Hull City v Aston Villa post-match thread

[rougegorge]

We were well in control in the first half but had no final ball or cutting edge. Adomah would ordinarily have bagged a brace from his chances.

Then, they presumably had a dressing down at half time and pushed the line higher and pressed higher and got the upper hand. We should know or anticipate what the opposition may do and counter accordingly.

The defence started to look shaky because Tuanzebe's performance just permeated indecision and as soon as Jedinak went off, although he looked spent, we had no proper cover for the defence either and ended up with 3 forwards on but little service.

We were debating at lunchtime whether to stay home,  and given the cold and the disappointing overall performance, we made the wrong choice.

[Des Little]

Not long in from a very disappointing day. Quite how we went from bossing it at half time to undoing all our hard work in the second, only Bruce will know. Putting striker after striker on is all well and good, but when your midfield (what’s left of it anyway) creates the square root of fuck all it’s all rather pointless. Too many poor passes, too many individual battles lost and zero creativity.

Well that’s second place gone...we had better focus on getting some momentum, form and goals back into this team for the play offs. Must do much, much better on Tuesday.

[sickbeggar]

Worse thing with Bruce post-match interviews is he doesn't even seem annoyed or upset anymore. I mean we've just blown any chance of  automatic promotion in 3 games and you think we'd lost a pre-season friendly. I'd hope any Villa Manager worth the name would be fuming.

[russon]

Hutton’s dive, Grealish’s handball, Adomah’s muffs, Lansbury’s existence, Bruce’s indifference, a night to forget

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Worse thing with Bruce post-match interviews is he doesn't even seem annoyed or upset anymore. I mean we've just blown any chance of  automatic promotion in 3 games and you think we'd lost a pre-season friendly. I'd hope any Villa Manager worth the name would be fuming.

"We're there or there abouts" has been his mantra from Day 1.

[Axl Rose]

Worse thing with Bruce post-match interviews is he doesn't even seem annoyed or upset anymore. I mean we've just blown any chance of  automatic promotion in 3 games and you think we'd lost a pre-season friendly. I'd hope any Villa Manager worth the name would be fuming.

"We're there or there abouts" has been his mantra from Day 1.

It's numbingly tiresome, mate. I can't really listen to his post match interviews.

Me personally, I think it would be wrong to sack him now. Not because I want him to stay, just because I feel it could result in our players just caving in. It's clear that some of them really like him, especially the influential ones like Snodgrass and Terry.

We need to win our next game and see what happens. We seem to rouse ourselves for the bigger matches. Or maybe we don't. I'm tired of watching us serve up dross.

I still think we'll go up in the playoffs.

[ROBBO]

Snodgrass was trying too hard in my opinion taking too many on, the passing of Hull in the second half was far superior. The defence that looked rock solid a few weeks ago now looks vulnerable. I wonder what Bruce said to them at half time because from the whistle they went into slow motion. We are not good enough for the Premiership and even if we did get up the likes of Terry and Snodgrass would be found out very quickly. Still think we need younger legs in the line up.

[passport1]

Can't understand anyone watching this, I turned over to the City Everton game. Watching Villa is like watching parks football by comparison.

[berneboy]

Worse thing with Bruce post-match interviews is he doesn't even seem annoyed or upset anymore. I mean we've just blown any chance of  automatic promotion in 3 games and you think we'd lost a pre-season friendly. I'd hope any Villa Manager worth the name would be fuming.

I'm beginning to think he knows he's going at the end of the season and is preparing the ground for his defence. 'I stopped the rot and turned it round'. He has to a degree but a better manager could have done so much more.

[Ads]

Can't understand anyone watching this, I turned over to the City Everton game. Watching Villa is like watching parks football by comparison.

See ya.

[Clampy]

Can't understand anyone watching this, I turned over to the City Everton game. Watching Villa is like watching parks football by comparison.

See ya.

One of the oddest posts i've seen on here, asking why fans are watching their own team.

As for yesterday, first half we were ok and should have gone in at half time in front. Second half was diaspointing though. While a point is better than nothing, we really should be winning games like that because Hull were terrible.

[Ads]

Yep past three games we've been way below par unfortunately.

We've timed the dip just right though to be back on a crest come the Play Offs.

[VinnieChase84]

2 points taken from Hull this season. Dropped points v QPR, Millwall, Bolton, Sheff Wednesday - it’s all those that have well and truly ruined any hopes of automatic promotion.
I don’t want to get on Bruces’s back once more but he doesn’t make it easy does he. Issue is with Bruce we are either in a consistent unbeaten run which is then followed by consistent runs of awful form, then repeat. This this extreme cycles of form which means we’re never going to be a proper challenger.

My only hope now is we rediscover some kind of form as we go into the play offs (even they are not a given at the minute unless we get some results and fast)

[myf]

Yep past three games we've been way below par unfortunately.

We've timed the dip just right though to be back on a crest come the Play Offs.

I love your optimism.  I can imagine Bruce planning it that way.  "Let's be shite for a while then we'll come good in the play offs.  It normally works for me".

Painful watching a full strength team struggle against Hull knowing we'll need to sell the better players to break even in the summer.

[VinnieChase84]

“That’s The Championship”.  Aaaaaaarghhhh, fuuuuuuucccccckkkkkk offffffffffffff!

Doesn't seem to be the Championship for Wolves and Cardiff, or Newcastle and Brighton last year and so on. It's an excuse for 1 game, not for regular shit runs.

He boils my piss with these types of comments. I’m trying not to let it wind me up as he won’t be manager come June