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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Ads on April 02, 2019, 12:33:38 PM
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Another huge game and the chance to make it 6 out of 6.
I feel confident that the issue Bruce faced in matching pass and move sides while our manager will feature again Saturday.
They're undefeated under him, but have managed only draws against anybody top half, with dour 11 behind the ball stuff against Sheffield United.
First goal key, as he has them organised.
I'd go with;
Steer
Taylor
Mings
Hause
Elmo
Whelan
McGinn
Grealish
Adomah
Tammy
El Gahzi
We'll we have far too much for them, with our midfield 3 in particular being significantly better than what they have. They have bumped along and got outplayed by Stoke. I am hoping for the same here.
1-3 Villa.
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The first team seems to be picking itself at the moment, and I can't see any changes until we pick up an injury. Nice to know that we have a few options on the bench as well though.
Need to get at them from the off, and get the first goal. They're still close enough to the play offs to feel like they're in with a shot, so if they come at us, I'm sure we'll pass them to death and beat them easily.
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If we play like we did first half against Blackburn, they won't be able to live with us. Away win.
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I fully expect Dean Smith's Villa to do to Steve Bruce's Wednesday exactly what Dean Smith's Brentford did to Steve Bruce's Villa.
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Funny how these situations arise isn't it... Bruce could still play a part in our success / failure of getting the fuck out of this shit division.
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I wonder if Bruce is preparing to deal with the threat Hutton poses.
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Chortle.
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I fully expect Dean Smith's Villa to do to Steve Bruce's Wednesday exactly what Dean Smith's Brentford did to Steve Bruce's Villa.
Yep something like that. Bruce will be Bruce and we will press his side back until they break.
I would bring Conor in for this because on the break he can get into goalscoring positions. Nothing against Whelan who has been excellent recently and the old man needs a breather. Also tempted to get AT back in also. We have to use our squad and they looked a little gassed in the second half versus Blackburn.
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Massive game. Win and we knock another rival out of the running imo. The recent run has been amazing with 4 play off rivals beaten (small heath were at the time, stop sniggering at the back!).
If we play like we can, there is no way they can live with us. 2-0 Villa. McGinn and El Ghazi.
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I wonder if Bruce is preparing to deal with the threat Hutton poses.
I heard he is watching Lewis Grabban videos. He knows that his team have to watch that lad. He is a bit useful and tasty.
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"Obviously, I know young Jack Grealish very well, and it's a great relief that he's injured because he'd cause havoc if he played."
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“It’s going to tough. Scott Hogan is quick and they will hit long balls to him down the flanks. We’ll have to be at our best to beat them.”
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One of Grealish's early league appearances for us was as a sub against potato-head's Hull. They picked up four(?) bookings in the brief time he was on for whacking him up in the air. I doubt these will now employ any other tactic to try to negate him.
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2-1 win for us. Wednesday have shown some solid form under Bruce but as a team I think they are quite limited regarding ability.
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And can we please put in a display that'll finally rid everyone of any lingering opinion they might still hold that we were wrong to let Bannan go!
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One of Grealish's early league appearances for us was as a sub against potato-head's Hull. They picked up four(?) bookings in the brief time he was on for whacking him up in the air. I doubt these will now employ any other tactic to try to negate him.
Must admit, I was wondering how SteveBruce'sWednesday will approach Grealish. It's been completely obvious that most managers have sent their teams out to kick him out the game. I'd be disappointed if Bruce did the same.
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I'm expecting a good game from Adomah so he can stick two fingers up.
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Pretty much agree with Ads lineup, but as they carry minimal threat upfront then I'd opt with Green over Albert even though the latter does offer more cover for Elmo should they attack down the wing. Whelan is firing on all cylinders at the moment so he can't be dropped and should be rest at Rotherham in midweek instead.
We need to get at them from the off and get an early goal. I felt at times we were trying to score the perfect goal against Blackburn so we need to be more clinical in front of goal and make our pressure count.
