Steve Bruce - officially confirmed (as Sheffield Wednesday boss)

[PeterWithe]

Didn't someone on here disprove that?

[Diablo]

The is just no cohesion between the defence, the midfield and the attack. They operate as if they're completely independent entities. The midfield is the biggest problem, because it offers no control to build attacks and no screening to protect the defence. Bruce has a hell of a job on.

Spot on.

yep, i would try richards in centre defensive midfield.

Whilst being more mobile than Jedinak Richards isn't fit and in my opinion hasn't got the discipline to play there. He was shocking at full back yesterday. If Richards is the answer I dread to think what the question is.

"Who is the only professional footballer that has survived a chicken brain transplant?"

Hahaha! Is the correct answer.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Is our pitch bigger than most others? I thought it was smaller than most?

[London Villan]

They are all pretty much the same size in the top leagues...

[aj2k77]

We had the 13th biggest pitch in 2014/15, over the last few years it's been gradually getting smaller as we gradually get shitter. We don't have a big pitch anymore.

[London Villan]

They are all pretty much the same size in the top leagues...

Having checked there are massive differences in sizes.

[footyskillz]

We had the 13th biggest pitch in 2014/15, over the last few years it's been gradually getting smaller as we gradually get shitter. We don't have a big pitch anymore.

Well in 2014/15 we were one of 10 teams to all have the biggest playing space at 105m x 68 m.
As they had to be standardized .
And its really well known that villa had one of the bigger pitches over the years.
I like to know the championship regulations for pitch size as there will be smaller pitches due to stadia circumstance just like in premier league

[tomd2103]

Sanchez and Veretout have to be better than we have, trouble is, even if we could bring them back, neither would want to be here.

Not so sure about Sanchez, but Veretout would at least give us the option of playing three in midfield.  He was pretty poor last season and didn't really give the impression that he was too keen on being with us either though.

[footyskillz]

Bruce already said he 'll make changes for Tuesday as well as the enforced injury ones
 His experience is vital and 'rolling dice ' again as calls it hopefully see what he's got as a canny manager.
I'd expect bacuna and ayew would be in and Westwood and baker so not sure how that'll all go.

[Chico Hamilton III]

cant vouch for the accuracy of this but our pitch is one of the smaller ones. Elland Road is 10 yards longer, for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Football_League_Championship_stadiums

[aj2k77]

There really is no point in bringing back Sanchez, Veretout et all, they must hate being here, we need to rebuild. Fucking again. God sake I'm sick of this.

[footyskillz]

cant vouch for the accuracy of this but our pitch is one of the smaller ones. Elland Road is 10 yards longer, for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Football_League_Championship_stadiums

Thanks for lookimg up will end it there then. As ive taken thead off topic But the issue is fitness that's for sure.  Glad bruce spotted that and I guess he would have said about pitch size if was an issue.

[LukeJames]

Disappointed he's fallen back on the old "unfit players" line. The first excuse that any new manager comes up with when a result is bad. You don't need to be fit to pass to a teammate...

With all due respect, you chat some right bollocks.

[aj2k77]

As an aside, the old ''you don't need to be fit to pass to a team mate'' line is wrong, you do,at least as in it's been proven that as a players physical condition drops so does their passing accuracy and speed of thought.

[cheltenhamlion]

These fuckers aren't fit enough. I didn't call it after Huddersfield as it was early in the season. But I did after Brentford. And yesterday was the shitty cherry on the cake.

It doesn't by any means excuse all of our ills but these fuckers need sweating.