Polarboy

Alex Scott, fucking hell, an absolute piece, and one of the better pundits as well.

A Villa fan on the BBC live reporting just wrote that Bruce said when he was Villa manager, who could they get to replace me 😂 You can't say he isn't consistent with the shite he spouts. The Villa fan of course retorted with Dean Smith, who currently has them in 8th with two games in hand on most teams. Redknapp and Bent making excuses for Bruce once again saying that nobody could do better with the same squad, which sort of ignores the fact that Rafa comfortably kept us up with a worse squad. In fairness there's plenty of matches left, but you'd have to be very optimistic to think that Bruce will turn this around. The fact is that Bruce is making our squad look a lot worse than it is. Redknapp said that we don't really have any players who would go for big money, but again, and I don't like continually having to bring up Rafa, but he had Sean Longstaff playing so well that Manure were looking to spunk at least 30 mil on him. Since Bruce has been at the club Longstaff's valuation has likely gone down about 15m, and that's being generous.

Get ready for tired cliche bingo, Brucey is up next to be interviewed on Sky.

I totally agree about him playing him on the wing. I'm not trying to make any excuses for how shite Bruce is, but obviously Ashley has to take some of the blame for us scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Of course Rafa or any other manager worth their salt would likely have found something better under the same restrictions, and again not subsequently played them out of position.

Hendrick was a terrible choice regardless of budget, but I doubt even Bruce would pick him if he was being offered something considerably better. We have to keep Bruce's blame for all this in perspective in comparison to Ashley.

Bruce: We drew the second half 0-0, and against a top team like Villa we have to be realistic about what we can expect.

Look at this gem from Chris Waddle on BBC live reporting, "Newcastle are trying, you cannot fault the effort. You can see the shape, but it is so easy for Villa - there is no pressure on the ball." The twat has completely contradicted himself but doesn't even realise.

Do you reckon managers like Bruce are under the delusion that it's just all the players who've been not quite good enough or plain shite, and he's completely divorced himself from responsibility like a sociopath, or he actually knows that he's been stealing a living for decades.

For Villa.

Never would have guessed they were Swedish looking at them and listening to the music. Then again the lead singer does have a touch of the Ibramhimovic's about him. Yeah these vaccine supply delays aren't looking good for the summer being out of lockdown. The Eavis's didn't postpone Glastonbury again for nothing, then again I suppose it's late June so near the start of the summer.

You seen the Shrimp Sessions performance? It's fucking class.

One thing I will say, not in Bruce's defence because he's objectively shite and a twat, is that we're kinda fucked in the centre of mid in terms of options. Hayden can be decent but the rest range from bang average, bad, atrocious, badly out of form etc. We've also never really replaced what Diame did for us under Rafa, even though even he was criticised fairly often. Then again Rafa had Hayden and Sean Longstaff looking like world beaters.

Carragher just now realising that the players aren't playing for Bruce.

Fucking pour it on Villa, get that fat cunt out of our club.

He's perhaps not the sharpest tool in the shed old Quinny, but he's generally right about what should happen with the club. The more reasonable voices from people within the game the better.

He's not showing up on oddschecker for some reason.

Who's giving Hughes good odds? As far as I can see he's currently nowhere near the top of the betting. Rafa shot up to the top after announcing that he's leaving his Chinese club and moving back to England. In fairness unless something drastic happens with the ownership Rafa shouldn't be anywhere near it either.

If we get rid of the Quavers maybe Bruce will fuck off 😉

Yeah I mean he probably does deserve to keep his place given the lack of alternatives and his undoubted work rate and ability to carry the ball, which is why I said he could move to 10 with Fraser and ASM out on the wings. But again it's going to take a new manager to motivate them, because if Bruce hasn't already lost the dressing room he's very close to it.

Of course our first best option is getting rid of Bruce soon as.

Just seen the whole interview on sky. He's literally hoping for ASM to save his fat bacon. In fairness that is probably the only way we'll stay up this season and what a lot of us are currently thinking, as in ASM coming back into the team and going on a run of form. I also think that despite a few dodgy moments a fully fit Fraser is a much better option than a limited Almiron. Mind you a 4-2-3-1 with Almiron playing 10 and Fraser and ASM either side is likely our best option.

Bruce: We tried to attack like, but no offence to the players but they're too shite to play the attacking football that I want them to, I mean told ya like. Imaginary competent journalist: But you were on a massive losing streak while playing five at the back and ultra defensive Bruce: ????!!!!!!!!

Lascelles already saying we were "too open" and that they had tried to be more attacking. I'm sure Bruce had nothing to do with that line out of his mouth.