Bannan, Boyd and Forestieri are the only players I recognise from their team that could carry a threat, so we should be tight at the back as long as don't make any silly mistakes.
0-3 Villa.
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I can see it being a draw which would leave Bruce with his team there or thereabouts.
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1-1.
It will be a lot tougher than people think.
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He'll set them up for a draw and try and nick it from a set piece or counter attack. He'll find out that the game has evolved.
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1-1.
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Hope it's like the old days of Villa vs Brentford, but it's us playing them off the park.
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He'll set them up for a draw and try and nick it from a set piece of counter attack. He'll find out that the game has evolved.
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They are in good form and will be up for it. So will we. Should be a good game. I can't call it as we can't win every game, a draw wouldn't be a bad result.
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1-1.
+1
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They are in good form and will be up for it. So will we. Should be a good game. I can't call it as we can't win every game, a draw wouldn't be a bad result.
I think their form is misleading. They have only faced 2 top half sides since their manager was sacked and both were draws. We've got to be going there to win.
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SB will be desperate not to lose this one so can see him being even more defensive than usual.
Can see it being 2-2. Point not too bad as long as we beat Bristol City which is looking the key now to the run in as they're winning at Boro.
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No point saying it’s a massive game because every game is now, but fuck me its a massive game.
Wee Barry ran the show at Villa Park but we didn’t have a midfield then, I’m sure it’ll be different this weekend.
I’m going for a 1-0 win and finger nails nibbled down to the knuckles.
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They are in good form and will be up for it. So will we. Should be a good game. I can't call it as we can't win every game, a draw wouldn't be a bad result.
I think their form is misleading. They have only faced 2 top half sides since their manager was sacked and both were draws. We've got to be going there to win.
Yep, Wednesday were lucky to draw at Stoke apparently.
Bruce is due a defeat now and we’ll have too much for them.
A routine 2-0 away win, with a goal in each half.
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No point saying it’s a massive game because every game is now, but fuck me its a massive game.
Wee Barry ran the show at Villa Park but we didn’t have a midfield then, I’m sure it’ll be different this weekend.
I’m going for a 1-0 win and finger nails nibbled down to the knuckles.
We had a midfield three of Hourihane, McGinn and Grealish that provided little or no resistance without the ball the sane day. Reach tortured Hutton I think and Fletcher had a field day up front. That day was the beginning of the end for Bruce really.
We are a much different side now with the Jedinak centre back experiment long since at an end. But I'd certainly be moving Hause to left back. Fletcher has the guile to trouble his unease at RCB.
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I can see it being a draw which would leave Bruce with his team there or thereabouts.
You do realise Bruce is a promotion specialist don't you? But he is too modest to mention it.
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Fletcher has been out injured last couple of games so may be a doubt for the weekend.
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2-1 us.
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Another must win, it will be very tough, score first and we should be ok.
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I can’t bring myself to predict this one.
If I call a Villa win, I know we’ll get stuffed.
Bruce really won’t want to be losing this,
So pretty sure he’ll park the bus.
Just hoping for an early Villa goal to bring Wednesday out at us a bit.
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I feel the same way from when we went away to Forest a short while ago, I feared that we may struggle and going a goal down early seemed to galvanise us into a quick response which we got.
3-1 to the Villa please :)
UTV
The Doc
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This will be a tricky game for us but I think the form we are in we can beat Sheff Wed so I reckon 2-1 Villa win.
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One thing we need to remember is that Bruce almost always is ok in major games. Last season v Blues, Wolves, Cardiff and Boro etc. And then fucks up the following games. So based on that we have to avoid defeat. That will consolidate our position and eliminate any lingering hopes they have of making the top six.
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I think we need to remember that we are the form team, coming up against Potato Head's select XI, and we should funeral them Then cremate the rotting carcass. 3 points. See ya!
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I'd like to think the progressives beat the antediluvian.
