It's not Sherwood!

[Des Little]

I think we will get a measure of Sherwood by how he reacts to this. Make no mistake today will have massively hurt the whole team, and Sherwood has a huge job to get them geared up for the next two games. First things first he needs to sort the keeper out, because he's the weakest link in the whole team.

[Steve R]

He's set us up very well at Palace and Leicester, two form sides, where we've gone out and dominated them first half, but not reacted well to changes in the second. The opposite was true of Bournemouth, where we started poor, changed it, then dominated them.

99 times out 100 you beat Sunderland with the amount of ball and chances created, science will never fathom how Richards missed. Our game against Man United was dour, with neither side doing much.

I'm not particularly bothered by what happened last season, as I don't think it's particularly relevant.

Bournemouth was different in that it appeared to be a pre-determined plan to contain first half then bring on Gestede and do something in the second. He wasn't dealing with a change in the game situation as such, or anything his opposite number did.

I am not sure how much sway Wilkins holds.  It wouldn't surprise me if he legged it before long.

[Brend'Watkins]

I thought first half he set us up really well.  We took the sting out of Leicester.  So, full marks to Sherwood for that. 2nd half he didn't respond to their change in style and tempo but we got a break to get the 2nd goal.  Having done that, we should have consolidated and kept it tight for the next 20 mins meaning replacing Gil with Veretout the obvious choice. (in the circumstances the only choice). As we tired further, Clark should have replaced Sinclair/Gabby to shore up the midfield.  The Ayew substitution was totally baffling. I hope he explains it to us.

[Matt Collins]

First thing allardyce says is that Tim fucked his subs up

[silhillvilla]

First thing allardyce says is that Tim fucked his subs up

Can't argue

[Malandro]

I'd be more positive if he showed a bit of humility and held his hands up to a mistake.

I'm really losing faith as he just keeps making the same mistakes.  Massive week for him next week, maybe getting into make or break territory.

He could probably just about get away with a loss to smethwick but a loss at home to small heath , well it would be a long way back from that.
Anyway . gana and Traore should be back for those games so we are winning them both.

A long way back? The manager has been in the job two minutes.
Did you really expect this team to gel in the first 5 games?

[VillaAlways]

Alladyce is spot on

[silhillvilla]

I don't like his brand of football, but allardyce gets tactics and setting up a team.

[silhillvilla]

Alladyce is spot on

Let's hope sherwood is watching.

[David_Nab]

At this point the only person who thinks the subs were the right choice is Sherwood.

They were shocking ,Maharz was killing us and Bacuna was left exposed on the right.The subs made us far worse.Gil with one leg would have been more helpful than Ayew..in fact il go as far to say that for right now Joe Cole is a better option off the bench than Ayew.

Bacuna is a liability but as he was already on the pitch I would have moved him forward and stuck Hutton on at least steaming the flow from the left.

[andyh]

Yes, we all know it's a new team. We know it's new players.
But, how long will the 'new players', 'still settling', 'still trying to gell' reasons/excuses be acceptable for?

I think the majority of us still hang onto to that, mainly out of desperate hope that the team will miraculously 'gell', but how long before we give up believing it?
November? January? March ?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It's frustrating seeing Sanchez get MOM against Brazil and then get bossed by a Leicester midfield.  We could do with bringing a shrink in to sort the players heads out.

Once he's finished on here maybe you can let the team have him.

As for Sanchez, you'd struggle to find a Villa fan on here who didn't think Sanchez was the best player on the pitch first half.
I'd love to see his stats for ground covered and this a player that intelligently tries not to waste energy.

If Sanchez is our problem we're doomed.

[SoccerHQ]

I thought first half he set us up really well.  We took the sting out of Leicester.  So, full marks to Sherwood for that. 2nd half he didn't respond to their change in style and tempo but we got a break to get the 2nd goal.  Having done that, we should have consolidated and kept it tight for the next 20 mins meaning replacing Gil with Veretout the obvious choice. (in the circumstances the only choice). As we tired further, Clark should have replaced Sinclair/Gabby to shore up the midfield.  The Ayew substitution was totally baffling. I hope he explains it to us.

Really start of game isn't an issue.

If you look back through his reign most of our good stuff in games has come in first halfs, right back to the start and West Brom and Sunderland first halves for example. QPR and Everton games can also be examples.

Liverpool semi was probably the one time we were excellent for 90 minutes, his tactics were spot on throughout the game.

He can do it but he dropped a massive you know what today, everyone knows it even him though he's trying to spin it in the post match interviews.

[kippaxvilla2]

He's happy with his subs according to the Meaning Evil.

[OCD]

I thought first half he set us up really well.  We took the sting out of Leicester.  So, full marks to Sherwood for that. 2nd half he didn't respond to their change in style and tempo but we got a break to get the 2nd goal.  Having done that, we should have consolidated and kept it tight for the next 20 mins meaning replacing Gil with Veretout the obvious choice. (in the circumstances the only choice). As we tired further, Clark should have replaced Sinclair/Gabby to shore up the midfield.  The Ayew substitution was totally baffling. I hope he explains it to us.

Really start of game isn't an issue.

If you look back through his reign most of our good stuff in games has come in first halfs, right back to the start and West Brom and Sunderland first halves for example. QPR and Everton games can also be examples.

Liverpool semi was probably the one time we were excellent for 90 minutes, his tactics were spot on throughout the game.

He can do it but he dropped a massive you know what today, everyone knows it even him though he's trying to spin it in the post match interviews.

If he does know, that can only be good. It would be more worrying if he didn't realise it. With how pissed off he's come over as being, that would suggest it's with himself and his decisions.