Blackburn Rovers vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Villan For Life]

Bruce persists with throwing attacking players at the starting XI and hoping that they gel. It was the same last season when we were behind in games that we rally should have won when we had several strikers on the pitch all vying for the same space and looking for the same ball. He’s tactically inept, just throwing more attacking talent at a problem is not the answer.

Last season we had a reasonably strong core to the side. Obviously a couple of players from that core have gone but we really should have looked to re-establish that core and build from there. We are a squad of individuals who lack cohesion.

[Villa Lew]

Brilliant goal by Connor, but why spend time celebrating it, when we had time to get a winner, shows how negative the team have become under Bruce. If we fail to win either of our next 2 matches, surely he has to go.

[Nastylee]

You know they stop the clock?

[eamonn]

That's a good point about the late equaliser. A team wanting to win the league would have quickly taken the ball from the net and put it on the centre-circle for the opposition to resume play and give us as much time as possible to get three points from deepest Darwen.

[Nastylee]

There was plenty of time to score after the goal. In fact Blackburn almost did.

[Damo70]

This comment made my piss boil ....."its just finding a system that suits everyone"

So into his third season and he has no discernible system or way of playing. Had he come in when hired and introduced a method of playing he could then get the players in to suit what he is trying to do. The reality is he just gets players in without doing his homework hoping that something will just gel. Lets face it he took the quick fix option last year bringing players in on loan on huge wages. That is completely arse about face and sums up the way this club has been run for the last 5 years.

The lack of coaching by probably the highest paid highest team in the Division is truly abysmal.

Please just pull the trigger and get in a forward thinking manager who can make this talented squad into a cohesive unit.

"It's just finding a system that suits everyone". That comment does not reflect well on him. It is the kind of comment that would be made by a new manager who has just inherited a struggling team assembled by the previous manager.

[ez]

That's a good point about the late equaliser. A team wanting to win the league would have quickly taken the ball from the net and put it on the centre-circle for the opposition to resume play and give us as much time as possible to get three points from deepest Darwen.

This. I said it on the match thread, never mind celebrating, get the ball back on the centre spot. Anyone would have thought it was a winning goal.

[amfy]

You know they stop the clock?

Technically they do - but there’s a reason you see many teams just rush to get the ball from the back of the net and get on with the game. They’ll give you a little back, but after that it’s your own time you’re wasting.

If nothing else - send us the message that you want to win it, and that a draw at Blackburn isn’t ‘as good as a win’ if you get it in added time.

[CT]

You know they stop the clock?

Technically they do - but there’s a reason you see many teams just rush to get the ball from the back of the net and get on with the game. They’ll give you a little back, but after that it’s your own time you’re wasting.

If nothing else - send us the message that you want to win it, and that a draw at Blackburn isn’t ‘as good as a win’ if you get it in added time.

Really good point. First game of last season, Hull at home, there's about 3 minutes to go with the scores level. We win a free kick in a good position and a chance to get the ball in the box.

Henri Lansbury took an absolute age to get over to the ball to take it. No urgency, nothing. It was like we were 4-0 up and just cruising. I've seen bloody great oil tankers turn and move quicker than him.

The ball eventually gets floated in, easily cleared and already we are in injury time and the game peters out in to a draw.

[kipeye]

Meh...

Never has a meh been more appropriate

Its a rare one for me to use but meaningless tosh is appropriate in this case.

[olaftab]

I have often thought in the past few seasons that we are awful in the last 5 plus injury. More likely to concede than score however if one thing has  improved this season it is ability to score late goals. We have both won and saved games by scoring very late. This is the only positive so far.

[olaftab]

That's a good point about the late equaliser. A team wanting to win the league would have quickly taken the ball from the net and put it on the centre-circle for the opposition to resume play and give us as much time as possible to get three points from deepest Darwen.

This. I said it on the match thread, never mind celebrating, get the ball back on the centre spot. Anyone would have thought it was a winning goal.

That is about drilling high level of expectation in to the team and one team that did it better than others, in the 20 years or so after football started, were manure and you would think Bruce knows how to do that?

[olaftab]

This comment made my piss boil ....."its just finding a system that suits everyone"

So into his third season and he has no discernible system or way of playing.

I always thought a coach had a system and than  got players in to do the job but I am very naive.

[GarTomas]

Observations

Bruce setup not to lose instead of trying to win. Unless that changes he has to go. Sick of it

Jedinak did ok but should never play ch again

Grealish just isn’t effective and needs to do a lot more

Abraham should of scored but showed promise

Bruce has to realise his only hope is play on the front foot the squad is there use it. If not go please just go

Bruce set us up as a Steve Bruce side. It might have worked at Wigan and Hull 10-15 years ago. It no longer works. When Dean Smith. Dean Fucking Smith has spent next to nothing, sold his best players and has his Brentford side in second place then you can go fuck off Steve Bruce with your weekly bollocks excuses you useless bastard.

Yeah but Dean Smith is rubbish. It’s all the boffins behind the scenes that work the magic.

[Clampy]

Happy that we managed to get a point out of it but we were pretty piss poor again to be honest. It's a game we would have won last season.