Aston Villa v Newcastle United Post-Match Thread

[silhillvilla]

Decent point that.

[Goldie.7]

Thought the substitutions were too negative.For me NZog and Richardson were our most creative, not sure what Gabby and Weimann offered tbh.

 Good start to the season though and CB will make a big difference.Sanchez should start and Delph encouraged to pus up more, still not over convinced by Westwood.

 Cissokho and Hutton were very good again.

I thought N'Zog looked really poor tbh

[Drummond]

I don't think we defended good today the only reason we got a point is because Newcastle were just as rubbish. If we were playing a better side today we would of lost comfortably.

The game would have been totally different. You're talking rubbish.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Agree with that dw, be interesting to see the next 2 signings.

 Replace Gabby , Westwood, Weimann and Richardson, not far off a top 10 team

[eamonn]

The game was crying out for Jack or Joe. Hopefully they become prominent in the team soon or we sign someone of their talent but halfway between both in age.

[Gregorys Boy]

Yeah last week was more of a impressive battling display, where the defence handled themselves very well at what is a tough away ground.  Today they did what they had to do, but that was very little.  Am happy with a point and clean sheet, but lets not kid ourselves defences were on top today.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Most direct player we have though Goldie, too many safe passes made by the rest of the forward players

[Goldie.7]

I don't think we defended good today the only reason we got a point is because Newcastle were just as rubbish. If we were playing a better side today we would of lost comfortably.

The game would have been totally different. You're talking rubbish.

You're talking rubbish.

[ROBBO]

We were terrible going forward no imagination no craft, Weimann should be benched, well played Delf the only player with any idea.

[usav]

4 points, no goals conceded...not too bad.   Need to find something up front pretty quick.

[supertom]

We do need another creative midfielder in the side. We know that Zog will have as many off days as on. We know Cole will spend large chunks of the season injured and has always struggled for consistency on top of that. And Jack is a young lad.
One more creative player is a must.

In terms of our front line. I think we can hold out until Benteke and Kozak returns. If we create enough chances for the likes of Bent and Weimann, they'll probably grab a few goals between now and the return of the aforementioned.

4 points from 6. 2 clean sheets. Improved results against sides we got extremely well beaten by. Stoke got a pretty comfortable 6 points off us last season. Newcastle beat us thoroughly convincingly at our patch too.

Given we're without are star striker, I'm more than happy with the start we've made. Unspectacular, but solid and resolute. Senderos has looked solid.

Long may it continue.

[Gregorys Boy]

We were terrible going forward no imagination no craft, Weimann should be benched, well played Delf the only player with any idea.

That is a bit extreme he did score last week and Gabby looks worse right now to me.  At least Weimann has good work rate.  By the way I thought Zog had a poor game too.  He maybe just one of those players who is a more effective sub.

[Goldie.7]

We were terrible going forward no imagination no craft, Weimann should be benched, well played Delph the only player with any idea.

Delph was the best player today by a mile, shame others like Gabby do nothing week in week out and still get picked.

[Tom_Mc9?]

This is where we should have been two years ago.

Better late than never, hey.

[Jockey Randall]

I really like Delph and some of his bursts forward when in possession are immense but I still can't decide whether he really has it in his locker to control a game in the manner that Colback and co did so today. Whether he would improve with better players around him or he is just suited to playing this deep lying counter attacking football is still up in the air for me.