Aston Villa v Hull City post match thread.

[four fornicholl]

Steve Bruce is fucking useless.

[GarTomas]

Agree on Whelan

Thought he'd be a huge upgrade on Jedinak but thought his decision making was very poor today.
E

Great 1st half when there was movement in front of him. 2nd half that stopped from Gabby/Lansbury/Elmo and improved again when Green came on.

[paul_e]

It sounded like we had a rampant first half with a raft of good chances. Obvious we take more than the one we did and we'd probably have won this at a canter.

Where it's frustrating for me is that for a long time Hull were growing in dominance, why not make a change at that point rather than wait to concede?

We have a lot to work on, especially tactically, but there's room to grow as a team.

This is the real problem with Bruce for me.  He just doesn't react to the opposition changing things until it's far too late.  The changes should've been on the hour and should've seen 2-3 made at once to get some energy into the midfield and try to wrestle back a bit of control.  Waiting until after they'd scored was just bad management and it's something that has happened under him repeatedly.

[garyshawsknee]

This seems no different from what we saw last season. He must have been in charge of 30 odd games now and we still have no footballing identity. Ill be amazed if he's our manager by Christmas.

[paul_e]

This seems no different from what we saw last season. He must have been in charge of 30 odd games now and we still have no footballing identity. Ill be amazed if he's our manager by Christmas.

36th league game today.

[Matt Collins]

Did we sit back after the first?

I seem to remember some pretty good chances after the goal

Definitely agree there was a spell where we did

But would be interested in hull fans perspective. If I were a hull fan I think I'd feel I'd got away with it a bi

We murdered them first half

[jcsutv]

Feels like a defeat. Drawing seems the easy option for Villa for God knows how long.

[Matt Collins]

Steve Bruce is fucking useless.

Sorry to pick on you. But this is such a brainless statement about a manager who's led four promotion campaigns out of this division. You see it a lot. It really pisses me off as you may be able  to tell

[Clampy]

I don't think we sat back, Hull most likely got a half time bollocking and it showed. The game should have been over by then anyway. We had enough chances in the first half to have won it comfortably.

[QuintonVilla]

Every one of us could see their goal coming a mile off today yet he did nothing to try and prevent it. Then after it he wasn't proactive either and left it too long. Then the final straw sticking Samba up front and hoofing it up. Desperate.

Half time kills us, I just don't get it and don't know what he says to them? Hull are poor and we should have come out and continued to put them on the back foot and got the crowd going. A second goal would have killed them off. Granted they're going to have a spell in the game but no way should we be letting a poor side dictate the start of the second half the way we did today. Not good enough.

[garyshawsknee]

This seems no different from what we saw last season. He must have been in charge of 30 odd games now and we still have no footballing identity. Ill be amazed if he's our manager by Christmas.

36th league game today.

Bloody hell, thats not far off a full season. Really haven't seen much improvement from RDM.

[ChicagoLion]

What did Hull do to get back into the game, always difficult to work out via TV.
But it is a recurring theme, start well, opposition work it out, Bruce stands on the sidelines gawping and doing fuck all about it.
Result points dropped.

[four fornicholl]

Steve Bruce is fucking useless.

Sorry to pick on you. But this is such a brainless statement about a manager who's led four promotion campaigns out of this division. You see it a lot. It really pisses me off as you may be able  to tell

Crying out for a change on 45 when they were getting on top and doing NOTHING until we were hanging on.

[andyh]

I haven't read the thread so I do not yet know the mist of what people think.
Here are my thoughts, after getting back, and seething all the way home.

I honestly think the biggest obstacle to us going up this season will the fucking dinosaur that is Steve Bruce.

12 mins to go, at home, and you take off one of the most prolific strikers in this division and replace him with a midfielder.
I guess at that point, he was happy to hold onto the point we had.

Then he has total brain fart and for the last 4 minutes, decided to throw on a huge centre half, play him as a centre forward and try whacking the ball up to him and hope some 'pick up the bits' like some 1970's pub team.

He certainly didn't have a footballing epiphany over the summer.

Decent first half though, but once they got into the game, second half, we had no idea on how to counteract them.

Very disappointing.

[Risso]

Steve Bruce is fucking useless.

Sorry to pick on you. But this is such a brainless statement about a manager who's led four promotion campaigns out of this division. You see it a lot. It really pisses me off as you may be able  to tell

He IS fucking useless. Any team with Bacuna starting doesn't stand a chance of promotion.  Hogan is rubbish as well. I'd be surprised if he gets anywhere close to double figures this season. £15m down the toilet.