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I’d like to think I know what antediluvian means. Unfortunately I don’t, so I’ll probably look it up.
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Hope it's like the old days of Villa vs Brentford, but it's us playing them off the park.
We'll conveniently forget how well Bruce's Villa played against Smith's Brentford earlier in the season then :-)
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Continue.
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A nervy game ending in a 1-2 victory to Villa
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Gone for a draw, but hope for a win
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Tricky one.
I think a draw would be a decent outcome.
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Morlocks 0 - Eloi 2
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Wednesday 1-2 Villa
Bright Saunders 2
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1-2 I hope.
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1-2 I hope.
0-4 I hope.
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Hope it's like the old days of Villa vs Brentford, but it's us playing them off the park.
We'll conveniently forget how well Bruce's Villa played against Smith's Brentford earlier in the season then :-)
We equalised in the 90th minute, having collapsed on our arses on 70 minutes, with them missing a few sitters.
It was the best we had played against them for sure, but it's not saying much.
There is a thread on their forum about what tactics to use against us. They're using charge and attack attack attack. Which probably goes beyond Bruce's capabilities.
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Fuck me I've just read the biggest, steaming pile of absolute horshite in the Sheffield Star.
Apparently the whole footballing world will be cheering Sheffield Wednesday on as the good guys for what we did to Bruce.
Utter fucking shite.
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Unbelievable, if it wasn't from Sheffield, the one-eyed football capital of the world.
Incidentally, a mate of mine, a big Owls fan, went down to Millwall to watch the game. He told me that SB set his team up very deep, happy to defend against a side struggling against relegation. He made one or two changes in the last ten minutes which made little difference.
It appears that SB was very happy with his point.
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Fuck me I've just read the biggest, steaming pile of absolute horshite in the Sheffield Star.
Apparently the whole footballing world will be cheering Sheffield Wednesday on as the good guys for what we did to Bruce.
Utter fucking shite.
Or maybe the 'whole of the footballing world' will remember that Wednesday are famous for match fixing, a deathtrap stadium, arsehole chairmen and fuck all else.
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Fuck me I've just read the biggest, steaming pile of absolute horshite in the Sheffield Star.
Apparently the whole footballing world will be cheering Sheffield Wednesday on as the good guys for what we did to Bruce.
Utter fucking shite.
Or maybe the 'whole of the footballing world' will remember that Wednesday are famous for match fixing, a deathtrap stadium, arsehole chairmen and fuck all else.
That band.
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Fuck me I've just read the biggest, steaming pile of absolute horshite in the Sheffield Star.
Apparently the whole footballing world will be cheering Sheffield Wednesday on as the good guys for what we did to Bruce.
Utter fucking shite.
Or maybe the 'whole of the footballing world' will remember that Wednesday are famous for match fixing, a deathtrap stadium, arsehole chairmen and fuck all else.
Maybe no one will give a shit?
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I can just imagine the Mail doing a story like that.
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Hope it's like the old days of Villa vs Brentford, but it's us playing them off the park.
We'll conveniently forget how well Bruce's Villa played against Smith's Brentford earlier in the season then :-)
We equalised in the 90th minute, having collapsed on our arses on 70 minutes, with them missing a few sitters.
It was the best we had played against them for sure, but it's not saying much.
There is a thread on their forum about what tactics to use against us. They're using charge and attack attack attack. Which probably goes beyond Bruce's capabilities.
I'm hoping for better on Sat than a last minute equaliser.
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What exactly did we do to Bruce apart from give him a prestigious job on massive wages, allow him to appoint all his old mates as assistants on big wages, give him loads of money to spend on whoever he wanted to buy and give him a couple of years to get promotion and then when he failed give him a big fat compensation pay out? I wish someone would treat me that badly.
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1-2 I hope.
0-4 I hope.
0-18, I hope.
