Bradford City v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Risso]

Did everything right there, awesome save by their keeper.

Straight at him.

He couldn't of done anything else. The ball sat up and was awkward to strike. Criticism for the sake of it.

I wasn't criticising him at all, just stating a fact.  It was a good piece of play from N'Zog and Gabby, just straight down the keeper's throat.

[thick_mike]

We re worse than this against Tranmere. Keep the faith.

[Lambert and Payne]

Feeling sick, its been awful, Bannan off please

[taylorsworkrate]

Id definitely consider bringing Stevens on for Bennett, who is being tortured by a league 2 winger.

Someone on for Bannan also, who has been his usual all fart and no poo self

You would like him to ........ 'poo'?

Well him farting is getting us nowhere.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Have to say Clark is looking very vulnerable. he should swap men with Baker, the bloke hes marking is too good in the air for him.

 Have every confidence we will score, not so confident that we won't give one away, apart from Baker the defence look poor.

 Gabby is having a bit of a shocker as well, every time it comes to him, he either gives it away, gives a free kick away, and does nothing

[NeilH]

Mentally the team has gone they concede and fall to pieces.

Surely there is an urgent need for a sports psychologist at Villa. The fragility of the team once we concede is very worrying. We were solidly on top, until the goal and then **poof** all the confidence is wiped away.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Are you watching Randy Lerner?

We need to buy players now big man or you wont be watching us in the PL next season.

[Louzie0]

1 0 down half time, time for PL to reorganise and for Villa to come back 4-1.

[hawkeye]

Some overreactions here, I think.

We've hardly mentally gone, we've created lots of chances, and we've 45 minutes left, still.

Yes, the midfield is highly questionable, but they barely bothered our goal other than the goal, which was a good finish but a very lucky bounce as it pinged around.

I agree Bennett is having a bit of a nightmare, and the midfield are very lightweight, but FFS, you'd think we'd been under the cosh or something.

We have not exactly shown the difference in class tell have we?

[garyshawsknee]

Think we need another body in midfield,as were getting over run,looking at the bench though,i dont think that man is Ireland.

[dave shelley]

Dean Saunders has just said it's difficult to tell who the premiership side is, and I'm begining to think he's right on this showing.

[ROBBO]

Game only on Sentanta in oz so just following you guys. We do like to kid ourselves, there have been more excuses for Bannon and Delph than any other player i can think of, they are not premiership standard plain and simple same goes for Bennet he should be given a lengthy spell in the seconds to see if he can improve.

[johncvilla88]

Post test

[Apyadg]

Some overreactions here, I think.

We've hardly mentally gone, we've created lots of chances, and we've 45 minutes left, still.

Yes, the midfield is highly questionable, but they barely bothered our goal other than the goal, which was a good finish but a very lucky bounce as it pinged around.

I agree Bennett is having a bit of a nightmare, and the midfield are very lightweight, but FFS, you'd think we'd been under the cosh or something.

It's not exactly the worst we've played all season, but we've looked the better team for about 15 minutes against a team 3 leagues below us. I don't think it's overreacting to suggest that's unacceptable.

It's also pretty typical of this side, as soon as they concede a goal. They've got all the confidence of a victim of domestic violence.

[garyshawsknee]

Are Holman and Herd injured?