I, for one, am shocked that Bruce has allowed those tyrannical players and negative fans to inflict this upon him. Also, seems like this is a familiar tune to the one he's played out at previous clubs, some nice Villa fan reactions here - https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news...

Something I hadn't previously considered, but the whole brexit thing will make it tougher to hire managers and coaches. Not that we really seemed to look to the continent much at all. The qualifying criteria for managers are simpler than those for players: 24 months consecutively or 36 months over t...

If they actually did want to get a hungry younger manager from another (or lower) league, you can be sure they could attract one, since they all see how risk-adverse most PL clubs are and how few openings will come available to them. Though I don't trust us to have anyone in a decision making role ...

"A big dent in Steve Bruce's plans"

Plans?

Wilson has zero confidence right now and I'm not surprised. You go game after game barely touching the ball and your confidence goes. He must've had other options in the summer and right now I bet he wishes he'd taken any of them. Villa were the other option right? And where are they now? Just chal...

Longstaff is now a left wing back.

Has anyone worked out what position Longstaff is playing? I think it's right mid, but he's chasing the ball all over the pitch

Any idea why Fernandez is taking a throw-in in the attacking third? Good cross though...

Bruce has keenly identified that it was a bit embarrassing to give Derby all those points in the record setting season Sheff Utd are trying to match, so naturally something that looks vaguely like a 5-4-1 is the only way to go to avoid that again.

overseasTOON wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:14 pm

Read a headline which said "Morally wrong to keep playing football says Bruce"

Now our usual set up makes sense I thought before opening the article and he was talking about covid pandemic.

Colback's Orange Tufts wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:24 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55575321

Villa have to olay youth team in fa cup. Obviously a serious situation.... But if this happens six times to certain clubs we could get to the fa cup final?

Do you think our first team would beat six youth teams in a row?

I disapproved it because it was needlessly antagonistic. There's no need to police the language on here.

Darkest Dungeon was free on Epic the other day, feels like a suitably despairing game to pair with watching this...

Lascelles is running

Highlight of the game so far: Carroll falling over with his first pass

It's great to see that our game plan continues to be to pass along the edge of our defensive third before punting it long at a short front four.

https://twitter.com/SkySports_Keith/status/1341015932076998656 And from nufc.com Speaking to the media on Friday, Bruce outlined the issues that un-named members of his squad continue to face following the recent COVID outbreak: "We've had vomiting, sores, mouth ulcers, no smell, no taste, but the b...

At least we've got Christmas to look forward to!

Oh.

You wouldn't think we'd been playing against 10 men for half an hour

Turns out that if you run at their defence, sometimes things happen.