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Alan Biggs’ Sheffield Wednesday Column: Why most of the football world will laugh with Steve Bruce if Owls beat Aston Villa following his ‘shameful’ and ‘disgraceful’ treatment at Villa Park
Sometimes you can’t see past one man when looking ahead to a game. And sometimes, too, it’s fated that those who can’t see beyond the end of their nose will get it twisted out of joint.
If the craggy, battle-worn face of Sheffield Wednesday’s manager, distinguished by his permanently crooked conk, breaks into a smile come 5pm on Saturday then it won’t only be Owls fans laughing along with him.
For one day, S6 will surely have the best part of the football world behind it. There is very little neutrality about Sheffield Wednesday versus Aston Villa in the nation’s consciousness.
It’s because the majority of decent souls like to believe in the principles of “what goes around comes around” and the good guy winning in the end. Steve Bruce IS a good guy, as anyone who knows him will tell you. Both as a man and a (highly successful) manager, he was wholly undeserving of the shameful abuse that saw him hounded out of Villa Park in October.
His “crime” was six weeks of moderate results in an otherwise impressive two-year turnaround of a club who were still competitively placed when the axe fell. Of course, the bigger picture is this being a key match in the battle for the play-offs, with Wednesday just four points behind a sixth-placed Villa who have slipped into the groove of five straight wins under, yes, a good manager in Dean Smith.
It’s one the Owls really must win to blow the race open. Two momentous home games beckon with another big club rival, Nottingham Forest, in town on Tuesday - and Wednesday might have to win both to stay in it. Four points would keep them just about in touch - providing they haul back Villa. If you had to pick the one to win that would be it and not entirely for emotional reasons.
But you can’t divorce the backdrop from this fixture. As a manager who naturally commands loyalty, Wednesday players have a powerful extra incentive to win it - for Bruce.
Beyond that comes a sentiment springing from the moral difference between right and wrong. And don’t believe those who tell you there is no sentiment in football - it is right at the core of the game, the hopes and dreams.
This is the story of what happens when that sentiment, or passion if you like, goes too far. Whether a former Birmingham boss or not, Bruce’s treatment by a section of Villa fans was disgraceful; rubbished and ridiculed across social media, climaxed by a cabbage being hurled at him by an irate supporter.
Now, some followers of all clubs aren’t exactly blameless here. Yes, the treatment of Bruce’s predecessor at Hillsborough, Jos Luhukay, was in a different context. You couldn’t escape judging that his record was sackable, actually before it occurred.
That said, Luhukay’s measurable CV should have eliminated some of the more extreme comments, even if the good things he tried, like blooding a raft of young players, were undone by bad selection and tactics.
But the baying for Bruce’s demise at Villa sounded way off the scale. Some of his detractors are chipping away at him to this day and will undoubtedly be represented in the away end on Saturday. We’re talking of a man with broad shoulders here. He can shrug off most of what comes with the job. Yet the level of disrespect and derision shocked even him. I don’t know how he will play it in the media pre-match but I do know he regarded his treatment as “brutal.”
As a professional, he’ll prefer to focus on a way to win, hoping to re-harness some of the pace that had previously transformed the Owls - after Rolando Aarons joined fellow Newcastle loanee Achraf Lazaar on the sidelines last week. Injuries are a major concern. Without that zip, the Owls reverted to being predictably pedestrian in the 0-0 draw at Stoke. They need it back to have a realistic chance.
Yet the unbeaten run stands strong at 12 games, 11 under Bruce. Maybe we should not be so surprised. Nor should supporters of his previous club. All managers have bad spells - and that’s all it was at Villa.
This four-times promotion winner has nothing to prove. But you can bet he won’t be feeling that way on Saturday. The human dimension to this huge game is too highly charged to overlook. Let’s see the good guy coming out on top. Roll credits.
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Alan Biggs you t***. Yes we were horrible to Bruce by paying him a fortune, giving him two years and huge transfer funds during many transfer windows which he wasted, had a go at the fans every 6 weeks and totally embarrassed us in the play off final. Yes he was treated shamefully. Why don’t you ask Wednesday to appoint him for life?
