Aston Villa v Tesco Bags Post-Match Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

Who has said the red card was irrelevant?

Greg Nash for a start and all those who believe that it was balanced up with Hutton staying on.

A major blunder was made and it affected us in a massive, massive way.

Its all quite simple. We went from being very comfortable to being very disjointed, with Blakey being able to stick even more men in the midfield for most of the second half.

Well it wasn't irrelevant after Hutton was allowed to stay on the pitch.

My viewpoint is that the decisions did balance up though, so I'm not going to get overly angry about Herd being sent off, without admitting feeling incredibly lucky that Hutton didn't.

The overall result of the game was right.

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No we wouldn't.

Losing Hutton would not have had as much of an effect as losing Herd, who was part of the reason why we were the better side until the sending off.

We could start without Hutton and it wouldn't make too much difference.

[Holtenderinthesky]

As for N'Zogbia well the less said the better.....................

On that note, mods, could I please have my name changed back to Holtenderinthesky?  Thanks.   

[Chipsticks]

First time I have ever left Villa Park before the final whistle.

Left on the 85th minute, from the sound of things didn't miss anything further than more disappointment and managed to get home an hour earlier by catching an earlier train.

[andyh]

In reality it could have been a hammering for us.
Whilst we didn't have a shot on target, Albion,
missed a pen
had a goal disallowed
brought 1 paticular great save from Shay
missed an absolute sitter at the death.

We got off lightly I think.

[Monty]

Losing Hutton would have had almost exactly the same effect, as in that event Herd would have probably gone to right back and we'd have had the same shortfall in midfield.

[PaulWinch again]

There is just a massive dark cloud over Villa Park at the moment. It's not going to go away unless Randy makes some serious improvements.

[Greg N'Ash]

Who has said the red card was irrelevant?

Greg Nash for a start and all those who believe that it was balanced up with Hutton staying on.

A major blunder was made and it affected us in a massive, massive way.

Its all quite simple. We went from being very comfortable to being very disjointed, with Blakey being able to stick even more men in the midfield for most of the second half.

Who has said the red card was irrelevant?

Greg Nash for a start and all those who believe that it was balanced up with Hutton staying on.

A major blunder was made and it affected us in a massive, massive way.

Its all quite simple. We went from being very comfortable to being very disjointed, with Blakey being able to stick even more men in the midfield for most of the second half.

So we wouldn't have been disjointed if Hutton had got sent off? We got lucky on one decision and unlucky on the other. Unless your saying Herd is our star player??

Herd did well. Hutton was shit. Had Hutton been sent off it would have had much less of an effect.

and how do you know that? someone would have had to play in huttons place

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Was Hutton's a sending off?

Seemed a very meaty tackle to me against a typical leg dangling centre forward.

[eastie]

Extremely worried about the direction we are heading under the current owner- if he can no longer afford to invest and sees survival or midtable as the goal then I would prefer him to say so and look for someone who can take the club forward- he has given it his best shot and narrowly failed but the slide in recent months is deeply worrying.

[taylorsworkrate]

No we wouldn't.

Losing Hutton would not have had as much of an effect as losing Herd, who was part of the reason why we were the better side until the sending off.

We could start without Hutton and it wouldn't make too much difference.

All it would have meant is that Herd would have gone to right back and we'd still have been badly overrun in midfield.

The second Herd was sent off, Clark should have come on for N'Zogbia.  Petrov and Bannan was never going to work.  Amazed our manager couldn't see that.

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Losing Hutton would have had almost exactly the same effect, as in that event Herd would have probably gone to right back and we'd have had the same shortfall in midfield.

No, you'd take N'Zogbia off and keep the midfield solid with three.

Blakey may still go three at the back, but at least you'd have three central players to compete.

[wombat]

Was Hutton's a sending off?

Seemed a very meaty tackle to me against a typical leg dangling centre forward.

was my view of it from the witton lane stand and of all those around, about the only decent thing hutton did!

[Greg N'Ash]

Was Hutton's a sending off?

Seemed a very meaty tackle to me against a typical leg dangling centre forward.

two footed i thought

[Monty]

Was Hutton's a sending off?

Seemed a very meaty tackle to me against a typical leg dangling centre forward.

I refuse to accept 'meaty' as an acceptable description of a tackle where he seemed to lose control of his body and could have inflicted serious injury to the opponent as a result.

Also, with three at the back we might well have been slaughtered out wide, with only one player on each of their full-back/winger pairings.