Steve Bruce - officially confirmed (as Sheffield Wednesday boss)

[oldtimernow]

When can I expect the Christmas Carol version please?

[LeeB]

When can I expect the Christmas Carol version please?

Good king Wyness first looked out
On the feast of Steven
"Send that fat fuck Gabby off
 To somewhere shit like Sweden'
 
 

[cdbearsfan]

Dear Steve,

Stop picking that twat Agbonlahor.

Kind Regards,

All Villa fans except Jane.

[kippaxvilla2]

Dear Steve,

Stop picking that twat Agbonlahor.

Kind Regards,

All Villa fans except Jane.

And Si

[ktvillan]

We haven't really got anything better to replace them with at the moment. Hopefully a remedy is on its way! Jenkinson for starters. 2 midfielders too.

We have though Newby.  Tshibola, Bacuna, Green, Gestede and RHM should all be ahead of Westwood, Hutton, and especially kebab boy.  True they are mostly not all that but they are not as bad as the incumbents.  It really is mystifying why so many of our managers have persisted with  the clearly ineffectual Westwood.   

[nigel]

I just read an article in the mail that was tweeted by Mat Kendrick.

Seems like Bruce is running out of patience with some of the players and there could be wholesale changes against qpr. I like that he's come out and said that ahead of the match. He knows that it's his cock on the block if the team doesn't perform and he's going to try and shake things up. That's good management. He hasn't said who will be left out, but I think we could all guess at least three players.

I don't really do Twitter, but have an account.
I get tweet alerts from Dr Tony, and one of them  was also along the lines of 'Angry at the effort of certain players'

I reckon Dr Tony could ship a few out regardless

[dave.woodhall]

I just read an article in the mail that was tweeted by Mat Kendrick.

Seems like Bruce is running out of patience with some of the players and there could be wholesale changes against qpr. I like that he's come out and said that ahead of the match. He knows that it's his cock on the block if the team doesn't perform and he's going to try and shake things up. That's good management. He hasn't said who will be left out, but I think we could all guess at least three players.

I don't really do Twitter, but have an account.
I get tweet alerts from Dr Tony, and one of them  was also along the lines of 'Angry at the effort of certain players'

I reckon Dr Tony could ship a few out regardless

It'll end in tears.

[olaftab]

I reckon Dr Tony could ship a few out regardless

And how does he do that?

[pauliewalnuts]

I just read an article in the mail that was tweeted by Mat Kendrick.

Seems like Bruce is running out of patience with some of the players and there could be wholesale changes against qpr. I like that he's come out and said that ahead of the match. He knows that it's his cock on the block if the team doesn't perform and he's going to try and shake things up. That's good management. He hasn't said who will be left out, but I think we could all guess at least three players.

I don't really do Twitter, but have an account.
I get tweet alerts from Dr Tony, and one of them  was also along the lines of 'Angry at the effort of certain players'

I reckon Dr Tony could ship a few out regardless

It'll end in tears.

Owners tweeting about players.

That's never, ever ending in a good place.

[adrenachrome]

I just read an article in the mail that was tweeted by Mat Kendrick.

Seems like Bruce is running out of patience with some of the players and there could be wholesale changes against qpr. I like that he's come out and said that ahead of the match. He knows that it's his cock on the block if the team doesn't perform and he's going to try and shake things up. That's good management. He hasn't said who will be left out, but I think we could all guess at least three players.

I don't really do Twitter, but have an account.
I get tweet alerts from Dr Tony, and one of them  was also along the lines of 'Angry at the effort of certain players'

I reckon Dr Tony could ship a few out regardless

It'll end in tears.

When the good Doctor questions Gabriel's manliness in a tweet and then SB states that the player was made a scapegoat, you may rest assured that there may be trouble ahead. 

[kippaxvilla2]

Decent article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/12/17/steve-bruce-no-illusions-hard-task-restoring-fallen-giant-aston/

[tomd2103]

I know it hasn't really worked when we've used it before, but I wonder whether it is time to go to a 3-5-2 formation.  Bruce has used it before and I think a lot of our problems came from Lambert not knowing how to set it up properly.  I think we need three in midfield and two up front, so that would be a way of accommodating both.  I suppose the other option could be a diamond. 

[Matt Collins]

Bruce has used 352 and it could suit a number of our players - McCormack, grealish, Bacuna, amavi, Jedinak, kodjia.

But it's a hard system to get right. There's no place for adomah. Not sure it suits baker. And the wing backs can get isolated two on one

[Risso]

Bruce has used 352 and it could suit a number of our players - McCormack, grealish, Bacuna, amavi, Jedinak, kodjia.

But it's a hard system to get right. There's no place for adomah. Not sure it suits baker. And the wing backs can get isolated two on one

In other words, it's a terrible idea, so let's never mention it again!

[brian green]

Like Basil Fawlty and the War.