SkyBet 2017-18 Championship Thread - The Steve Bruce Pension Scheme

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Tue 01 Aug 2017, 3:34 am

Days away now, excitement building.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Tue 01 Aug 2017, 3:34 am

Freakish apparently to miss months of the season with kidney bleeding

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Fri 04 Aug 2017, 2:18 pm

You get all excited for the first game of the season then realise its a Simon Grayson team vs a Gary Rowett team

by NickisBHAFC Fri 04 Aug 2017, 3:50 pm

by GSC Fri 04 Aug 2017, 9:39 pm

Well that was jammy as Frak.

End the season now

by GSC Fri 04 Aug 2017, 9:55 pm

But yeah

FOOTBALL

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 07 Aug 2017, 9:30 pm

Good point at Fulham first day - considering all our injuries and new players - hoping for playoffs, mildly optimistic

by GSC Sat 12 Aug 2017, 3:45 pm

Not a ****ing clue how we're winning this

by GSC Sat 12 Aug 2017, 4:06 pm

Screamer alert

by GSC Sat 12 Aug 2017, 4:09 pm

Brentford almost added to the screamer alert

by westisbest Sat 12 Aug 2017, 4:30 pm

Hmm going to be another long ole season for us.

by Guest Sat 12 Aug 2017, 4:36 pm

tbh, wasn't expecting anything else for Villa. Elmohamady, Samba, Terry & Whelan was the wrong direction to go down. Needed some real energy & some proven EFL players joining that squad.

by GSC Sat 12 Aug 2017, 4:43 pm

Elmohamady is good at this level.

Rest reads like a Harry Redknapp shortlist

by GSC Sat 12 Aug 2017, 4:55 pm

very good win that

by Duty281 Sat 12 Aug 2017, 7:28 pm

"Couldn't have been offside because it came off a Boro player."

Astonishing levels of ignorance from a SSN presenter. picard

by GSC Sun 13 Aug 2017, 1:31 pm

Early days but Barrie McKay continues to look a bargain. Comfortably outshining Clough. End product inconsistent but scares defenders everytime hes on the ball in space.

Bouchalakis probably the biggest difference to last weeks display, even apart from his goals. Shielded well, mobile and comfortable on the ball in deeper positions. Not bad for a freebie because Olympiakos didn't want him.

Daryl Murphy obviously a downgrade to Britt but the team in general functions better with his hold up play.

Jordan Smith a very good shot stopped but continues to have at least one moment a match where he will attempt to play out and almost concede a goal as a result. Defense in general kinda shaky but where they were abysmal last week, chalking this week up to Brentford being really good in general. Issue last week was team selection.

by GSC Sun 13 Aug 2017, 3:30 pm

Losing to Sunderland at home, thats rough

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sun 13 Aug 2017, 4:41 pm

We were not good at football today

by westisbest Sun 13 Aug 2017, 5:46 pm

Think there will be a few teams losing at home to Sunderland this season.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Tue 15 Aug 2017, 9:34 pm

So taking the under on Millwall-Ipswich was a bad idea

by GSC Tue 15 Aug 2017, 9:47 pm

Probably our best performance of the 3 games against the worst side and we lose. Thats football I guess, luck had to even out eventually

by NickisBHAFC Tue 15 Aug 2017, 10:32 pm

Villa man villa.

by westisbest Tue 15 Aug 2017, 10:41 pm

Poor again tonight.
Only 3 games in, hopefully can turn it round asap.

Going up Saturday. Hopefully our first win.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Wed 16 Aug 2017, 10:37 pm

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:We were not good at football today

We were a lot better at football today

by Fernando Thu 17 Aug 2017, 2:58 pm

Abel Hernandez out for 6-9 months with a cruciate. It's this kind of thing that makes having the window open at this time sensible.

by Luke Thu 17 Aug 2017, 3:32 pm

Fernando wrote:Abel Hernandez out for 6-9 months with a cruciate. It's this kind of thing that makes having the window open at this time sensible.

Gonna be missed, as at this level he's a goalscorer and we don't have many of them. Considering that upheaval at the club, solid start don't expect us to be in the play offs, but a top half Finnish would be nice.

Aso for your point about the window. The argument is if the the window was shut, you'd already have the cover.

by Fernando Thu 17 Aug 2017, 3:34 pm

Hull wouldn't have got cover in because they had a fully fit Hernandez before season started no point going out buying another forward when you don't need one.

by GSC Thu 17 Aug 2017, 4:08 pm

And if Hernandez got injured the day after the window closes now, what then.

by Luke Thu 17 Aug 2017, 4:58 pm

Fernando wrote:Hull wouldn't have got cover in because they had a fully fit Hernandez before season started no point going out buying another forward when you don't need one.

Fair point.

There are arguments for and against. I just think that if you have the window from June til August the 1st, and you don't have the back up tough. After all that's why most clubs have squads of 25 players. So that there is cover, but if you haven't used your youngesters, never no they might surprise.

by westisbest Fri 18 Aug 2017, 10:15 pm

Bottom of the league.
Going up tomorrow. Not seen us lose against Norwich. Hopefully it will continue.