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What makes that deluded Sheffield twat think the world gives two shits or even thinks about them or when we play them?! To preach such a load of poisonous nonsense is one thing, but when the club he supports has had 7 managers in the last 9 years themselves then it's more than a little bit hypocritical.
edit:
Alan Irvine: January 2010 - February 2011
Gary Megson: February 2011 - February 2012
Dave Jones: March 2012 - December 2013
Stuart Gray: December 2013 - June 2015
Carlos Carvalhal: June 2015 - December 2017
Jos Luhukay: January 2018 - December 2018
Steve Bruce: February 2019 - Present
Alan Biggs. C**t. Roll credits.
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He won't think Bruce is so great in 12 months time.
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Wow. If there was a "Crock of shit articles" League table, Alan Biggs would be top of it, 15 points clear and a shoe-in for the title.
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i just really hope we win this. If we play like we have the majority of the last few weeks, we will. Despite their passion and voyage for some sort of ‘moral justice’, loyalty to their new potato-deity, giving 110%- we should have them chasing shadows.
Forget Bruce, forget revenge for two consecutive Villa Park wins for them. We just want promotion. And to stick it to Alan Biggs.
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Alan Biggs you t***. Yes we were horrible to Bruce by paying him a fortune, giving him two years and huge transfer funds during many transfer windows which he wasted, had a go at the fans every 6 weeks and totally embarrassed us in the play off final. Yes he was treated shamefully. Why don’t you ask Wednesday to appoint him for life?
Well said, Aftab!
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“Highly successful”. Quite the low bar for success in Sheffield it seems.
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I've got us down for a win, but knowing Bruce and the 'keep it tight' attitude a draw would be acceptable. Although you'd think with so much at stake he'd set up relatively positively which would give us a better chance. Alan Biggs - who?
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How quickly they forget that their useless previous manager somehow managed to give their new potato king the absolute run around in the reverse fixture a few months back.
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Fkn hell- this guy’s paper a cheaper version of the mail. Some washed up journo trying to stoke the flames and generate a few hits on its shitty website?
Who knows how Villa fans will react to Steve Bruce? I’d guess, he most likely won’t get acknowledged either way. He was ultimately a high stakes gamble, which failed to pay off. Steadied the ship, which was bare minimum requirement when he came in. And decent bloke who had a lot of personal stuff to deal with, which he deserves praise for, towards the end of his time. Maybe a tiny few couldn’t accept him due to the Blues connection, but most welcomed him and wished him well. Just wasn’t good enough to achieve his remit, that’s all.
Flesh it out in more detail if you like, but don’t make up a load of bullshit to generate clicks for your wanky newspaper. Football supporters of all hues have more integrity than some of these journo deadbeats.
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Every time I think of the game I'm drawn to both our impressive runs and chances of securing a play off place, the last thing I think off is "putting one over" on Steve Bruce. He had a good run, it didn't work and he went.
As for the game, I'm a great believer in sequences. As the games pass I can see our winning streak coming to a halt at some point, equally their unbeaten run will end sooner rather than later so predicting this is tough. I can see us slipping up on this, or next Saturday with a win in between but as fortune favours the brave I'll go for a win.
2-0
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That ‘article’ should form the basis of the pre match team talk.
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I honestly thought the "ex Birmingham boss" excuse/narrative had been put to bed.
I was pleased when Bruce was appointed and was delighted when he left. Relieved is probably more accurate, it was clear things had run their course.
As for the article, "disgraceful treatment" is stretching things a wee bit, Mcleish and Houllier got far worse. Unless the journalist thinks the cabbage could have killed him? It makes sense, Bruce does look like a man severely allergic to vegetables.
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For those that don't know, Alan Biggs is invariably the 5 Live reporter at Sheffield United and Wednesday home games. I look forward to his unbiased reports on Saturday, not !!!
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I would hope Wednesdays coaches will tell Bruce , Micah Richards is out injured.
