Yeovil Town v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Boz]

At least three youngsters had some competitive football and axel looked solid at centre half.

The only positive, Axel will be our CH from now on

Not sure Bruce will agree, he got form for making unnecessary changes

[Boz]

come on in Brendan

Not for me, an improvement on Bruce, but he's too comfortable in Scotland with Celtic who when they play a decent side his team cant beat them and all he does is complain because he hasn't been allowed to buy new players, when th squad he has is more than adequate for their league

[Drummond]

Fulham might have done it but I wouldn't have walked into a bookies and backed them to do it.

It's not been convincing but it's a start we all would have took.

No maybe not, but I'd put something on Villa going 5 without a win at some point this season (so long as Bruce is still here) because he's done that over and over again for his entire career.

How much?

[paul_e]

I don't suppose it's done those four promotions to his name any harm though.

Nope, but it's also not helped him avoid getting teams into relegation battles once they've been promoted.  The difference with my original point is I can point to examples since he's been at the club.  Lets not forget that in his first season he survived a run that was worse than the one from RDM that got him the job.

A few people on here pointed out how harmful our start last season was and we got similar "he's got teams promoted in the past, give him time" comments, at some point people need to stop falling back on that because it really doesn't matter. I sometimes refer to similarities between his time with us and his time with Sunderland but that's far from the same thing.

[paul_e]

Fulham might have done it but I wouldn't have walked into a bookies and backed them to do it.

It's not been convincing but it's a start we all would have took.

No maybe not, but I'd put something on Villa going 5 without a win at some point this season (so long as Bruce is still here) because he's done that over and over again for his entire career.

How much?

Why does that matter?

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

did anyone smell that awful smell? like sweaty arse crack?

Its a good job Grealish didn't leave as we would be playing every game like this.
I suspected it would be like this I remember luton last season. Just shows the B team isn't strong. you can get away with throwing a one or two in but a whole side is going to play like that.
we looked for balls down the channels for rushian but it just didn't come off. soon we were just lumping it forward to him.
Tuanzebe looked far from composed I thought he was really poor, same for the keeper however his penalty save was crucial. Grealish and Kodja changed the game. We are in the hat and thats all that matters. I'm sure if Bruce wasn't bothered about the cup he would have left them both on the bench.

[Des Little]

did anyone smell that awful smell? like sweaty arse crack?

Sorry about that.  I blame the ham & eggs and local bitter in the Masons Arms, Lower Odcombe. 

[Nev]

Eggs and Gammon, poor old Rhiannon, Des had wind.

[Des Little]

Eggs and Gammon, poor old Rhiannon, Des had wind.

Oooooooooof!!  All the way up the A1111

[in exile]

The treble is still on.
Impressed by Axel...I hope Bruce as too and keeps him there

[Drummond]

Fulham might have done it but I wouldn't have walked into a bookies and backed them to do it.

It's not been convincing but it's a start we all would have took.

No maybe not, but I'd put something on Villa going 5 without a win at some point this season (so long as Bruce is still here) because he's done that over and over again for his entire career.

How much?

Why does that matter?

Because I'm interested to know how strong your conviction is.

[paul_e]

Fulham might have done it but I wouldn't have walked into a bookies and backed them to do it.

It's not been convincing but it's a start we all would have took.

No maybe not, but I'd put something on Villa going 5 without a win at some point this season (so long as Bruce is still here) because he's done that over and over again for his entire career.

How much?

Why does that matter?

Because I'm interested to know how strong your conviction is.

The most I've ever placed on a bet is £10 and I'd happily put the same on this, I'm not much of a gambler, take from that what you will.  I still don't think it matters but for what it's worth I had the same as a private bet of 2 beers with a friend who was convinced Bruce would get us promoted last year and I 'won' over Christmas.

As I said, winless runs are something that has followed him his entire management career so he'd be breaking a 20 year trend t not have one this year, I doubt a bookie would give much of a price for it.

[Ads]

We're on a winning run at the moment, so perhaps we should all cheer the fuck up.

[DB]

We're on a winning run at the moment, so perhaps we should all cheer the fuck up.

Amen.
Christ knows what it will be like if we lose a few.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We're on a winning run at the moment, so perhaps we should all cheer the fuck up.

Amen.
Christ knows what it will be like if we lose a few.

Painful.