Early days, but a must win game.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Fri 18 Aug 2017, 10:15 pm

We haven't won at Villa Park in 25 years

I imagine you'll be on 4 points this time tomorrow Westi

by westisbest Fri 18 Aug 2017, 10:44 pm

Your due a win then.
Hopefully we will be on 4 points.

Hopefully the players have had a good kick up the a55.

Be a tough game.

by GSC Sat 19 Aug 2017, 9:11 am

"Suddenly four or five of them disappeared and we didn't see them in the second half. We didn't win any battles and in the end it wasn't good enough.

"I need to change a lot of them because they are not good enough for Birmingham City. This is a fantastic football club and if it's the last thing I do in football I will give their fans a good team."

Good ol Arry

by GSC Sat 19 Aug 2017, 5:02 pm

hahahahahaha

by GSC Sun 20 Aug 2017, 9:35 am

Good win yesterday.

Bossed the first half and took a 1-0 lead into half time. Vaughans injury and Boro bringing on Traore changed the game and we were hanging on for most of the 2nd.

Shoutout to Britt for missing 3 sitters.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sun 20 Aug 2017, 10:11 am

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:We haven't won at Villa Park in 25 years

I imagine you'll be on 4 points this time tomorrow Westi

Printing money

by GSC Sun 20 Aug 2017, 10:20 am

Why is Oliveira being sent to purgatory

by westisbest Sun 20 Aug 2017, 4:54 pm

First half was best I've seen us play in a good while. Could have been 4 up at half time.

Davis was good up front, held the ball up well.
Pleased for Hourihane, good player.

Olly, I liked the look off Murphy on the left.
Looked very dangerous when he had the ball.

We're up and running. Hopefully we can pick up a few more wins now and get up near the top of the table.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sun 20 Aug 2017, 7:48 pm

GSC wrote:Why is Oliveira being sent to purgatory

You tell me

Best striker at the club by a distance

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sun 20 Aug 2017, 7:54 pm

westisbest wrote:First half was best I've seen us play in a good while. Could have been 4 up at half time.

Davis was good up front, held the ball up well.
Pleased for Hourihane, good player.

Olly, I liked the look off Murphy on the left.
Looked very dangerous when he had the ball.

We're up and running. Hopefully we can pick up a few more wins now and get up near the top of the table.

Yeah Josh is a quality prospect before last season actually considered higher than Jacob who got the big move this summer, so hopefully he's now beginning to deliver on that hype

by GSC Tue 22 Aug 2017, 10:15 am

Bridcutt in, fairly happy with that

by Guest Fri 25 Aug 2017, 8:35 pm

No, that half didn't drag.

Does Chris Samba jump in the shower pre match fully kitted?

by westisbest Fri 25 Aug 2017, 9:40 pm

A point on the road I guess. An improvement.
Poor free kick that lead to their goal. Ours was a bit lucky though.

Good squad and hopefully some wins on the horizon.

No easy games.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 26 Aug 2017, 7:41 pm

International break has come at a good time - boy do we need to find a winning formula soon

by GSC Sat 26 Aug 2017, 7:59 pm

Weren't at the races today, poor showing

by Luke Sat 02 Sep 2017, 12:51 am

Got to say, that after the window I'm feeling more confident about the season. Only got 3 on loan (and all from Chelsea? Must be in competition with Arnaheim). And bought in some solid players for this division with Hector (loan), Kevin Stewart, Seb Larsson, Jackson Irvine & Nouha Dicko being goodles signings. Now just got to find some awayears form and we'd be laughing.

by Guest Fri 08 Sep 2017, 9:53 pm

tigerrobins wrote:Got to say, that after the window I'm feeling more confident about the season. Only got 3 on loan (and all from Chelsea? Must be in competition with Arnaheim). And bought in some solid players for this division with Hector (loan), Kevin Stewart, Seb Larsson, Jackson Irvine & Nouha Dicko being goodles signings. Now just got to find some awayears form and we'd be laughing.

by Luke Sat 09 Sep 2017, 2:57 pm

Just John wrote:
tigerrobins wrote:Got to say, that after the window I'm feeling more confident about the season. Only got 3 on loan (and all from Chelsea? Must be in competition with Arnaheim). And bought in some solid players for this division with Hector (loan), Kevin Stewart, Seb Larsson, Jackson Irvine & Nouha Dicko being goodles signings. Now just got to find some awayears form and we'd be laughing.

Yeah, that optimism didn't even last till half time. Shocking defending (seriously that how Chelsea teach players to defend!), lack of effort. And just around poor. Derby looked okay hard to tell with how we played. Not looking forward to Tuesday and Fulham away.

by GSC Tue 12 Sep 2017, 10:27 am

Sky to stream all mid week games from next season

by Duty281 Tue 12 Sep 2017, 2:15 pm

GSC wrote:Sky to stream all mid week games from next season

Won't be too long before all 380 Premier League games are streamed legally in the UK.

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