Sheff Wednesday 2-4 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[brontebilly]

Will grabban be the man that finally scrabble's us over the line ?

Looks a handy addition. Has hardly played since finishing up with Sunderland but has made a timely impact for us.

Thought Davis did well when he came on too.

[SoccerHQ]

Been impressed with Grabban aswell. In fairness he is proven at this level and seems a much better fit for our style under SB than Hogan.

Dare I say if we'd sign him in the summer we'd be comfortable in top 2.

[olaftab]

Funnily enough, our XG was the highest in the league over the weekend, at 3.5 goals expected

https://twitter.com/eflstats/status/967805099119661056

Not sure id have guessed that from the highlights. Maybe it’s because all of our goals were absolute sitters?

Sorry but can you help here. What is XG? Is it expected goals factor?

[ozzjim]

Someone once said you are better being a lucky manager than a good one. Bruce is certainly lucky. We were as bad as we have been at any time over the last few years for parts of that game. Awful. Last 20 minutes Onomah going off changed the game completely. Fair play to Davis for making himself a target up front and Snodgrass is miles better than this division.

[Axl Rose]

It's pretty obvious that we are massive when we have clubs hundreds of miles away obsessing over our ownership. I don't think I could name the owner of a single club in the division other than us.

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I can.  The bloke that runs Blues is called Dong.

Funnily enough, in Korean, that means 'shit'. How apt

[auntiesledd]

I think it was late 70''s when we beat them in a midweek game in the league cup and they were launching house bricks at us outside the holte pub.

I certainly remember a post-match barrage of bricks down Witton Lane when we played 'em in the late 70's/early 80's. I seem to recall that it was a midweek night match, but my (hazy) memory is of it being a league game after they'd finally got promotion to the 1st Division. Pwoppa nawteee.

We didn't play them in the first division. They were up for a season when we were in division two but we played them twice in the League Cup and twice in FA Cup replays.

The one I remember was a league cup night game. A group of Sheffield Wednesday fans were being escorted up Witton Lane and a group of Villa fans ambushed them from the bingo hall just past the Holte End. It was the Villa fans who were guilty of causing the trouble and throwing a barrage of bricks etc. Back then, it was unusual for fans to be escorted directly past the Holte, they would always go round the back way, serpentine Rd etc.

Many thanks for filling in those pesky age-related gaps, chaps. I was definitely present at the above fixture & remember said flying bricks & mucho rubble as I attempted to get up to Witton island. The Wednesday fans had been gathered up and surrounded by a thin blue line on the station ramp when I finally got down there; and they were still being bombarded by a variety of missiles. Those genuinely scary times were certainly a far cry from the modern-day equivalent of luzzing the odd plastic chair or traffic cone...

[papa lazarou]

Will grabban be the man that finally scrabble's us over the line ?

Not a clue-do hope he can though.

[oldtimernow]

Will grabban be the man that finally scrabble's us over the line ?

It all depends how many triple word scores he can get along with double word assists I suppose

[UK Redsox]

Will grabban be the man that finally scrabble's us over the line ?

Not a clue-do hope he can though.

Villa need more players to contribute to the scoring. Grabban can't have a monopoly on the goals

[exigo]

Will grabban be the man that finally scrabble's us over the line ?

It all depends how many triple word scores he can get along with double word assists I suppose

We'll all enjoy a night on the tiles if he does.

[Keeno]

Funnily enough, our XG was the highest in the league over the weekend, at 3.5 goals expected

https://twitter.com/eflstats/status/967805099119661056

Not sure id have guessed that from the highlights. Maybe it’s because all of our goals were absolute sitters?

Excellent use of expected goals sir!

[Duncan Shaw]

One thing I noticed from the highlights - and I'm not trying to make an issue of it - is the first goal Hogan had the shot, it didn;t go in, then he almost looked disappointed for a couple of seconds that Grabban had netted, then realised and ran over to join the celebrations.  it was a bit weird.

I was following on the Beeb from a bar in Paris whjilst watching Englnad get stuffed in the rugby and it cheered me up no end, proper oh yes moment when I saw the final score!