Steve Bruce - officially confirmed (as Sheffield Wednesday boss)

[Billy Walker]

Get rid of Bruce after, what, sixteen or so games? Madness.  It's this kind of pressure that we are placing on managers that is making the club a poisoned chalice.  We have to allow the new owner, his backroom team and manager the time and space to build something.   Bruce needs the Summer window, a pre-season and at least until Christmas before we can reasonably judge him, surely? 

[papa lazarou]

There's no need to change the manager but please, stop being cautious. Playing a team like Forest and only having 30% possession is an insult.
Running is a part of the game, do some. Let the players express themselves. 
Aaaaaaarghhhhhh.

[TonyD]

This season is a right off.   So if you are sure he can take us up next season then all is well.  But if you don't then he should go as if we don't go up next season then we will get stuck in this division.  I would given him a few more games to look for any signs of any sort of game plan.

[cdbearsfan]

11 points from 11 games we sacked the previous manager for that🤔

And if we bring in another manager and he gets 11 points from 11 games, do we sack him as well?

Yes.

Not good enough.

Then it's a never ending rotation of managers instead of showing some patience to a manger who's just brought in 8 players.

Well, no. It's not "never ending". We are in a Mickey Mouse League spending loads of money.

It's effectively playing Football Manager in cheat mode.

It's far from unreasonable to think we might have a  manager capable of getting more than one point per game in a shit league with the biggest club in England and loads of money.

[Pete3206]

Why even get upset? Short term, gets these players working together.

In the summer, spend wisely.

Nest season - Title challenge

[VinnieChase84]

Having just listened to then read SB's comments I am even more pissed off than earlier.
Out his depth with us? Comments like "at least we took part in the game"..... boils my piss. I should fucking think so Steve, Jesus Christ

[Villafirst]

I was happy with Bruce's appointment but since the Norwich performance in particular, its steadily gone downhill. We can forget any notion of the play-offs now. Fortunately we have 10 at home from the last 17 games. If it doesn't work after the first dozen or so games next season we could do worse and go for someone like Dean Smith at Brentford.

[pbavfckuwait]

Making the same mistakes as so many other dull hards we have had through the door at Villa Park over the last 7 years, get a plan as to how you want to play and stick with it, not throw any old thing up the wall and sees what sticks.

He is an experienced manager, he has a team around him that should be able to see the ability of the squad he has, play a system that suits them best and stick to it.

New players in will take time to gel, accepted, but he made the choice to get so many in, I would say as a way of getting something sorted for next season not this, but obviously not willing to admit that, what he may not have allowed for is Dr Tony's impatience and also the good Dr liking to listen to the supporters. Think he is safe at the moment, but would be very worried if the Doctor makes any unscheduled visits in the next couple of weeks.

[QuintonVilla]

We haven't played well since Calderwood joined. Coincidence?

[Rudy65]

I think he is tactically inept, but let him see the season out and then decide. How we fare the last 17 games will dictate his future. Only 8 points above the drop is worrying

[Risso]

Having just listened to then read SB's comments I am even more pissed off than earlier.
Out his depth with us? Comments like "at least we took part in the game"..... boils my piss. I should fucking think so Steve, Jesus Christ

His comments about the new formation don't fill me with confidence either. He sounds like a chancer making it up as he goes along.

[Rudy65]

We haven't played well since Calderwood joined. Coincidence?

If Calderwood is a problem he is only part of it. We have played poorly since SB arrived bar a couple of decent halves against Brighton and Preston

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Does Bruce know what he's doing?
8 away points out of a possible 30 is a poor return.
Up until the transfer window he had to find a system that suited the players he inherited. He didn't always do this eg playing Kodjia (our main goalscorer) wide left.
With the transfer window he had the opportunity to decide on a system he wants to play and to bring players in who would fit into that system. Since it closed we have played 2 different systems in 2 games and played most of the midfielders we bought out of their natural positions. What's that about?
Also why take 2  forwards off when reduced to 10 men depriving the team of an outlet? One I can understand but not 2!!!
I'm certainly not advocating getting rid of Bruce because I'm sick of the vicious cycle of changing managers and consequently teams (because someone new wants their own players). But for f-ck sake Bruce get a f-cking grip of the situation and f-cking do the job your f-cking paid to do!

[Chris Smith]

I think he is tactically inept, but let him see the season out and then decide. How we fare the last 17 games will dictate his future. Only 8 points above the drop is worrying

The tactics didn't cost us yesterday, sitting deep to deny them space to play in and then using the pace up front meant that, despite the possession stats, their keeper was far busier than ours. It was individual errors that cost us, most notably from Johnstone and Grealish, nothing else.

[VillaAlways]

Somebody needs to tell Bruce it's possible to win a game with 10 men. Especially when the side you're playing is shit.