah, I should've been more specific. That's why Bruce is a defensive manager, if the choice is a 50/50 pass that could create a chance or a safe pass back to a defender we almost always choose the latter, even if we're chasing a game. If we were a team like Barca who can recycle from there and create a better chance then it'd be ok but we almost inevitably give the ball away 3-4 passes later, and usually in an area where we are much more at risk of a counter-attack.
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Rubbish from both manager and players. I think Bruce should have been more proactive and made changes when the game was still close at 0-0, or maybe when it was just the 1 goal. It's always going to be a up hill struggle chasing a team like Norwich when its 2-0 on their own patch.
He gave them 5 minutes or so to look sharper after half time, and then got Kodja and Grabban ready. He was ready to make the change at 1-0. There were actually 2 stopages in play with Grabban & Kodja ready on the touchline just before it went 2-0.
I'm not defending today overall, but he didn't wait til it was 2-0 before making a change.
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My hope now is that Fulham overtake Cardiff and sneak into second. I'd fancy playing the Bluebirds more in the play-offs than Fulham right now.
Its a close call who would be the less difficult game, and it also means getting to the final, but I agree, Cardiff might be the better bet.
It would help if we could beat them on Tuesday........ ::)