Aston Villa v Barnsley - Match Thread

[Boz]

Morley must be close to the wheeling and dealing at B6 and he's been pretty scathing about Villa's second half

[Olof's Beard]

Aston Villa are relentlessly bad. We will approach the tipping point soon, after 6/7 years of what seems like almost constant poor football and defeats where the fan base starts to be affected. Youngsters particularly aren't going to want to support a club that is seen as a laughing stock.

This is a very good point. I know people who are struggling to keep their young sons interested. If we had been this shit when I was between the ages of 9-13, I don't know how I would have been.

[Sexual Ealing]

This is where Bruce's record in relegation battles becomes relevant.

He's not that good at them.

[CT]

4 minutes injury time.

It could be 104 minutes, with Barnsley on the Motorway Home. We still wouldn't win.

[andyh]

We are not a team in transition, trying to integrate and gel with new players.

We are a fucking train wreck, with something deeply wrong at the club.
The problems is, as many have said, no one knows why or what the answer is.

[Tuscans]

After the 30 thousand players we have bought, I still don't think we have bought the right players. No one compliments each other in this team.

They're all the best players, motivators and several club captains.....then they put our shirt on

...but they're the wrong types of players to fit into what we have. 2 forwards who hate each others guts by the looks of things. 2 midfielders who look like it's the "You can't play Gerrard and Lampard in the same team" conundrum. We just buy players and hope they work without any thought about do they compliment who they're going to be playing next to.

[enigma]

When was the last time we scored a second half goal? It's been so long I really can't remember off the top of my head.

29th December, according to ceefax

So not one second half goal this year? We really are shite

[Legion]

Car Crash Villa.

[Sexual Ealing]

Can I still call MON a c*** for starting all of this?

If you want to but it's not the answer. He didn't.

[Boz]

Barnsley. Fuckin Barnsley.

Sort it out.

And they're 13 points in front of us

[aj2k77]

We've scored 9 in our last 13 under Bruce now, bastard get your act together. Subs again, shit. Formation, shit.

You brought the players for 4-4-2 so play them in 4 4 fucking 2. I'm sick of panicky, desperate managers, flip flopping from one thing to another, looking to chance upon a winning formula.

Bruce is getting close to the line here.

[brian green]

We will go on losing until our young players get a chance.  If nothing else they will put pressure on the lazy tossers who consider themselves actually above trying to win.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Boooooooo

[Dazvillain]

After the 30 thousand players we have bought, I still don't think we have bought the right players. No one compliments each other in this team.

They're all the best players, motivators and several club captains.....then they put our shirt on

...but they're the wrong types of players to fit into what we have. 2 forwards who hate each others guts by the looks of things. 2 midfielders who look like it's the "You can't play Gerrard and Lampard in the same team" conundrum. We just buy players and hope they work without any thought about do they compliment who they're going to be playing next to.

All fair responses, but that means it's deeper rooted and it's STEVE Round and Keith Wyness for bringing their players in ?

[ROBBO]

We have bought a load of individually good players who do not play as a team, Bruce is another manager who has come to realise the job is too big for him, he is thrashing around without any clear team plan hoping things will come good.
I did not criticise him before the trading period because he had no say in the players in the squad but these are now his players and we have gone from bad to worse.
Do not wait any longer things will not get better the Villa job has claimed another victim.