Post season thread

[London Villan]

£80m spent, 13th place if i was Bruce I would be worried about Monday's 9am meeting.

[sirlordbaltimore]

I go to the matches (i'm not a season ticket holder) with my nephew and a family friend. All three of us to a man have enjoyed this season more than the last five.

Hasn't anyone else felt it a refreshing change? we've won more matches, we've played new teams etc. I still haven't even watched a single episode of MOTD or watched any premier league football on the box all season either. I haven't missed it one bit. Mind you i've never been one to watch the CL or much PL on telly anyway.

The gloom amongst most surprises me. Today, i though was possibly our best performance even. I feel like i'm watching a rebirth, it could take another 2-3 seasons to develop into something but for me at least it's a damn sight more interesting than the absolute garbage i've watched the last 5/6 seasons.

Humiliating?

Weird.

[SoccerHQ]

I said to Mr Woodhall before the game that I had found this season  even more painful than last season.  I find mid Championship mediocrity even more humiliating than relegation.  Last year we had the comfort blanket that the owner's money would enable us to bounce straight back.  That fantasy has evaporated and we are staring at more mediocrity next season.  Even Bruce's words to the crowd after the game limited him to saying they were going make us "a force in the Championship".  Talk about setting the bar low.

Did he actually speak to the crowd after the game, I thought we stopped that years ago when SGT got abused for it.

Must admit I'm a bit baffled they actually still did a lap thingy after the final whistle. Did good numbers actually stay for it, a little bizarre given what we've witnessed over the season.

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Yes a fair proportion stayed including us. Had we not equalised I think the ground would have emptied super quick, especially if Brighton were going to lift the trophy too.

Think the only two occasions I've stayed were when we finished 6th in the prem, certainly I remember staying after the Newcastle game in 09 but that was more the amusement of relegating them. I'd say those sort of seasons were certainly when it was a good effort by the team and they did deserve the applause.

Just surprised we actually did one. As I've said I thought a quick clap at the final whistle would've sufficed.

I think the crowd have been pretty tolerant this season on the whole. Don't see the same next season if we have a mediocre start.

[adrenachrome]

A pile of dung teaming with worms.

[Flamingo Lane]

A pile of dung teaming with worms.

You've not been impressed?

[PaulWinch again]

Next year we need a clear identity and to play in a way that suits the players we have.

[Clampy]

£80m spent, 13th place if i was Bruce I would be worried about Monday's 9am meeting.

I'm not sure why, Bruce didn't spend it all.

Disapointing to finish where we did and not to make more of a fist of promotion. Some poor performances, some very averages ones and occasional glimpses that we could be a decent side. Should be an interesting summer.

[Deano's Mullet]

I go to the matches (i'm not a season ticket holder) with my nephew and a family friend. All three of us to a man have enjoyed this season more than the last five.

Hasn't anyone else felt it a refreshing change? we've won more matches, we've played new teams etc. I still haven't even watched a single episode of MOTD or watched any premier league football on the box all season either. I haven't missed it one bit. Mind you i've never been one to watch the CL or much PL on telly anyway.

The gloom amongst most surprises me. Today, i though was possibly our best performance even. I feel like i'm watching a rebirth, it could take another 2-3 seasons to develop into something but for me at least it's a damn sight more interesting than the absolute garbage i've watched the last 5/6 seasons.

Humiliating?

Weird.

This. But then I've been really  lucky, in my eight visits we've won six, drawn one, lost one. To be winning games and playing different teams has been a breath of fresh air. But obviously we don't want to be down here too long.

[MillerBall]

I have to say that if the team do not get off to a good start; especially if the performances are as stultifying as many have been this season that it will not take much for the supporters to turn.
There were some encouraging signs today in the second half but there is much work to be done if we are to even make the play offs. Certainly the amount spent on the team has not yielded much of a return so far.
A busy summer for Mr Bruce!

[four fornicholl]

I go to the matches (i'm not a season ticket holder) with my nephew and a family friend. All three of us to a man have enjoyed this season more than the last five.

Hasn't anyone else felt it a refreshing change? we've won more matches, we've played new teams etc. I still haven't even watched a single episode of MOTD or watched any premier league football on the box all season either. I haven't missed it one bit. Mind you i've never been one to watch the CL or much PL on telly anyway.

The gloom amongst most surprises me. Today, i though was possibly our best performance even. I feel like i'm watching a rebirth, it could take another 2-3 seasons to develop into something but for me at least it's a damn sight more interesting than the absolute garbage i've watched the last 5/6 seasons.

Humiliating?

Weird.

Superiority complex doesn't hack it with me, we're shit and we are not going up anytime soon with Bruce, I'm at an age now where I don't really care anymore!  Yeah right, as the youth would say.

[SoccerHQ]

I go to the matches (i'm not a season ticket holder) with my nephew and a family friend. All three of us to a man have enjoyed this season more than the last five.

Hasn't anyone else felt it a refreshing change? we've won more matches, we've played new teams etc. I still haven't even watched a single episode of MOTD or watched any premier league football on the box all season either. I haven't missed it one bit. Mind you i've never been one to watch the CL or much PL on telly anyway.

The gloom amongst most surprises me. Today, i though was possibly our best performance even. I feel like i'm watching a rebirth, it could take another 2-3 seasons to develop into something but for me at least it's a damn sight more interesting than the absolute garbage i've watched the last 5/6 seasons.

Humiliating?

Weird.

Ultimately the history of the club has been largely written from what we've done at the top level and division. Yes we've had spells in the wilderness but thankfully they've been relatively brief.

Hopefully this time will be similar otherwise we run the risk of becoming another Forest or Leeds, clubs who still get decent column inches but that's due to incompetent ownership, changing the manager every 5 minutes and battling relegation to league 1.

I want us playing the best teams in this country before too long thanks.

[brian green]

I have not found this season a refreshing change.  I have found it excruciatingly disappointing to put it mildly.

[old man villa fan]

More disillusioned at the end of this season than I was last season.  Last season you could see that we were out of our depth and there were a lot of issues to sort out in the summer but I was realistic about the situation.  At the start of the season I thought that it would take time to settle and sort out a team structure but thought that we would get progressively better as the season went on and either finish just below the top 6 or just make the play-offs.

As it has turned out we have ended the season having failed to establish a good team structure and played some poor football along the way.  We have some good players that should be doing far better but we are still carrying some players from last season that I think are disruptive to a bright new future.  To some extent we gambled on some signings and they have not come off and need to be added to the list for clearing out.

Looking back on the start to the season, we may have been better in the long run to have continued with RDM and given up on promotion but the decision was to still go for it and bring in Bruce, the specialist for this situation.  This decision has to go down as a failure.  I expected a lot more from Bruce with the decent players he had at his disposal and the others he brought in, in what is a very average league at best.

I am always looking to the future and seeing how things can be progressively built so that you succeed but what I am seeing at the Club at the moment is just the opposite.  We had a chance at the end of last season to have a complete clear out but we bottled it.  We still have the chance to do this now and build a progressive structure but I fear we will not and that is why I am disillusioned as much as anything.

[cdward]

Finishing 13th in this division is our lowest final position since 1976.
Steve Bruce said it is his lowest final position in his 20 years of management.
Final report, poor start, some good work mid season, but could/must do better next season.

[four fornicholl]

Finishing 13th in this division is our lowest final position since 1976.
Steve Bruce said it is his lowest final position in his 20 years of management.
Final report, poor start, some good work mid season, but could/must do better next season.

Final report, Fuck off you useless bastard.