The reality is we managed a decent result away from home while not playing at all well. In the context of a long season in the championship its the type of result that gets you up. All this bobbins about "Villa shouldn't be happy with a draw away to Bristol city" is just that - bobbins. We're not entitled to turn up at any club in the championship and expect to win, however big we think we are or how much our squad is worth.
Having said that, I still think the only reason to have employed Bruce was to get us up last season. Any longer time period and you'd go for someone who could build an attractive team which doesn't require totally replacing when it gets to the premiership. Not only do i doubt we'll go up this season, we're certainly not attractive to watch and frankly i think there's probably 3 or 4 potential premiership players in our squad at most. With completely average players costing 20-30m this summer i could only see us coming straight back down because Bruce is quite incapable of finding the players to keep us there.
