Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post-Match Thread

[PaulWinch again]

What Lambert needs to do is drop Lowton and Weimann.

1) Neither are justifying starting
2) Send out a sign that if you don't perform you are out. It concerns me a bit that too many of our starting 11 seems pretty nailed on to start regardless of form.

Based on both league home games Luna and KEA should be worried as well.

Completely agree there needs to be genuine competition for your place whoever you are.

[PeterWithesShin]

Villa Park os too easy to play at.

Also, why dont the club do something to stop cuntish fuck bubbles getting on our pitch week in week out?

And I bet the Villa fan who tried laying into the one who ran to the hoardings in front of R1 now has a life ban. I'd have smacked the twat as well.

[TheSandman]

I just don't get the going to four up front thing. Has it ever worked for us? It's like the kind of thing a ten year old would do in a football manager game.

Bring back Sylla. We desperately need him in the team as he shores things up.

[Legion]

That was very poor indeed, especially the first half. Gave them far too much space and kept on giving possession back to them. KEA had a stinker. As did Weimann. Lowton was not brilliant either. We played far too narrow. Delph was my MotM.

[taylorsworkrate]

I just don't get it with KEA. His better performances for the club have been below average.

[Legion]

Some of their fans were a throwback to the seventies but without the fear factor. Numpties.

[Ron Manager]

Sad to say but Weimann like Albrighton may have reached his peak already. Not just today but he's not showing any signs of being effective this season. Benteke needs help and I cant see what Lambert has in mind.

At the moment Weimann is nuisance value with his hard running but little else.

In fact he is a latter day Brian Greenhalgh.

[PeterWithesShin]

What Lambert needs to do is drop Lowton and Weimann.

1) Neither are justifying starting
2) Send out a sign that if you don't perform you are out. It concerns me a bit that too many of our starting 11 seems pretty nailed on to start regardless of form.

Based on both league home games Luna and KEA should be worried as well.

Completely agree there needs to be genuine competition for your place whoever you are.

I thought it was the point of signing Bacuna, Tonev etc. No use having them on the bench when the bloke starting is out of form.

[paulcomben]

Just home from the match. Poor passing, naive defending and no ability to break down the opposition at home. We kept passing backwards for the whole match. We kept failing to track runners, hence both of their goals and the injury to Okore. The 3 midfielders are too alike and only Deph is on form. Benteke has been reduced to John Fashanu because his team mates cannot pass reliably.

[Lastfootstamper]

I was on a promise if we won.
Bastards.

[not3bad]

I just don't get it with KEA. His better performances for the club have been below average.

To me, the midfield seems flat with KEA in it.  Bring back Sylla.

[Monty]

I thought Westwood wasn't that good today either. The ideal midfield three for us would be Sylla, Delph and a hypothetical creative midfielder we have been lacking for a decade.

[PeterWithesShin]

I just don't get it with KEA. His better performances for the club have been below average.

To me, the midfield seems flat with KEA in it.  Bring back Sylla.

KEA deserved to keep his place after the Arsenal game, but he has steadily dropped in form since then. I believe if you start and play well you stay in, but especially at home he doesn't seem to add anything.

[andyh]

I wish we had someone in midfield who could actually pick the ball up, lift his head and play a controlled,composed, accurate pass to a teammate, rather than our lot who want to play at 100 miles an hour, all the bloody time.

I still think we missed a trick not taking Barry back.

[Legion]

I wish we had someone in midfield who could actually pick the ball up,

Wouldn't he get booked for that?