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This man has only been on 5 mins and he's at it again.

Shockingly productive player is Fernandes. It's crazy.

Been impressed by how good Man Utd have looked without Fernandes.

Fuck me. What a ball

Incredible.

samptime29[/member]

 

I hear you man, and neither am I absolving the player completely.

 

However, it's clear the team is terrible and he isn't being put in a position to consistently get forward and build any rhythm or confidence in those areas.

 

He's clearly now lost confidence along with the whole team and they are all playing not to make any mistakes, and are likely being told not to take any risks out on the pitch, which is why we always go backwards or hoof the ball all the time (everyone does this not just him).

 

You probably don't agree, but that's just how I see things.

 

I'm not ruling him out totally yet. I appreciate you have to see how he performs under a different manager. I can only judge him on what I have seen so far and the early signs arent very promising.

It's a rough situation man. It's so difficult to actually know what we really do have as a team because everything is being done so badly.

I would love to see a half decent manager come in that knows how to get a team playing, but even that is seemingly too much to ask with the current owner. It's just so unfortunate.

samptime29[/member]

I hear you man, and neither am I absolving the player completely.

However, it's clear the team is terrible and he isn't being put in a position to consistently get forward and build any rhythm or confidence in those areas.

He's clearly now lost confidence along with the whole team and they are all playing not to make any mistakes, and are likely being told not to take any risks out on the pitch, which is why we always go backwards or hoof the ball all the time (everyone does this not just him).

You probably don't agree, but that's just how I see things.

Okay, well we'll see how his career goes once he leaves this shit.

Meanwhile we'll be complaining about the next guy that we spent money on who is underachieving as well. Same old nonsense every time.

Our team doesn't have a single player that is producing anything of note at the moment. Not one.

100% all on the manager for me. Don't see how it can be any different at all.

We got played off the park and beaten by a team that had garnered 2pts from 17 games this season. Do you realise how bad we are at all?

Who on our team has good stats?!

Your speaking as if he's misfiring in a team doing something.

Our second top scorer is Hendrick and he does nothing every game.

How many times have we even seen him get into position to cross the ball.

The team is a disaster and nothing works. Every week we add another player to the "he's shit" list.

He's a left back that is more forward thinking and should be playing in a footballing side and not one that sits in their own box all game defending.

It's why Liverpool wanted him as backup for Robertson. When we get relegated they'll get him for a good price and he will go on to do just fine for himself.

Not unexpected - am sure Ashley has done this before. What it does tell us, is that Bruce is probably going nowhere in the short term. They are drawing the wagons in around him, to provide cover.

 

We deserve to be relegated. What a poxy club.

Absolutely. It's all so pathetic honestly.

Knew this was coming eventually. Imagine even questioning this guy with the nonsense going on behind him every game.

Jack Grealish can be heard during the game in the 69th minute on sky sports saying

 

 

''Just keep it moving these are shit''

 

That guy is going to take Villa very far. Takes so much responsibility on the pitch every single game and gives everyone around him confidence because of it.

He was of course 100% right in what he said and was bold enough to say it to his team mates right there on the pitch in front of our hapless bunch, who could do nothing about it.

Now that right there is cold blooded.

We are w***. Been a horrendous run. Mad how s*** Lewis is.

We were just as s*** last season as well when you couldn't stop telling people people Bruce was doing a good job

 

This run has been worst than last season.

 

At no point did I say Bruce did a good job. I said last season, he did an okay job. Stop lying Nobody, not a good look.

The reality is it has been this bad from the get go.

When Bruce first came in and tried to change the formation we were getting battered, and so he then switched back to the setup Rafa had established already which got him results because the defenders were still relatively familiar with the organisation of that setup.

Now he's been here more than a year all of those good habits Rafa drilled in are long gone. Bruce tried to change things again this season and we were awful. He's tried to run back to Rafa's setup again but it's not working because all the necessary disciplined training has not been done in over a year.

I said after about 5 games that we were worse than both Fulham and Sheffield United and were it not for Wilson's hot start we would be bottom. And it's been very clear that is indeed the case. We are a nothing team that do not do anything that makes sense on the pitch.

I genuinely think he's worse than Colback

It was incredibly frustrating watching Colback get pushed around like a small child but he was always out there scrapping at least, as bad as he was. And he did have the odd moment where he did some good things.

This man Hendrick is just lost at sea. It's astonishing how invisible he is when he plays. It doesn't even make sense.

If the game has nothing to do with systems or tactics, what the f*** is a football manager’s job? Motivation alone? Baffling, dinosaur stuff!

 

It's absolutely incredible man. That is literally the job requirement to organise the team tactically and give them instructions on how to function in order to be an effective unit

 

And we have these oafs continuously disregarding and denigrating tactics 

 

It’s just incompetence on a ridiculous level and he not even trying to hide it. He should be sacked for that comment alone.

 

 

The quote in my post was from Carver...

 

(but yeah)

He's basically said the same thing over and over again, and has done for the longest. They're all the same reprehensibly clueless con artists.

If the game has nothing to do with systems or tactics, what the f*** is a football manager’s job? Motivation alone? Baffling, dinosaur stuff!

 

It's absolutely incredible man. That is literally the job requirement to organise the team tactically and give them instructions on how to function in order to be an effective unit

 

And we have these oafs continuously disregarding and denigrating tactics 

 

It’s just incompetence on a ridiculous level and he not even trying to hide it. He should be sacked for that comment alone.

 

Absolutely right. But then you realise that he has spouted this nonsense for ages, and yet continues to get jobs despite having that ridiculous attitude to that side of things.

And then you see the nonsense he produces currently at Newcastle, and not only has he been safe in his position, but he is also being paid a cool £1 million a year.

If the game has nothing to do with systems or tactics, what the fuck is a football manager’s job? Motivation alone? Baffling, dinosaur stuff!

It's absolutely incredible man. That is literally the job requirement to organise the team tactically and give them instructions on how to function in order to be an effective unit

And we have these oafs continuously disregarding and denigrating tactics 

Someone did mention on here recently that MA still leans on Graham Carr for footballing advice and he was the one that suggested Jones as a coach, and so if we do change managers hopefully we won't be seeing anymore PFMs.

5 games in a row without a goal now?

 

7 shots on goal in those 5 games. One of these games went 120 minutes.  :lol:

Hey, Redknapp says he's trying his heart out, so we should just accept it

Yeah, Pulis just got sacked after 45 days at Sheffield Wednesday, would be a crazy move.

Bruce still trying to us this man as a box to box midfielder is just so tragic.

The Jones stuff is interesting, wonder what it’s really all about.

I love how upset it made Bruce. That pretty much shows that he will have more say over things if he does come in with Bruce still around.

1: Dubravka

 

2: Manquillo

3: Lewis

4: Fernández

5: Clark

 

6: Billing

8: Hayden

 

7: Fraser

10: Almiron

11: ASM

 

9: Wilson

 

 

Billing and Hayden in midfield with those 4 ahead of them would be pretty sweet with a manager that has a clue.

Billing from what I recall is more of a holding midfielder that uses the ball well. He's talented but not necessarily one to take the game by the scruff of the neck. Big lad though at 6 ft 4.

Dad is Nigerian and we tried to get him for the Super Eagles a couple of years back but he declined. Hopefully he's coming along with Jones who has identified him as someone that he can use to improve the team.

If we're just bringing him in for Bruce don't think it would make a difference.