Aston Villa v Newcastle United Match Thread

[supertom]

Piss poor. I can't escape the feeling that we're still relegation scrappers. We still look tactically pretty clueless. We look good at full pelt, hitting teams quickly on the break, but our system isn't really set up too well for telling possession in the attacking third.

Lowton, Westwood and Wiemann have all been poor, not just today, but they've all been below par this season. In all honesty, I'm not sure, as a right sided forward, Wiemann is ready to be starting week in, week out. He's certainly not good enough in that position. The problem is, with 3 central forwards also in the squad, he's left essentially filling in as a right forward. He does often look like a square peg in a round hole. At the moment he just can't hit a barn door either. If he wants to keep his place he's got to start tucking these goals away.

CB hasn't had any service, and has been quiet today. Gab has had sparks but again, we all know what you get from the Gabster can be erratic.

KEA is looking out of his depth again.

For me I'd be tempted to bring Helenius or Tonev on for Wiemann, and perhaps Sylla on for KEA.

Newcastle have been the better side, but they're not great. However we look very susceptable to diagonal long balls on the counter. They've had some good breaks, cutting out our fullbacks, but haven't made the most. A better team might be murdering us today. Tony needs to get a lot tighter on Ben Arfa.

And yes...I really wish we had an Ozil kind of player. Even a poor mans equivilant. We're sorely lacking guile in midfield. We don't do subtlety, but sometimes you need that to win games. If we rely purely on picking teams off when we hit them at top gear on the counter, we're not going to pick up enough points to do anything but the same as last season and that's look over our shoulders at the trap door for most of the season.

[PaulWinch again]

Get Sylla on, we need more presence to dominate.

I agree, KEA just isn't doing enough. The only problem is we can only afford one substitute at half time really.

[dicedlam]

Weimann does not have the fire in his belly like he did last season and his decision making has been very poor. I think a spell on the bench might bring it back.

[Monty]

What about Helenius on for Weimann? Go 4-3-1-2, try to sure up the middle of the pitch and put Helenius behind Tekkers and the Gabster?

[PaulWinch again]

What about Helenius on for Weimann? Go 4-3-1-2, try to sure up the middle of the pitch and put Helenius behind Tekkers and the Gabster?

Can't be any worse.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Kozak for Weimann and sylla for kea !

That's my shout aswell .......

[PaulWinch again]

We won't make two changes at half time with Okore having to be subbed.

[eamonn]

Any subs? Lambert really does them at half time.

[VillaAlways]

Not a single shot on target in the first half.Unbelievable

[PaulWinch again]

Doesn't look like it, it's time to fucking turn up Villa.

[citizenDJ]

*sigh*. Well, here we go again. I suppose we can only be better than we were in the first half.

[VillaAlways]

Craig Gardner equalises for Sunderland

[PaulWinch again]

Raise your fucking game Villa.

[Summers]

Fucking hell we're shit going forward today. We just can't find our own players in and around the box. Shambles.

Luna sums it up. Delph does great, then fucking throw the position and possession away.

[ozzjim]

Shoot Tony!! Shooot!!