Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Post-Match Thread

[Yossarian]

This is Martin O'Neil's fault.

[avfcpg]

Has Bruce lost the plot already? 3-5-2 is all well and good if you've got width. So he leaves Amavi, Green and Adomah out and plays two full backs and 3 centre backs....it's just plain weird.
Including the FA Cup game we are; LLLDLLLD. Scored 4 from last 8. 7 Points above relegation with one of the best squads in this league.
He hasn't a clue how to set us up with all these attacking players.

[saunders_heroes]

Same old Villa. The club is an absolute mess, and all self inflicted as well.
Personally I'd stick with Bruce. Give him a pre-season with the squad and let him have a crack next season, only because of his track record.

Don't think Villa can risk keeping Bruce for pre season unless he's got the club at least near the play off places by the end of this season. A new manager will want a pre season to assess the players.

Then we start all over again with a new manager who'd want another overhaul, and would Xia bankroll another one of those? Na, I think we have to stick with Bruce.

[saunders_heroes]

This is Martin O'Neil's fault.

Ha!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Happy Birthday, Sexual Ealing.

[myf]

A fucking embarrassment of a club. Relegation fight to contend with now in our form. Over to you Steve

[PeterWithesShin]

Same old Villa. The club is an absolute mess, and all self inflicted as well.
Personally I'd stick with Bruce. Give him a pre-season with the squad and let him have a crack next season, only because of his track record.

Don't think Villa can risk keeping Bruce for pre season unless he's got the club at least near the play off places by the end of this season. A new manager will want a pre season to assess the players.

If we carry on like anything like we have been the last couple of months he should be gone long before we think about next season.

[Loxton01]

Only listened to the game but it sounded like we again completely lost our way. So many players barely mentioned. I would like to see what people who went made of the likes of hourihane, bjarnsson and Hogan as they were barely mentioned on the radio.

All we seem to do now is kick and run. 3-5-2 for me isn't going to work at all as we are just trying to shoehorn players into positions. Its truly desperate with the team we have that we barely look like scoring. 

We only have one aim left - staying in this league - so so depressing.

[villadelph]

Same old Villa. The club is an absolute mess, and all self inflicted as well.
Personally I'd stick with Bruce. Give him a pre-season with the squad and let him have a crack next season, only because of his track record.

Don't think Villa can risk keeping Bruce for pre season unless he's got the club at least near the play off places by the end of this season. A new manager will want a pre season to assess the players.

and to think we've bought like 6 captains..

[remy]

We go again

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think I care anymore

[Sexual Ealing]

Happy Birthday, Sexual Ealing.

Thank you mate.

[saunders_heroes]

Same old Villa. The club is an absolute mess, and all self inflicted as well.
Personally I'd stick with Bruce. Give him a pre-season with the squad and let him have a crack next season, only because of his track record.

Don't think Villa can risk keeping Bruce for pre season unless he's got the club at least near the play off places by the end of this season. A new manager will want a pre season to assess the players.

If we carry on like anything like we have been the last couple of months he should be gone long before we think about next season.

I just think its too early to be thinking of sacking the manager. The whole club is a mess which he walked into. I think we were all a little bit deluded into thinking we'd bounce back from 6 years of sabotage overnight (me included).

[remy]

Me too

[KevinGage]

Same old Villa. The club is an absolute mess, and all self inflicted as well.
Personally I'd stick with Bruce. Give him a pre-season with the squad and let him have a crack next season, only because of his track record.

Don't think Villa can risk keeping Bruce for pre season unless he's got the club at least near the play off places by the end of this season. A new manager will want a pre season to assess the players.

Then we start all over again with a new manager who'd want another overhaul, and would Xia bankroll another one of those? Na, I think we have to stick with Bruce.

Not many Championship managers get bankrolled though.  Even in cost cutting mode -say £10-15 million spent in total this summer, that would still be more than the vast majority of the division.

A manager now cowed by the expectation but positively tries to embrace it should still get plenty out of this side.