Reading v Villa post match thread

[clash city rocker]

Let's face it Bruce couldn't motivate a bloke to get a hard on if he had half a dozen naked beauties lay on his bed. Fuck of Bruce i'm going to bed as I have to be up at 4 to earn just an average wage..bollocks  to you.

[adrenachrome]

The whole club is a fucking shambles. Can't get season tickets to people four months after they paid for them, struggling to get their new ticket site working, a manager who hasn't got a fucking clue what is going on around him as he fails to realise it is not 2000 any more...

Fucking mess.

At the risk of using a cliché, we are in free fall.

[curiousorange]

It's all very well saying we miss Kodjia and Jedinak, but the point is that we shouldn't. Doesn't he see that complaining about one or two absences shows him up to be a piss-poor, one dimensional timewaster? If he was any good those players coming back would be a bonus, not a necessity.

[LukeJames]

I honestly couldn't watch to the end of that interview

Same here, I had to turn it off. Fed up of hearing the same bollocks game after game while he looks sorry for himself and then seeing the same shit played out next game.

[jwarry]

Don't get to see many games in the flesh these days but went tonight as I live in Reading. Reading fans I know were wary before tonight but I really don't know what they were worried about.  I was really quite shocked how appalling we were. We made Reading look like Barcelona. 

I don't claim to be very knowledgable about tactics but it was as plain as the hole in your arse that Reading play it around at the back and we just needed to push up and get at them. We never did until the last 5 mins. I can only assume because Bruce thought they might pick a way through if we pushed up too far, but what was staggering was that we retreated even further and allowed them to play it around at the back in our own half!  Undurprisingly they grew in confidence with the inevitable consequences.

I honestly feel numb after watching that. I would like to blame the players and don't get me wrong there were a few dire performances (Chester, Hourihane, Whelan to name few) but it's down to one bloke.  Only two possibly three players deserve any credit. Green was excellent and it won't be long before a better club takes him off our hands and De Lait who inexplicably was substituted!

I'm not one for calling for the managers head and I saw good in the likes of Garde and Sherwood who could occasionally muster a tune out of a rabble, but I have seen nothing from Bruce to give even the slightest bit of optimism. He has to go.

I went with my wife who is Reading fan and even she was shocked by how bad we were. Says it all

[QuintonVilla]

Bruce thinks we were unlucky to lose. Yes really. That's why he should go, he thinks that performance was ok and unlucky. We were absolutely horrendous.

Complaining about missing two players when he's spent more than any pretty much any other team in the league. How much have Cardiff and Reading spent in the past 12 months? Yet they both beat us comfortably and looked far, far better than us.

[auntiesledd]

I haven't posted on here since the fag-end of last season. I didn't know what to say about the forthcoming campaign that wasn't filled with fear of more doom & gloom engulfing this great club, so I decided to keep schtum (apart from the Terry debacle - which had the predictable outcome). But here we are again, with the decline showing no sign of abating; a bunch of overpaid wasters that somehow continue to surprise us with their almost-laughable ineptitude whenever they pull on the once-famous claret & blue; and a manager that was brought in for his expertise in gaining promotion to the Premier League: only to turn this club into the latest incarnation of a big-spending failure that's now in real danger of slipping haplessly into Palookaville. Bruce HAS to go, but who's next for the poisoned chalice? I sincerely hope it'll be 3rd time lucky for our glorious owner. His 5-year-plan for global domination looks about as likely as any of our players being able to control a ball and not give it straight to the opposition. Utter shithouse. And then some.

[Clampy]

De Laet has been out for a long time which is probably why he was subbed towards the end in fairness.

[Risso]

De Laet has been out for a long time which is probably why he was subbed towards the end in fairness.

That's fair enough, but 2-0 down and bringing on Hutton?  He could have stuck Bjarnason at right back, and then pushed Adomah up.

[VinnieChase84]

Just got back to the hotel post match. I am beyond past Bruce now. Absolutely abysmal.
So negative in every sense and a million miles from even being a mid table side.
The management on record as saying we need to be aiming for 80 goals thus season to even stand a chance of being into the correct positions come season end.
What are they watching!? If we stick we Bruce we won't score 80'even if we include last seasons Tally!
He has to go and hopefully before the weekend! This is not going to be turned around anytime soon under his negative helm.
Why even at 2-0 with the need to replace de laet (Match fitnes) did he not put adomah on as a last throw of the dice? 
Guy is a dead man walking now,

[Merses Left Foot]

New poster here, but long time lurker and poster elsewhere  my tuppence on that tonight's it purely reaffirms the garbage we got served up on Saturday, Bruce has (as he's alluded to) found a job too far/big for him, call it what you wish. I hoped standing there in that soulless stadium tonight that Reading would score a couple more to seal the coffin, disgraceful thoughts I know. We've gotta look to save our season right now, we've no clue, no plan, no hope as it stands. Oh and sort Gabby and Hutton out in any severance package please to give a complete fresh start. Sorry for the rant as a first post but hey...timing!

[The Edge]

Every other team seems full of young eager hungry players who can do the basics without resorting to hoofball. We are just crap. My ticket for the Norwich game in four days still hasn't turned up yet and right this minute tonight I couldn't give a stuff. I honestly think we've shot ourselves in the foot already this season with the signings we've made and the style of play we seem to persist with and  and its going to be a season to forget.

Style of play? We can only dream of having anything like a style of play under Bruceosaurus.

[The Edge]

every Bruce interview starts now with

of course we are disappointed

Did he mention missing that little bit of quality?

Yep, he made sure we all knew that Mile and Kodjia were still out but apparently we created enough chances to get something from tonight.

Yeah right. Is he forgetting or didn't he notice that mighty Cardiff & Reading created enough chances between them to make our goal difference look like a telephone number?
He's nothing but a not so smooth talkin as he likes to think, gold plated bullshitter.

[PeterWithesShin]

The opposition have had more shots than us in every game so far this season, including Colchester.

[Villatillidie1982]

Bruce out

Fat Sam please

He gave up the Palace job because he wanted to retire. Why would he change his mind? For the "challenge"? What a challenge!