Aston Villa v Bradford City Post-Match Thread

[Meanwood Villa]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

[Pete3206]

Sorry if I repeating something that's already been said, but would any Sunday league team adopt those tactics to win a football match? Five strikers, hoofball to grateful defenders, absolutely no width at all to pull defenders away and get meaningful crosses in?

It was like a school kickaround in the last 20 minutes.

It was bloody pathetic.

[Kingthing]

I mentioned this a few pages ago but has anyone else noticed how little the strikers work the channels ...

I noticed with Benteke a couple of weeks back that his reaction to us getting the ball out wide was to trot off to the far post or beyond and stand theer waiting for a cross, rather than stay on his toes and look to get between or ahead of defenders when the time is right.

H's only started to do this recently, and it was no accident that his goal last night came from the one occasion (that I recall) where he made a well timed run towards the near post.

He must be doing this under instruction.

saw 5 standing in a bunch in the D last night. Not one of them tried to do anything.

I noticed that and pointed it out at the time, all of them within touching distance and not one player on either wing.

[LeeB]

We talked about something similar on the way home.  The whole midfield is physically and mentally made of tissue paper but one thing he could do immediately is go out and get somebody, anybody, who is a six foot five fifteen stone centre back whose job it is to wipe out the opposition at corners and set pieces.   If we could stop shipping goals from that route we might be half way to being able to defend competently.   Not well, just competently.

Brian, we we're saying the same thing, and it's a double whammy.

Benteke should be up the pitch when we're defending corners, because if there's any player who can hold when we clear, it's him.

But because we're so small everywhere else he's having to be a key marker, and then if we do clear, it comes straight back at us.

[danlanza]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

Doncaster?

[brontebilly]

Don't really know what to say. Idiotic substitutions have already been mentioned but was end of the line time for Bannan and Ireland last night for me. Ireland played well in the first half but didn't have the heart or courage in the second half. Looking for the ball in midfield and just passing it back to the centre half. Shitting himself in case of physical contact. The lack of imagination from Bannan was striking. Our younger players have zero tactical discipline. They are brainless.

Bennett created some chances for us. Football is a physical contact game though and he defended like a girl. Vlaar was shocking for the goal as was Benteke. I actually felt sorry for Bent when he came on, Gabby should have made way. Sheep in a heap describes our tactical approach once Bent came on

[Clampy]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

Doncaster?

That was a one off game away from home and it can happen. To lose over 2 legs is worse.

[mr-villa]

We pick ourselves up right about now and go again brother, right about now, we pick ourselves up right about now, we pick ourselves up and go again, pickpickpickpickpickpick right about now we pick ourselves up and go again, right about now, we pick ourselves up and go again go again go again gain gain gain. The funk so Villa, right about now.

Boring Boring Boring and totally unconstructive!

[pauliewalnuts]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

Doncaster?

That was a one off game away from home and it can happen. To lose over 2 legs is worse.

By far the worst thing about last night was what happened when they scored.

The subsequent period till the end of the match was our season in a nutshell.

We're a combination of younger players of fragile (and increasingly non existent) confidence, lower league players who simply aren't good enough, players who flatter to deceive, and a manager who has never had to deal with a juggernaut of decline like this.

It was quite unbelievable watching that last 30 minutes last night. Genuinely, I could not believe what we were doing.

We are a club in a state of increasing decline, and the worst thing is, the people in a position to do something about it aren't doing anything.

[danlanza]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

Doncaster?

That was a one off game away from home and it can happen. To lose over 2 legs is worse.

By far the worst thing about last night was what happened when they scored.

The subsequent period till the end of the match was our season in a nutshell.

We're a combination of younger players of fragile (and increasingly non existent) confidence, lower league players who simply aren't good enough, players who flatter to deceive, and a manager who has never had to deal with a juggernaut of decline like this.

It was quite unbelievable watching that last 30 minutes last night. Genuinely, I could not believe what we were doing.

We are a club in a state of increasing decline, and the worst thing is, the people in a position to do something about it aren't doing anything.

