Sheffield United battered Aston Villa 4-1 - Post Match Thread

[villabear]

He trolls out the same lines. It’s dull like the football. He’ll eventually go with a big payoff and all his Talksport buddies will be bemoaning his departure coming out with “he’s a great football man and he’ll get another job soon...” blah blah
Thing is it’s not just him is it? He’s got Agnew, Calderwood, Clemence and Walsh all as part of his management circle. Surely from all of them they can see the lack of a centre half and cover is so evident.

Right I’m opening a can now. Might be the first of many!

[AsTallAsLions]

Just saw the video footage of Villa fans beating the heads off each other in the away end. Fucking disgraceful carry on.

[SoccerHQ]

I just cannot fathom the absence of effort. They really did run us off the park.

Bullied completely, they were stronger in the tackle, closed us down and did generally a lot of hard work off the ball. Nothing spectacular, just fundamental stuff.

We on the other hand were utterly lethargic, weak as well, devoid of ideas and a plan organisation.

It really was utterly embarrassing.

Sheffield United are like that. Work their 3-5-2 really well and you have to match them. TBH we got battered up there last season and got away with it as Johnstone was superb.

Last season at the back we had resilience and everyone had confidence in each other. Lot different this season.

[Chris Jameson]

Until the holy trinity of Ads, Damo and Chris Jameson say so, I think he has a chance of staying.

Errr, I said he should have gone end of the season, I was surprised he didn’t.

[Chris Jameson]

I know he tries hard and all that but amongst that collective of absolute shite, Alan Hutton stood out. Taylor must be one of the worst players to earn a living as a footballer if Hutton is preferred to him.

My son is barely speaking to me after ‘treating’ him to that whilst Harrogate Town were winning 4-0.

[adrenachrome]

Until the holy trinity of Ads, Damo and Chris Jameson say so, I think he has a chance of staying.

Errr, I said he should have gone end of the season, I was surprised he didn’t.

I can vouch that this is indeed the case. I have a peculiar memory for these things, but I can't remember why I came upstairs to my office.

[AV82EC]

Well just got back. Utter disgrace from the Manager to the players. There was nothing to praise other than McGinns workrate, the whole thing was a pile of shite from top to bottom.

It is quite apparent that Steve Bruce has been left behind by the modern game, I was struggling to work out what on earth we were trying to do in patterns or style of play or tactics, he took an age to try and change the game with no substitutions and he was given an absolute lesson by Wilder today, Sheffield United were excellent, every man knew his role and we never moved their back 3 around at all to create space or get in behind.

In the words of the Meaning Evil, For Gods Sake Go. #Bruceout

See you all at Blackburn.

[PeterWithesShin]

Until the holy trinity of Ads, Damo and Chris Jameson say so, I think he has a chance of staying.

Errr, I said he should have gone end of the season, I was surprised he didn’t.

I can vouch that this is indeed the case. I have a peculiar memory for these things, but I can't remember why I came upstairs to my office.

It was to sort out sending me the 100 quid you owe me. Honest.

[itmustbe_it is!]

Just heard some of his post match comments, I can’t really repeat what he said because I was too busy shouting ‘lying bastard’.

He said something like ‘itwas only a couple of weeks ago they were saying we had played the best football for years.’

Yes, we played well, FOR AN HOUR, but we were hardly Barcelona. and we didn’t feckin win.

After the Brentford game where we played well for 60 mins, he was happy to tell the world that THAT was the level of performance he expected, and that finally we are able to produce it because he has finally got the players to do it.
He was milking the plaudits like he’d won the feckin league.

It’s completely obvious that 60 minutes of football was despite him, not because of him.

He is the  master of spin, bullshit and deflection.

Like in yesterday’s prematch presser wher he told the world we had lost 5,6 or 7 players of those that had featured in the playoffs.

Seven? Fuck off.

Driving back just got into WM range to hear his post match interview, was screaming at the radio. I haven't wanted a manager gone this much since Lambert. Agree with everything in the post above but especially the bit in bold

[itmustbe_it is!]

Also.....there can't be many managers around who after going 3-0 down in the first half, with such an abject performance , wouldn't at least make a token substitution at half time, at least to show they cared ....

[Chris Jameson]

Until the holy trinity of Ads, Damo and Chris Jameson say so, I think he has a chance of staying.

Errr, I said he should have gone end of the season, I was surprised he didn’t.

I can vouch that this is indeed the case. I have a peculiar memory for these things, but I can't remember why I came upstairs to my office.

You were sending me your bank log in details.

[Mister E]

It's hard to really know whether he lost the players, but that performance was unbelievably limp.
We're going to get beat this season and suffer poor performances, but the insipid nature of that was so similar to some.of the worst surrenders the year we went down that I think you must consider it.

I've just got back, after watching a really pisspoor game from a team with no focus, no gameplan and no driving force. To the question above, I think he has lost the players: they were really not at the races at all, and they looked - as per against Reading - as if they were playing out a testimonial game...
What boiled my piss was (i) subs were again late coming on, when it was obvious that the system he'd set up was not working, (ii) when Hourihane came on (and he actually looked quite good again), we persisted with a 4-3-3 with Hourihane playing wide on the right! (iii) the manager was static for most of the game; no fight from him.

He has now certainly lost the fans - quite a lot of "Bruce Out" chanting and "Eff off Potatohead" was also aired.

Three other points: we were undone by a defence of misfits; Hutton is poor at LB (we need a left-footer!); Grealish really is not very good, sometimes!

[berneboy]

I was there. The day Bruce lost his players and, I hope, lost his job. Sheffield Utd were decent players , working a system they understood, working for each other and their manager.

We had no shape, no work rate, not supporting each other nor the manager.

We could and should blame the players but ultimately Bruce is the man to take responsibility. He must go and the sooner the better. A manager with football intelligence is required.

[Drummond]

That was diabolical. I genuinely can't think if any redeeming feature of the day.

Wife and in-laws all Blades fans and frankly the only response I've been able to muster was to thank them for hopefully being the end of Bruce.

Even they felt that Bruce couldn't give a shit.

[berneboy]

Jack was a mess today. Fiddling about as if it were a friendly. He epitomised players not playing for their manager. Jack needs a boot up the bottom.