Let me start by saying I am no fan of Westwood as a player. For me, a midfield player is either a defensive one that can win the ball in midfield and, break up the opponents play or an offensive midfielder who can thread some useful forward passes to the strikers. Sadly, Westwood does not come into either of those categories. Rarely puts in a tackle of note and usually plays the ball sideways or backwards.I think, the main problem for us at the moment is that we play as 3 seperate units and, not much link up play with a lot of "hit & miss" passes. However, on a really bright note, I also think SB knows exactly what we require from the transfer window and, once he addresses our midfield issues, we will look like the team we as fans also want to see.Not all is lost and, I really think that if we do make the play offs, I would fancy our chances against any of the teams we have played in the league so far.
If you don't want to discuss it, that's up to you. You said he was a failure, I asked you to qualify it. I don't think you have done that still. The beauty of the forum is the users prerogative to argue about what they disagree with.I disagree with his lack of flexibility to change; Adomah came on, we became more direct and profited from it.Do you accept that you're wrong? Cuz if not, then what was the point in even arguing it?!11!!
Quote from: Ads on December 30, 2016, 02:08:29 PMIf you don't want to discuss it, that's up to you. You said he was a failure, I asked you to qualify it. I don't think you have done that still. The beauty of the forum is the users prerogative to argue about what they disagree with.I disagree with his lack of flexibility to change; Adomah came on, we became more direct and profited from it.Do you accept that you're wrong? Cuz if not, then what was the point in even arguing it?!11!!I'm not wrong, you think relegations don't count as failures if they're with average clubs, I disagree but we're obviously not going to agree so there's no point discussing it. You see bringing Adomah on when we're a goal behind as being flexible, I see it as either reactionary or part of pre-determined plan to keep thing tight until the last 20 minutes and then go for it. I see the latter as the approach that Bruce has taken in almost every game regardless of who we're playing or how the game is going and I therefore see it as his main tactic and I'm not even criticising it in most games because it's been effective for where we are. However I do think that if you're dominating a team and they're making mistakes and gifting you chances then if you stop doing that to slow the game down then it's a tactical error.The first 5-10 minutes yesterday was the Villa I want to see, trying to play killer passes around the edge of the box, hurrying defenders and midfielders and moving the ball quickly on the floor, Grealish, Bacuna, Ayew and Kodjia were all in their element in that little spell and then they got a little break away and we reverted to defending deep with the midfield sticking deep as well and the huge gap between kodjia and the rest of the team opened up again for an hour. I've seen various comments on multiple threads about strikers looking good off the bench but rubbish when they start, is that the fault of the players or is it because in the last 20 minutes they have people around them and can do something other than try to create a miracle goal from nothing?
Quote from: paul_e on December 30, 2016, 03:49:30 PMQuote from: Ads on December 30, 2016, 02:08:29 PMIf you don't want to discuss it, that's up to you. You said he was a failure, I asked you to qualify it. I don't think you have done that still. The beauty of the forum is the users prerogative to argue about what they disagree with.I disagree with his lack of flexibility to change; Adomah came on, we became more direct and profited from it.Do you accept that you're wrong? Cuz if not, then what was the point in even arguing it?!11!!I'm not wrong, you think relegations don't count as failures if they're with average clubs, I disagree but we're obviously not going to agree so there's no point discussing it. You see bringing Adomah on when we're a goal behind as being flexible, I see it as either reactionary or part of pre-determined plan to keep thing tight until the last 20 minutes and then go for it. I see the latter as the approach that Bruce has taken in almost every game regardless of who we're playing or how the game is going and I therefore see it as his main tactic and I'm not even criticising it in most games because it's been effective for where we are. However I do think that if you're dominating a team and they're making mistakes and gifting you chances then if you stop doing that to slow the game down then it's a tactical error.The first 5-10 minutes yesterday was the Villa I want to see, trying to play killer passes around the edge of the box, hurrying defenders and midfielders and moving the ball quickly on the floor, Grealish, Bacuna, Ayew and Kodjia were all in their element in that little spell and then they got a little break away and we reverted to defending deep with the midfield sticking deep as well and the huge gap between kodjia and the rest of the team opened up again for an hour. I've seen various comments on multiple threads about strikers looking good off the bench but rubbish when they start, is that the fault of the players or is it because in the last 20 minutes they have people around them and can do something other than try to create a miracle goal from nothing?Do you count Sean Dyche as a failure?As for the first 15-20 minutes of last night's game, we were excellent but no team is going to keep up that kind of tempo for 90 minutes.
Why is it a failure for a club like Small Heath, Hull or Burnley to be relegated? They're dwarves in comparison to their peers and had no real business being at the top table in the first place.
Quote from: QuintonVilla on December 29, 2016, 10:49:50 PMWhat does Grealish do? Genuine question. What position is he meant to be playing? He creates barely anything and has very little impact on most games. Hugely overrated because he's a Villa fan.He's about the only player with genuine attacking class at the club.
What does Grealish do? Genuine question. What position is he meant to be playing? He creates barely anything and has very little impact on most games. Hugely overrated because he's a Villa fan.
Following the succession of bloody awful managers we have had I can't understand why anyone would want to spend much time moaning about Steve Bruce?
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