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It appears that lots of misconceptions exist about Villa fans. I, for the record:
Don't hate Newcastle
Don't hate Bruce
Didn't dislike TSM because he came from Small Heath, but because he was hopeless at managing (cont)
Don't live in Lichfield (and have never been there)
I just though I'd set the record straight like.
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Bruce said as soon as he took the job that the club had to be promoted - and promoted in a short time frame. So by his own yardstick, he failed.
Better use of his budget in that first window could have seen it happen in his first year. It really should have happened in his second. A decent start to the third would still have been enough to keep most Villa fans onside after the summer we had. But his transfer dealings were mostly bollocks and left us playing catch up.
Decent bloke, but the time was right for a parting of the ways.
He'll have less pressure at Sheffield Wednesday, so good luck to him.
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Their players giving interviews that this is a must not lose game.
The Bruce fear is creeping into them.
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Bruce has done there what he did here, when he first arrived. A dozen-ish games in under him, let's end their season like ours did back then.
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Against Stoke they had 37% of the ball and 1 shot on target, 3 wide and 2 corners.
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Against Stoke they had 37% of the ball and 1 shot on target, 3 wide and 2 corners.
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Doesn't augur well for them. We will dominate possession by epic proportions. Let's make it count.
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Cheer up Stevie Bruce, oh what can it mean...
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They'll be tenacious I imagine, so we need to match that intensity off the ball with our effort and pressing and hopefully our quality and superior movement off it will reap benefits.
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Wow. If there was a "Crock of shit articles" League table, Alan Biggs would be top of it, 15 points clear and a shoe-in for the title.
+1. Makes a Small Heath Alliance post look well-informed and balanced wrt the Villa.
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Did you know, we have scored more first-half goals than any other Championship team this season, netting 3⃣4⃣ times before the break.
Same again Saturday. 🙏
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If there's ever been a game that warrants one of these then it's this one...
Fuck the fuckers!!!
0-3 Villa
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Birmingham Mail reckons Chester, Elphick, Hutton and Lansbury are all back in training. Don't know how far they are off being ready to play, but it will strengthen the squad at such a key time.
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well we have done much better defensively without Hutton .
Chester would be a bonus especially around the play offs and with Axel we do process a very good squad.
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That ‘article’ should form the basis of the pre match team talk.
Indeed
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well we have done much better defensively without Hutton .
Chester would be a bonus especially around the play offs and with Axel we do process a very good squad.
Agree. Chester did have a tough few months before he was rested, but I still think he is one of the best defenders in the league and that a partnership of him and Mings could be very good.
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I've got a feeling it's going to end up a draw tomorrow, but I'm going 2-3 to us in a repeat of Big Ron's first game in charge. We are certainly good enough to turn them over.
Winning 5 on the bounce in any division is no mean feat. 6 is exceptional.
UTV!
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Anything less than a win is poor for me. I think hes benefited hugely from fixtures.
9 out of 11 against 13th or below and then two draws against top half opposition.
They were outplayed by Stoke. Let's fucking drill these ******.
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"They were outplayed by Stoke. Let's fucking drill these c***s".
Amen to that.
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Anything less than a win is poor for me. I think hes benefited hugely from fixtures.
9 out of 11 against 13th or below and then two draws against top half opposition.
They were outplayed by Stoke. Let's fucking drill these c***s.
Problem is they will put out a completely different team tomorrow as they have lots of injured players back. They'll want to have a go and apparently PH has them pressing well. After a shit start to their season, they're only 4 points below us. First goal will be massive tomorrow though we always have the threat of coming back from a goal down. My guess it both teams will just go for it so it could be a high scoring game. It's going to be a tough one but if we play to our potential we should have too much for them. Hopefully Grealish doesn't decide to play too deep again. By his standards he was quiet last week and Tammy needs to bury every chance he gets. Tall order, I know.
