Aston Villa v Wolves post-match thread

[BILL DE VALL]

he was asking a lot of Emile
should of taken him off for BB earlier
shme DB9 didn't put that one in at the end-I had a feeling BB would set him up for the winner

[hilts_coolerking]

Not very inspiring.  Bar twenty minutes at the beginning of the second half, we were insipid and unthreatening.  We have a squad of distinctly average players, Bent apart, and consequently I reckon we'll have a season of distinctly average performances.  We don't even appear to be playing to the strengths of our one quality player.

When we eventually play some quality sides we may well struggle.

[Villanation]

Heskey that tackle in the 88min, f*** sake., if you shot the Wolves player dead it would be less offensive.

[Ger Regan]

On the positive side, last year's defensive liabilities seem to have been ironed out, which was our biggest weak point. Herd played well too.

On the negative side, it's not working going forward yet, very toothless for large parts of the game. Also, the attendance was absolutely shocking.

[themossman]

Could have been worse. In no danger against a form team, defence working Dunne fittest he's been since he got here.

But yeah not very inspiring. Heskey a passenger by the end, gabby reverted to type made it look like hard work and kept running into blind alleys, need to get bent involved and CN'Z not shown anything yet.

[beness]

people paid good money for that.
 If they think people will put money aside for this when they can hardly afford petrol and basic Heating and lighting they might have a wake up call coming.

[Irish villain]

We aren't half the force we have been.

Selling your best players every year and not replacing them = low gates and heading backwards.

We'll miss the two Youngs and Downing so much.

[pauliewalnuts]

Looks like the decision to appoint AM has hit the attendance quite hard...any other explanation how we can be 8000 down on last season for the same game?

Poor performance all round apart from Herd.

We have sold two of our three best players and spent the summer saying we're not buying anyone else, and made a desperately uninspiring managerial appointment.

Throw in the current economic situation and it is no surprise. Very depressing.

[Chris Jameson]

The defence hoofing the ball aimlessly at every available opportunity is a winner for me. Think the words Aston Villa Nil will be making several appearances this season and there will be a lot of empty seats.

[john e]

Fair result, but disappointing non the less, don't think it was as shit as people make out, think we had about 20 attempts, just to few actual scoring chances,

[richard moore]

I spent most of the second half contemplating cancelling my Sky subscription

Mid table mediocrity, the likes of which we are going to see an awful lot of this season. We used to often play poorly but still win, now we just play poorly. So little quality with the final ball, so little movement off it

Petrov had a good'ish game but lacks composure when it really matters, Gabby is still not a wide player, Heskey should never have stayed on second half. I could go on....

Pleased for Herd though he looks rather reckless at times. Thought I had read somewhere that N'Zogbia can shoot but I must have been dreaming...

[Michel Sibble]

Boring boring Villa (to misquote Arse fans)

[taylorsworkrate]

Aside from the 1st 15 - 20 minutes of the second half, that was utter shite.

Both teams looked very average at a push.  If ever you are trying to convince someone the Premiership isn't the best league in the world, just show them a tape of this game.

No tempo to our play, little creativity or movement in the final third.  Bannan on too late and the wrong player came off.  While Heskey undoubtably works hard he offers very little going forward in games like this.

I suppose the defense grew stronger as the game went on, but Wolves were so powder puff its impossible to place any real store in that.

We are definitely going to struggle against decent sides.

[john e]

Dont forget with our 2 best players we lost this game last season

[Villanation]

Could have been worse. In no danger against a form team, defence working Dunne fittest he's been since he got here.

But yeah not very inspiring. Heskey a passenger by the end, gabby reverted to type made it look like hard work and kept running into blind alleys, need to get bent involved and CN'Z not shown anything yet.

Agree,  Gabby looked entirely different to last week, looked like he was playing under a different model, and Bent, have to say this, I'm yet to see the guy impress this season, and its nothing to do with the lack of balls to him, he doesn't look like he want's to get into the game and go for it.