I take it you mean our distant Chairman and our useless Mr Faulkner. Both fucking clueless when it comes to putting the kettle on, never mind running a football club. Bloody disgrace, both of them and they should be replaced, now.

[David_Nab]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

Doncaster?

That was a one off game away from home and it can happen. To lose over 2 legs is worse.

By far the worst thing about last night was what happened when they scored.

The subsequent period till the end of the match was our season in a nutshell.

We're a combination of younger players of fragile (and increasingly non existent) confidence, lower league players who simply aren't good enough, players who flatter to deceive, and a manager who has never had to deal with a juggernaut of decline like this.

It was quite unbelievable watching that last 30 minutes last night. Genuinely, I could not believe what we were doing.

We are a club in a state of increasing decline, and the worst thing is, the people in a position to do something about it aren't doing anything.

The last 30 or so minutes was a mess and has been commented on by all and sundry in the media.The goal was poor defending again ,player's fault.The head's dropping that again is down to the players but the subs and ''tactic's '' to the end are down to the manager who looked sadly out of his depth.

Evidently Lerner will not sack him ...or indeed back him further.We look odd's on to go down and lose the TV cash ,we already have no sponsor for next season.The fans will be the next to stop spending so it looks like financial meltdown.

[PaulWinch again]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

Doncaster?

That was a one off game away from home and it can happen. To lose over 2 legs is worse.

By far the worst thing about last night was what happened when they scored.

The subsequent period till the end of the match was our season in a nutshell.

We're a combination of younger players of fragile (and increasingly non existent) confidence, lower league players who simply aren't good enough, players who flatter to deceive, and a manager who has never had to deal with a juggernaut of decline like this.

It was quite unbelievable watching that last 30 minutes last night. Genuinely, I could not believe what we were doing.

We are a club in a state of increasing decline, and the worst thing is, the people in a position to do something about it aren't doing anything.

I was watching with a fellow Villain at home and we genuinely couldn't believe the tactics that we adopted. Any idiot can see that if you don't have a midfield and width to supply the attack then the attack becomes redundant regardless of how many you have on the pitch. Combine that with the fact that our side has no spine or leadership then it was a recipe for disaster and that proved to be the case.

[saunders_heroes]

The last 30 minutes last night was one of the most embarrassing performances I've ever seen from Villa. The way we threw all our forward players into the box running around like the Ant Hill Mob was unreal. No width, just players goal hanging like a match between 10 year olds, with midfielders launching diagonal balls into the box from the centre circle with absolutely no thought. It was food and drink to League 2 defenders, and it was a humiliation for everyone connected with Aston Villa.
It's club is heading towards relegation, make no mistake. Lerner has got away with murder for the last 3 years with barely a whimper from the fans. If this was Ellis he'd have been hung drawn and quartered by now.
It's time we told Randy Lerner what we think of him.

[Dave Clark Five]

Complete humiliation. Worst result of the club's history. What more can be said? We go again

Doncaster?

That was a one off game away from home and it can happen. To lose over 2 legs is worse.

By far the worst thing about last night was what happened when they scored.

The subsequent period till the end of the match was our season in a nutshell.

We're a combination of younger players of fragile (and increasingly non existent) confidence, lower league players who simply aren't good enough, players who flatter to deceive, and a manager who has never had to deal with a juggernaut of decline like this.

It was quite unbelievable watching that last 30 minutes last night. Genuinely, I could not believe what we were doing.

We are a club in a state of increasing decline, and the worst thing is, the people in a position to do something about it aren't doing anything.

We look odd's on to go down and lose the TV cash ,we already have no sponsor for next season.

If we had the cash, would we do anything with it?

[JUAN PABLO]

Shaun Teale says we play tippy tappy football to eventually lose it and we are not good enough to play that style.

He says he will go and help for nothing how to defend a corner.  When are they going to learn.

He said we wont sign no one.     

Hes not a fan of Ron Vlaar .       

Certainly Villa can go down.    Its a downward spiral.