The deciding factor is us not having Bruce in the dugout. Reading Sheff Weds fans comments on Bruce reminds me of Sunderland fans when Pubehead went up there. And we all know how that ended. Not sure if anybody else saw the video of the lads in training this week but bloody hell, the speed, movement and technique has gone up a level or two. There was a similar video last week and what was beautiful to see was that's how we played (especially first half) against Blackburn.
2-3 Villa win. (Albert, Jack and Hause)
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You mean Fletcher will start and Forestieri will either drop out or replace Boyd.
Let them come out and attack us. Let the come and open up space, we'll have the majority of the ball and dominate territory, so if they want to open up space too, then brilliant.
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Anything less than a win is poor for me. I think hes benefited hugely from fixtures.
9 out of 11 against 13th or below and then two draws against top half opposition.
They were outplayed by Stoke. Let's fucking drill these c***s.
Think this next week is massive. 9 points from the three games during that time could well see a gap opening up with the teams just outside the play offs.
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There's a possibility Aarons could also return. He's a fast, tricky winger. If fit, I imagine Bruce will bring him in instead of Forestieri, at right back.
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I've gone for a draw but I'm hoping Villa prove me wrong and take all 3 points.
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Bruce isn't going to play Reach, Forestieri/Aarons, Hooper and Fletcher, leaving a slow and pedestrian midfield two of Bannan and Hutchinson.
He's not got the bottle and he's probably wise not too, so it will be Boyd and likely a 433 mesh of sorts to match us up.
Either way, I dont care. It's about what we do. Our intensity of moving the ball and hunting for the ball is key.
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The good thing is that Stevie boy won’t really know how to counteract the way we play now. He had no fucking idea that the team was capable of performing like we do so it must be an absolutely massive shock to him.
Or.
He spent so fucking long stifling the way we can play he’’s an absolute shoe in to do it again.
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I fully expect us to dominate possession again, so if we're clinical and finish our chances then we will win tomorrow. It's as simple as that really.
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We need Grealish on the front foot as much possible. When he's firing on all cylinders, he creates acres of space for the likes of Tammy and McGinn. But likewise, when he's playing in his own half, it invites the other team on to us too much, as in the second half v Blackburn.
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Mini bus picked up. Leaving Bournemouth at 8. Looking forward to another away day. UTV
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Very much looking forward to tomorrow. I hope we annihilate them.
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The only time I’ve ever got thumped at a football match was outside Hillsborough, so just for that reason I hope we twat them. 2-0 and the juggernaut rolls on....
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5 out of 5 has been brilliant and it's got us back in the mix for the playoffs. We need to consolidate now by continuing the winning run. 6 out of 6 and another 3 points please Villa! UTV!
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Start like we did last week and it's game over as I would imagine Bruce still hasn't worked out that sometimes you need a plan B.
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The only time I’ve ever got thumped at a football match was outside Hillsborough, so just for that reason I hope we twat them. 2-0 and the juggernaut rolls on....
I've never been thumped at a match but my brother once got kicked up the arse (Bishop Brennan Style) by a Wolves fan on the Trinity Road.
Anyway, 1-4 to us. El Ghazi with two, Abraham and Kodjia.
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Did Bruce say 'owt of note in his presser?
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Did Bruce say 'owt of note in his presser?
I've heard it's regarded by many trusted people in the medical profession as one of the best cures for chronic insomnia.
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The very brilliant Richard Hawley is on the front cover of today's match programme.
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The very brilliant Richard Hawley is on the front cover of today's match programme.
No room for sentiment today
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The very brilliant Richard Hawley is on the front cover of today's match programme.
No room for sentiment today
Not sure what you mean?
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Richard Hawley is ace.
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He's obtuse, our XX.
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The very brilliant Richard Hawley is on the front cover of today's match programme.
No room for sentiment today
Not sure what you mean?
Just a joke. Chill
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The very brilliant Richard Hawley is on the front cover of today's match programme.
No room for sentiment today
Not sure what you mean?
Just a joke. Chill
I'm chilled. I just wondered what you meant, that's all.
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The very brilliant Richard Hawley is on the front cover of today's match programme.
No room for sentiment today
Not sure what you mean?
Just a joke. Chill
I'm chilled. I just wondered what you meant, that's all.
Looking for deep meaning in a throw away comment doesn’t seem very chilled
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I assure you, I am. Now let it go.
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I assure you, I am. Now let it go.
Okay
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Got a feeling that El Ghazi will do something today although I’m not sure what. My money is on a worldy from distance.
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I assure you, I am. Now let it go.
Let It Go is from Frozen, not Chilled.
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I assure you, I am. Now let it go.
Let It Go is from Frozen, not Chilled.
Haha, i'll listen out for it.
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Imperative we continue this run, 2-1 Villa win, we must keep the pressure on, 5th and 6th place are very competitive, you can easily see how easy it would be to slip up and drift away from the pack, come on Villa.
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Hopefully drifting and slipups are a thing of the past with DS here now.
Given a fair rub of the green with injuries etc we will be in the play offs and I can't see anyone who will fancy their chances against us.
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I wish I was feeling more confident about today. Despite knowing that if we play anywhere like we're capable of we'll smash this mob, I just can't overcome this nagging doubt I have that Bruce will somehow manage to throw a spanner in our works. Hopefully any such thoughts will be dispelled by a storming performance again, but I've gone for the creosote option of a score draw. So 1-1 it is.
UTV
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If we play the 90 mins like we did in the first half of last week, it could be a hammering, but play like we did in the 2nd half, then it's going to be a struggle. Going 2 -1 Villa.
UP THE VILLA
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I wish I was feeling more confident about today. Despite knowing that if we play anywhere like we're capable of we'll smash this mob, I just can't overcome this nagging doubt I have that Bruce will somehow manage to throw a spanner in our works. Hopefully any such thoughts will be dispelled by a storming performance again, but I've gone for the creosote option of a score draw. So 1-1 it is.
UTV
I think that after so many years of being a Villa fan, if we had a team full of players like Man City, were playing Carlisle United in the cup and were 7-0 up, I'd still be worried that we'd balls it up somehow.
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I wish I was feeling more confident about today. Despite knowing that if we play anywhere like we're capable of we'll smash this mob, I just can't overcome this nagging doubt I have that Bruce will somehow manage to throw a spanner in our works. Hopefully any such thoughts will be dispelled by a storming performance again, but I've gone for the creosote option of a score draw. So 1-1 it is.
UTV
I think that after so many years of being a Villa fan, if we had a team full of players like Man City, were playing Carlisle United in the cup and were 7-0 up, I'd still be worried that we'd balls it up somehow.
I think that fear comes from being kicked in the bollocks so many times. One minute we are cruising along and things look rosy then...BANG...it feels like your balls are in your stomach.
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I wish I was feeling more confident about today. Despite knowing that if we play anywhere like we're capable of we'll smash this mob, I just can't overcome this nagging doubt I have that Bruce will somehow manage to throw a spanner in our works. Hopefully any such thoughts will be dispelled by a storming performance again, but I've gone for the creosote option of a score draw. So 1-1 it is.
UTV
I think that after so many years of being a Villa fan, if we had a team full of players like Man City, were playing Carlisle United in the cup and were 7-0 up, I'd still be worried that we'd balls it up somehow.
Whether it was Leicester away under Sherwood, the numerous late and late very fuck ups home and away versus Man U under every manager, the collapse at Spurs under MON, the late soul crushing goals during the TSM era along the various other humiliations, the recent spate of getting dumped out of cups vs shit opponents, it has been the life of a Villa fan for too many years now.
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Can anyone confirm if this is being shown live on AVFC tv for our international fans?
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Yes. Me.
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He's obtuse, our XX.
Cole’s Corner. A sentimental album about Sheffield.
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I think Darren means Yes I.